skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not relevant to the case at hand, where OP was actually able to prove that he'd originally bought the device.
> That'll wear out the battery quickly.
Why does this happen? If it's about overcharging, is it impossible to stop charging once the battery is full?
Yeah but what do you do if your are not using shell?

Hint: it's stat(2) (or equivalent in your language library)

Additional hint: if using pythons os.stat set follow_symlinks to false. It recently took me an embarrassing long time to figure out why my script was failing to find symlinks.
Cassava Sciences posted a response:

https://www.cassavasciences.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
It is of course much more useful to sue the well-known billion dollar company than some fly by night endeavor where your contact information is ‘China’.
I thought that was fine for MacBooks because it will only charge to 80% and won’t increase the battery cycles?

I also disconnect the charging cable during the night because that stresses the battery.
You can't actually use reason to understand modern UX/UI designers choices. I've just got Windows 11 at work. They've increased the blank space between all the items in the file exporer quite significantly. They clearly don't care about vertical space because I know have to scroll first in places I could click first before.
+1. One of these apps that makes leaving macOS impossible.
Nice, last time I looked the Solo Hacker Edition was completely out of stock.

Looks like the Solo HE lets you load your own firmware on to it, but it doesn't let you load your own signing or encryption key to ensure firmware updates are trusted. Apparently the Solo HE can be flashed once permanently by overwriting the bootloader, though.

The non-HE versions of the Solo 1 and 2 will load new firmware signed by Solokey.

Earlier this year I looked into this and remember finding out that it was either the Solo 1/2, Somu or one of the Nitrokey products that, while shipping with a secure element, didn't actually use the secure element.
I work in adtech and I haven't heard anybody in the industry push for HTTP/2.

It's still HTTP/1.1 everywhere here.
Generally, in the case of a corporation, the underpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus 3 percentage points and the overpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus 2 percentage points. The rate for large corporate underpayments is the federal short-term rate plus 5 percentage points.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/interest-rates-increase-for-the...
The 50 step manual fix is actually just generated by chatgpt and sounds plausible, but does not actually work. It's just a red herring to get page clicks / ad views.
so microsoft is now teaching people to get the cancer known as linux?

for those who don't know, Microsoft openly claimed that "Linux is a cancer" back in 2001.

https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca...
Would be cooler if you could make the map rather than just upload an image. I.e. grassy base add roads trees ...etc. Even better if it could randomly generate these maps.

I find that players don't care too much about the map other than figuring out where they are in relation to the enemies and suchlike.
In my experience the fit can be very dependent on the precise orientation in the ear. When I get it right they almost never fall out, when the angle is off a bit they hold for a few minutes at most.
Not a direct answer to your question, but I recently upgraded from a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro to an M1 MacBook Pro which I got a good deal on - 2k for a 16 inch w the max chip, 64gb ram, and a 1tb hdd.

I looked at the new air, drooled over it really, but when I found this deal I couldn’t justify spending about the same to get a fraction of the power.

When I bought the last intel mbp, i actually initially bought an m1, but at the time it was too tough to set things up. This was mid 2021. This time around it was a lot easier, though my stack might be a tad simpler these days.

Only 2 weeks in but I’m really loving this thing so far. Might be worth checking for some deals on m1 models if you can find them, I think there are still some new models circulating, though from what I saw of the airs it was mostly 8gb ram.
> Platform innovation requires control over your own API, because you want to expose the features and architectures that make your platform excel and that weren’t accounted for in abstracted tools.

Yeah, I’m not buying that. It’s the story they tell you of course, but I think that’s a marketing lie.

Let’s be clear first that hardware is the platform. Your comment seems to agree with that. Note that for quite a long time, the Windows and Mac world used the same hardware (same CPU, same GPU), and therefore the same platform. They could have went together and specified a common API to work on both MacOS and Windows, and they could both expose all the hardware has to offer. Heck, if they really wanted to expose all the goodness hardware has to offer, they would give us the actual data sheets. They don’t, for various reasons that are generally tied to "IP".

They tell us sweet words about innovation, but let’s be honest they just want to lock us in.
Yes, because clearly whatever someone said in an HN comment is the full story and nobody would ever lie or distort to reap karma among a community of knee-jerk Apple-haters.
Some serious interference around areas of military tension: East Mediterranean, Black Sea South-West, Baltic Sea. Scary.
Reproducibility trial: Biologists get different results from same data sets
> It looks nicer + you can just use the scroll wheel.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
My work laptop does not have a "scroll wheel". There is a posibility to scroll using the touch pad but it is undocumented and hit or miss.
This must depend on how you configure it.

I do not remember how I have configured it, perhaps the window border width is determined by the window theme (I use Chicago95), but I have also been using XFCE for many years and I have decent-sized window borders on my 4k monitors and my mouse theme (Hackneyed 48x48) has extremely obvious mouse cursor shape changes whenever you touch the window borders, so they are easy to grab.
That’s not the letter. Take a look at the date of the blog…
Yeah, I would pick 16 GB ram if I had a larger budget but anything over than that feels excessive?

I have a MBP M2 8GB and do both Rails and Flutter development running multiple containers, still I have barely reached the full usage of my ram.

What would people need 20+ GB ram for? LLMs?
I'm curious, when would you use this?

As far as I can recall, the only time I need to know day-of-month is when scheduling and I need my actual calendar with existing appointments for that.
We agree that you did make up the "go-kart" nonsense.

On responsibility - each party has one. Don't stumble across streets glued to your phone; don't drive recklessly. There's no point pretending one is the real responsibility. It just adds noise.
I personally use a 16" 2023 M2 Max MBP maxed out and it is honestly god like.

However a good friend of mine uses the latest M2 powered Air with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD (the 24GB upgrade so a stretch too far for him) and I have to say it is a damn good machine and I could use it without much trouble. It doesn't throttle nearly as much as you would think for a fanless unit. Obviously it isn't as fast and he does hit swap when under a heavy workload whereas I am yet to hit swap but I also have 64GB vs his 16GB.

So to answer your question. Yes I think the Air is an excellent development machine for 'up-to and maybe a little over' a "heavy-medium" development workload. If you're doing a lot on the machine then you will hit its limits for sure but if you're just running Xcode and a simulator or two, etc. or PyCharm and docker, etc. you will be just fine.

If you're doing anything GPU heavy it isn't a great option but other than that I highly recommend it.

However I suggest you look at the total price once you add in 24GB RAM and more SSD storage (at least 1TB imho) vs the 14" MacBook Pro. There isn't a huge difference between them yet the 14" Pro is basically as good as my 16" for most things. Especially if you can find a good returned unit on sale cheap via the Apple Refurb store. The machines are as good as new, same warranty, etc. Well worth checking out.
The fact that aircraft carriers are slow is irrelevant, you won't ever get close enough to fire on them.

Shhh!. Don't look now, but the range of most carrier-based planes is roughly 800 miles. (The much-vaunted F35 is reported to have a range of only about 600* miles.) Many anti-shipping missiles have a range greater than 1000 miles. You do the math.

* https://www.quora.com/Is-the-F-35Bs-combat-radius-450-550nm-...
Did you try letterboxd.com?
I think it's more like defence of investment. They have spent tens of thousands of money, time, knowledge on this brands ecosystem of devices and software. It's not just airpods it's the phone, watch, desktop, laptop, all the software purchased over their lifetime and the identity that goes along with it. In deciding to leave there's also future costs of moving to something more free but "worse".

The pain needs to be way greater than the cost of what they have invested. In a way they are not captors of peoples freedom but bankers who hold people's time, effort and money. Even with OP's case I can almost guarantee that whilst he might consider moving away from Apple because of his bricked laptop, he won't - he will side with his investments. Leaving this ecosystem would also cause psychological pain - its very hard to tell oneself that "I was wrong".

The genius is that Apple makes good stuff and they know that what they make "just works" and it all works great together and people will invest not only money but their very selves in the company. The company is the world biggest tech company for a reason.
Buying a new laptop and running Linux pretty much always requires running mainline kernels for a few weeks or months until things get fixed. Same thing happens for ThinkPad and others.
> That is a bit too harsh, his ears may not be the right size or shape.

Correction: his ears have perfectly right size and shape. The thing which might not have the right size and shape is the Airpod. We do not fit ourselves to human made objects, but the other way around.
No need to apologize. I didn’t say they are equivalent, I’m trying to draw analogies. If you leave your car sitting for 5 years, you will probably have a bit of a hard time starting it too. If you leave a garden or house untouched for 5 years, it’s not going to be pretty.

They didn’t give us much to go on about their situation. I’ve not heard of an iPad not being able to be turned on and unlocked with its passcode because of an iTunes account or server issue. If that is indeed what happened, I agree that is not cool. But I doubt that is what is going on. I’m curious to know more.
The dark ages are called dark, partly because little history was recorded. That period saw more technological innovation than the well documented imperial period before it which was technologically stagnant in comparison. We live in the best documented period in history, but our technology could stagnate independently of that, or even due to it.
Have the machine translation more as a sanity check than the actual translation: you don't want to blindly trust what the machine produces if it's in a language you don't understand. But going the other way for quality control can eliminate the most egregious cases like this.
I dunno, it sounds like the kind of thing someone with a filofax would have in their wallet, same energy as a slide ruler, conversion tables on paper, etc.
And that would be ~$95 with sales tax in a lot of states.
They aren't that ubiquitous in the UK/Europe or Asia. I've never used an iPhone. I'm not sure of the market share figures but I'd guess it's about 50/50. Similarly with Mac laptops you get the impression that everyone buys apple, but it's really not the case and it's probably more like 75% windows at a guess.
> Have you ever seen one of those machines in restaurants that from a hopper full of oranges automatically slices, squeezes the juice into a glass and puts the rind etc into a composting bag

Apparently the founders and investors had not.
Why would the “stock market” care? It explicitly talks about reassuring costumers.
There are ways to do it, but it probably requires an expert in customs law to get the paperwork filed correctly.

When I moved from Australia to Sweden I shipped about half a shipping container worth of personal items -clothing, furniture, books, electronics - and I didn't have to pay any import duty apart from a small processing fee.
Not really sure what you are talking about. The standardized data format, one that works from Rotterdam to the Gobi desert, is paper. These papers are standardized for sea and air freight world wide, road paper work is stanardized e.g. across Europe.

There are systems that link all those parties together, available as SaaS of the shelf, and used by giants like DHL.

What people don't see, tech only gets you that far in logistics until information disparity and people-business problems hit you.
I guess we’re at the extinguish phase now?
>That aside, high dpi displays are still a rare sight on desktops

No, they aren't. ALL displays these days are high-dpi, when you compare to the 640x480 and 800x600 screens that were normal in the late 1990s. But the window managers back then were FAR better (in functionality and appearance) than what most of us use today.
Just in time for 2024!
The worst thing about bluetooth headphones is that people who use them subject everyone else to their awful microphone quality while either oblivious or in denial about the fact.
They're handy for grasping objects.
Yes, a 24GB M2 MacBook Air should be able to do this just fine, but your 64GB Intel MacBook should not be having any issues doing these things either. What happens when you say "it gets throttled"?

My 2018 15" MacBook Pro is only a 16GB model and would have no issues performing these tasks. I would suggest removing the bottom panel of your MacBook and cleaning the exhaust vents. Being an Intel model, it is at least 3 years old, and dust can certainly buildup in that time.

If that does not fix the problem, something else is wrong. Yes, the intel MacBooks run hot, but even today they should be able to perform well, especially with 64GB of RAM.
The article is a bit weird, so here's my summary of the situation, as someone in the security field:

- Berstein, an extremely esteemed security researcher[0], published a long blog post last week[1] criticizing NIST's standardization process for new Post-Quantum-Crypto algorithms. He is focusing on the selection of Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (think TLS key exchange). Two big options are Kyber and NTRU (coauthored by Berstein).

- His main complaint is that NIST is playing fast and loose with the selection process, and had disqualified a fast NTRU variant due to barely not meeting a certain security threshold. The missing variant makes NTRU look slower and less flexible than it actually is.

- Meanwhile, NIST accepted a similar fast Kyber variant based on shaky assumptions. Berstein argues at length that it doesn't meet the security threshold either and should be disqualified. Funnily, NIST used Berstein's own research in (seemingly) incorrect fashion to argue for Kyber's security.

- There's an air of impropriety, as if NIST was favoring one algorithm over the other, for unknown reasons. And in the beginning of the post, Berstein shows the results of his recent lawsuit to reveal more information about the internal NIST process: it seems that NIST and NSA met more often than previously thought.

My interpretation leans more towards NIST making an internal mistake in evaluating the algorithms, rather than NSA pushing its agenda. One could argue that Berstein is sour that his algorithm might not be picked, and is trying underhanded tactics. On the other hand, he does have excellent reputation, and convincingly argues that NIST made an important mistake and is not transparent enough.

[0] https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-March/0...

[1] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html
I found this part interesting:

> CMA chief executive, Sarah Cardell, said: "Businesses and their advisors should be in no doubt that the tactics employed by Microsoft are no way to engage with the CMA. Microsoft had the chance to restructure during our initial investigation but instead continued to insist on a package of measures that we told them simply wouldn't work. Dragging out proceedings in this way only wastes time and money."
Yes, normally you could hard link any file if you can read a directory that references it, and if there was a directory you had write access to on the same volume. The hard link doesn't change the permissions of the file.

Hard links are particularly useful for having multiple copies of a directory tree without consuming space for the files. Eg to create an overlay of a build tree, with your changes on top. Unfortunately CoW file systems still have many issues that make this difficult.
The section on fractional scaling issues wouldn't exist if Framework offered a Linux compatible non HiDPI display.

It's a shame for Linux users that they decided to pick a display type that has had known issues for like a decade.
The simple answer is you don't. Be realistic about who the competition is and which jobs to aim for.

When reaching for the moon try reaching the top shelf first, and use that to stand on.
> Easter eggs and humor

I prefer humour. I increasingly find much 'humor' rather lifeless due to a misplaced desire not to cause anybody any offence whatsoever.
My 1000-mx3 headphones have garbage cancellation compared to my AirPods. I live next to a busy street and can hear everything with the Sonys on. With AirPods, I thought we were having an earthquake recently but it was just a car with very loud music. I had to remove my AirPods to realize that.
Yes, I picked up on that too. It's one of those phrases that sounds clever and insightful on first read, but you realize it's just incorrect if you think critically.
I did it several years ago but it's a site to find your missing achievements in steam.

You search your profile by name, then you select the game and you can see all the achievements and for the missing ones there's a link to youtube for it.

https://master-of-games.onrender.com
>It's not dark magic to host a private, e2ee chat service.

But it might be a good way to attract the attention of law enforcement.
People running PGP phone services have been arrested and prosecuted because their networks were primarily used by criminals. If you run a encrypted chat service to circumvent the law you might be held accountable for what users use your encrypted chat service for.
kinda opinionated ...

> few developers choose this method due to the overhead of needing to restart (reboot) your device any time you want to switch between the operating systems.

The overhead of booting windows maybe once a year?

> If you choose the bare metal Linux install route, you may also need to deal with potential driver issues or hardware compatibility problems that may arise with Linux on some devices.

With Linux?

Did they even mention that you need to install windows before Linux because windows has (had?) No concept for dual boot?
FWIW, and I know it's not as good as patching the root cause, on Windows environment I have found relief in using AltDrag (and/or its fork AltSnap [1]). You can grab and move a window by pressing Alt and then clicking wherever you want on the window. There are also a few other tricks regarding window maximizing/resizing etc.
[1] https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap
> We’re USB-IF members

I hope so that you can pressure the Promoter Group into not making the same mistakes with USB-D. :)

Have a look at https://web.archive.org/web/20161220102924/http://www.usb.or... slide 45. Note how all the power requirements also list an associated USB spec.

Looking back I will give you that 5v is required for vconn.

> You cannot build a power source that uses a USB-C connector and doesn’t support 5V and call it “USB Type-C”.

Yet this whole conversation thread shows that is not the case. By not joining the IF you can do as you please.

A great example of this is the Ubiquti Theta cable (https://tinyurl.com/5asf8wpp) where they implemented a completely proprietary cable (as far as I can tell) with "USB Type-C" on both ends.
You’re of course free to think the feature is horrible, but hopefully you realize that’s your opinion on the matter, and not some kind of objective truth.

Chesterton’s fence: why did Apple make this feature in the first place? There is a reason.
They don't need to talk past the laid off people to the stock market. The stock market loves layoffs.
Every time I read about precolumbain agriculture I wonder about how much we don't know and how big the gaps are we need to fill. The idea of huazontle being grown for seeds as well as the leaves is likely part of one gap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium_berlandieri

https://ngmueller.net/2017/10/09/lost-crops-in-the-all-the-w...
This was also mentioned in the article:

> But are there other examples? Yes. One mind-blowing story from ProPublica that came out in 2022 was about landlord software sold by a firm called RealPage, which essentially told big landlords to raise rents by showing them “data RealPage gathers from clients, including private information on what nearby competitors charge.” There’s a quasi-consulting arrangement here too, as “RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.”

> RealPage is now facing at least seven private antitrust class action suits, as lower output and higher prices are classic signs of monopoly power. What’s fascinating is that here again, an economist would look at these markets and see competition and multiple rivals renting out apartments, but they would miss that there’s a cartel, or rather a set of regional cartels coordinated by a software platform, operating to boost prices and margins.
I would have gladly disabled that misfeature on my old car if I could've. It was always a huge pain to find the activation code, and having to contact a dealer and jump through their hoops is a huge hassle.

The funny thing is that for this particular car, removing the radio (really the full navigation head unit) would have been a major undertaking, requiring specialized tools and quite a bit of time. If a thief has that much time and expertise, losing the radio is the least of my worries.
Cancer cells getting their energy more through fermentation has been known since the 1920s, it's called the Warburg effect, and Otto Warburg even got a nobel prize for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)
> The browser standards are open and have multiple open source implementations.

The browser standards are open only in name. The sad fact is, implementing those standards are flat out impossible if you’re not a megacorp. They’re just too damn big: I recall someone counted like more than a hundred million words.

Now using those standards is easy, you can implement a subset. But the number of browser engines that actually supports enough of those standards will only decrease.
A competition is the perfect way to subvert a standard. A competition looks 'open', but in fact you can 'collaborate' with any team to make your weakened encryption and then persuade the judging panel to rate it highly.
I have found the single-dev projects to _always_ have a wonderful contributor experience, with company or vendor ones often being quite poor. Really can see the passion when they put in the effort to work together on improving the project.

While there are likely sustainability issues, I guess we will still continue to have these projects and hats off to everyone like Daniel working not just for themselves but also for their community.