skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following is my review on Amazon.com of the M1 MacBook Air:

This is a landmark model, a classic, a perfect machine.

I've been using the 2020 M1 MacBook Air base model (8 GB Ram, 256 GB HD) for almost 3 years now as a daily driver. I'm a software engineer and I use it to do web development, often with a single large external monitor. I have the base model and it holds up find to running multiple docker containers and my terminal and a couple dozen browser tabs and my editor and all the basic tools of software development.

The design is particularly sleek and minimalist, even as MacBooks go. It has everything it needs and nothing it doesn't.

And it is solidly built. I dropped my MacBook on a concrete floor at an airport from about shoulder height (I was holding it by squeezing it with my armpit while trying to pack up after going through security and it slipped) and it took a pretty good solid hit directly on the corner -- I have a small dent there in the aluminum that you would have to look pretty close to see, and other than that everything was fine.

The battery lasts for so long that I often go a day or two without even thinking about where my charger is.

It is very light, it has a fingerprint reader that works perfectly, and everything about it just seems functional and elegant.

Also, it's super fast and snappy.

I think this will go down in history as a landmark model. Apple did a particularly good job with this machine and I believe it will stand the test of time. This is a machine that a person could use for a decade. It's really nice and really well put together and well integrated as an overall package.
No problem, I just realized now that my comment isn’t as clear as it should be.
I dislike car culture, but owning a car is not that expensive unless you own a newish one.
Knee-jerk reaction to Cybertruck's imminent launch? https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/teslas-austin-based-gigafac...
Not affiliated, just a happy customer: https://ubarapp.com/
Yes, from the perspective of someone who works at an Ivy. Not so much as the people are biased but as how the competition is so very fierce.

I’ve got no idea of how it is in India.
And browsers would give a huge red alert for self-signed certs but say nothing about plaintext HTTP. Presumably that’s where the snark is coming from. Clearly the plaintext HTTP was less secure than self-signed certs but browsers perpetuated the “trusted” cert cartel.
Compared to the same amount of services further spread out, infill is far cheaper, and tends to generate a lot more tax revenue compared to the infrastructure needs. Here's a sort of simplified, but real-world example that uses snow clearing:

https://bendyimby.com/2021/03/24/snow-and-financial-producti...

Something like sewers are more complicated, but the basic equation is that you're adding things in an area that's already served by infrastructure and often pretty good infrastructure at that, rather than adding in kilometers of brand new infrastructure for relatively low-revenue uses.
yeah, this looks like a sensible post from a sincere reader of sound mind, not a troll at all.
Meh. I have battery for 10 hours, better than the 7 on my Linux machine but not stellar. Graphics are mediocre. Lack of ports means I have to carry dongles around. And putting up with macOS (with no Linux available) is a complete dealbreaker.
The English dub of Castle In The Sky was famously very poor[1]. Most notably, much of the movie's quiet parts got crammed with music and extra dialog because Disney felt Americans' attention span could not handle long stretches of silence and simple ambient environment sounds.

Granted this was one of the earlier Ghibli films and Miyazaki reportedly clamped down on these shenanigans on future dubs.

1: https://screenrant.com/studio-ghibli-castle-in-the-sky-engli...
Dunno, my Zenbook S UX393 has a glass touchpad as well (with some mini display underneath) and feels like the one on my MacBook but I can set up three buttons at the bottom, not just one. Moreover, it has 3300x2200 screen with slim bezels and without any insane notch and it can run Linux smoothly without waiting for GPU drivers to be usable.
So first of all there is a premium for buying an EV. It’s going down in general, but it’s there.

The 4x4 Limited 4 door SuperCrew 5.5 ft. SB (don’t know what that means) gas F-150 lists for $84k new. People DO buy them at these prices.

You may not think it makes sense, and I agree a fair bit, but they sell.

I was unable to find the average selling price over the last year but I bet that it’s in the 50 to 60 territory.
What? Are you implying that you don't write bugs?
General Part Assembly Planning (Using a Transformer-Based Model)
At that point you might as well just name your fields like DONTTOUCHTHIS_foo if you’re having to keep the private definition with fields in sync with the opaque public definition (and making sure the alignment and sizing are always in sync with the private one…)
I don't know what you are trying to say here at all. If causality was "frequently" obvious most of science wouldn't need to exist and the scientific process might just be a few steps shorter. Determining the difference between correlation and causality is hard. Always has been. That's just scientific reality.
In my experience updates are not forgotten. Even automated.

Upgrades however are a different story. The major version changes require a ton of testing and manual massaging. This is why enterprises like to have that infrequently. For the systems that are easier you can still choose to follow the releases quickly.

Because security patches are being back ported is usually not a real issue.
I'd go one further and say it's wrong to assume the most inefficient, expensive, and socially isolating form of infrastructure shouldn't be expected to be the default. I get land capex is cheaper and distributed population is great for defensive posture against nuclear attacks and pandemics, but that doesn't mean that denser suburbs, small towns with strong centers, or indeed cities are less desirable than suburbia or rural areas by any means.

Life naturally fills the ecosystem it finds itself in to carrying capacity. The sustainable limitations here are financial, ecological, and regulatory. I think we're hitting up against those constraints right now. Unless they want to pay us more money, we're going to have to sacrifice the environment or car centric regulations to continue growing. If we decide to just stop growing, then we either need changes in regulations to further disincentivize growth or allow a ton of suffering to happen.
And yet life on Earth has managed to carry on for 3.7 billion years. How?

Recycling. The answer is recycling.

> That's not something I worry about

Oh, we know. There are plenty of people thoughtlessly devouring irreplaceable things, consuming the habitat of life's creatures, and farting up a literal shit storm of carbon waste. Such people make lousy neighbors and their unsustainable habits are going away, one way or another. "Yeah I don't care about that" isn't nearly the burn you might think it is.
Yep, this is the kind of senior tech lead advice I'm willing to shell out 475k total comp for.
Facebook, Instagram face Norwegian ban from tracking users for ads
Is it really? Because unemployment numbers don't line up with it being the worst market in 20 years.
Unless they significantly improve battery capacity when hauling and towing, I doubt many farmers will be interested in it at any price.

This seems aimed at suburban buyers instead of farmers to me.
The article does not touch upon this, but there is a fascinating theory that life on earth originated in deep sea vents. Highly recommend reading the very accessible "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane for more on this.
Better input supply and lower costs.

The Mach-E has similarly been going up and down in price based on (mostly) battery cost.

I don’t think Ford is scared of the Cybertruck.
Now I'm very curious what makes a precision grinding machine particularly useful for nuclear applications.
Electrical resistance heating is considered one of the most wasteful and least efficient forms of heating.

Heat pumps are four times as efficient and that’s why they’re used…
What’s interesting about this? Looks like typical marketing copy.
Very recently Chrome has really messed up on my Linux Mint machines, something to do with hardware acceleration. They don't seem to be in any hurry to fix so, I'm now using the Brave browser. Very decent experience so far.
> I wonder how many instacart/uber orders I would need to have to offset the cost of a car, assuming I can bike to most of my needs.

Not that much. One site[1] lists the TCO of a compact car at around $33k/year if you drive it for 15k mi/year for 5 years. That works out to $550/month. Of course, if you're comparing this to getting ubers, there's no way that you'll be driving anywhere near 15k mi/year, so the TCO of a comparable car is probably $450/month. That's a lot of money to spend on uber/instacart, but keep in mind that if you have a modest commute of $20 each way, that only works out to 11 round-trips a month, or half the working days. So if your lifestyle is such that you don't need to drive to work most days, and you don't any other similar uses for cars (eg. picking up kids from school and/or driving them to extracurriculars), then by all means uber everywhere rather than owning a car.

[1] https://www.kbb.com/new-cars/total-cost-of-ownership/
Maybe modulation limitations? A square wave can often be output quite easily without the use of a DAC.

Also the tiny piezo speakers frequently used on motherboards are often pretty bad at functioning as general purpose speakers. Something like voice might not be clearly audible through one of them. (And also, localization would be an issue.)
> Once you’ve used a Mac touchpad, it’s impossible to go back to a Windows/Linux laptop. I’ve tried…

I have the same problem, but with TrackPoints. It's impossible for me to use any trackpad after trying that, and that has had me tied to ThinkPads for the last 18 years.
Swiss wages are easily 20-30% higher than the rest of Europe as well.
Why did you need a laptop while hiking?
Had the atom bomb never been built we'd be on WW5 by now, not much of a 'cautionary' tale. I for one have learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, I'll take the current situation over rotting in a foxhole any day
This is a dishonest cherry-pick. Those farmers are probably targets for the base Pro version. 92k is not way above what a Denali or F-150 limited costs.

"The base Pro variant of Lightning now carries a suggested retail price of $49,995, compared to its prior price of $59,974, while the higher-end Platinum model will cost about 6.2% less, at $91,995."
Yes surely the dealers will reduce those prices and not just add on to their "market adjustment".
I'm just surprised that people feel so passionately about touchpads/trackpads.

Apple can have the best one, sure, I believe it. But they still are bad pointing devices as a type of pointing device. People have gotten used to them, because what else can you really fit into a laptop?
Real keyboard with full sized cursor keys, dedicated pgup/pgdn/home/end and PrintScreen keys. 2 nvme ports. 2 Usb-A connectors. QHD at 16:10. 32Gb, 8 true cores. AMD CPU + video (for Open Source geeks).

Closest I ever found was HP Omen 16 Advantage Edition. Got it but it also has problems with trackpad, cheap speakers (B&O brand is meaningless), and power supply is a brick. Could use a 16:10 display (its QHD though). 8/10.
I'm glad to know about this - it would never have occurred to me to ask about such an issue when shopping for an electric bike! One more dumb "smart" feature to avoid...
This and physical mouse buttons are my bottom line for any laptop. Without these, I'm simply not interested in using the laptop, they are not optional. Good keyboard is very close 3rd place. I don't care about the trackpad, I don't use it. I'd prefer if it didn't have one at all, in fact. My ideal laptop is basically an IBM Thinkpad 365x with modern screen, battery, updated peripherals and internals.
GPS tracking which offloads the fix computation to the cloud
"The SnapperGPS receiver is a small, low-cost, and low-power GNSS receiver for non-real-time wildlife tracking. It employs the snapshot GNSS technology, which offloads the computationally expensive data processing to the cloud, and:

Can operate for more than a year,
Needs only 12 ms of signal reception for a fix,
Employs multiple satellite systems for improved reliability (GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou),
Achieves a median real-world tracking accuracy of about 12 m (before smoothing),
Measures the temperature in addition,
Is configured via USB in your browser without the need to install a driver or an app, and
Is certified open-source hardware."
An app is easier to maintain and enforce than meters, and I don't need to carry coins or go back to the meter to add time. I'm all for them but prefer a web interface with Google checkout, or text messenging with a card on file.
> If a medical device or train works but needs support for years and years, should someone be constantly updating Linux? What about the software that runs on Linux and is tested there?

Yes. If you have embedded software in the field and it is running on hardware that has not reached its EOL, then you absolutely should be fixing bugs and vulnerabilities, doubly so when that hardware is attached to any kind of network, and triply so when the software talks to some kind of cloud services.

For most products, the customer should have the power decide when that hardware reaches EOL. In other words, it should be illegal (and severely punished) to disable or downgrade devices remotely, whether by abdicating the responsibility to maintain their software or by shutting down network services that those devices require to operate fully.

At the very least, that would prevent the proliferation of pervasive networking features that have no business communicating with anyone except their owners.
The platform slack with over 10,000 users uses linen. It’s good. Wonder how long it will last though.
> He talks to camera, has a script etc. He’s already a step above most video producers.

No, it's the same video clip every time, and then just text on a white background showing the question and answer, ripped straight from Stack(Overflow)
> [...]

> Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 2

> [...]

While there is a lot to like about modern ThinkPad X1 series, beware that modern Intel "MIPI" webcams (like the one in this model) are unlikely to be convenient to use on Linux for the time being [1]. MIPI support is coming to Linux, both kernel and user space, but it is highly nontrivial, and a reasonable estimate is two years from now [2]. Or, you can make it work right now, but it requires some temporary hacks [3].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Nano_(Ge...

[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4467429.html

[3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=277462&p=3
All the better, in my opinion.
You clearly don't talk or pay attention to your neighbors.

Trucks are _the_ conspicuous consumption good for rural Americans. It's the easiest way to project wealth. Have you ever seen an F-250 Platinum or an F-150 King Ranch? Those aren't for working class folks, they're for owners.
I'm not so sure, the US at one point did talk about how if the F35 wasn't kept in climate controlled hangars then its stealth abilities would be negated rapidly.
> Needlessly pedantic?? This... is... Hacker News!

I stand corrected.
> Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday is a very good movie. A true anime for adults, not one that mistakes "adultness" for "naked people and/or gore".

Re: dubs. I haven't watched the English dub of too many Ghibli movies, mostly because if I watch a dub, I watch it in Spanish. Judging by the only one I've seen in English too -- Princess Mononoke -- I'd rate the English dub the worst, with flatter and less inspired voice acting. The Spanish version of Mononoke is actually tied in quality with the Japanese version in my mind.

I used to believe I could only detect bad acting in my native Spanish. Mononoke taught me that no, I can spot bad acting in English too! I don't know what the hell Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and all those well known actors were doing...
Just perusing the list, some interesting things have popped out, there is a noticeable time capsule effect, since the list is atleast 8 years old:

An envelope cartel: https://qz.com/310916/european-commission-stamps-out-a-carte...

The christmas price index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Price_Index

Ungrateful babies: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/magazine/fine-dining-for-...

Facial recognition (2014): https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/10/comedy-club-uses-facial-reco...

Bitcoin (2014): http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/bitcoin-currency.html

Vaccinations (2015): https://www.vox.com/2015/1/31/7955947/vaccination-herd-immun...
How is it not? It's technically spam right?
Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
This sounds like the worst of both worlds. We should ban on-street parking regardless.
I know of a few places actively looking into ASICs/hiring xilinx/intel/amd hw engineers to work on them, but from what I can tell the majority just use FPGAs.
"Ponyo" had Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Tiny Fey, and Matt Daemon as voice actors, as an example of not skimping on the english dubs.
The A-10 is too old at this point and I really doubt anyone is going to make more. The Sky Warden has better electronic systems but who knows if that's actually going to be acquired. The best tactic now is to fly high enough to avoid laser targeting from the ground and avoid radar targeting with stealth.
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/ is relevant.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/slow-s...

https://electrek.co/2023/07/13/tesla-most-wanted-car-brand-u...

Tesla is a lifestyle cult. It’ll never convert legacy buyers (Ford and GM loyalists, broadly speaking) in material quantities. Brand demand is young folks that will buy and stay with Tesla.
I love my P50! Although I'm still a little salty that I couldn't find any decent P51 models on eBay when I was buying, because I have a P51 mustang sticker on the back and the joke doesn't quite... land.
Paraphrasing: "And you would have to turn the windshield wipers on and off, switch the radio off, flash the headlights and our clever device will then permit the car to start."

Yeah, that kinda sounds like my Caterham 7 back in the 1990s during wet weather.
>That way I can basically forget that it exists, problem solved. It has been working flawlessly for two years now. The whole thing took me about 3 hours to put on strip board and program, another half hour to enclose and mount it. Give me an hour more in micropython and I could make it require a passcode entered on your phone with a secret wiper switch sequence as a backup.

So, basically a custom rig, with some shit that might or might not work from AliExpress, is out of the question for anybody not knowledgable in electronics ("hooked it up with an esp32 and some discrete components"), and needs even more work to have a functionality that would come in standard in a
commercial solution.

Some of the strongest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 vibes...
I think this task is better accomplished by Zotero (at least the offline bookmarking part), but it's always nice to have alternatives.
This is the second post in as many days about this 'no advertising' movie...
There are also just so few customers left too.

For me as a phone nerd who would prefer to have a landline, but no longer have a good justification for it, and frankly I'm unsure if I even have a good drop anymore to my house (its not had service since 2010 - before I owned it).

I keep thinking I should reach out to AT&T and try to order services, but I just never quite get around to it.
RedHat has traditionally.
> If over a quarter of states or representatives don't want to codify something in the constitution, that is not a small minority.

I'd say that 25% of states is a small minority of states, but in any case that's ignoring the population of states, which vary dramatically (California 39M, Wyoming 580K). 25% of the states is not necessarily 25% of the US population; it's possibly much smaller than 25%.

> Every single person in the US today has the benefit of freedom of speech, for instance

Except that our beloved Supreme Court (which has been revealed to be blatantly corrupt) has decided that money is speech, thereby allowing the wealthy to simply purchase our elected representatives.
> (because that is dangerous)

I've always wondered why the car doesn't warn the driver that there's 100 yards left before it will cut the engine (or limit it to idle), keep the power steering, turn on the hazards, and warn the driver that the vehicle won't continue to function because the key is not in range. Doesn't seem dangerous at all...
Certainly kill switches would

Every TV show has a self destruct mechanism to prevent a ship from falling into enemy hands and blabla etc
Great points. It still seems odd to me that she left Lattimore out when he's so often praised (on HN anyway).
You don't get to, because you don't get to opt out of the social benefit that they result in.

(remember that government spending basically created transistorized logic, microchips, and computer networking as we know them today. would you have opted out of those too?)
> The only reason this is not yet widespread as increased car theft is good for car manufacturers.

Not if your brand is one of the ones known to be easy to steal. I doubt I’d buy a Hyundai in the future given my understanding of their reputation as easy targets.
> it's intended to work with many other options like controlling indicators or wipers

I think you're asking exactly the right question though - how is all this not just a more complex, less secure, shittier version of a keypad that you enter a 4-6 digit code on?
It's C# with some really nice additions for game development and a bespoke IDE. Allegedly, the guy who used to be the CTO for PopCap Games is the man leading the way.
It's less difficult than I thought to to get an M1 Max chip hot enough to spin up fans. Run CitiesSkylines on a 4K display with all of the graphics maxed out for a few hours. ;)

Or do 8 parallel runs of transforming and merging a massive amount of jpgs into less massive pile of pdfs. Just about fully pegged all of the cores for hours.

What surprised me was how fast everything still was. Without the fan, I wouldn't have known the load the system was under.
Much was said about Mononoke's English dub, but I find it terrible and flat. In contrast, the Spanish dub was top notch!
Glass stopped being the special sauce for the MacBook trackpads a while ago when they introduced Force Touch. Now you can click anywhere on the trackpad with adjustable “click” feedback. I’m sure yours is nice but no one comes close to MacBook trackpads’ usability.
I feel incredibly lucky that I haven't actually applied for any programming job since my first. I've walked through the back door into my last 4 employers through my network. I'm 20 years in. Don't get me wrong, I'm still interviewing, but the process has moved incredibly fast for me every single time I put it out to my network that I was open.

Just this year, in fact, I put it out that I was looking, on a Tuesday, and I had multiple phone screens set up by that Thursday and Friday. Interviews with 5 companies the following week, followed up by additional interviews that same week, and ultimately I had 3 offers and accepted a new position inside of 10 days.

I wish everyone could have this sort of experience because I have the sense that (from my own personal experience, to some degree, but especially anecdotes like the OP) that it's a really, really rough out there for most people.
I don't think it takes much finesse to just randomly start "improving" articles using the output of an LLM. It only takes a single well meaning yet misguided person. Remember this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...