skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The advantage of ARM in laptops are clear - the battery life/performance/heat tradeoff is better.

And that would depend on the processor more than anything else. E.g. raspberry pis consume more power on idle than some of these x86 boxes which are more powerful (but more expensive)
And Slack is like... the opposite of that?

Am I the only one remembering how they wormed themselves into workplaces by EEE-ing IRC to alleviate early concerns about the platform?
That's a strong accusation. What evidence do you have? What are the "ideological views" and why do you think they are baseless?
Let me get this straight -- there is graft, waste, and incompetence in the defense industry??
Wait until you read about the Badwater 135 https://www.badwater.com/event/badwater-135/
There's a lot for large and small thematic communities around, for instance there's a sizeable Python Slack, my university has a few, and I'm in a few geographic ones for developers in different cities.
Anecdotally I've never had covid and use a simple saline nasal wash once or twice a week, or after being indoors with a large group.
For wire transfer there are still alternatives although becoming more and more difficult unfortunately. Other things one can still do without a smartphone, and the benefits outweigh the cons (for me at least).
If you’re already done with development then why not beat them to market?
Wow - the solution is to overlay a physical keylike component to the system tied to the battery. The whole point of keyless fob was to make it easier. This negates that benefit. Why not just put a key back to start the engine. Whoever is signing off on that grant money doesn't understand product design.
Imagine the eugenics campaigns to produce children that will fit the bill (or eliminate any that won't).
> the body of a 12" laptop

I've always owned 15" laptops, and i've never had any trouble fitting them in bags, even in a sleeve. I understand why people might want 7" or 10" netbooks, but a 12" machine just seems like a waste of space to me. I understand that most people feel very differently, though!

> webcam that doesn’t make it look like your laptop (or you) are a potato during a videoconference

And also doesn't look up your nose - my XPS 15 has the camera underneath the monitor, and it's terrible.

> a great keyboard, look to the 2008-11 era ThinkPads for inspiration

Keyboards are one of those things where tastes vary so much. I dislike every ThinkPad keyboard i've tried. Maybe we need interchangeable keyboards, with various styles available?

> a useful number of ports

Interested to see that ethernet doesn't make the cut. I definitely appreciate having that without having to bedongle the machine.

How about adding:

- Ability to charge from USB-PD

Or is that a given these days?
I'd love to see studies generalized to video games as a whole. To me it seems that any activity that actively flexes the brain should result in similar effects. I'd much rather play Factorio or Xcom than chess, or shudder, crosswords.
but then non-commercial users may also jump off
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> And I can't get Linux laptops at work

Why not?
Google Lens works great in individual use cases, wonder what they are using behind the scene.

In my case I need to extract data on server side, so a library/API will be most suitable.
Alan Moore's deity of choice.
Can't have any communication channels without 'safety'. The noose is tightening on the free and open internet.
You're in the minority. Most people cannot use a bike for this stuff. They live too far away or the roads and/or terrain are not suitable for bikes.
This was in response to a comment up the chain exploring the premise:

> Given that scenario, does the ethical math really work for ACME to be completely destroyed?

I agree that the broader conversation is not just about ceasing to exist, but this was the context of my comment.
BlazeVox is a publishing company. I guess its still one character away but close enough that it could have just randomly swapped out the character.
a lot has happened in the last 10 years. and while the binary may still be good, it being that old suggests that it is no longer maintained, and in particular hasn't received any security updates. that doesn't mean that a recent binary is necessarily better, but it is at least more likely to be better.
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You seem to have fallen into a time machine where it's not 2023 but instead... I dunno... 2010? (I'd have said 2013, but even that would still have been too generous; there's no defensible reason for crediting 2013-era Mozcorp as deserving of the warm fuzzies involved here, either. By then, it had managed to do what Netscape failed at—consolidating power within the distributed and independent mozilla.org project and assuming control for itself.)
You'd want to cut back on the other fats accordingly . . .
I just checked, it hasn't been approved yet.

Should be named "private storage" when it does show up in the app store.

Even so, it won't be useful until you have a Tahoe-LAFS shared magic folder.

Hopefully we'll get funding to make a default shared folder for getting started!
Do you remember the the birds which adapted their calls to mimic the alarm noises?
LOL, actually watching the video, I'm sure it did.

semi-intentional:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

Comma splices are also occasionally used in fiction, poetry, and other forms of literature to convey a particular mood
or informal style. Some authors use commas to separate short clauses only.
there's probably a big asterisk there. the correct term is probably "fast enough"

virtualization adds very overhead, a Windows VM running with a dedicated GPU can get 95% of the host's score on 3dmark.

the biggest issue on these cases is IO which can be handled in a few ways.
Slack really shouldn't be supporting this feature. The large scale communities using it won't pay a single cent and are basically just freeloading off their freemium model.
This is genuinely cool
> They are illegal to purchase (in most places), I would not know, where to start looking.

amazon. Not much of an investment needed
https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-20-School-Toolbox/dp/...
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Why do you need to be able to force people to listen to you for the internet to be "free and open"?
Well say we give him 30 more minutes?

(Also, their device is supposed to be tamper proof. That sounds more difficult)
These days just trying to save an image redownloads it most of the time. Browsers cache use has really regressed.
I haven't looked at 'cities: skylines' or if there is a sequel... recently. I'm wondering if they finally did start modeling parking.

I think 'realistic parking' should probably be an option, like you said some people want the 'classic' sim-city experience and modeling. I'd hate to drive those people away from the 'cities' series, as it just seems to be sim-city without the EA enshittification.

I think it could be really interesting to allow users to try to build less car focused cities within the game. To simulate concepts like Barcelona's 'superblocks', to plan bikelanes or golfcart-focused communities like 'the villages'.

Generally the devs of 'cities' seem like they are interested in many concepts (there are sooooo many dlc for skylines) .. hopefully this one bubbles up.
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Switzerland has a massive foreign-born population compared to other places - their largest city is something like 30% foreign - yet very few problems caused by that even though those people often don't learn the local dialects or not even German/French at all. If it were actually a xenophobic society (spelled with PH not F in English) then they'd be having race riots all the time.

In practice Switzerland is one of the more accommodating societies in the world. Most Swiss people don't move far from where they grow up though, so often still have friends from school. It isn't a culture oriented towards chatting with strangers or making new friends at the drop of a hat, but that's not the same thing as xenophobia. Swiss who move abroad then back after many years experience the same difficulties with making new friends.
So basically a MacBook with a folding or rollable screen
I love the keypad on my F150 I seriously wish all vehicles had it.
At some point; Firefox was marketed as and felt as "the best browser".
Now the whole marketing seems to revolve around being the best "ethical/open/private/nice" browser. Real or not; it feels like their number one priority is privacy/ethicality rather than technical excellence.

Being "an ethical alternative to" is appealing to some users; but there is a ceiling to this approach. And there is more and more competition in that space (chromium, brave, or even safari). So the share of people putting "ethicality" as their primary deciding factor is split amongst more option.
Anyone put Linux on a Lenovo Slim Pro 7 and have any opinions?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1797659/lenovo-slim-pro-7-re...
Non-existant?
This approach is not mischief proof and will become an easy way to get back at the owners and/or your neighbors.

All a thief has to do is trigger enough false alarms (directly or indirectly) to annoy you and the neighborhood that you either disable it or learn to ignore it as false alarm.
that sounds really interesting, do you by any chance have a picture of it? would really love to see
Great way to attract media powerhouses to Canada and to create local industry
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People used to use horses for transportation. You can't lock a horse, but there were substantial penalties for stealing a horse. It maybe was a capital crime at some point?
Back in the 90s and 00s, Panasonic had some really great hardware designs
I chose to buy my first house in a townhome complex with 100 units.

Why?

Maintenance was outsourced, and at a lower price than I could pay for myself (100 households at once get a good group buy price!)

Everything on the exterior of my house was taken care of.

The complex has 2 shared green spaces, one for dogs, one for people. The large green space for people is bigger than the yard in my current single family home. All year round weatherproof commercial yard furniture was already on the property.

Every year my windows got cleaned, the deck power washed. Landscaping was professionally handled, trees trimmed, pests removed, all w/o me having to worry about any of it.

I'd buy another unit in complex with that design again w/o issue or hesitation.

With proper construction techniques (which sadly that complex didn't have), sound is not an issue. Sound dampening is a solved problem, and I've lived in other complexes that had the same sound leakage from connected neighbors and I have from my neighbors right now in the house on the lots around me.
Came across this thread as I am owed well over 60 bed nights by BdotC. Say what you like about lack of runway, bear in mind that I bore all the costs for this accommodation upfront, some of it since May. Everything. If I had let those rooms out on another platform I would have been paid on check-in.

Why are they robbing the little guys, what is going on with their cash flow? A switchover can happen overnight, with the right planning, there should be no need to delay payments by 3 months!
This is more of what I said I don't care about. I don't care what you imagine the 15th-generation ancestors, of some minority of the living population, think.

I don't care if you want to blame someone else for "not implementing the obvious vision of the founders."

They aren't here and can't make any decisions for us that we couldn't better make ourselves. They aren't wiser than us.

Our present state isn't some deviation from their potential utopia. Their intentions are completely irrelevant. Comporting our behavior and desires with whatever someone might imagine they would want is nonsense.
The GP said "convince people to live in smaller houses and share walls", you retort back "completely unnecessary". Your first two examples are...smaller houses and shared walls.
> We're rapidly approaching the point where larger and larger areas will be uninhabitable for humans, not just uncomfortable

This is hyperbole. Unaided? Sure. But few in the developed world bear these conditions without access to air conditioning.
Stating facts and citing sources isn't "posting flamewar comments" -- the only "flamewar" was the baseless trolling nonsense posted in the first place, so if you could actually bother to note context rather than jumping to making ridiculous threats, I'd be grateful.
Yes great idea Captain! Let's solve all of societal issues before bothering to do any protection for your own personal assets. You've figured it out.

And you know property crime is only a recent phenom of the last couple years. Never existed before the 1980s or you know tomb robbers etc.
Wow! Who steals a police car, and with the cop nearby? Would love to hear more.
My impression is that most Slack instances are highly private and most users are explicitly invited. This is in contrast to Reddit and to some degree Discord where the barrier to joining subreddits or servers is generally low.

If this is true what is Mozilla's business making niche feature requests to other companies products that they don't own? Is the plan to do this kind of advocacy for other products?
If you think like that, then no problems should be solved by tech because there are completely viable non-tech solutions:

Uber: just hail a taxi

Amazon: just visit your local bookshops

netflix: Renting DVDs is perfectly fine.

Spotify: all the music you need is on AM/FM.

Instagram: just meet up with friends in person

Zoom: Conduct face-to-face meetings

Zillow: Work with a real estate agent

Yelp: Ask locals for restaurant or service recommendations

Doordash: Call the restaurant directly for takeout or delivery, or cook at home.
Many years ago when I used windows, I had a virus once that killed my keyboard. It was pretty fun to work around that... I ended up using the symbol browser utility to copy individual letters and then right click to paste them places.
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It feels like the Cybertruck has outlived its purpose.

I quite like the visuals of it, but those apparently grow out of the need to deliver a stupidly large truck of the size American's like, with batteries at the price point they were 4 years ago. So no paint job, an exoskeleton etc. to compensate.

But others just waited until the price of batteries dropped, then made an electric truck based on existing models. The electric F-150 was apparently a bit of a skunkworks project that Ford tried to kill repeatedly, but now it's arrived people, at least those who like stupidly large trucks, seem to like it.
And her translation of the Iliad comes out later this year. I've been looking forward to it ever since I found out she was working on it.
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I was a diehard Firefox user in the aughts, running a bunch of extensions and recommending it to people.

I switched to Chrome the first day it became available, because it was just so much faster.

You don't need a monopoly or advertising to grow a product that sells itself that well. (Those absolutely did come later.)
Your response is definitely childish. Not in the immature sense but an underdeveloped sense of historical social transformation.
Where is the linked post getting the 4:1 vs 1:2 time-spent-on-falsification ratios that it's claiming? It's like the heart of the entire argument, but it's not sourced.

Edit: Ah, okay, it's probably in the book being discussed where he says they recorded thought process while playing ( https://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Super-GM-Michael-Adams/dp/... ).
In current times *zip mostly cripples things like the web and Docker. To find out it is the best at something in 2023 is not very likely.

Nice find btw.
Re: 1), my employer's slack has just under one million members. I do not know all of them.

But in any case, why would knowing someone you interact with make you less likely to block them?
Not only do words have multiple meanings, the intention of how they are used is also important. I didn't use the word as a noun or an insult, I used it as an adjective to describe the sound to a fellow english speaker. The fact that you are so offended about it speaks volumes about you because your attitude suggests you don't want to be associated with those with lisps, presumably because you see it as shameful.
I think that's all of Earth when it comes to a population of give or take 10 billion people. It really feels like all the stuff that people said wasn't sustainable when I was a kid wasn't sustainable and it's all starting to come apart.
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How could anyone afford the engineering and manufacturing to build such a perfect laptop and sell it for <2000$?
The short version is that kernels support guest/host relationships natively so that guests can pass operations directly to the host without having to go through an additional system call. Everywhere you do this is attack surface where an attacker in the guest can communicate with privileged facilities, so you want to minimize this where you can.

There's usually overhead in the places where the communication requires an additional hop. If you want your host filesystem isolated you're going to need a translation layer and it will be slower. If you're willing to open up your host OS's filesystem, you can basically get ~0 overhead.
Two aspects in which Apple's newest Macbook Airs fit at least my own "peak laptop" definition are:

1) no fans whatsoever

2) no coil whine when I plug my headphones in and stress the CPU

The keyboard is exactly the right size and the right font for me, but I'll concede that muscle memory is an individual thing. I've owned Apple's laptops and keyboards made in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2019, and 2022, and they are very hell-bent on being consistent about key size and placement, I should give it to them.

I'd like a Linux laptop that would beat this.

XPS13 is a close contender because that 3840x2400 screen is the right kind of ratio and super crisp, but man, that fan noise and the coil whine are just killing the mood. Maybe Thinkpad X13s, but Linux support and its screen are both very meh at this point.
Came across this thread as I am owed well over 60 bed nights by BdotC. Say what you like about lack of runway, bear in mind that I bore all the costs for this accommodation upfront, some of it since May. Everything. If I had let those rooms out on another platform I would have been paid on check-in.
Why are they robbing the little guys, what is going on with their cash flow? A switchover can happen overnight, with the right planning, there should be no need to delay payments by 3 months!
Also, I was not being entirely serious.

Then why are you trying to rationalize it as being true?

Month of birth does have a little bit of predictive power

Not for what horror scopes are
If the Pixelbook has the right aspect ratio, it would be my definition of the "perfect laptop".
Not avaiable. (at least for me from germany)
How would you propose convincing people to live four inches from their neighbor? This seems like somewhat of a challenging sale. I cannot speak for everyone, but I have lived this way and it is not good.
> If you're just expecting free content that caters to you in every way possible way, I'm curious how this is sustainable for any author, or why authors should be expected to work this way.

speaking for myself, i mostly look for content that the author wanted to produce (just by/for himself). not for me or any engagement metrics.

> There is no content if there are no engaged users/readers.

this is plainly false

> If you're just coming for a single article and you'll never return again, that's understandable and your prerogative

not only is it my prerogative, it's the norm.

> Perhaps the moment you pay for the blog post you'd have more standing to complain about the conditions surrounding its presentation.

thou criticism is still allowed for the unwashed masses, not only because it's popular.
That's nowhere near the $445M claimed though. Crunchbase lists them as having only having raised $25.5M. The $445M if real, must be the valuation.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/steller-pizza

edit: looks I'm looking at the wrong company, see replies for details
Weird take but ok. I abandoned my research into Rebol to look into Self (1987) and Smalltalk (1972).

The problem with abandonware languages like Rebol is that it's often impossible to use, find documentation for if not learn, and the commercial story and lack of any sense of open source of this probect is the reason why I just moved on. It seemed no one cared to look into it in the past decade, so I was content with what I had found, and stopped short of actually using the thing. I was wrong, but in my defence the active fork was doing its best to hide under a rock.

But I guess it feels good to call someone a kid and a fool over the Internet.