skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> by your own ranting the M1 mini is not a low-end desktop

Sharing research is ranting? Anyway, post I replied to asked:

> "Do you think a 15 year old Dell is going to match the performance of any new machine?"

Interesting proposition!

So I responded to "any new machine" using the earlier Chromebooks as the baseline.
I'm saying that Copernicus wrote _de revolutionibus_ in 1543 and its contents were globally accepted not before around the 1700s.

So anyone in that timeframe were looking at the state of science with their best mind and rightfully questioned "who's right? Geocentrism or heliocentrism?". And there were debates.

To know what eventually came out of it is just a privilege of our time.

Future times will have the privilege of looking down to 2022 and look at our controversies with the confidence of those that know.

This is why I'm convinced that science moves forward with debates and consensus.

Just as general relativity made consensus year after year, if you want a modern example.
https://superuser.com/questions/129519/which-file-systems-su...

So yea, it looks like that linux filesystems accept this, but a lot of utilities break.
I really don't mind 1x programmer/programming, hell, probably am myself.

Most companies don't as well. Issue lies with people who create work for others on every task they are assinged to work on. Hence, -1, negative net developers, and there are plenty of them everywhere.
> Why does nobody care about the janky Bluetooth mouse that's only janky on macOS?

Which mouse? I've always had bad experiences with Bluetooth mice, but have chalked it up to BT being a shit protocol for mice.

> Why does nobody care that my USB 2.0 ports on my external USB-C docks die in about 20 minutes necessitating a reboot--again, only on macOS (and only on newer macOS versions--old ones work fine).

Is it all USB 2.0 ports that die in that case, or just the ones on your external dock? Are you using an adapter of some sort as well?

> How many years did it take Apple to (sort of) fix their shittastic keyboards?

This seems a bit petty to me. I don't disagree, but if they fix it they fix it, and afaik they have. Lots of improvement to make, but I quite like the current ones as much as I can. Laptop keyboards across the board are only going to be barely passable imo, because the feedback to me is less important than scrunching my hands together in a way that fucks with my shoulders. This is true of full size mechanical keyboards as well. I think it's important, if you care, to re-evaluate every so often. If a restaurant I like makes a thing that sucks once or twice, I'll wait a bit and try it again a while later, and it's no longer that important that I didn't like it previously
I think you just answered the question: All of the categories you note have both high-end and, sadly, mostly low-end options. What is surprising is that, in the world of computing, there is very little at the high end (Apple -- from going by this original thread), and almost all of it is at the low end. I guess some company could make an amazing PC that ran Windows, but the, you'd have an amazing piece of hardware that... ran Windows.
Oh good eye! I see now his recent stuff, but nothing from that era. Probably a score created just for it.

Additional lol. Found a NYT link to the animation again, but it's in a obsolete format. (Requires Real Player)
As someone who was born after film was dead and now has quite a lot of film cameras, I don’t think this will be the case.
If he lied when they were setting up the poison pill, Twitter'd probably win the inevitable court case, and he'd get in trouble for misrepresenting his position.
Success is not altruistic?

You're typing on a computer attached to the Internet. Sounds suspiciously privileged.
Carriers sell location data, yes.
It's not like that many people are opening 40 room hotels either. Such amounts are atypical within programming and CS communities.

A more relevant example is video games, imagine if the only viable ones were top end AAA games whose completed versions could only be accessed by cloud gaming?
> The simplest test is to cut a country into quadrants with lines running and north-south and east west.

Sure, OK, maybe that way of thinking is why I've had so much kickback. If you draw a rectangle around Spain on a map and divide the rectangle into quadrants, then Pays Basque and Catalunya both fall squarely in the northeast quadrant.

But by that reasoning, the entire eastern part of Spain is the "northeast". Spain is not rectangular.
Indeed int2ptr is the "evil" operation. If we banned it, we could get rid of all this "exposed" stuff and ptr2int would be fine. However, in order to make int2ptr work, we have to also make ptr2int a bit more complicated. That's what the example shows: removing a ptr2int introduced UB into the program.

Rust now (experimentally) has an `ptr.addr()` operation that is like ptr2int without the "expose" part, i.e., the resulting integer cannot be cast back but still used for other purposes.
> From the Real Life World®©™ instead of the advertised world.

That's the world I live in, but you are describing a world that's totally unlike it. Is "Real Life World" a fictional world you've invented and trademarked with a nonsensical name in order to confuse readers?

> Did you ever have a lithium battery of any kind for more than 10 years?

Yes, I have a 2012 Nissan LEAF which has a 24 kWh lithium battery pack. It is still working perfectly now after 10 years.

I also have a 2018 Nissan LEAF, a 2019 Kia Niro plug-in hybrid, and a 2021 Volkswagen ID.4. Suffice it to say, I have some experience with owning and charging electric cars in the real world.

> 100k miles came quickly for anyone who use a car for real, in 4-5 years actually BTW

The average car in your country reaches 100K miles when it's 14 years old, and in the US when it's over 8 years old.

> Just to gives you a realistic dimension... if I count consumed diesel in kWh (around 1000kWh/month)

You lead with "realistic", then gave a figure equal to driving about 4000 miles in an electric car every month. This is not realistic. Last month my electric cars consumed less than 150 kWh, or the equivalent of plugging in a small single room space heater for 3 hours per day. This fuel cost me about $20.

> If today all USA cars switch to BEV the USA electricity grid will collapse in few hours and can't recover even with continuous rolling blackouts for years

Converting 80% of all passenger vehicles to electric would only add about 10% to total electric consumption. Studies have been done, the grid would be fine.
No. The law understands those are 4 companies all operating for Elon's benefit
Like he said, he was unlucky. I got a Lenovo Carbon X1 and it worked with Ubuntu without problems (well, the finger print reader didn't work which become a security problem with work as we realised the weakest point was our laptops which had all the IP on them). Other than that it was a joy!
CashApp Taxes provides audit defense for free: https://taxeshelp.cash.app/s/article/Audit-Defense-when-you-...
The librem might work but what can I install on it besides their OS? It also has very limited ram/etc.

I've been looking for a single board computer with usb-c that's still a reasonable good desktop and haven't found anything. The only contender right now is the motherboard from a steam deck but im not sure that can be taken out and work on it's own.
I'm by no means an expert, but a lot of choices machine learning algorithms make are more about training parallelization than anything. In many ways it feels like something like a recursive neural network or some architecture even more weird should be better for language, but in practice it's harder to train an architecture that demands each new output depend on the one before. Introducing dependencies on prier output typically kills parallelization. Obviously this is less of a problem for say a brain that has years of training time, but more of problem if you want to train one up in much less time using compute that can't do sequential things very quickly
> What am I missing here?

To my knowledge NSO software (and similar) target exploits in OS-specific applications (think default Messages app on iOS) rather than, e.g., Google Voice. That being said, I personally don't know if Google Voice and similar are special enough not to have their own exploits (spoiler: they probably aren't, and Google Voice in particular would be a very enticing target).

I'd expect there's more to it than that, though. I'm really not familiar with these exploits.
You can't really look at it in isolation and hope to understand, instead you need the context of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Catalonia
“The first stage burns out after the first 70 km”. There’s very little atmosphere there, so it would effectively free fall for a while first, and then would have to start gliding.

You can’t rapidly get from a fast free fall (almost vertical) to gliding (almost horizontal), or your wings will break of. That means you either need something to rapidly (but not too rapidly) decrease vertical speed, or you need lots of height to make a slow turn (this thing will be falling at thousands of km/hour before it reaches denser atmosphere). I guess “lots of height” is a bit more than 70km for realistically strong wings.

So, you need something to decrease vertical speed. A parachute is the best solution we have for that. If you have that, why add wings, too?

If you launch to orbit, there is a gliding solution that will work: wait for atmospheric drag to slowly bring the booster down to denser atmosphere, but these boosters don’t get into orbit, and even if they did, it would take way too long.
I’m on the same 2018 I got in 2018.

Every Dell or Lenovo I had before that was cracked, missing plastic bits, feet and screws after 4 years.

Last Lenovo had battery issues from the start. 2018 MacBook still lasts a day.

But my dual Xeon Dell Precision desktop from 2017 is still a beast, never had issues.

It’s a gradient in the aggregate but my personal experience says it’s just fine to write off any laptop that isn’t a Mac. The plastic housing alone makes me think they take a “Gillette razor” approach to portables; who cares if it cracks apart, just replace it! which I have a hard time looking passed given the industrial waste shitshow we already have.
Massively increase counter-espionage budgets, to shadow NK agents outside of the country, and counter their malign activity. It may be costly, but the cost of creating a global surveillance state, with AML checks encumbering billions of interactions each day, is bound to be greater. This is just a small fraction of the costs involved:

https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insights-resources/research/2019...

The impact on the developing world is profound:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/money-reimagined-starve-ugly-...
Helicopters bring more risks than airplanes. Helicopters with external attachments are notoriously risky (for aviation standards). Helicopters with external attachments that bring momentum independently of the main vessel are the kind of thing that looks way too risky.

An airplane would probably cope much better. And even then, the fact that the military do something is not a good reason to expect it to be viable for civilian use. Military applications tend to accept much more risks.
Never once seen a tax form here in the UK. Your employer deals with it. Every year they mail you a personalised table showing exactly how much each public service cost you (i.e. what they spent your taxes on).
No, it would need ~3 orders of magnitude better resolving power to do that, even for the closest star.

Definition of parsec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

Angular resolution of JWST: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#sharp
This seems to have various angles to it.

First, one question is if the intent of the original owner of the data important? When I put data on linkedin (or facebook, my private website, hackenews or my employers website) I might have an opinion on who gets to do what with my data (see also GDPR discussions). Should I blame linkedin (or meta/myself/my employer) to do what I expected them to do, or should I blame those that do what I don't want them to do? Should I just be blamed directly because I even want to make a distinction between those? If I didn't want my data I could just not provide it (or participate in/surf the web at all if we extend the idea to more general data collection).

Secondly, it touches on the idea that linkedin should not make the data publicly available (i.e., without authentication), and we end up with a less open system. Is that better? Is it what we want? Maybe there are also other ways that I am not aware just now. (Competing purely on value added is probably futile for data aggregators.)
I would love to know more about the possibilities of Remote Sensing in the private industry. I‘m working in academia and have the feeling that I’m in an echo chamber all day every day and no insights at all. Any chance I can contact you or can you point me into a direction?
Worldview-4 (a commercial 30-cm satellite) had a reasonably similar orbit and 10 times of the mass of a Starlink satellite. Even if they are able to significantly improve on that design, it's still going to be a pretty big "just need the camera".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-4
> What do you do about the problem of estranged spouses and the like triggering recovery to break into their partners or ex-partners account? It's a mess. All the options are.

Nothing? Google sends postcards to verify business addresses already. If it's good enough for the bank to send me a card and PIN via post it should be good enough for Google. We have laws in place to deal with estranged spouses breaking into accounts.
my pc is older than all of those numbers and runs fine, and I expect roughly the same from the pinephone

for my pc if I wanna use a sim card after old network shutdown, all it is is swapping a single card on the mobo, perhaps swapping out some antennas too

for the pinephone, just swapping the baseboard without the rest changing, or make/group hire someone to make a case with an updated modem

for battery, because you get a free battery to keep around for emergencies when you buy a new one.

I guess if you want to pay to fix your problems, fine, but not everyone has the luxury to do that!
They already have the power to stop spam. Stopping spam lowers profits. They wouldn't pay someone for an ability they already have that they actively don't want to use.
Were that the case we'd have evidence of the "Material culture" of these cultures, yet we do not. Conversely, we have literally TONS of archaeological evidence of Neolithic hunter-gatherer people spread across the entire world during these so called "Lost ages" so personally I think it's preposterous to assume that somehow some advanced civilization that left absolutely ZERO trace of it's supposed grandeur existed beside a hunter-gatherer civilization for which we have plenty of archaeological evidence.

It's a certainly fun through experiment to think of some lost ancient civilization with glittering cities and high technology that was ground down to dust by the last ice-age, but there's literally no factual evidence to support such a notion and plenty of factual evidence to disprove it, so it's best not to get sucked too far down that particular irrational rabbit-hole.
I do similar https://Ghuntley.com/anywhere.

Blink (Mosh) + Tailscale + RDP for edge cases where Gitpod doesn’t fit (ie topics of GUI or needs to run batch compute processing)
Framework doesn't even support Linux and they only have one model, which is not enough to meet everyones needs.
Sorry, but might makes right and it will always be so.

You're welcome to your utopian view, but that is exactly what it is.
The reason would be that not enough of them sell to be worthwhile. Simply going from your description it sounds like the kind of product that could be designed and set up for manufacture in a handful of hours. But then what? I have no use for the product and even if I were inclined to ignore the ethical considerations, I doubt that I'd sell enough of them to recoup my time.

The people for whom this would be most useful already have the resources to build it themselves!
I'm sure there's a lot of linux closed source utilities that will break in the same or worse manners. The problem will never be found there.

The issue with finding flaws in source is it takes a massive amount of logical thought about what inputs are possible. For example a new line is valid in a linux file name, but I've never legitimately used one, or do I believe I've even seen one in the last 25 years of using Linux.
There are no rules about what can be in a filename except they can't contain \0 or / as a matter of practice because the kernel interprets these as end of string and path element separator, respectively.
I see a similar thing in the consumer data industry. Everyone has their own niche case that they want to find (diaper buyers with 2-2.5 year olds, or Etsy merchants, or flavored whisky early adopters, or new movers in houses 20-40 years old, or whatever) and you end up building umpteen custom models with the raw data that instantly get outdated the moment you use them.
I completely agree - anything mass produced is not going to fall into this category. Also collecting from new is always pretty iffy. But buying used and holding onto gear for a few years is not going to lose you much money.
Definitely do not quit your day job but its not particularly hard to make a little money on the side.
Vaio laptop build quality is on the plasticky end of the spectrum. They're pretty but build quality leaves much to be desired. I've never viewed their pricing as particularly inflated. Have owned a few.
You just fully agreed with what I said in the post. :) Explaining that one of the optimizations is wrong is my entire point. Then I go on saying which optimization is wrong (in my view) and propose a structural explanation for why it is wrong (casts have side-effects). Basically: if casts did not have side-effects, the optimization would be correct (it is always okay to remove a side-effect-free operation whose result is unused), so via proof by contradiction casts must have side-effects.
>give me a phone that cannot report its GPS data to the carrier without my knowledge

Does this work by reporting GPS data? I thought this data was acquired with cellular triangulation.
It feels like 90% of the products I use these days I find myself asking, “did they even try using their own thing?” All these steps, all these weird one-offs, for my dead-simple, totally average idiot use case?
ayyy, I started here when co-founding Baltimore Node (https://baltimorenode.org).

was very heavily involved in the birth and first few locations, say 2009 - 2012. tailed off as my family and work responsibilities grew. happy that it's still a going concern and that the maker scene in town has grown, shrunk, grown again, and stabilized.

they even have a law just waiting on the governor's signature establishing a fund to support more makerspaces: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/s...
I find it very sad to think that masses cannot have style.

Some old Swiss everyday products are affordable yet beautiful; I am convinced both is possible.
Financially disempowered people are much more susceptible to organized crime, like the kind that control human trafficking and smuggling networks.
The company paid you to do that work, it's their's.

It sucks but that's the cost of a salary. You shouldn't give up though, in your 1x1s, and reviews keep pushing for it and specifically aske what you'd need to do as a next step.
Sounds like you’re trying to use a delivery portal but didn’t finish setting it up.

I use the UPS version as I get alot of UPS packages. They typically email me once the shipment is picked up, typically before the sender does. They have a dashboard where you can see all
inbound shipments as well. This requires registration and address validation, but not a UPS “account”.
Consider that scrapers may be far less interested in you as the individual than they are regarding your input into the aggregated data points of you and those like you.
I would love to see NixOS-style declarative management brought to one (or more) of the BSDs.

I'm currently building out a NixOS-based router to replace an old and dying Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite. BSD would be perfect for the job but the ability of NixOS to have the entire system configured declaratively is enough of a killer feature to get me to use it over something BSD-based.

if anyone is interested in pursuing something similar, I'm using [0] as my hardware base and [1, 2] as example configurations.

0: https://amazon.com/QOTOM-celeron-Processor-Fanless-pfSense/d...

1: https://francis.begyn.be/blog/nixos-home-router

2: https://github.com/stanipintjuk/nixos-router
I'd totally use a more open-source phone OS, if only there weren't communications and banking apps that check to make sure you're running an unmodified major manufacturer's OS, and refuse to run if they find any evidence that you aren't.
The Strangler: did someone call me?!
The author doesn't say what the intended purpose/use of the laptop is; it's interesting to me that in the Dell and Lenovo lines the author isn't going for the Precision or whatever the current version of the Lenovo P50 is (I bought my P50 in August 2016 and it's 4-core CPU, 1TB SSD, and 64GB of RAM still gets the job done and the hardware just won't quit). The tradeoff of the units I mentioned compared to what the author mentioned is weight... I get that if you're constantly on the move with your machine it's nicer to have a 3 point laptop versus an 8 pound laptop but personal preferences being what they are I would rather have the more robust hardware and heavier duty system than something lighter.

Oh -- and my P50 could apparently withstand waterboarding... though I'll just take Louis Rossmann's word for it (and video) rather than trying to duplicate the experiment myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3xI8dUdm0
Three Element STOL Wing RC Test
I could be mistaken, but I think they meant "FBI go find and arrest the thief and compel them to return the funds", not "FBI go fix the protocol".
"On LinkedIn, our members trust us with their information, which is why we prohibit unauthorized scraping on our platform."

This is an unpersuasive argument because it ignores all the computer users who are not "members". Whether or not "members" trust LinkedIn should have no bearning on whether other computer users who may or may not be "members" can retrieve others' public information.

Even more, this statement does not decry so-called scraping only "unauthorised" scraping. Who provides "authorisation". Surely not the LinkedIn members.

It is presumptuous if not ridiculous for "tech" companies to claim computer users "trust" them. Most of these companies recieve no feedback from the majority of their "members". Tech companies generally have no "customer service" for the members they target with data collection.

Further, there is an absence of meaningful choice. It is like saying people "trust" credit bureaus with their information. History shows these data collection intermediaries could not be trusted and that is why Americans have the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
You've tried two models of two non-Mac brands and one Mac laptop, and have concluded that all laptops except Macs "seem" to be problematic...

What a ridiculous post.
But you only need Windows to run the real paragon of Microsoft software development, Excel.
Diversity has nothing to do with anything here, the team could very well be entirely homogeneous.

In this context, I'd say intelligence of said team matters, not their gender or race.
My Latitude 7370 is hard-capped at 8GB RAM. Because they soldered it directly to the motherboard. Real "what the fuck" moment, and I am reminded every time of this constraint because opening a Slack call freezes my computer for about a minute if I commit the heinous crime of leaving my IDE open.