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> Framework will need to step up its game, especially if it wants to sell more laptops to businesses—a lucrative slice of the PC industry that Framework is actively courting.

This line really resonated with me. I own a 12th-gen Framework laptop personally, and have enjoyed using it enough that I wanted to have one at work as my existing machine is aging out. Like many businesses, my org requires some paperwork ("telecom approval") in order to buy computing hardware, which is basically a short questionnaire that I assume to check off some "we're not actively trying to backdoor you" boxes. I've had vendors get this turned around in <24 hours. Framework, however, has not been able to do this. Their reasoning is basically, per the article,

> [..] interspersed with not-untrue but unsatisfying responses from Framework employees (some version of "we're a small company" is one of the most common)

claiming their B2B lead is "swamped". Unfortunately, they've been that way since I started that approval request (with repeated follow-ups) 6 months ago, and can't even give me a timeline for when they might even be able to review it. I'm trying to get approval for an org with high-four-figures employees; not Google-size, but not exactly a small business either.

The initial execution on their laptops has been good, and I'm hoping that it continues. But at least to me, it definitely feels like there's a lot of maturing to do for the company on the process for product support and customer experience.
Guess why that didn't work, either! People are not that stupid.
Bubblewrap is really a great sandboxing tool and I'm glad to see efforts to make it more "user friendly." One key thing to understand is that although it is used by Flatpak, you don't need to use Flatpak to use bubblewrap itself.

The way I currently use bubblewrap is to write a small shell script with the correct invocation every time I want to sandbox something new. It isn't a great ux. The Arch wiki has documentation on how to do this [0].

I think probably because of its association with Flatpak there hasn't been a lot of work on improving the ux for "non-Flatpak" bubblewrap use cases, so I applaud the OP for their endeavors. I'm not sure I'll be switching from "just a bunch of shell scripts" for a third party tool like bubblebox (or the extant 3rd party GUI, bubblejail [1]), but it's a good idea to help improve the usability and open it up to more users.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap

[1] https://github.com/igo95862/bubblejail
With the advent of solar and HVDC, is there a potential future where AC stops being the backbone of the grid, letting us drop the whole notion of grid-scale frequency? It sure sounds simpler not to have do the delicate phase matching dance, among other things.
Same here.

Wrote a simple program to which I added Fire to parse arguments as a CLI, and Gooey/Tkinter for a GUI on top of it. To get a working standalone .exe file which does not require folders on the side, Pyinstaller did the job. Unfortunately it also triggers antivirus scans for some AVs..
Customers vote with their wallet. I trust those companies to know how to care about their earnings. IP version 4 or 6, is nothing more than a nerdy thing as far as revenue is concerned.
I found a 5W CNC laser on sale for a little over $100. It's really fun and useful to cut things out of 2mm wood. Like the sibling says, having the metal cutting version of this at home would be amazing. I have access to one at a shop in the local university that can cut 4-5mm metal - thick enough for a lot of applications.
>> Remember in 1963 only the man was working, and typically supported 4 kids

> This is a ridiculous exaggeration: the average US household was 3.7 people

The avg figure in your rebuttal doesn't well reflect the commonality of large US households in the 20th century nor their change during that time.

According to US Census data, the % of US families with 4 or more children fell 10fold during 20th century.

Early 1900s: About 35%
Early 1910s: About 26%
Early 1920s: About 23%
Early 1930s: About 19%
Early 1940s: About 18%
Early 1950s: About 21%
Early 1960s: About 21%
Early 1970s: About 10%
Early 1980s: About 5%
Early 1990s: About 3%
Early 2000s: About 3%
Early 2010s: About 3%

Multiple refs inc: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED231528.pdf
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships
Robo taxi announcement didn't pump the stock as much as expected?
And also you get charged hundreds of millions of dollars for using the vest.
From personal experience (I don't use SD cards often) I would rather have another USB A or C port instead of SD port. USB SD card readers are so much cheaper and smaller than Framework expansion cards, that having one in a bag takes less space, and you can carry them like USB flash drive.
There are a couple and the parking spaces are restricted for use only whilst charging, the cost is also double or so what I pay at home.

So basically for the sake of saving pennies I would have to hope that space is free, park in it, then move the car later when it's done, probably use some weird app because there's no normal way to pay, etc.

If I forget, then I get a £40+ parking ticket which would wipe out weeks/months of savings.

I don't own a PHEV but if I did I think I'd probably do it a few times for the novelty factor and then give up. It's not practical at all.
> So for instance a thermoelectric generator operating between 25 °C and 5 °C has a maximum efficiency of

> Eff = (298 - 278) / 298 = 6.7%

Does that mean a thermoelectric generator operating at a minimum of 0K has a maximum efficiency of

Eff = (N - 0) / N = 100%?
They've actually been comparable to mortgage rates. My car and house purchased in 2020 are both 2.75, now houses and cars are more in the 7 range depending on your credit.
Those can’t blind you from a distance though. Not nearly the same risk
Overall, I agree with your sentiment. The specific example that you chose was very thoughtful. If parliament is forced to accept a court decision, it says a lot about the maturity of a democracy.

However, I take issue with the term "Western". In this case, I would say the most advanced countries in OECD, which implies: highly functioning democracy and highly industrialised, capitalist economy. To be clear, for historical reasons there are some, err, odd members in OECD, including Turkey (currently a dysfunctional democracy) and Mexico (high levels of perceived corruption, drug war, poor control of police). And, to be fair, I don't have a good way to decide which are "the most advanced countires in OECD".
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> Not using AI to create bug reports? What if you use AI tech to find a bug? Are you not allowed to report it?

I mean, the hot new trend seems to be people reporting completely imaginary bugs that some AI tool thought it saw to projects, so, eh, I can see where they're coming from there.
Looking forward to this used in car headlights, dazzle's gonna be awesome.
First please prove that you are not working with the people behind the compromise and are just trying to blame the original maintainer in order to misdirect. Oh you can't? Too bad, off to gitmo with you.
you can read that stuff if you like i guess. in fact if you really want to read it you can get gpt-4 to generate it today, without having to wait for it to actually happen: http://sprunge.us/REx4gD
tldr: Nurture has a bigger impact than nature
Why I would want to connect a malvertisement tracker siphoning partyhouse to my network and subsequently the internet is beyond me, but whatever floats thy boat.
> If Apple and Google wants to give access to the OS to an LLM such as Siri, they'd make it easy.

You keep skipping the question of how.

> It's the trivial part of all this. You're getting too much into the details of what is available to developers today.

Somehow you have this mystical magical idea of "oh, it's just this small insignificant little thing".

Literally this:

LLMs understand human requests
* magic *
Things happen in the OS

You, yes you already have basically the same access as developers of the OS have. You already have access to tens of thousands of OS APIs and to the LLMs.

And yet we haven't seen a single implementation that does what you want.

> Again, mapping OS APIs is the easiest part. By far.

If it is, it would make it trivially easy how to do this trivial and easy task for a small subset of those APIs, wouldn't it? Can you show me how you would do it?
Neither does the MacBook. Still has SD though.
All of these ideas sound really fun
Today you just cancel it on twitter, afaik. May also shoot a series of tiktoks.
>Whereas the wired ones upload their backups at full gigabit speed (~100MB/s including overhead), the wireless ones only ever upload at ~10MB/s.

If your backup mechanism is chatty/latency-sensitive, then that would affect overall throughput. Content streaming is neither of those things though.
Most of the routers don't have such option?
Any data privacy experts here? Could someone explain how data encryption and decryption work here?

https://www.limitless.ai/#privacy
Wouldn’t a random cloud of dust completely rip it to shreds?
Plenty of those around Europe still.
I'm so happy someone has explained this, because it's a problem that has bothered me for years and I always assumed it was an issue on my end. It's incredibly annoying when you can't make out what's happening in a video, set a higher bitrate then pause to wait for it to download, and it just freezes a couple seconds past the current point, which ends up making the whole video unwatchable.

I don't know what kind of internet these Google engineers are working with, but for people on shared wifi, or in dense urban areas where there is a lot of interference, or tethering to a 4G phone, or sitting on a train, or a mountain, or using a VPN, or living in a country where the government messes with the traffic, it just isn't realistic to expect users to have a fat pipe that never drops out.
Wonder if this is the reason:
https://x.com/garageklub/status/1779571445930324456
> I don't go on the roof and shout that they should be "silenced"...

You're mixing up "I think they should shut up (and until they do, I'll vote with my money)" and "I think they should be forcibly silenced" here.
There are recycling pilot projects out there, but yeah it's a problem.

Do you also wonder how we'll get rid of used coal power plants, massive piles of toxic fly ash, and tons of pollutants from natural gas plants? Because so far the answer is not good.
You don't have competition between ISPs? I can trivially switch between as many (if not more) ISPs as well-known VPN providers.
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If you're passing a 1GB binary to base64 you're ... incredibly unlikely to be dealing with the resulting base64 manually (copypaste, text editor, whatever). So, yes, the expected default would still be no linebreaks.

The primary purpose of these tools have changed over time as the environment has changed. You know nobody uses usenet anymore, and nobody copypastes base64 into emails anymore, right?
>How does one rationalize such wind-falls.

By accepting that life isn't fair, and capitalism certainly isn't fair either. Working hard, and doing everything right, does not guarantee success. And when someone does have success, it's not necessarily to do with their actions.

It can't really be rationalized. All you can do is maximize your chances of living the best life you can.
The first question's answer is, "it depends". If you're "well-qualified", you can get a rate that most people would consider pretty reasonable, particularly in the new car market. If you're not well-qualified, well, a high interest rate and a long term (think 5-7 years) are waiting for you.

Second question's answer: No. They're not. 40 years ago the powers-that-be in the American financial system decided it'd be a great thing for their balance sheets if everything was turned into a purchase on credit, and for purchases that were already on credit (homes, cars, business capital, student loans) to draw even more in the way of fees. Meanwhile, everything's become more expensive (as it can be on credit) and wages have remained stagnant.

In the off chance that they are able to save for retirement, tax law makes it something you don't want to draw from until you're retirement age. If you have a 401k, for example, and withdrew from it to purchase a car, you're going to be expected to pay the tax on the money you put into it immediately.
if you take the money out of your 401K before you are 59.5 years, you will get a 10% penalty in addition to the amount being taxed... tax alone could easily be 25%
Houses are high 7’s now and could easily go higher. Crazy time
You cannot because if you're testing the type level wizardry, the failure case will not compile.
The article's ambitious promise of an "Actually Portable" Python executable across diverse systems such as Windows and Linux ends up revealing a rather melancholic truth. What we encounter instead is a slow, underperforming proof of concept that passes merely a third of its tests.

Is this not, in some perverse way, reflective of our contemporary technological striving, where the ideal of universality often crumbles under the weight of practical limitations?

Are we not, in our pursuit of perfect tooling, always chasing a mirage? The reality, starkly exposed by these tools, might be that our pursuit is as flawed and fragmented as the tools themselves.
>some may argue Hollywood is the exception that proves the rule

Anyone who argues that has no understanding of how proof works.
Yeah, my larger point is that there are already plenty of ways to cut metal in a home workshop.

I don't see how a laser would be an improvement on any of those, unless the goal is to CNC with extremely tight tolerances, but even then... it seems unlikely that you'll be CNCing blocks of metal, more likely just 2D cuts from sheets of metal, which is pretty limiting.

It would certainly be fun for some stuff, but I think the danger level of a super high power laser detracts from the fun.

More powerful cutting lasers would definitely be great for industrial use cases.
It's probably not lost on everyone, but assuming any irony at all here is a tall order.
My router doesn’t, so with Tailscale I can get the same functionality using an Apple TV. It’s pretty nice.
> a CEO who has alot of other interest

I nearly spit out my coffee at this, understatement of the year lol
It's the same thing! What are you trying to do with it?

One thing you'll run into is that there isn't a clear frequency response curve for non-visible, so you need to invent your own frequency to RGB function (false color).

Another thing is that radio waves have much longer wavelengths than visible, so diffractive effects tend to be a lot more important, and ray tracing (spectral or otherwise) doesn't do this well. Modeling diffraction is typically done using something like FDTD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference_time-domain_...
> Is this the year where Apple increases the memory on the base model above 8GB

Nope, the opposite. They're doubling down.

> In an interview with IT Home, Mac marketing executive Evan Buyze spoke in favor of Macs equipped with 8GB of RAM. According to Buyze, the 8GB of RAM in entry-level Macs is enough for most of the tasks that most users do with these computers. He used web browsing, media playback, light photo and video editing, and casual gaming as examples.

Source: https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-8gb-ram-mac/
I think that's more normal. When my parents bought I think they said it was 13 in the late 80s. We've just been spoiled by ZIRP
it's medium that should be banned
My favorite kind of manual to actually read is sprinkled with hijinks-enabling arcana, and the Bash manual doesn't disappoint on this front.
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Ease of use? If self host a couple of services on local RPi but when I tried to setup Wire Guard I just failed... In the end I opted for simple socks5 proxy but I'm tempted to use tailscale as it seems to JuatWork
karpathy gave a good high-level history of the transformer architecture in this Stanford lecture https://youtu.be/XfpMkf4rD6E?si=MDICNzZ_Mq9uzRo9&t=618
As the sibling comment says the NTSB doesn't investigate crimes, and you don't need to wait for an NTSB report to believe their could have been criminal negligence, or to being an investigate into that.

If someone was negligent and caused this accident and these deaths, they should be held accountable. That will keep people in similar positions in the future more likely to be honest and accountable, not less. You don't avoid prosecuting crimes on the off chance it will make criminals more likely to lie about being criminals.
> Tailscale builds on top of WireGuard by adding automatic mesh configuration, single sign-on (SSO), NAT traversal, TCP transport, and centralized Access Control Lists (ACLs).

— https://tailscale.com/kb/1035/wireguard
presupposing a global hipster population of 100 million and paper consumption per hipster of one bullet journal per month, weighing perhaps 500 grams, we get 600 thousand tonnes per year of paper consumption, roughly four thousand times the amount the article tells us is being used to print banknotes. this seems like it could employ several hundred thousand people, but probably not nearly enough to run out of land suitable for growing argeli
As far as writing an interpreter or compiler are concerned, what you're describing is more like making one for an existing production grade language that's compatible with it's wider ecosystem.

These exercises are more like building a rubber band powered toy car. Useless (but not worthless), fun to build (if building things is something you enjoy), and something you can learn fundamentals of the domain from.

Also, I wish I could take a swing at any of what you mentioned for as little up front investment in money or space as giving these software exercises a shot, it'd be an incredible learning experience and awesome fun!
A front-end that makes me not tear my hair out and documentation that's fantastic. WireGuard may be what's under Tailscale, but I don't want to fuck with keys and config files to get clients online.

For me, I have a NAS that's running Tailscale just inside my edge at home that can be an exit node as well as provides full subnet router access for my home "servers" subnet so I can get to anything from any device that I authorize a Tailscale client for as if I'm on my home LAN... anywhere.

It was also really easy to share my NAS to someone else for exit node access while traveling, and they reported back a flawless experience streaming movies while overseas via the exit node off my residential 1000/1000 fiber.

And for the 'average person' with an Apple TV? Just grab the Tailscale tvOS app and fire up an exit node of your own for when you travel later on, too!
> Considering the relative rarity of SD cards compared to microSD, other than photo- and videographers who aren't really a core demographic, welded as they often are into the Mac ecosystem, I can see why it's not the biggest priority and it certainly doesn't smell of dishonesty. I mean, why would they even be up to shenanigans over SD cards of all things?

I do wonder how true it is that the "put microSD cards in your computer" market is smaller than the "put SD cards in your computer" market.

If I think of the devices that I have microSD cards in (Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, Windows tablet, phones), they're all devices where the microSD card just lives in the device and only gets removed when I'm upgrading the device. Or I guess there was the time I installed CFW on my 2DS XL.

On the other hand, I take the SD card in and out of my camera much more often, despite it getting less use than the aforementioned microSD using devices.

Not to mention most microSD cards are sold with a microSD -> SD adapter, so to me it feels like if you're going to do only one adapter, you'd do SD.
Has this ever happened? Do attorneys get this close to the judge in the course of working through their case?
> We need people to stop trying to deny IPv6, it IS the future.

You can scream and cry as muck as you like, IPv4 IS the present. And people in general will not care until the world will work for them.

And I trust those companies to know how to cater for people's money. When, and if, IPv6 will be the right tool, they will use it. But trying to shame them on such a meaningless technicality is the equivalent of criticising NASA for the colour of the Apollo launch station.
Those are not soldiers, rather labourers looking for work who end up with a gun thrust in their arms as they're sent to the front lines.
> If Tesla really starts to decline and Elon can find a way to stay off twitter and focus on it then I can't see how you short this company.

That's the rub. He blew $44 billion on the company and it's been shitting the bed for a year-and-a-half now. He's incapable of not being distracted by that site; he's spent more money on it than you and everyone you're going to be friends with will be worth, combined, by at least an order of magnitude.
Show HN: Sam Altman video clone trained on 100h of Sam's startup content
The idea: Make Sam Altman your personal startup mentor, always available to go deep on your startup and give you targeted advice.

Our larger goal is to develop indistinguishable intelligent clones (IIC) so everyone can meet. We started with Sam Altman because we wanted to meet him as founders ourselves.

We are reaching out to personalities directly for permission. Our plan with Sam is to provide something helpful to early stage founders in private beta so we can go to him with validation.

Long term we see IIC as a world-changing event on the scale of AGI, but with natural interaction and greater connection between people. Anyone else thinking about IIC?
> If ever you make a mistake, never, ever write it up.

Sure you can write it up! But post it to maybe, Reddit?

The HN audience expects certain standard of quality and insight in the article if the article is on the front page.

Here the community has voted that this article does not meet the bar. I can't speak for others but for me this article is too obvious and uninteresting.

Instead of complaining about something that didn't happen here (nobody said the OP was stupid), maybe learn from the community feedback and refrain from posting articles that don't meet the community expectations?
"Trim the fat" is already happening every year during performance reviews. Companies like Tesla in fact brag about their cutthroat high-performance culture and cutting the bottom X% if they aren't up to par (e.g. see all their job listings, or posts like https://www.tesla.com/blog/in-response-false-allegations).

If the company is doing mass layoffs on top of that then it pretty much always means financial trouble. And these layoffs tend to affect the talent that you want to keep.
Ratinho Jr fully supports Bolsonaro. And it's heavily invested in military schools and even banned some books from schools. Very conservative. The party is indeed center, but he is right-wing. Well, just Brazilian things.

Here the news: https://contraponto.jor.br/campanha-de-requiao-nao-tera-mais...

https://www.bemparana.com.br/publicacao/blogs/politicaemdeba...
Well, sure, I suppose they can call that 'free market' if they want to, but it clearly isn't.
Neither Lithium nor Cobalt have hard limits. Lithium is incredibly common. It does take a while to spin up new mines but all lithium producers are increasing capacity and there are 100s of startup ups working on it, many with government support.

Cobalt is not as common but still not actually hard to find. Plus Cobalt is an increasingly small part of most batteries. LFP batteries will be in all lower cost EV. And even in higher cost NMC its by now less then 10% and trending even lower.

Neither of these are significant long term supply issues.