skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm convinced Zuck wakes up every morning screaming because he didn't start making a phone when Google/Apple did and just trusted that being a platform on top of every phone was more important, never realizing the foundations would eventually shift this much.
The term is "mobile workstation" and some people are willing to pay the cost in weight for flexibility.
> this is the primary argument for farm subsidies -- often pilloried on HN

I don't think there's a strong objection to farm subsidies on their own. The complaints mostly revolve around (a) the food that gets subsidized is food that makes us unhealthy, and (b) the politicians pushing farm subsidies are also against other forms of government assistance, and refuse to recognize the inconsistency in these attitudes.
Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer who made a major breakthrough in programming
>so you should be modest with your expectations; and how talented people don’t have to put up with crap

that kind of sums it up - talented people won't apply there as they won't be compensated and they will leave - waste of time.
She clicked sign-in with Google. Strangers got access to all her files
> It’s not like Facebook is a competitor of theirs

Apple's about to launch a new virtual reality headset in just over 2 months, that'll directly compete with Facebook.[0] Facebook's product, unlike pre-iPhone smartphones, is very decent, and Apple seems to target a high price, so the competition will likely be fierce.

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/04/apple-reality-pro-to-be...
Apple MacBook Pro M2 + macOS ventura. I also always had a backup xiaomi (a macbook copy essentially) with ArchLinux, but haven't had a use for that for ages.
After getting M1 Macbook Air my Thinkpad T480s with Windows sits mostly unused. I can't imagine going back to not passively cooled and not dead silent laptop now. I probably will get T14 whatever gen eventually for Windows work, but hopefully not yet.
Can I take it further? The line between unconscious and conscious is not black and white, it’s a gradient. “We” live way up in the narrative-making world, but there is plenty of conscious activity going on below that. Still tons of reasoning, logic, planning, just no (or less) self-reflection and story telling.

That’s why practicing a sport leads to improvement — those lower-level aspects of our consciousness get to practice and then the analytical mind gives feedback and direction, but when it comes time to really perform it is always better to stop the narrator and let those (still very conscious!) aspects do their thing.
Yeah similar experiences. The difference between getting my dell laptops fixed vs the absolute nightmarish hellscape of dealing with the apple store to get one fixed is enough to keep me a dell customer forever.
Not on iOS they can’t - iOS _requires_ developers to go through all the hassle, fees, and taxes of creating an App-Store App if they want to use what every other platform considers a “standard web browser feature"
notably this is US only
I agree, post-Soviet countries are full of nonsense rhetoric. But there is no reason to carry it with you.
With stable diffusion Im making right now an image every 26 seconds at 512x512 with 50 sampling steps with https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion

The training with a beefy GPU from vast.ai (RTX 3090 with 24vram) and Im generating the images with a GTX 1080 with 4vram, so no need for 6 or even 10 GVram from my testing
My work laptops have always been Dells...
> We still don’t know its full effects, but thanks to understanding its chemical composition, we have a better idea of what we’re dealing with.

That's the small grudge I have with chemistry, especially organic - yes, it's the basis of life, but the discipline seems more like a catalogue of observations than a theory that would allow us to make deductions.
So what's the serious laptop choice for the professional, besides Apple? (not that Apple is without its own problems, at least in some generations)
My last contact with Robot was in 2007.
Reminds me of several years ago when the extension Cloud to Butt was popular, which (predictably) replaces mentions of the "cloud" with "butt" [0]. It created at least a few funny stories [1].

I guess when the cloud hype blew over, new hypes emerged only to be tackled by extensions like these.

[0] https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3zdnoh/tifu_by_forget...
> What you’re not getting is the conscious part of “conscious decision”. The brain makes the decision BEFORE the consciousness is aware of it.

All "conscious" decisions necessarily have to be made by unconscious processes in the brain, because consciousness itself is a result of unconscious processes. Every conscious decision is thus made by unconscious processes. How could it be any other way?

However, people mistakenly take this experiment to mean that we don't actually have conscious control of our actions. That's incorrect. Think of conscious decision making like a two step algorithm, "conscious" decision making by unconscious processes + store decision in short-term memory = conscious awareness (this is one possible model, not necessarily the model). If the system in the experiment can read the output of the decision making step faster than it gets stored in our memory, then it will produce the results described.
It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug
Also speculates that taking antiviral treatments, even short courses, might delay or prevent the virus progressing from peripheral to central nervous system.
Apple using dominance in hardware to harvest money from software that made the hardware worth buying.
ThinkPad X250 and FreeBSD13.1-RELEASE with pkg's
AI, Crypto, and the Great Blackout
Cryptocurrencies are not the only sector that are devouring energy at an exponential rate. AI is on the rise, and its rise is dwarfing crypto.
"I asked GPT-3"

Imagine that in near future we might get an AI powered service that let's you ask for opinion on any product on the market and then have a conversation about it.
Manufacturers will then produce special ads just to target the recommendation engine of those AI's.

Inb4 we already have google - sure, but having an AI write you personalized opinion with concrete arguments is whole new level of market influence.

Can't wait for apple's powered AI to argue with amazon's one about whether or not samsung's Bixby is better or worse then Microsoft's Cortana
>Will they also request their share if I transfer some money from my bank account via app? Buy a new sofa? A share from airbnb if I rent a spare room?

Honestly, why not? I mean if the justification for app store apps handing over a cut currently is "Apple provides the infrastructure and frameworks your app relies on" well that same infrastructure is used when I order a pizza in Uber Eats, when I book an AirBnb, when I do a bank transfer. Why does Apple only get a cut of someone those and not others.

Not defending it more pointing out the argument doesn't hold up when it applies to some but not all transactions.
Its worked better than literally every other system that has been tried, though money definitely corrupts it. House members are elected every other year and have plenty of power if they want to use it.
I've had 0 problems with my vostro, maybe because its semi business grade?
The Mac App Store doesn't even have Search Ads. Not out of any difference in principle but just because the Mac App Store doesn't have enough traffic to justify it.

A lot of things that are apps on iOS are simply web sites on macOS.
Rocket League is one of my all time favorite games because of this feeling. Also echo your feelings on the rank grind. After awhile I made a rule for myself that I would quit playing ranked after a total of two losses in a session.
Communist ? The communist party of Burma (CPB) would be surprised to learn that
Rosetta is not limited to virtualization.framework. You can easily extract rosetta binaries and emulate stuff using qemu that Apple emulates if rosetta even checks something. I'm not sure if it would be legal, but technically it should not be a big issue. Apple just made it very easy with virtualization.framework.
I heard before that consciousness thinks it's the president, but is actually the press secretary.

When I think about why I did something, I always have an answer. But, like the press secretary asked about the president, maybe its just a confabulation based on the evidence at hand?

Is consciousness just retroactively rationalizing the things that take place and thinking it did them?

I'm not even sure how to process that.

Stranger To Ourselves is a fascinating book about the ways experiments have shown that many things happen outside conscious control.
>Do you think of Western culture as a blind primate hierarchy?

Honestly? I used to think of it as an edifice of enlightened human thought... HAHAHAHAHA.

>Is not that very perspective part of the problem?

Don't think so. I'm not even sure there is a problem.

>I'm all about actually changing things

Oh, I wish things were different, too. But IMHO all I can possibly ever change are my local circumstances, and even that is not always particularly tractable. Intentionally "changing the world for the better" kinda sounds like a single cell of your body arbitrarily changing the laws of physics under which it operates. (Stretch that metaphor a bit and you get cancerous ideologies. We saw how well that worked...)

The world can evolve, though. Over feedback loops that take generations.

>So perhaps "rebooting" is clumsy language, if you're suggesting that a new boot will simply take its place :) Maybe de-booting is what we're after?

Now that's some pretty cool wordplay - the world needs more of that, so you made a positive change right there :) The Butlerian debooting :D
This might be more interesting/easier to interpret as a poll if you can still edit that.
"oh thanks for filling in the resume fields after uploading your resume! Now get you game face on because we want to record you answering 10 minutes of stupid questions on video."

"No."
Even worse when after writing these you get asked questions that you have already answered in the application.
Did they have any doubt this would happen?
I disagree, the value of a group is in keeping people grounded. That security person is going to overvalue security, that web person is going to overvalue the frontend and that cloud advocate is going to overvalue microservices.

But we have another name for that process, requirements gathering.

It's not work in any meaningful sense outside of it being something that needs to happen before implementation. But it's output isn't all that useful unless you ARE an implementer. And that's the rub.

The PROBLEM is that people love to talk and wax eloquent to show their intelligence and you get pulled into stupid conversations as a result.
Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
I'm sorry/not sorry for creating this.
If the heat is already higher temperature than the target environment, then a heat pump is just a fancy resistor. Plus this doesn't obviate the need for a heat exchanger.

Better to just have a filter on the drain similar to a dishwasher.
Working with good people is the key to me. The problem with that is that it can change overnight when a senior leader leaves and someone new joins - I had one place that went from "great" to "awful" when a new CIO started and his culture started filtering down.
Dell vostro whatever one has the 12 gen i7 and 3050ti
Yeah, this reminded me of those admonitions we used to get to consider the deep thoughts of young children, about e.g. politics or whatever. Maybe GPT-3 is next, after covid has forced everyone to spend more time exposed to the thoughts of those children. After they get GPT-3 to write ads so they can fire all the marketers, we'll get quite enough GPT-3 "thoughts" and be encouraged to consider the thoughts of some other unthinking entity...
"The laptop does not sleep in Linux" is not a compelling reason to hate a manufacturer without a lot more details, but I always hear it as some catch-phrase when people talk about Linux/Laptop compatibility.

linux isn't linux isn't linux. distribution and wm/de matter a lot with regards to power management, and many distributions/DEs have strong opinions about defaults in many different directions.

I wouldn't expect a lot of laptop specific tweaks in a performance or desktop-flavored distribution, just as I wouldn't expect a high performance/risk file-system or IO scheduler on a user-friendly consumer-centric laptop-oriented distribution -- thus I think it's an unfair assessment when someone judges the other end of the field from the wrong side.

All that said, I own a current gen XPS15, i've ran just about every major flavor of OS on the thing. The compatibility is exactly what i'd expect out of a generic Intel 'ultrabook', ubiquitous.
Apple should pay me for the time wasted when it advertises apple maps when I tap an address by accident instead of letting me choose any other mapping service.

Apple only allowing advertising of its apps in iOS is obviously an issue analogous to what MS was doing.

One would think regulation would come sooner.
My anecdata:

This is the computer my company gave me after they went out of business in 2010. It was a two year old computer then.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-E6500-Not...

I had 8GB of RAM in mine. I put Windows 10 on it and used it as a Plex server until 2016. I recently cleaned it up and gave it to my parents mostly for Chrome and to use one of my Office 365 licenses. It runs amazingly well and the 15 inch 1920x1200 (not a typo) is beautiful.

I’ve probably had 5 Dell laptops since 2010 for various reasons and they have all been cleaned up, and given to someone who is still using them for basic Office + browsing.

I recommend Dells wholeheartedly to people on a budget. I also recommend Backblaze. You can get a cheap good enough Dell for $400.

My personal take is using any x86 computer after the M1 Macs came out is like using a flip phone after the iPhone was introduced. I really encourage people to buy at least an M1 MacBook Air now.
I don't think it's really different in a metaphysical sense, but one views the object of irritation more as a potential pupil than as an established enemy.
Yeah, doesn't work. I googled my name, found a website with all my info posted (without my permission), filled all the details it was repeating and when I click submit request I get this

> Something went wrong and your request wasn't submitted. Check your internet connection and try again.
Apple releases patch for iPhone and iPad 0-day
"capitalism" (as used by critics) means "unregulated market', which means it's just the economic term for "human nature".

The only thing unnatural about capitalism is external enforcement of property claims, and that's not what causes slavery.
Thank you! I was curious what some of the actual scams were.
3D APIs, the best you can get is a PlayStation 3 like hardware, while on native you will get whatever the last version of Metal/Vulkan/DX 12 will give you.

Don't expect ray tracing or mesh shaders coming to 3D Web during the next decade.
I think I agree with your take on this.

Our brains are already known to lie to themselves to make things appear synchronous that aren't actually synchronous. For example, syncing sound in a TV broadcast makes use of this. And I believe it's the same story with limb motion and tactile feedback. If you touch your finger, then it seems to feel like you touched it immediately despite this feeling requiring some time to work its way to your brain.

One interpretation of the experiment is that your unconscious brain decides to push the button and then tells your conscious brain to make up a story about how it was the one who made the decision.

Another interpretation of the experiment is that your conscious brain decides to push the button, but then your unconscious brain messes with your conscious brain's perception of time such that you'll believe that the button press is happening simultaneously to when you make the decision. The end result being that you "feel" like the slide changes happens before you decide to do it.
I don't know about the US, but this is perfectly legal in Canada for a rental in a shared living space (sharing a kitchen or a bathroom with the landlord). The rules are quite different in that case as you are not legally considered a "tenant". It's a very common arrangement, and I know people who have lost their rental for having a visitor.
Apple has been rock solid for me for a decade. Their priorities aren’t fully aligned with mine, but they’re as close as any company I know of. I really want to try a System76 or Framework as my next machine.
> Delayed-choice experiments demonstrate the seeming ability of measurements in the present to alter events occurring in the past.

No, they don't.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4522
another question, how does this work for europe for taxes? will apple pay tax in ireland for the 30% cut they get from fb?
True, but it’s a valuable market, and Apple is most easily regulated from its own country if the U.S. decides the monopoly is causing market issues.
Competition does driving it down on PC where competition exist. Steam now takes 25% for revenue after first $10,000,000 and 20% after $50,000,000.
I look up to you.
Macbook pro at work because it’s what all my colleagues use

Thinkpad running mint for my personal machine
Exactly! Good one. People just don't realize how much of this stuff is just jetsam and dross.

What the hell would happen if the service ever seriously failed for long periods or GPS failed overnight (which it easily could)? People would have to resort to what they did pre-internet. Back then, the world still worked (and some would argue even better because the internet 'toy' wasn't around to distract everyone and wreak havoc on the world).

Believe it or not, we actually built the modern world without email and the smartphone.
> I had bootstrapped the first Helios bits by building modified OmniOS bits on OmniOS, and then massaging the packaging metadata until it looked how I wanted it for Helios

What are the differences between OmniOS and Helios? Why did you feel the need to create a new distribution?
He follows through with an entire rant about people using "2022-10-26 14:59:42" to represent dates instead of 1666789167 Unix timestamps, and JSON in general. If that's really your best example then meh... I use JSON and string time formats because it's just easier to inspect things with curl or whatnot and gives a nice balance between human-readable and machine-readable, which I rather like for APIs. I do the same with database stuff, so "select * from foo" can be easily read. It can be quite helpful in debugging and the performance difference (even with compression) is just negligible in most cases.

But what do I know ... I'm just a farmer. Now excuse me while I go shove my computer down a shredder and go do something else.
I guess test scores are more efficient because GPAs are somewhat subjective and can be gamed to a degree. By both the school and the student.

Two schools with two different grading tolerances can produce students with similar GPAs but different SAT/ACT scores. As the SAT/ACT is a national standard, not a regional one.
Slavery is caused by one thing: imbalance of power between people. Whenever one entity or group gets too much power, slavery follows.
I don't see how Skinner could be wrong unless you reject materialism. Everything reduces to the behaviour of particles in the end. Of course it's possible that behaviour is not an effective way to model and study human beings, just like using particle physics is not an effective way to study English literature, but there's little doubt that English literature reduces to particle physics in the end.
They're not tied to phones
All what I see I could tell the same for Asus (in particular for a Vivobook I pay something close to a mac air, it's so deceiving in comparison)
> Your device your rules seems to cover this, too: they’re saying they don’t want to do business under other rules – the app is just showing the UI for that policy client side.

I guess I see two problems here:

1) They shouldn't be allowed to make that policy in the first place. Their policy is effectively dictating what devices I can own and what can I do with them, which is unreasonable when the devices in question are general-purpose computers.

2) My device is being used against me and against my wishes here; I'm not sure who's more to blame here - the bank for taking advantage of the API, Google for providing it, or the phone vendor for implementing it and locking me out of it, or Google again for effectively forcing the phone vendor to lock me out of it.

> I miss the free-for-all of the 90s in some ways but statistically zero of the non-IT people I know wouldn’t hand root on their phone over to some guy in another country based on a prompt on a webpage.

There must be some other way of handling it. We wouldn't have the Fisher-Price tech of 2020s without the free-for-all 90s! The ability for technically proficient users to do whatever the hell they want with their own general-purpose computers is fundamental to developing new technologies, products and services, and better alternatives to existing ones. Between Fisher-Price consumer tech and locked down corporate tech (because security!), it looks like we're heading for an era where a general-purpose computer will be something available only to few certified employees in corporate-sponsored labs.
Would like 18650/21700 in all things that can allow for it, hopefully with Type-C as well using the TP-4056 modules.

Headphones, wireless automatic lights, mice, AC power via DC inverters, better UPSes instead of lead acid ones, more power tool battery packs, RPi based computer kits, cars & bikes built with serviceable modules instead of one welded pack....these are the things that can make for a sustainable future.
I don't know, but their gut flora certainly have.
This is interesting, and supports some sci-fi-fantasy I have: I'm convinced that this process could be done in zero-G, and could be a way to start processing raw resources in space.

How else can we expect to build megaships?
You install ARM linux on VM, you copy some binaries into that ARM linux which magically allow you to run x86 binaries inside that ARM linux. Those binaries will be translated using rosetta algorithms to arm machine code and run inside that ARM linux.

Fast emulating x86 VM probably is too hard for Rosetta so they decided not to even bother with it. I agree that it would make things much easier if one could just run x86 Linux with proper speed.
"State power is weak" is a weird claim since the powerful states don't prevent trade with slavers.
Powerful states like US and China run slavery operations directly. It's even explicitly enshrined in the US Constitution.
Thinkpad t480s with Ubuntu. I'll give the whole experience a 8/10.

Speakers and mic are really bad for the price.
How do you evaluate a used laptop? I never buy used, and am curious how you kick the tires and determine if it’s a good buy or a lemon.
Also, i consider that the US is strategically interested to maintain the semi-monopolies of Google / MS / Facebook because of their worldwide influence. But apple being a predominantly american monopoly, is more likely to draw antitrust litigation.
Why do hotels not do this already?