skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well usually laptops don’t come from the OEM with Linux, so if you slap Ubuntu on there and the power management stinks, that’s on you.

Laptops with practical 10+ hours battery life usually come with Linux from the factory. Eg the google Pixelbook Go, which gets about 10-12 hours on a battery half as large as the one we are discussing. The System76 has mostly just thrown a gigantic battery at the problem.
The unchallenged champion of classical vocal, not opera, is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Especially Schubert.

My favorite story, which this doesn't quite repeat, is that he was a German prisoner in an American POW camp after WW II, and the guards discovered his singing talent. (this story does have the POW stuff, but not his discovery. Maybe that's an urban myth.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau
As a curious bystander, why is wifi typically so short range? Today the frequencies of wifi and mobile networks seem to get increasingly similar, somewhere in single digit GHz. Yet my wifi router struggles with some drywall 3m away, despite several bulky antennas.
Unfortunately, nowadays there is more censorship in biology than in politics
I’m an artist and I am just as annoyed by reflections off the glass hiding what I’m doing as a programmer is. I have heard glossy screens took over largely because they look better in a store.
There are lots of little tweaks that can make a huge difference in battery life. Since there's a lot more that was posted on the Framework community I use that as an example (but it can apply to any laptop model). OOTB, reports for idling was anywhere from 7-11W. With the Framework's 55Wh battery, that would mean that it would run down in 5-8h at complete idle (oof):

https://community.frame.work/t/issues-with-power-usage/12261

https://community.frame.work/t/nixos-power-consumption/6339

However, with some tuning, that can get down to as low as 2.5-3W:

https://community.frame.work/t/linux-battery-life-tuning/666...

https://community.frame.work/t/battery-life-impact-of-ram-me...

To summarize on the configuration options, the biggest gains are probably from powertop/tlp tunings, PSR, settings to get to C9/C10 on idle (PSR is a prereq for this), replacing PulseAudio w/ Pipewire, modifying the EPP values, and fstab options (noatime, relatime).

Of course, some of System76's gains could be spending some extra effort on their EC/BIOS tunings, or on the hardware itself (lots of ways to mess up or to get gains from the motherboard layout/components).

It's also worth noting that some SSDs like the Hynix P31 consume much less power than others, so hardware selection can play a part as well.
Russ Cox did a bunch of the days of Advent of Code 2021 in Ivy, an APL-like language by Rob Pike. Really interesting stuff. https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=ek1yjc9sSag
I believe I saw this on Hackernews when this appeared earlier. However, I'm not sure where this fits in -- too complex for simple stuffs and not suitable for the complex ones either.

I also realize that the minified version is a 200+ KB file of JavaScript that one need to carry around with every simple Markdown file.

Nonetheless, I like the concept and hope I remember this when the need arises.

You might also like to look Texme[1] - Self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents.

1. https://github.com/susam/texme
Yes, always purge / treeshake and then tailwind will have a significantly smaller footprint.
Cities Aren’t Built for Kids
I was amused by this from the article:

> As it was probably thought that secret writing would not appeal to girls, the coding/decoding facilities were omitted from the manual.

Whoever made that decision at Mattel was probably male and didn't have daughters or nieces. Just like boys, girls love ways of keeping secrets. I'm remembering the coded notes of my childhood that girls would pass between themselves and boys like me had no hope of deciphering them. Thinking about how my nieces were very happy to learn about things like invisible ink and simple ciphers. One of my niece's favorite gifts was when I bought her a diary with a locking case.

Mattel missed something here. The secret cipher could have been a big selling point for their target audience.
> As-is the cloud abstraction makes it a bit difficult to know (i.e., estimate) what your operating costs are going to be (without using some tools).

I frequently wonder if this is by design. When you prototype/launch, these are zero or so close to it that you can ignore them. By the time you have product/market fit and start to scale, you are too busy to replace the expensive and tightly-coupled backend with something more cost-effective.

It's not really a bait and switch, but it's really the worst kind of insidious lock-in.
> Also, do you have ComCast in addition to the phone company? It's always good to have a backup route to the world.

While a reasonable comment in the US, in most cases the phone company and the cable company in Canada are usually one and the same or have a common parent (and if the Rogers-Shaw merger is closed would make this true to nearly 90% of Canadians).
Based on the progress Asahi Linux has made in the last year, I expect linux to be a reasonable option (for folks who are comfortable with a Linux installer) within the next 12 months.
Have you heard about Euterpea? There is a textbook that covers it:

https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/
Yes and no. A lot of folks would be afraid to fiddle with their BIOS settings. Reading that step could scare some users off from trying—especially the sound of “disable ‘secure boot’”—but it's nothing a future Linux user should be scared of.
Yeah it doesn’t help that things like HS Chemistry and Chem 101 classes aren’t really Chemistry, it’s all the things to you need to know to get started doing and learning Chemistry.

It would be like if we saved learning how to read and write or learning Arabic numerals and basic number sense until early high school.
McKinsey also works in the EU.
Siemens also, and they have a long history of corruption.

So I doubt that it is any better in the EU, just less known.
Like Greece and Germany. The greece know there is corruption therefore their place in the corruption index, the germans ignore/don't know of corruption hence the better position in the index. And still who paid the corrupt politicians in Greece? companies like Siemens.

Not to mention that certain types of corruption that are illegal in the modern world are still legal in Germany.

Like giving politicianshigh positions afterwards. Because we know it isn't corruption if you got paid afterwards /s
god, i am so stupid ;)
What a tiring trope. I use a high resolution macbook for work and a 1366x768 13 inch laptop for personal use. Like OP, I greatly prefer the font blockiness the latter provides especially in terminals.

And yes, I've tried smooth fonts and FixedSys/Less Perfect DOS-VGA on both and prefer blocky ones every time. High res screens love to use smoothing and subpixel rendering and I very much prefer none of it.

Edit: point being if you switch to high res displays, you won't always like it more
I would argue that depends on your definition of deep - we are certainly getting better at developing both genetic and chemical tools that allow us to probe specific pathways/sub-systems of biology, and read out the resulting perturbed phenotype(s).

> There's a huge gap between the fundamental units of biology (biochemistry) and the resulting emergent behaviour (living things). We don't have a good bottom-up system to predict the emergent behaviour so we're mostly left with observing from the top down and poking/prodding sub-systems, hoping to gain some insight.

I think this is just about the last thing that we will ever solve/figure out.

There are just a mind-boggling number of parameters, feedback loops, dynamic modifications, interactions, etc that are effecting cellular state (let alone organism state) - something that I think many CS oriented folks ignore when talking about "DNA as source code" (perhaps if program behavior depended on the size of indents, font, variable names, how many lines of code you wrote, the proximity in source location of different functions, etc).
Just got back online a day later. Progress on side projects aside, the day was a write off.

In terms of causes, I think it was one of a few possibilities in order of percieved plausibility and likelihood:

1. newb engineer updated router configs using a CI pipeline that caused them to stop talking to each other.

2. standard mistake of redistributing iBGP with a bunch of static routes for load balancing into eBGP causing their internet facing ASN to announce the internet, and it took down their internal MPLS routes for backhauling their cellular traffic over IP.

3. geopolitical situation where someone was making a deniable example of their capability against a target who can't fight back. That was just a friday in Canada, it's just as easy to do D.C., Chicago, or New York.

4. a political stunt and pretext for "a safer internet" with "more oversight," orchestrated by party hacks, or an exercise to see how effectively they could do this. Least likely, but that's the level of trust there is in this govt right now. If you don't want conspiracy theories, try being credible enough people don't have to invent explanations because nobody believes you are in control.

I'd bet on 2 or 3. Items 1 and 4 are weak ideas, but 4 will likely exacerbate confirmation bias. What will likely not come out of this is liberalization of the telecoms market to add competition. However, regardless of teleological fallacies, I don't see this as a crisis that will be left to go to waste.

It has been a good fire drill for business continuity and preparedness anyway.
There might've been an alternate universe where Sun didn't "do" Slowlaris but instead brought an affordable 32bit unix to desktops with SunOS. Linux would've been much less relevant in that world, too.
It's not illegal to have but it is illegal to misuse. However, this is a post about radios for emergency use and most readings of the HAM and GMRS rules state that emergency use is allowed.
Google also got .dev, I believe, which ruffled some feathers.
another reason they're nonstandard is to keep freight rail companies from demanding to use them. part of the reason rail on the us is so slow is freight companies have had a 150 year monopoly on the right of way.
I think at this point it's pretty clear that it will never happen. The specialist software on Linux is often great, but those specialists are technical people. Software for business users is lightyears behind and nobody would convince me to use Gimp(I did try) or Open Office for( Also tried) in a business environment.
I have a 17" Oryx Pro that I've been using as my daily driver for work. It's basically a luggable, but I mostly love it.

The thing I really miss from my old Apple laptop though is rock-solid suspend behavior. I feel like I can leave my Macbook closed for a week, and it will barely lose any battery life. When I bring home my System76 and leave it in my bag over the weekend, it will always be dead by Monday morning.
How far off are we from having drones that mechanically remove weeds at a reasonable cost? It's ridiculous that we put up with spraying sketchy chemicals on our food. We can build loyal wingman drones to kill enemy aircraft but we can't kill weeds??

Edit: I'm talking about farming, not lawns. RTFA
I think it started to matter when electron based apps became popular due to dismal performance.

Beyond that IMO it’s just a confidence boost to a language the more production quality products written in it.
When has the second instance ever happened and what's the mechanism for that? Every shareholder gets a check?
This is a second time Musk has offered to buy a public company in bad faith.

His reputation as a sufficiently reliable counterparty is gone.
whoops, yes, it was supposed to be

(*) my script strives for compatibility with GitHub-flavoured markdown, so you could do things like extract the markdown in your code comments to, say, a GitHub wiki, and the markdown flavour stays the same between your README.md and your code documentation.

YMMV on whether this is actually a useful quality
Most of the features listed seemed fairly standard for any programming editor.

But what surprised me was this requirement:

> Autosave on focus lost

I'm not sure why any software would initiate a save that was not requested by the user. This seems to be protection for software that has a habit of crashing.

Is this really a good feature?
Point is, why bring up the non-default alternative path separator that doesn't work universally in Windows when the original comment was correct as is?
I’m curious why Cygwin usually/always gets left out here, it’s been pretty damn good for a long time.
I only now realized that lemp10, with regard to my laptop, refers to LEMur Pro and not Duncan Lemp. I had far too high hopes.
This reminds me of the short story by Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", wherein Omelas, an ecstatically happy utopia, depends for its existence on the torment of one single child, kept in a basement dungeon. Citizens can view the child any time they please. Some never do, some only once, some quite often. Some, very few, after viewing the child, leave the city forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
> There's a huge gap between the fundamental units of biology (biochemistry) and the resulting emergent behaviour (living things).

And then a very similar gap between the fundamental units of one small branch of biology, ecology, where the fundamental units are living things and the emergent behavior is everything you see outside your window! We have a lot of math that explains how things act and evolve together and it's all just the tiniest little smidge of what actually happens.
So...there are at least two foolish.
Easy answer.

The GPLv2

Linus Torvalds

—-

GPLv3 would have flopped. BSD results in variants and splinters. as a dictator Linus made a ton of good calls - and a dictator making good calls is pretty efficient.

The part that makes me laugh is fsf ignoring the views of their number one success as they fragmented copyleft with GPLv3. Linus has built THE most successful community collaboration. Instead the FSF brought in the lawyers
They don't. You are confusing "the laws of economics" with "legislation relating to economics". Those are two completely different things. The latter changes, the former doesn't.
VSCode does all of the requirements that blog author wants, and much much more. I don't understand the effort really. This looks like nothing more then hype following blog post.
This looks interesting.

I also paid for https://vimvalley.com/ and am a satisfied customer.
No I wouldn't agree. Most of the time if you do something dumb at a company you make strong rules to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40k Hours (2020)
I agree that the track pad should be centered under the home row, but it is just as important to me that the home row be centered under the screen!

If you look at the top down picture of the keyboard above "tech specs", you'll see that this laptop fails on both accounts. :-(
Speaking here as a guy who started his career in organismal bio and is now working at the cellular level, all I can say to that is [citation needed].
Basically, you start by getting giant piles of cash. You then start trying to build out new network assets. Then you run into the incumbents cheating on the permitting processes and utilizing market power to take or retain customers. I've been through this. And the municipalities don't even own up to their obligations under CRTC frameworks and delay MAAs for a year "just because". It's painful.

Becoming the third player is an uphill battle in all regards. Fibre customers are very sticky, and getting people to change is nearly impossible. Bell is particularly awful as a competitor as they steeply discount the first 1-2 years: want gigabit fibre with all the TV channels and phone service for $60/month along with a $200 prepaid Visa gift card? Sure! Then month 13 comes along and the bill becomes $300 per month. As a competitor, there is absolutely no way I can offer a similar package or retain a customer when they take that package. Want that deal as an existing customer? No way!

On top of all that, Canada is a relatively small market that is very spread out geographically. If you want to provide coverage similar to existing carriers, you have to build a lot of infrastructure. Nobody can afford to do that. Plus there are buckets of cash being rained down on other market players under a number of programs, so your competitor may be running on assets that cost 50-100% below your cost to build a similar infrastructure.

The easiest thing for you to do is to get 2 internet connections from different carriers that do not share networks. In most markets the telco and cableco run different networks. My Telus and Bell services continued working fine yesterday. Heck, my 3 different Rogers wavelength services we not impacted at all (although L1 services have other failure modes that take longer to recover from since there is no automatic rerouting as with L2 networks).

I'm pretty sure you really don't want to start down this path...
To be fair, he wouldn’t have known what DNA and RNA were which he mentions many times in the article, if he hadn’t learned the acronym soup and the basics that biology’s wonder is built upon.
If that's the true reason, what explains the huge funding they had. Wouldn't the investors also know?
>Which is limiting the due diligence ability of Musk’s financiers to appropriately evaluate their investment.

He waived his DD so that’s 100% on him and his unchecked ego, like most of his problems he likes to blame on everyone else.
Hedge Fund Managers are also not the brightest flowers:

"The SP 500 Index Out-performed Hedge Funds over the Last 10 Years. And It Wasn’t Even Close": https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-sp-500-index-out-performe...

"How Smart Are the Smart Guys? A Unique View from Hedge Fund Stock Holdings" [PDF]: https://jgriffin.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/smart.pdf

"...Hedge funds exhibit no ability to time sectors or pick
better stock styles. Surprisingly, we find only weak evidence of differential ability between hedge funds. Overall, our study raises serious questions about the perceived superior skill of hedge fund managers..."
There are historical records in the trees and dirt to show this has happened before to the PNW

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
But let's be honest with yourself

GitHub is incredibly good tool, unparalleled even.
Different applications. Wi-Fi is designed to send bulk data but sacrifice coverage, while wireless telecommunications are designed to be reliable in thousands and have guaranteed coverage but sacrifices raw throughput.
i would also consider the use of font styles syntax highlighting...
I saw such a thing in Turbo Pascal 5.5 for the first time and the only thing they did was the use of bolding for language keywords, like in this book:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur...
then in Delphi 1.0:
https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c38bc3b1-c3a1-2a2d-6211-c3...
and in upcoming versions, it started to use italic for comments, but still no colors, yet we called it syntax highlighting. but my memories might be inaccurate :)
Installing NVIDIA drivers?
The entirety of KDE apps (Krita, Kate, Dolphin, Okular, ...).
Been a rough week, thanks for the laugh.
I don't follow. Add far as I know, backslash is the "right" path separator on Windows - it works everywhere, is the documented canonical path separator, and has the fewest compatibility issues with programs.

And even if it was on equal footing with forward slash on Windows (which it isn't), bringing it up as an alternative just seemed off-topic.
interestingly, they seem to have a similar origin story to the mafia, in that they were originally law enforcers
Actually I don’t agree with calling him a fascist - I could have made that more clear.

That said, with Lunduke being one of the people that are unable to respect women's rights enough, and thus keep calling all abortions murder, I just can’t enjoy/watch his content any more. That viewpoint is just too reactionary for me. That’s my truth.

(Regard Portland: No idea what’s going on there; I am European and have never been to the US West Coast.)
QGIS is pretty impressive.
And this was because of earthquakes? Germany foolishly stored it in an abandoned mine, rather than impermeable bedrock.
If you think US high school education is abysmal where do you think does it better? US Asians do very well compared to other Asians, US whites to other whites, etc.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...
abortion rates are basically flat across the span of professed religious belief in the US. There is a consistent trend of hypocritical “well yours is murder but my abortion doesn’t count”.

The people foaming at the mouth are sincere in the intensity of their intent, but the professed specifics are a proxy for a more fundamental (hah) mix of fear and pride and rage that until recently wasn’t something that was generally spoken aloud in public, or acknowledged even private.

in the specific case of american protestant evangelicals, that fundament has much more to do with their complete moral failure on the matter of civil rights, and a desperate scramble to pick anything sufficiently horrific to be against in order to be able to view themselves as good and ideally superior. In the late 1970s, and post-roe, it occurred to people that the good old blood libel of “killing babies!!” is about the most horrible thing you can do, so it’s easy to be against it. Conveniently, a lot of these people where also already in the goldwater camp, stewing about their political ostracism, and reagan needed votes. So a faustian bargain was struck, and here we are, reaping the whirlwind.
I'm surprised you believe you've explained it. I think it's going to take you more than a sentence or two.
Because it always provided a half way experience outside of Windows itself, instead of embracing the whole platform.
It’s not a good thing to have more bots at the same revenue because you aren’t just buying a companies past performance but their future performance. If advertisers thought they were buying 1M real person impressions and it turned out to be half bits, next time they pay you money they would only want to pay half as much.
Totally agree. The worse is those long equal signs, with my eyesight going as I age I have to take close to a second to decipher if it's =, ==, or ===.
It's actually very easy to start a carrier in Canada from a regulatory perspective. The difficulty is in achieving scale and profitability while dealing with the incumbents trying to squash you like a bug.
Many dynamic residential IPs seem to be 'your IP changes after the connection has been offline for some amount of hours', i.e. only in the rare event of some long-lasting outage.
The problem, as others pointed out, is regulatory capture. The market for telecommunications both in Canada and the US is entirely, completely corrupt, organized by unelected officials for the benefit of the few, at the expense of everyone in society.

It's as good an example as any of the lack of real liberty that entrepreneurs have in certain industries.

See also: banking and payments.
Great political strat too: ruin the thing that is competing with the businesses paying for your campaign while pointing out how badly that thing is doing. Try to make it as unbearably bad as possible for everyone and pitch fixing it as part of your campaign. Then just privatize it so your friends can extort everyone previously served by the thing.

Public schools are another example of this.
No. Starlink does not have enough capacity for that.
google runs it as a normal domain tho not a brand specific one. like half the ppl on this site have a .dev domain in they bios.