skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What laptops don’t have issues?

Many people seem to think MacBooks have exceptionally high build quality and they have m̶o̶s̶t̶ all of the types of issue you listed:

• Overheating https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2020/06/24/apple-mac...

• thermal throttling

• sleep issues (IIRC they’re hard to keep awake while trying to use them closed and docked to an external monitor in “clamshell mode”)

• trackpad issues (subjective and they do seem to have the largest trackpad fanbase,
but some have complained they’re too large and easy to brush while typing;
perhaps the palm rejection isn’t good enough for everybody)

• charging issues (they charge differently through ports on one side vs. the other
and some have complained they build up charges that can be felt when picking them up)

• HDMI issues

• keyboard issues (butterfly keyboards destroyed by dust, Apple delayed addressing this for years IIRC).

Plus staingate. Plus actively anti-repair design and a user hostile OS.

Edits: bullets and paragraph separation, found the last type of issue (overheating)
If it did, physicists everywhere would be unable to communicate. Hand-wavy explanations are essential!
One of the things that I really appreciate about his blog posts is that they don't just cover the game design aspects like "what is a good card vs a bad card or a strong card vs a weak card", or even "How do we make cards which are intended for play in specific formats", but also product design issues like "If somebody buys a booster pack and looks through the fifteen cards they get, what do we need those fifteen cards to communicate about the unique mechanics of the set, and how do we construct a) the set and b) the booster packs to make sure this is expressed in the way we need?"
Ah, I love this theory.
This exactly! And knowing there is all this crap waiting when you get back is also not helping to relax.

I'd rather spend 10 minutes every day on my vacation making sure things are good and fixing small issues, it gives me a feeling nothing is getting out of control.

Besides, I like my job. It's not the saltmines.
Q: Why aren't all probabilities 50/50 in the Many Worlds Interpretation?
Htmx is more like all „we try to solve everything for you but fail“ solutions. The good part of stimulus is that it is only a binding library, no automatic content refetch etc. solution
Additionally, requiring a doctor's note doesn't necessarily mean insisting that unwell people physically leave their homes to visit their doctor.
It's no accident.

- World class universities

- Weak/non-existent non-compete

- Better risk tolerance from VC (Can't just park the money in real-estate. Worth it to invest in the Next Big Thing)

- Higher compensation means the best world-wide come work in that ecosystem
eta: i dont know why the link isnt showing. and i am unable to edit it now. here is the link: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2020/11/20/covid-19-vac...

I commented elsewhere that the 'advocacy group' is in denial about the level of distrust and resistance the farmworker community has towards governments and vaccines.

sometimes, i feel like most of us are trapped in bubbles with very thick..even opaque walls.

imagine: you are poor and likely undocumented. you work low wage/minimum wage jobs and can be easily replaced. there is the power dynamic between the society out there and your labour class community. and they..in their wisdom..say that you have to take a vaccine so you can keep working to pick their food and in essence being used as test bodies.

i dont think people on twitter or social media or linkedin and those writing articles on medium or substack have any clue what the average farm labourer or slaughter house worker thinks about this vaccine.
Ah, I see. I would say in response that we're pretty much at a subjective impasse then. The thrust of my argument is that brilliant assholes are generally well tolerated. By "asshole" I don't mean someone who got canned for a harmless joke, I'm talking about toxic aggressive egomaniacs who wield their expertise and prestige as a cudgel to demean and abuse their colleagues.
Really? I'm only familiar with university PR people writing them on the scientists' behalf, inducing a lot of cringe on the part of the latter.
Ask HN: How to meet co-founders during pandemic?
I'm working on an idea in the business productivity space that I think could be promising. I'm a technical founder with some success launching products in the past. I've learned my lessons and decided that I do not want to be a solo-founder for my next endeavor.

Previously, I planned on taking my time, socializing with non-technical people at work, as well as attending startup meetups to find a potential co-founder, build a relationship, etc...

With the pandemic, everything is remote. Meetups have gone virtual, and no one is in the office.

I'm looking for novel ideas on how meet potential non-technical co-founders, mentors, etc... in these uncertain times.
I'm thinking mostly on a scenario where browsers could have a competition of existing languages (C, C++, Java, Lua, etc).
That's crazy how does the spider know how to do this. One of those things like how it knows how to weave a web that looks relatively symmetrical.

edit: regarding making some form of AI seems you need understanding like "if electric field, deploy web, fly" sort of thing. inference?
>For a clearly smart guy it's so frustrating to see PG bring in a topic like the Billionaires being exploitative, and then taking such a thoroughly blinkered view.

Why is it frustrating?
PG discussed an important topic I found to be very relevant in the business world to this day. Being exploitive is praised in most if not all business schools!
Cut throat, shark, shrewd, it’s even depicted in movies Wolf of Wall Street, the Founder (McDonald’s), greed is good...

No self made billionaire, at least in the last 100 years, was ever portrayed fairly in movies or history books!

Even Carnegie Mellon!!
You know that by not taking the vaccine, you increase the chances of infecting your mother even if she has taken the vaccine?
From my experience it’s still not easy to find an F# Job.

It’s a niche, but it exists and is growing.

If you want one and are willing to take a few compromises you’ll find one.
They should sell scraping licenses, right? /s
They are difficult to export. I had great success with Exporter.app, it converts to markdown and even handles the images. It then imports nicely into Bear.app.

https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12
Yeah, this is not surprising and this person was expelled from the communist party and is now seen as a fugitive. Xi is really a tyrant and the communist party is utterly corrupt, any people with any good intentions would be purged from the party. She even mentions CCP as "zombie party", this was a very interesting article, thanks for sharing.
Better to just exclude vowels and numbers that look like vowels.
The Spread of Dumplings
Anyone know what ever came of this?
Your immune system is apolitical. No amount of libertarianism is going to protect you from measles.
At 1/2 1/3 the pay, I can't really see why a dev would work more than 30 hours a week. Especially if there's no stock comp.
For those too lazy to hunt, SAFE stands for

Saturn

Azure App Service

Fable

Elmish

Slightly off topic but it’s good to see that F# is finally getting some proper web love.
> I have been planning to transcribe everything I want to keep into a git repo of .md files

Exporter.app might help you.
https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12
Discovering the Y Combinator by Mistake
Evolving Languages: 5 Steps to Go
Not really. If you formalise this kind of redundancy it leads to super annoying things like on-call rosters. Which are awful for a worker because it means you MUST be available immediately, can't drink or go out to the shop or whatever.

I much rather just have them call me for that one critical issue that happens in a very long time, and appreciating me putting in the time after hours, than being forced to sit at home waiting for something to break which never actually happens.

In practice there is always someone available who is able to make time for it so there is really no need for on-call rosters. As such the act of stepping up and helping out avoids having this heavy commitment.
I'm not saying that you're saying that she's marginalized because she's a well known researcher.

I think she feels marginalized because the process she's going through is dehumanizing, especially given the topic she wrote about (bias in AI frameworks).

It's possible that 99% of Google employees would want to be in her position, but I think that's a bit high. I imagine even fewer would to be there after going through what she goes through, especially racism, which sucks.

I can see how you would think she's confrontational. I think she is to some degree, but I don't think it's unfounded.

She's a minority, and as such, has to deal with all of the explicit and systemic racism that's present in the US. She believes that there are intrinsic characteristics associated with the AI models used at Google that perpetuate the racism she has experienced. She was able to write a paper about the defects she believes were present in those models, which apparently passed whatever initial review processes are present at Google. Not long after that, someone at Google didn't like her paper and, through HR, used a "review" process, which isn't really a review process because there's no mechanism for her to discuss/debate anything with the reviewers, to effectively order her retract the paper under the guise of an anonymous review.

In effect, Google may be perpetuating racism indirectly via problems with their AI models, and directly by silencing her work via a process that sounds like a peer review, but is really just a way for someone to anonymously order her to retract her work.

I'd be angry too if my work implicitly supported frameworks that discriminated against me, and when I submitted valid criticism of those frameworks, my work ordered me to retract it under the guise of some anonymous review process.
Huh, in my anecdotal experience the older sibling is always wayyyy better and i always attribute that to the first sibling being an only child and therefore developing more independent traits and learns to count on themselves which allows them to better excel.
They are different caches.

The database engines you’re talking about do that for pages not found in RAM, which need to be read from disk.

This article is about accessing data that’s already present in system memory. The caches they are talking about are on-chip ones, i.e. L1D and L2 caches inside CPU cores, and L3 cache shared across cores but still located on the same CPU die.

Some rare CPUs like in my old laptop with Core i3-6157U even have L4 on-chip cache made of DRAM.
That would be great. Thank you. Please upload the ACL MRIs.
Another excerpt from the article describing exactly that:

After 20 years of hesitation, confusion, and misery, I made the decision to emerge from the darkness and make a complete break with the party. Xi’s great leap backward soon left me with no other choice. In 2018, Xi abolished presidential term limits, raising the prospect that I would have to live indefinitely under neo-Stalinist rule. The next summer, I was able to travel to the United States on a tourist visa. While there, I received a message from a friend telling me that the Chinese authorities, accusing me of “anti-China” activities, would arrest me if I returned. I decided to prolong my visit until things calmed down. Then the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, and flights to China were canceled, so I had to wait a little longer. At the same time, I was disgusted by Xi’s mishandling of the outbreak and signed a petition supporting Li Wenliang, the Wuhan ophthalmologist who had been harassed by police for warning his friends about the new disease and eventually died of it. I received urgent phone calls from the authorities at the Central Party School demanding that I come home.

But the atmosphere in China was growing darker. Ren, the dissident real estate tycoon, disappeared in March and was soon expelled from the party and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Meanwhile, my problems with the authorities were compounded by the unauthorized release of a private talk I had given online to a small circle of friends in which I had called the CCP “a political zombie” and said that Xi should step down. When I sent friends a short article I had written denouncing Xi’s repressive new national security law in Hong Kong, someone leaked that, too.

I knew I was in trouble. Soon, I was expelled from the party. The school stripped me of my retirement benefits. My bank account was frozen. I asked the authorities at the Central Party School for a guarantee of my personal safety if I returned. Officials there avoided answering the question and instead made vague threats against my daughter in China and her young son. It was at this point that I accepted the truth: there was no going back.
> I check email and sometimes answer when on vacation, because often 10 minutes spent addressing a small issue while I'm away prevents several days or a week or two of dealing with a huge issue when I get back.

The question is why ten minutes from home save days of work.

There's something horribly wrong going on if that's the case.

I'm on call a week every month, I get payed for it.

When I go back to work something happened that requires days or weeks of work to fix the issue, I will work to fix the issue for days or weeks, while still working no more than 40 hours/week.

Fixing management problems is above my pay grade.
The average age of my clothing[1] is probably 5-10 years with some items well over 10 years old. Some of my clothes are legal to drink.

The idea of buying clothes then donate them after 6-12 months has always been broken. With growing kids (or if you gain/ lose a bunch of weight) you don't have a ton of choice. For most adults, the only way you can really ensure you have an environmentally friendly wardrobe is by purchasing carefully and keeping clothes until they genuinely wear out. For jeans and good quality jackets, that can be decades.

When you donate clothes to St Vinny's (Goodwill/ Salvation Army/ whatever), they keep the best/ resealable clothes and dispose of the rest. A bunch gets dumpstered. The only reason they accept used clothing is because of the small percentage they can actually resell.

[1] Excluding underwear and socks!
> Why are they relying on someone that is on vacation in the first place?

Sometimes there are only so many people who can solve a problem and society can't afford to have an excess number of them sitting around doing nothing in case there is an emergency.

> Are firemen supposed to not go on holiday ever during their work life?

Firemen, police, politicians, military, are all subject to getting recalled from leave if there is an emergency and they are needed to prevent life being lost. Nobody ever said they can't ever go on leave.

> That's simply the symptom of very bad management

No it's reality!

Look at how many people criticise presidents who are 'golfing' when there is a crisis and life is being lost.

Some people just need to be able to respond no matter what.
That's interesting, thanks for looking it up!
This is a good summary of some of the technical issues Wikipedia is facing. Those can be overcome and eventually will.

The really serious problems are organizational in nature: the overgrowth of bureaucracy, the jungle of policies and "sort-of" policies that can be weaponized, the emergence of an inner clique skilled in navigating the quagmire, and the resulting impossibly high barrier to entry for new contributors.

The experience of contributing to Wikipedia these days is inherently adversarial. People come and write something genuinely useful or at least do so in good faith, and then realize they unleashed on themselves a whole lengthy process when they have to defend what they did on numerous talk pages over an extended period of time, or succumb to deletionists. Even if they prevail, the experience is hardly pleasant, so they eventually leave and never look back.

An artefact of the above is also that the editorial base suffers from an overrepresentation of people with vested interests, as they will always be the most highly-motivated to stay. There are of course many great editors too but the way things are going, the project is not sustainable, and its quality is being compromised due to an organizational failure.

What Wikipedia needs is not Markdown (not that I have anything against it) but courage, fresh air, and less of the siege mentality.
Congress Stalls on Stimulus Checks While Corporations Continue to Reap Millions
Because just like how interviewing is gamed now by leetcoding, certification exams will also be gamed by some other phenomenon like 'certcoding'. There are plenty of certification programs floating around already, not to mention the coding bootcamps which behave something along those lines. Ultimately, it boils down to who plays the game better, be it interviewing process or certification exams.
I agree with your basic premise. However, in this particular instance, what would have been the historical equivalent ("already happened") of scripts sent by the server to the client during the request response cycle, which could perform layout and logic in the client?

If you're simply referring to code that could run on both client and server, your point is clearer to me.
Nothing commands respect in airport security like a Thinkpad T420.
> hashing would be pretty much a bijection

By "hash" I just meant its broader meaning of "converting": "IP address" to "broad geographical region". There would be no way to convert, say, "Monaco" back to an IP address
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who read Hacker News feel this way about their own jobs. But surely you can see this is necessarily a minority of the population. Necessarily, most people who are part or the world economy will not experience labor this way.

It's a strange line of reasoning! Every time there's talk of reigning in employer surveillance, reducing working hours or generally speaking any measure that seeks to leverage up workers' power against their employers, there's a comfy tech worker ready to comment about how, well, I'm actually an exception, I actually like my job, etc...

And good for you, truly, if that's you! It feels wonderful to have employment that you really enjoy and look forward to. Keep working on the weekend if you really want to (a real danger of burnout though). But we are the exception here, and it makes no sense to govern based only on exceptions.
This only works if there is a balance of power. But most of them are not in this position.
you need to remodel anyway, or things get old and break. If you are not upgrading regularly anyway because of this you have a problem.
I had to zoom out on Chrome for Android to read it.
“easy deployment” makes bug fixes fast, and the subscription business model gives the developer a financial incentive to make those fixes. I’d say the average Web app is more robust than the average desktop app... even small one-person web apps are usually pretty good. At the very high end from the huge companies like Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Adobe, Autodesk, etc. the desktop apps are better.
>Java started its life as a technology to build more powerful web pages

I'm pretty sure Java came from the work James Gosling did on Oak, which was mostly used for embedded systems. I remember a lot of the early documentation being OO designs for devices like microwaves and CD players.
That's a good point. It may also be worth pointing out that's the case with "unlimited" vacation as well. Even if you're not cynical about whether employees will be able to take a reasonable amount in practice, it's certainly the case that nothing needs to be paid out when you leave. Which for someone moving around jobs a fair bit can add up over time.
Tim, Ericsson, Qualcomm achieve 1Gbps on 5GmmWave at a distance of 6.5km
Running the same logic and the same technology in the server and the client was mandatory for realtime multiplayer games since the 1990s. See this article from Valve [1] for a briew overview of how client side prediction works. You should also have the server process the data to avoid cheating by modificating the client app.

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...
Not supported IIRC as it’s not supported by JavaScript.

I think it can still be archived with web workers.
You just check who they voted for. Only Biden voters can have valid perspectives and pure intentions.
Presumably both people in this noted illustration also touched the door handle, possibly the door itself, and any number of other surfaces while entering the building?

I feel like drawing the link exclusively to air flow is tenuous at best. Saying with any level certainty that they didn't contract it _elsewhere_ seems dishonest.
> In fact, current employer has this as a point of policy for interpersonal conflicts barring severe enough circumstances where a reasonable person would say "yes this requires intervention from on high".

I completely agree with you, but what happened here was that this manager sent this email to a large group of employees, not the specific employees she had the issue with (which would be fine!).

This email wasn't an attempt at conflict resolution, it was sharing how upset she was, at her manager, with a bunch of coworkers.

For the last sentence: in the event where one wants to complain to a large group of coworkers, I think it's pertinent to stick to the basic, unarguable facts of what occurred. Suggesting that you've been dehumanized by the company is adding fuel to a fire that you should instead be aiming to resolve privately, if you want to continue to work at the company.
Are news just facts? Or do they also incorporate the bias of the author?

Sure, you could argue that news are facts, and that they should be free from copyright. But that would only work if your news is just bullet points of the factual stuff. But if any element of bias is present, it become a distinct property of the author, hence it should be copyrightable.

Of course, with today's tech, it's easier to remove the bias element from the factual data.
An illusion is a sensory stimulus that appears one way until you examine it closely, at which point it reveals itself to be other than what it initially appeared to be. Your chair absolutely fits that description.
As much as Microsoft did with J++.

No one needs Android Java slowing down the Java ecosystem by imposing additional burdens on Java library authors that also want to target Android.

Besides Google that is.
Yup exactly, if I'm on emergency calls, I get payed 10% of my base hourly to be available, online in 15minutes and ready to solve issues. As soon as I get a call during this time, it's overtime (125% of hourly pay, bonuses for weekend/night calls). If I'm on holiday I'm out for the company, but I'm there for colleagues. With this system did daily rotations and weekly rotations, both lengths have their pros and cons.
The scientific method