skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems more likely that the opposite would happen. Life that has evolved on Mars would probably be better suited to Mars than life that evolved on Earth.
It’s hard to fully avoid it and move on while people are still being scammed. My position on cryptocurrency is identical to my position on home marketing businesses: I’ll happily concede that there could in principle be a good one, and that in the scheme of things it’s not the largest issue in the world, but when so many people are being sold false promises it’s hard for me to just brush that under the rug.
I started my DevOps career last November, but having done Ops before.

Since DevOps these days should just mean run everything in Kubernetes I don't see why you need to know all the things, just bolt controllers onto your K8s cluster to integrate the features you need with your cloud provider, get some simple CI/CD running and you're set to make your salary for awhile.

Make sure to assist your developers by making it easy to do things right.

Honestly the easiest career transition ever.
Sources inside Russia claim that even the military and intelligence service didn't see the war coming, and they certainly performed like it. Maybe a few days before it started, but certainly not for weeks or years.
As far as I understand it:

Brave sells ads. They get $X normal money from it. The ads are delivered from a local catalog downloaded in bulk (the same way safe browsing blocklists are, for example) and matched on device.

If you opt in to see Brave's ad popups, you get a cut from the revenue those popups generate.

Brave gives this cut as BAT - they buy the coins from the open market.

Brave has a built-in tipping service where you can tip people with BAT. If you do, Brave transfers BAT from your wallet to the tippee (and Brave takes a cut from the transaction).

Tippee has BAT that they can sell because there's at least one buyer of BAT on the market: Brave.

It seems like a sensible system overall, but my specifics may be wrong.
For a start, the hardware. I hate working on glossy screens, and it's not possible these days to get macs with matte screens (I know I can install a diffuser, but for the price point apple operates at, I shouldn't need to spend extra money on adapting the hardware).

Also, bugs in the OS where you're completely at the mercy of Apple. I like to do custom re-mappings on my keyboard, and the last time I tried a mac (around 2016), the keyboard reverted to the default layout every time I viewed a pdf. At the time, there was no way of fixing this issue. Along with the glossy screen, this issue convinced me that MacOS was not at the time a viable platform for me.
Having used 2 XPS13 (9343 and 9370) as my daily driver for years, this is simply not true in my experience.

On my 9343 bluetooth did not work initially, and on the 9370 the fingerprint reader is not available (no driver available), but apart from that linux is just working - and I'm not particular fond of spending time on setting things up.

Much more of an issue is that the xps, as every non apple computer does not support s3 sleep anymore. So just closing the lid and putting it in a bag can lead to overheating and battery drain.

Honestly I don't get, why we can't have decent power management unless you buy a mac.
There's no documentation on how you do that. I'm struggling with this exact point now
> 2. Linux support: I use Linux as my OS of choice and I have no intention of using Windows/MacOS

If there is any leeway here, I would seriously recommend switching. You cannot beat the M1 MacBooks and macOS is close enough to Linux anyway.
>We believe this movement of the stars can help to explain two puzzles: the similarity of Greek and Aboriginal stories about these stars, and the fact so many cultures call the cluster “seven sisters” even though we only see six stars today.

They only use that as an explanation for one of those two puzzles, and then by taking that explanation as a given, they formulate a second hypothesis for the other puzzle. That is, they posit the change in appearance of the star cluster as an explanation for why they story/myth has a hidden/lost seventh sister, and then use the timeline of that explanation to posit that, if this first explanation is true, then the commonality of the myth might be due to it dating from a common origin from when the star cluster looked like it had seven stars. But the first hypothesis being true doesn't imply the second hypothesis is true, because there are alternative explanations; e.g. that similar myths about the same changing star cluster were developed independently by different cultures, perhaps due to some common trends in human thinking and cultural conventions(which may themselves inherit from some prehistoric time, even if the myth doesn't).

Its an important distinction because claiming their observation about the stars explains two mysteries without recognizing this weak chaining of those explanations over-estimates the explanatory power of the hypothesis.
How are the keyboards on recent X1 Carbons and X1 Nanos? I have a 6th gen X1 Carbon (bought 2017) and I am in love with it. It just survived nasty a 4ft drop with only cosmetic damage.

However, I've heard that the keyboards on the recent models are not as good. It's the only thing stopping me from getting a Nano...

Edit: Linux support is stellar on the X1 Carbon, which is no surprise since RedHat issues its employees with business Lenovo laptops.
The article goes to some length to talk about what questions the crypto community is asking itself. Very conspicuously, there is no discussion of sustainability, operational effectiveness, or how to ensure people born in 2022 can get into this system when bitcoin is already 40k a pop. Like any system, how do new entrants get a foothold? Why are questions of energy use and lag time on each transaction left for only the reader to ponder?
That’s the issue, even Bitcoin can’t really be used as currency anymore. I used bitcoin when it was still new. In our friend circle, we paid each other with thousands of bitcoins for a single pizza back then. And yet it was still more usable as currency back then than it is nowadays.
I'm a Russian citizen. My late parents sent me off to Singapore when it became clear that Russia is done for as a country in 2007.

What they told me "you can't stay human if you will live in Russia."
The Razer design is nice, but as someone with a blade who's battery bulged within only a year of moderate use because cooling was clearly an after-thought to looking good, I wouldnt be quick to trust it.

Then again, maybe they've improved since then. Mine was a 2019 model after all.
This might be a tangent. Do you have any plans for eink display modules for the Framework laptop? I know it’s a niche and the eink panels are expensive, but it would be amazing for a portable machine.
> The decision now rests with Home Secretary Priti Patel

Priti Patel has no problem making it as hard as possible for refugees to settle in the UK, supports the death penalty and is responsible for the absurd plan to fly immigrants to Rwanda for processing. Something tells me she wont hesitate to extradite Assange.
Then you did not look (closely) enough at BTC. When transaction prices went up in 2017 [1] the second layer technology "Lightning" was invented and build-out.

Right now, Joe Average, can transact for fractions of pennies. [2]

[1] http://melaurent.github.io/spamattack/

[2] https://bitcoinist.com/lightning-cnbc-sent-btc-to-a-ukranian...
> I recently picked up an old 2005-ish x220 for a few hundred quid off ebay which seems to be running nicely.

The x220 launched in 2011. It's an old machine, but not that old.

That said, I ran one myself for years and highly recommend it if you need a barebones, durable laptop for under 200ish.
Bitcoin being a crypto asset (I know everyone will want to dig in on that moved goal post, but it doesn't matter) is still extremely valuable and a massive step towards its intended goal. As a settlement layer, which is by now clearly what it should be, it is very good, and layer-2 and centralized layer-3 solutions if and when adopted will bring it the rest of the way.

There is so much meta talk about crypto on the internet, but no one has the chops to actually talk about the ups and downs, challenges and successes of something like the lightning network, which is perhaps one of the most important developments in the space despite not being a speculative vehicle.
Never heard of those but if it makes you money instead of charging you then its the same.
Awesome! My friend did the same although he started by taking the first semester of carpenter education beforehand as he had no practical experience.

For me, i have no savings, and i have no need for big paychecks. However i also lack skills outside computer this'n'that so i as well consider taking the danish carpenter education which is 4 years with most of it being payed practice at an employer. My hope is that would give me the knowhow to buy some land and create a home plus then severely lower my weekly hours and income.
Tech Unicorns begin layoffs: In biotech, it's been fast and furious for months
Hi Nirav, This might be a tangent. Do you have any plans for eink display modules for the Framework laptop? I know it’s a niche and the eink panels are expensive, but it would be amazing for a portable machine.
Get the latest thinkpad in X series or X1C. Might not be the best choice, but it still works. Rugged, good keyboard.
Unfortunately at the the surface, it’s all cranks. The people you see trending on Twitter and such almost seem like an alien species. And then there’s all the advertising for exchanges and such being blatant “get in at the bottom of the pyramid scheme” nonsense.

I was also “into” crypto roughly early, never found a community (nor should I have to), that’s all I see, and that’s all I therefore assume exists.
Someone bought that laptop new at some point.
Exactly. Hence my questions about regulations that haven't been answered since you seem to answer for that other person:

> Is it going away 100% guaranteed due to the rampant scams everywhere?

> So since 2017, there has been no regulations, crackdowns and legislation that has been proposed to regulate anything related to crypto and nothing has changed?

From the other reply:

> Buy Bitcoin. Everything else is a scam.

Buy Bitcoin and use it for what? Currency? Payments?

Bitcoin has failed at being useful at all and it's intended purpose which is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Not an 'investment', 'store of value' and 'digital gold'.
Base tweet — https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1516734256004976640?s=...
And with Asahi, you may not even need to compromise on the linux part, though it will take some time before the first stable release.
HN probably could return to "crypto" and "cryptocurrency"; the rest of the world will keep on being "crypto" and "cryptography". Orders of magnitude more people care about cryptocurrencies than cryptography.
I also have a x220. A couple of the benefits/tradeoffs:

The keyboard is the best, I have never used a laptop with a better one.

Using a dual core sandybridge is slow but if you develop on a slow machine you'll never build something your customers can't use.

You can install coreboot on it and remove IME.

It is on the list of systems Qubes (and every other Linux) runs 100% on.

The screen is only 720p but you can install a 1080p with a mod.

12in is borderline too small a screen size but the laptop is compact.

An extended battery in it gets around 8hrs of use.

Almost the entire machine is magnesium, aside from a strip of plastic at the top covering the antennas.

It can actually run 1600mhz 16gb of RAM.
It's unfortunate that Bitcoin has become so mired in partisan politics.

For me its purpose is simple.

If my money is a representation of my time and effort, why should I accept the central banks' inflation "target" of even 2%, due to money printing? I don't see why anyone should be okay with that, particularly given that central banks rarely meet that target for long and more often than not overshoot by a significant amount.

It's insane to me that anyone should expect the purchasing power of their money to reduce, debasing their own time and effort. Why is that acceptable to people?
Agree. I have refurbished T series as a back up and a then-new X1 Extreme as a daily driver. For everything work related the T series was more then enough, and it cost a fraction of the X1 Extreme. I did go with the X1 so as it also replaced an obsolete gaming desktop, so it was still reasonably priced overall.
There are plenty of pumped storage locations, low wind tends to correspond to sunny days and vice versa.

Battery costs have also plunged to a level where Hawaii pairs them with solar farms to provide baseload.

The extreme low cost of all of these technologies is largely why nuclear power is dying out. It struggles to compete. The consistency just isnt that much of an advantage.

Take away the insurance subsidy so that the taxpayer funded $800 billion cleanup costs for Fukushima are privatized and nuclear moves from struggles to compete to eye wateringly expensive.

It can share some of the costs with nuclear arsenal maintenance though, so some governments will continue to push it on their populace.
X1 owner checking in. I use it and I'm happy with it. It hit the sweet spot when I bought it a couple of years ago.

I don't recommend it for the given price point. I included all extra options such as insurance and the extra disk space.

I found it isn't fast enough in general usage. Had problems running a serverless javascript project. External monitors with scaling will bring the iGPU to its knees. The display itself is too small to effectively program on it, and the CPU is not powerful enough to run a multitude of unittests or compile more complicated programs on.

I use my X1 with an eGPU and two 4K monitors. Webdevelopment happens in VSCode with heavy usage of the VSCode remote docker plugin. This enables me to run unittests and development tasks on a beefy PC.

Taken all together this raises the price quite a bit.
if tax is same for single family as high density

tax will be spread out over lots of people in high density
Put 350USD aside and pickup the best Lenovo T series laptop you can find on Ebay.
Yeah I was thinking out of git stuff obviously. And not collaborative, it's even more complex there.

I didn't know about that for Mac ! Interesting thanks. For Windows it's a backup thing, not something you'd use everyday. In any case it's practical to have all version of the files to see how it is progressing so far, not having to do complex operations to get back a previous file

Using timestamps is also not very practical, would you say "please revert back the change on the file from Feb 13 11h23" ?
Just become a manager
It was simpler to just move from "major.minor and we bump the major infrequently and semi-arbitrarily when the minor is big enough to feel unwieldy" to "bump major for first release of the year" rather than completely change the version number format.
https://oa.mg/work/10.1016/j.jbvi.2018.e00109
The X220 is from 2011. And they are good laptops yes, I have mine at a friend still running fine with an SSD and a bit more RAM.
Just got mine.

2022 rog strix 12th gen i9 + rtx 3060

10/10 must Buy

I went with strix vs others because of power delivery. Apparently rtx 3080 is great and all but asus seriously fucked up because the laptops they put it in dont deliver it enough power and it gets similar performance to a 3060. So I just got the 3060, 300ms screen is mind blowing
Yes but saving that information directly in the filename is very practical for a lot of purposes. Filenames are first order citizens in how you organize files
This was interesting and surprisingly fun too, especially the "rate your friendships bit" based on reply ratio.
Amazon is my hookup for the stuff in the US. This commercial is hilarious. Once, in my younger years, I too neglected a jar and man... that lid was stuck fast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-sFaeLVJg
The data seems to support your idea. Although there were 2370 jobs that mentioned both python and R, there were about 9 times as many 'python only' jobs (261) as there were 'R only' jobs (31):

https://i.imgur.com/vkjGSyU.png
Perhaps a better solution would be to do some actual medical research on reversing the deleterious effects of alcohol on the body? The metabolic pathway for alcohol is known, but I see zero efforts to try to modify it. For decades the medical community has had a very Puritan attitude that such research would only make people drink more and that the resulting social behavior would be worse than the current level of harm. But no one ever actually investigated it, it's been an assumption for all this time. Imagine a real Synthehol like in Star Trek.
> Bitcoin's aversion to change means mostly demagogues are left, and all the talk is money talk.

That's true, but you say it as if that's a bad thing. Bitcoin is valuable because it does not change, its proven to work, and people know that. If the downside is that there isn't as much to talk about at a conference, then I don't give a shit.
Because it isn't true. The GP is either intentionally misleading people or they are as out of touch as TV execs were when they proclaimed that streaming will never be more important than TV channels. Also, since Nintendo Switch Online exists, someone at Nintendo seems to disagree with them.
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/04/2022-04-1...

and still more DMCA notices going in since this post has been up, Looks like they still haven't learnt there lesson despite what they have said in this thread
You say this like it is a good thing. It seems to me that if a whole industry is dependant on exponential growth of another than the former is being quite reckless.

Of course exponential growth will help, but relying on it seems like a bit too much risk.
802.11n could have been ratified ~2 years earlier, but was blocked by Texas Instruments with their ridiculous spread-spectrum but-not-really standard. It's a good thing they lost, pity it took 2 years. OFDM won, as demonstrated by the following standards n,ac,ax (and 4G/5G cellular standards).
None of the machine/platform is perfect. Some have more issues than others. My mac(s) have had issues occasionally, both hardware and of course software related. But I still prefer a Mac to a Thinkpad (my second choice). In my opinion Macbooks tend to last longer and have proved to be a lot more value for money over a long time.
Saying it's the manager's job to deal with that doesn't solve the issue of helping managers deal with that job. The question remains open.

I gave a specific example where a manager can't "Keep in touch" because the work was gradually slowed each month, in a way that the manager can't see that time spent declined, he can only think that it's the employee's normal productivity
Bitcoin continues to inflate until ~2140. The difference is that it inflates in a predictable curve and is not subject to the decisions of central bankers.

Inflationary policies also have a very tight link with speculation in the economy. You only need to look at the past 2 years.
Ubuntu runs flawless out of the box on my X1 Extreme Gen 2, when I installed it only Gen 1 (or 3, not sure anymore) was officially supported by Lenovo. My guess would be if the "same" laptop is supporting Ubuntu according to Lenovo it should be fine.

There were some BIOS settings to change first to get the machine dual-boot ready, nothing fancy so as I don't even remember what it was. Getting a bootable USB stick was more challenging for me!
Apple has started doing this and I can't say I am impressed. When I unplug I expect my laptop to be at 100% not randomly at ~80% based on a guess as to when I might unplug.
Why? (I'm not too familiar with UK politicians) Because she's on the Right? WikiLeaks isn't only interesting to the left you know.
I think some inflation is good as it is an incentive to invest in capital projects. If you only have deflation, why shouldn't you hoard your wealth? I mean, since it's always going to be worth more tomorrow than today. Inflation is a shadow that people use to excuse their greed
We’re missing out on all the UV details, I assume most mammals lost UV sight after they evolved from being nocturnal animals after the dinosaurs became extinct.
Nowadays, I don't really discuss Bitcoin anymore with anyone.

The people who need it the most will ask questions like: "How can I send money from the EU to the Dominican Republic without paying 25% 'banking commissions'?" or "How can I help my mother in Jakarta to get money quickly?" and totally organically, we come to the conclusion that Bitcoin is the answer...

We in the West tend to be blind from the problems and solutions that the rest of humanity has found by using bitcoin...

See also: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-pri...
New coping strategy for low-quality software just dropped.
My main gripe is that it just simply fails to render things. About half of the time I'll be scrolling down a page and the text will just stop rendering, it becomes a blank white screen.

I don't know WTF they're doing to render but they tried to be too clever.
The most recent X1s still have good keyboards, but slightly shorter key travel than the older ones. If you're a ThinkPad keyboard lover it might bother you and is probably worth playing with one IRL before buying. If you just want a pretty good keyboard, these still have that.
> I'm grumpy about Visa/MC taking 3% of every transaction

They don't. Scheme fees in a 4-party payment network are the smallest part of the net fee, around 0.1-0.2%.

> I want a technofix for that.

And you'll never get one. Moving money between bank accounts in an immutable way is extremely cheap already. But that isn't what people want.

If you want to lower card payment fees you need to introduce regulations that cap the interchange and prevent fraud, it's purely a political fix.
I’m not saying it’s bad. You just have to know when to use it. But that’s how it is with any technology/library/framework/whatever.

IIRC there was a “MVVM craze” back then, but that could’ve been my bubble.
If you're freelancing then the issue raised by the OP is almost solved :)
I like being able to replace individual parts of my laptop with newer, better hardware without having to throw out the whole device. I like that this new hardware just works, instead of the OS vendor only supporting a handful of approved internal Wi-Fi modules.

It’s awesome that I can build custom PAM modules and disk encryption unlocking solutions to enforce that both a password and a YubiKey need to be present to unlock the disk. I love being able to configure my display manager to discard the decryption keys for my user pool when I log out to get the same kind of security that I’d have on a phone.

Being able to modify soft- and hardware allows you to add features that other OS vendors don’t yet support, or retrofit new features and functionality onto old hardware to make it usable far beyond its planned EOL.
As someone who grew up in a city that did this, it was a terrible idea then and remains so. Town planners who like brutalism and everything modern are insane. Just look at Birmingham, England - they knocked down beautiful buildings to put up brutalist eyesores to then knock down brutalist eyesores and replace them with a different type of modern architecture that will look awful in 20 years.

There's a reason that people want to live in Bath.
Humans have relatively reliable CO2 detectors built in that wake you up before you die.
SMS used to be an important revenue source for telcos. Basically they were charging for a best effort service on a signalling side channel. Free money.
2022 12th gen intel

Asus rog strix

You'll thank me later