skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, if I had a problem with a dell XPS laptop I’d have throw it away. Repair after 7 years? I think Dell would laugh in your face.

Lenovo and Apple are the only brands that even remotely stand by their products after even a couple of months and don’t make it horrendously awful to repair.

It’s a miracle it works after 7 years of use. I’d venture to say that Apple is the best of breed in longevity for the original purchase. You paid about $1/day for that laptop. If you can buy another that lasts remotely as long and it isn’t made by Lenovo I’d love to hear about it.
At risk of sounding curmudgeonly, I can't help but feel like `git maintenance` is a bit of unneeded feature creep. Does it sound useful? Sure. But should it part of git itself, when its functionality could be easily achieved instead by crontabbing a relatively simple shell script that runs existing git commands? I feel like the answer is "No.". Of course, not everyone would go out of their way to write the aforementioned shell script; they even address this directly in the release:

> You could manage these data-structures yourself,
but you might not want to invest the time figuring
out when and how to do that.

On the other hand, not everyone will use `git maintenance`, so by the same token you could argue it's unnecessary bloat.
Software Engineer Interviews, the “Right Way”
If you really think so I would recommend looking at some benchmarks because that is not particularly close to reality.

Although you should wait until the M1 variant of your laptop releases. It is a bad time to buy the non Apple Silicon macbooks.
Chicken story: The time Microsoft banned my entire country
And yet, late last year or early this year I was able to buy a replacement charger [edit to add: they sell the battery too] from Dell for my 2013-model-year Latitude laptop. Not the exact same model as was originally bundled, but it's still new from Dell, still officially documented as compatible with my laptop, and still works fine with it in practice.

You described Apple as a consumer goods company and called this scenario satire if you just substitute a different company. Keep in mind the sale to OP was made by the much less consumerized Apple of 2014, not the "you can't touch /System without disabling important protections" Apple of 2021, and was from a Pro laptop line ostensibly targeted at business use cases, not a consumer model.

The expectations of OP for a top-tier business laptop seem quite reasonable to me, both in the past and in the present. My laptop still meets my needs well enough after more than 6 years of use (yeah I bought it in 2014) that I haven't been able to justify the purchase of a replacement, even though I could afford one if needed. Dell's offering of guaranteed compatible new parts reinforced both that decision and my openness to Dell business laptops whenever I do upgrade, since it's not a planned obsolescence trap.
I disagree that tooling is required to work with them in the GraphQL case - you still end up getting and sending JSON in the vast majority of cases.

With gRPC you're absolutely correct. Then again, I wasn't trying to make an argument for or against any of these technologies per se - just pointing out that this is a major part of the value provided that wasn't really called out in the article.
I have a similar story but the opposite end of things. I was listening in to a large meeting (>200 people) and the presenter decided to UN-mute everybody's microphones. I still can't believe I didn't hear any explicit or unprofessional things that day. That really was a dangerous move.
I mean yes... but in bare metal there's a lot of things that need to be handled:

- Network topology management, IP address management (IPAM) and host associations (DNS, DHCP services or Static IP assignment)

- IPMI to power on/off machine and change boot orders, serial consoles

- Disk configuration (MD raid sets, LVM configuration, partitioning)

- Firmware of all the components

- Burn-in testing

- Passing configuration to the host OS for application/OS configuration

- Detecting hardware failures and tracking response.

- Install the OS

MaaS does most of these things, but it's all the life of bare metal. So "just a tool to install a chosen OS" undersells the complexity in this space.
Awesome that it is designed to be electric conversion-friendly. I'd call this a win for functional design constraints because it looks very practical, in a good way. Needs: safety and efficiency.
> I hate having to use a smartphone for auth in general.

Same, especially since I don't have a smartphone.

Often times I'll go a week without looking at my phone and by then it has lost its charge so if an app requires a OTP to do something I often need to wait a while before it's charged enough to receive a text.

I do have a Google Voice number but I've mistakenly used my real number for a few services that frequently require SMS confirmations.
One Time Passcode seeds are a globally available ID system.

and I really don't call them second factor, that conflates the whole issue of where they are stored, how they are synced and used. people should be able to recover access to their one time passcode seed and there is little excuse for this.
you just compared buying a charger to replacing the battery. Also, I am sure if OP wants to replace the battery at a 3rd party store, they could. It’s been 7 years.
Leetcode and the “grind fake problems as interview prep” mentality is the absolute worst thing that has happened to the software industry in the 30 years I’ve been in it. If it disappeared suddenly, we’d all be better off.
Yep; we tried to play with some friends over the pandemic, but rather quickly we nicknamed it "Loading Online" and preferred to do anything else where you, well, get to do stuff instead of waiting for loading. Perhaps it was better back when GTA Online was just starting, but last year (whan I tried this) the loading times on good PC hardware were just outrageous compared to any other game.
Social networks ought to be less... social. Instead of text boxes, we should provide options for reactions and that's it. Maybe there are a lot of options, but the idea that anyone can share any thought at any time is probably too much.

Limiting how people can interact and reward people for reacting positively, is a great 1/2 punch way to prevent the nastiest people from entering into a positive feedback loop.

Yeah, it's not as free, but I think we've gathered enough evidence that freedom (in this social media context) causes more problems than it solves.
Sounds like a real world case of the trolly problem. Either take no action (by giving out no vaccine) and let hundreds die each day, or give out the vaccine and kill a few people each day (assuming the vaccine is causing the deaths, which likely isn't the case anyways).
If we are going to get government involved in this, then why not shift to cheaper area? There's cheaper land in more rural areas that the government could develop and entice businesses to move to. This would be cheaper for the tax payer. There's also an exodus from many cities which leave abandoned buildings that could be converted to living space.

Maybe the article works for Vancouver (I've never been there), but I don't see it working in most places.

Why downvote with no reply?
Neither Ansible nor Puppet takes 6 months to configure. Yes you have to write the code (and/or pull pre-existing modules) to make the config changes you want, but that's the point of them: they are there to automate the changes of config on servers. If you don't want to change the config of a base install then there is nothing to write. And given config is going to be specific to your environment then of course you're going to need to customise your config management code. No two companies are going to want their servers set up exactly the same.
This is about complete takeover of SMS for a phone number.

The threat model is beyond 2FA, imagine being able to impersonate anyone over text.

Social engineering gone to the next level. This isn't about just taking over accounts, it is about taking over a huge chunk of someone's social existence.
Of Chrome? I sure did. All of that information that Google has collected about me over the years without my say so has generated income for them.
I like not being locked out of my applications when my phone goes for an unexpected swim and I have to replace it.

The numerous emails I get when I log in from a new device serve me pretty well, all things considered
YES!! https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/09/04/vienna-r...
Appreciate the info on real-world use here. A data warehouse would be sort of interesting at work but is not urgently needed (because reporting from MySQL works, without the nifty speedups data warehouses can achieve), and we're somewhere between the size you're talking about and the really-big-data use cases I tend to see blogged about more often. Am curious about ClickHouse and a lower-cost deployment might make it worthwhile when it wouldn't be otherwise.
I like a Lark's Head (https://www.animatedknots.com/cow-hitch-knot-end-method) with a Half-Hitch. Very easy for most people to remember, applicable everywhere.
It’s worth pointing out that often LOA forms ask for a PIN, usually the same PIN as would be required to check voicemail. A better telecom company might make the PIN something harder to remember but enforcing such things would also make it harder to switch carriers, particularly if it replaced today’s standard forms of ID checks.

It’s better to assume that until phone numbers can be locked and unlocked the way domains can, with a random authorization code only accessible by real offline 2FA (though not all domain providers require it), and with the option of completely encrypted end-to-end texting (RCS?), well, then SMS won’t really be all that secure.
> Even the small rate of death from COVID for young people is going to be higher than that risk.

But it doesn't mean that you will surely get COVID if you refuse to get a shot. Also, some people claim the vaccines are not very effective against some variants such as the South African one. So it means you can get vaccinated, suffer some serious side effects, and once you are recovered, get COVID.
If they can sell a car for 2400$ then I think this would actually be acceptable policy :P
It is far more likely you're waiting too long than not long enough if you're thinking about this at all, imo.
The negativity was probably meant for Chrome anyway.
That charger is probably the same one they have used in all models for like 20 years...
Title is a little misleading.

It should be "Employees ACTUALLY work less than 3 hours a day" or just quoting the first paragraph which is less sensational - "average employee is productive for less than 3 hours in an 8 hour working day".

For the point of the article itself I think it comes to no surprise at least to me. I think it's been a known thing that the most productive hours are around 10 - 12 depending on the starting time.

Clicking into it I hoped it would go on into analysis of meeting and attention spans and maybe also be more professionally scoped but it seems very general and written in broad terms to try to apply to a lot of professions at the same time.

Some assumptions are just way out of control and the calculations are ludicrous for me:

> No work happens post afternoon on a Friday. Deducting another 3 hours from the week.

I think if there are companies that actually have people not working for 2 hours every Monday and 3 hours every Friday they might have some bigger culture problem.

> Social Media: 1 hour, Distractions: 30 min, Me time: 30 Min

These all seem the same with different names. Also a lot of it is not applicable under remote work which seems to be more standard in 2020-2021 pandemic.

At the end I see it's content marketing for time management consultant so I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for a more researched article.
Yes, but it would be nice to read some "official" numbers backed by HN's monitoring (although I'm on HN quite/too often, I would not notice every downtime).
Oh I agree 100%. This is why there is constant tension between people who want less restrictions and people who want more. We are always striking an imperfect balance.

“A good compromise leaves everybody mad.” -Bill Watterson
To iterate different embodiments of ideas with people until something gets traction. I do think that is actually something the arts teachers, but I've done none of the arts so no personal experience to compare.
Huh. Maybe because for whatever reason they want to "do as Safari does".
> while the vive is better

Here's a through the lens comparing the Quest 2 and Vive. The Vive is absolutely obsolete, in terms of image quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTaYQNghAxI
> Does anyone know why services like Google Authenticator were ditched industry wide in favor of SMS codes? It has never made any sense to me.

This is not the case in my experience. Many apps that once used Authenticator-based TOTP now use app-based push alerts (Steam Authenticator, Blizzard Authenticator, Google->GMail App, etc.), but I haven't noticed a trend toward actual SMS.

Are there major orgs that switched to SMS 2FA and disabled authenticator apps? If so, I'd be interested in learning why, also.
Ah that's because at many companies if you make a mistake you are a mistake.

Which is BS tbh. Everyone makes mistakes.

I think with politicians and political appointees, it's a little different because that's very much a public trust. Nobody deserves to hold political office, they should instead be deserving of it by being ethical and having integrity.
Siggraph 1998: Touchware
> instead of ignoring

as-if that's the worst they could do. Suing the guy, pressing for charges with CFAA or DMCA anti-circumvention. There were far worse ways this could have gone.
> Isn't this literally the only thing an NFT guarantees anyway? Anything you can't do with a non-fungible piece of paper, you can't do with a non-fungible token.

Pretty much. It's a bit harder to show your paper autograph (and prove its veracity for full status points or before selling it) than to demonstrate this with an NFT. If that's what the paper is about for you, the NFT is better.

With concert tickets though there are a ton of benefits from proving authenticity, not needing to meet to transfer paper, not needing ID to prove you didn't steal it when checking in, etc.

> I'm blown away by how many people are upset that other people are doing stupid things at the confluence of new technology and excessive spending money.

Me too.
Ubiquity: almost everyone has a cell phone. They’re nearly required for all but the richest people.

Simplicity: nearly everybody understands how texting works.
My cofounder and I met Tim and his team back in 2015, when they had just started building it. We actually had about a 5 year head start on them, and wound up building this social network.

Here's what I think the future of social networking will be:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-future-of-social-networkin...
They have it, it’s called FIDO2, and it even works with existing devices such as Touch ID or Windows Hello in common browsers such as Chrome. Even Google doesn’t promote Google Authenticator now, but they keep it around for legacy reasons because it still works, until you lose your phone. That’s where FIDO2 shines: just authenticate more than one device, including purchased hardware tokens if you want something cheaper than a phone, and you’ll always have at least one device with access, somewhere.
Don't get overexcited. On "normal" CPU the improvement is more like 30%, still huge, but don't expect GTA Online to load instantly after the patch.
It starts earlier than that: payroll tax in Spain is 36%.

If you're a micro-company, you can probably get away with paying each employee cash, or via B2B payments.

Once you reach any reasonable scale, you have to formalise those contracts.

This is a problem across the EU, apart from areas like the UK and Scandinavia which don't have payroll taxes (where interestingly tech seems to be flourishing).
A huge part of this depends on your philosophical axioms about the inherent morality of individuals. Are people default-good or default-bad?

Frankly, this view is the major divide between conservative and liberal. And, it'll directly affect all practical implementations such as giving everyone free money. It's also profoundly philosophical in questioning the essence of the soul, so most people like to get unphilosophically political (which is like trying to make software without knowing a language).
If you are on a Mac, check out the Network Link Conditioner.

https://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/
My point (and where we may disagree) is that GDP is only informative to a point. As you point out, that point may be when certain essentials are met such as access to healthcare, clean water, and electricity. Beyond that point GDP as a maximization function may be counterproductive and only measuring marginal utility decreasing marginal utility per unit of carbon increase. Choosing the right metric matters - choosing GDP is at best a clunky approximation once a certain level of industrialization is achieved. After that, there are probably better metrics to measure quality of life. So if we’re trying to maximize quality of life, we should probably focus on those rather than a twisted economist view that productivity is the best measure of a society.
That reminds me of the old IE joke. IE, the most commonly used browser to download another browser.
I find it interesting that so many people have made their own CA simulator — I’ve made one as well! [0] Mine uses a very different design to yours: it’s distributed as a library allowing people to define their own CAs, which they can then compile and run in a GUI. Compared to yours and OP’s, this is admittedly a bit hard to use, and you do need to know Haskell to use it. Additionally, I’ve only just rewritten it to use this approach, so some of the documentation and samples are out of date. (Also, it crashes a lot, I don’t know why.) Still, I have successfully used it ‘in anger’ at least once, to simulate the Beleusov-Zhabotinsky reaction for a chemistry assignment [1], so it at least seems to work.

(The categorically inclined may also be interested to know that this uses a variant of comonads [2] to define CAs, an approach I’ve found to be surprisingly flexible.)

[0] https://github.com/bradrn/cabasa

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2874179 and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01672789909...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/a2vnni/a_better_co...
Vienna is a bit out of the ordinary in that regard because it has been a stronghold of leftist government. The 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Austria are Graz and Linz which don't have that kind of left-leaning policy. You can rent flats there for rates similar to Vienna public housing. But those are much smaller cities. Vienna is more comparable to Munich for instance where rents are much higher and which is a city that, arguably, has less to offer along many dimensions of quality-of-life.
Contrary to popular belief, many junior developers are too shy about asking.
Virtual desktop doesn't require side quest anymore [1]. Facebook has allowed the full featured version. Although, I noticed that PCVR is nowhere in the description.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61aXT-pOlc
Strange that this was this downvoted. It is an issue that a single dev with a profiler should've been able to identify very easily. That they hadn't addressed it despite it being such an annoyance for so many users for so long is embarrassing.

Not to take away from the feat and initiative of doing so without access to source code.
How do you reply when they haven't invested much time in solving the problem? You ask, "what have you tried?". They say XYZ. What are you going to tell them to go back, try some other things, and then come back? Sometimes I too need to brute force my way through problems. It sucks, it's how I got where I am. No one has to suffer like I did early in the career but an ounce of effort from some folks every now and then would be nice.
> I find it hard to believe there's anti-sub tech that can tell if a given vessel is being operated by cartel members or the Russian navy.

Without betraying any secrets, the army can know a lot (I mean a lot) about an enemy submarine by its acoustic signature alone. Picking apart a drug smuggling sub from a military sub is child play provided you can actually hear the military sub which is easier said than done.

> they can't tell without boarding the sub

The USA can't board an enemy sub unless it surfaces. That's not what an ASW operation is.
>I realize people will argue that they don't generate more revenue, but if that were true then how has this whole industry developed around them?

If it were so obvious that targeted ads increase revenue, you’d think that the advertising industry would be able to prove it. They can’t.
I found an explanation here: https://github.com/Aperocky/cellular-automata
Ansible can also run in pull-mode, just like Puppet. Is there anything that hasn't scaled well that you could share?
Christ, what software lets you do that?

It can be annoying that Teams lets you mute but not unmute people, but thank god it doesn't.
Too bad it’s not higher. But that’s a good start. It’s a clear win for a well-engineered electric drivetrain given the low miles typically traveled per day (BUT high total miles on odometers as they’re made to last decades), typically low speeds, and extensive stop and start. Playing almost entirely to electric’s strengths and the weaknesses of internal combustion. In an ideal world, I’d hope it’d be 50% electric and 50% plug-in hybrid.
Thanks, but we won’t give you anything.
Open a 2nd tab. Turn your 2 404s into one 808. Then start making music
BMW debuts the next generation of its iDrive operating system
More charitably, people have an instinctive tendency to bend over backwards to apologize for things they're not responsible for in the interest of cordial relations. This is good if you're casually trying to make friends, but bad if the other party might take you to court. Companies therefore very reasonably explicitly correct for this behaviour.
I guess it's a matter of taste. Having lived in both Vancouver and Vienna, I would say the latter is without a doubt a better place to live.
Why have a specific design anyways? In both Sweden and Spain, the cars carrying mail is typically just a normal half-truck (not sure about the correct name) with the post office branding. Here are two examples: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DA5TW8/yellow-correos-spanish-post... - https://st2.depositphotos.com/3982569/5739/i/950/depositphot...

Seems to work fine. Packages gets carried in bigger trucks, but still just business trucks with different branding on them. Wouldn't it have saved a lot of cost in the end?
In a completely harmless way
> now Rockstar is suppose to feel ashamed because they didn't fix a big performance issue that affected startup times?

Yes, they should be ashamed of this.
Can you talk about the experience of starting to maintain it and gain acceptance for new commits from debian upstream? I've got my eye on a few little pieces of software to start working on but am afraid to make the leap.
Yet, Mozilla cannot fix the fullscreen mode problem in macOS (automatic hiding of toolbar). And they are just redecorating toolbar.
These economist rankings are done from the point of view of rich expats. I very much doubt that their lives have much in common with the lives of people living in Vienna's public housing.
If I can answer a question in two minutes and it's going to take you a full day to figure it out it would be silly for me to refuse to help you.