skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you underestimate the Thinkpad commitment to Linux, and the effect the community has. I'd like to know officially, but since they target workstations there are probably a low but countable % of users that run Linux. They officially support it for many models, and sell a few models with it installed. Their people are passionate about it, give presentations etc. I've never experienced the hardware switcharoo for low level hardware like wifi chip, they do that for storage and display panels, but that doesn't matter for Linux compatibility.
Up-to-Date Table of Large Language Models
This should make it easy to keep a handle on what's new and when what was released/announced.
Wow, seems like YC is backing anything these days
Don’t their board executives overlap in some way or other?

Maybe this is a mix of descending faith that Meta can pull it off with insider info on what that other SV company might be trying to pull off this summer.
For me, it was keyboards.. I was a rather future-oriented child, when everyone was learning how to read a dial clock, I refused, because I'd seen LCD watches and I _KNEW_ the round ones would be totally obsolete soon since there was an objectively better alternative (my prediction was wrong, my faith in humanity and reason were yet not dialed down enough).

When it came time to learn how to write with a pen, I had the same attitude "I won't need this, ever, there will be computers and nobody will ever touch a pen again, because that's stupid!" That was early 90s.. I once again was a bit on the optimistic side.

I've learned to read a dial clock and write a letter using pen and paper, but they're secondary to me.
>With the price of modern automobiles you would think the industry was absolutely ripe for disruption. If IKEA came out with an electric tuk-tuk for $4K I suspect the Big Three would lose their shit.

Not gonna happen. Regulatory capture. And each line of regulation is backed by an ungodly number of people who will screech to high heaven if you even think about removing it. Like imagine for a second the vapid HN hand wringing and concern peddling that a headline to the tune of "NHTSA comprehending removal of backup camera requirement on some vehicles" would prompt. It's easier for the regulators, the analysts, the automotive companies, everybody, to just keep rolling with the status quo rather than amass the political capital to challenge it.

So long as society is rich enough to afford all the fluff cars will continue to have all the fluff.
The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth [pdf]
The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning into the Meh-Taverse
Handwriting still has value in certain contexts, but these are so subtle compared to the massive speed/retention/recall advantages of computing that they seem worthless unless you’ve already mastered and use them.

I handwrite all of my personal things (journals, drafts of a few novels, todos, etc) and find it both pleasant and more effective than doing so in org-mode or similar digital tools. This is primarily because handwriting triggers a mnemonic effect that allows me to retain information with very little effort, whereas typing does not.

I also just enjoy spending time on written art away from the computer, which I otherwise live on all day for work. Sitting down at my laptop for recreation starts to feel like work really fast. Sitting down with a notebook and my favorite fountain pen feels like play.
Both you and GP are right, depending on the laptop manufacturer.

Like you, I personally nuke Windows immediately and run fwupd from Linux... but then... I'm lucky I get to choose my own laptops. And I only buy those whose manufacturers support fwupd. It's a growing number, but I don't think it's a majority...? I'm not sure, I would be happy if anyone had hard data here.
Reminds me of the book “Schule des Denkens” AKA “How to Solve It” by Polya.

It’s all about the art of asking questions in order to solve problems.
https://archive.is/gohFJ
Another way to look at this situation is that canonical comes up with innovative solutions that are reasonably well engineered out of the box but they are rejected just because they are from canonical.

I'm struggling to find a way to characterize the difference between Red Hat/IBM and canonical's approach to the community. The most succinct I can come up with is that canonical releases projects and assumes that they are the one responsible for their creation., Red Hat releases rough ideas and code. There also seems to be a heavy political/disinformation campaign going on tearing down any solutions by canonical.

In either case, none of us can resolve the conflict. It's a pissing contest between canonical and IBM/Red Hat. I will keep choosing solutions that let me get my job done and get paid which is all that matters.
There's a Porsche factory in Chile there they make synthetic fuel by synthesizing water and CO2 from air. So it is net zero emission (might even be negative). It costs $40 a gallon now. By 2035 it'll probably cost $2 a gallon.. maybe even mobile synthesizers will be available and we will end up seeing EVs extinct.
I used to like thinking about things this way. When I first started using computers I started to question how it all worked. It started with high-level and vague questions like "how does an operating system work" and as I learnt more and more it went deeper and more specific until I eventually learnt how a transistor works. That was enough for me.

But as I've become older I'm less interested in it and more willing to accept things "just work". I'm pretty sure that no part of the bicycle was invented by thinking about it this way. This is kind of a reverse engineering exercise. The inventors of the bicycle just knew that if you sat on a moving wheel somehow you could balance. They knew that if you put something soft around the wheel it would feel smoother etc. Nobody was sitting there thinking about crates moving and suddenly thought, what if it was two wheels with a person on it?

I don't know. Maybe it's because I already knew all of this stuff too (I'm an avid cyclist who has studied Newtonian physics). But I found this one a bit exhausting.
I'm sorry. This is not gonna happen. And it should not. Unless it is magically done worldwide. If 99% of labs stop training that it would be a huge boost for the remaining 1%. Do you remember what happened last time we asked poeple to stop doing something (going out)?
The first definition sounds painful while the second (romantic) definition is very desirable.
>Paracetamol works just fine - but it does have a liver effect, so it's a big no-no for hangovers.

The worse part here for you is if you have hangovers too often. After dry January this year I noticed how much even non-hangover inducing alcohol usage decreases my QoL.

I lost weight without trying, I was more awake, I felt fogged up in the brain less often.

I reduced my alcohol consumption a lot now. And I wasn't even getting wasted often. I think it's worth trying if you don't want to destroy your body.
It really depends on the domain your spend your time on.

It's like living in Japan and saying, I rarely see people speaking English, how come it is the most spoken language in the world?

Most corporations, employing hundreds of millions of people, run entirely on Microsoft's suit of products, so it makes sense for them to go with Teams and 365, it integrates better with the rest of the stack, easier to manage from an IT perspective and then there's licenses cost and complexity as well.

I use Google G (or Workspace now) and Discord for my small business, but my customers at a corporate level use 365 / Teams.

I have my own preferences of course, I think Discord is better than Teams for meetings and collaboration, I particularly like the ability to stream multiple screens at the same time, for pair programming and troubleshooting it is very helpful.

But I don't think Teams prevents me from doing my job either, it works pretty well in my opinion and there's really not much difference in 365 and Google G as far as I can tell, in terms of what you can accomplish with it for basic tasks related to work.
I think Zuckerberg assumed that what's in it for the user would be the same as it's always been at Facebook - socialize with your family and friends.

But why would I expect VR to be better than a Zoom call when Zoom calls with family and friends are already so wonky? Do I want to endure the same weird audio/video connectivity crap, only made even more uncanny by being immersed in it? Seems more honest to just keep it on a screen.
You'd be able to get your money back in that case. The recent Biden plan was set up in a way that didn't punish people that kept up with them during covid.
I stopped distro-hopping a few years ago after landing on Silverblue a few years ago (back when it was still called Fedora Atomic Workstation). While it doesn't satisfy all use cases, I view it as a boring (in a good way) 80-percent solution that normally just works.
They were not personal attacks. Just responding to your arrogance and disrespect towards junior developers.
Yeah I also don't understand why there are tons of (YC backed) startups providing little to none value. They basically man-in-the-middle the OpenAI GPT Platform. So... Yeah I've been running a pg_vector database with OpenAI Embeddings for 6 months now and I'm a solo hobby dev who experiments with it. Guess I could've built a startup with that knowledge L M A O
They all have wikis you can read. And running DEs in parallel is a different problem from simply switching between two.
This is likely due to the end of the zero-fee trading promotion in the BTC pairs (https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-laun...). It ended on the 22nd of March.
I'm not so confident.

The speed of recent advances may be due to picking low-hanging fruit.

Soon there may not be much low-hanging fruit left.
> Then when they're old, you've got students, hobbyist etc who find new ways to teach old dogs new tricks: like motherboard swaps (X62, X210 etc)

Yup. I'm going to break a few taboos here and post this: https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/338007901...
The people in here are certainly the minority, at least for now. I hope it will remain that way, but you never know.
The Nile is 2nd longest, for what it's worth, behind only the Amazon. And, to understate matters a little bit, it's in quite an arid region, so that its waters were quite literally the lifeblood of all Egyptian civilizations.

The Yellow River -- which, for its part, is quite literally the cradle of Chinese civilization -- is in a very similar position. It's the 6th largest river by length, but 113th by flow rate.

Perhaps, as others have just speculated, flow rate was once a lot higher, and now water is being diverted to agricultural and other projects, so that a much smaller fraction of it reaches the sea.
The article links to a emarker reader [1]. This seems like something that milions of households should/will own. Do you know where can I buy a cheap and reliable one?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/z2hncm/recent...
There’s Amazon, Instacart, Snowflake, Doordash, Shopify
How to Escape the Confines of Time and Space According to the CIA (2021)
New neutrino detection method using water
Having experienced that moment on many occasions I would say the various interpretive sentences are indeed describing a singular class of experience, one that is sometimes romantic but that also happens in non-romantic contexts.
Windows 11 is a thinly-veiled state-sponsored malware masquerading as a productivity tool.
The laws aren't just a single cliff-edge, but set targets to be achieved along the way. For example, Europe demands zero emissions by 2035, but also requires each automaker to reduce emissions by 55% between 2021 and 2030. In practice, that means the majority of vehicles sold will need to be electric by 2030. That means every car company needs to be taking action now to avoid facing billions in fines in coming years.
I would pronounce that “busybox.” I wonder if it uses BusyBox.
Can the U.S. See the Truth About China?
Soo true, it's better bounce ideas with good questions.

A good question can lead to a better feature.
We need volumes, so the best I can hope for is people join the waitlist and pre-order when we show a functioning prototype. We already placed sizeable orders with the manufacturers and have the first batch planned for September, but further batches are probably going to be delayed into 2024 (we can't start asking for preorders before the product is tested, which is going to take time, so we can't preorder those chips early like we did for the first batch).

Feature wishlist: please! Do send them our way. Especially if it's hardware, this is the right time!
I've switched to Fedora KDE spin, and I've been loving it. KDE recently got native window tiling support which has been nice. It's not nearly as powerful at tiling as Sway, but it fits the bill for my use.
The age of average
It's b/c of this that I don't see the advantage of 100+ Hz screens yet.
efficacy and safety are the benchmark targets for regulatory approval.

mechanism of action isn’t even on the list.

“it works, it won’t kill you faster than the thing it treats, we have no idea why” is totally legit. welcome to biology, the dance of control with non-engineered systems.
They are the pinnacle of personal transportation technology. Not aware of anything that comes close. I'm not sure how anyone can use a car, keep filling it with more and more fossil fuel and think "yeah, this is good technology".
Revolutionizing Semantic Search with Multi-Vector HNSW Indexing in Vespa
It is impressive how Apple transitions architectures. Microsoft has been trying since at least Windows NT to break free of x86/x64 with little success. Even today one of the most common use cases for ARM versions of Windows is to run virtualized under Parallels on Apple Silicon Macs.
A Tesla is not attractive to me, neither aesthetically or functionally. I find my Corolla more attractive, for obvious reasons.
There's nothing objectively better about encoding a continuous value into a series of symbols.

The round clock is a gauge for time. A gauge is an awesomely intutive way to show the change of magnitude of a value.
If message 1 is properly encrypted then I can put whatever I want in message 2 without the government knowing the contents of message 1.

Also, assuming message 1 and 2 contents are identical, if anyone steals the governments' private key the encryption of message 1 is moot.
This is incorrect, Deloitte audited Coinbase just last year.
Last summer I did a 4200km roadtrip in my 41kWh Renault Zoe from southern Germany to northern Spain. The car is *absolutely not* built for long range. There were significant gaps in the charging network in some regions. The terrain was largely mountainous and traffic was fairly bad.

Despite all this, the trip was great: The car never was a limiting factor and always could go further than me as a lone driver (maximum daily distance: 660km). With 2 apps, google maps and some planning while charging it was possible to reach basically every place I wanted to go. Unlike the dozens of broken down ICE cars i saw, the Zoe had zero issues. The only problem worth mentioning was a company called EDP supplying too few and totally unreliable chargers in Asturias and Galicia.

With a car with a longer range charging on the highway becomes less and less important, so as long as there are plenty of 11kW chargers in cities for overnight charging or 300kW chargers for day charging (solar!), EV use is easy and already 100% usable. If you can charge at home for your daily commute and we are smart about the timing, I see few issues here.
I'm still confused about this. Does it require you to have a chatGPT API key for it to work?
I’m a bit surprised to find the Nile at row 105. I thought it would be on the top 10.

EDIT: I see @rendall had the exact same thought an hour before me. :)
Malicious Actors Use Unicode Support in Python to Evade Detection
I can't make out what you're disagreeing with - you seem to be arguing against something I didn't say? The point is that the contents of an AppImage - "a dynamically linked executable + lots of dynamically linked libraries" - works just as well without all the squashfs backflips. If you can ship an AppImage, you can ship a regular ol' tarball with a binary named "RunMe" inside. The purpose of an AppImage is simply to condense such a tarball to a single runnable file, for convenience - nothing more.

Meanwhile, Snap and Flatpak are package managers - what's more, they're invasive heavyweights with permanent costs that are even worse than distro package managers. Snap permanently runs a daemon, and Flatpak requires you to run programs with "flatpak run" - yuck! They are both trying to impose some dubious vision of sandboxed apps that require bureaucracy to communicate with each other, instead of just tackling the core issue of software distribution. Maybe you even like sandboxing! But I've seen no justification why that should be co-mingled with package management.
me. They provide solutions that work. There have been some teething pains but for the most part nonissues. It's at the point where I'm considering learning how to build snaps for private products I deliver.

I think the argument over flat pack versus snaps may expressed in technological terms but in reality, it's just your damn ego. Let it go, it's really not worth arguing over. Use what solves your work problem and then go have a life away from computers.
Because it's really an ad.
It seems far more likely that synthetic fuels will become cheaper than ev cars will become universally useful.
I tried out milvus. Developer Experience is crap. Documentation lacks some major core concepts. I've been experimenting with it for hours. Eventually I turned my back and said: Why not use pg_vector and scale the fuck out of the cluster? That should bring.. equal performance, as the pg_vector implementation is written in c and the comparing algorithms wouldn't differ too much from milvus.
I think the value in these kind of letters is about spreading a message, building a community and allowing people leaving their signature to "formalize" their position, in a sense. It doesn't cost very much to do it but has a wide reach.
> the Framework is cool, but the Thinkpad is generations ahead in terms of its build quality, tactile feel, and overall ergonomics

I also own both, and I feel the opposite. The Framework feels far better physically to me, especially the keyboard & larger touchpad. The rubberized texture on Thinkpad feels cheaper than the aluminium frame imo, the feet on the bottom of my Thinkpad all broke off within 6 months and the paint has all come off round the corners remarkably quickly (it gets carried in a backpack for 20 minutes most days plus a few flights, but nothing crazy).

There's rough parts on the Framework too that they're still improving (I agree the hinges are a touch flimsy, though in my 12th gen at least not problematically so) but overall it's been a notable improvement.
There are times when keeping silent = being complicit in what’s going down. In such times, normal behaviour isn’t appropriate.
The Internet has become a social surveillance panopticon. The author of that web page should stay out of that guy's private life. What's wrong about not having an online presence? My God how far the surveillance society has come. One more reason to stay anonymous online with everything you do, let alone someone be "concerned" about you... The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
More info for others: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/porsche-pumps-first-synthe...
Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage
Same thing that killed horsemanship. Funny that the words are so similar.
As I mentioned recently, imgur hijacks the back button, at least in my config (mobile Chrome). I recommend not using it anymore.
I've worked in the technology back office of a well known hedge fund. Although it was a very technology focused fund and the founder was a computer scientist, you could still feel that engineers were second class citizens in the organization.
Yeah, but they love those low prices in Walmart and the money in their pockets. Willing to pay more and wait longer for delivery for more independence?
If you don't like Tailwind. Try OpenProps css library
We don’t even fully understand how cuts heal...

The idea that doctors (or even the medical community) are standing on the top of a Mountain of Truth is a harmful fantasy.
And here I thought that the most likely explanation was a Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit.
There are some endeavours I feel that could have an impact, but it's always a clever protocol in combination with the right hardware, like solar-powered mesh-networks or just solar-powered servers with 24h availability due to mirrors on the other side of the planet [0].

[0] https://www.dezeen.com/2022/09/27/solar-protocol-network-exp...

Edit: What I want to say is, that the good that is possible is mostly small tech, not big tech.
> actually reading a lot and doing a lot of math, and then just doing well on the SAT using your actual knowledge

Yes, this is what we should encourage kids to do. It is both more interesting/meaningful and more effective than test prep per se, because it better accords with how human brains store and process information. The skills learned are also dramatically more transferrable to other tasks/activities, and much more valuable to society.

Test prep is a pathetic substitute for actually learning things.

It doesn’t take a special kind of person to learn and do things for their own sake. Every child naturally behaves this way. It just takes a society/culture that values humanity and learning not to smash those kids’ basic curiosity by the time they get to high school age.
When the federal reserve loans money to banks, where does that money come from?

When the federal government pays its debt to the federal reserve, where does that money go?
Thanks! Yeah it does sound great for someone who wants a Linux that "just works". That was the original selling point of Ubuntu as well, but this seems to be taking it on another level for less technically savy people who want a Linux that just works out of the box.
The power grid will be roughly the same in 15 years. Now, know what the "TV pickup" is? - It's a spike in electrical grid demand when everyone turns on a kettle to make tea during commercial breaks.

So, consider EVs adopted at scale, and, like, there's an apartment building with 100 tenants arriving home in the evening. They start charging their cars. That would require 7.2kW x 100 = 720kW of power (a common max for charging stations) for a single building just to charge cars.
The cookie has crumbled.

The mirror has shattered.

The poop has hit the propeller.

Pandora's box has opened.
One of the biggest chess streamers in the world Hikaru has left Twitch for Kick
I know one when I see one
... or probably not.

Synthetic fuels are great for airlines which is the only realistic solution for long-distance travels (cryogenic hydrogen containers would be heavier and a significant hazard, batteries are only feasible on shorter routes), but the allure of EV isn't just because it's cleaner but also it's significantly lower maintenance versus an ICE car. Maintaining an ICE car is no joke, and while EVs do still require some maintenance it is only a fraction of ICE vehicles.
He should be remembered for more than Moore’s Law