skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used an X1 for a year, though with Windows. I'm not sure I'd recommend it at the price Lenovo want, but it has some nice points. Price is really the main downside for me. It's in the same ballpark as a Macbook Pro (the model I have was $2500 off the shelf) and the hardware just isn't quite there. Fine if someone else is paying for it!

Upgradeability is decent, though RAM is soldered in. You can swap in hard drives, upgrade the antenna and Lenovo has a decent manual for replacing parts.

It's a very light laptop, which is nice. It's also extremely sturdy. No problems with flex or whatever when it's thrown in a full backpack.

It works well with an eGPU, but the main USB-C power port is quite wobbly even after a thorough clean out.

It has a stupid proprietary Ethernet adapter that also blocks the USB-C port. I assume this is for use with the official dock, but why not just have two USB-C ports?

The speakers are awful. Yes we're going to compare to a Macbook as the gold standard, but for a $2k laptop I really want better.

Thermals aren't great and it dumps exhaust heat on your mouse hand.

Keyboard is good, trackpad is mediocre.

The display is good, and it's bright. There are some funny graphics driver issues with Intel. The display flickers when switching between power/battery and often the backlight settings mess up. It also suffers from screen burn if you forget to use a screensaver or leave it on for a while.

Battery performance tanked pretty fast for me. I barely get a few hours these days. If you run on low power mode, it's not usable because CPU throttling is so severe.
I realise powershell has fans, but hear me out.

Windows itself has reached a dead end. It is such a mishmash of incompatible tech that Microsoft themselves have stopped trying to fix their admin GUI interface. Between registry, Com and Dcom and even a few leftover text files, there is no way to configure a windows system consistently.

Powershell is an over complicated band-aid to cover it up, ignoring that the wound underneath has become septic.

I get that they had to do something to drag it together, but even good powershell scripts end up as 4 different coding styles crammed together, depending on what component CLI output or interface you are trying to use.

WSL2 is a great thing if you need to do anything with python, node and even .NET. All the online tutorials work and since everything is a CLI these days, why not use a decent shell that doesn't have windows legacy character escape bogosity, broken file names and has sane argument handling?
It ^^ me tho.

Separate Money from the State
The original blog post from Mark Russinovich who discovered the rootkit...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317040653/http://blogs.tech...
GitHub suspending Russian accounts, deleted project history and pull requests
> If the EU and the US alone said, "In a month, we'll consider every crypto transaction to be criminal in nature, and we're going to enforce it," the market would collapse as everyone stampeded for the door at the same time.

True. And yet, cryptocurrencies would still remain useful! A market collapse is not the same as it not having utility. Bitcoin was useful even when it was only pennies, and it will remain so.

This thread is about whether or not cryptocurrencies are useful. They are. Could governments crash their markets? Yes. Could they stop people from using them? No.
If if quacks like a Ponzi scheme and makes early adopters rich like a Ponzi scheme..
A long while ago I found the Jargon File, it's a "dictionary" of terms used by hackers as the culture was budding at the universities in the 70's. Reading the entries you get a glimpse of the technology and culture of those places at that time. Young me found it really cool in a nerdy way, and read all the entries from front to back. Since this was before the always online times, I was just reading the TXT file from http://jargon-file.org/archive/ rather than needing to navigate the many pages: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
A fine attitude to take.

However, you should probably account for solar farms and battery installations taking 6 months to plan, execute and deploy. Offshore wind farms are a couple of years. Large pumped storage projects can take up to 4.

Meanwhile Hinkley point C will be completed in 2026 after being kicked off all the way back in 2010 and will provide power that is "only" 3x the price.

I'd argue that nuclear has really expensive and slick PR.
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Thank you for a good insightful comment. You are incorrect, I have a sincerely-held belief MEV is not ok and your assumption what I do believe is wrong.

I am well aware of MEV issues, as I have been developing for Ethereum for the last 6 years or so. They hurt me as a user as well. However, due to the already long post, I decided not to include them in this post and hope to write a comparison in the future. As you said, the comparison could be really interesting.

I believe MEV hurts the ecosystem overall. It is wrong, but I know it can be technically solved, as opposite to solved with regulation, on multiple levels. Some of the current solutions include e.g.

- Avalanche commit and reveal subnet

- Short-term auctions like Cowswap

Basically, everything where you can wait for a better trade execution effectively counters some of HFT issues, both in traditional and crypto world. You can always decide which price you are willing accept and then just wait for it.

Unfortunately Ethereum 1.0 generation AMMs and swaps are not built this in mind, because they come from the era when MEV was not an issue yet. But as I said, this is being addressed in the next generation of the technology. Also unlike on stock markets, as a user you have more transparency on the execution so you can verify that you did not get screwed over (unlike with Robin Hood).
Yeah, it’s an unfortunate reality with your bog standard x86 laptop. Choose performance or portability, silence, and battery life, but not both.

And sometimes even when you pick your trade-off, it still doesn’t work out. See my Thinkpad X1 Nano I selected as a silent ultraportable with decent battery life — it spins its fan up to surpassingly loud levels when plugging in a 2560x1440 60hz display or whenever it’s doing anything even remotely strenuous. If my needs for that machine didn’t include Windows, I would have been so much better served by an M1 MacBook Air it’s not even funny (and even then, I sometimes wonder if a bodge of Windows on ARM in a VM on an M1 Air wouldn’t work better).
Or either with a male gymnast.
They stopped blocking them now but used to in the past.

Additionally, there are privacy reasons a person may wish to access a service directly and not be tracked by Cloudflare.
I think an initial test with regex is valid. But you should do a proper email validation link.

That being said, you need to be very careful with what regex validation you are doing. I still use an apple "@me.com" email. Somewhere there is a commonly used library (or commonly used regex copied from stack overflow) that seems to fail because my domain is short. I have had a number of times that I have been unable to get emails because a system flagged it as invalid.

Getting through to support or trying to change my email is always a nightmare in these situations.

So be careful with your assumptions!
Aedes Aegypti aren't native to Europe either.
These posts are annoying, IMO. Reviews and blogs posts about them are everywhere by like minded readers, and this is the discourse such posts bubble up every time here.

Guys. I mean. Seriously. It’s a laptop. It’s not worth a request for comments every week.
Does DuckDuckGo ensure that the icons are 16x16, or will it serve potentially 10’s or 100’s of KB of image only for my browser to resize them?
These older people enjoyed a lot of saved time and money when they were younger by not having children. They ate their cake, I don't see why they get to steal the next generation's so they can have it too.
If you read the paper, you'll notice that the photos they use look nothing like dating profile pictures. Namely:

1. The faces are covered with a black box.

2. Standardized clothing.

3. The photos are straight shots (and for one dataset, side shots) taken in a blank room.

Dating profile pictures generally:

1. Prominently display your face.

2. Involve you wearing clothing indicative of how you present yourself.

3. Involve you in situations that are indicative of how you present yourself.
OP has shared a solution for typo fix in the closing remarks of the blog: https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
Our species has survived for millennia because women selected mates that were providers and protectors and men selected mates that were healthy enough to birth and feed her children.

Awkwardly, technology and modern society has made it so that our biological desires are no longer useful for selecting a mate. This explains why someone like Ronaldo is very desirable in our world. He meets the biological desire of athletic and tall and also meets the logical desire to be with someone who makes a lot of money.
Wait, am I reading this right?
Are you saying tax evasion is the original and prime goal of cryptocurrency?

If so, excuse my lack of respect for your goals, but they strike me as dishonest/villainy.

If not, well then I just have no idea what you were trying to say but apologise for misinterpreting.
A good laptop is one without the UEFI.

Un-socketable, solder-on BIOS chip.
Ahhhh, fond memories of holidays in The Netherlands - stroop on pancakes.

And stroopwaffels ...
Well, you might be able to make it work, but the OS simply leaves you less freedom compared to a Linux machine.

And you would need to jump through hoops. I am an embedded dev and I have tried. Theoretically it is possible, but you would miss a lot of tooling on the way.

I don't really care about performance that much. I have an MB Air with M1 and I like it because the battery and display is very good. But it isn't really used for productivity. I also work in industry and everything here is Windows and maybe Linux. MacOS doesn't exist here.

Good luck attaching your Mac to a reflow soldering machine (I have tried too). It just doesn't play well with others and is rather exclusionary itself.
If you pay them more to do the same things, why would they change their behavior ? They'd just get more money
Alternative view: infectious diseases have been around throughout the entire history of humanity, and have played an important ecological role in human history, namely controlling population size (particularly under famine conditions, when humans become more susceptible to disease) and maintaining genetic diversity (since a more homogenous population may be more susceptible to epidemics).

If we're going to use technology to eliminate infectious disease (and to increase food production) then an absolute necessity will be for humans to control their population growth by other means, perhaps legal (as with the China one-child policy, etc.).

Yes, that's all very controversial, but it should really be discussed.
nope. this is completely wrong

media everywhere in the world has thin skinny androgyny artists and big atlethic artists. america has plenty of feminine males. have you seen the beauty industry or social media at all? its all skinny dudes

this isnt about violence. most people are fat and never see any violence. women just prefer big strong alethic men everywhere in world when you look at who is having sex and not just some polls
> Assange's lawyers can still appeal to the High Court.

I wonder if he's hoping to delay the process long enough that a future president might pre-emptively pardon him or just drop the extradition request. It's strange to think that after all these years he would then be a free man, without ever standing trial in the US or Sweden.

For comparison, Manning served less than 7 years, while Assange has been under "house arrest" (in the Ecuadorian embassy) or in prison for nearly 10 years.
Abstracting local development environments through containers
Or getting eaten by a balrog
“expand this to all mosquito species”

Why would you state that? That is explicitly not the goal of this effort and there is no justification for taking that approach. It sounds like fear mongering.
You make this sound like it is unique to java. I remember heartbleed had similar, in that the lts I was on did not have the vulnerable library.

At some level, as long as releases add functionality, the basic rules of systemantics will guarantee unintended interactions.
Gamifying School
> Any suggestions for how to get help learning QEMU as a "power user" hoping to eventually contribute as a dev? I'd happily pay for consulting if I knew the right people to ask.

I'm not being cheeky: read the source.

I worked with qemu for years, and the only way I could get real answers was to find the libvirt functionality and work backwards from it. Once I got good enough with that, I could navigate the qemu codebase on my own and just read.

Almost all the docs are going into libvirt, and libvirt's (IMHO) terrible abstractions. The reality is that almost all the investment in qemu's user-facing capabilities are done via libvirt, so it makes sense.
No photos... Come on.
This is the problem with the "marmite could lead to peace in the middle east" theory (high zinc content).

You would then have vicious infighting between those who love, and those who hate marmite.

Oddly, can't stand marmite usually, however, twiglets are ridiculously tasty.
While there is life there. There is an Orc threatening.
Why Elementl and Dagster: The Decade of Data
>one can send very large sums of value between two addresses

This is not the same thing as sending money to Ukraine. If I send money between two addresses, I've just sent money between 2 addresses.

> This value can be swapped across other tokens with low slippage in the millions (denominated in USD).

But not to actually buy anything in Ukraine. To do that you have to find someone with Fiat. As you see with all the other examples I gave you, what you've done is used the modern banking system to buy crypto currency - some bank transfer to a crypto exchange, send it from one address to another, and then left yourself with the problem of getting the money back out of crypto in Ukraine. Which as you'll see with almost all of the charitable giving in crypto to Ukraine, happens via the modern banking system, often with the direct involvement of the Ukrainian government.

So it seems to me, that this entire thing about using Crypto for Ukraine is rubbish. And it seems like that to you too - because when I start interrogating the idea, the Crypto to Ukraine story morphs into a Rwandan sending money to Nigeria.

My take is that Crypto in your example, was a worthless layer of complexity that doesn't solve the difficult problems of international banking, it solves the trivial bit in the middle.
I owned an Intel Mac and now own an M1 Max. The Intel and M1 are completely different beasts. My Intel would die in an hour and was always hot with the fan running. The battery life on my M1 is ridiculous. Hours and hours. I don't even know if it has a fan. It's silent and runs cool.
This will come with a lot of problems and requires extra work. Apple Hardware is not intended by the manufacturer to be used as general purpose computer but to run MacOS.
Some of these ... artisanal tunnels ... come to a horrible conclusion:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-million... [soft paywall]

From one of many other related articles, "The equipment was fed by what Wink called a dangerous, “haphazard daisy chain” of power cords. And on the day of the fire, hours before it broke out, Beckwitt was aware of the smell of smoke in the basement, according to Wink, but reacted only by adjusting the circuit breakers."

That one article can't capture this situation well enough, there was an entire series of them (and it's still ongoing), but one of the issues had to do with the authorities dealing with the situation and simply not knowing what to do to secure the tunnel after the fact. Tunneling was haphazardly done and had gone beyond his property line and undermined neighbors' homes, and it got very complicated.
A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV
>Deflationary currencies encourage people to _hoard_ money

People hoard things regardless. Inflationary currencies cause people to hoard property and we're watching the destruction from that unfold in real time in the US.
This was fhe promise of the gold standard before the world wars. The gold standard would force governments to be financially disciplined, right?

Wrong, as soon as governments needed to drop the gold standard they did it. Why wouldn't they do the same with the bitcoin standard?
Lightning Network, Age 4
Do you use a portable screen? I'm also looking for a "movable" workstation. I have considered a mini PC like Intel NUC coupled with an external GPU, but between the screen and the GPU case I fear it would start to be inconvenient for plane travel.
Macbook Pro sucks, I cannot remember a laptop that is hotter (and throttles) than my current mac, and it's expensive
What about FOX, Universal Studios, and all the other studios out there?

MGM is just one of many.

It also doesn't explain why YouTube has a magnificent movie selection compared to NetFlix streaming. If your theory was correct then Amazon would be the only one with a great selection, but it's not.

NetFlix's DVD service is also fantastic. It's just their streaming service which sucks.
Does it have to be a laptop?

I ditched my 2019 MBP for development. I used a desktop with Linux and couldn't be happier.

For email, zoom, etc. I used the MBP. Linux dev experience is still far superior than Mac OS for me, and I tend to prefer big screens, mechanical keyboards and a work-desk env for long programming or video editing sessions.
Yes, but they forecast growth of 2.5m and analysts were expecting 2.7m - 3.0m, so 200k is still a big miss, albeit only a single data point at this stage.
Fun fact: the windows and Linux communities are both equally bad at this.

It’s not that apple users are fanatics, it’s that some people define their identity by their OS and will make absolutely certain you know.
Reviews on how a product performed over its life instead of when it's new
Julian Assange's US extradition order for final approval
Is this supposed to be a metaphor for startup life? It kinda fits for me...
>this species causes an immense amount of suffering and death to humans

That's also humans, though.
> So if you're looking at, say, a 300-person software company, it's very possible they support veterans, want to hire veterans, and have 0 veterans on staff.

We're a little less than 10% of the population, that aligns with other protected classes. If you have no veterans that signals you have some issues. Having few is to be expected, but still not "good" imo.

> There's also a huge difference between opposing military conflicts and supporting veterans, which is evident in the equal support for the VA among Democratic and Republican voters

There is, but pay attention to how those folks speak. A lot of their attitudes about the MIC will usually leak to veterans, veteran issues, and policies that would affect us. It's treading a very close line. One good start would be to include that in unconscious bias training, but you actually need veterans at a company in the first place to necessitate that.
HackerNews x PMT isn't a cross-over I ever envisioned.
I don't use those services. I change the SIM card in my phone (and its direct number) several times per year, it would make use of those services impossible.
That was indeed nontrivial haha. Did you try running it as a PWA? I've noticed there's a bit of weirdness in mobile browsers where content shifts/clips when you scroll sometimes; haven't dug into what's going on there yet, but that seems to go away when running as a PWA.
This comment alone is probably enough to get you ongoing "indefinite leave to remain" and work in the UK.
Linux user base is far more cultish. For one, they collaborate for free over high minded concepts and lol at outsiders who don’t know their incantations.

Cults were never paying their people, and like to demean outsiders. So there’s that.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I use the system76-power extension (https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power) to toggle between the integrated Intel Xe unit and the dedicated Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 in my Galago Pro. While at first glance it might seem that it's a System76 utility for a System76 distribution on System76 hardware, I'm currently using it on Fedora, and the hardware itself should be pretty standard despite the System76 branding. Using the glxgears graphics demo, I can invoke 'glxgears -info' to use the Intel GPU, or '__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxgears -info' to force use of the dGPU. You don't get the fancy-shmancy menu that you do under Pop!_OS, but it has a perfectly workable CLI.
that's what i did until the company i work for made me use a macbook :(

now i have to deal with horrible performance everywhere because of falcon agent and docker.
How can I help your boyfriend dig his tunnel?
Yes that's how I read the parent post's comment -- arguing with sarcasm that we should take additional interventions to limit SARS-CoV-2 spread due to the unknown future risks of surviving infection. Measures could for example include vaccine mandates (to the extent that they limits spread?) or nonpharmaceutical interventions such as mandatory ventilation upgrades to 4-6 ACH of MERV13+ filtered air in spaces where people congregate.

Tough to do the calculus on unknown risks vs. the cost of mitigation, but personally I'm pretty mad that during the ONE time we stopped ignoring the healthy building people, they didn't muster the political capital to create better ventilation in quasi-public spaces.

I'm also a little disappointed that our celebration of each milestone in returning to normal has not included a somber recognition that society was taking extraordinary steps to protect people who are at risk and that because we can no longer afford to take those steps, some of those people will die. I think it's an acceptable trade-off -- we didn't protect everyone before the pandemic and we won't do it afterwards -- but I don't think it's something to be happy about.
I think this is right- I know men who have no trouble picking up women (they are "jacked"), but can't keep them due to other personality issues (they are too controlling).
It's part guilt. Doubting your expensive purchase, thus reinforcing it with this behavior. Apt comparison with religion, especially with recent converts.

That's not to say all Apple products are bad.
The relative costs give you an idea of what parts of the mission are hard. A Falcon Heavy launch costs somewhere on the order of $100 million. For a $4.9 billion program, it is not the driver.

Yes, lower launch costs have enabled a lot of missions and cheaper spacecraft than would have been possible otherwise. But space is still hard. There is also an element of the fallacy where if there is more resources available the expectation is cost will go down, but the response ends up people just use more of the resources (there is some economics fallacy/paradox term for this that escapes me right now). Larger launch vehicles enable larger more complex spacecraft. I expect that the capability of the Falcon heavy means that the size of the Uranus spacecraft will be much larger and more complex than something like Voyager 1/2 or New Horizons.
Anyone else here have the annoying hinge issue where the laptop screen won’t stay up? I even got new hinges and the problem remains… maybe just bad luck. Between that and battery life though I would exercise some caution OP.

I love the framework ethos and plan to continue supporting them but imo they do have kinks to work out.
Looks like the stories of Seymour Cray tunneling might be made up/exaggerated?

https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html
http://1auglobalmedia.com/blogcontent/digging-in-seymours-ca...