skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I desperately wanted to get a Framework laptop but they are so oddly priced. Some of it's on stuff you can opt out of, other bits aren't. Overall it seems nice to use but so hard to justify anything but the base options.

On the stuff you can opt out of: Their 2x16 GB DDR5-5600 costs nearly as much as 2x32 GB DDR5-5600. The exact same model of WD 4 TB drive costs $250 more than WD sells it for on Amazon. Based on the $1640 price it looks like the author didn't opt to order these separate despite picking the DIY option.

On the stuff you can't opt out of: It's $300 price difference to go up to the 7840U. On the 16 it's another $200 to go up from the 7840HS to the 7940HS. Considering right now I can get a barebone 7940HS mini pc for $432 after instant coupon on Amazon it seems a bit steep to have the price _difference_ between the 7640U and 7940HS be $500. You can also get an external 2560x1600 120 Hz 500 nit monitor for less than the price to upgrade from the 60hz to 120hz option on the Framework. I get high base cost for a niche product but the overall spread here is just excessive when the whole point is supposed to be how much the flexibility opens things up. What good are replaceable parts if replacing them will quickly cost more than just buying a new laptop outright?

The Linux support is nice but it's not like it's the only AMD or Intel laptop with Linux certified accessories out of the box around.
Not showing up is an arbitrage opportunity which means everyone can sue Facebook and get a win for free, which would not be sustainable.
Only a small portion of HN users are in Silicon Valley. Last time I looked at the numbers (a few years ago) it was around 10%. About 50% were in the US overall, a third or so in Europe, and so on.
Actually it is a ban on pro Palestinian content. No one cares about CCP access to data anymore after tiktok changed their data storage location
Cassini spacecraft reveals global energy imbalance of Saturn
At the same rate as artificial nitrogen fertilizers? I doubt it. And, is the profit per hectare the same when planting legumes? Again, I doubt it.
> One key thing not mentioned is OS support.

OS support is the final section, they gave it a point for having solid Linux support.
Have you ever had that be a problem though? In my experience USB (any type) pulls out anyway.

I do find MagSafe appealing, but not enough, not if it's not what everyone's using. If it were a feature of USB-C it'd be great; as a separate thing, no, I'd rather have a non-magnetic USB-C.

(Haven't used the MagSafe port or cable on mine yet, and don't expect to.)
All the information I find relates to fish ponds. I'm trying to work out if a bog filter is a good idea for a frog pond, or if the clearer water will make things worse for tadpoles.
Ongoing discussion (33 points, 6 hours ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743524
I'm rather reading this as a reaction to EU law making standardized usb c mandatory on phones.
Meta antipatterns

Fasted way to delete your account: post porn

Fastest way to undelete your account: small claims court
I don't remember saying that it did. Our need for foreign currency isn't going to disappear. The question was about whether we should pay interest on US bonds. The interest on government bonds is a reason for them to be held.
At the scale of these tech companies and the number of customer service issues the courts would be overrun and this hurts the other cases. Courts can’t scale, even at $100 per small claims case filing fee they are losing money, Courts aren’t meant to be profitable businesses nor even self sustaining, they provide a public function and service paid for by tax dollars.
I can’t really see the detailed part of the review. You can simply open the web page of the both products and see the things mentioned in the blog post yourself.
1 MB of assets? Huh?
> Of course, compared to the amount the military costs & spends, NASA’s really small.

Compared to the cost of the by far most powerful military organization in human history, which is the foundation for the security order of the planet, pretty much every cost is really small.
SSI = Supplemental Security Income
It's hardly "computer science" either. Good software engineering, sure, but there's obviously no mathematical foundation here.
Corporate profits being taxed at a different rate than capital gains tax introduces some weird incentives to corporate investment decisions. But that isn’t saying it should be zero.
Perhaps most people aren't bothered by it
Dump it into an AI training set, then I'll have ChatGPT negotiate my next car purchase.
Pulling away has generally been fine but I've had USB C cables break due to shearing (laptop at the edge of the table and someone swings their hand while walking past). It doesn't seem break the port thankfully but I do carry a MagSafe cable with me if I remember. The nice thing is if I forget I can still just use USB C again.

To be honest the most appealing thing isn't even the accident prevention, it's one of those "slight interaction improvements for something you do hundreds of times over the year" type things in that you bring the cable near and it just clips in, you pull the laptop away or push a little in any direction and it just pops out. Is it a big deal compared to tugging out for a type C cable? No. Is it nice? Yeah.
Quite well for my needs . I have clocked 25k miles in 2 years and i have had no issues or complaint
Replace government with correlation. Correlation is data, government is a story. We observe correlations and then create stories and analogies with things we already know that fit those correlations. That’s how our mind works.

“Are fields real?” is not a bad question! It can’t be answered within the framing of scientific method, but it brings into focus the bigger question of what “being real” might mean.
Those are all for the Framework 16.

Quite a big weight (almost an entire kilo), size, and price (799 vs 1399 USD) jump to get arrow keys I can move my hand to by feel alone 100% of the time.
The phones never used this type of MagSafe, MagSafe only phones would still be allowed under the current mandate, and the laptops already supported USB C charging prior to the mandate.
Partiful is different from hosting public events. One thing is there's no way to search existing events in x city. Which also means there's no natural advertising of the event.

It's more for friends or mutual friends trying to organise an event together.
In Indian epic of Mahabharata, there is story of Abhimanyu who learns how to defeat a military strategy in the womb, while his father was telling it to his mother. Which he later uses in epic war.
It's an opportunity to move to open source software. As an example, if uBlock Origin can be open and work for the world, why can't something else?
I can’t speak for what OpenAI is doing, but I’ve noticed those types of hallucinations occurring when I quantize a model beyond a certain point.

Maybe they are trying to cut down on memory usage ?
frogs are super sensitive to environmental contamination, so clean and clear is fine. as long as it's stagnant.
Too flat.
Australia is quietly incredibly authoritarian. The rules are really important, and government is encouraged to solve social problems by creating new laws.
How so? MagSafe 3 was first available in 2021 (so probably developed in 2019-2020 timeframe, if not a bit earlier). The mandate didn't come out until 2022, and takes full effect this year. Besides, you can still charge the laptops with USB-C, the MagSafe option is just that, an option.
The "Operating System" section of the article touches on this.

Most of Framework's employees use Linux, to the extent that the CEO himself runs Windows, to shake out any glitches with Windows support. [0] It's a tiny mom & pop shop compared to Apple!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEc43CxIvY
:raises-hand: Yes, I have bent the charging portion of my USB-C on a Mac before but have had zero trouble with the MagSafe versions
There are side effects in healthy peopple that might make prophylactic use of this drug unpopular:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/lenacapavir-sub...
USB-C pulls out cleanly only if you pull the cable in a direction roughly parallel to the insertion axis. MagSafe can be pulled from any direction and disconnects cleanly without damage.
The situation is nuanced. For example, in medicine, technological advancements have undeniably benefited people across all economic strata. Vaccines, antibiotics, and improved diagnostic tools have increased life expectancy and quality of life globally, including in developing nations. These benefits aren't limited to the wealthy; they've had a profound impact on public health as a whole.

> The same arguments have been made about the internet and other technological advances, and yet, inequality has _grown_ sharply in the past 50 years.

The internet has enabled remote work, online education, and access to information that was previously unavailable to many. Smartphones, once luxury items, are now widely available and have become essential tools for economic participation in many parts of the world.

> So no, "trickle down technologies", just like "trickle down economics", does not work.

It's crucial to distinguish between zero-sum and positive-sum dynamics. While relative wealth inequality has indeed grown, overall absolute global poverty has decreased significantly.

When a new technology or medicine is invented is everyone everywhere automatically entitled to it? Even if this slows down more such inventions? Because equality matters more than growth of overall prosperity? Would you prefer to be alive at a random time in history centuries ago, a random life where there is less technology and less inequality?
Birth rates halve in richer countries as costs weigh, OECD report says
Use SPF 15, you'll develop a tan, but unless you are really fair-skinned or stay out a really long time you shouldn't get burnt.

Once you have a good base tan you can drop down to SPF 8 or maybe less.

My ancestry is scadinavian and german and I will burn if I go out in the sun with my winter skin, but if I take some care I can get to the point where I don't really need sunscreen at all.
> Operating System: [...] I already use Linux, so the Framework 13 wins.

Should probably start the review with this. I'm not gonna buy a Framework 13 if I want to use macOS, and vice versa.
I think we've done something similar in our kernels, because I've likewise struggled to squeeze more than ~18GH/sec from a rented 4090. I think the design of SHA256 makes it hard to avoid many of the loop iterations. It's possible there are some fun GPU specific instructions to parallelize some of the adds or memory accesses to make the kernel go faster.

If you limit your variable portion to a base16 alphabet like A-P, radix encoding would just be `nibble + 0x41`. Sure you're encoding 4x as many values, but with full branch predictability. You'd have to experimentally determine if that performs any better.

You could also do something theoretically clever with bitmasking the 4 nibbles then adding a constant like 0x4141 or 0x00410041 or something (I'm too tired to think this through) and then you can encode twice as many per op assuming 32-bit bitwise ops are similar in speed to 16-bit bitwise ops.

Anyways this has been a cool challenge. You might also enjoy hunting for amulets - short poems whose sha256 hash contains a substring that's all 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26960729
Boston by chance?
That's what I did last summer and sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. If you are on 5G, in 20% of cases it works really well, in 60% of cases other people on the call can tell that your connection is not fiber but overall it's ok, and in 20% of cases Zoom just does not work and you can't have productive conversation.

Hotel wifi is 50/50 - sometimes works, some times does not regardless of the price. I stayed in $400/day Mariott with crappiest wifi imaginable (after paying for Premium internet I got unstable 5MB).
And honestly, knowledge is half the battle. People seeing "Addictive Feeds" as a dangerous product that needs regulating is worth more than the actual regulations.

I think they're trying to make it go the way of smoking:

- general consensus of harm

- warning labels

- start applying pressure to phase out
This paper gets ripped into in my favorite podcast, TWiV (This Week in Virology)!

Essentially, yes, neomycin in the nose, if timed perfectly, can activate the innate immune system, but en mass this practice would cause the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/...
It's not just about casual sex though is it. There are many people in long term monogamous relationships with a partner who has an STD, but who don't want to catch it themselves. Vaccines and medications can allow them to have active sex lives while staying healthy and in some cases even help women go through pregnancy and childbirth while preventing the spread of an STD to the child. For these people minor side effects (and at times even more severe ones) can be entirely worthwhile.
That section should be called Linux support then, because Macs clearly support macOS better than anyone else. I'd even argue that macs support macOS better than any hardware supports linux.
> Google's was 100% designed by a committee of people who had never seen anyone else's API

Google made their API before the others had one, since they were the first with making these kind of language models. Its just that it has been an internal API before.
Look up the YouTube series work from AngeTheGreat. He is building a realistic physics based parametric audio simulation of car exhaust.

Perhaps more entertainment than education but he is a great place to start.
I've ruined one laptop usb-c port and almost ruined a second from tripping over the cable or the laptop falling off a table and yanking the cord out at a bad angle. The magnetic connectors are awesome! I use them in every laptop. You can buy magnetic adapters super cheap on Amazon.
Unfortunately this review doesn’t mention the thing that I’ve come to adore since my M1 (now M3) Air: it’s dead silent since there is no fan. And in my normal use it never gets warm. Ever.

I haven’t tried maxing out a game. I’m sure it warms some, but from what I’ve heard it won’t get hot.

I know you can get better performance elsewhere. I don’t care. Having my laptop never get hit is a total game changer. My last 2-3 MBPs (Intel) all got hot and it got worse with each model.

Do something stressful in the slightest? There’s the WOOSH.

I wasn’t expecting to care as much but it’s such a huge QoL thing. I’m not going back to fans. I’m not going back to a hot keyboard. I’m done with it.

If I were to get a Framework (or anything else) the ability to get a cool silent (or very close) configuration would be a huge concern for me.

Do they offer that? Ive never looked. I’ve been hoping the new ARM PCs might be able to match, at least as more appear, but I read the initial ones all have fans.

Outside of the fact I was hoping for comments on that, it was a nice article. It’s not surprising to me that the Air case looks better, unibody construction has a lot of advantages. But it’s expensive to make and repair and would probably make some of the flexibility Framework offers impossible.

I was also pleasantly surprised to read the screen was ~200ppi. I know people’s reasons but having been in the >200 club for many years it annoys me to no end so many Windows laptops still ship with 1080p displays on 13 or 15” models.
The hardest part of this is actually grappling the satellite. Shuttle had the arm, how will spacex capture?
Yes. MagSafe should never have been removed. I can literally just ignore where the power cable is.
I’m not convinced it’s impossible to model reality from the inside of reality. It’s conceivable to have a model that logically necessitates a reality, maybe with some kind of meta-mathematical bootstrapping mechanism, and some way to prove that your model reality is the same reality as we’re in (eg just as all turing-complete machines are equally powerful, all realities with some properties are equally real).
I probably haven't, but that's far from the point for me.

The big thing is I don't have to have the discipline to always be careful where the charging cable is and adjust my movements to keep it untouched.

Cables are cheap. One less thing to worry about is priceless.
It was a health advisory in 2022, and it was revised from .004 ppt (note that you are off by an order of magnitude) to zero. Per the EPA:

> Drinking water health advisories (HAs) provide information on contaminants that can cause human health effects and are known or anticipated to occur in drinking water. *EPA's HAs are non-enforceable and nonregulatory* and provide technical information to drinking water system operators

The update was because of additional evidence of cancers. The EPA always acknowledged that .004 ppt is not reasonably detectable, but the point of an advisory is to note the level that is evidenced to be dangerous. Its a goal, and the new goal is "as good as possible". It should be obvious why the EPA should set requirements to reduce toxins while also noting what is a safe level.

https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-06/technical...
About the resolution scaling warning in the article:

If you're running GNOME, install GNOME Tweaks (likely in your distro's package manager). The "Fonts" section has a "Scaling Factor" option gives you more granular control than a "large text" toggle. Try 1.37 or 1.50. Nearly all my apps respect it (except for OpenSnitch). Everything looks tack-sharp with none of the fractional resolution scaling drama.

(I write more about this here: https://cmart.blog/framework-surprise )
Reminds me of different colored
swans
ahh that takes me back. I used to be addicted to this back in the SubSpace VirginNet days.

trench wars sniping was the best.
I'm wondering if you could easily build the state machine quickly at startup time. Unless it is a multi byte encoding it should be trivial.
I have the AMD Framework 13 running Debian/KDE and get substantially better battery life than what you're describing but it definitely still doesn't compare to an M-series Macbook.

That said, it's worth noting that battery life struggles are common across all Linux laptops, not specific to Framework. I've run Ubuntu on laptops from several brands and they all have weird suspend/resume issues, high battery usage, and so on. (I just installed `tlp` for the first time at the recommendation of another reply to you [0], so we'll see if that makes a difference.)

I'd be curious to hear from someone who runs a Framework with Windows (if such a person exists) to see what the power story is like there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40745832
Doesn't meta require new users to show a copy of their ID and a photo or video of them holding it near their face? Shouldn't that be enough rigor to recover a lost account? Perhaps with a credit card purchase that is also in your name?
I spent all of ZIRP while it was happening being bothered by this. It was insanity inducing to watch huge valuations and associated piles of money chasing the most banal and/or impossibly ridiculous ventures for YEARS.

I also used to tell many, many VCs to their face that the only reason they existed at all wasn't because they had any worthwhile insights into investing or innovation, but because tons of massive upstream capital & funds had a choice between definitely essentially losing money investing in bonds or probably losing money funneling it through their brokerage... er... venture fund. The world's least qualified kingmakers minting new American royalty, and we'll all be paying the price for it for decades.

To add insult to injury, now huge numbers of those alsoran VCs are pivoting into "deep tech" investing, and brining their inane-SaaS myopia and completely misaligned expectations along with them.
Going to copy/paste from a comment I posted a year or so ago.

I have a 12th gen Framework 13", 13" M1 Air, and a 15" M2 Air. I use the Framework laptop for work because I need to use Linux.

The Framework laptop is mediocre just like pretty much all PC laptops. The hinges are awful, if you pick up the laptop upright, about 50% of the time the screen falls flat 180 degrees.

The trackpad is arse in Linux.
If you're lucky you can probably get 5 hours battery life, but on a realistic workload you're looking at 2-3 hours.

The keyboard is pretty nice, but I wish ctrl/fn is swapped like Apple and it has the inverted mini-T keyboard arrows (or at least I wish someone would make a swappable keyboard for the Framework).
The speakers are bloody awful.
Display/Webcam/Mic are fine.
I would like more ports over modular ports, but I appreciate the design that went into the modular ports.
Speaking of modular ports, sometimes they abruptly stop working and require removing and reseating.

All these small nits really add up and it just feels like a mediocre experience. It is my work laptop, but I try my best to avoid using it over my PC with WSL2 or either Air laptop, but I try my best not to mix work and personal.
Both the 13" M1 Air and 15" M2 Air are just amazing compared to the Framework, and I suspect PC laptops in general. They have their drawbacks, price (gouging in some ways), less ports, can't drive dual displays, but their trackpad, finish, speakers, etc. are just amazing. I personally prefer MacOS to Linux for a desktop experience as well.

For one C++ project I work on I need 32GB of memory to compile as sometimes the oom-killer will kill the compiler. That's one of the only reasons I use my WSL2 desktop or Framework laptop since memory is cheap.
tbh not sure. I'd have to dig it out of the crawlspace and have a look. But yeah, seems like those indeed are rare. Had no idea and I guess some chance I'm misremembering and it's a Pentium or something.
I’m firmly in team Mac. And I really don’t care about upgradability that much. I’m OK with buying up front.

But Apple’s BTO prices are, as everyone knows, totally insane. Combined with pathetic base amounts it really burns people. I know a lot of Mac fans who keep putting off upgrades because it costs so much to get a decent config.
The Framework touchpad is unfortunately a lot worse than the haptic touchpads on MacBooks. The click is just a little too mushy, and requires too much force as you click higher up the trackpad. I think there are finally some PC laptops with haptic touchpads, so if Framework starts offering one I’d definitely upgrade my FW13.
Came here to post this. Here's more info about it:

From YouTube description: "The music video, directed by Julian Doyle, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush. The video features Canadian actor Donald Sutherland playing the role of Wilhelm Reich, and Bush playing the part of his young son, Peter."

From Wikipedia: "Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy."

"Following two critical articles about him in The New Republic and Harper's in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, calling them "fraud of the first magnitude". Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court"

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