skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it sleep? I was really happy with an earlier Dell XPS (which my daughter still uses), but my newer one is horrible. I always have to do a full shutdown, otherwise if I don't use it for a few days, the BIOS resets and once I even had to remove the CMOS battery.

Between the sleep, the bad mic, fan noise, I think my next one will be a ThinkPad (my 10 year old ThinkPad is still rocking, gave it to other family who just needed a browser).
For me, yes, but now I prefer Kagi, so Google would need to compete on price.
infinity is not a number.
Not sure why your post was downvoted. There is a difference between asking customers voluntarily on your ecommerce site to say pass an AVS check or have an IP address in the same country that their card is from (in my view reasonable) and requiring all communications to go through mediums that the government can read (in my view unfeasible and invasive).
Topic Analysis of App Store Reviews: A Heatmap Approach with App Store Reviews
> Some of the worst abuses in history were made possible by the invention of the corporation. Ever hear of the East India Company? They are responsible for 100s of millions of deaths, many genocides, and the eradication of entire cultures.

“The corporation” in general is, and the British East India Company in particular was, a tool of government, not an opposing force.
One of my favorites as well - also, "Second Fiddle" :D
I'm confused. This is a really vague question. What's the best color of car these days?

What features are you looking for in a Linux laptop?

The process should be to first identify what hardware features you want, and then identify Linux support for those features. Support varies from distro to distro; they all have warty bits, and you can spend a lot of time picking a Linux.

Meanwhile, it should be the case that lots of laptops run desktop Linux pretty darn well. The typical exceptions today are graphics drivers (damn you, nvidia!) and touchpads when the vendor decides to manufacture something new. Most other stuff should work with minimal effort.

I'm typing this from the LG 17Z990 that has been running Debian (and only Debian) for over 5 years now. (Not an endorsement of that particular laptop; the keyboard is SO FRAGILE!) Before that, I had a big honkin' Dell that worked flawlessly with Debian for at least 7 years. So that's 12 years of daily-driving Linux. It hasn't been without its nuisances, but neither are Windows or MacOS. Unlike Windows or MacOS, when something does annoy me in Linux, it is -- generally -- fixable.

I really don't think you need to buy a laptop for Linux support, at this point. Like, sure, double-check that it doesn't have a known problem. You might have to pick your Linux according to the laptop, though.
Funeral of STALKER dev V. Yezhov killed in action. Interview with widow [video]
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Not on list but my Asus TUF 17" is consistently beating my expectations on driver compat and overall build quality
Reasons for so long constant decline are simple.

First, old Soviet style of management, unfortunately saved in govt backed monopoly.

Second, constantly underpaid computers/software depts.
I'm using NixOS 22.11 with a Thinkpad T490s and it's basically flawless. Everything works as expected, including the fingerprint reader. My best Linux laptop experience yet.
> I think you would have a pretty hard time finding examples of this in somewhere like the US

On the contrary, you can have a live example in the US today, and you could have found another one six years ago.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Age of PageRank Is Over - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537513 - Nov 2022 (373 comments)

Kagi/Orion status update: First three months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676993 - Sept 2022 (191 comments)

Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31584791 - June 2022 (201 comments)

Kagi: A Premium Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835756 - Jan 2022 (221 comments)
I mean to be fair he is the Linux power user.
You can insert a tab character by pasting it. I think you could use AutoHotKey to detect when you're in the formula bar (the class of the active control is "EXCEL<1"), and then have it map Enter to Alt+Enter and Tab to pasting a tab character.
I'm a long-time X1 Carbon user (over the years, between personal and work laptops, I've had 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th gen models)

I recently got a Gen 3 AMD T14s and I've been very happy with it. it's a bit thicker / heavier / wider than my old Carbons, but still a very comfortable size, and has much better specs (6c/12t Ryzen 5 6650U, 32gb RAM, 1TB NVMe, Radeon 680M GPU) than comparably-priced Carbons I looked at.
Why not use Firefox's search engine keyword to just make it use Wikipedia directly, or duckduckgo with !w ?
well, democracy is better than dictatorship or monarchy, but that's damning it with faint praise

democracy didn't save the cherokees or the melians because they weren't voters
System 76 is great for Linux but the Windows support is absolutely abysmal so you can forget about having high quality Windows dual boot setup.
I'd choose one that the OEM ships with Linux, then I'd search for other people's experiences with them, especially the bad ones.
Do google also have the programming-by-example feature for suggesting formulas that’s in excel?
It's probably out of scope but running Linux as Lima/Docker/Parallels under MacOS should be a serious consideration.
To clarify, IP blocking now produces collateral damage because there are far fewer IP addresses in use than there is demand and so different users must share, right? So in a hypothetical world where we are using IPv6 no one would need to share hence there would no longer need to be any collateral damage.

I think part of the reason this feels dishonest is that they make the analogy of a skyscraper and it’s street address - obviously many tenets must share. But that relationship becomes inverted with IPv6, now everyone can have many. Problem solved.

Except they deny this by comparing the size of the DNS namespace to the IPv6 address space and stating because it isn’t 1-1 that it doesn’t work. That argument doesn’t follow. They even point to the early internet as a time when everything had its own IP address and that sort of IP blocking made sense, which it would again under IPv6.

I’m not sure what you are getting at with your example of RAM - if I had 64 bit addresses then I would expect that all of them should be treated as valid, which they are. It is the same here. Not every address in a 128 but space would resolve to something valid, but any of them could.
I'm curious if anyone is using NixOS on the Oryx Pro with acceptable results.
I'm 2 months into paying for Kagi. I'm so happy not having ads. I didn't really expect it to feel so different to me, but it does. Similarly, I didn't expect to feel good about paying for it. But it feels like a breath of fresh air, to be paying for a service that I deem worth the price, that isn't trying to extract money from me through a side channel.

I think the results have been better for me, though in a couple cases a top ranked result was 404'ing, which I've never had on google.

The UI is better imo, and I've occasionally used lenses which has been useful.

I haven't ever used !g in two months. I have a very fond spot in my heart for Google of years past, I fondly remember finding it in 1998 and feeling like I had an absolute superpower not just over people not on the internet, but over people still using the other search engines.

And I also am somewhat of an apologist, when people dump on Google search results getting worse over the years I'm quick to point out that it's a highly adversarial problem and they're the primary target.

But 24 years later, I couldn't be happier switching to Kagi now. Frankly, while I'm quite happy with my current work, it makes me fantasize of working for them.
Great project! Is it open source?
What are a few of the things you like about it? Besides price ($1099, btw)

https://hpdevone.com/
Brazilian here. Disagree. The only recurrent joke about him is that he was a ad boy for Viagra.
not because of tls, do the math
I'd recommend my XPS-15 9510 (no issues with hybrid graphics on ubuntu), but Dell managed to screw up the goddamn touchpad. How? I have no idea. The solution seems to involve soldering an extra ground wire from the bottom of the touchpad to a nearby piece of frame. Hillarous failure. Seems to not be a problem on Windows, so Dell knows a workaround but still lets it cause problems in Linux.
One aspect that Excel almost seems to enforce for any significantly complex computation is... testing.

If you don't known have test input (e.g. an array of values) for which you have known output to observe for such an opaque programming language, you will be bitten! This innovation just makes it even more important.

That said Excel lets non-programmers create visual representations of data on a regular basis, and everyone has it on their desktop so there's no, "I can't use this" excuse.
Forth also requires very minimal resources to implement which can be fun in constrained environments. Here it is on a TI-84+ calculator[0] or even a computer in The Powder Toy.[1]

The runtime design is a little quirky but straightforward and you can extend the system as you execute (or even change interpreter semantics), or add optimizations such as some form of JIT quite easily.

[0] https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth

[1] https://github.com/siraben/r216-forth
How do I down vote one?

I'm on a System76.

I gave it a shot.

No.
The team behind kagi are also building a browser (Orion). One of the new features that's been teased could likely be put to use doing something like this... Think natural language input to a browser.
Idk if the series is still going strong but my old HP EliteBook 840 G1 was quite impressive with Linux support.
I’ve been using SuperMemo for almost 17 years every single day, started using it before Anki even came out. Too invested in my SuperMemo flashcard collection to jumó ship. I am 100% satisfied with SuperMemo 18’s algorithm, I’ve upgraded every single version since this is kind of my thing now. I’m a guy that does flashcards every day and can almost perfectly memorize everything I put in it.
I did some research and just purchased Thinkpad X1 Nano Gen 9 last week. My Debian Linux setup was fairly easy.

I had to drop Macbooks because it's NVMe SSD is soldered and is not upgradable.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon is a decent choice, but they all seemed to be limited to 1920x1080 screen resolution for some reason -- which is a big-no for me.
I wouldn’t. Ultimately search is a business that is built on trust, and Google has failed it.
It doesn't sound like you have much experience being the 24-hr care provider for a baby. Phoning it in at work is way more relaxing than being in the house with a baby for the entire day. It's not work that makes parents need to sleep, it's... needing to sleep. Just speaking from experience, having someone with fractured mental concentration cooking, attempting to keep a slightly mobile child from danger, trying not to fall asleep on the couch with the kid in a desperate attempt not to cosleep, trying to keep your cool as the kid screams again and can't be soothed.... much more dangerous and stressful than doodling thru a meeting and saying, "I'm sorry, can you repeat that? I just want to clarify what you're saying."
It gets even more complicated when it is hypothesized neurons use spike timings to "compute".

> A potentially more powerful way to construct symbols with spikes is to use spike timing, i.e., to consider exactly when spikes occur within the time window. The maximum number of symbols a neuron can construct with spike timing is limited only by the temporal resolution of the code. In formal terms, the information capacity of spike timing is much higher than the information capacity of spike count.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6665236/
Linux on Thinkpad with Lenovo dock working just fine for my colleagues. Not that I'm a fan of Lenovo's but I coincidentally happen to know multiple people with that setup and no dock/linux/thinkpad-related issues. Since you say they were since "forced" onto a nonfree platform, perhaps this was years ago?
Forgot about this. Thank you!
Isn't that just how threads (and debates in general) work?
It is a transfinite ordinal number, and the linked text explains how "even" and "odd" are defined for those.
Annotated history of modern AI and deep neural networks
Thanks for answering. There goes one field I could never get into either.
Related thread where the article runs chatGPT through a number of political alignment tests. (Didn't get as much attention though).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34038485
Whether this is the right or wrong thing depends 100% on what you’re trying to do. For many applications you want to send your message immediately because your next message depends on the response.
Don’t Shave That Yak! - https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ (this is the original with the borrowed EZPass)

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930441 (81 comments)

Don’t shave that yak – God loves lazy programmers https://petewarden.com/2010/06/26/dont-shave-that-yak-god-lo...

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034034 (3 comments)
I thought the real solution we got was to rename genes. Maybe only some were renamed.
Asteroid impact site?

There might be a very large metal deposit close to the surface (like in Sudbury) that upsets the local magnetic domain.
Discussed at the time:

Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379178 - Sept 2021 (182 comments)
I mean melatonin is super safe and fairly effective. Definitely less suffering than crying all night for all parties. It's reasonable to assume a baby would like not to be miserable- so why not!
My T430s is still going strong.

The good thing is that with Linux you don’t need the latest hardware to have a snappy system.

The bad thing is that not having the latest hardware is required if you don’t want to tinker.
I even tried emailing tptacek to try and be part of the change he said he wanted to see. Crickets.

HN folk can be a bit hypersensitive and / or opaque at times. Text medium is not always ideal as it provides no signals for tone, and our brains backfill this information in a biased manner.
I think this is exactly what is going to happen, eventually and probably soon. And the reason is, if any model is allowed to say something non-PC in public, the next day the whole press will be full of articles "new AI is racist/sexist/homophobic/shill for fossil fuels/$x-ist/$y-phobe" and the cancel mobs will hound everybody related to it until they shut it down or restrict it in a way that prevents this from happening. On the other hand, if it will be biased to the "correct" side, no mobs. So, there's not much chance for us having non-politically-biased model, at least not anywhere in public. Maybe people would keep some unbiased models for internal use only, under NDA and with access strictly guarded and prompts pre-approved by legal.
Chrome history has a Journeys tab which groups links together based on the same principle.
You can configure the HTTP/2 client to use a timeout + heartbeat.

https://go.googlesource.com/net/+/master/http2/transport.go
“I know, instead of using TCP_NODELAY we can just roll our own ad-hoc reimplementation of TCP!”
Yeah a plateau and repeat limit are useful.

Also fibonacci could be considered.
Why do you think it isn’t due to the programming by example work that MSR have been doing for over 5 years and which already partly made it into excel as flash fill?
You can. It’s trivial once you know it’s possible. Not sure why it’s not set by default.
https://go.googlesource.com/net/+/master/http2/transport.go
Lenovo T14

Lenovo T480/490
The author seems disturbed that science fact is socially constructed. His solution is an appeal to social construction. He has not moved the ball by doing this. In fact, he's lost yardage, because now science would have to come together in consensus over his arbitrary 95% rule... which would be yet another social process... just to arrive at an ongoing popularity measurement process. Yuck.

Seems like nothing he said really contradicts Kuhn. Kuhn agreed that normal science operates within a particular paradigm; and in that paradigm there are accepted facts. What we can't know is whether a new paradigm might emerge that rearranges sensory phenomena into a different set of facts that "makes more sense" in some way, or allows certain puzzles to be solved that cannot otherwise be solved. If enough of those puzzles can be resolved in the new paradigm compared the old, the stage is set for scientific revolution.

There must be a stable reality of some kind, because when we operate as if there is, we are perpetually rewarded. But how we think about that reality is not necessarily stable. Oxygen definitely exists. But remember that the guy who discovered oxygen never called it by that name. The original term was "dephlogisticated air" which is a reference to the completely discredited phlogiston theory.
Way more complex to be sure. The "more powerful" part requires a bit of interpretation. One transistor certainly can't do the work of one neuron, even given forever to do it. But a not-too-large-to-count collection of transistors can do the work of a single neuron, and do it much faster. I don't know that 100 billion transistors can out compute 80 billion neurons with a 100 trillion synapses, but it's not implausible to me. Neurons have a firing rate on the order of 10Hz; an entire CPU can be clocked at 100 million times that rate. It's certainly not obvious that those 11 orders of magnitude can't make up for the functional limitations of transistors. Obviously standard microprocessor architectures are not comparable to the architecture of the brain, so a true head to head comparison is impossible, but it's not absurd to imagine we've achieved or surpassed parity.
This is great news. TeXmacs looks like a great project. Even though I don’t use it, I really appreciate there being options in the typesetting space, and dearly wish there were more. I wish they’d change the name, though — I ignored the project for a long long long time because of my reasonable presuppositions about it.

JollyWriter is a very good replacement name, IMO.
I came here to say exactly this, it's extreme hypocrisy.

Cloudflare but also others from small to large services justify blocking IP addresses using the basis of "some IPs being a source of too much trouble"... but this doesn't make sense in an internet age of highly NATed and highly recycled IPs.

One IP != one person, anything based on this assumption today is severely broken.
CIA and FBI can neither confirm nor deny they know about TAILS operating system
kids.

They are important - maybe the most important - library customers.
I'm just quoting the article. Agreed though, perhaps nothing is a fact.

All statements are false. Some are useful.
There's a "HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Tiny i7-6700 3.4GHz" that can be had on ebay for around $200, that's a pretty powerful little box. My son had no problems using it for light gaming. Note that these can get a little toasty under long, heavy use and throttle, just because of the size. My one that does camera processing seems to need to run without the case on.
My framework laptop has served me very well for the last year or so. This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands. The entire device is just so well built and the upgrade path is so well defined.
100% correct. The baby-rearing book industry is a fraud. They claim “well the average baby does X, Y, Z” but they don’t tell you that the standard deviation is huge. New mothers like my wife were stressed beyond belief because our kid only slept 10 hours and ate twice as much as other kids. She was convinced there was something wrong until I proved to her that he was within the standard deviation of normal.

Do what feels right for your child. No two children are the same, even twins. Infants are very resilient so don’t worry you’re going to scar or damage them. They generally won’t unless you are truly abusive.
It would have been more convincing as a long horse.
You should look up how the tournaments were organized back then, you can't compare to things today.

In many Libertadores editions in the 1960s countries only had one spot. In some years Brazil as a whole was denied a spot: 1966, 69 and 70 Libertadores didn't have any Brazilian teams whatsoever (and in both 1966 and 69 Santos would have played).

Even the national championship wasn't "national", as there was only one spot per state, so states with great teams (like the state of São Paulo) would only have one team competing (either Santos or Palmeiras back then).

So Santos only had the chance to play in 4 Libertadores, out of 7 that Brazil was allowed, and won 2. That's a pretty good record. If there were as many spots as there is in UEFA Champions League today history might've been very different. Santos might've won more, or none.

If you applied the same standard to Real Madrid today you'd have a different outlook, as they were only Spanish champions 3 times in that period, so mainly ineligible for most of the CLs they won, and only once were they the Spanish champions before a CL win.
A better example is the portrait painter trembling at seeing the first example of photography. You can pretty much see at any gallery when the camera changes art.

To me these arguments are by kids and art simpletons.

Art is always changing. As if the only true art is in making marble sculptures of Zeus.
New Biomarker Test Can Detect Alzheimer’s Neurodegeneration in Blood
I agree with you, but if you're trying to convince someone who strongly feels governments should be able to snoop, you're not going to convince them by imagining the worst version of the backdoor that allows that and arguing against it.
I understand wanting to use gaze as a UX convenience. Has there been work done on human-robot interaction where a person sees a screen to "see" what the robot sees and can point and click to name/identify objects of interest?
I've been using the Beelink SER5 with Manjaro Linux since a month. It also comes preinstalled with Linux, but I got the Windows version. Runs smooth and perfect, no issues at all except for WIFI after suspend that had a small patch. Definitely recommend it. Much better than a laptop since portability isn't the main goal as I prefer a big monitor and use it as a daily use PC. For around $400, glad to have this little beast with 32GB RAM and Ryzen 5600H.

Beats buying a laptop for double the price and likely worse linux compatibility.
Right; it sounds to me like the real bug is that git-lfs isn't buffering writes to the network driver. Correct me if I'm wrong but if git-lfs was buffering its writes (or using sendfile) then Nagle's algorithm wouldn't matter.
Surprisingly, just as the majority of its creators (as witnessed by Big Tech political affiliations and donations), AI turns out to be a progressive establishment liberal with a slight (within allowed limits of course) libertarian bent. Who could have expected that?
An Interview with a Ukrainian Pilot
Happy paying customer here. I live in Japan while my main language use is English, I found that "International" option is quite useful - tech results are in English, while localilty related queries are in Japanese.

There's one aspect Kagi is not improving - the "explicit" results. Personally I find it's difficult to justify the universal effort across all the platforms and "monopolies" to minimizing the explicit results for adults.
I have to say, one day I'll learn Forth for some hacking hobbies just because of Wizard's Bane.