skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Linux laptop user, I used Thinkpads for years. The pinnacle was the T460s/T490s models from around 2016, because they:

- Ran Linux without much tinkering or major compromises

- small (14")

- affordable (around $1300 for my config)

- lightweight and thin

- powerful (I had a Core i5)

- upgrade-able (I had 48gb of RAM)

They started going downhill after that, primarily in that I could no longer find a Thinkpad model that was at the intersection of upgrade-able and Linux compatibility.

Around 2021 I started looking for an alternative. Looked at made-for-Linux laptops like System76 and the various Linux-certified Dells. Couldn't find anything that checked all my boxes and the Dells were particularly crippled: 8GB of soldered on RAM? Only certified to work if you use their custom hacked Ubuntu image? No thanks.

The Framework (gen11, DIY edition) was exactly what I was looking for. My configuration at the time was $1032 and I've been running Manjaro Linux on it continuously for the past year on it with zero problems. It's just good solid generic hardware at a fair price. It's cheap enough that I don't worry about it getting lost or stolen. It's repairable so I don't worry about something physically breaking.

I have since bought another one for an employee and over the next few years I plan on deploying them to my whole team.

Basically I should be a testimonial on their website.
But there is a practical limit to how many tanks they can sell to themselves. That limit is much higher when the market is 5x the size.
If that was the case, Apple would have just offered end-to-end-encryption for iCloud, which they did not; turning off iCloud is also not a default configuration of the new lockdown mode, which it should be.
there is no point in manually deleting cache since it's wiped when closed

I used to think this as well but bleachbit shows me every time I close my browser there is much to be cleaned. I launch firefox using firejail and then when firejail exits it calls bleachbit. Even if I use "History" -> "Clear recent history" and select "Everything" there is still a lot of crud to remove. Try it out if you have some spare time.

There's even a few things that bleachbit misses by default such as moz_historyvisits in places.sqlite and files in the datareporting directory that get created even if ff is told not to create them.
That’s funny. The first message I got from my mentor was “Good design is more than making something look pretty.”
> why do that with an agency you've never worked with before?

I don’t see how this works? You ask agency for a developer for your project, you get a developer for the project. Will you just withold payment if they don’t use developers you like?
It's probably for the better. It generally just gets used on people who lack the resources to fight back. It just doesn't sit well with me that a government can force you to sell your land at a price they determine.
Can travel through water, and air (and space, and maybe more) seamlessly.
This is what Jeremy Siegel has been saying for the past few weeks.

But everything is OK.
I don't care - I still don't want them in power any more than I would want to live in Afghanistan with the Taliban in power as a non-Muslim, and consequently would vote to keep them out, almost regardless of other policy.

Furthermore, those who think the Bible should have influence on US laws fundamentally fail to understand the very basics of the first amendment of the constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Allowing influence of a particular religious sect over laws is exactly akin to a state religion, which is expressly unconstitutional.
Because he's a weird insecure psychopathic man-child.

Don't give him enough gratitude? Eternal suffering. Break one of the weird rules he apparently really cares about (but then allows his most trusted disciples to break)? Eternal suffering. Succumb to the biological drivers that are inherently within us? Yep, more eternal suffering.

I would say you can't make this stuff up, but...
Hate is a strong word, I'm looking for a static site generator rn, it's more a dislike of cloud providers in general vs self hosting
A proper trackpoint is supposed to have three buttons. The middle button works the same as on a desktop mouse: while holding the button, moving the cursor scrolls the page.

Among the few laptops that still include a trackpoint at all, I'm seeing more and more omit the third button, rendering the nub a vestigial ornament, requiring a fallback, as you've said, to the touchpad. I'm very disappointed; should I ever need to buy a new laptop, I expect to find myself up the proverbial creek.
Can someone explain to non-Americans what the "Atlanta Fed" is? Fed is short for Federal Reserve, which sounds like it's not something that has local branches creating their own definitions. But apparently they do, so how does that work? How are they linked?
Most likely either building bots, in-game automation, or related to some sort of trading system for virtual assets.
I think the new design is cleaner and looks more professional. Changing the color scheme, fix the fonts, fix the logo and make the design less dense could have had the same effect for less effort.

My main criticism is that site lacks written content and I still don’t know what a KVM is or why I need one.
This presupposes that fire suppression is an important goal. Obviously carbon storage is only possible if it isn’t all routinely released as smoke, but it’s not obvious to me that fire reduces carbon capture so much that other alternatives are better—and preservation may be a net good if other conservation/recreation/quality-of-life goals are accomplished alongside carbon capture.
I don't think the problem here was in using their time effectively. Or, at least, it wasn't the high-order bit. Looking at their task breakdown, there weren't outrageous items like "10 hours - change a button color." The times were a little higher than I'd expect for devs who do this all the time, but not egregiously so.

I think I overspent on this project, but I attribute it more to poor communication and poor management than the devs working too slowly.
Thank you. I'm sorry you had such as terrible #ripoff experience, but it's great of you to share what happened, so others can learn & avoid.
Emm, let's see what 10T would be..
Half the population of Scotland, with very few elderly and sick patients since their employees are relatively young and healthy. In-house healthcare makes a lot of sense.
observing employers frequently having email campaigns soliciting "positive reviews" (and positive ones only)

I really want to see a larger conversation happening over this one day, but all I have are grumblings and ramblings.

Nearly every job I’ve had in the last five years (3) has launched internal campaigns that heavily pushed the “please write us a review on Glassdoor!” Requests. And the language made it pretty clear they only wanted to see the good stuff.

And by heavily I mean I have the distinct memory of counting how many emails I got in a single quarter with reminders that the deadline to send a review was coming up. That number was nine.

Adding to this: on the SAME DAY that my most recent job (a startup in the Northeast) laid off myself and 30% of other staff, we got an email in our personal inboxes asking for Glassdoor reviews, and asking if we’d like to join an “alumni committee” that would go out and do “community events” and other similar outings that the company will almost undoubtedly be using in recruiting posts and imagery.

It left me, someone who is already pretty cynical towards “workplace culture” at work even more cynical about the machinations of “workplace [mono]cultures”
That's a problem better solved by providing more granular, user-controlled limits on app permissions at the OS level than by locking down the 'ecosystem' and further removing users' control over their own devices.
I don't believe anyone has ever even made a successful brick-laying robot, and all that needs to do is lay bricks in a straight line. Perhaps the work is more creative/problem solving than you believe.
Technocratic neoliberal consumer capitalism isn't the only form of market economy, it's just the form that uses up the most land without regard to social and environmental impact because it is inherently focused on capital gains.
So we have finally arrived at reinventing mainframes built out of commodity components, and this is the link between those components.
Heck no building a house or renovating anything is always way more expensive than the initial offered price. Hence the rate for fixed price building of houses is so much more than regular pricing. Somehow build always take way longer and so many if not all contractors leave problematic results.
Principles of Instruction (2012) [pdf]
My impression is that the web analytics space is not very competitive.
My coworkers looked at me like I’m crazy when I refused to use my personal phone number to verify work accounts.
No, I would not work on any personal projects during work hours as I don't want to risk any IP clauses getting applied to my own personal/side projects. Generally down time is a good opportunity to learn more about tools which could be applied in the future, but are not immediately required.
Been using a Framework laptop for close to a year and loving every minute of it!

Installed 64GB of RAM and a high-performance 2TB NVMe for less than half of a comparable Macbook Pro. Plus, I get to run Linux! It worked right out of the box with almost zero configuration.

To be completely fair, the battery that it comes with is a bit on the small side, so that's the main criticism I have (battery life).

All told, I can't see myself ever going back to using an Apple laptop (voluntarily). I do get jealous of the M1/M2 processor specifically at times, but MacOS is a dumpster fire and I refuse to use it. Plus, having used a proper tiling window manager on a laptop now (i3), I can't imagine going back.
Middle click and moving the trackpoint up and down works for me.
It is - and that's $10b upfront cost for an asset that will operate for a decade. $1b a year is a steal for that compared to the other shit the US wastes federal money on.

I'd personally vote to 10x or 100x our hard-science funding in general, we spend an absolute pittance compared to military funding or corn subsidies or whatever other bullshit.
This is why UK politicians particularly on the right have said for a long time that the Eurozone supports a sort of status quo with France and Germany benefitting from selling industrial goods to your so-called "PIGS" (tbh I've never heard that term before). This aspect has in my experience never fully been discussed in an unemotional way in public across the EU. Single market and freedom of movement are wonderful but as a pro-Remain Brit I'm thankful we kept out of the Eurozone.
I'm from one of the aforementioned countries and there have been diplomatic remonstrations about its use, to the point that respected publications don't use it anymore.

It's just blatant casual racism at this point.
Sure, but I still remember that $dff100 was BPLCON0 (at the time I new what each of the 16 bits did without having to look it up). 5 years ago I did a ton of Python programming, but I would need to look up how to do a for loop now.
Funny you mention that, cause I just added this article to a longer-ish list of long-form posts I want to read in depth.

I don't make my way to that list as often as I'd like, but I have found plane trips and other similar times are great for when I want to do something like that. Sitting down with a longer blog post and taking notes on a 5 hour flight is oddly relaxing. So yes, to answer your question, I do get around to it eventually when the post is worthwhile.
40% increase in sales is phenomenal. If that’s down to the redesign and not because of existing trends then it was money well spent
So we’ve come full circle and now JSON is just XML with lighter syntax.
I know it's a meme that WholeFoods is expensive, but I've actually found it pretty comparable in price to other local organic markets and co-ops. I think a decade ago it was definitely more exclusive, but now it's in the same ballpark--I actually find WholeFood's veggies, fruits, meat, and cheese are cheaper than my local co-op.
The argument is that the inflation in the Eurozone is driven much more by rising commodity prices than the demand-side inflationary pressures that the US/UK have been experiencing. It's generally accepted by central bankers that commodity prices can fluctuate and therefore there is less of a need to aggressively fight commodity-driven inflation.

So yeah, I think if by medium term you mean 1-2 years, it's certainly possible. Short-term there's basically nothing any single central bank can do about commodity inflation anyway. Lowering economic demand in the EU as a means to tackle high global commodity prices is a questionable strategy when the continent is on the brink of recession. They're screwed either way though.
Nope. I try to keep myself honest and accountable wherever possible. I try to structure my life so I don't have to be dishonest when someone asks me a question, ever.

If I wanted to work on my personal projects during the day I'd take the day off.
Nothing worse than being on a project where everyone is hostile to one another.
> The reality is we're getting poorer pretty fast

I think this will happen in most places for many reasons - the enormous debt is not just a European problem it's also an American and Chinese problem. Also declining demography, ESG investing and scarce energy resources and bunch of other problems it's not looking great.

If we all just peacefully accept that standards of living have to go down for everyone (climate change is also a hint that we've pushed too far) maybe we can find some path forward.
I'm going to go a little rant just from the headline:

Think about all of humankind — our ancestors in the past, us in the present, and our descendants in the future. Think about how much value we have inherited from our ancestors: Fire, wheel, GPS, electricity, farming, materials like steel, the list really goes on and on.

Now, of course, there's no rule that says we _have_ to give to our descendants anything at all, or anything comparable to what we have received from our ancestors, but maybe we should think a bit selflessly when deciding to invest in science.
Robot dog with machine gun hints of a dystopian future
Always hurts to see something you were once proud and happy to be working on languish away and deteriorate, you've my condolences too friend.
Hold down the middle button and drag. Some older models don't support this and with some Linux distros/DEs you have to configure it manually.
My project https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless does this. Use `git undo -i` to get a graphical view of where branches were at an arbitrary previous point in time.

It's worth noting that, in principle, there are cases where the reflog will have never observed a branch move. The reflog we usually look at is that of HEAD; if HEAD did not have the branch checked out when it moved, then that information will be lost. (For example, if you run `git branch -f my-branch abc123`, the branch will be forcibly reassigned without having been checked out.) See https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#... for more details.
So long. Bookmarks, pocket articles, org-roam notes, things jotted in notebooks, I even have an org capture template that quickly populates a list of "recommended media" (books, movies, etc) from friends and relations. Maintaining my list of things to read or watch has become a hobby unto itself.

Every once and a while I go through some[1] of it and ask myself "Will I ever actually look at this"? Sometimes there's a clear answer, but more often it stays in the list because it still looks interesting and I only consume maybe 5-10% of what I saved. There's got to be some term for this. Digital hording? It makes me anxious to have it and anxious to just delete it. There are plenty of times I do remember something I saw and wish I could find it again, but I lean too hard into "maybe I'll think about this again and want it".

[1]: It's so long I generally lose the will to even evaluate the items after a while.
I think outsourced success depends heavily on choosing capable & honest people and your ability to carefully manage them (give a little rope, see how they do, and then decide whether or not to continue).
According to the article, he gave the land to preserve it for agricultural use after failing to build houses on it.

I guess it's better than nothing but I dont think we should label this as "Preserved Land".
> People here complain about estimates, but imagine if you had to bid on every sprint you did, and you couldn't go above your estimate.

TFA elaborates on this:

> Bidding on contracts is a tough way to win work, by the way. Imagine if on January 1st, your employer gave you a list of all the tasks that needed to be complete by the end of the year, and you had to guess how many hours it would take. And, if you guessed a higher number than your coworker, you got fired. And if you guessed lower than the actual number of hours it took, too bad, you only got paid for the hours you guessed. It might incentivize you to look for innovative ways to get your job done more efficiently, but (admittedly) it might also encourage you to cut corners and ignore opportunities to add value where it’s not explicitly required.
I've been bearish on Framework, not because they make a bad product, but because I find it hard to believe there's a market to support them.

- Laptop use is shrinking, or has shrunk, as people diversify to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, etc.

- Of the remaining laptop users, some percent only wants Apple

- Of the remaining non-Apple laptop users, some (most?) will just buy something cheap from Walmart/Costco/BestBuy

- Some of the remaining few are looking for gaming laptops specifically

- The rest will consider a Framework laptop, among others, and this is likely to be the most picky group

Will they really be able to find enough market to succeed, in any capacity?
Im with you on snoozing and being incredibly bored with the quality and range of “curated” stuff coming with my apps and services.
Thank You! Trying to get back into the self promotion game. I may try to resubmit to see if it can get some traction.
HN gang - I'd appreciate the full-flame roast! I'll take this idea extra crispy, please.
I love your blog and thorough retrospectives on all your projects - thanks a ton for the great content!
No it wouldn't? You're confusing ZKPs with having identities tied to a real-world person.
Why didn't you have an alarm set?

If you are going to use ANY cloud provider, learn about alarms, or you will get screwed.
There's absolutely nothing immoral about practicing your craft outside of "work hours."

It wouldn't be ethical to drive into the company office, then work on your side gigs using their computers, bandwidth, software, etc.

There's nothing unethical about working on personal projects while not at work. In a lot of US states, an employer can't legally stop you either, salaried or not, unless they can make the case that you working on your side projects directly harms them. That can be a hard case for them to make as well, since, typically, someone who practices their craft outside of "work" improves themselves in a way that benefits their employer.

When I hire programmers, I very much want to hear about their side projects. Not because I want to lay claim to them, but because I want to have a broader sense for what makes a candidate tick. All things being equal, I'd hire a candidate who works on interesting side projects over one who didn't as well.
Why?

Is it because you just hate it that people are having fun with Minecraft and insist that it has to end up like Axie Infinity?
It’s interesting what happens when you look at an individual’s valuation through the lens of DCF as a function of interest rates.

As an individual, your net present value diminishes as interest rates fall, and increases as they rise relative to a hypothetical growth stock. As is the case with any other productive asset.

In order to fight inflation with higher rates, the fed may need to get interest rates high enough that people stop simply demanding more money from their employers, and start saving.
Buy Now: The Screensaver (2007)
They bought Pillpack. They also announced a big partnership with Berkshire that went... nowhere? I also know of a big secret-project kinda effort, where they were employing research scientists, and other people with very specialized knowledge of protein design... all those people are no longer at Amazon.
Pico was used in the examples in undergrad to avoid derailing the class teaching how to exit Vi (the GNU version is "nano")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_(text_editor)
In keeping with the American commitment to federalism, the Federal Reserve system is comprised of regional member banks spread across the country. Rather than paraphrasing a Wikipedia entry, I'll just link it.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank
>Are you rethinking your philosophy after wasting $46,000?

Honestly, no. I think I certainly made mistakes on this project, but I don't think trusting devs to use their time effectively was the problem.

>>you get into disputes about what is or isn't in scope,

>This is to your advantage as the one who is able to withhold payment when delivery isn't up to your standards, and you are protected contractually. With pure time & materials it's much harder to sue for non-delivery unless you can prove they didn't work the hours they billed for.

The problem is that agencies know that, so if I approach competent agencies demanding a milestone-based contract for $7-15k, they'd just tell me to get lost. They don't want to take a risk on some small client demanding the moon before they'll release payment.

I'm sure there are desperate agencies who will agree to contracts that put them in a weak position, but I expect their work will be lower quality than the agencies that protect themselves.
I know nothing about this area, but I'm surprised the redesign improved sales by 40%.

Also, I get paying for logos and branding, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how the website couldn't just be pure 90's HTML with some CSS sprinkled and google js in.

How did so much schedule / money go to "refractoring"? Were they doing back end work like integrating with the mailing list or revamping the store logic or something? Is there a big telemetry backend, maybe? (I'm actually asking why this is hard, not trying to be snarky.)
A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. There are twelve in total, one for each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts that were created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.[1] The banks are jointly responsible for implementing the monetary policy set forth by the Federal Open Market Committee...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank
There are twelve district Federal banks based on geographical districts.[0] The Atlanta Fed is short for The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

The fed is not technically part of the federal government. There are the twelve privately chartered banks and a Board of Governors. Hope this helps!!

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal...
You could, but because it wasn't part of your original contract, the courts will likely find it invalid. You're not allowed to impose interest that was not agreed upon beforehand.

Also, part of a trial is to make the judge/jury like you. No matter how right you are, if you're an arrogant person, you won't get much sympathy. It's much better to wait for the courts to settle the issue, where a judge could impose punitive damages (interest).