skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are, and have been for many years, in a completely different league to all other laptops.

- Much better battery life (both when you buy it, and how slowly it degrades)

- Windows is just a mess. MacOS is way nicer, and has the advantage for developers of being Unix based. And compared to linux, things generally just work which is a major boost to overall productivity.

- Build quality is unmatched and always has been. Materials are nicer, things fit together properly, they’re light, etc

- Touchpad is amazing

- Performance is great. It feels like the parts work together rather than individually, and the machine is optimised for real tasks rather than isolated benchmarks.

There are many good reasons to use a freer linux laptop but productivity is not one of them, in my experience.
Well, there was also radio news. You could get news from around the world (mostly Europe) on shortwave. Not sure how common that was, but I do know my family and many immigrants in those generations did that.

I still agree that overall there are more choices today. Just saying it wasn't that limited in the past.

Edit: why disagree? Am I missing something?
Is it an autocratic dystopia? Maybe ask some of the migrant labourers what they think. https://travellingjezebel.com/modern-slavery-dubai/
I know this anecdotal and related but directly on-point, but here I go anyway...

About 12 years ago, I consulted, on-site, for about a year with a Japanese company with a very very very untrusting corporate culture. (I was consulting on electronics and firmware.)

Every USB port on every computer was super-glued shut (yes, I know...) And literally 100% of the internet traffic went over a T1 (for those of you just out of diapers, that is a 1.5 Mbps line) to Tokyo and back. Corporate saw every bit of internet activity.

This company, when I talked with the VP of engineering, told me "we have flexible work hours; you can take lunch 12:00-12:30, or 12:30-1:00pm. As long as you're back at your desk within 5 minutes of lunch end, we will not be required to make note of it"

Man that was a horrible gig. But I made enough $$$ to overcome the agony. I have so many consulting stories... my daughters keep telling me I need to write a book.

"When Bill and Michelle ruined a conference room table"

"When Jayanthi [no I'm not changing her name] had a meltdown and threw a sharp object at the head of a subordinate"

"When Tom impregnated his secretary during his divorce, and was basically forced to marry her the day after his divorce was finalized"

"When I put a choke hold on a corporate security guard who incorrectly identified a computer peripheral in my backpack as confidential company property"

I think the 100 people who bought the book would really enjoy it
I need to get better about posting to it, but I have possibly the best mastodon instance available :) https://www.omeowgle.com/web/@buzz only cats are allowed.
How Y’all Talk
I've been using freetaxusa for years due to outright refusal to give Intuit a dime and it's been great.

I'm somewhat new to the Roth thing and this year it flagged an excess contribution issue, which feels like it would have turned in to a prolonged and painful ordeal if I hadn't gotten the heads up to correct it before filing.

I just wish it let me put my return in to I-Bonds.
Warmongering imperialist country leverages military power to exploit the rest of the world = honorable peace bringer.

Get out with your American exceptionalism.
Yes, the z axis is the thickness direction.
But Free File Fillable Forms still works? Of course, it's only for federal returns.

https://www.freefilefillableforms.com
The rise in media consolidation also coincides with the dropping public trust in mainstream news media. If my memory is correct, the blame falls squarely on the Clinton / Gingrich era politicians, especially those two names, for allowing this to happen. This is on them.
> It is pointless to argue that the movement, if successful, will result in software development being a non-paid activity, because not only is that not a goal for the movement, it's not even a concern for them. Hence, the argument is irrelevant.

That is incredibly false. It is always legitimate to argue implications.
That’s why I said genetic heritability.
Horse's mouth (Fernando J. Corbato):

https://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html
My router is also a pretty old Intel Nuc running NixOS (https://github.com/breakds/nixos-routers/blob/main/machines/...). It has been very smooth and easy to maintain.
Nah. America is going to get another nationalist president, the EU will go its own way. The future does not look like the past.
Bring Your Own IP Addresses (Byoip) to Azure
> Believing in free speech doesn't mean you can't sue people that you believe have violated laws.

Musk doesn't just believe in free speech, he's called himself a “free speech absolutist”.

- One can either be a free speech absolutist, or not.

- If you are a free speech absolutist, you must take a position that all speech is permissible. Because if you don't then you aren't an absolutist, because one could then always take the absolute position that all speech is permissible.

- If you insist that it's okay to be an absolutist on free speech but still maintain that some speech is not permissible, then really we're not talking about free speech anymore but instead negotiating exactly what classes of speech are not permissible.

- Therefore, if Musk really is a free speech absolutist as he claims to be, he must support Top Gun's right to shamelessly lie about his product. As a matter of principle, libel is perfectly okay for a free speech absolutist. If you claim it's not, then I can find you a free speech absolutist who disagrees.

- Therefore Musk is either lying about his motives or he doesn't understand enough about the nuances of free speech to know he's doing. Either way he definitely shouldn't be trusted as a standard bearer or avatar for free speech.
No opportunity for nuance wherein some of the compute resources are reserved for certain types of threads?
Anecdotally, as a life long STEM nerd, even smart people are boring.

I tire of discussing the potential of a theory; sure let me add that to the pile of a hundred others I heard about this month. How one was able to link two well known math objects by adding a few more of the well known glyphs; no one has ever done that before.

When one of you is on the verge of actually replacing relativity, or falsifying entropy, a warp drive, uploading kung fu to my consciousness; sure let’s hear it.

And FFS am I tired of listening to startup stories; it’s the new “read my script.” Machine aided reductions of daily life stats is a prosaic story to tell to someone who has been writing software since the 80s.
Is there some law that says you should always experience what 90% of people experience?
on-call 24/7, if you get a call while asleep you are awoken by your ringtone (no mute or silent possible, no letting battery discharge). How much would you need to be paid? Includes if you are at a theater or special event.
That should be a straightforward problem to solve with an lcd layer for the windshield and a camera tracking the eyes of the driver.

Windshield could black out specific spots that are too bright for the driver. This could apply either for headlights of other cars or the Sun
>And, with all that said, the UAE in it's (hopefully now in the past) passport seizing days was still far worse.

Honestly, when I lived in UAE I had to submit my passport to a centralized system that held the passports of people who worked in that commercial area. To this day I don't know if I had to legally give them my passport or if my employer simply encouraged me to do it and presented it to me as as if I didn't have a choice.

A few weeks ago I had to take a sick family member to the emergency room here in the US at 3AM because they vomited blood. All medical resources online said it could not wait till morning as it could be internal bleeding. They were given an X-ray, an external exam by a nurse and a doctor, and told that it was a mild adverse reaction to some common medication and to swap to something else. Nothing to worry about. Time from leaving home to back home was 75 minutes, tops. Bill was $3500. My employer only offers HDHP options so a lot of that is on me once the insurance company and hospital are done playing their stupid games.

I think all employers in UAE are required to provide health-insurance. Prior to that, everybody there legally had governmental healthcare, but that has changed as medical costs have risen private insurance has become an option.

Thankfully I have insurance and I work in tech. It hits my budget and stings, I can afford to pay it. But if I didn't have health insurance and had family in my home country who depended on me sending money every month, that bill would have wrecked my life.

I realize passports versus medical benefits is not a sensible comparison at all.

Nobody seems to write stories about how governmental treatment of migrant workers in UAE has improved a lot over the last 2 decades. There's tons of room to improve, but it has gotten better.
Thank you for posting this. It looks like Robert Warden who wrote the paper really liked the video.
This would be an awesome browser extension, especially if it can distinguish between channel and source.
It took less than 30 years for the first EU country to leave, and not exactly a small one.
Yeah, as a rule of thumb for rationality, if you only have two buckets, you haven't thought about the topic critically enough.

For books, there's a fairly simple explanation for a mental divide: elitism. Maybe you correlate ability to memorize trivia (which tends to be plentiful in books trying to illustrate some overarching point) with "culturedness". Or maybe the correlation comes from name dropping prolific authors (common in humanities, because certain authors "represent" certain schools of thought). Etc.

In my personal experience, the book reading anecdote doesn't really hold because a lot of people I know simply have complex backgrounds (e.g. living large portions of their lives in two or more different countries) and that alone can bring a lot of color to discussions.
I don't know if this is the Bates method exactly but it worked very well in my case. It didn't take long either. Maybe 10-15 sessions and I was back reading small print on labels. And could clearly make out each character and thus do not believe it's some sort of mental compensation or pattern recognition.

Certainly I do not believe rolling your eyes or blinking or the other exercises in the book could in any way be dangerous. Some are sort of weird and I don't know how effective "palming" is for example.

But it makes sense to me you can exercise your eyes like other parts of the body (or brain for that matter). I don't see how it could be otherwise.

"Dangerous" sounds like it might be Big Optical (is there such a thing?) disinformation. I kid. Maybe.

It worked. Was not pattern recognition or anything like that, I could actually see clearer and with less effort. No idea who "debunks" this kind of stuff or if there have been trials or what those might be worth nor do I particularly care.

Just relating my experience in hopes someone else gets the same benefit.
Not really. E3 is in a wet region in Canada. California is a desert. This plan might fuck up California. How can they source potable fresh water for lithium extraction from brine without increasing salinity at Salton Sea? Also..we are in the midst of one of our scheduled droughts.

I am sure there are real experts looking into this..and there is probably something that is in the plans to deal with this.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can throw some light on this. Lithium extraction needs fresh water throughout the recovery cycle.
I think Mastodon is even more dangerous than Twitter/FB in reinforcing filter bubbles.

Consider: There are various federated servers, often with some shared interest/allegiance. The operators can disconnect you from other federated servers they consider untoward. You now have to choose the filter bubble you most actively want to be associated with, and hearing dissent can become technically impossible.

Someone supporting Russia and someone supporting Ukraine in the current war may not be allowed to talk to each other about model trains, because their bubbles blocked each other.

I think this is scary. It's halfway between centralisation (Twitter) and decentralisation (e.g. Scuttlebutt) and thus creates an uncanny valley.
No, it's an AC current (basically broadband noise). It provides no overall power, and further it's impossible to rectify it into a DC current with a diode at the same temperature (this is similar to why a wheel with a ratchet, even if microscopically sized, cannot extract work from the motion of particles at a constant temperature).
Right, so an 8-hour work shift with the radio on in the background, for example.
Chip-scale solar thermal electrical power generation
i doubt you can put a monetary value to inhumane working conditions
salary questions are frequently discussed here, being on-call is part of the job.
That's just kicking the can down the road to even less efficient software that must now manage synchronizing all the lanes.
"but don't come crying on HN when you are locked out of all of them because"
I don't think the user is at fault here, Google needs to improve its auth/session management.
"Six companies create 90% of what you freely choose to read, watch, and hear."
You just need one account for all federating servers.
Fibonacci story pointing is good, at least in my opinion.

It removes a lot of the granularity of pointing, and forces the larger points to grow very fast. You still have some nuance between 2, 3, and 5 pointers, but once you start getting past that the numbers jump to 8, 13, 21, very fast. You don't need to spend time with your team debating whether something is a 5, 6, 7, or 8 pointer, it's closer to a 5, or its closer to an 8, if it's higher than an 8 it jumps up to 13. Less time spent circling around an exact number and quicker to get to a "is big" "is medium" "is small" "is trivial" decision.
Wouldn't do it. Full stop. Offering me millions wouldn't change my mind.
The statistic is supposed to be Americans spend 12.5 hours in front of a screen per day on average.

Clearly it is the youth (< 30 years old) in America who get hurt the most from this.
Can't go wrong with any of those, esp. antlr
Fyi Sonapoor is a vastly different place nowadays.
How would Bitcoin work for a sanctioned authoritarian regime like north Korea? Who would they trade it with for useful currency or goods? It's not like they can just create a Coinbase account and cash in the Bitcoin for USD.
I was once goaded into going to a Sunderland away game. I was somewhat surprised to hear them chanting "he s*ts where he wants" to the tune of the theme from the Addams Family.

No, I cannot explain.
I don’t understand where these problems are coming from. I also needed a program to take screenshots, so I did `apt install flameshot` and it worked great.
Yours is the most honest answer, but yes, lets agree that Democracy means one person/one vote and everyone's vote is equal. The Brits have a pretty good form of government for its citizen but a one-person/one-vote-and-equal vote it is not. Similarly a country where the Majority's choice does not become President (like the US) does not qualify no matter how loudly they proclaim themselves to be the world's oldest democracy. Those folks also conveniently forget that they just got universal suffrage in 1967.

India did not invent democracy or representative assemblies and I am sure that principle occurred to many a tribe wandering the Savannah or Steppes a long time ago. There are written records of Republican assemblies dating back to ~500 BC in India.
Much of the media gets their "news" from other media. Take Jan 2021 for example. Remember how quickly "insurection" proliferated? Just an example, but this happens all the time. These "news" outlets are so desperate to be relevate and keep the clicks clicking (and revenue chaching'ing) that they reiterate without little or no filter.

Better to parrot than to be left behind. The current system rewards parrotting more than it does discretion.
It's an entirely solvable problem at the data level.

We know where the employers and residential zones are. We could put together a model to minimize average commute time.

The problem is that we need to have a grand "rehoming" moment to deliver it. The day where everyone gets assigned a new residence in accordance with the optimization scheme. A day that would doubtless be deferred to long past the heat-death of the universe in endless court challenges by those who ended up on the losing side of the deal in some way.

In a way, the fact we still have powerful regimes which aren't tied down to "rule of law", and specifically the "property rights as sacred" segment of it gives me hope; I'd expect to see this day occur in Beijing long before it happened in San Francisco.
It's not so much about that as an individual, but rather, is it good for the market that the managers of these index funds that just pass through ownership of the asset really get such powerful voting rights? To make it even weirder, I believe these funds are sometimes bought by public pension fund managers and the like. So it feels oddly corrupt.
Up42 only exist due to discounting pricing below commercial rates with some loss-leader pre-purchase discounting model.

History has shown that when you sell something for less then you pay for it; hoping that users don’t fully use their credits to cover that loss; that time is not on your side.

They are already the walking dead.
> Companies are not alive.

Disagree. Nation-states, companies are entities with minds of their own.
Google doesn't "need" to change anything. They have a particular model and you can choose to either:

* adopt/accept it

* use available tools (which have been proposed here) to do things differently in a way you prefer

* look for alternatives

There are times when feedback can help things improve but in this scenario you're asking for a fundamental shift that is just not aligned with their model. Along the lines of "I don't want to see ads on top of Google Search results but I also don't want to use adblocker technology; Google needs to improve the way they present search results".
I agree with you, but we also need to agree that even if you include G, YT, F; that probably would up the percentage to even higher levels and I would argue that they should be included in the cartel behavior because they and the likes of Twitter are all heavy censors/“publishers” that make it explicit how far they are willing to go to control what supposedly sovereign adults are allowed/can see.
Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive
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Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Interface Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Thanks I appreciate the advice. Yeah I think I haven’t really dived deep enough into the area to know if either of those is what I prefer, but I’ll give both a go.
You can follow people on any server that yours federates with, but if you want to show up in a particular server’s local timeline and possibly see local-only posts (if the server has been modified to allow this) you’ll need an account on that server.
Yeah. I have been using it only for the past 3 months. Works pretty well with VoLTE, SMS/MMS, Visual Voicemail, Calls, internet.

I second just reaching out to their support, they have been pretty good at helping to fix things, even obscure bugs.
I would reconsider your use of the word "objective" because your comment sounds like an entirely subjective (and anecdotal, and presumptive) perspective on this issue.
> No, smartphones are kinda magical. They take better snapshots than my first DSLR, they play games at higher fidelity than my first gaming PC

I think the problem with smartphones doesn't lie so much in hardware as it does the software ecosystem. Yeah, my phone also takes better snapshots than my first DSLR and plays games better than my first gaming PC (from 2001) -- and yet, it can't run the OfferUp app or Google Maps for more than 5 minutes without freezing up.

>> 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.

I had to replace my Thinkpad 0 times in the past 10 years, and my phone 2 times as well. I also bought devices from companies who promised software longevity. But why can't I replace my phone 0 times in 10 years like my Thinkpad?
"If it flies, floats or fornicates, rent it."
Canadians consider certain religions damaging to society: survey
Thanks! I will try the Game Boy emulator
I’m in my 50s and none of my acquaintances of a similar age watch broadcast TV, or even use social media.

It doesn't matter if they're instead binging tv shows on streaming platforms produced by production studios owned by those 6 companies. In fact, it doesn't even matter if they are binging youtube channels or tiktok "influencers", all of which are seemingly independent, but are in fact being funded by new media studios owned by those 6 companies.

Those companies control a lot more than you think. The fact that people are unaware of it is a feature of that control, not a bug.
Ubuntu is a bad choice for newer and esoteric hardware, a rolling release distro will have up-to-date kernels and userlands in comparison.

As an example, Ubuntu had issues with my newer Zen hardware despite the hardware being on the market for quite some time. Switching to the newest kernel fixed my issues with stand-by and sleep, along with weird issues like random freezing.
>FB tried to be purely a platform

That is /so/ much nonsense. Doesn't matter how you editorialize by controlling what people see including with a trained algorithm optimized for "engagement" that tends to be pretty similar to "outrage." The second you "promote" a wider engagement on any article or topic at the expense of another you aren't pure or anything like it. And we'd be heroically naive if we really were willing to bet our own lives on someone not "tweaking" the algo for their own beliefs along the chain somewhere. I know I would if I saw too many pro-nazi content promoted, for example and that is editorial with nothing at all "pure" about it.

FB has never, ever been a "purely a platform" other than in their own PR releases. Censoring because politicians tell them to do it is a wholly different issue on top of that.
I love it. I find people having read the documentation and the advice of people they're. I think a lot of people who claim there's no network effect or "content" may have just skimmed by without understanding or putting any effort in.

The network doesn't operate by manipulative, abusive algorithms that are designed to addict the user. One has to understand and put in some effort to curate a network.

Tags are the one of the primary discovery methods - searching for your type of content can be as simple as searching for relevant tags, which can be subscribed to and followed as their own timeline.

One can pin tags to one's profile and find, and be found by, users searching other users. There's also a selection of specialised instances for art, tech, sports, writing, etc. As someone who joined with very little social media experience or knowledge, I found curating my own network rewarding and not overly difficult.

If some people prefer to be force-fed content that's designed to rile and instigate, without putting in the groundwork, then they're welcome to it.
Just have some kids, yer on call 24/7 and YOU pay for THEM.
USA chiming in here to point out that the name of the sport is pronounced "soccer".
Interesting this was mentioned. I was wondering whether to try a class rather than do it on myself. Are you taking these at a local university or online?