skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to buying my Thinkpad X1 Nano I considered a System76 laptop, but decided against it mainly for a few reasons:

- Many reports of spotty QC in their machines

- Display panel being 16:9 instead of 16:10 or something taller

- Uninspiring design

- Mediocre specs for price

- Barrel power connector instead of USB-PD
Anecdotally, I've purchased several new CDs over the past 12 months because I bought a used car that has a CD player and I CBA to set it up to work with my phone. Given that the used car market is undergoing an unprecedented boom, I wonder if some % of CD sales come from similarly motivated new used cars owners.
I don't think it is marketing as a concept that is the problem - it is that we are forced to have it everywhere. There is no choice.

I think a much healthier relationship would be a system where you can choose to dedicate some of your time and preferences to marketing. Instead of companies trying to trick you into clicking their advertisement they would need to create compelling and entertaining advertisements for stuff you might actually want. What I am envisioning is basically something like an app or channel you might willing give some type of inputs (say, for example, you are looking for a new car - you could input some data about your preferences) and then advertisers would have to compete to show off the best product. You could choose to dedicate 0 of your time or X amount of minutes.

Some of the products I actually use and like the best also have the best (in terms of entertainment) marketing - if someone can make me laugh with a 10 second video AND show off a well designed product at the same time then I generally take that as a positive. But the advertisement needs to be providing entertainment value on its own.
Absolutely.

The received (mostly uninspected) consensus that the "full time" schedule is immutable and needs to be an all but universal norm, is past is expiration date.

I am to glad to see a rising tide of push back (e.g .for a 4-day week) but we still have only a few variant of FT and most are considered degenerate, often in an almost moral sense that smacks of received Puritan work ethic, especially in the US.

There is a real antiwork sense in which this is a cultural construct which receives in inordinate amount of upkeep on the part of those who require it to benefit from it.

Kudos to your co. for progress!!!
Alright, I thought we were having a mutual conversation but it was your decision to get offended and act like an asshole, so do what you will.
I don't think it is a good idea. Usually when things like that happen the project will become less and less effective, also once it is so ingrained it will be harder to switch to a new kid in town that is better.

Firefox has its own built in privacy mechanism that is enabled by default and don't prevent me to use uBlock together with it. I prefer that approach.
I'm in Seattle, we are the US definition of overcast. 62% of our days have heavy could cover.

SF doesn't even make the top 10 list of America's cloudiest cities. :)
Yeah, that sometimes happens. I don't really understand why they don't have all their products in the warehouse. Plus they don't deliver some stuff, despite the fact that they deliver almost everything. It's quite confusing.
Meh.

Try a type IV metal tape. A lot of very very shit tape types out there but a quality format will last and be good.
The data says:

- Youth + non-obesity reduces risk from COVID

- BA.X are less dangerous than previous variants

- Vaccine induced heart damage is more likely in younger men

- The vaccine induced immunity drops off after 5 months due to waning + evolutionary pressure

- Natural immunity of a prior infection confers protection towards BA.X

I'm not doing any mental gymnastics. I stated specifically: your counterargument is one for some arguments, not others. I am illustrating clearly when what you wrote is not a meaningful counterargument if it is being used to persuade someone to get vaccinated or to justify a mandate when, for example, that person is a young, healthy man who has already had COVID.

Now go ahead and reply again with another thinly veiled insult, citing broad, long term statistics and dividing two numbers. It reflects poorly on you.
> if you don't see the ethical problem with monetizing off the demonetisation or another party, then I don't know what else to say.

It is not generally considered unethical to set up in business, even though that will often 'demonetize' (reduce the income of) other actors in the same (or a related) line of business.

If you consider all monetization of web services to be unethical, then it is moot whether or not it demonetizes others.

As you are advocating the use of Ublock, it seems that you do not think the demonetization is ipso facto unethical.

Furthermore, the newcomer is offering an alternative form of monetization, and will presumably only succeed if that is regarded as preferable by some group of consumers.

While this seems mildly ironic, I'm not really seeing any argument, for this monetization of demonetization being unethical, that can be threaded through all these points.
GDPR might have some teeth if it was actually seriously enforced. That's yet to be the case.
Vancouverite here - the temperature is quite moderate but you need to be okay with a lot of grey drizzly days. Summers are wonderful though.
Based on my experiences with a variety of OEM infotainment systems over the last decade, I would say car manufacturers still have an awful lot to learn about building software that does not suck.
Thank you so much! I enjoyed hanging out with you in the chat ;)
I am Swiss German and living in Switzerland (German speaking part) and I had the weirdest issue for a couple of years: Swiss, the airline, always gave me french boarding passes. But all my settings were either set to English or German. The bizarre part was that if I booked for multiple people they would all get english ones except for me. Similar things sometimes happen for other services. Sometimes Switzerland means French for some services and all my settings on any level do not help.
A 3x8 work week would be ideal for me. I would take a 40% pay cut in a heartbeat and live more modestly, so long as I still had decent health care and could afford the basics to support my family. It's interesting how time has become increasingly important as I've gotten older.
There's an awful lot of people on enthusiast forums who quite clearly have no idea what they're doing, let alone have an engineering degree, and are able to connect to their CAN bus, add "magic boxes" (from their perspective) that change the behavior of the car/truck, add displays of onboard telemetry, or some other feature.

Only a tiny sliver of people need to understand how CAN actually works. Most Average-Joes just need to know how to connect (which is often done just via plugging into the OBD2 port, giving a keyed connector with power, ground, and at least one CAN bus).

As a hobby, I sell a low-volume device for a niche vehicle that works exactly this way. I assure that almost none of my users have any idea how a computer works, let alone anything physical on the CAN bus or what an MCP2515 or 120 ohm resistor is.
What? Fyodor Dostoevsky died in 1881.
Even when the government throws the opposition in jail? When foreign media is banned, so most citizens don’t even know that there is something to protest? Tough break to be from that country: your government oppresses you and the rest of the world does too.
Who’s preventing Europe? At most Germany is prevented to some degree.
In this context social networks = social media = Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and their ilk, we can't really include AT&T in this conversation :-)
Tesla will pay it's employees for up to 3 months if they get conscripted
Let one-liners be one-liners, and bring in Go/etc when it ceases to be a one-liner. But not before.
Italian here: this really happened, but I think that both the tweet and the HN title are misleading.

Paolo Nori, an Italian writer, not a university professor, was supposed to collaborate with the university to hold a free 4-lesson course on Dostoevsky.
The university originally decided to cancel the course and the writer published a video saying that he couldn't believe what they were doing and that, of course, the decision didn't make much sense. Many people protested and complained and the university went back on their steps, but said that Nori, besides talking about Dostoevsky should've also presented some Ukranian authors.
Nori refused because, again, he thinks the request doesn't make sense and also he's not an expert on Ukranian literature and doesn't know any author.

It's still an absurd situation, but I don't know if it should be framed as a ban
I think they're meaning to say "He has no philosophical or moral ties to the current government" rather than "He's not relevant as a literary figure in modern society"
There's an astonishing number of people that are backing these decisions, if social media is any indication. It's truly unbelievable. I mean, we're attacking people of Russian heritage. Whenever similar things happen with other races or cultures we bend over backwards to ensure the opposite is occurring: do not stereotype. These are strange times.
“The old-fashioned racism didn’t cut it for me anymore. Excited to be racist towards a new group of people”
Google "intuitive eating". There's a shocking amount of dangerously incorrect information in this thread.
Maybe in a democracy
The counterpoint would be that huge swathes of the public (myself included) despise using Mac OS for anything more serious than browsing, so that entire line of laptops would be dead to us.
Besides the wiping, these connectors are missing two other features: ESD protection and connection-sequencing.

Most user-facing connectors have a metal shield around them connected to frame ground. The idea is that any ESD shock goes safely through this first instead of to a sensitive data line.

Connection-sequencing ensures that the ground and power is connected before data lines are. If you look inside a cable-side USB connector, you'll see that the inner two wires (data) are recessed a little so that the power connectors go first. A device that is connected without power can (through its ESD protection circuit) attempt to draw power from data lines... this can cause damage because most data lines can't supply the current to power the entire device.
Have a read:
https://woodsmokepollution.org/climate.html
I haf this discussion with mechnic friend a while ago, obviously not not a 40 year old car so. Our true second car is now, I have to guess, 15 years old. Diagnostics are no problem, computers with the correct software are around 400 bucks. Cheap enough for either an enyhisiast or free mechanic. The main car is 4 now, diagnostics equipment is only OEM, and goes for 5 figures. Go figure, but it explains why diagnostic jours can be so expensive.
>The answer is patches. The more complex and "smart" something gets the more patches you need. And since you dont want to go to the mechanic every time, firmware over the air it is.

Maybe in your vehicle. But certainly never in mine.

Any vehicle whose software can be remotely modified is one I'll never buy.

As I said, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
None of those dead geniuses have the sway to reject the current Russian government and demand changes. If enough Russians are impacted, maybe they will find the will to do so.

> regardless of the ship having no ties to Russia's government

Flying under a Russian flag, registering itself with the Russian government, and agreeing to operate under Russian jurisdiction sure sound like ties to the Russian government to me. Presumably if the ship decided to stop operating under those circumstances, there are other countries who would be willing to accept the ship to their jurisdiction.
Clearly there is no requirement because plenty of cars don't connect to the internet.

There are plenty of reasons. Whether or not they are good depends on your opinion, but for me at least good reasons include:

* Triggering my home alarm if someone interferes with the car while it's parked in my driveway.

* Remote tracking/disabling if stolen. Not actually that useful directly but if most cars have this then fewer people will steal them.

* Automatically notifying emergency services in the event of an accident (you could argue this doesn't need internet, but 5G is IP based).

* Being able to get OTA software updates.

* Being able to listen to Spotify and use Google Maps for navigation.

* "Smart insurance". Not everyone's cup of tea, but regular insurance for me is £100+/month, so being able to cut this by 50% by remotely verifying that I drive like an old lady is a pretty good deal to me.

My car is old enough not to have an internet uplink, so instead I have an aftermarket head unit and an OBS-II 4G dongle thing. Obviously it doesn't do all of the above, but it's useful nonetheless.
> Bitcoin made the term fiat popular.

I don't think this is true, and I also provided a link to Google Trends proving this is not true (at least in terms of "Google Popularity"). Do you have any evidence that Bitcoin made that term popular?
Except my car only has about another 5-10T of CO2 in it before everything fails anyway. This makes no sense, the current set of EV's aren't built to last much longer than ICE cars do.
I hadn't heart of them before:

https://datalab.usaspending.gov/about/

""Who We Are

This site was created by the Office of the Chief Data Officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), which is part of the Department of the Treasury. Fiscal Service is responsible for managing public debt, central payment systems, and government accounting. Our team is comprised of data analysts, developers, and UX designers who are passionate about putting trusted data in the hands of the people.""

So that site is created by the disbursement arm of the bureaucracy, which explains the overly generic output bins as well as no metric for adjusting based on taxes paid in by an individual, nor for area of the country. I was rather hoping for something with an order of magnitude or two of greater depth that dynamically adjusted the context of graphical representation based on what mattered to the viewer.
>All this talk of genocide and nazism in Ukraine is devaluing the meaning of those words.

I think what is extremely devaluing and disrespectful of the past anti-nazi fighters and genocide victims is to allow Nazism and genocide on our watch.

> is grossly inaccurate verging on absolute ignorance or troll.

whole country of Ukraine are ignorant trolls? In Ukraine they normally call it a Russian fascism - "russism" ['rashizm'] for short and thus "russist occupants/invaders". It is called the same in Baltic countries too. And if you don't see how the proclaimed by Putin "Great Russia" ideology is nazism when you just don't know what nazism is.

>people don't use words literally anymore or don't care about history

looks like you have no idea what you're talking about. My Ukrainian grandparents were under German occupation. From the other, Russian, side of the family - significant number of the members of extended family fought against German Nazi in WWII with some KIA/highly decorated/etc.
Why not? My point is that a communications network doesn't have to be hostile. It is possible to run a communications platform and get people to pay for it.
> Google all I want is a command for assistant, for example "OK Google, Call in german/dutch/French/etc <after this command everything will be interpreted on the given language, for the rest of the voice input>. See, it's not that hard.

I had the exact same idea, it seems Google really lack good product design.
Are they still on to of everyone else in a meaningful way, though?

There was discussion yesterday [0] that pointed out that there are 29MB Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2] images.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30633670

[1] https://hub.docker.com/layers/debian/library/debian/stable-s...

[2] https://ubuntu.com/blog/minimal-ubuntu-released
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystem...

This link shows their Linux lineup. Seems they cover all 3 laptop sizes 13/15/17 both in an ultra book form factor and a bulkier port rich model. What more were you hoping for? I personally think it's a good thing they limit the pre-installed Linux models to their professional/business line of laptops. Supporting Linux on every model is probably a waste of time.
Not sure if NOAA provides a dataset for that, but I totally agree!
I would love more projects like this, especially ones that utilize the BBB.

Personally I've had the same need (shared keyboard and mouse) and same requirement (work policy preventing additional software) for many years now so have resorted to using a KM switch (no V) bought off eBay.

If you look up "KM switch", the first thing you'll notice is that most search engines will automatically assume you meant "KVM switch" instead. This is what I believe contributes to the highly niche market and niche prices for KM switches. Anything under $100 is rare, hence used ones on eBay being the better option.

It should be possible to have a series of Atmel 32u4 microcontrollers acting as a keyboard/mouse devices controlled by a single host device over I2C. The problem is that people with the skills and people with the motivation haven't overlapped in a significant way.
This completely blows my mind. I was reading a book last year where the author opined about the plants/trees that we have today. And how the plants and humans adapted to each other’s needs. For ex: fruit trees provided sugar. This made evolving species plant more fruit trees.

…and now this that trees that are not “useful” will go extinct.
I think the complaint is that the author has nothing to do with the previous regime, let alone the current one.
Well, you know the joke that the best evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is the fact that they still haven't contacted us.
>The actual issue is that he has not disclaimed support for Putin's operation in the Ukraine.

Why the hell should people have to "disclaim" support of anything? Can you list all the things you disclaim? I need to see if you're a good person.
Fly your name around the Moon
Cancel culture has reached an absurd, satirical level cancelling an entire culture and nation of people now. And not even just people. The International Cat Federation banned Russian cats from competition [1]. This cat story is something I'd expect to see in The Onion.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/international-cat-feder...
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Yes and no. We absolutely should be amending Magnuson-Moss, but the reason for why we need to legally mandate access to repair manuals is very much downstream of current copyright law. Companies realized that once you put software into a device, they owned the thing that makes the device useful at all, and they could then charge access to that software in the same way one charges access to a scummy mobile game.

Furthermore, because the law surrounding creative works is extremely strict, any repair that might touch something that could be construed to be DRM protecting the manufacturer's software becomes legally dicey. You also can't tell anyone how to break that DRM, no matter how justifiable repair is. So if you somehow figure out how to reserialize new parts onto a locked-down vehicle, you're probably allowed to do that; but you can't legally sell that knowledge onto other repair shops.
You're certainly free to do so, but at that point you're really arguing about what should and should not be covered. Wear items like brake discs and windshield wipers generally aren't.
> What happens when your fancy electric vehicle stops getting software updates

Who cares?

Cars don't normally get updates after they leave the factory, unless you take them to a dealership - usually because there's a recall. Tesla is changing this, and expect other companies to follow suit.

But there's really zero reason why this is going to be confined to electric vehicles. The engine literally makes no difference. It was historically easier on EVs because, given that the engine is not always rotating, belts were not feasible. So they had electric steering (and other things like electric climate control). Regenerative breaking meant that you had to delegate braking action to the computer too.

However, ICE vehicles already use an ECU, so engine is already software based. Then, we have ABS and lane assist (and adaptive cruise control, etc) which means that some computer can control the throttle, brakes and steering too.

Other features like infotainment are completely orthogonal to the drive train.

> For now, we’ll continue to buy cars that are increasingly more difficult and costly to repair

Seems like the author hasn't bought an ICE vehicle recently. They are all more difficult to repair. Even things like replacing the infotainment system are no longer feasible since it's all integrated.

This article sounds like FUD against EVs.
Russia lunched an attack with chemical weapons on U.K. soil and nothing happened.
This was useful and informative.

I will say for sure that almost nobody in the UK understands how badly we screwed up, unless they are from a military background, particularly anti-Boris-Johnson, or, weirdly, fans of the band, Fat White Family, who got into a kind of "de-platforming" trouble for daring to point out Boris's callous indifference to our failures.

> So the very cynical view is that getting rid of ghaddafi was the goal, not helping the Libyan people at all.

I don't know how cynical that is, to be fair. I think there was some adventurism from NATO for sure -- a well-intentioned belief that NATO was helping Libyans to get rid of Gaddafi, to mutual self-defence benefit. (Which they ultimately did; his death being the form of departure Putin apparently most fears.)

Like I say -- it was disastrous and I don't think we talk enough about how disastrous.
Russian history should teach us as well as anything that even totalitarian dictatorships have to operate with a modicum of consent from those they govern. Pitchforks and torches (especially when wielded by soldiers' mothers) are underrated as a tool for political changes.
If you are okay with 16Gb RAM the Huawei Matebook Pro will not disappoint. The quality is top notch and the price is true value for money. For me the light weight, 3000*2000 display and how nice the keyboard and touchpad is makes it nice to use. Ubuntu works perfectly.

I also have a small armada of XPS efforts and very nice Lenovo laptops but the Huawei just feels better engineered.

You also get goodies with it, like fancy speakers and other accessories, depending on the promotions available at the time.

Huawei are a tech leader, not a race to the bottom clone. But after the Trump ban on Huawei you would never know.
> they don't block propaganda sources that they don't think are propaganda

That’s the point of contention.

> But you're trying to phrase this like it's some kind of deliberate action or general policy on their part, and it just doesn't make any sense.

It doesn’t make sense because I’m saying that.

Users upset with DDG understand that everyone is blinded by bias, so don’t attempt to filter topics that can be affected by it.

The solution is give those users options for unfiltered results like they do with safe search.