skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For work, I use a mac. My employer's choice. No real objections when they work, but 2/4 macs I've had have failed in under 4 years (the screen died on an m1, the keyboard on a 2018).

For personal standard use I use a 12th gen framework. Too new to have a verdict on it for long term use. It runs Linux exclusively (NixOS).

For gaming I also have a i7 7th gen/gtx 1050ti Dell XPS from 2017 or so which I bring when visiting friends where we might do a LAN party (for home gaming I have a desktop). This was primarily my laptop prior to the framework. The wifi drivers for windows had issues with poor signal for the first year, but they eventually fixed that with a driver update. It dual boots Windows 10 and Arch Linux, but the framework has supplanted it for the activities I use Linux for.
Recreational additives become illicit drugs based on the characteristics of the people who use them. As another poster mentioned about LSD analogues in Berlin, the users are likely well below the radar of criminal association. Viagra suffers no possibility of becoming illicit because its users are in power. Using marijuana in the 20th century suggested the threat of new forms of desegregated music and society.
I don’t use laptops anymore, because the attachment of the keyboard to the screen creates an ergonomic disaster: there is no position that works well for the eyes, arms, back, and neck. For portable computing (and most everything else) I’m using a Surface Pro 3 with a wireless keyboard and Debian installed. Being able to independently position the screen and keyboard is nice! (Of course you could do the same with laptop and a wireless keyboard, but you’d be carrying extra dead weight.)

The fact that it’s a tablet with a touchscreen is a bonus: I can take it to the couch to recline while I read PDFs, etc.
I have not had bad experiences with my work Dells, but I do agree the docking stations are complete crap. I found an inexpensive one for home use on Amazon from Plugable and requested the same one for my setup at work. It's been great for several years now!
According to Wikipedia, he has South African, Canadian, and American citizenship.
> This clarification shouldn't have been necessary, FB was playing a game, and Apple closed the loophole.

That's objectively untrue. This is a new rule, and as The Verge correctly says, "it’s the first time Apple has directly taxed advertising in iOS apps".

Facebook's app was charging advertisers directly for years, without IAP, and Apple approved it. They simply never had an issue with it. Now, they're forcing FB to comply with a brand new rule.

The notion that Facebook was exploiting a loophole is outright Apple PR-speak. Apple was forced to frame is as a brand new policy, otherwise they'd face scrutiny for letting Facebook supposedly "evade" the previous rules.

And that WSJ article documents a disturbing trend of Apple trying to use their leverage to destroy Facebook. Hurting Facebook ads, and then actively pressuring Facebook to switch to a subscription model that Apple would take 30% from, is very dodgy.
Ask HN: If you could start over, how would you learn programming now?
I never use WiFi when I am in a hotel because I am most likely traveling and want to go outside and have fun / explore, not browse the Internet in my room.
Fair, corrected.
I would try to convert that electric power into political power the same way terrorist organizations do, by exploiting existing socio-economic disparity. I would get that ball rolling by building a self-sustaining community, sort of like a cult. I would present it as an utopia, and would try to manipulate millions through social media with promises of a better world. I would keep capturing hearts and minds, exploiting people's need for meaning and stability. Sooner or later I would emerge as a political leader, and once I'm elected I would go after the opposition and the industry leaders, offering those who are strategically important a part to play in my utopia, but would dispose of everyone else, using the chaos which I would keep creating as cover. Finally I would emerge as the one restoring order. I would keep people busy, making their lives feel meaningful and impactful, as if they are working toward an important goal, which requires sacrifice, belief, and eternal vigilance against the enemy.

Or I would use it to power a nice house in the mountains, and spend the rest of my life gardening, writing and playing with my dog Blondi.

Either one of these.
14" MacBook Pro with M1 Pro for "everything". I know the M1 love has been nothing short of annoying at this point, but I am constantly surprised by how good this laptop is. Even with dozens of tabs in Brave, a couple of power-hungry webapps open all the time, a 4K external display plugged in and pretty heavy use I usually get at least 12 hours of battery life. Even the best windows laptops in battery life I'd used before this wouldn't get close to 8 with this setup, with 6 being the average.

You might think: what even is the point of 12 hours of battery life? You can just carry a charger around! And well, at least to me, the point is that I get to treat my laptop as if it's a phone: I charge it for an hour every morning and for the rest of the day I'm charger free. That's incredibly powerful for me.

I also have a Ryzen 5800X machine sitting as a homeserver - it used to be my primary desktop, then I made it in to a jellyfin server for anime and block storage and maybe the occasional x86 thing that just doesn't run on arm. Except... I haven't even sshed into the homeserver in a long time. Constantly surprised by how good this laptop and rosetta are.
It’s pretty standard, you use a UPS.
Don’t stay at hotels then, only stay at airbnbs/vrbos that have good wifi.
ThinkPad X13s w/ Snapdragon 8cx. Arch (and Windows 11) runs on it perfectly and love it so far. Haven't had too much time to play around with other distros and BSD but will try it next weekend or so. Same price as an M1 Macbook Air which is obviously better but I'd rather got this
Clevo NL51MU, 32GB of RAM, 1TB nvme, 1TB SATA SSD, running Arch Linux. If I were to buy a laptop again, I'd probably pick something with a nicer screen, but overall I've been pretty satisfied.
This is true.

I took the ACT on a lark my sophomore year of high school. I scored a 29. I also attended one of the top high schools in the nation.

When I was registering for classes in college, my advisor kept trying to put me in Trigonometry or Pre-calculus (I can't remember). Because my ACT score in math said that's what I needed. I took the ACT while I was taking Geometry and Algebra II, so yeah, my math was probably weak. I tried explaining to them that my high school transcript shows I've taken up to Calculus. They wouldn't hear it. I refused to register for any sort of math below Calculus.

Eventually, they told me to go talk to the head of the math department. I told them fine. I went down there all prepared to make my case. As I started to make my case, he saw my transcript, said "Oh, <SCHOOL NAME REDACTED>. What class do you want to take?"

He didn't care about my transcript in the opposite way. I probably could have registered for 300 or 400 level math courses.
Don't fall into the fallacy that "things popular with young people" means that they will stay popular as they age. The social pressures that are driving people to use iOS (iMessage being the preferred messaging app) falls off over time.
I remember when some AWS employees had that extension installed in their browser and unintentionally wrecked havoc on the internal wiki with it. There were these various trails of devastation until the word got out that maybe this extension is a bad idea when you work for a cloud.
XMG CORE 14 for me.

Lenovo Yoga for work.
> the discipline seems more like a catalogue of observations than a theory

That is exactly what it is. Just like e.g. Ohm's law is based on observation and not theory, and archeology, and psychology, and medicine, and physics, and almost every other field outside mathematics. Some of those fields have developed theories to explain the observations, yet even those theories are constantly being refined.

This is why CS was a branch of mathematics for so long.
There's no shortage of students at state universities with elite test scores.
I think this is really interesting.

Stadia didn't require a subscription. You could just buy games and play them. But loads of people came to the conclusion that you needed a subscription. My going hypothesis is that this was caused by the free trial of the subscription service (higher resolution, cheaper games) that everybody got when they launched. So since people couldn't access the games without getting the free trial they assumed that this meant that they couldn't access the games without a subscription.
Is there any way of building an array of small lenses that can output the same power?

Optics is not my thing, but I'm fascinated at the possibility of a solar-powered forge
Right tool for the right job… JSON and long format dates work in 90%+ of cases where bleeding edge optimisation is not required.
Lessons from Human Rights Abuses in Post-World War II America [pdf]
Abstract: This paper explores U.S. government activities related to human experimentation after World War II. We emphasize how a proactive foreign policy, even in the pursuit of liberal ends, can undermine the rights and liberties of members the domestic populace. The typical primary justification for a strong military and proactive foreign policy is to protect the person and property of domestic people while reinforcing liberal values. But preparing for and engaging in war and foreign intervention, even if defensive in nature, often does the opposite in unseen and underappreciated ways. We discuss the implications of these tendencies and consider three responses offered by liberals — liberal empire, interstate federalism, and citizen-based defense
I agree. We should take away all human rights from the unvaccinated, too!

And anyone talking about vaccine problems, they also need to go.

We could make a special disinfo re-education summer camp, where we will send all the plague rats and political dissidents. We'll let them out when they're good people again, and tow the party line!
> 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.

Aren't all those premium products?

Many of the complaints here read like: "I usually BMWs, but I decided to buy a Honda Fit and hated it. It's small and under-powered, nothing like the BMWs I prefer: Honda sucks. Honda should adopt the BMW strategy of making all their products premium."
Sure, it's well known to English-speaking natives. This library was written by a Swedish consulting firm.
Which laptop has the best keyboard? This is a huge deciding factor for me.

I've had Thinkpads with beautiful, solid keyboards and they are joy to use. But they tend to be pretty old models and I want to try to update if possible.
Developer appears to be a pretentious dork. For that reason I’ll not use this library
> Truly the only exception here is desktop operating systems.

Why are desktop operating systems the exception rather than the rule? Desktop preceded mobile by decades. They are the precedent.

I don't think game consoles are a good comparison, because they're an entirely different beast for several reasons. For one, a game console has only a few thousand games total, which is completely unlike general purpose computing platforms.

From a developer perspective, being in a store with only 2 thousand games and being in a store with more than 2 million apps is like day and night. You might as well be invisible in the crApp Store.
How does that stop them in any capacity from living off their parent's wealth?
This is how my last job was, I was there for 7 years, finally left, tripled my compensation (I was very underpaid), and now most of the engineers I know from there have also left.
say what??
Not the OP, but mixing employment with friendship can be difficult to navigate.

I know from personal experience that is is possible for a friendship to survive adverse shocks involving money. But it is difficult, it does change things permanently, and it seems rare that it survives at all.
That’s exactly what I’m referring to.

For what it’s worth, withholding needed medical treatment is every bit as barbaric as forcing unneeded medical treatment into an individual. The intent in both cases is identical: eradicating queer people.
Well, I was serious in my argument. It is a somewhat realistic next step in my point of view but I consider it absurd, hence the next sentence that we move slowly to a world entirely managed by smartphones and apple honestly just can't get 30% slice of everything just because it's a transaction on an app.

Where is the point where monopolies extract too much value? We have broken up companies before because they treated other unfair and it can be done again if they escalate beyond reason.
Your review right now helped me avoid them in the future.
If ever there was an example of "Look what clever javascript tricks I can do!" trumping usability, that article was it. Who the feck thought it was a good idea to?...

periodically have the text you were reading fade out and be overlaid with images. Amd have the captions for those images be off the bottom of the screen [on my MacBook Air 11"] but, when you scroll down to read them, the image fases away and dumps you back into the text again. Also often the end of a paragraph of text is off the bottom of the screen, but when you scroll it into view, the text fades out and an image fades in instead.

But well done, whoever it was. You've proven you know JavaScript. Now go off and study accessibility for a while!
I could not watch the video, but from Urban Dictionary, this is a basis for a brilliant prank: ... there is an elaborate verbal dance that you need to go through with them as they pretend not to know what you are talking about, but perseverance is the key here.
A UPS: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product-range/61883-backups/

Note that this will only carry it until the UPS batteries run flat, so a power outage of a duration longer than the runtime on the batteries will still shutdown the computer. Larger battery sizes (also more expensive) will run for longer duration's.
It was also peak COVID, so anything involving spending money online had a field day.
I've noticed the cheaper the hotel, the more amenities they have, like free wifi. Why? It seems like it should be the opposite.
This is horrible. Thanks for the investigative effort, I feel I want to step out of internet for a while now.
The flat panel is a phased array dead give away. The performance and cost advantages of digital beamforming are such that you can pretty much assume any high tech antenna is a multi channel array.
From a state school’s Admissions perspective, where the unit test resolves to admit/deny, there is nothing particularly outlying about your scores from what I recall.

I see 31 and think, “admit”. I see 3.18, I think “probably admit”. I check your math scores (which is where a lot of people trip up), and see you got mostly Bs- heck, you’re on Hacker Mews, probably As, and I think, “admit”. Now I do the normalizing math and yeah, Admit. Congratulations!
I feel like I've been asking this question for 15 years.
Source?

Also, the efforts that I've seen are sub-par at best. Miami wants to build barrier islands that are a few feet above sea level in order to create a basin-type barrier around Brickell (the financial district where Ken Griffin is building a tower). Those are still in the early stages of bureaucratic hell and won't likely be built until it's way too late.
Previous Discussion:

Everything Is an X (November 12, 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078209
Granted my experience is filtered through my IT department, but my experience with Dell's enterprise warranty was anything but smooth. Replacing a faulty m2 and a motherboard were both multi-week affairs, so bad that I wrote our CTO about our machine requisition policies.
> rolling agricultural technology back a hundred years would require killing off fifty percent of the population.

Only 50 years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
I haven't been to France in a while. Is this actually enforced in any meaningful way? Like, you can't go to Starbucks or a shopping center and use their wifi without some kind of identity verification? How does that practically work?
I stopped considering Dell servers when they started requiring Dell hard drives.
Building and selling a successful startup with fractional hires
It takes and is going to continue to take a massive amount of energy and resources to complete the energy transition.

People are working on reducing demand for electricity through efficiency, but if we electrified everything in the US today, demand for electricity would something like 9x. So, yes, we're going to need a lot more copper.
Well, no, because schools have a profound interest in having those students parents pay them for a top notch education.
Same way you convince any business to do anything: market pressure or regulation. Regulation to make hotels provide free wifi is never going to happen, not in the US anyway. I have no idea how you could get market pressure to accomplish this either.

So, basically you the answer is you can't.
Hotels in the US seem to play this "corporate expense" BS with wifi, but it's rare to see it outside the US

As if my boss would be happy to have another thing to expense, lol no. And guess what, you just kicked other potential customers from your hotel
Allow me to quote to you from a Punch article by E. V. Knox written in about 1930 (collected in "Things That Annoy Me" of 1932):

The Pylons
(Being the transcript of an unwritten radiologue, dated A.D. 2129)

Once again we are threatened with a historical calamity. It is proposed to uproot the graceful pylons which adorn the line of the Sussex Downs and are the sole relics of the electricity cable which carried light and power to our forefathers along the Southern Coasts...

Plus ça change...
All of them if you want to be sure, which you should. Update your obsolete and outdated view on consent.
Until yesterday I was using a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 running Ubuntu 22.04. It was an awful combination (microphone didn't work, nubbin stopped working, touchpad had to be replaced, keyboard had dodgy keys, battery life was bad, Chrome wouldn't start unless you added some mystery command-line options, etc, etc, etc.)

Yesterday I got a new ASUS Zenbook running Windows 11 (and I added Ubuntu in WSL2). So far so good, it seems like I can do my coding stuff on the linux subsystem but then have desktop apps and peripherals on the windows side that just work. This is the first time I've had my personal computer be a Windows machine in like 20 years, so we'll see how it goes.
Unfortunately the credibility of your testimony is diminushed by the fact you are using a throwaway.
I don't think that's the point the parent post is making
Methoxetamine and 3-MEO-PCP and all the weird stuff in between!

Due to the well-established metabolic processes these go through, it is very unlikely to see any side effects outside of acute, high doses, such as Ket and bladder issues.

Crazy to think it took a constitutional amendment to repeal the prohibition of alcohol, but in 2013, little uproar as the Federal Analogues act essentially made all drugs with any desirable properties, de facto illegal.
> This is where computing as a whole is headed because it's the ONLY way to provide defense in depth against cyberattacks.

Yeah, sure - in a fantasy dream world. But the real world has a bit more sophisticated cyberattackers that will find a way in. And at the same time normal and powerusers of computers will have to deal with all the total-control-state-class "security" measures.

This looks pretty the same as "think of the children" censorship.
Short term one get can rid of test scores or GPA since they indeed seem to be correlated. But long term:

1. If we get rid of test scores, it would cause too much upward pressure on GPA which would make GPA less reliable. There are tens of thousands of high schools in the US. Even if the GPA distribution inside every high school is correct, how do you compare with GPAs from other high schools? And from experience I can predict that, once people realize that only the GPA is important, there will be outside influences (i.e. pay the teachers for good grades) that could cause even the distribution of GPA inside one school to not be correct.

2. If we get rid of GPA, students could just study for the test with obvious disastrous effects for their education.

We need both GPA and test scores to keep both of them in check.
If they were doing their job well enough that you couldn't tell they were employed elsewhere, were you really being scammed?

Or did you get pissy because you didn't have a person's livelihood to hold over them to make dance to your song?
Personal life: iPad Pro 3rd Gen.
Work: MacBook Air M2

For work I was using the Surface Pro. However, they changed it so that removing the keyboard forces the UI to enter tablet mode. This happens even when using the computer with an external monitor and Mouse Without Borders. That means I have to leave the keyboard attached and can't actually save my desk space. If I'm going to sacrifice the desk space anyway I might as well get the vastly superior performance of the M2, and the useful trackpad.

If someone made a laptop that runs Windows, has a removable keyboard, allows me to have manual control of when tablet mode is enabled, and had performance comparable to the M2, I would buy two of those. One for work, one for home.

Side note. Prior to this M2 I hadn't used OSX/MacOS in over a decade. At that time I hated it. There were many aspects I couldn't tolerate. Using it now there are still a few frustrations and annoyances, but I can live with them. It's come a long way. If not for that, I probably would have sucked it up and continued with the Surface Pro.
Anybody know what RF frequency it operates on? Would have impact on FCC rules. I'm guessing 24GHz or thereabouts based on size.
The managers (in my experience at least, being on both sides of that table) don't have a shred of power in compensation discussions. That makes it a lot harder for the employee to negotiate (by design). Every compensation decision that wasn't pushed directly by HR got pushed to president-level management (these were in 100-500 person companies)
Definitely, not “in a way”. It is easy enough to see. Most people who need a laptop just need a cheap plastic shell, maybe with some middle tier gaming GPU, and some modicum of durability. I am off the Apple laptops since they went ARM and the OS left be wanting, but their hardware quality is still the best. Their prices reflect that (plus the Apple tax).
When you start pulling that thread, the whole system of education metrics falls apart.

Including people's assumptions that seats in school should be prioritized for people already learned more than everyone else.
But that's exactly my point! Other languages help to prevent the programmer from making mistakes that are common in C
People were coping and seething while (not actually) working at their FANG jobs.

Later I got voted up from people who got back from (actual) work, who read HN
I imagine they just use their super cheap cellular data plans.
I just went from Midwest money to Bay money without moving out of the Midwest as an IC. I'm basically set for life and I know I don't want to be a people manager. Maybe someday I'll be staff/principal but I really don't mind sitting at a terminal level slinging code.
Lenovo T14 (Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U) with RAM expanded to 24 GB, running Debian Testing. Works like a charm. Previously I had MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, I prefer T14+Linux to both of them.