skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I just ordered an refurbished E6430 to use as a Linux server, does it suffer from the same issue? that's nuts. Why the f would Dell do that?

archive of page 1: https://archive.fo/5iQCF

There are 14 pages or so, I suggest people save every page of the discussion still in google cache and archive it, for instance page 2:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JO-IqO...

https://archive.fo/9BYs4

Since Google cache might be deleted at Dell's request. Don't just use screenshots, these can be easily doctored.

edit: corrected the model's name.
canned response (Feb 2021)

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000139695/balanced-...

Just move on when shopping for a laptop.
There is zero waste in PoW, it’s the most efficient decentralized trustless digital money ledger in existence.

Your dislike of it doesn’t change laws of physics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333956
I will read this book some day. It is always in my mind but, I'm too busy these days.
> Downstream analysis must assume that the alignments contain all kinds of known and unknown errors anyway.

It must, but it doesn't always do so.
The teams i'm on have a rule about nits, "only fix nits if you are going to touch the code again". So if there's a misspelled word in a comment or a formatting/code conciseness cleanup, it can be ignored unless there are other actual bugs to fix.

It works out pretty well, the marginal cost of fixing the nits is very low when there's other changes to be made, so they get done. If they aren't addressed because there are no actual problems with the code, those things will get addressed later. (all the members of the team tend to take cleanup passes occasionally when they aren't feeling up to the deep work stuff but still want to do something productivish). The net effect is the codebase stays reasonably tidy without feeling bogged down in the "bureaucracy" of nitpicking.
I wouldn't say it's a gateway drug, but rather a filter that selects for people willing to accept conspiracies that last hundreds of years and involve a million conspirators, across every advanced society, for unclear goals.
I wish this was how college worked; everything is free, except to sit for an exam and then to obtain the degree itself.

Colleges could structure degrees and majors by examination and interview, rather than by "credit hour", which itself is a meaningless assessment of comprehension.

As an example:

"The University of College offers a Degree in Electrical Engineering, offered at the following levels:

- Associate (At least a 60% in the following examinations: Classical Electricity, Circuit Design, ...)

- Bachelor (Meets Associate requirements plus at least an 80% in the folowing examinations: Signal Analysis...)

- Master (Meets Bachelor requirements plus at least a 90%...)

- Doctor (Meets Master requirements plus three original research publications...)

"

HOWEVER--this would require the total dismantling and reform of the student loan industry, academia itself, and the secondary market that's sprung up around college being a "part of life" for young adults. "College" is a many-billion dollar industry and very few peoiple want it disrupted to the degree that it would require to move to an examination-based format, with the exception of builders and technicians (engineers, etc.) who are actually trying to filter on skill when they hire.
The link on the first post to another Linux issue is also not there.
https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/Latitude-7420-thrott...

Maybe someone did a delete where post like '%Linux%'
Valid points, but this post is about organizing communication for professional development. The author mentions referrals and interesting code. Consider a professor and past grad students.
> the post office going bust, and then nationalised would be a good outcome.

I strongly disagree. This mismanagement was going on long before the PO was privatised. In fact I'd argue that it was never really privatised.

We don't need a national postal carrier; a lot of post is now carried by private competitors. The Parcels operation is overpriced. Telecom has been hived off, long ago. What remains is a delivery service; and a network of Post Offices and pillar-boxes. I would instead (a) privatise the carrier service; and (b) nationalise the network of drop-off points, and make that available for use by any carrier. The PO shouldn't be things like a bank, a travel agent, or a delivery system for Social Security.

BT has similar problems, being the other graft from the same stock. I don't agree that OpenReach should be nationalised; OpenReach needs to be exposed to the bracing breeze of competition. It's currently effectively a monopoly.
I don't see any issue hiring you, there is a drain of true talent in the field.

Be upfront and spin your story like Kevin Mitnick, publish a few articles and maintain a blog with your name and identity.

Get a polished LinkedIn and post examples of past work, or what if's/what would you do.

You most likely will not pass a background check for FINRA/Insurance companies, but who cares - those companies suck to work for anyway.

You will/can easily bypass that wall by opening up your own LLC and selling consulting services, and verticals like "email security" or just basic/stupid DKIM/DMARC/DNS setup. You'd be surprised how much billing hours MSP's make just doing that basic stuff. I bill $150-200, and SOW's I've seen have it much higher.

So take that as a floor.

You can walk into many employers, and own the entire staff easy, you'd be surprised how low the ceiling is at most companies and how true talent or disorganized companies truly are.

I've interviewed CISSIP/Full blown cert/degree peopel that couldn't even parse together a hello world or explain how to do a HTTP GET. It's that bad out there now.
How often do any of those subjects require instant perfect recall of knowledge/topic/concept with high stakes?

That's my criterion on whether external references should be allowed in tests. A surgeon should know their specialty as they won't have time to consult a reference during a surgery. A physicist will always have the time to refer to something when performing their work, as will an editor or teacher.

That's entirely different from saying they don't need to learn it however. If I drop a list of 100 formulas and equations on a person who doesn't know how to use them, they're useless. That background knowledge on what's available and how to use the tools you have is what the class should be teaching you.

Or as my physics prof used to say, "I want the engineer building the bridge I drive over to have looked up a reference on the static weight load of the materials selected, not pulling figures out of their head".

We were always allowed to use 1 standard sheet of paper, front & back, for our tests. Most of the time you could answer most questions without needing them beyond referring to a specific equation to make sure you weren't leaving off a constant (damn factors of 2....).
Currently working in the world of TypeScript/Node/JavaScript there's so much stuff I miss from .NET.

* Awesome standard library - very little need to install packages from randos on the internet
* LINQ makes performing complicated work with collections simple and readable
* Great async model for work that needs to be done in parallel or scheduled

Was also impressed at how much stuff they managed to add to it over the years:

* Generics
* Now runs just about anywhere: Windows/Linux/macOS/mobile
* Null reference types largely gets rid of the endless 'Object not set to instance of ...' errors
* Now supports some form of immutable data types (records)

Frankly most of the complaints I'm reading about here come from the companies that choose to use the technology rather than the tech itself.
Off-by-default, which remains the recommendation of AMD.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=if-amd-k...

Some googling suggests that flag is whether the kernel is compiled with support, not whether it's turned on. You'd need to force boot flag "pti=on" for an AMD system. Postmark or a database benchmark would be a good bench for you to compare, probably.

(apparently "kpti=on" is aarch64-specific, other uarchs use "pti" instead, seems kind of odd)
I understand what you mean, as I too have said these things.

Linear RGB in the sRGB/Rec 709 color space is the correct interpretation. Monitors that are not sRGB/Rec 709 primaries with a Rec 1886 gamma ramp (as opposed to the exactly defined sRGB gamma ramp, please stop using this) outside of a strictly color-managed workflow should be replaced with ones that are.

Now, if your UI compositing system is modern, then yes, just output 16 bit linear and let the OS's color management handle it (ie, Vista and up using modern APIs, which is what DirectWrite does); however, the majority of software devs only understand "2.2" or "sRGB" (which is incorrect; Rec 1886 pragmatically is 2.35, sRGB matches 2.35 inside of the 16-255 range; sRGB has never been 2.2, it is 2.2 with an offset of 16 starting at 16, with 0-15 being linear), ergo, I wrote this with the average software dev in mind.
What's the difference between the profits that e.g. Meta earns vs profits that Binanace earns?
Well, I didn't have to sweep the kitchen as often...
There was a popular protein fragment recognizer using a pattern language simiilar to regular expressions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_motif#PROSITE_pattern...) but this only works on closely related sequences.

As mentioned in other comments, sequence analysis is probabilistic, so "matchers" instead tend to be statistical models, like HMMs. There is a rich relationship between statistical models like HMMs and parsing theory.
The Dell forum post was going on for months now, with more than a hundred posts from owners and some Dell input. Why delete it it today, if not to prevent spreading to a larger audience outside owners?
For those, like me, who uses Firefox + uBlock Origin + NoScript and can't see the image on imgur, because of their shitty antiblock (@hdiniz - stop using that crap for images), I uploaded to postimages. I had to open Edge (bleah!) to view the image on imgur. Here it is:

https://i.postimg.cc/1396wMSb/Dell-HN-Issue.png

LE: I had to disable both NoScript and uBlock for me to be able to see their pop-up and after clicking on it, the image loaded properly on imgur. Still a shitty site IMO.
Well worth paying for it as pdf or book by the way.
They already do? Look at the ability to unionize and the immediate army a company will deploy to nip it in the bud.
I'd be very interest in the distribution of donations? E.g. are there big donors or is the money mostly from small donors.
A day when you are younger isn't necessarily equivalent to a day when you are older. There are all kinds of potentially fun physical activities I might have done when I was younger if I had had more time that 40 years later I would not try because injuries have bigger impact and take longer to heal now.
Reuters is behind a paywall (if you are over their article limit due to being a news addict); could we get a non-paywalled link for this please?
It’s not just the extreme left which is most frequently engaged in mob mentality of suppression, cancel culture is also from extreme right: Carhartt’s boycott for instituting vaccine policy.

I have started seeing people that camp out in these echo chambers as uncompassionate, immoral and fundamentally dangerous people. Dangerous in the sense that they’re toxic for a peaceful democracy.
Hi Derek!

My implementation of your system is just a bunch of markdown files. The title of the file is a friend's name, the frontmatter at the top keeps info about them that doesn't change too often (ex: birthday, address, kids names), and each time I chat with them I add a section with an H1 title that's the date we chatted (ex: "# 2022-02-14\n"). My notes about the chat go under that heading.

Based off of that structure I can do a bunch of cool things with simple scripts:

- print out a list of upcoming birthdays, half birthdays, birthdays on Jupiter, etc. of all my friends
- print out a list of friends I haven't contacted within my desired `frequency` (the subject of this post)
- create or open the friend file containing a particular name from the command line (ex: `,people Sarah` prints out all the Sarah files I have and asks me which I'd like to open)

I think plain text is the way to go with something as personal as a system for keeping track of your friends. I was inspired to go this route by your post on journaling[1]:

> If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be readable in 50 years on devices we haven’t even imagined yet. Don’t use formats that can only be read by one program, because that program won’t be around in 50 years. Don’t use the cloud, unless you’re also going to download it weekly and back it up in plain text outside that cloud. (Companies shut down. Clouds disappear. Think long-term.)

I've been chewing on how to make this system something that might be used by other people who don't know how to use the command line. Something like the way Obsidian[2] works might make sense.

1. https://sive.rs/dj

2. https://obsidian.md/
Should schools still be closed now? What else should be closed still?

Should schools be closed so firmly now that discussion of the subject is racist? At what point are people even allowed to discuss it?
I don't think it's anywhere near being a stretch that having an entire job that consists of psychologically harmful activity would fall under current or non-radical future workplace safety laws. At which point doing it just because your business model doesn't work without causing that harm, would be illegal.

No one is forcing Facebook to harm people like this. They choose to, in order to make money. We choose to allow the creation of jobs that are guaranteed to cause that kind of harm. My objection is to framing this as work that "has" to be done, as if there's no choice.

> Human beings enjoy many <-> many communications and will invent something to fill that void.

Right. We have Email and messaging apps. Websites would still exist and are dirt-cheap to start up, if someone wants to write for the public. Possibly social media could survive somehow, IDK, but they're (and their supporters) the ones saying they "have to" work this way. If so, maybe they should "have to" stop being in business.
When I was in school, I'd get home and call at least 2-3 friends on a daily basis on the landline, just to chat or ask what all homeworks we were supposed to do for the next day. We lost touch after we graduated and went our separate ways. But what I miss the most from those times was how interconnected our lives were. We'd hang out together all the time in school, then come home and talk on the telephone. After exams, we'd meet up at someone's house for a sleepover, play video games and gossip about school all night long.

I have tried implementing a similar lifestyle with my new friends as I grew older, but it just didn't work. I realized then, that the kind of bond we shared was a rarity and others had not had such an experience. I barely call anyone now. And more importantly, I feel uncomfortable calling people. Like I'm disturbing them. However, back in school days it was the telephoning that made us the great friends we were because we got to have 1 on 1 conversations with each other very often.

In recent times, texting has destroyed the telephoning culture. I absolutely detest texting, but all of my peers are doing it. I wish times were a little simpler.
I'd advise you to adopt an adult dog, unless you have a lot of time, energy and a high tolerance to all kind of annoying stuff

the first few months with my puppy were HARD, really HARD
but since he got a bit older he's the best part of my life
Team USA Skiers Are Using Battery-Heated Shorts at the Olympics
The Nobel Prize winning inventor of molecular dynamics (Michael Levitt) wrotes sequence analysis in fortran!
you only asked for the benefits that list is way to long :p Here is a brain dump instead...

- I got one 3/4 months into lockdowns after deciding i would never spend that much time in an office again.
Don't get one if everyone in the house spends the majority of they're time out of the house, it's not fair on the dog, they are the definition of social. i take him to day care when i do need to go to the office.
- I also wasn't comfortable getting a shelter dog as we already have cat and my previous dogs didn't like cats, so we played it safe with a pup.
- Walking is only fun if you teach them how to walk nicely, having them act out makes the walk infuriating.
- Make sure you and your partner are on the same page in terms of training technique and the "rules, boundaries and limitations" of the household, we weren't and thats why he walks poorly.
- get them socializing with every other creature possible and in the right way, mine wouldn't bat an eye at a cat or a chicken but will pull your arm off to say hi to other dogs.
- similar to the first, having a night out and staying at a friends is more complicated than without a dog this isn't a big deal but is not something i ever considered when i was a kid (obv).
- they are not cats, they are toddlers if not more intelligent but it means they need the same kind of attention as one.

pros
- it's nice having someone to talk to when i'm the only one home plus it gets me do excercise in various forms throughout the day. i no longer need to pedal my bike.
- Just having them around is much less lonely/very comforting.

overall me and my partner have benefitted for having a dog
> Dell would die a quick death without corporate IT.

Unfortunately Dell is cheap, make (or at least used to) fairly robust computers for their price with spare parts that can easily be found. Mac is much more expensive and good luck sourcing parts from other brands. Lenovo went downhill when they were sold off.
Shameless plug, we have a good set of illustrations on https://www.storyset.com/. The big difference is StorySet illustrations can be animated and the styles are different. Both products are quite complementary.
Years and years ago I was given a Dell (Pentium I?), it was running a bit warm, so I got a suitable fan for that (standard) motherboard. When I opened the box to install it, I found that it was not quite standard, the extra-fan power socket was not there. After some research I discovered that Dell ordered special versions of standard motherboards with only the bits that they were using in their models, shaving a few cents off the price. I determined to avoid Dell ever since (so avoided the whole "exploding capacitor" thing of the early 2000s).
IMO stars names precede the weapon systems that unfortunately tarnish their name. I would view this as a chance to eradicate the unfortunate association between the star and war.
Blaming Trump for inattentive driving?

All bad things I don’t like are caused by X group is a poor way to look at the world.

Letting your biases creep so far into how you make simple evaluations like that is a red flag and it might be time for some deep introspection.
I'd still take occasional antialiasing failures over common HiDPI scaling failures, any day of the week. Antialiasing wins hard in terms of both severity and frequency.

If a program has broken subpixel antialiasing, it may be slightly more annoying to use for long stretches of time. If a program has broken HiDPI scaling, it's completely unusable with a monitor that requires it.

> - only works for horizontal text. Anything rendered at differently angles looks different.

Anything rendered at non-90° angles is going to be annoying to read anyway. It's not like there's this magical world of 78° text just waiting to be discovered, if only we could get rid of all subpixel antialiasing.
Yeah I read the story. The full thing sheds a lot more light on what was actually happening which was a drunk father was becoming increasing insecure hearing about the son he used to beat being so successful
and started telling stories.

There are not only 3 other differing accounts, but others have vouched for the fact that Elon arrived in Canada with just $1000 and often had to shower at the YMCA in the early days. He’s also on record having worked various low paying manual labor odd jobs in Canada. Not exactly what you’d expect from a son of generational exploitation wealth.
Apple Racks Up More Fines in Dutch Fight over Dating-App Payments
:) While writing my original post, I tried to mention that copy/paste wasn't common knowledge at the time, but couldn't form a communicative sentence on the matter. I certainly didn't know how to copy/paste at the time.

This was in the days of Windows 3.1, and I was programming in QuickBasic 4.5 on DOS.

I think the word processor I used when typing may have been Word Perfect.

> Regardless, I’d think the main goal of forcing repetitive writing is improving handwriting and word recognition, which require a pen(cil) and not a keyboard.

I think the goal was for us to memorize spelling of the word. Maybe improved handwriting was a sub-goal, I don't know. By that age, I don't think teachers really focused on our penmanship. I consider word recognition to be more of a reading skill.

I was a lazy student. Spelling was never a priority for me. I never did well on tests because I never studied my spelling words. I was more into math and science. My parents never hassled me about my bad spelling test grades.
If you have any Rust in your GitHub profile, you're going to get cold emails about Blockchain jobs.
I have looked back at Kragen's review comments from 2002 and they were (as I remembered) unusually thoughtful, detailed, and helpful.

I sent him a more detailed message about this but I wanted to have it on the record here.

Kragen: Thanks for your kind words. I am happy to know that you found me easy to work with.
I'm in the semiconductor industry and I still write Perl scripts everyday. I learned it back in the mid-90's and it is still great for all the text files that I parse.

Most of the EDA CAD tools use Tcl and some of the younger people write their scripts in Python but most of the other 40-50 year old engineers still write Perl. I write all of my small home Linux sysadmin scripts in Perl as well. I started to learn Python. I'll probably get around to it sometime but I don't write big systems and 90% of what I do is text processing.
wayback machine FTW https://web.archive.org/web/20220214093323/https://www.reute...
Harvard wants MBAs to learn how to be happy at work
MikroTik authentication revealed
Notorious? And the best source for this is a 52-year-old article from a student newspaper in the US, with no listed author or sourcing?

The linked article also reveals that the separatists in question were kidnapping multiple people at the time. This seems like ample reason to arrest a bunch of them.
It's also dark that people respond to being governed by someone they didn't vote for by blockading their country's economy. And that this action is funded by people in other countries who never had a vote in the first place.
Clearly they meant the ending song of Clannad. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDxZ0YGWG8
The devs do not suppress or remove anything. They just will not accept PRs for things that they don't want to change as most free software projects do, e.g. sway won't accept PRs for nvidia-eglstreams.

There are forks and instances that omit or adapt the slur filter. Maybe they will become the canonical lemmy fork in the future, maybe they won't, that's up to the contributors.
It's funny, if you look in my comment history, I just made the same observation the other day.

Anecdata, and all that, but it's interesting that so many people are noticing this.
how do you 7-segment an I, O, S, T?
Which book it was?
This plays some part. Another factor is the old 'it is harder to read code than it is to write it' adage.