skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I read dmidecode correctly, I'm writing this on a laptop from 2013, which remains not only fully functional but which has high enough specs that I don't even see it struggling for quite some time. When I someday get another laptop, it's likely to be from eBay, and I would very much like to know what the best laptops were 3-5 years ago. Being from 2019 is important context, but it's not disqualifying.
The Dell Precision 5560 is still a great Linux machine. Most things worked out of the box for me (the one I got has an nvidia card if that bothers you)

Battery life does not beat my 2019 MacBook Pro but it’s still pretty good (don’t have hard numbers)

Edit: also, nothing so far competes with the MacBook trackpads imo. YMMV
Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq and Syria are some countries which would like to disagree with your "stone age" assessment.

Or if your assessment was correct, then in spite of such a large budget, the US has managed to get beaten by a handful of Stone Age countries.
> Even trashing your working ICE car to buy an EV is a net negative

For CO2 absolutely, but for local air quality it makes sense for us all to run out and buy EVs as quickly as possible.

At least in London, air pollution has been a major concern for some time now.
... that are actively invading a sovereign nation. RTFA
Just be very careful when buying a used leaf that has any chance of having spent time in the southwest. The OG leafs have no battery temperature management, and many of had their batteries baked in the Arizona sun.
At least, more people will now be exposed to our utter hypocrisy. I used to be a staunch supporter of a free unrestricted internet but the disproportionate power US has is unsustainable - and frankly a threat to sovereign nations. China's firewall seems to have been the right path after all.
Depends on what you're developing.
Honestly, it is a toy.

A very cool toy, a very sophisticated toy, but a toy nonetheless. There were in the past, and I think still today, electronic sets that let you click together modules with magnets to make circuits. It was a very handsy, easy way to play with electronics. But, in the end, that's what it was -- play and exploration.

The beauty of the concept is the easy interchange of the parts and such, and that's it downfall when you desire to render something down in to a "production" item. And by production, I mean something you're going to handle with any frequency. The ease of composability is counter to the hardening necessity for everyday use.

I supposed you could glue the parts together, but by that time whatever you made is now made of rather expensive components. Or they could offer an alternate mechanic to "realize" systems built for the longer term.

Until then, it's a wonderful toy. And that's not a bad thing.
It will probably more useful, because with the passed time since introduction, the drivers had a chance to mature. In opposition to the newest gadget, which lacks support of feautures to varying degrees.
So you have no hobbies that are non-essential?
I'm a mostly[1] happy owner of a Framework laptop.

[1] - I have two complaints. One is screen size. I think one more inch would be ideal. I bought the laptop in spite of this. I can live with it. My second complaint is the battery drain when I suspend the laptop. When suspended, the laptop is dead within a day or two. (Yes, I have 'deep' sleep enabled. No, I'm not using hibernation.)
I'd be interested to know if the services affected had certificate transparency monitoring enabled. If not, why?
Is there really anything to service on CV joints? Usually you just inspect them and replace them if they're bad, right?
Are there any add blockers for iOS? I want to get a tablet for reading on the couch but I assume I would need an Android or Surface tablet in order to install Firefox with uNlock Origin.
> I am opposing everything related promoting violence.

You can't fight off an invasion with flowers and nice words.
If a company wants free speech and other rights normally granted to people, they can and should be held to moral standards in the same way we hold people to moral standards. And we, in fact, often do. We're holding Disney responsible for its actions based on a moral stance here. We support (or decry) Namecheap for it's actions in disallowing Russian citizens access to its services.

I'd go so far as to say those who do not pit Disney's actions against their own moral code "because profits" are the outliers, the outliers who are only louder when there's little cause for evaluating a company's morals.

Now then, do I characterize cigarette companies as sociopaths? You bet I do. Advertising to children, interfering with inquiries into their safety for people in general, and profiteering off addiction can all be linked to sociopathic tendencies.

EDIT:

This: "But if it interferes too much with the overall function of maximizing shareholder value, then they'll be replaced" is demonstrably not true.

Target and Costco, as two examples, have policies in place that prevent them from paying unreasonably low wages (like Wallmart does). This directly lowers "shareholder value" since it reduces profit dramatically, yet they haven't replaced all of Target or Costco's leadership.

Amoral behavior is a choice, not a directive.
But it's not really that straight forward. You push the pedal, the computer runs an algorithm, and then throttle body moves. The algorithm is the part that you can't troubleshoot, mitigate, or fix.

I recently started driving a drive-by-wire vehicle. A while ago I had an issue where the engine dropped to a near-idle (on the freeway) and the pedal was effectively non-operative. The diagnostics said the computer wasn't getting the expected results from moving the throttle body, so it went into some kind of safe mode.

Now, there are plenty of ways that drive-by-cable could fail, but in this case I was slightly resentful because I could have mitigated the computer's loss of senses with my own.
I think when it comes to any communication, the best method is the reverse hamburger method: Meat, bun, meat.

Start with exactly what you want, no fillers. Then some fillers. Then do call to action.
> Most shops are shuttered and people in clear psychosis are roaming the streets screaming at each other, threatening violence at passer-bys, etc.

I have to think Covid exacerbated business closures and mental health issues for poor / homeless folks, due to fewer in-person services, etc. Can't think of any city in America that wasn't similarly affected.
What I am saying is, don't get into the habit of making requests like this that make you look smaller.

Forks are inexpensive.

Here, I suggest that it is probably better for office harmony and one's career to do the inexpensive thing rather than burdening other people with dealing with your lack of tolerance for doing the inexpensive thing.

Being a little rude like this won't ever blow back on you in ways that you can directly measure. But it will blow back.

The forks email went to a departmental email list archive that happened to be open to the internet (this was 1996). You could find the forks email against my name in early search engines.

These days I understand that all of those people who got a bit snippy with me were right. And that even if I tend to forget the forks thing until topics like this come up, maybe they don't. Maybe they wander this world with a mental image of me being easily perturbed about forks.

That's what I mean. Buy more forks.
Anybody else having reached the point of language indifference/boredom?

Everything I everywhere now see is just the same: Gluecode, library calls, unnecessary verbosity, Blackbox inside Blackbox etc.

And this project slaps it again into my face, with every example it’s literally always the same - only that language uses a colon, the other a semicolon, the other catches exceptions with ? etc. but in a way it’s all just the same.

How to overcome this?

I find, only pointfree notation has some beauty to it that makes reading code sweet again.
I don't think they're confusing the two, it's more that sellers are forcibly combining the two. Nobody likes it, but they keep doing it, except in a couple sections where massively rampant piracy has essentially forced them to provide less user-hostile options.
For Lazarus at least you can download and install packages from inside the IDE using the Online Package Manager found in the "Package" menu.
i think like many things in life, step 1 is be charismatic.

these steps work well for making up the difference
You are absolutely allowed to remove the ads from your copy of a magazine, whether you do it yourself, another household member, a visitor, or even someone you pay.

Even if someone does it without your consent, the dispute is with the copy owner not the magazine publisher.

This would be an issue if an unauthorized party took it from your mailbox, but that still has nothing to do with the publisher or content.
Not sure I got your point but Ok.
Anyway, assuming that you're either with Russia or with "us" proves my point actually.
I bought 4 boutiques last months. Gotta start somewhere.
And this is why SF is so popular. It is a shame Florida never developed a huge tech hub, but Miami has plenty of other stuff going for it. (besides hurricanes)

People don't get it, SF will be always popular because the climate is just that good. Seattle is a close #2 IMHO, but you have to be able to put up with 8 months of grey, which is a huge "but".
> I still don't understand why Firefox, champion of privacy, doesn't make a uBlock native.

Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy is all talk and no action.
> Sorry but I have to call it what it is: Bullshit. You do not invade a Sovereign Country. Period. No "consensus" can justify the invasion. You just don't invade. If the Government calls for help, then and only then you have a right to go help. If it is a Civil War, you let the people decide. You do not interfere. This is the rules-based order that the West keeps thrusting on everyone else. But the West doesn't follow itself. Hypocritical.

I don't think that's a good summary of the rules.

It's permissable to invade soverign states for lots of reasons.

a) if the UN Security Council says it's ok, it's ok

b) if there's a real civil war or genocide going on, it's usually fine to invade to 'keep the peace', and the occupiers often get to choose who gets to control after. You're supposed to ask the UN Security Council, and it's nice to wear the UN uniforms, but whatevs.

c) if the soverign nation is invading others without Security Council approval, it's fair game to be invaded; but caution is advised, because it could trigger a larger conflict. Again, it's best to get Security Council approval, but not really needed. Regular border skirmishes don't count; has to be a real invasion to trigger a responsive invasion, not just planting a flag on an island or fifty feet from the consensus border.

d) It's always permissable to provide advice and training to armed guerrilas (or the current government); and to arm them if necessary. If neccesarry, you can do d, until it triggers the conditions for b, and it's permissable.
> This included word-of-mouth advertisements

This is not really advertising. It's more like a conversation. It's real people talking about their experiences. Advertising is when some phony who's on the corporation's payroll comes to you unsolicited and starts overstating the positives and downplaying the negatives.
You pay your bookie a vig too?

The fact that marketing exists isn’t something I’m debating. The fact it has wormed its way into all aspects of life is a sign that we lead sick lives, to me.
Still, I have no problem with the demonetization of things that annoy me AND allow me to pay only in one way: with my personal data. If your service is opt-out rather than opt-in, I have no ethical problem that your service is demonetized in one way or another. If the opt-out costs me money and effort, that reduces my sympathy even more.
Huh? Are others time travellers?
I've been having very good experiences with my Lenovo P15v dual booting Fedora/Windows. Intel graphics aren't speedy but are reliable. Absolutely gorgeous 4k screen. The usual nice Thinkpad keyboard.
I distinctly recall seeing a VHS tape of 'The Goonies' retailing for £64 in a video shop in the north of England sometime around '86, which blew my tiny little mind, as that may as well have been a million pounds.

If memory serves, a video came out on video for hire 3 years after cinema release, then 2-3 years for video sale, then same again for network transmission. Or, perhaps those last two were the other way around? So long ago, goddamn.
What does the trans issue even have to do with a partnership dispute, on the shareholding structure of their arrangement? Why does everything have to be a gender issue?
Go script:

p := Exec("man bogus")
p.SetError(nil)
output, err := p.String()
fmt.Println(output)

Shell script:

man bogus

......I'm gonna stick with shell scripts.
I need to give uBlock another try. I use and love uMatrix, and was hoping someone would step up to maintain a fork of it, but six months later it is apparent that will not be the case (and is far outside my expertise).

For some reason uBlock never clicked with me. The various global blocking settings I tried either broke too many sites or let too many annoyances through, and I found the process for allowing/blocking third-party resources on a per-site basis was clunkier than other blockers like uMatrix or Privacy Badger.

I really respect what gorhill has done, and keep hearing great things about new privacy preserving techniques being adding to uBlock that go beyond what other blockers do, so I really want to like it. Given how so many people love it and don't have these complaints, I'm probably approaching it with the wrong mindset / usage model, that is causing me to fight against it rather than work with it, so I need to step back and try again with a blank mind.
I think a lot of us who were 80s kids who can practically recite Star Wars got that way cause we had a very small collection of movies cause they were so expensive.

Or you had parents like mine. They used a lot of blank tapes, which held 6 hours worth of stuff. 3 movies each, that was. I think my parents saved up for it in the mid-80s.

Back then, the cable companies used to run weekends with free HBO, Showtime, Disney (which was a premium channel back then) and so on. Hours of movies. Hours of looney tunes cartoons. Hours of old TV from Nick at Night, Nickelodeon's nighttime programming for adults. (So much I love Lucy and Dick van Dyke shows). Some still had commercials, but we didn't care. It was really nice during times without cable. I thnk they finally got rid of a lot of them about 15 years ago when their final VCR broke.
>I think the idea of ethnostates run counter to the core values of most modern, liberal democracies.

But not to the core values of middle eastern Arab countries, which is the point to limiting the possibility of a sizeable proportion of immigrants imposing their incompatible culture onto host nations.

>As far as 'preserving culture', this sounds a little to close to the Fourteen Words for my comfort.

There is no reason to presume that the values of your "modern, liberal democracies" will be maintained if there is no effort to preserve them. The rest of the world is far less concerned with your ideas regarding women's or LGBT rights. Allusions to the fourteen words are effectively a false equivalence, there is a massive range between maintaining a liberal way of life and going on a multinational genocidal war campaign.

>As a biracial Jew from Pakistan I can assure you this is false. The modern enmity between Jews and Muslims began around the time of Israel's creation [1].

The enmity is baked into the Koran and therefore approximately as old as Islam.
Qt6 still doesn't have a lot of modules ported to it though, as it really hadn't been around that long.
Some high-power industrial systems have both a "controlled shutdown" emergency button and a "remove all power" emergency button, by whatever names.
If you're a Roland fan, this doc is insanely well-made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbpRMZIQ8g
Replace the word "Israeli" with "Russian" and its the reality of western consensus.

To change the regime, do it by suffering the people?
Coincidentally also a great doorstop. 2 kilos puts this laptop way out in niche territory. Pretty much nobody wants that. The perfect Linux developer laptop is anything with an xterm and a radio that can reach the Linux box where you are actually working.
Pretty ironic complaint, given your comment on that article.

I quote:

> This is by definition not an apartheid state.

> This law denying citizenship is to block a loophole used by known terrorists to come into Israel and explode Jews on busses.

... Flag yourself.
Might depend on who you ask.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich
Is this a racist question?
My family is from Ukraine and I speak Russian as a first language, and do not know Ukrainian, and yes it seems fine to me. I’m not a huge fan of Ukrainian nationalists but I’m cognizant that Russia is trying to wipe Ukraine out and they are trying to assert their statehood.
> On the contrary, I think this says less about FB, but more so reflects a hypocrisy in "western principles" that many are probably not self-aware of

There's really no hypocrisy. Western principles are: freedom, liberty, democracy, individual rights and equal opportunity for all above all.

This explains much everything pretty well. War against any country that goes against these principles is okay. War in order to try and bring those principles to others or protect them is okay.

Similarly, social media used in ways that could put those principles at risk, is not okay. Social media that is used in ways that supports and promotes these principles is okay.

There are a few cases where it is hard to tell if social media is used for or against those principles, and these get tricky, but there's still no hypocrisy. The challenge is understanding if it is for or against the principles.

For example, it is hard to know if implying that the US elections were corrupted and that's why Trump lost is for or against those principles. If the elections were not corrupted, then that idea is against those principles, it is itself the corrupted idea trying to geopardize democracy. But if it is true that the elections were corrupted, then that idea is in fact fighting to protect those principles.

The same thing applies here. Whatever message Facebook in the end feels is helping the principles will be allowed, if right now it's helping Ukraine motivate its troops, rally support and defend itself, then that's going to be the policies. It's all logical from the principles. Ukraine is seen as fighting for its right to democracy, liberty and freedom, and Russia is seen as fighting against that.
(This comment was originally posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615605, where the question made more sense, but I've moved it into the new thread because it's interesting.)
I've been here since 2007 and haven't had a problem. Read that first sentence again:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

If you don't like it, flag it. But if you look at the front page, it's all mainly tech-related so it's working fine.
No, not all parents would be OK with you teaching their children that, and that is their absolute right.
Trusted Types to Prevent DOM XSS
I don't know if this is still the case, but for a while it was both commercial and open source. You could change the license check to just "return true" and compile it yourself to get things like the SSL plugin. IIRC there was also a comment that detailed the algorithm for generating keys, so you could come up with one in your own name.
It was a bit tongue-in-cheek - the median driver has precisely zero accidents in any given year.

I don't really know how to think about it. Accident rate, on a per-mile basis, falls out of some combination of "hardness of the driving problem" (freeways have many fewer accidents than city streets, I think) as well as propensity to take risks (driving at night; in bad weather; at higher speeds; while distracted) as well as driving skill.

What, by definition, people will accept is an accident rate similar to that for professional drivers; e.g. taxi/rideshare/livery. According to a report by Uber, that's about half the number of fatal accidents on a VMT basis versus the general population in their case.
When I travel outside the US and have to discuss temperatures with people, or I'm talking to foreigners in the US, I convert to C in my head and use that.

It probably isn't that hard for you to just convert in your head.
Idk I’ve never used cuda, but worst case you can still use it on windows
I work 4 hours a day since 2017. Of course this is a huge privilege. I could not imagine how I could combine kids, friends and hobbies with a 8 hour work day.
I grew up as a car enthusiast during the transition to things being computer controlled, and for car modifying purposes it was fantastic. Relatively simple to plug my laptop in, monitor air fuel ratios, make adjustments as I see fit. Didn't have to rely on any third party or anything.

However more rececnt trends see OEMs trying to prevent you from doing this kind of thing, in the same way that Apple, John Deere, and others try to prevent you from repairing or modifying or repairing your own hardware. This makes me very sad, because the future should be a utopia for people who whish to repair or modify their own hardware and instead we head towards dystopia, for no good reason!
i had to look up "CD"
I wish Docker had been kept as simple as possible. A Bocker that uses overlay2 could potentially be a Docker-like MVP.
Physical presence of media in one's space is underrated. The cost (in space, being a pain in the ass to move, et c.) is high but there are significant benefits.
Why Deep Learning Research Doesn't Matter
I just started listening to a great podcast about this:

https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-enhance-your-gut-microbiome-f...

I have no connection at all, just thought it might be useful for folks that like to listen and learn.
One benefit of physical media that I don't see mentioned here: if you like underground music, the rarity of the CD/Vinyl can cause it to greatly appreciate in value over time. It's a great reward for dedicated fans who are willing to jump on a release early. A lot of my CD's double in value within months (eg this album[1] came out only 2 years ago* and has already tripled in value)

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/master/1701108-Spectral-Lore-Mare-Co...

*edit: I forgot what year it is
Edit: oh it’s an old post. I got the 5560.

Got one from my company (with Windows 10 though) and it’s an amazing device. Really fast, but still not too loud, too hot or too heavy. Good 16:10 screen and battery lifetime is also good.
I'm very sorry for the situation you're in. Could you elaborate on your fears for Romania?

Putin's attempt to annex Ukraine has been very damaging to Russia's economy and (I assume) its conventional military strength. Putin's actions also placed the rest of Europe on high alert.

So even if Putin manages to secure control of eastern Ukraine, I assume it would take many years before Russia is strong enough to attempt another expansion. And I expect nearby countries would use that time very productively.
Have you tried listing reqs on https://4dayweek.io?

Speaking as an infosec practitioner, we’ve built functions with this model where we have infosec folks as subject matter experts (architecture, appsec, IAM) providing guidance on a 4 day work week. Great perk versus comp and benefits alone, and usually attractive to talent at later stages in life who are optimizing for QoL versus total comp.
Russia also legalized piracy against unfriendly countries, surely this investigation will lead to substantive outcomes!
It's a 25 dollar Raspberry Pi, not a 1000 dollar desktop.
Biden to Tap Colombia as Next Major Non-NATO Ally
Helium’s Dirty Secret – POC Hacking Explained (2021)
What I meant was, would you buy a car without controls? Without a steering wheel?