skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The upcoming Thinkpad X1 Extreme is going to give it some stiff competition. It's wielding the insurmountable RTX 3080, and it's priced very competitively.

But I'm just going to tell it to you now so we don't make the same mistake we have for the past 10 years of computer hardware discussions: specs don't matter. You could tell 90% of the people buying PCs with dGPUs about your 5nm GPU and next-gen power efficiency, but they won't care. They're buying them as gaming devices, general-purpose machines and game development laptops. I'd argue the market for Mac users and PC users has not radically shifted, just the hardware you're using. If we're here to talk smack about hardware superiority, this website would have been insufferable for the past decade, because there was quite literally a complete lack of professional dGPU Macs. Now that the tables have shifted slightly, I don't see why Mac users feel the need to crawl out of the woodwork and declare the game as changed, now that Prometheus gave them the gift of a laptop that doesn't throttle to hell.
I was talking about regular tech companies not NASA or startups with funding issues.

I think that your point stays valid there because reality is far far away from ideal case.
If you don’t have an extreme money/business crunch to ship before the foundation is set, you can apply experience and imagination much better. Hope they have that runway.
If you're plugged in all the time, lower TDP is nice but not critical. And if you live in a cold country, you have to heat up the house six months per year, TDP is just heating with a computing side effect.
Nobody cares about your github for job interviews.
I’m not sure operators are ready for this level of technology. I recently operated the Airbus 220 and came to learn that many of the subsystems relied on network connections between each other. Obviously there are pros and cons to this approach but the biggest issue I noticed was that traditional FAA A&P mechanics are incredibly ill-equipped to manage and troubleshoot these systems.

This isn’t meant as a dig at them though. Their training primarily revolves around typical physical system troubleshooting and managing networking equipment at about a minimum of an IT help desk level is not in their training.

Mechanics are already in short supply. These complex systems add a whole new level to that shortage. Perhaps it’s time to change careers.
>How so?

He waged war like a war. I don't personally recommend waging wars on chemical compounds or the desperate predestined "losers" of the economy, but there's something to be said for winning a war with cruelty vs losing the war with half the cruelty.

"It was the communist revolution that erased opium from mainland China. Mao Zedong , with his political apparatus that reached into every hamlet and home, was able to lay the beast low. He used a mixture of carrot and stick. Addicts were not condemned, but offered medical help and rehabilitation. But those who were unco-operative were sent to labour camps or imprisoned. Dealers were summarily executed, often without trial." [0]

"Smart" people getting hooked on drugs is exactly as tragic as "losers" like Jack, any competition which ignores this is one we should be enormously proud to lose.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/article/547678/maos-drug-lesson-world
Killing that was probably a good move for Apple: "reverse Trojan horse" is right.
Xeon W-11855M (6 cores)

Xeon W-11955M (8 cores)
And Wireguard doesn’t rely on someone’s cloud server, too!

I looked into Tailscale because the hype is big, and I’m sure it’s good software… but the biggest reason I pay for a VPS is to get public IPv4 addresses I can connect to. A proxy will only add overhead and compromise privacy.

Edit: specifically, Tailscale uses their own proprietary relay servers, and if you don’t want to use them you can’t use tailscale. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> But I knew I was right.

But that's what everyone believes when they invest in something. As I said, good for you that it turned out well.

What do you think about a regulatory backlash against FSD beta? When will we have FSD?
>Does the performance gap close if Intel starts selling similar on-package RAM to consumers?

That assumes on-package RAM is the key to M1 / Apple's SoC performance. And that isn't the case.
cordova-sqlite adapter can be used with cordova and capacitor. The article says so.
This is why he is Data Engineering Coach and not actually responsible for production systems now. (apparently)

Everyone loves reading tech horror stories and peeling off the take-away lessons. My lesson would be, don't hire this guy and don't use him as a coach. He's careless!

"But this kind of thing could happen to anyone" - sure, anyone who is irresponsible.

Am I ranting? Let me continue. I work on a team now with someone who seems to consistently forget to save router configurations and another person who yawns through meetings because he doesn't sleep. These guys make careless mistakes and we "learn" from them. Except we don't learn the most important lesson: Irresponsible people need to be off the team. They make more work for everyone else and make the team look bad.

But I guess the tech horror stories that amuse everyone on the forum or at the pub are better than saying, "I am responsible and do good work."
Hegemony or colonialism never went away. Just ask the dead babies that are bombed by drones and the proxy leaders that are installed in "allied" subservient countries. The minute they act for their own countries interests the humanitarian jingoists will spring into action and bomb human rights into their countries and overthrow their leaders and sodomize them.

The white savior NGO/human rights/CIA complex has been liberating country after country from awful leaders. They killed over 3 million Indonesians to install military man Suharto and overthrow Sukarno.
VPN. Easiest solution would be tailscale.
I also have a hypothesis that if it's freely available and boring then more people are likely to quit. The focus required to get it I think is part of what keeps people addicted - the reward is uncertain.

If addicts can go to a boring clinic and get it daily for free maybe they'll at some point look up and wonder why they're doing what they're doing.

Especially if the clinic has easily available assistance and things that can help people quit.

Even in the worst case where they remain addicts, at least they won't OD and they're not funding organized crime.

Probably not as easy with meth though - it's one thing to be addicted and still responsive to incentives, psychosis is a harder problem to handle.
Suddenly you don't need a spike strip and physical damage and consequences though, just some cardboard and textas to make stop signs.

The bar for malice will be significantly lower, and it's the car that will be at fault, not the person with the stop sign.

Can I walk around with a stop sign on a pole? Why not? It's not an official street sign. We don't have laws that I know of against carrying around homemade stop signs, I don't think, because any competent driver is able to identify that they aren't official.

Maybe I should get a backpack with a stop sign on it, for when I'm riding the bike.
> We've already seen a sitting US president hire intelligence agents to bug his enemies and political rivals,

Do you have a source for this claim?
Continuing to do the same thing again and again does not make it right, nor justify the behavior. Stop doing it. Your life becomes much easier. If you don't have self-discipline, then consequences happen. Yeah, it sucks, but dems da breakz.

Also, you are not always in control of who your corporate overlords will be. They can be decent, then sell, then new owners are not cool. Happens all the time.
I've learned from experience that watching a lecture on yootoob doesn't mean I learn it. I have to apply it to learn it.

That's why classrooms come with exercises.
I still don’t understand why clicking the menu date/time opens the notifications? Someone at Apple was paid $million/year to implement that? It still trips me up once a day.
I love this concept, and I love the execution in these concept machines. I know a lot of things don’t make sense from a business perspective, but I wish more of these ideas had seen me light of day.

In some ways we see the execution of at least the ideas in the modular Pismo PowerBook, and lately the FrameWork laptop.
The cost of electricity is probably less than $5, plus the time they spend cleaning the car for the next person they can get to 80% charge
They can make their own extensions
Wow. Every example on this list is the absolute pinnacle of Silicon Valley insufferable. Who knew that leverage was Tim Ferriss + artisanal coffee + the blockchain + cross-posting your YouTube marketing advice vlogs to Facebook + a personal trainer in your personal Crossfit garage gym.
I'd say everyone makes less salary than the US for a variety of reasons. The question is likely geared more towards work culture.
What does a "radical reorganization" look like in this case?
Here's an example of a file that won't load properly in Preview and requires Acrobat: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...
As far as I can tell, from the somewhat minimal GUI Tesla gives you, and the general feeling while driving...

You can "coast" with regen on, you just need to balance the accelerator at the point where you aren't adding power, but the car isn't taking power away.

You won't see any green or black on the power usage bar.

Coming down long mountain roads, it's somewhat easier than coasting in an ICE and having to continually shift down gears or ride the brakes (which is obviously bad).
I would buy a computer that worked that way today! It's like building your own PC except way, way easier.

If implemented correctly you could upgrade the necessary parts over time. My only concern would be that eventually the "bus" part would become out of date.

Still, it looks amazing.
I don't know. As a smoker, I m guilty of smoking, Im not really a victim even if one could argue it will be hard to stop - it's a lot of personal responsibility, a bit of laziness and a minority the product itself.

With heroin, I d argue people are definite victims. It's absolutely not like tobacco, the craving is physically painful for long, not just the mild annoyance of tobacco.

To give you a few exemples: it takes me 3 days to a week of being irritated to stop cigarets for a full year, cold turkey. For injected heroin, it's 2 weeks of extreme pain with possibility of hospitalisation, for Subutex, an alternative pill, it's around a month (so many addict complain it s easier to take a break from heroin than the progressively reducing alternative medicine).

My dad is a pharmacist in France where we treat drug addicts who want to recover as victims and help them get alternative subutex or methadone for free: he told me he never saw someone truly stop. They can reduce and live with it, but they cannot possibly stop.

Your increasing tax solution seems unfair, while it seems fair for me with cigarets: it's my fault and I can stop. Not an heroin addict. I dont have a magical solution, in France we focused on stopping the violence due to the craving with free Methadone in pharmacies and it changed the criminal landscape, but destroying the product supply at the source while keeping the last addicts on Methadone seems like the only path, if the goal is to free people from opioids in France.

In the US it's different: opioids became a for profit pharmaceutical entreprise, and most of the crisis there is due to opium sold hidden as painkillers totally legally on a large scale.
Hertz can use this to differentiate themselves: “return the car without worrying about filling it up!”
CPUs (and laptops) have high enough margins where it can take an airplane to wherever it needs to go.

Bicycle chains, not so much.
Is this an actual easter egg? Is there a list somewhere documenting these?
Ask HN: How do you find a doctor in the USA?
Finding a primary care physician is one of the most challenging things a "normal" adult has to deal with these days. They are supposed to get to know you as an individual and be a central point of care, but these days they often don't have time to do anything like that. So, what are normal people to do?
Argon Fluoride Laser Could Lead to Practical Fusion Reactors
I'd imagine that the inconvenience of handling takeout data is beneficial for Google's business interests, so there isn't a big incentive to improve the situation.
My exact thoughts but people seem to save energy by turning up the regen? I don’t get it.
Agreed. I don’t know how this would work in practice, but it would be great if dev education/bootcamping explicitly incorporated these kind of tight-rope walks.

Most difficult things in life turn out to be balancing acts between two opposing forces, yet junior devs always seem surprised about that fact.
Because we as a society decided that IQ testing job applicants was illegal, we created the behemoth that is our student loan crisis. Fun times.
Seems a bit too pricy, $350!?! Does seem compelling though. Would love to see support for signal and other e2e encrypted messengers.
So, where is Carmack now?
Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Documented Covid-19 in Wuhan Resurfaces
This is a big deal. Articles should be retracted not removed.

This is breaking from standard protocol.

I would agree in the past retracted papers are poorly marked. But this is not the solution.
A Love Letter to Ruby and Rails
"Let that sink in for a moment: 108 million apartments under construction, when urban homeownership is already 90% and when the working-age population has been declining for nearly a decade."

No wonder Evergrand.
I wonder how scalable this is - I seem to remember reddit started out with this initial idea, and when starting member.cash, it was in my mind, but maybe at the back of my mind. I guess at minimum it requires users*users rows, and an increasingly large number of updates for a well liked post for example. Also I guess you'd need to differentiate a user who indiscriminately likes/follows everything from a user who likes just the things I like.
https://archive.md/lxUE8
I was dubious renting a Tesla on turo in Hawaii but I think you would find that charging an electric car at the places you are staying is increasingly an option that is lower cost and less stressful than going to a gas station before going back to the airport.

I also suspect they will have lower backend operating costs and potentially cost drivers less on additional insurance since they can operate in FSD and put the liability on Tesla.
I was very pessimistic about Tesla and confused by their stock price.

But I now believe that they indeed are doing it and that we’re finally at the EV revolution.

I’m not an early adopter type and the Teslas don’t excite me at all, but I’m really delighted that the market is evolving. I’m delighted that I was wrong.
If bootcamp recruiters told you that you could spend six months in their program and not only get a FAANG job but a work permit/visa they lied. The US visa requirements are not malleable for bootcamp grads with no significant experience. If someone told you they went from high school to boot camp to Google I would check into that, sounds more like a shill from the boot camp.

I hope you learned some useful programming skills and met some people you can keep in touch with at the bootcamp. Those places are getting a reputation as scams, and several of them have been caught flat out lying to applicants and students, padding their placement numbers, and making promises they can't possibly keep.
Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss. :D
Yes-- I think "technologically-enabled fascism" is probably more accurate for that sentiment.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act outlaws "unauthorized access". The website owner clearly did not authorize access to that, so the letter of the law may have been violated. Maybe the law should require malice, criminal intent, and actual harm to have happened for "unauthorized access" to be a crime.
Anecdotally, I had something similar happen to me. Someone was critiquing my rowing form at the gym. I was doing ~28 strokes per minute and my pace was about 2:05m per 500m.

"Explode when you push, but slow your overall pace to 20 strokes per minute. Take time to breathe and rest on the way back in."

After finding the new cadence, my pace was now 1:55m per 500m. A 30% reduction in stroke rate improved my pace by 8%.
Demo only works in Chrome and Chromium. It’s IE all over again…
Would be cool if they try to decouple the GPU and CPU for server units somehow.
The stories scream incompetent people being incompetent.
> There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones.

I'm reasonably sure that in far left forums, though you can (for example) find quite a bit of antisemitism and similar toxic opinions, you won't get a lot of "Stalin was Right" memes, or admiration for the Khmer Rouge.

There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between the extremes of the right and left in US political discourse as well as the amount of cover the mainstream is willing to extend.
> Never blame the responsible, I prefer to think that if the mistake happened it's because the team or the company let the issue happens — be also careful when you joke about it afterwards

Although certainly people still do bad things, dumb things, and careless things -- this (the middle part -- team/company controls and culture) is a wise management approach, although best applied as a principle ahead-of-time.
Well, finding computers internally is usually cheaper.
What does an easter egg in a Tesla has to do with safety or longevity of the vehicle?
Looks like a lot of great upgrades to apps I've never used.
CV1 and Rift are alternate names for the same headset.
Damn! So much out there that we might never be able to see.
This person is obviously trolling
This letter illustrates the danger of overemphasizing racism. It can enervate the people that "antiracism" is supposed to be helping.
Yes, your Xeon from 2013 example would be nowhere near the 2021 CPU from Apple. The outdated Xeon Apple had in their old laptops - a year behind everyone else, is also slower. The Xeon W-11955M however makes the M1 look like a kid's toy. In fact, if you remove 2 cores from that Xeon, you'll have my 6-core Xeon. Which also smokes that 10-core M1 in a bong.

I'm also not sure why you're sarcastic about ECC RAM. I have 128GB of RAM in my laptop. If it wasn't ECC, I'd have crashes in my VMs and errors in my calculations. When you go 32GB+ and actually use the RAM, anything that doesn't support ECC cannot be taken seriously for professional use. Like the M1 Max.
Agreed. Even if firmware updates need to be signed using threshold signatures generated by hardware security modules stored in vaults, updating firmware for any safety-critical domain (aircraft, medical devices, industrial robots, etc.) should require physical access.

On a side note, did anyone else brick more than one WRT-54G WiFi AP before learning that the factory firmware didn't handle corner-case HTTP POST cases generated by FireFox? (Once, shorting two pins got TFTP working again and I could re-flash. The other time, it was really dead.)

I really wish even IoT devices had a factory boot ROM with minimal "limp home" (in the case of cars, almost literally) functionality plus an ability to update flash-stored firmware. If the device uses a formally verified realtime microkernel, then it could probably get away with not being able to update the kernel over the lifetime of the device.
> But the fact that those who aren't isn't 0%, it makes it difficult to compare.

It is irrelevant for the other 99%, so it doesn’t make it any harder to compare it.

> Also, the reasons for people not graduating college and not graduating from a 3-6 month bootcamp will likely differ as well. 4 years is a long time. >There are many reasons why someone might drop out. So again, comparing graduation rates and job placement rates between uni and bootcamp won't really tell you much useful data, especially if you're trying to compare which one prepares students better.

Sure, the comparison shouldn’t be that simplistic.
I take a full disk image before every major OS upgrade for this reason.
> I can't get a bicycle chain for the next six months

Why?
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

Alas, the fast hacker gets recognized for their hustle, despite them spending twice the effort to get to the same place, and others having to go back and fix/cleanup their mistakes.
Does MacOS run on QEMU?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
Google: Trusting a website is a philosophical question
I have this discussion a lot, and I've found that many people share your belief. However I disagree with this view. I recently wrote a comment with citations here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28664769

But the gist of it is: patents prevent many people from innovating. That is the purpose of a patent: others are prevented from following forks of a given idea to the benefit of one entity. I argue that the losses to society from preventing so many people from following forks of an idea are greater than the benefits gained by giving one entity a monopoly. Constantly locking down new ideas for 20 years actually encourages companies with patents to rest on their laurels (see the linked comment above for figures) and prevents motivated newcomers from trying variations on the patented idea.

People often say that without patents, investment would cease. But the linked example in the above comment features a great first hand account from an engineer and hacker about the innovation that happens in China when anyone can take ideas from others. It's a vibrant development environment in fact. My view is that investment would not cease, but the nature of investment would change. Instead of fewer larger investments, we would see more frequent smaller investments. So the economy would continue to function fine, only without constant barriers to copying all the good ideas would spread rapidly and many people would experiment with forks on those good ideas. In the end, the rate of innovation would be higher without patents, I believe, than it is with them. A relatively unorthodox view, but I find that those in the orthodox camp also tend to significantly discount the amount of innovation that happens in the normal course of market competition without intellectual property in play. Market forces already reward innovation. Patents do create a bigger reward for those innovators who make it all the way through the patent process, but at a great cost to society. This is why 3D printers only dropped in price by 50% after their first ten years on the market, and then dropped in price by 98% in the first ten years after the patent expired (see the linked comment for figures).
> Couch seems like a fantastic way to go for use cases involving syncing data between devices with an offline mode and syncing between clients. It was built from the ground up with replication in mind.

Have you come across any simple examples that show offline mode and syncing between clients with replication?
What’s the application for this? EAV is often an anti-pattern when a schema could be defined, but I’m actually using it as well. Our application is an end-user-defined database for mobile data collection. The EAV model in SQLite is a bit of a cognitive burden but makes offline sync and conflict resolution pretty straight forward. It’s almost a crude CRDT implementation.
Not anymore. And definitely not by the time Hertz actually takes delivery of these things.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/tesla-switching-to-lfp-batte...
If you could conceivably run a chip at a much higher TDP before hitting thermal limits you could get significantly more performance. Not that you can (probably) OC these chips at all but it suggests there may be more rabbits in the bag.