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> were laptops completely useless before 2020, where the best you could get out of them was 12 hours?

I can't believe I'm having to explain this concept to you, but no, they weren't completely useless. They were less convenient. That's what battery life gives you: convenience. I'm still somewhat flabbergasted that this concept needs to be explained.

> How often in your life are you stuck on a 18 hours flight without AC power?

Why does it have to be a flight? I occasionally spent all day working from a café around 2010 because my apartment had no AC. I was lucky enough to have somewhere close to home that both (a) had AC power outlets near a quiet table and (b) didn't mind me using it. Having such long life at "basic usage" levels means you're more likely to get "all day" life at higher levels of activity.

Right now I work from home (using a desktop, which gasp has an Arm CPU in it) almost exclusively, but I have a UPS with 40kg (that's 88lbs) of batteries, because the power here is ridiculously unreliable - it's sometimes out for 5 hours or more.

Some people like to use their laptop outside in a park or what have you. I don't know if you've been to a park lately but most of them don't have AC outlets.

You seem to have some weird obsession that a long battery runtime is somehow unnecessary, and that OP should just settle for an x86 laptop and the almost-guaranteed significantly shorter runtime that comes with it.

> OP mentioned light coding on Linux. What battery life would M2 achieve when running Docker in a VM?

Why would OP need a VM or Docker? They want to run Linux natively, they specifically don't want to run MacOS, they just like the performance/battery life of the Mac hardware.

> Does Ashahi Linux reach anywhere near the 16 hrs battery of macs? Apple delibertly limited Windows battery on Intel macs, do you think they would treat Linux differently.

I have no idea about the former, and I don't even know what you're talking about with the latter - but both points are kind of moot in this discussion, maybe you missed it so far: OP DOES NOT WANT A MAC. Macs are only referenced as a comparison for performance and proof of long battery life afforded by Arm vs Intel, in a commercially available product.
I have been using Firefox since version 2.x and I never understood what downsides people find with it. I've used chrome and the only difference i saw was annoying pushes from google to log in so that i could be tracked all the time. Otherwise, it shows web pages, what more do you want?
Yes, what would be bad about that?
> And a similar issue exists in Europe where most healthcare is paid for by the government.

> The value goes to the individual, but the costs paid for by the governemnt.

A healthy, productive, individual produces a lot of value that is captured by the government in the form of taxes. The government also runs a very differential pricing scheme where the individuals with higher salary get more of their value captured, though they do "lose out" on not being able to refuse low value service or provide better service to high value individuals.

(Not to say that the government necessarily does a good job of managing healthcare, just that they do get to capture some of the value produced there)
There are solutions, 'silent' mechanical keyboards have been around for ages and they are very good. You can buy the switches on their own[0] or buy a keyboard that comes 'silent' out of the box[1]

[0] https://www.cherry.co.uk/mx-rgb-silent-red-switch-kit

[1] https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/hybrid-type-s
Glad you asked. Because "trust" is one of the last ways companies can get around being discriminatory in at-will employment without facing lawsuits. In other words, it directly benefits those in power not to directly measure "trust", but quietly base it on the biases of any given manager.

Unless you're in some stack ranked program, lack of trust is the easiest way to be first to be laid off, or on the slower track to be put on a PiP (officially or not). Sadly and ironically enough, "productivity" is one of he few ways to counteract this bias. Having a hard trail of evidence that you met every and all goals, a hard trail that these were the goals to begin with.

I could go on about how you gain trust, and indirect trust or trust via authority, but I think you get the point.
>Public places come with noise.

Depends. Starbucks will be noisy, library won't. There are some shops that exist exactly for the purpose of being a quite place.
I have proof of it being because of CSAM in as of late 8x8 rooms. Would you like me to post the links to the currently active rooms?
The way I've seen it work is hand written SQL for the migrations, numbered and tracked in Git.

There shouldn't be any reason that you can't do it with Flyway, but I would be concerned about fighting Flyway a bit. I use Django a fair bit and I honestly don't see a good way to make this approach work for Django, not suggesting that you can't, but you would be fighting Django a fair bit, it's not really how it's designed to work.

If you don't have en ORM, then this is actually much much easier to do right. I'd design the initial schema, either by hand or using some pgAdmin, TOAD or whatever you database has. For there on everything is just hand written migrations.
> only to be confronted with the notorious 'incompatible glibc version error'. It's super annoying.

I started making my own freestanding Linux Lisp because of this exact issue. It's nowhere near as performant as something like SBCL but it's small and has zero dependencies. Once compiled it will literally run on any Linux of the same architecture.

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone

I'm taking a break from this project at the moment but eventually I'm gonna add a feature that lets me put a Lisp script into the ELF itself so I can just copy it with the scripts included and have a totally self-contained freestanding Lisp executable.
From reading about it, it seems to suffer the same problem as Go compiled to wasm: payload is huge, usually multi-MB after compression.
I had no idea that it is this way in Europe as well (PL here). Personally, I don't have an opinion to argue for either way. If anything, the whole idea that a part of rehabilitation must include being locked in with other people in an awful place is repulsive to me.

I'm reminded of this video: https://youtu.be/cX-r5ulpoQQ
> All the cases I hear require overtime, weekends, overnights, evenings, and unstable, seasonal employment.

It's actually kinda common for higher paid employees to also enjoy much better working conditions.

Compare Amazon's developers to their van drivers. The developers get much higher pay and much better working conditions.
Two things can be true at the same time:

1 only one person can own all variations

2 that person can choose to have all other variations except the selected one, blocked. Make it a checkbox. Done.
I found this article helpful. Most comments on here seem to suggest that hourly is best done when clients don't know what they want, and I think that actually misses the point of the article, in my understanding.

Working with a few customers as a freelancer, I agree, a lot of time they can't express what they actually want. They know it when they see it, but they can't express it correctly so you end up building a product, and having a thousand change requests - basically the customer uses you as a prototyping machine until you build what they want.

Obviously this can't work with fixed pricing, BUT this is where the point of the article comes in. If the only thing you can offer to your customer is writing code based on a requirement - you're racing to the bottom because thousands can write code based on a requirement.

BUT, if you focus on outcome - I will build you what you want, AND I'll help you figure out what that is!! That service will include asking the right questions, helping the client figure out what they want, and you can put all of that in your fixed price offer. At this point you aren't just writing code for them, you are their business partner, you want them to succeed, and you will use your experience to offer advice. If you become good at this, you are much more than just a programmer, or what the article calls "technician".

So, thanks for the article, I found it interesting and have some food for thought.
Centrally managed E2EE is not end to end if the server can decrypt anything. The definition means that the keys to decrypt only exists at either end.
Of course public spaces come with noise, but creating more noise than you need to is disrespectful. It's no different to having bad hygiene, using more space than you need or public flatulence. These things are unpleasant or inconvenient for others so should be kept to a minimum. In general one should seek to minimise their footprint wherever possible.
It's not a trick question, and it's not as simple as matching the percentages. Rents can raise by more than 100%, but total supply caps at 100%. If AirBnB controlled every rental unit, rental prices wouldn't go up exactly 100%.
> They could afford a little humanity

They see 'humanity' as a weakness. Like decency, and honesty.

What's astounding is that neither Democrat elites or their donors seem to give a flying. Lil Russian accusations here, lil smear there, and suddenly he's not a journalist or a whistleblower any more.

The barrel has rotted.
As a few others have said, donate to charity. There are charities that can make way more of an impact with that money than you building some software. Look at Bill Gates!

However on a local level you can do a lot, by being kind, helping people in your community where you can. Maybe working with local charities to help then with their technical issues.
> No I do not believe the BoL.

That is because you are talking about a different sort of position.

talldatethrow described the position as "screwing a cabinet together for $60k", at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397458 . That is a cabinet maker.

From the BoL, a cabinetmaker is someone who job is to "Cut, shape, and assemble wooden articles or set up and operate a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, and mortisers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products."

Your father did more than that. He was a foreman, he did design, and he worked on custom office furniture including installation. Of course he gets paid more than a non-supervisory cabinetmaker working in a factory.

As a first approximation, "First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers" at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes471011.htm says the mean wage is $77,650 - nearly twice as much as the mean wage for a cabinetmaker at $42,120.
Any specific chapters people would recommend checking out?

I love all of this occult stuff but have never really dived in too much to the topic. Magic systems in general fascinate me, and after going through pretty much all major fantasy series I've started getting interested in "real world" magic systems. There's so much fascinating deep lore that rarely gets explored. Most recently I learned about these angels called Uthra [0].

Another one that interests me is the movement with magic rocks. There's tons of websites that talk about how certain rocks have these magical powers, but I wonder where it all originated from. Maybe the information evolved over time and was spread through word of mouth.

I think it's weird that some people seem so ready to completely dismiss any interest in these magic systems while also being huge fans of stuff like Harry Potter and other fantasy series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthra
> It isn't. Public places come with noise. By this snippet, even speaking would be disrespectful in a public place.

If you type loudly, people will give you weird looks. It is annoying. Speaking is much easier to filter out for most people.
> Also, the only one whose "salary depends upon his not understanding it,"

All of them make, and continue to make, money from talking about AI, the doomers are probably getting more attention because the public and media love a good thriller story.

Would it not be the opposite though, that instilling fear to cause regulation will limit competition and new entrants?

To me, the doomers of the trio seem to be the ones

> whose "salary depends upon his not understanding it," hmm...
LLMs are trained on 'tokens' derived from 'words' and 'text' and even though there are tokens that are just one letter the bulk is a rough approximation to syllables as though you're trying to create a dictionary to be used for data compression.

It might be more effective to try to play 'tokendle' before trying to play 'wordle'.
> Another issue I am seeing is that it is not a separate testing event but essentially happening live when the application is turned on on production. Not nice.

It's a testing event if you make it a testing even. The team I'm referring to regularly makes a dump from production, run it through a PII anonymizer and performs migration test on that.
"Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent."
Hopefull more switchess will be available.
I use one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YF95RNR, some bluetooth peripherals, and a little phone tripod. I have it set so that when a monitor is plugged in, DeX starts automatically, so when I'm at my desk and plug my phone in, in 2 seconds I'm ready to roll. I also use DeX with my AR glasses (Nreal Air) when traveling, which basically behaves like a full-HD monitor on your face.

My termux session runs permanently in the background out of laziness (though this does noticeably shorten your battery life, but it's been mostly manageable) so all I need to do is start AVNC.

There are a lot of little configurations and quality of life things that I tweaked over the past year or so of doing this; happy to write all those up somewhere if you're interested.
You can see it this way: if you can time people voting, you can hide the camera anywhere in the voting room. Checking the booth is always going to be easier than checking the room.

There is also the issue of voters selling their vote. It's pretty easy for them to wear a tracker that tells you when they were in the booth. On the other hand, with paper ballots, the buyer has no way to check the vote, since market ballots are null.
It seems individual. For me mechanical keyboards are way too deep and require too much effort to press. It is possible to lightly touch them but this requires more mental effort imo than just using a chiclet keyboard.

It feels like people use them for the satisfying audio and tactile feedback rather than any genuine improvement in typing speed.
Does it really teach physics or does it teach Haskell through the way of physics equations?
Not to mention the real power of targeting: there's even less need for a coherent narrative, you can tailor it to each niche group (or even potentially each individual, at this point). And other's don't even know what your message is. If a lie could previously travel around the world before the truth had got its boots on, a lie can now travel around the world before the truth even knows there's a race.
Where is your 5 euro/month VPS hosted, and does it use HTTPS?

I did a non-scientific test last year, in which I ran a basic Apache instance that returned a 204 response (No Content) on $5 instance and HTTPS alone made it drop around 500 requests/second (once again, no other processing happening other than returning headers for a 204 response)[1]. My understanding at the time is that in general on lower priced virtualization options you don't get VMs which provide access to CPU instructions that speed up encryption/decryption.

[1] my comment at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30155559
You would do dropout on every epoch of training, not on every token.
God. They just can't help themselves anymore, can they. They used to at least lie to us that they weren't evil.
FLOPS is a measure of throughput. The time-difference between a `fmul` and a `fmadd` is often in latency.

A modern processor is typically superscalar, with multiple individually pipelined floating point units that can each be issued one instruction per cycle: regardless of whether that is a `fmadd`, a `fadd or something else.

If you'd issue a `fmadd` to a unit, then you are prevented from issuing a `fadd` to it in that same cycle, and vice versa. That's one op, not two.

However, floating point units are sometimes heterogeneous. I think the question should be, rather: should you count the throughput of any ops, or of arbitrary ops.
In other words, if a CPU runs at 1 MHz and has two units but where only one can run `fmul`, should you count the CPU as having one or two MFLOPS?
Universal Music strikes deal to reshape streaming economics
https://archive.is/KZnJJ
It's pretty clear that this privacy invasive behavior from Chrome and Edge browsers by mega corps fueled by ad seeking revenue are only going to worse over time.

For macOS my choice of using the faster and more energy efficient Safari is fairly easy. Windows also has a lot of good options, I prefer Vivaldi as a Chrome alternative since it sports a Blink engine, has a focus on privacy and is actively developed that sees frequent features and improvements in each release [1].

[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/releases/
Note that the ADL is not the first organisation singled out by Musk: a month ago X filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-Jewish organisation. So the argument that he chose a Jewish org is weaker given it's not the only one or the first one.

As for the accountability, it seems obvious to me that if accusing a Jewish organisation of wrongdoing automatically exposes you to such a terrible suspicion as that of making antisemitic dogwhistles, then these organisations get free rein to say whatever they want because even challenging them produces an unacceptable reputational damage.
We don't know. It's a report of some early experimental results. Our hope is that it will stimulate discussion and further research and development.
Never thought I would see the Sleaford Mods mentioned in a Hacker News thread. As a 50-something UK male I agree the world has gone a bit weird when the rallying cry for revolution is a well articulated by my peers as by the youth.
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It's a very niche product from a very small company. I think it's fair. It is going to put most people off, yes, but this is definitely not an OS for most people.

eComStation 2.1 is on the Internet Archive. I've installed it on bare metal on a Thinkpad X61, and it worked fine. I was not able to work out the long chain of dependencies necessary to upgrade Firefox to something useful, though.
Dunno about zero but Sony WH-1000XM4 + Switch has no noticable audio lag for me.
I work with headphones on and I really like the sound of my switches. I really want to hear them click while also hear music in my headphones.

No reason to use the app if you are not wearing headphones.
https://archive.is/uF7Wz
Perhaps start by explaining what ETL stands for and what it is.
> How can a primary AND it's backup system fail safely??? Who specified this?

All safety critical systems are specified to halt instead of performing undefined behavior, if they encounter something that cannot be processed. An unsafe failure would be entering undefined behaviour.
What would you have specified differently, that would be safer?

A backup is primarily there in case of hardware failures or for maintenance. If it behaves differently to the primary then something is wrong.
Can you explain how and why you would expect a backup system running identical software to behave differently?
very kewl =)
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Django has migrations; why would this be harder with Django?
No I don't use the term overfitting for a model where the accuracy is getting better. I think it's misleading.
Remove governance and corporations will flood in to fill the void. Personally I'd rather have a master I can vote out rather than a bunch of corporations dictating how I live.
I'll tell you exactly what that is is cuz I'm that guy. Couldn't get anyone to take a chance and train me. I'm rather quite handy and safety conscious but couldn't get a job doing production work without experience period.

If you want stock boys you can pay em cheap but you gotta train em.

Instead I moved and found work in tech which matched my education.
What an honest an refreshing perspective!
I loved the quote from Donald Knuth:

If you find that you’re spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you’re spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.
Show HN: Mailik.dev – proxy form responses to client email
Hackernews has a bug, when I try to submit dev domain, it replaces mailik.dev to mailik.com.

Btw yes I wanted to show email proxy
My dad is a GP and ran a practice that at its height in the mid 00s had around 5000 patients, 4 doctors, a slew of nurses and probably 15 office staff. He worked about 50-60 house a week and was ultra stressed out. Then in the early 10s he switched to this concierge model. Now he has 1 office staff/med assistant, 300 patients, and makes literally 4x what he made with the previous model.

Insurance companies, along with declining pay and the gobbling up of private practice by giant medical corporations who treat doctors like low level employees are driving GPs away, and into specializations.

If the government wants to stem this shit tide they need to tell insurance companies to get fucked, limit the intrusion of corporate bean counters, and give incentives like the cancellation of school debt to folks who go into GP. No number of highly paid specialists will ever replace GPs
Network bandwidth cost is negligible, it's hardware and processing power that's expensive. Each query I process is up to a 100 Mb disk read. I only have so much I/O bandwidth.

As far as I see it, there are two bad solutions to this problem.

The first bad solution is to have a central authority inspect most of the web's traffic and try to deduce who is human. This is the approach taken by Cloudflare, but essentially the same as Remote Attestation. It gives the chosen authority a private inspection hatch for most of the web's traffic, as well as unfettered authority to censor and deny service as they see fit.

The other bad option is a sort of 'free as in free enterprise' Ferengi Internet where each connection handshake involves haggling over the rate and then each request costs a fraction of a cent. This would remove the need to de-anonymize users, likely kill the ads business and virtually eliminate DDoS/sybil attacks. It would also be an enormous vector for money laundering, and as a cherry on top make running a search and discovery services much more expensive. I do think the crypto grifters pretty solidly killed the credibility of this option.
What's the state of low latency audio these days? If this has any more than 8ms of lag it would be noticeable. Last time I cared about it (for music production) you had to use special drivers on Windows (ASIO) or a real time kernel for Linux (I think the latter may have been mainlined?)
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Can you confirm the ECL part of my comment? I mean is it possible to do it with ECL?
We have a peculiar situation where NHS can't raise wages, but they certainly can hire staff from agencies at much higher rates (and agency mark up). Imagine if NHS could hire staff directly at those rates...
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