skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m reminded of this line in Bruce Almighty: “All this horsepower and no room to gallup”

Is there really a market for a $999 Chromebook? Didn’t google try this several years ago and flop?
Should you trust your gut?
If you can cache your assets then the region typically doesn't matter too much (depending on workload).

That being said, I put up a spec to let you provide hints. We won't necessarily honor it today in some cases and in the future we may ignore it altogether, but the thinking is you provide the hint & can retrieve which geographic region the bucket is in.

We also have latency improvements coming down the pipe.
Curious if this will support Chromium OS or only Chrome OS?

I'd also love to learn more about the motivation to create this laptop and the target audiences!
I know, I love uMatrix, and was sad to leave it. I've migrated to uBlock Origin, but it isn't the same even with dynamic filtering window opened. With uMatrix I had been taking the approach of denying all third-party resources by default and selectively allowing just the ones I need, and after the move largely ended up abandoning this approach.

The different UI of uBO was part of this decision, but not the biggest factor. Over time it had gotten less and less workable even with uMatrix's great UI. I could no longer configure a site once and then expect it to work for any amount of time, as the rate at which new mandatory third-party dependencies were added to sites kept increasing. And I was visiting more websites as part of avoiding big sites like Amazon.

In addition, uBO's CNAME unmasking meant that many resources that were considered first party by uMatrix, are treated as third party by uBO. This added to the burden of whitelisting, but also got me thinking about how fuzzy the first party / third party distinction was and that it was increasingly a poor proxy variable for what I was really trying to block (trackers mostly, and also some annoyances).

I also use the Temporary Container extension in Firefox. In the end I decided that the default block lists of uBO combined with the isolation and discarding of persistent data provided by Temporary Containers was good enough for most browsing. I still use a whitelisting approach for my handful of permanent containers, and uBO's dynamic mode UI is good enough for that.
What components from the main Framework laptop are compatible with this version? i.e. keyboard/display
> Banks solved that problem long ago. The free banking system worked. BTW, we still mostly use PRIVATE BANK CURRENCIES all the time! Amazing, but true. They're called credit cards, bank checks, paypal, venmo, wire transfers, money orders, cashier's checks, etc. Even store coupons are private currency.

To reiterate this point the current US dollar is a private dollar issued by a private bank and funded (essentially) by congress and the treasury. The last time the US had a public dollar was prior to the American revolution.

A lot of people make the mistake of conflating The Fed with the government but it is federal in name only. It is owned by private shareholders no different than any other corporation.
You generally can't get your money out of a video game, I think that would be gambling. But if it only goes in and doesn't come out it's just consumption. If it comes out, gambling. Pretty sure that's how it works.
Sure. You can check the article here with translations of few stanzas from Shatapatha Brahamana: https://indiafacts.org/the-world-of-wendy-donigers-translati...

Even the translation by J. Eggeling is not completely accurate because Sanskrit has a lot of words that are non-translatables because of inherent weakness of English as a language (which includes limited vocabulary to describe Sanskrit words accurately) [1].

Irrespective of Eggeling's translation not being completely accurate, it atleast was a decent attempt. She references him but totally twists the translations to make it sexualized in a lot of places. The actual scripture is not at all depicting what is translated by her in the end.

[1]: To understand why English is not accurate enough to describe Sanskrit vocabulary, this video will shed complete light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7XYCNbLtPQ
So we can give them each their own /64 is what I'm hearing
One thing that happens all the time, is the old "Since it doesn't do what I want it to do, it's a bug" thing.

Lack of a feature is considered a bug. This is often exacerbated by a similar commercial offering, that has the feature.

I used to get that crap, all the time, in my work.

These days, no one pays any attention to my work, which suits me just fine. I basically write for myself.
I was hiking on Kauai recently. For 11 miles of trail, nearly every surface was covered with small, fast moving ants each separated by about 15-20cm. It was quite unnerving until we were sure they didn't bite. Having them crawl on you while sleeping wasn't my favorite though. Mind boggling to extrapolate that number to the entire forest/world.
Perl was the primary application-layer language at Amazon. It was used for most things that didn't need to be in a low-level language for performance or other reasons (for those, C++ was used instead).
Jack Handey:

> "I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a gun at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me? I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the gun out of their hands."

Never fear, friend.
How is ChromeOS any less "DIY" than Windows?
We started with the multiple-choice format as it's a good 90-10 solution in terms of technology, but we now have free=response questions that are automatically evaluated and can handle fairly complex mathematical expressions - man, was that a lot of work!

But we've found the concern over the multiple-choice format to be overblown. People like to believe they can outguess a multiple-choice question by being clever, but that's not reality on our system or elsewhere such as the AP exams, the AMC exams, or the GRE Mathematics Subject Exam.

Later this fall we're going to be introducing a UI for constructing proofs that's looking really cool and should take things up a notch for the more abstract subjects like Abstract Algebra and Real Analysis. Teaching university-level proof techniques is extremely challenging and time-consuming process (most never really get it) even for undergraduate math majors at university, but I think our new tech will make it much less painful and with a much higher success rate.
We used to use the word "kremlinology" to describe efforts to decipher ("bake") the USSR official rhetoric.

That word's time has come again!
Google is committed to a minimum of 8 years of security updates. We don't have currently have official support for other OS's, but there is an active community of people bringing other OS's to Chromebooks.
They're doing it too so we should also? That's monkey logic, we've evolved. How many of these countries you just listed have you lived in or been to?
Very likely they just wanted or needed certification-level accuracy. A wooden dowel would be very inaccurate for a bunch of reasons, including that its dimensions will change with humidity.

Test fingers and the like are very expensive because of the serious precision they have to be machined to, and are made of expensive materials to minimize dimensional changes the result from environmental variations and use.
That's different than saying they have zero dollars, like the sibling comment that the parent was probably alluding to. In fact, there have been ~$20 billion in withdrawals during the last few months as the market has turned bearish and the market is reacting to a likely collapse below market capitalization in Tether's non-dollar-backed assets [0]. Are they backed 100%? Probably not during bear markets because they seem to be doing discretionary trading with deposit money. But the options aren't limited to "they have $0" and being 100% backed.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
On the flip side, every time I hear about some right wing nut getting deplatformed by paypal, I think to myself, "hey their service isnt as bad as I thought." Virtue signaling might bring them more business then they lose by tossing out a small number of fringe wackos.
Consumer choice is one of the core tenets of DIY, this adds more choices.

Not sure there's a market for thousand-dollar chromebooks, but calling it anti-DIY is just inaccurate.
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What we've been asking for is a Framework running AMD hardware.

What we're getting is a Framework running a stripped down Linux meant for schools and made by a spy company?

I predict this thing not selling well, but I'm sure someone is excited.
Thanks for the compliment. Keep the pain points coming. I monitor Discord pretty regularly for feedback.
Wow, bad to the ass
Letting Bill Gates know I'm into midget porn doesn't seem like a great idea.
Yes, and in the way the "censorship resistance" here is predicated on only the faintest family resemblance to censorship.
But this is just a payment processor, i.e. a frontend API to banks. They even talk about PCI compliance! Can't get much more mainstream than that.
Before reading this post I didn't even remember UML existed.
Predates Jassy? He has literally worked at Amazon for decades and most of that on Amazon Web Services.
It’s really concerning how many people here would cave to nuclear blackmail. Which part of your own country would you be willing to give up to the nuclear power so it doesn’t launch its nukes for now?
Renewables have been higher ERoEI for a while.

It doesn't get mentioned much because only conspiracy theorists use ERoEI as a metric, because it's nearly totally meaningless, and so you need to find an actual scientist with the time and interest to show conspiracy theorists why their own sums are wrong.

2014 link:

https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2014/07/renewables-have...

2018 update:

https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2018/10/reports-of-low-...

General dunking on the whole concept of ERoEI:

https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2016/06/eroei-is-unimpo...
I'm very interested in the contours of this relationship with Google.

- What kind of commitments did each party make to each other?

- Did Google request anything of Framework? What requests did Framework agree to? Which did they deny?

- What differentiates this product from the normal offering?
Yay finally a good use for this website:

https://www.themeasureofthings.com/results.php?comp=weight&u...

trying to find a favorite, how about

"It's about 150,000 times as heavy as The Space Shuttle"
> AFAIK he only donated some money in 2008; I can't find anything on him being an "activist"?

I may be misremembering that part.
Same. It's dangerous to tell people that it does stuff that it doesn't do (more dangerous as an audience grows to the point that anecdotal data should be left out entirely, for audiences of an appropriate size), but as long as you're just doing you, have at it. But then, I'm that way about pretty much everything, including rat poison. Do what you're gonna do to yourself, just don't make it other people's problem (note that suicide is almost universally going to be someone else's problem, so that's not an endorsement of taking rat poison).
When I was a kid, my parents Scotchgarded everything. Maybe that explains some things about me?!?
The fun begins!
"Fraudulent activity by bots" is a contradiction in terms that sounds like you've just mashed distinct issues together to create an emotionally manipulative phrase. Bots are bots, fraud is fraud. "Bots" are an overstated problem - websites should want to publish their information for every type of consumption. If serving some types of consumers causes too high of a load, then the inefficient code is what needs to be fixed. And fraud is not going to be prevented by a CAPTCHA.

> our scores help reduce the hassle or friction that legitimate users are subjected to

I'm telling you right here, I am a legitimate user and when businesses fall for the garbage story you're pushing, it makes me less likely to remain their customer. Hassling customers with repeated rounds of "click on all the cars" "no you're wrong" is terrible UX. It could be understandable if it popped up after a few failed logins in a row, but putting the nagwall front and center is appalling design.

I look forward to Apple's VPN increasingly demonstrating just how wrong your marginalizing surveillance mindset is.
A lot of companies have this role! EngProd at Google, Eng Efficiency at Roblox (let me know if you're interested), and I'm sure plenty of others as well.
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>As I tell their recruiters I'd rather eat a cactus than work for them.

lol. whats their response?
Isn't Parallel Economy basically positioning itself as an alternative to Paypal? Not a "full stack" solution, at least not yet, but nonetheless a workaround if Paypal locks you out.
>As a user of them, I make sure to use multiple engines

You may be interested in our alternative YouTube recommendations. Search a channel to find a list of other channels making similar videos. For example, our recommendations for How Money Works include other established econ focused channels like Economics Explained and Money & Macro but also smaller more obscure channels like Wall Street Millennial:

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We have compatibility filters in the Marketplace to indicate what is compatible. Technically, every module is compatible, but some will turn it into not a Chromebook. For example, you can drop a regular Framework Laptop Mainboard or Input Cover into it.

Keeping it as a Chromebook with ChromeOS, there are specific firmwares required for the Touchpad and Webcam that required us to create variants. The Fingerprint Module we have is also not compatible with ChromeOS.
They already have them.
Some old school trolls, like "kibo" used to aim for this.

Does "troll" still cover someone who tries to cause a tangent?
brazil and (legacy, non-EC2) Apollo beat any build and CI system out there
Really in-depth. A good read if you happen to run into exactly this problem as a Julia package developer.
Sorry here in EU we are making a lot less past 2 years we have big increase in salary but still avg for EU is probably about ~60-80k USD if you have 4/5+ years of exp and if you are very good you can get 100-120k USD+ (not counting Meta/Google and few other but only in few countries) and ofc it is pre-tax as taxation is a lot higher than US so in some countries you'll get about 40-60% total salary (counting VAT on basic products and other taxation).

Not even counting Eastern Europe and Asia where you get fraction of that.
Burner for obvious reasons.

I used to work for a three letter agency. We had employees that would travel to various developing countries. Due to concerns with competing nation states they'd be issued new laptops that were completely blank save a word processor and web browser (no useful information/ trade secrets on them).

The laptops would be weighed prior to departure and upon return. There were cases were laptops came back heavy. They were heavy because someone got access to the hotel room and soldered equipment directly onto the board.

When traveling, keep your devices with you. You'd be surprised what might interest a foreign government. You don't even have to be directly involved, you could simply be an affiliate of the actual person of interest.
Super impressive work. While work such as this can show what is possible in terms of compilation speed, it's probably beyond the scope of the average dev.

It'll be interesting to see, going forward, how much of these recent tooling improvements will trickle down to more casual devs, such that they too, can get significantly lower compile times.

I'm pretty optimistic on that front. It looks like much of the improvements came from writing more inferrible code, removing code that breaks reasonable invariants in Base, using SnoopPrecompile, and using a sysimage.

The first two things should be done anyway, and better tooling will help with that. Future native code caching will probably get results similar to current sysimages. That leaves SnoopPrecompile, which is a small maintenance burden, but is a pretty minor addition in most case.

One approach is to include a block of code which exercises the functionality of your package. This block can then, at the same time be used to:
1. Check your code is inferrible
2. Run static analysis to catch bugs
3. Use SnoopPrecompile
Perhaps, but if you're going to come up with such hypotheticals, you can't say anything is rich/poor.

They could have won the Roll Royce in a competition. They may have a medical need for that champagne.

Ultimately in any of those scenarios we are talking first world poor, so the amount is relatively still small.

Further if they're 'working poor' that can afford Mac's, maybe they aren't that poor? Or if they are they obviously haven't got their priorities straight, and once you get to the point of saying society should help people on low incomes because they buy a Mac instead of food or some other nice thing they might spend their disposable income on, then you've lost me for one.

Edit: I really thought you were being sarcastic in your first reply. Now I'm not so sure? I really can't see how that's a legitimate pov. If I buy cheaper less processed food am I being discriminated against because I have to spend more time peeling my own potatoes? If I buy a cheaper car with a smaller engine do I get discriminated against because I have to press the accelerator harder and change gears more?

Poorer people have less money. Cheaper things tend to be less convenient than more expensive things. That's just how it works. It's not discrination, it's economics.
> Which kind of feels worse from a complexity standpoint from where we were previously, especially if the queries are dynamic instead of largely static.

Agreed on increased complexity, but isn't the point largely the dynamic queries? You setup all this extra architecture, but in response you don't have to write as many "controllers" with custom API response. Just let the frontend request what it needs via GraphQL. So it's more upfront work, less down the line. Or is writing all the API level sanitizers and query resolvers more work?
Malwarebytes blocking access to all Google services
They are there currently! All Framework Laptops have hardware privacy switches for the camera and microphones.
Is the hardware any different? If not, why sell this as a separate machine instead of providing a ChromeOS image that can be installed to a standard Framework?
I am disappointed, there is Chromebook edition, but still no Linux edition only DIY.
I bet lots of schools would pay up for "sustainable" laptops, actually.
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Because they'll hire sometime as a way to spend that 300k, or maybe let their server expenses grow in a way that's not cost effective, and then after a while the money runs out and there's a panic.

I don't think it's a huge issue but it's something they'll have to think about
In more recent news: https://abc13.com/pasadena-police-accused-brutality-cavazos-...
Can't speak to Amazon, but while this seems surprising it's not that uncommon at big companies. One leaves assuming the grass is greener elsewhere and if/when that turns out not to be the case returning to the place you left provides a sense of confidence that you at least know the bad parts going in. And as described elsewhere it's sadly often an easier way to get a promotion/raise than grinding out the process at the company.
Unless they turn around soon, I don't see how their goose isn't cooked in the long run. The site has become too filled with garbage products, hijacked listings and fake reviews. Once the people who think they've never received a counterfeit realize there's no way they can really know and start to question why the products they get from Amazon break earlier than usual or have questionable packaging, it will be hard to undo the loss of trust.
At first I was going to disagree but now I'm rethinking.

The need for these DevX groups comes from the fact that at Amazon's scale, there's lots of powerful tools, such as a massive internal build system and such.

So, one answer is that you need DevX groups, because it makes no sense to have each of the thousands of developers learn how to tinker/fix the huge custom amazon build system (IE empowering individual devs).

A second answer might be that there shouldn't be massive internal systems in the first place.

A lot of the brilliance of AWS was reducing the differentiation between internal and external teams as consumers of services[0]. The buildup of massive internal systems probably shows that Amazon hasn't gone far enough, and DevX failures are just a symptom.

[0] related https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/steve-yegges-famous-rant-on-...
Rather than using percentages under the noise readings, it would be much more useful to show the delta.

If the unguarded fan is at 35.5 dBa, and the turbine guard is at 50.2 dBa, the delta is 14.7 dB. This is the same increase in perceived noise as an unguarded 60 dBa fan and a guard that raised the noise level to 74.7 dBa, not a relative difference of 41% and 24.5%.
Apple is not the exclusive source of podcasts or ebooks on iOS or otherwise; they provide an optional store. Especially for podcasts their store is a new, optional feature and it is perfectly possible to offer your own store and your own authenticated podcasts and integrate them into Apples podcasts app. You can also offer them in Apples store and have them deal with payments and distribution and accept that they charge a 30% commission. They don’t even require exclusivity, you can both offer your own store and Apples store at the same time, whichever your customers find more convenient.
Right? I wanted the price upfront within the first few seconds of browsing the page. When I didn't see it and had to go to another page I knew it was going to be stupid. The title of the cost page is "A great investment" which it most definitely is not.

I can have a local builder do two of these in my backyard for well under that price. I don't live in a HCOL but MCOL? in Colorado but for $225k including permits you can build a 1300sqft livable space (3/2), two story with two car garage. Now it's not using high end fixtures or flooring but working with the local builder you have an allowance for each room and if you want to stay within budget you can or you can go over or under.

What's the advantage of this thing? Ease of use and quick delivery? No disruption from construction for a few months?

$720/sqft is INSANE. Pay bay area prices anywhere in the US!
I think it's both. I remember reading at one point (not sure if it was quote or speculation) that the difference is C++ adds a lot of abstractions that:

- Have hidden costs

- Have sneaky failure-modes

C just... doesn't add any abstractions. And then Rust adds abstractions, but makes a concerted effort to avoid ones that have these two problems
>I don't understand your critique about making money at all.

Because the poor are hounded. Read the article. Then Re-read my comment. This stuff is straight evil. The global north has lost it's mind.

>my motivation is purely wanting to leave life on my own terms.

"As long as I get mine, it doesn't matter what happens otherwise". People are straight evil.
According to this link and size of the pool is 2500m3. It comes out to around 54,000 pools to fit roughly 40 quadrillion 3mm sized ants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/4mohnd/requ...
Why this over getting an AMD laptop? After the terrible experience of going back to Intel, I doubt I'll ever bother with an Intel laptop ever again. Is Intel giving benefits to ensure you don't support AMD?
Seems like a statement of intent without any details. How do they define 'AI-generated'? And do they plan to automatically detect it, and how?