skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but most people don’t question if a computer can support 2 external monitors in 2021/2022

And yet Apple has shipped just that. Apple is notorious for removing features that have been standard for years so they can sell you the "solution" at an extra cost (a.k.a the Apple tax), so, if you just impulsively buy the latest 'shiny' without reeding the spec sheet, then sorry, but that's 100% on you.

It's the basics of leveraging market segmentation, a tactic which Apple is perfect at. They determined that whoever buys a MacBook Air probably has no need for more than one external monitor, so they removed that feature that was a given on Intel based systems to save cost, and assumed that people who run multi monitor setups are more likely to be businesses and professionals who can pony up the extra cash for a more expensive M1 Pro/Max model. It's how Apple, and others, squeezes more money out of their customer base, and now with their own silicon, they can now charge you extra for what was standard on basic Intel chips 8 years ago. Enjoy ;)

I also don't like this practice, which is why I don't own any Apple HW, but I can't blame Apple here when it's their customer base at fault for buying their products without reading the spec sheet where Apple was transparent about the limitations of the basic M1 chip.
Lineage is OK, but I'd rather not run Java on a mobile.

The Nokia N9 is the only phone I've ever wanted and M$ killed it.
I'd reach out to the Authors Alliance https://www.authorsalliance.org/, which seeks to represent creators, and is pretty good on these issues.
I don't have a clear path for you, but my feeling is that you might already have developed a taste for systems programming, and Java backend development is not going to keep you happy. Of course I could be totally wrong, but it sounds a little bit like you care about being close to the metal and the challenges it presents, while most "Java backend" jobs will keep you working on a very high level, often programming CRUD apps and other "business logic" that may be interesting from a business perspective, but not necessarily from a programming one.

Definitely a good idea to try writing an emulator, though. Writing a Game Boy emulator is popular: It's just at the right intersection to be a simple enough architecture to get results very quickly, but with enough intricacies if you dive deeper to keep it interesting.
Computer design aesthetics are a relatively new concept and not one that’s deeply explored or appreciated, and certainly not at the level of other physical designs (cars, watches, clothing, so on).

I think many of us here really appreciate the beauty of Cray Mainframes and Apple hardware, but computers are so associated with work and utilitarianism, I think they’ve often been overlooked for their value as design pieces. I mean, brutalist architecture is a thing, so it’s probably just a matter of time.
Blame and responsibility can be orthogonal concepts.

An SRE may be blameless for a bug but they may also be the DRI for getting an incident resolved.
I think the interesting element is what it says about the market for private jets in that there isn’t a perceived market for light jets, but that the super-midsized to large cabin+ is still very viable, any thoughts on what’s driving that? Interest rates, Engine efficiency, fractional ownership, customer preference?
loss of interest in sex (lowered libido)
erectile dysfunction
hot flashes
loss of bone density
bone fractures
loss of muscle mass and physical strength
changes in blood lipids
insulin resistance
weight gain
mood swings
fatigue
growth of breast tissue (gynecomastia)
Interesting example! Planet sometimes describes themselves as "Bloomberg for Earth Observation" or something along those lines.
I did not see PostmarketOS mentioned (https://postmarketos.org/), which tries to solve the OS problem that Android (and LineageOS) does not really solve.
I'm curious about the threat modelling of those high level officials. With all these hacking going on, if feels like it's not been a consideration.

Pegasus claims iOS and Android hacking capabilities, one would expect more specialised communications being used at that level. Car companies provide specialised vehicles for governmental use, I would have expected to see specialised iOS or Android devices at least. Nothing completely out of this world but with special software configurations and features to detect and prevent attacks.
Can someone please ask this guy to sell these to Ukraine?!
Ask for help on the Purism forum. The community there is really helpful: https://forums.puri.sm.
> Linux is an incredible family of operating systems. Every few years I will try downloading and installing a few distros. I always run into issues with GPUs, sound cards, and WiFi. Once I get past those, I run into different sets of issues. One that sticks with me is the awful nested menus in XCFE.

I was a linux-on-the-desktop user for about a decade before switching to Mac, and like you, I try Linux out again from time to time. My experience is similar: I hit stuff I just don't have the time or patience to deal with anymore, every single time. Looking back, it only ever seemed good because I was somehow blind to how much time I was losing, and I'd learned to work around or ignore a bunch of broken stuff on my systems.
> might makes right

Often yes.

> it will always be so.

That's definitely not a certainty.
Speaking of “bigger picture” how much larger is the phone going to be without the integration?

Even Google had to prematurely abandon support for one of its phones because it couldn’t get driver support for a cell phone chip.

On that same note, cellular standards are a minefield of patents to the point that even when Apple starts producing its own cellular chips, it will still owe Qualcomm patent fees.
I really like the idea of the game. Super fun!
Time to make an app which would analyze your social media presence and for any country would show what laws you have violated and what punishment is waiting you where. Premium version will be showing that "cost" before you're to post something.
I agree, but btw, if you sign in you can set your theme to MinervaNeue to get a mobile-like layout on regular pages.
Turns out F-Droid inclusion is pending [1]. I was surprised not to see it there.

[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10909
I’m sympathetic to the complaints about “rude” scraping behavior but there’s an easy solution. Rather than make people consume boatloads of resources they don’t want (individual page views, images, scripts, etc.) just build good interoperability tools that give the people what they want. In the physical example above that would be a product catalog that’s easily replicated with a CSV product listing or an API.
I don't think so. "Evil compiler" here doesn't just mean a compiler that's malicious; it specifically means a compiler that, if asked to compile a clean compiler, will instead compile another copy of itself. And I don't think XcodeGhost did that.
If it stops working or being updated, I'm not sure the value of said nonfunctioning device will be great. It could be with an open os if its functionality suits you.
I made another comment about this elsewhere in this thread, but many programmers don't seem motivated to learn these productivity multipliers. There's a huge difference between "it's just a job" and "it's a job but I (at least usually) enjoy it."

I've never quite understood this because learning skills and techniques as described above makes the job easier and more enjoyable IMO, but I also can't fault people for not caring too much because in the end it is just a job.
What value do CRDTs add to a turn-based game?
I think it’s very, very unlikely. It would risk giving away information on the capabilities of US national security assets. Which is classified literally as highly as it is possible to classify. We don’t even let the Five Eyes know that stuff, much less hand it to non-aligned militaries who we can’t vet.

Plus, it doesn’t appear to be needed. The Russian military is proving to be god-awful at even basic field ops like camouflaging their vehicles.
You talk about supply and demand in your comments, and then somehow the idea that corporations controlling the supply lets them manipulate and ignore demand just goes over your head. Strange.
The new Tensorbook also looks like it has a high build quality.

https://lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/laptops/tensorbook
I have set timers with Siri 100's of times. It's practically the only thing I do with it. Hasn't failed me once.

Just yesterday, though, I said "Hey, Siri, navigate home" and that literally got into a failed state. The first time I did it it told me I didn't have a "Home" contact, so I made it. Didn't work when I was in the car yesterday, but it did just now. So, I agree, there are issues with Siri.
Yes.

I own a very expensive 2021 gaming laptop / mobile workstation-ish laptop from Lenovo. A ton of people who have it have had issues with the touchpad getting unresponsive. I could fix for the most part by using a 300W brick over a 240W (don't ask me how, that must be a very interesting power delivery system, or maybe the battery controller is interrupt storming, what do I know).

Lenovo's response has been to say they're aware of the issue, and otherwise ignore it / replace entire top shells only for the problem to return 2 weeks later.

I also have a T495, a machine that absolutely should never have been released with the C-States it has. While AMD has issued a patch for them, Lenovo has not bothered to provide a BIOS revision that fixes it. Support for these products is essentially minimal to dead upon release.

It feels like every OEM has become MediaTek.
Apple will start selling self repair kits , in collaboration with ifixit IIRC.
> TurboTax is the only one I've tried that will import all of my brokerages

That's trivial; don't throw your ranch so easily. You only have to copy few fields from your 1099 form and the instructions are very clear - which fields to copy and paste where.
That thing would be 5x over-budget, take 5+ years to build, there'd be a laundry list of contractors/subcontractors involved, and one of them would eventually leak customer data.
Great point about non-members/members
macOS for many years now has been inferior to Windows, IMO.
Yes, it can: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Well, for one thing it weighs less for every unit of positive charge.
Gemini version still un-hugged: gemini://jleightcap.srht.site/blog/openphone.gmi
Why does a search tool even need to open a writable file handle?
They support android apps from a custom repository and from f-droid. I think most of them work in the limit of being compatible with the android version that Alien Dalvik on the device supports (the latest models like Sony Xperia 10 II support version 10). However most of them suffer from not having access to Google services, but then again, that's something a person that wants to de-google would expect I think.
How is having no web-app or web-client (and banning you if you use any third-party client) meaningfully different from refusing to let you access anything in the browser?
I’m many instances, Twitter has a loose relationship with the truth as well.
Unfortunately, physics won't allow for that - with optical instruments you need a big aperture (lens) or you need to fly much lower than Starlink, or both. 1 or 2m imagery may definitely be possible, though! Check out BlackSky for reference.
> My guess is it will be back.

Even if it's propped back up, having been extremely quiet for a prolonged period, and then conspicuously broken could pretty reasonably be expected to push participants to a different venue, don't you think?
Yeah, I kind of need to hear this answer to be honest because it makes me feel less bad.
Similarly, if you are not logged into Google, but have a cookie, and try to view a public user-shared document, login wall. No cookie? Document just works.
Reminds me of the time I spoke to Håkon Wium Lie and said "you should let me redo Opera's GUI. Who designed this crap?"

He replied "I did."

Never got that gig.
Sorry but this is a simple binary: the person with no gun will always do what the person with the gun tells them to, or they will get shot and probably die. That's reality.

For the last 20 years or so we've been living in a world where the US called the shots pretty much everywhere, and we were cool with it because (most of us here) were on the US 'side'. 'Globalization' during this period was and is a complete sham, meant to sell people on the idea that their countries were independent and not subject to the Pax Americana.

But make no mistake, they were absolutely subject to the Pax Americana.

And now, China is challenging that, Russia is challenging that, and we're back to the people with the biggest guns win, as it has always been.

If you had hope it was a false hope, an illusion, sold to you by Uncle Sam, who was secretly manipulating the policy of most of the governments on the planet while spruiking 'democracy' and 'independence' that only exists so long as you do what Sam wants.
I'd guess the US military would not share their own sat feeds for fear of revealing their capabilities, they certainly could share techniques to exploit commercial sats in an effective manner for military purposes.
Snapchat works on google free /e/ OS.
Thank you, I will do that in the future.
> Don't smartphones... kind of suck? How many times have you had to replace a phone in the past 10 years? Do you have a drawer of random crap with a growing pile of phones?

I simply cannot relate with this hook.

> Don't smartphones... kind of suck?

No, smartphones are kinda magical. They take better snapshots than my first DSLR, they play games at higher fidelity than my first gaming PC, and they’re general purpose computing devices with better battery life, connectivity, and portability than my first laptop.

> How many times have you had to replace a phone in the past 10 years?

Twice. My first smartphone was the Nexus 4 way back in 2012. I moved on to iPhone with iPhone 6s, and then upgraded to iPhone 12 Mini last year because I was enraptured by the faster performance, better camera, and small size.

> Do you have a drawer of random crap with a growing pile of phones?

I definitely have a random crap drawer, but it contains no phones. My Nexus 4 went on to become a dev testing device until it was resold for parts. My iPhone 6s still sits in my drone bag so I can use it to control the drone while shooting other video on my 12 Mini.

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I dunno, I just can’t relate to the problems presented. Maybe it’s because I have only gotten top-of-the-line devices from companies who promised software longevity. Maybe it’s because I didn’t feel financially well off enough to jump on the upgrade cycle (until recently) and made do with older/slower devices for longer than most people. But the world of smartphones, from my perspective, kicks ass.
> we don't want to pay what it really costs to have such a great system so we sell our souls and then endlessly gripe about it.

Last time I checked, Apple does not subsidize their hardware and actually earns majority their money off of the hardware markup, not the services.
Ask HN: Crawl HN Linked Articles
How much does it cost to crawl all urls that are linked from hackernews submissions and comments? Ballpark at least 3.5 million story urls.

Several services would likely do this for several thousand dollars but I'm hoping for something cheaper.
Israel Successfully Tests Laser Missile Interception
Ugh - this makes much more sense than the "modern" grammar based approaches. Heck I might have a few more languages under my belt had I known this was even a thing!
Time to do some more digging!
The realpolitik of it is that Johnson some weeks ago went to the Saudis hat in hand asking for oil after they've stopped responding to phone calls from POTUS.

Last year:

The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, warned Boris Johnson in a text message that UK-Saudi Arabian relations would be damaged if the British government failed to intervene to “correct” the Premier League’s “wrong” decision not to allow a £300m takeover of Newcastle United last year.

The takeover of the club was of course completed shortly afterwards. As were the weapons sales.

As for the NSO, it is rather likely that the UK government itself is a client. In fact taking all of that into account it isn't unlikely that the UK government is more than just a customer and was already aware of being "hacked". But that's all I'm going to say about that.
FWIW I bought a new Framework laptop and it's worked perfectly with Ubuntu since day 1 YMMV - a major advantage of Framework over other brands is down the road if a component breaks I have a higher probability of being able to replace it as compared to most anything else (think: like an old thinkpad)
> General PC makers have a carefree attitude where here is what you want and they will give you the specs and it works however you want. Which means sometimes you will have to deal with managing your own experience.

You can't get whatever you want though. You can't get a machine with remotely the look and feel of a MBP. You have lots and lots of mediocre choices and no really good ones.
You don't need to be opposed to that kind of architecture to avoid that problem. You just need to make sure everything running on the "mainframe" side is licensed under the AGPL.
Thank you for the great video - I'm glad I watched it. Hadn't heard of Helix or Kakoune until now. While I have decades of muscle-memory in the vi key-bindings, it's easy to see that the select-object/verb method makes a lot of sense.
Often, you can considerably reduce the file size of an SVG text file without a noticeable reduction in perceptual quality just by reducing the precision of the coordinates.

The awesome SVG Optimizer [1] has a filter (cleanupNumericValues) to process SVG files to a fixed precision.

The equally awesome SVG Optimizer Missing Gui (SVGOMG) [2] provides a web-based GUI [3] to interactively adjust precision and see the resulting render (and file-size).

[1] https://github.com/svg/svgo

[2] https://github.com/jakearchibald/svgomg

[3] https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg
The general rule for serializing floating point representations to strings is not to output a fixed number of digits (DBL_DIG or otherwise), but rather to output sufficient digits that your inverse operation of parsing gives a bitwise identical floating point number.
The price of, say, a basic victorinox Swiss Army knife or a simple Caran d‘ache ball pen is still around one hourly wage in Western Europe and perhaps 2 to 5 in Eastern Europe.
The Roman telescope coming later this decade might do it. It will have an improved coronagraph that might help see exoplanets. They are using adaptive optics and special lenses in a coronagraph to better mask out the light form the star. But mostly likely that coronagraph on a proposed 15m LUVOIR telescope is where we start seeing things in detail.

https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/exoplanets_direct_imaging.html
I have friends in forestry, and their industry routinely uses helicopters, despite the risk, for a much lower ROI. Below are some videos of a christmas tree farm and a remote logging operation. I can't imagine that what rocket lab is attempting will be anything short of 10-100x safer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kin7cxnyM1M
> there is no apostrophe in "lets" unless it's a contraction of "let us".

It is not obvious that the form let's is a contraction of "let us". For one thing, it's not generally possible to expand it into the notional "uncontracted form"; if the form were a contraction, that would be easy to do.
Some constructs from the kernel are maybe not so relevant to use in userspace.

Spinlocks are great in the kernel where we can just mask interrupts. Not so fantastic in userspace.

Intrusive linked structures are necessary in the kernel since they let us manipulate collections without allocating. But they are also less convenient. Etc.

However, I'm sure there are lots of things which could be useful in both places. I have from time to time toyed with the idea of porting the kernel "standard library" API into userspace. Maybe something like that already exists?
I misunderstand what you mean.
That is actually, genuinely an amazing idea.

I'd steal it, but I doubt I'd have time to seriously work on it. So... either make it and sell it to me, or have someone else do it.
oh wow that thing is made in the 1966!!!! that's absolutely insane

I guess the overhaul is roughly the same regardless of the year? There's a 1981 learjet that is roughly 600k and I see another one from 1994 at 700k. I guess you would just discount this as the airframe price?

so cool that somebody out there has done this.
That seems really hard. How would you identify a joke/insult vs a neutral post vs praise?
I'd love to hear how you imagine we can change that. In a practical way.
Next up, we just need all public court records to be freely available to BE scraped and not $3 per page

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/08/court-pacer-should.html
The solution is not an app, but to avoid travel to these countries in their entirety.
Perhaps you may be interested in Librem 5 then.
so just stop using turbotax, h&r block, taxact, etc. try https://www.freetaxusa.com/ or any other decent competitor not trying to monopolize or regulatorially capture the market. for simple returns, just doing it by hand and mailing it in is easy enough too. vote with your feet.
Trashy is paying extra for needless aesthetics. Function over fashion forever, in my earnest opinion.
A year or so ago there was a long-ish discussion about countthings.com—technologically, a very simple app that's seemingly found a lot of value in having a close product-market fit and being able to (efficiently) sell to customers that don't have their own ability to build custom CV solutions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27261399

I really understand the author's argument that lots of satellite companies are "doing this wrong", by investing lots and lots of resources into "new products" that cost a lot of money to produce but don't have a clear user story, but I wonder if there's a way to do this "right" by building very simple, customizable software that lowers the floor in terms of what sorts of customers are able to purchase satellite data feeds? Maybe even using the same software the CountThings does?

This seems to be qualitatively very different from the types of "data feeds" that OP is talking about that try to measure "useful analytics", rather than working on a scalable process for shipping bespoke solutions to customers with turn-key integration. This is (one way) to tackle the long-tail problem. But maybe it runs into some other pitfalls
This proves nothing. The gov has their own satellites with live video streaming at a much higher resolution.

What in the blog post makes you think google is an extension of gov?
Apple's service network, via physical stores can not be beat!

I had an issue with my Samsung smart phone at one point. However, I couldn't part with the phone for x number of weeks, to send it in, for an assessment.

After that, I realized ease of support on iPhone was the biggest differentiator between Apple and other brands
More and more I'm starting to be convinced that driving at night is just absolutely insane for various reasons.
As if anyone traveling to a place like that is not already terrified.
The (my) case against PinePhone is the case: it's not waterproof.
Take a look at my DivestOS project, I support OnePlus 1-7 devices.
>(In Musk’s mind, if they were large shareholders, they wouldn’t be able to mistake the great offer he’s made for the business.)

Apparently Forbes now deals in parapsychology. Interesting field for them to branch out into.