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Does the Framework support coreboot? IIRC it does not, and I was sort of surprised to not see that in this announcement.

Their github also doesn't have any mention of coreboot: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer

And it isn't here either:
https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/index.html
I'm shocked. Shocked! Well... not that shocked.
I am pretty shocked but I guess ASML delivers by 747. [1][2] But they do seem to know what they're doing. :)

"The current generation of EUV machines are already, to put it bluntly, kind of bonkers. Each one is roughly the size of a bus and costs $150 million. It contains 100,000 parts and 2 kilometers of cabling. Shipping the components requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks."

[1] https://technical-news.net/euv-lithography-asml-delivers-100...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithogr...
the only thing an ev actually needs chips for is charge controllers which can be old fab tech, and motor controllers which aren't normal silicon or tiny feature size. Tesla is using silicon carbide, and gallium arsenide will probably be next.

The Bollinger takes this route of minimalism. Ironically, an EV has less reliance on processing than a modern ICE vehicle.
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I think it's social media. I quit social media years ago. I've also noticed people becoming just increasingly hostile for "no apparent to me reason".
This feels a little dramatic, no?

You had an absolutely free service built on top of ad revenue. Now that free service has to pay for itself (due to investor or executive pressure). They are charging what is arguably around the same price point as alternatives with high feature parity.

Google isn't "killing" anything, they are just asking users to start paying for it. Perhaps that loses them some users, but they are clearly after something else here (revenue, maybe they have data on how paid users behave differently, perhaps spam/bad actors are a concern on the free plan, idk)
They grow lettuce in Yuma during the winter because it's warm enough to grow it there during the winter. Something around 90% of the USA's winter grown leafy greens produce comes from Yuma.
Personally, I've found service better in non-tipping countries than in tipping countries. My guess is it's because in most non-tipping countries, waiters spend less time trying to pretend to be friends with customers at every table and more time just doing their job. Having to wait for service because a waiter is spending a lot of time buttering up another table with inane chit-chat is annoying, especially when I have to pay extra for it.
Kudos to you, Stewart Brand!
this hit my RSS feed today, really?
The posted a blog post here: https://frame.work/blog/open-sourcing-our-firmware

Anyone know if they're planning on publishing the firmware to the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)?
No, irrespective of GCC’s license, Stallman intentionally hampered GCC’s output to be difficult to use with other free software, in hopes that it would also be difficult to use with proprietary software. See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26397634
I think your comment is the most sensible because it tries to understand it.

The bad part about these models is that they reflect the power of stakeholders in a company, not so much the worker/programmers. It reflects a mode of production keen on generating capital, not the interests of the workers on getting their salary, whatever many figures it may have.

The finger must be pointed at stakeholders doing what they do best; finding ways to generate capital. There is no animosity generated between work done and one paying for it at a market value, but there is between work and capital generation.
Aside from the possible trap ("segfault") mention in the sibling comment, the first example relies on absence of UB because with UB you could enumerate the contents of the stack to find where `x` is living, and discover it isn't there, contra the spec. Even allocating variables directly into registers and never onto the stack relies on UB.
Worst one is when the button text changes. Does the new text represent the current state of the system, or does it represent the state which the system will be in when I press it?
I so wish they would've picked Cleveland over Columbus
I think you are saying that the conclusions you quoted are not really satisfying nor satisfactory. I agree with you on this. I personally think the end of the article was a bit "lazy" rhetorically, but maybe that's OK. Thanks for your comments on this, they helped my own understanding.
Tech in general seems to be all about what is good for 90% of users and fuck-all for everyone else. It seems like anything servicing the long-tail anywhere gets squished. In hiring, in user interface design, in features, and in competition. I really, really, really hate this dynamic.
I was born and partially raised in Columbus and Ohio in general. I defintiely left for the coast as soon as I could get a job that allowed it. So there's at least certain people they're describing the motivations of correctly.

That said, there are many who are happy to live there. I do wonder how many young and truly brilliant engineers are on that list, but maybe their presence won't be required on site? It's not an exciting place to be young and dynamic when compared to the big cities on the coasts.

The quality of life though, especially for someone raising a family and looking to build their nest egg, is great. Fresh air, relatively low crime, nice large yards and people with good Midwestern family values (might not be the "values" someone from San Fransisco would prioritize though).
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This seems like a brilliant opportunity for you folks to collect a major number of freemium businesses including 5 of mine but I agree with the other commenter that the low level of disclosure isn't comforting at all.
Crypto Protocol Publicly Announces Flaw, Users Relentlessly Owned by Hackers
For me meditation has always been on again and off again.

I discovered shapeshifting circa 2008, did it pretty seriously for a while then fell out of it.

I received a new and very powerful form a few months ago and received the strongest one yet a few weeks ago. For a while I didn't like the new form but found it was almost visualizing me as opposed to the other way around. It always drives 5 mph below the speed limit and gets honked at. The other day I went into an interaction I was worried about and told it to not come out no matter what, but with what went down I should have visualized it before going in.
I am most curious what percentage of the population dynamically adjusts their tip in any relation to the service. It has just become an additional tax. I give a standard 20%, more if it rounds to a nice whole dollar amount.

Even if I had bad service, I am still giving 20%. That's the social contract I am stuck with fulfilling.
FYI, it's not wrong, because it's my lived experience: all my life a Phillips screwdriver has been called a "star screwdriver" by everyone around me (I'm in Ontario). I'm not saying to use the generic terms, but the actual terms; that is, Phillips, Torx, Robertson, etc., because those are unambiguous. The generic or "official" terms are irrelevant, just as the generic term for velcro, hook-and-loop, is irrelevant, because everyone calls it velcro.

Also, as far as I know, Robertson is the only tapered square drive.
I've barely used Windows but I understand that things are signed so when a user installs a package it's signed and they need to be an administrator to install it.
Toaster oven should be a lot less efficient and slower because it's heating up a larger space, but the result should be the same.
This makes actual sense for Google. From a technical point of view a block chain is a database with some interesting properties that are useful in some cases. Most major database companies are not really doing anything with this technology yet. And yet there are enough interesting applications and use cases out there that are not pyramid schemes, scams, or bullshit that you could argue that that is probably a mistake long term. So, why not put some R&D money into this?

People get side tracked by all the crypto eutopians and bullshitters out there and the emotional roller coaster that is the valuation of Bitcoin, which from a technical point of view was an interesting proof of concept (it works, and it seems really resilient against people trying to hack it). But it is also deeply flawed from a technical point of view. It doesn't scale very well. It's expensive to run (by design even). And it requires an amount of electricity energy that would be enough to run a few small countries. That makes using it for it's originally intended purpose, a non starter. Paying for stuff with Bitcoin is so ludicrously expensive and slow that doing so just stopped being a thing. Basically, paying for a cup of coffee with bitcoin would cost more than enough to pay for a nice coffee machine. That also makes it useless for banking. Transferring money is not cheap but cheaper than that.

But not bad for a V1 and it's kind of old news since there are lots of solutions to these challenges. A decentralized database that is tamper proof, scales, and runs efficiently would be just the kind of product people might want to use for all sorts of things. Which is why there are some serious companies looking at this stuff with increasing interest. The likes of IBM, SAP, etc. can hardly be accused of running pyramid schemes. It's not what drives them. But making money is. And when banks and other serious business are finding uses for current block chains, they smell money.

So Google getting involved with this stuff is probably not the worst idea they've had recently. Amazon provides managed blockchains as well in AWS. So does Microsoft. Technically, Google is a bit late to the party.
> people were using compute VMs to pay for the compute VMs

Lol, genius. In other news, "Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing"
For the average user indeed, but for the average rust developer hanging around on HN, having examples of how a full-featured GUI app that use GTK4 is something really valuable!

I have no interest in note-taking apps and I'm never gonna use this one, but I'm eager to read the code.
Podcast: Pixie, a CNCF Project Provides Kubernetes Observability for Developers
What about other lesser-known private mail boxes?
I'm not OP, and maybe my understanding is wrong, but I always understood "bootstrapped" to mean they only put in their own money and didn't get any outside investments. Is there a better set of terms to differentiate between self funded, accelerator funded, and VC funded?
now lets get an open source baseband
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function .
There's this idea of "punching down" and "punching up". I'm fairly sure that in 2012, Obama mocking Donald Trump was generally considered closer to "punching up" than "punching down" (whether that was really accurate depends a lot on the true state of Trump's financial affairs, but in general he projected a persona that involved being uber-wealthy, uber-famous and generally able to do whatever he wanted).

By contrast, Trump's mocking of, variously, Mexican and central American migrants, the disabled, media reporters etc. is generally seen as "punching down".

In our culture, those further up the ladder are generally expected to take a "punching" (i.e. mockery, jokes, satires, ridicule) from below in good stead. We generally expect them to not "punch down" at those less enabled by power and wealth.
Why write a few lines of code when you can use an entire framework? Why walk two blocks or ride a bike when you can drive?

> regressive

That depends on your definition of regressive. If you designate it as regressive, you create a circular argument: it must be worse, somehow.

IMHO, there's nothing inherently better about tech that is newer - why do I care if it's newer? - and many see complexity as the enemy of good engineering. Technology is tools and the only question is, how well do they deliver on the needs and specifications (which include efficiency and cost)?

> Why enjoy whole home climate control ...

Whole home climate control has more whole world climate impact, so it doesn't deliver well on many people's specifications.
CVEs more commonplace because of how we structure modern digital infrastructure
This is a good reminder that my comment is too US centric.
Profitable enough to kill legacy plans, not profitable enough to provide any kind of support.
Did we read the same article?

“I no longer feel psychological safety on this team,” wrote Shaw, who is Black and had accused his leaders of racism.

Claim that the SRE leaders are racist.

“SRE at least in Zurich has an abusive and downright sociopathic management culture, which will drain you, burn you out and not give a damn,” he tweeted in May 2020.

Claim that the SRE leaders are sociopaths.
To be honest, I think the point of the article is to list some of the reason way Linux is not for average users. And they talk about Windows since it's the most used desktop OS.

Hopefully one day Linux would be the goto desktop OS.
I say the same goes for business models. About 15 years ago I spent 5 years in the early SaaS space, and it was extremely difficult to convince IT Mgrs and CTOs that software as a service was not some evil plan. Today, it is hard to sell software that is not sold as a service. Why? The old guard management is gone, and tech is managed by people who grew up with SaaS and/or are afraid of managing their own hardware infrastructures.
People were recommending wax elsewhere, since its phase change is above 20°C.
“Containers” are basically Linux only and that means they can freeride off Linux’s really stable userland api
You really really don't though. It's not one of those 'so bad it's good' kind of things where there is some novelty to be had. It's boring. It's written with a 4th grade vocabulary. There's no character development outside shallow tropes. Random right wing conspiracies are mixed in without any grounding in the story. The main character is a cartoon of cartoon of a human in a cartoon world with cartoon side kicks. It's awful in every way a book can be awful. And to top it all off it will literally curse your brain.
Huh? Water has a significantly-higher specific heat capacity than these dry powders, so will definitely stay warm many, many hours longer. I can say this with experience: the hot water bottle I put in my bed at midnight last night was still warm at 7:30am, while the buckwheat cushions I got my kids stay warm 15 minutes tops, no matter how hot I make them in the microwave.

Even with the very best dry microwavable pillows, there will be at least a 20x difference in heat capacity.

And your premise doesn't make sense. A hot water bottle under the blankets will also be at body temperature after (many) hours. There's no reason for it to get colder than the wheat pillows. And the fabric covering feels just as warm.
Having moved to Columbus a couple years ago everyone loved to say that over 60% of the US population is within a one day drive of Columbus.

For the Bay Area readers the distance from Cleveland to Columbus is roughly the same as San Francisco to Sacramento
The a-holes are becoming the rule and not the exception. Just my experience, though.
That this even needs to be done is just absurd in 2022. Wow.

Great work though.
Side note: the language selection is stupid on the website. No, I'm not from Germany, and I don't speak German even if it's the closest country to me that you sell laptops in. Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages. Or to give options that don't work after you select them.

Otherwise, very nice news!
Really cool read. Am I right in thinking it works like a flash cart, but with volatile memory?
for each main expenditure, just note down pros, cons, risks, etc, print it off, and hand it over to him
As a very casual observer who hasn't thought long and carefully on this topic, it seems we've been looking for life on mars since the 70's with nothing conclusive having been found (not that we've applied exhaustive efforts over the last 50 years).

> At some point someone has to call it.

With humility, why would that point be anywhere prior to actually finding a Martian organism? I recall people seemed willing to "call it" after President Clinton's remarks on rock 84001, and so on.

Genuinely curious if there is some criteria to conclusively show past/present life on Mars in the absence of the discovery of an organism. I'm thinking also of the headline-grabbing announcement of biological processes on Venus owing to phosphine observations.
Then - good luck.
I would guess that the designers have nice clean desks as well, so all that whitespace is giving the illusion of cleanliness.

I also imagine that those designers would maximise a window where there would only be a single page in the middle of the screen and whitespace all around.

Looks "nice" from a minimalist standpoint but a complete waste of space otherwise.
This bootstrapping like how War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength!
Adam Neumann/WeWork, Doug Evans/Juicero; there's plenty of 'em.

A few more for real scam connoisseur's:

Stacy Spikes/MoviePass (70M+ for selling dollars at a penny; outstanding growth and metrics though, if only the "lose on every sale but make it up in volume" stance ever worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Steve Newcomb/famo.us (30M+ seed funding for what was essentially a shitty JS library)

Bill Nguyen/Color (40m+ seed funding for a photo app with no extra features; you know, like the one that comes for free in your phone ..., but with ads, ... also a social network? no one really knew, not even them)
Dayton Hamfest.
I see this so often with many FinTechs.

First thing that FinTechs fail to address early is risk/fraud. They learn pretty quickly to address this.

Second area regulatory and compliance (ie KYC/AML).
I don't think you can generalize between these deals when:

1. The semiconductor companies on one side of the table are very different: Taiwanese company mostly employing in China versus a US company. National cultures around commitments and deals vary.

2. The politicians on the other side of the table are very different. Scott Walker and Donald Trump with the Wisconsin deal and Mike DeWine in Ohio.
Yeah that isn't even remotely close to market, which is why ATL was writing about it. Kellogg Hansen pays significantly over market salaries, too. Turns out I was wrong about 8th years, though. This is the scale most biglaw firms adopted this year (https://abovethelaw.com/2021/12/davis-polk-bonuses-21/).

We just got memos about $10-20k raises, too, and it looks like Milbank kicked that off yesterday.

Still no $400k bonuses unless you're at Wachtell or Kellogg.
Yes, Binance are greedy capitalists unlike any other stock companies. Oh wait...
IIRC they said that it was a point of interest but not something they’d started work on yet.
Very well for Oregon.

But it's a little more nuanced than pay for two reasons.

1) Intel is a little like proto-Amazon. There is a preference for hiring people directly out of grad school and inducting them into the cult while they are still naive, so that's just what they come to expect for work-life balance.

2) The whole semiconductor industry is like this, and particularly so for production fabs. If you have domain expertise, you have no alternative work-life balance choice short of a career change.
Shoot! I've got one tied to a really cool five letters dot com I own since forever. It changed names I don't know how many times ("Google apps for domain" ?, "G Suite" now "Google Workspace" and I don't know how many other names). Heck, I had since back when you could switch the free ones from one domain to another one. Then they tied it to the domain.

It's been a good ride. I take I'll fork out the 5 EUR / month or so for the basic plan.

Still a bit meh.
Not sure Foxconn va intel is a great comparison.
It's not a defensible product space. It's incredibly over saturated, highly dependent on the job market, has a constantly rotating supply side (job seekers only use when they're looking for a job), and has little supply side incentive.
Yeah try it right here and right now except you have to sign up
This is the most confounding thing for me as well. There are plenty of times having a single shared tag is what you want. But you either have one person able to find the item and one person getting stalker alerts, or both people getting both.

[edit: expand “both” as necessary to include the entire family :) ]
You may be correct, but there is also a huge taboo here and it's damaging to the pursuit of truth.
No. What you are describing (not mandating, just providing information) is known as "libertarian anarchy". A "free society" still places constraints on people in the form of public health policy, if and when the risk of not doing it greatly exceeds the risk of doing it.

I do agree that marijuana represents a situation where the government failed to make a legitimate public health case, and now has to undo decades of policy.
>>> The scale of our deployment is significant, with over 18,000 servers and 170,000 containers.

That's impressive.
Excuse my lack of expertise but I don't like web as a platform. Isn't it basically Javascript (an now WASM) + CSS on the client side and a browser as the VM?

On all platforms web is a second class citizen and the feature set is the common denominator which means it's always lacking something. It doesn't have access to all the hardware, it runs in a VM (which I assume means it is slower) and the dev languages are meh.

I prefer something along the lines of what Fuschia promises. That is, ephemeral software that gets downloaded lazily and runs natively as a first class citizen of the underlying OS
It seems there are some definitions that allow for some external funding. I’m of the view that bootstrapped is no external funding; sounds like fundstrapped is a better term. Maybe seed funded.
Guess we're never going to retire
Still serving ads, though, no?
Somewhat related- this reminds me of this recent fact that I learned [1] that 1" camera sensors are not 1" in any dimension whatsoever. That number is rooted in historical diameter of a tube that video camera "sensors" were housed in. That tube was 1" in diameter.

[1] https://youtu.be/-njHjebtIg4?t=495
I never understood the fascination with everything being forced white. The
gray widgets and white content were perfect for drawing the eye to the
important parts, ... the content.

In addition, the "classic" desktop of XP time wasn't flat grey. It was a
warmer color, with a bit of beige. Wikipedia says image says #d4d0c8. Which was a lot nicer on the eyes all day long.
How far backward we've come. Forced into narrow choices by folks who never
heard of "Chesterton's fence."
I've had this issue before - some combination of relaunching System Preferences, toggling the "iCloud Mail" checkbox and smashing "OK" repeatedly eventually made it work.
Our organisation of strength around 500 is facing the exact same issue. I would like to know more solutions here. It's a major document management problem to solve
Same boat except I have about a dozen family members. My annual bill is going to go from $0 to $61212. That seems like a pretty big jump considering that if we all just had regular non-commercial Google accounts, the total cost would be $0. I'm not opposed to paying something, but $864 per year just to have a vanity domain is a bit much.

It seems like Google really ought to consider adding a family plan SKU to Google Workspace, disabling all the business features, and charging $75/year for a whole domain.

Instead, the current path is going to piss off thousands of their most loyal power users as they force these graybeards to manually help migrate all their family members from the Legacy GSuite plans to vanilla Google accounts. Or worse, it's going to piss off all the family members that end up losing access to every email, photo, app, and doc they've acquired over the past decade on their now defunct legacy account.

Christ, does nobody at Google give a shit about goodwill?