skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The better keyboards are a bit pricier

Nope, they are just nonexistent in modern laptops.

> USB-C Hubs are like $30 and have more than enough bandwidth for most needs.

> why isn't USB-C good enough for that?

I don't have any USB-C device (not everybody lives in a first-world countries) but at least once per year I actually need at least all 4 of my good old USB2 ports. External USB hub will suck in stability of connect and ability to charge several devices at once.

And I do not want to grab a screwdriver for changing battery which becomes common in modern razor-thin laptops, I love long outdoor sessions with a couple of spare batteries in my backpack.
Doesn’t it being a NN automate some of the feature engineering?
It was more or less a tongue-in-cheek snowclone based on the famous Arthur C. Clarke adage [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws#Variants...
World Ethical Data Forum–-26-28 October 2022
The World Ethical Data Forum is the leading event for impartial and balanced exploration of the urgent ethical and practical questions around the use and future of data.
The problem with deoptimization is the performance hit every time it takes place, which leads to a saw graph similar to when there is too much GC going on.
Mandrake Roots
Illegal Chinese ‘police stations’ uncovered in the Netherlands
rent economy is the economy of the dead

if people don't understand this, then we are doomed
> Seems like a lot of work, complexity and potential problems of all sort to fix.. something quite minor?

Probably because the main goal isn't actually solving that problem. That's just the excuse used to let the trojan horse in and convince people to hand complete control of their devices over to corporations.
apple with apple os
And exposure and transparency was much more difficult before too. A tool is a tool, how it is used is the important part.
Thinkpad X270 running 9front.

Thinkpad T410i running Debian.

Edit: Though I much much prefer to work on a desktop.
By natural selection, there is nearly no scam that will refund your money after you've given it away.
The Nine Lives of a Cat (Book Cover)
My theory is that we have much more control over how we go after what we want than over what we want. 'Consciousness' as we think of it is a sufficiently abstract layer that it can (slowly, and with effort) nudge what future us is going to want, but it's not efficient enough to get into the weeds of how things are done most of the time.

That's not to say it can't get into the weeds - from experience it seems it can, but it's better for everyone if it lets autonomous systems handle things like lane changes or conversations.
Then they can hire such people. If they can find enough of them. Or better yet they should move to Pennsylvania as that is where they want to hire people from: they can then hire people who would be willing to work for those wages but are not willing for the commute.
I have an XPS 15 I got at Costco for about $2k years back that I used out in the field (i7, 16gb RAM, 1TB NVMe). Extremely happy with it and it’s still my primary go-to laptop. No extended warranty, never repaired or any issues.

I just purchased my first MacBook Pro (M2) a few months back and I absolutely love it! Now that I no longer work out in the field, I always have both laptops at my desk mounted on two Twelve South Curve Stands with an extra monitor in between. I have a magic keyboard (Touch ID) and an MX Master 3S. Can’t complain!
Excellent write up, with very nice humorous style and clearly explaining the situation with the year 2038 problem.
By definition if you are not captive they won't have much use for you since you'll end up wasting their time
Yes but sometimes they do - at my last job at a large corporation I was paid 80% below the median rate for an engineer in my area/YoE/etc. - I threatened I would quit and showed them a counter offer that was 30% more than what I was currently making and they said "sorry nothing we can do" so I quit and found a better job.
facebook tried their FB credits thing for a while and then ditched it, and generally developers can still use their platform with few restrictions , no $100 / year and 30% tax. The biggest annoyance was the trump era where they enacted a bunch of puritan measures in response to criticism from the press. FB gives their platform for free to devs, very unlike apple
I used to always buy enterprise machines from Dell outlets as they were so great and reliable, with a great warranty.

I’d never buy their general consumer stuff though, it’s stack high, sell cheap.
Trying to take over the world are we?
This brought back memories of Apple in the mid 90s.

"It is impossible for them to properly design, test and support such a large number of different models. This is one of the reasons that their machines and support are such low quality. They don’t try to get it right, their business model is to produce a large quantity of models and obtain sales through bruteforce rather than quality."
David Graeber wrote a great book about this phenomenon
This may come as a shock to you, but computers exist outside of a corporate context.
That's rich compared to the employees of the scammers, if not the bosses.

People who aren't globally rich don't have retirement savings to lose, they have a pension.
World’s Largest CO2 Removal Deal Ever Depends on Tech That Isn’t Ready Yet
I think you're closer to something than the other poster.

Let's give the assumption that certain racial/ethnic groups perform better on IQ tests as a whole than others.

If that were true, that would just be a fact. Yes. But why that is matters. And a lot of the why is just plain old racism. The groups who don't score well on IQ tests don't do so because they've been held back from all of the progress enjoyed by the rest of the world.

It's that progress that increases IQ scores. It's not that white people and Chinese people are smarter due to genetics or culture or whatever people use to spout. It's because they've been able to leverage the progress of the world to advance themselves. Black people, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans, especially immigrants have not been allowed the same access to leverage it. You give them the same resources, the same chances, and over time, you'll see the same increases.

In fact, you do. Because those groups constantly get progress's hand-me-downs. Last year's progress. So they lag behind.
Dell Inspiron running Win10. It's about 6 years old now. Only change was a RAM and SSD upgrade.
Kinda heavy: I bought it mainly because it has a 17" screen, but in hindsight that was not a great idea.
The HP Dev One is apparently very out of character for HP (which is a good thing). It's primarily Linux.
Ask HN: Make sure a desktop computer doesn't shutdown because of power outage
I have a Mac Mini M1 at my parent's place. I work remote all the time. Sometimes there's a power outage there and they don't know anything about computers, nor do I want to bother them switching it on.

What system do you use to keep your desktop to not immediately shut down during a power outage?
Interesting. Apple won't give up its golden goose without a fight. Nor Google by that matter. Remember that Google is basically the one investing lots of cash with chrome.

They won't decimate their android devs nor their huge investment in the android ecosystem. Heck , by a business perspective alone, they have +80% of the mobile landscape. Are they going to give up this edge just because?

Also, the app/play stores sold convenience, easiness, and confidence of app installs. Gen Z basically knows how to use app/play stores to find what they want and there's an article stating they're even using TikTok to search for things. That part over there tells you where do you need to put your $$$. Bet money google is trying to come up with ways to attract that segment.

We as devs have to be prepared for everything society throws at us. From improving our web dev skills to learn a mobile framework should the occasion arise (RN, Flutter, Maui? tauri probably?).

I personally, as with Meta and metaverse as of this moment, don't see myself using web installs to mobile apps any time soon. Web apps have their purposes and mobile apps have theirs too. More diversification (platforms) is better.
Kids who play video games score higher on brain function tests
> An illusion doesn't trick anyone if there's noone to observe it.

An illusion is arguably a perception that, taken literally, entails a false conclusion, so I don't see a need to tie it to a subject.
Site's down. Wayback'd[1]

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026075111/https://nicole.ex...
> So much money goes into solving non-problems like […] cryptocurrencies…

More to the point: so much of this human suffering is dependent on the existence of this technology.
> If you're using gas or resistive heating anyway this achieves very little.

? This isn't correct. If my kettle boils in 2 minutes when it's half full, and 3.5 minutes when it's full, then by only half filling it you are saving 1.5 minutes worth of (gas/electricity). Low absolute impact, but high relative impact, and adds up if you boil the kettle 3+ times a day
I've never seen a software project choose a Ypsilon in their name before. Have any examples?

μ provides a good contextual clue about the project. What would the ε character tell me?
Estonia passes bill allowing digital marriage and divorce
At today's session, the Riigikogu adopted a law introducing electronic administration in marriage and divorce proceedings.From now on, it is not necessary to go to the civil registry office to submit a marriage and divorce application, but the application can also be submitted via a secure online environment. Also, a marriage and divorce application confirmed with a digital signature can be submitted to a notary online.
> And I do not want to grab a screwdriver for changing battery which becomes common in modern razor-thin laptops, I love long outdoor sessions with a couple of spare batteries in my backpack.

With 24+ hours per charge on a lot of these modern laptops, why do you need to carry spare batteries?

Instead of spare batteries, you should probably be looking to use equipment more recent than a Thinkpad. You get far, far more "laptop usage per watt" on a modern system than anything 5 years or older. There's just all sorts of power-saving features on a modern system (most importantly: fundamental shrinking of the transistors down to 5nm or smaller, using a small fraction of the power compared to larger 22nm or 24nm transistors)

Ex: The new "P vs E" core on Windows 11 devices. The new sleep features on DDR5. NVMe using far less power than a hard drive. Etc. etc. Modern systems use an order of magnitude less power yet offer greater compute power on the go. The drive for better transistors is strongest in the laptop form factor IMO, since smaller transistors hit the "do everything": faster, cheaper, less power usage.

On top of that are the software tweaks. I know people are pissed off about Windows 11's new GUI, but the scheduler is solid and the support for Intel's low power "E" cores, plus GPU sleeping / other power saving features, really makes a difference in terms of battery life.

> I don't have any USB-C device (not everybody lives in a first-world countries) but at least once per year I actually need at least all 4 of my good old USB2 ports. External USB hub will suck in stability of connect and ability to charge several devices at once.

USB-C is something like 4GBps.

A singular USB-C hub can support 20x USB 2.0 A devices at full speed (each around 50MBps). You have all the bandwidth you need from USB 3.0 / USB-C connectors. You just need a hub so that the port can be "split" into more physical ports.

> External USB hub will suck in stability of connect and ability to charge several devices at once.

So right now, you carry a bunch of extra laptop batteries around and USB 2.0 ports that you only use ~once per year (or so).

When instead you could be carrying around a Li-ion charging station, using more efficient laptops (to get 24+ hours per charge, negating the need for spare batteries), and using a $30 USB-C port+hub on the rare occasions you need a large number of simultaneous devices on your computer?

It sounds like what you really need is a portable Li-ion battery.
very interesting stuff. wondering is there any in-depth walkthrough of the time keeping mechanisms in Linux?
If your hiring process sucks, everything else about the company must suck, too.

First impressions and all that.
I get this situation, not in sports, but in emergency situations, like data center outages or the actually should have been scary but wasn't in-air emergencies (like engine failures - while I am the pilot). I always explain it like, time just slows down, and you know exactly what to do, like a yellow brick road leading you the right way. Neat to hear that others experience it too.
Employment is a relationship. If you can’t be bothered to do mundane work to apply how do I know you will dutifully complete those menial but necessary tasks that come with all jobs?
Isn't it criminal offence to provide fake documents?
This 'hassle' will change in 2023 - https://webkit.org/blog/13152/webkit-features-in-safari-16-0...

https://webkit.org/blog/12945/meet-web-push/
Macbook Pro (16 inch, 2019, 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 32 GB RAM) at work.

Custom-built desktop (AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 8-Core x 16, 32 GB RAM) running Ubuntu for personal use
Maybe I am misunderstanding the post, but for me the beauty of Unix time is precisely that all the weirdness with dates is abstracted away to the "conversion code" so that you only deal with "seconds". Timezones, leap seconds... all of that only matters when you're showing the user a date. For recording and calculations, it doesn't.
Ask HN: Do you realize that you learn something every day?
Imagine that.

You take a notebook or your favorite text editor, and EVERY day you put ANYTHING that you learned every day.

It might seem that you learn nothing, but if you write it down, any small thing, that I believe there won't be ANY empty sheets in the notebook.

For example, TIL:

- How to take a full scrolling screenshot on Android
- Zopiklon, which is a sleeping peel, has a side effect - metallic flavor in the mouth
- How to say "You're welcome" in Georgian

This list might be long. And it happens each day.

Even without taking into account IT knowledge (here of course we google every day and learn something but it's more like a routine)

Isn't it cool?
> Seems to me you expect all the working people to just pony up money and pay for all the homeless peoples housing. A lot of people are renting their home and can barely afford to scrape by. They cannot afford to pay for someone else's housing as well. You want to screw these people who are trying to contribute to society. I am not okay with that.

I think you may be responding to the wrong comment? I never said any of this stuff.
>The platform is Windows, not Steam.

When it's the only distribution channel, I disagree. It's a pedantic point, either way.

>The issue isn't the App Store cut per se, the issue is having to be in the App Store to be on the iPhone. You never had to do that on Windows or Mac.

...but you do have to do it with Xbox, Playstation, and Switch. You technically don't have to do it on Android, but only technically. In reality you have to be in the Play Store for market reasons. Truly the only exception here is desktop operating systems.
>Mac OS X

MacOS. X means ten in Roman numbers.
Funny how millions of people who had all the common vaccines except the covid "vaccine" suddenly became anti-vaxer.
That like saying someone who smokes cigarettes, pipes and shisha but not cigars must be anti-smoking.

The common western covid "vaccines" do not have the properties of other common vaccines. They are at best comparable to flu shots which I know no one under the age of 50 who has ever took them. Are these all anti-vaxers now too?
Have you ever head anyone talk about herd immunity related to flu shots pre-covid?
Almost everyone alive today apparently prevented herd immunity for flu most of his life by not taking the flu shot. So we're all anit-vaxers.

>I thought about this for several moments, and I disagree.

You need some more moments I guess, you clearly didn't think this trough.
Wholeheartedly agree. I only buy dell, and of them, I only buy latitudes. My favorite of all time was my e6440 with an socket CPU. I bought my wife one a couple of years ago, threw a quad core in there, maxed the ram and it's still working well. I had one just like it for myself but after years of my dog knocking it off the coffee table, it eventually stopped displaying. You can put three hard drives in these guys, one in the intended, one in the cd/dvd caddy and one in an m2 slot. I ran linux on it for it's entire 7-8 year life.

Today I have a 5490 (4 years old) which is a beast and puts up with tons of abuse, including drops. I've run linux on it since day 1 and never had a driver issue and is a solid workhorse.

I've always had dell latitudes, and will continue buying them as long as they last me 8 years each and run linux.
It’s usa only.
>Dell laptops come with a ton of pre-installed Bloatware

>Shows the add/remove dialog from M$Windows

There's your problem
Sapphire Rapids 4th Gen Xeon Hands-On: Testing Intel's Bold Claims
Surface revenue went up 2%, beating expectations, Windows OEM took a hit
Macbook Pro for work, since it's provided by my employer.

frame.work with Ubuntu for personal. I keep thinking of switching to Mint or something else but switching to a new OS is such a hassle.

I also run Mint on an old Asus gaming laptop as a jellyfin server.
After 13 years on MacBooks, in 2021 I've switched to ThinkPad T14s AMD (1st gen) and I love it.
Don't get me wrong, Macs are still very good and reliable machines, but I missed the possibility to run a very minimalistic and very tailored for me OS (especially in terms of GUI choice). Previously, before 'Mac era', I was using FreeBSD, then Gentoo - but now, after 13 years I decided I will use a binary distribution for a while, so I've chosen Void Linux. Now I'm back on Gentoo, but sometimes I think I would like to return to Void - I'm too old and too impatient to compile everything ;-)
Yes, I meant that in the sense of underlying idea, not the surface-level syntax.
Asus TUF series (A15). Inexpensive with really good hardware specs and upgradable ram, storage and wifi cards. I usually go AMD on them, and midrange video cards. They're shockingly good as desktop replacements but they suffer a bit on battery life. My 4900H/RTX2060 feels snappier than my work M1 Pro in everything I do and it can play pretty much every modern game smoothly.
>Ok, you want a big brother to tell you what to do.

More like I want to solve an
increasingly unsusatinable cost to society:

>People with obesity experienced a statistically significant twofold increase in average direct healthcare costs per year (EUR 5,934), compared with controls (EUR 2,788) and had statistically significantly higher indirect costs compared to controls. Total healthcare costs for people with obesity and one or more of the 11 comorbidities were 91.7%–342.8% higher than total healthcare costs of the population with obesity but none of the 11 comorbidities.

>Obesity was associated with an increase in both direct and indirect costs. The presence of comorbidities was associated with additional healthcare costs.[0]

[0]https://doi.org/10.1080/14737167.2022.2053676
1. for development: Samsung Galaxy Book Pro (13.3-inch AMOLED, 8GB, i5) with Void Linux

2. mostly for office related stuff & browsing: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, early 2013, 8GB, i7) with macOS High Sierra

The Galaxy Book Pro is ultralight and thin, perfectly portable. The Mac Book is super durable and reliable.

Although I own a few other (bigger) laptops, I like those two the most.
> From this he concluded that he cannot differentiate when he decides to do something or when his body decides to do it, they both feel to him like he decided to do it.

Which arguably disproves mind-body dualism. "You" are your whole body, not a disconnected consciousness trapped in a physical form.
I'm not quite sure how to parse this or if this was even meant for me, but I do hope that this isn't some pretense to dispair or annihilation (the bad kind)
We've seen multiple acts of telecoms sabotage in the past month. Shetland and Marseille cables cut.
I've always felt to an extent that conscious actions can be at some level impulsive - any attempt to explain how we made the decision to act, no matter how well-founded and seemingly logical, invariably involves some post-hoc rationalization. That said, I also feel that they are still conscious decisions. Taking action just seems to me divorced from the process of explaining "why", which we frequently might not even get right or necessarily understand, sometimes only making sense of it later.
It's impossible to manage. Continuously monitoring workers to make sure they are "delivering" is too hard, and doing so tends to create a work environment that drives other workers away. Rules such as "no moonlighting" are just simple heuristics that make management easier, and in turn, make it easier to hire and retain managers.

On the other hand, speaking of "delivering," companies like Amazon and UPS have figured it out. Amazon wouldn't care if you were working a second job, because they know your output down to the nearest Joule at any given moment.
My last 3 PC's have been Dell. The most recent being a desktop I bought off-lease for about $120. Such a great experience that I can see myself never buying new again. I simply don't need top of the line performance for software development, no matter what anyone else says. There's essentially no usable difference between my 6 year-old personal laptop and the new one I got at work last year when doing development.
Unito raises $20M to shape the future of collaborative work
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen. 6 with Fedora and Windows 10 Pro.

However, Thinkpads are not what they used to be and always come with some tiny, but annoying issues. For example fingerprint reader is terrible, there are some minor date/time issues between Linux and Windows (partially fixed with BIOS update), etc.

I hope to keep the laptop for a few more years, but if I had to buy now I would consider one of the two:

* TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen7 (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-1...)

* Framework laptop
Yes, there are lots of jobs, and talented people can switch.

Jobs that pay well can treat their people worse - though worse treatment is weird. There are places that treat their people well, but because the job is considered unethical by many they have to pay more.
- Debug

OpenBSD bundles Clang (and Perl better for small software) in base to do that in a safer way.
Correlation or causation? Perhaps if you didn’t skip classes, you’d still struggle through adult life but also struggle through childhood.

Perhaps you’d just be more numb.
Employment is a relationship. If you can't be bothered to treat me as a human being when I apply, how do I know you will dutifully treat me as a human being when I'm working for you?
I'll just chime in with my opinion, too. Why not? Maybe somebody will find it helpful.

I generally disagree with the opinions of the article, which is to say, my experience is different. I have used XPS 15s exclusively as my dev laptops since 2016. None of the 3 I've used since then ever let me down. My oldest still works marvelously and I use as my primary dev platform with Linux, and my newest from 2021 as my backup/gaming machine with Windows 10. They do require opening and cleaning occasionally.

That said,

1) the Dell website experience when accessed from outside the US is so terrible that it's clear Dell does not feel that they actually need it to generate revenue

2) my experience with 3 laptops is a lot, but still anecdotal. I'll keep my eyes open for another dev-friendly option.