skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more amusingly the SEC whistleblower protection she's claiming is for securities fraud, that FB is committing fraud overstating its company health to investors.
Also, the rust community is too nice to openly admit it, but it's goal IS to displace C as the main low level language especially for the kernel. This is doomed to attract a lot of attention
Panel gap issues have been fixed in the latest iterations.

> "In 2018, engineering consultant Sandy Munro said Tesla's Model 3 had serious production flaws."

Yeah, and listen to the incredible praise this same Sandy Munro is giving them this year. As early as January 2021, around the time the other articles were published: https://www.teslaoracle.com/2021/01/26/2021-tesla-model-3-sa...

These articles may have been published in 2021, but by the time of publication they were in large part already out of date.
On the flip side, my old PM had an incredibly deep understanding of both the product and the customers buying it (an area in which us SWEs were lacking), in addition to a semi-hands-on understanding of the engineering process too.

He wasn't a professional software engineer, but he took the time to actually learn how to program through some side projects and through this gained a real understanding of what would be trivial for us to implement and what wouldn't.

To top it all off, he had good rapport with the CEO and was adept at managing upwards.

The product wouldn't be half as good as it was if not for him.

Rather than tarring an entire profession with the same brush, I think a much fairer "warning" to founders is to make sure the people you're hiring are competent and that the job they are doing is something that actually adds value to the organisation. PMs, when deployed appropriately, can be worth their weight in gold.
Is that true for ... anything at all, though? Outside of computer programs, where you claim it is? The ideal food, the ideal movie, the ideal vacation, the ideal video game, the ideal body, the ideal sofa, the ideal tree...

Choice arises because humans are different, and want - and need! - different things.
There's a number of stories about the insane level of hubris at RIM. Before the iPhone smartphones were seen as "business" phones. RIM reportedly felt like hot shit because they had managed to just not fuck up while Palm, Microsoft, and Nokia tripped over themselves to try to make a BlackBerry But Better.

RIM was so focused on the "business" market they really couldn't conceive of a real consumer device. Their upper management apparently looked at the billions of feature phones sold (IIRC Motorola had sold a quarter billion RAZRs by then) and said "nah let's double down on the order of magnitude smaller business market". They dipped their toe in feature phones with the Pearl but it was a joke compared to the original iPhone with its original software that didn't even support MMS.

By starting with more consumer friendly features (Web, media player, phone features) Apple had an extremely competent baseline of functionality. As soon as they added workable Exchange integration (iOS 3 or 4?) the iPhone (including older models) instantly became workable business devices. RIM had far more ground to make up for going from business to consumer than Apple had going consumer to business.

https://archiveprod.canadianbusiness.com/technology-news/how...

https://techland.time.com/2013/09/29/the-inside-story-of-the...

https://sites.psu.edu/global/2018/02/09/blackberry-and-the-i...
Interesting. Usually my critique for products like this is something along the lines of "great, but how are you going to access your data from the internet?" Typically the answer to that is you need some sort of tunneling service like ngrok to get around port forwarding, CGNAT, firewalls, etc. I maintain a list of solutions here[0]. The problem with most of these services is that they're targeted at developers and aren't something the average user should have to mess with.

In this case, the PiBox is being offered by KubeSail[1], a company which specializes in services like tunneling (they're already on the list mentioned above). It will be very interesting to see if they can bundle it in such a way that people don't have to worry about how the tunneling works. Extra points if they make it easy for users to buy/use their own domains.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://kubesail.com/
My social media in my formative years was email and usenet. I never understood Facebook, never used it.
They asked Microsoft also. So does anybody know whether Windows would be logging searches at the OS level? ik about the windows search menu being logged, but interesting whether they actually intercept web searches.
They might have jumped the gun since new passports can't have accents but older ones might.
The PBP CPUs aren't fast, but they're certainly "enough" for daily driver use if you're not insanely demanding. I use one as one of my daily drivers, and it handles web (Firefox and Chrome), Element, Marktext for editing blog posts, and various other things perfectly fine. It's not fast by any means, but it's entirely adequate. Photo editing takes a couple ticks to process, and I wouldn't try video editing on it, but neither do I do video editing, so...

Battery life is excellent (8-12 hours depending on what you're doing), the 2021 trackpad firmware solves the fact that the trackpad was beyond vile, and other than wifi glitching every couple weeks and needing a reboot, I've really got no complaints with it. Plus, it's $200, and very light.

If you're the sort of person who "needs" 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD with a 6C/12C workstation processor in a laptop, it's not at all useful, but it's quite a bit more capable than most people realize, and that I have no fan noise, and it doesn't roast my legs in normal use, is really quite nice.
You could easily devise it so that expenses are also passed through, but I wouldn't mind if corporate grocery stores lost their tax advantage and had to raise prices to be more competitive with mom and pop stores that operate as S Corps.
Honestly, Zenimax sound like really unpleasant to work for
I've thought about getting one or two...

I can see the appeal.

But I have come to the sensible conclusion that an Intel NUC is far more useful, to me, as a general purpose computing device, media server, file server, linux dev box and occasional casual Minecraft gaming device for the kids!

Seemingly once I've specced up a RPI, they are not exactly super cheap at that point!
Interesting. I've always wondered why tomatoes in the US taste like shit. Why is there a trade off between high yield and taste? Is there not a high yield + great taste variety?
That’s actually a really useful feature. Nice.
This sounds like a decent way to run an educational program but a very poor way to run a business (at least a VC backed one). You probably won't get enough volume by doing a hard screen. You need to ensure that your program is good enough that even moderate or marginal candidates come out able to find a job. Otherwise, your business is quite small.
Looking for a job in the US while visiting on a tourist visa is legally questionable. You're not only asking prospective employers to sponsor you for a limited number of visas that can get complicated and expensive for them to obtain, but you will probably have to leave the US while waiting to get that visa, and maybe explain to USCIS why you were job hunting while in the US on a tourist visa. At the very least you're competing for one of the limited number of H1-B (or other visas that allow working in the US) with a large number of more qualified/experienced candidates.

Sending in resumes and cover letters is not the correct way to search for a job, though it's the most common approach. With no degree and only six months of experience you are entry-level at best. Right now the demand in the US tech industry is for senior-level people. There's no shortage of entry-level US citizens/green card holders looking for first jobs.

You're not doomed, but you should realistically assess where you are in your career (the very beginning) and how that looks to companies desperate for more senior people. Add to that the complications of not having the right to work in the US and you can start to understand why your applications get ignored. The US has limits on H1-B visas, with exceptions for people who have advanced degrees or specialized skills. I can't imagine a company going to the trouble sponsoring a visa for an entry-level candidate. I know at places I've worked candidates who didn't have US work permits were ignored -- it's simply too much trouble to sponsor a visa and not worth it for entry-level/junior positions.

I'm trying to give you helpful advice but I realize I'm painting a bleak picture. Large companies like Facebook don't have a problem attracting candidates and they can sponsor visas for more experienced people (or people with degrees). Smaller and less sexy (not tech-oriented) companies do have trouble attracting candidates, but they are likely unfamiliar with and skittish about hiring a foreigner. Companies used to post "US citizens/permanent residents only" in their job ads but that seems less common now -- perhaps the employers (or recruiters) worry about lawsuits for "exclusionary" hiring practices, or they don't want to take the chance of missing a truly great candidate they might sponsor.
I think the story of a lost decency is frankly, a complete myth.

Was decency the norm during the 1950s when black people were excluded from political involvement and/or lynched? What about in the 1970s with the fights over Vietnam? Was it decency when gay bars were raided and beat up by cops on a regular basis? Was the Gingrich revolution decent? What about in 2012 when people put up signs about not “re-<slur deleted>“ because of Obama?

The past was only civil/decent if you’re either viewing it with rose tinted glasses, or if you’re (purposefully or accidentally) very tightly constraining your analysis to very specific in groups. In fact, if you read historical narratives you’ll discover that for any given lost “decent” time, you’ll find people of that era hand wringing over the loss of decency and civility, and pining for their own lost decent time! Coincidentally everyone seems to put this lost “decent” time to be right before they began paying attention to the way people treated each other in public[0].

This of course doesn’t mean that violence and sectarian strife don’t vary; they obviously do. But the idea that people were once decent to each other in a way that doesn’t exist anymore is not really supported by the evidence, and frankly seems more like a “kids these days” type of statement; common but without merit.

0 - To paraphrase a boss of mine “they just happened to make the best music right when I was the most emotionally vulnerable. What a coincidence!”
Afaik that‘s what Stratfor does.

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

They provide a free weekly newsletter as well.
the candy might also be filled with razors and end all life on our planet though
it's gonna be amazing when low end a starts packing some real io. some day there'll be more than a lane or two of pcie.
How many units is AMD shipping/Quarter vs Apple?

Heck, Sony & Microsoft can't even get PS5s and Xboxes in customer hands 1 year after release. I would expect it is a combination of Apple's volume of phones shipped/quarter and cash reserves.
Barrel plug will do it too. It's an odd behavior, for sure.

I don't think I even realized it had a suspend sensor in the lid. I suspend mine via the power menu, wait for the green LED to go off, then close it. If you've got the proper suspend (deep sleep) stack working, it's very much a power sipper when asleep as well - I've had it asleep for a week (when I thought it was off), and still had plenty of battery when I woke it up.
May be this should be an OS feature rather than a Per App feature?

I wish they could transcribe my Voice Mail too. Whenever I have a voice mail, auto call the mail box and transcribe it for me. 99% of it are junk. But just in case there is one real voice message.
Upvote for Tailscale.

I find it super useful!

Even if just for remoting into various boxes; the kids for instance often tether their PCs off their phones or I'm tethered and want to remote to my LAN.

(I have terrible internet)
Obviously has never heard of DeFi.
Because Allred is a little bitch coward
Love the product and hope to see more success in this space.

Will it be easy for users to bring their own domain and/or buy one through you, or will they have to use a domain you control to use KubeSail tunneling?
Great writeup, I didn't know Carmack was involved to this extant.

My opinion on this, completely irrespective of the actual terms and laws:

Zenimax doesn't deserve anything.

But anyone who funded the original Kickstarter does (I was not one of those people). Anyone who put $200+ into that Kickstarter deserved some sort of payout. I feel like, at the very least, they should get free Oculus headsets for life.

It's hard to put a number on the total value created by that initial Kickstarter funding if it had been treated as an actual investment, but I'd be willing to bet that it's already in the billions, and will only grow.
Everything I know about Zenimax leads me to believe they are the absolute worst.
Same story in most western countries by now, stumble once and you're fucked for life.

And to add insult to injury, people will rather think you deserve it than face the fact that we're all in the same stinking boat.
Prolly just being indirectly paid by NSA to run it themselves.
I don't even need a TTS feature, just let me mark my chat as only-text please. People that send audios tend to consume more of my time than people who write because they are making up their mind as they speak.

They seem to think: why waste my time putting my thoughts into words when I can waste everyone else's time while I figure out my ideas?
Yes that looks very attractive, I am buying one so I don't need run usb cables external to my USB drives which is a bit messy.

On the other hand, you can have a USB3.1 hard drive docking station(around $30 for 2 hard drives) to hook into any cheap SBC board that provides a USB3 port. another way to do poorman NAS.
I agree, but...

Whose freedom? And what is freedom?

Market dynamics support corporations which can generate the largest numbers of ad clicks. You can't run an organization which doesn't ultimately conform to market dynamics. That leads to polarization, hate, and misinformation. Do we want to go down that path?

Are corporations people? Should corporations have freedom-of-speech? Should corporations be free to lie? Should government employees? Should corporations be free to engage in speech which is known to actively harm people?

I really don't know.

I do feel like some forms of intentional lying should be illegal. If a government employee says something, or an academic does, I should be able to trust they're not being intentionally untruthful. Where does that line lie? I don't know.

I also feel like individuals should have real freedom of speech. Not just freedom from government prosecution after speech, but freedom from economic prosecution, and to some extent, social ostracization.

I feel like we need a serious discussion here, though.
It's not just restricted to CSS either.

I made an app that lets you highlight quotes on Apple devices and it was such a pain building it in Swift. Just highlighting so it would look absolutely beautiful took about a month (it was also my first time learning the language). I had to dig deep down into the way fonts worked. CGRect became my best friend.

Fun project, but there's a reason why you don't see a lot of apps replicating Medium.com's highlighting feature. I also believe it's why highlighting text on iOS devices breaks every couple of months.

It's literally built a top a mountain of chewing gum and sticks holding it together. It's a mess.
> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had

The funny thing is: "small" systems are probably not presenting problems strictly less difficult than the ones Google have.

Different, with the need of caring about other abstraction, other layers, yes.

It's even astonishing the author does not understand that when she writes: "I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones" -- so how is that strictly less difficult.
I guess that is part of why Internet is so expensive in the US.
It sucks that there are just flocks of vultures waiting to profit off anything that results from his work. Business!
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Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’
I think you would probably need to sell a "first look" privilege to prospective employers. The program at UT required volunteers from various administrative departments to spend time supporting it, and the primary reason they did so was to get a peek at who they wanted to hire, ahead of competition (from other departments). Of course, this would only work in times of labor shortage for good programmers, but that is most of the time.
The churn rate for wireless carriers is around 2% per year in the US, give or take. There are about 300M wireless subscribers in the US. Meaning that around 6M wireless subscribers per year switch carriers.
Yes, this tiny water cooler capsule toy is 'ridiculous.' Perfect
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Mine, almost :)

https://danuker.go.ro/

Actually around $60, and I have more services on it, not just the site.
Anyone know of a similar solution that supports 3.5" drives?

I have a bunch of 4 TB externals that I would love to put to use. I know Synology, etc. exist but I don't need something so heavy. Just a simple Pi based case that can take one or two disks would be awesome.

Was really looking forward to the Helios 64 but unfortunately, they closed shop: https://kobol.io/
The RØDE Microphones NT-USB Mini would be a great step up from that, comes highly recommended. (I have one in the household.) Also the AT2020 is a classic, but I haven't used it myself. I have a plethora Audio Technica headphones though, so I am partial to the brand.

Mine is a Steinberg UR22 audio interface, and a SeElectronics model X1 microphone, on the RØDE PSA1 microphone arm. As it was commented, this is overkill for my needs, but when I bought it (2015) there wasn't that much in the tier below this.

I'd likely look at Elgato's new audio interface if I was to buy again, the Steinberg is top of class but might be a bit too much for my needs. I did buy the audio part of my setup in 2015 though; a lot has happened since then.

I use NVIDIA Broadcast to process my voice (noise reduction; the microphone is crazy sensitive - and my desktop has good air cooling) for work, and Discord's built in for when I'm doing some gaming.

NVIDIA Broadcast's noise reduction is good enough to merit the GPU purchase for this feature alone - it doesn't compress your voice overly, let alone the video processing I'm also using to slightly blur the background - which is leagues ahead of e.g. Google Meet's built in feature.
Ok, advocating against extrajudicial punishment (like djb also did) is of course monstrous behavior for woke directors.

So the EFF has also departed from its mission. We learn (https://www.eff.org/de/pages/effs-diversity-statement):

"Diversity of life experiences makes a big difference in how we identify and litigate cases, design privacy-enhancing software, and organize our activism."

Another institution has been taken over. I can't find the donor list, it would be interesting.
almost certainly part of it but not the whole story.
It's stunning how much can be done with a single ancient PCIe 2.0 x1 lane.
As a personal anecdote, extraneous columns in spreadsheets trigger my OCD.

The first thing I do in any spreadsheet is to delete all of columns except for five, then add more if needed.

I wish there was an option in Google Sheets to start with fewer columns. I almost never need a full alphabet.
It is cute, but I've far outgrown devices like this.

Currently on the hunt for a short-depth (<500mm) 19" drive shelf with at least 16 3.5" slots.
While what you says about focus is important, I've seen plenty of focused startups die.

WhatsApp had success because they executed well enough at the right time.

I hate WhatsApp with passion because of its limits and that horrible web interface that needs your phone connected in order to work.

I know plenty of people (me included) who stopped talking with some groups of people because they didn't tolerate WhatsApp.

It's mediocre software at best, but because of the network effect and first mover advantage, that was enough.
But how can governments keep people from circulating misinformation in their private messages if they can't inspect them?

When you ride with privacy, you ride with Putin.
The article shows raffia baskets containing tomatoes strapped to the top of fuel tankers. So they're not transported within the same space as the fuel.
At best, this is ignorance. At worst, it's willful revisionism. It was the iPhone apps that drove setting HCI back almost 2 decades. Hiding functionality behind skeumorphisms, coupling file access to apps, tiny screens, reinventing the accessibility wheel. Both Apple and Microsoft had very well-regarded UI design guidelines that, if followed, made apps that afforded the same metaphors as all the other apps on the system. Then one day the tech industry decided to throw it all away in the name of graphic design and branding, not usability.
I wish I could transfer my incredible raspberry pi luck to the actual lottery. I'd have won so many times.

In reality, fully working raspberry pi boards are normal. I must have at least 10. I admit I no longer use the original model (so slow) but last time I tried it worked just fine. I think that's pretty great for the money, especially considering the state of the market before they came along which I think you might be forgetting.
As a US citizen I haven't needed to get a visa to work in the US, but I did try getting jobs in Europe (UK pre-Brexit, Denmark, Sweden, France) while traveling on a tourist visa. I had almost ten years experience at that time, but was told several times that I was not allowed to even interview for jobs while on a tourist visa, and would have to apply from the US (which I eventually did, and then got a job in England, after two months of fast-tracked work permit paperwork my employer paid for).

I spent six years as a so-called "digital nomad," working for US companies remotely while living overseas. That's also legally questionable but harder for governments to enforce. I suggest you either go back to your home country and apply for US jobs from there (so there's no question about you violating your tourist visa and implicating a prospective employer), or freelancing remotely for US companies for a while, which doesn't require a work permit/visa.
People are so prissy about the unicode representation of their name while forgetting that even that is a machine-only representation made to approximate the technical limitations of printing presses and is different from anything they can write by hand or speak with their mouth. If you want the bank to use your "real" name, for most people, it needs to be spoken or possibly hand written. And it had better be in the correct accent or writing style too. In other words, storm in a teacup.
It's already nice and easy - users can even add custom domains on our free-tier currently!
It will fail. Other than the novelty of floating greenhouses, how do you think this will work?
Ironic the man who wrote `make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.` is most tagged with `e = mc^2`.