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Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?
It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job. Every open source project or website gets treated as the potential basis for a company, every creative seems to think they'll become a full time artist or creator, every writer wants a book deal or mailing list or whatever...

And while there's nothing wrong with that, it feels like people have lost sight of what hobbies can be, and forgotten that something can just be a way to relax or destress instead. Hell, if you create anything, everyone will seemingly tell you how much money you should be making from it, and encourage you to monetise it in some way or another.

So is there a reason for that? Has the financial situation forced everyone into always looking for a side hustle or way to 'escape the rat race'? Or is there some other explanation for why everything seems to need a financial reason to exist now?
Sounds 99% similar to what we have now with Google unable to differentiate SEO-optimized blogspam for real organic human opinions.
The reason for name and DOB is each sheet of paper needs to have that just in case somehow they get separated.

Though it should be not more than once per two-sided sheet of paper
I'm nursing an older Elitebook w/ that side connector along right now. It's wonderful. The people sitting around me with newer models using Thunderbolt docks have been having fits-- blue screens, wild CPU usage, monitors going out, etc. I'll give up the slimline dock when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
All I know is that over the many years I been working I have received several Dell laptops. I have not had any issues with them. I even purchased a throwaway Dell laptop that was several years old, has gotten several years older, has been opened up multiple times, to swap out harddrives and RAM, and is some how still working. That has been my experience at least.
I recently went through this process with American Express. Here was my situation and experience.

I bought something online that was supposed to come in two packages. One package arrived. The other didn't arrive even after three weeks. The tracking information they sent me was wrong, and when I figured out what it was supposed to be, it showed as being stuck in one of the sorting facilities.

I tried to contact the vendor over a period of a week- emailed them, called them multuple times- no response or reply.

I called Amex and they opened a report. They asked me if I'd tried to contact the vendor- what had they said. I even explained that I didn't feel I was entitled to the whole amount, only the part for the second package.

Amex told me that they'd need to open up their own investigation, attempt to speak with the vendor, etc. and I should expect to hear back from them by email in two weeks.

That seemed reasonable to me.

Three days later, I got an email saying they'd give me the entire amount, including the part I didn't ask for.

A few days after that, the vendor got back to me and it turns out the tracking info was wrong, and the package had been delivered but I hadn't seen the package.

I felt bad for them that they were out the money for the product, but the fact that they sent me wrong information, didn't contact me for a week, only responded after the bank contacted them, and then misspelled my name and offered no apology helped curb some of those feelings.

All in all, the process was easy and reasonable.

I've only done two chargebacks in my life, and I think the other took a bit longer but was roughly the same. The bank is doing very rough justice but if the amount is small enough, they just offer it back to the customer as in my case, which was ~$500. If it was a larger amount, I'd expect a longer, more involved process.
Twidge – A Newer Take on Productivity
But my time is valuable, even as an employee, or prospective employee, and the reasons why you should hire me are listed right there on my resume. I should not have to give a reason why I want to work there, or I would not have turned in an application.

Cover letters are a waste of my time.
Given the timing, I think this is about propping up their forward guidance at tomorrows earnings...
I don't get it, is 't it just a thermostat?
I mean, it's sour grapes for me

Standardizing on the connector is cool... but USB-C has so much drift in the cables

I apologize ahead of time to everyone who's going to have to start QAing and remembering their cables capabilities - certain power levels and data
As an advisor for startup CEOs who also worked for a lot of large known brands, I fully agree.

Even just a tiny bit of effort in the application process does miracles to filter out people who do not really want to work for your company. Because sending hundreds or even thousands job applications requires you to optimise your efforts and reject possible employers who would require you to spend total of one day in the process.

On the other hand if found the company you would like to work for, you researched the position, you have realistic demands, spending that time is just an investment in getting the job you really want. For example, when I interview I take a day off so that I am rested, fresh and with my head reasonably empty of the projects I am currently running so that I can present my best on the interview.
I heard something similar and I’ve always wondered if it was true.

In patients who have had the two hemispheres of their brain disconnected, two distinct consciousnesses become apparent. They perceive differently and have different capabilities. I think the theory was there in each of us are multiple consciousnesses and our experience of reality is the result of consensus among them.
Seagate to Cut 3,000 Jobs in Restructuring as Demand Slows
Another plug (heh) for Plugable. Their docks are wonderful, albeit I've only used their USB docks.
Yeah I guess a mindless drone who will exert themselves any tedious and inefficient thing is something companies may want.
BB (1997)
Dead pixels and battery age are probably the only things that matter. The only other part that really ages badly is HDD and you should consider putting in an SSD instead even if it's in good condition.
I'd say don't buy Lenovo, if you work even within a hundred mile radius of a US government client. The way the winds are blowing...
I had no plans to buy Dell but will now. Good job.
I’ve just finished “After Steve” by Tripp Mickle and it strikes me as a good interpretation of the last 10 years at Apple strategically.

- Apple was pretty much dead when Steve Jobs came back but he rescued it through a string of great products (iMac, iPod, OSX Macs, iPhone and iPad)

- When Tim Cook succeeded Steve he knew he wasn’t a product person so Jony Ive took on that role

- Thanks to (mainly) the iPhone Apple stock started climbing and more and more investors started taking an interest in the company

- The iPhone 6 and 6S were the turning point - the 6 sending the stock through the roof and the 6S crashing it. As far as investors are concerned, the trouble with product companies are that you’re only one quarter away from disaster

- Ive struggled with his grief over losing Jobs, plus the weight of being the company figurehead without Jobs to shield him and gradually withdrew from Apple

- Acquiring Beats and launching Apple Music, plus the revenue from the ever growing App Store offered Tim Cook a way out, in the eyes of investors.

- Apple changed their strategy to become a services company that values recurring revenue rather than one reliant on continuing product innovation. Cook was quite explicit about this but it’s taken a few years for the shift from products company to services to become apparent.
> your future determined by one test.

There is nothing stopping you from taking the SATs multiple times. It's encouraged because you most likely will go up a few points the 2nd pass. I've taken it twice myself, 3 times if you include the PSAT. And I also took the ACT, only once.

GPAs you can only screw up once. If you fail even one class it's impossible to climb back to the top.
A very weak signal, about as strong as whether the person is male or female. And it's outliers in both directions that create this effect, not just high scores. This probably just indicates that the student was not a great match for the school and is likely to lose motivation before making it to graduation.
I worked in the underrepresented student office, so I was keenly aware/curious about that possibility when I began. However, after reviewing thousands of applications, my experience, to my surprise, was that GPA to SAT/ACT scores remained highly correlated regardless of race. If memory serves (and it’s been awhile) the outliers who were more likely to have higher SAT/ACT than their GPA normally suggested, tended to come from predominantly non-white schools. I’ve seen so many reports to the contrary that this surprised me to no end, but that’s what I observed.
Everything you said makes it even worse. They are barely working and making many times more than full time employees.
Ubuntu's docs suggest using Startup Disk Creator

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#4-...

Fedora recommends using Fedora Media Writer, and other tools like Unetbootin are very popular.
I would put one in every vehicle including tractors, excavators, skid steers, trucks, cars. Every house gets one. We would have a grid that allows sharing the power in the event Earth is invaded, they would collectively power a giant ion canon in each town [1]. Asteroid defense system.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X3Hv1YLhG8 [video]
> We are slightly lucky the Omicron is not as deadly as Delta... but new variants might be getting there soon.

this is exactly the type of unbounded fearmongering and disinformation that supposed science-advocates love to spread, as though covid will slip into a wave of death at any moment after experts forced everyone to get injected under the promise that it'd all end

> Flu now has also a half decent vaccine if the predictions work, better at neutralizing it and limiting the spread

half decent? that's a really generous framing for hit-or-miss low efficacy.
Oh, if you own someone's clock, you can do all sorts of damage.

Want to expire everyone's passwords? Blow up their credit card processing? Those are just the obvious attacks.
Get a travel router.

I have the Gl.inet Slate, and when I get to my hotel each week, I just plug that in, maybe log into its admin interface and deal with the captive portal (not always necessary since I usually stay at Marriotts and it use remembers), and then all my devices connect to that like I’m at home. Super seamless.

I need to go through and setup ad blocking and possibly default VPN/Wireguard connection, just haven’t gotten around to that part yet.
I remember doing so well in calculus until the 3D graphing unit.

I think I ended up with a D or worse on that one units test. My friend was like "oh bro you just add a pi to everything". This isn't thanksgiving and it's more complicated than that!
I would probably start with JavaScript and TypeScript, because you can build so many things with them. You can be very productive and employable with them. But then I would probably want to dig deeper, and start learning C, Zig, with a side order of WASM, along with data structures and algorithms, operating systems, processor architectures, memory hierarchy, network layers and protocols and all that. I would still keep mastering my web knowledge though, eventually including Remix, Qwik and similar JavaScript frameworks and the paradigms they introduce. I wouldn't miss Martin Klepmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications book either.
To borrow from Pilate…”what is virtue?”
Ask HN: What is a good company for you?
Inspired by a discussion here today (1), I wonder what’s a good company for people to work at.

Is it the people?

Is it the vision they pursue?

Is it the topic they work on?

What is it for you?

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33342361
Google Alphabet reviewing every project after $6B decline in profits
> Timezones, leap seconds... all of that only matters when you're showing the user a date. For recording and calculations, it doesn't.

You cannot, by definition, tell how many Unix seconds later "third of may, 2025, at noon, local time" is - there is no way to convert future, local times to Unix times, because that "conversion code" is not fixed. Sure, we can reasonably expect that definition of time flow relationship to local time will not change for past dates, but one must expect these changes for times in the future.
A separate question is how reliable the blood oxygen sensors actually are. For example, see https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/pu...

> Many patient factors may also affect the accuracy of the measurement. The most current scientific evidence shows that there are some accuracy differences in pulse oximeters between dark and light skin pigmentation; this difference is typically small at saturations above 80% and greater when saturations are less than 80%. In the recently published correspondence by Sjoding, et. al.External Link Disclaimer, the authors reported that Black patients had nearly three times the frequency of occult hypoxemia (low oxygen levels in the blood) as detected by blood gas measurements but not detected by pulse oximetry, when compared to White patients.
New E-Cash System
I would prefer that they charge me for the service, if that means they keep my data private and don't sell it to any number of shady brokers who aren't acting in my best interest.
I don't see anything actionable in "you have no free will" statement to care to deeply internalize it. Regardless of a flavor of "free will" interpretation.
Starlabs too, plenty of Linux laptops out there. Arguably a little over-priced but can you really put a dollar value on removing dystopian tech like Intel ME?

Old Thinkpads support Coreboot reliably if you feel like a DIY approach as well.
Apple Removes Network Locations from macOS Ventura
Off topic, but the Z series has gotten me a few ugly side glances in cafes since the Russia-Ukraine conflict started - a bit of misfortune with their brand there...
Seems quite a baited title, especially given some comments are jumping on Windows or VBA here - the actual title should be "getting ring0 by installing a terribly designed and dubious kernel driver", but that doesn't sound so impressive.
No one uses them because I don't think I've even seen an application process that offers it. Mind you, I rarely get to the end of those because that's why I have a CV.

That said, why doesn't LinkedIn throw its weight behind this? In that context, it would make sense to have and maintain my CV there. With some sort of authorization confirmation that would let a 3rd party import it into their system?
Can confirm. I've been stuffing configuration files inside images and storing them on Twitter for a couple years now; they remain untouched, and any newly-booted VM on my home network can pull the files down via API, strip the payload out of the image, put it into place as a config file, and cycle the service, no problems. Works great. All of this was born out of an idea to get something 'useful' out of twitter, rather than "perpetual doom scrolling to find something to be upset about". Now I never touch their GUI, and they are essentially an offsite Puppet repository for me at this point.

I can also confirm that Facebook strips everything out of images, rendering them useless for this purpose. Instagram does the same (not surprisingly).
No. Whatever your IQ you should aim high and let nature put you in your place.

you cannot pre-emptly put yourself in your place, that’s the best route for depression and depression sucks whether you have a high, normal or low IQ
Yeah, given how abruptly the density of the data shifts based on borders, I strongly suspect there is a data quality problem. The available information is interesting, but comparisons pretty meaningless.
U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001
After traveling around the world I definitely see the cheaper hotel better wifi paradox.

Expensive chains require a terms of service to cover the liability of illegal goings on with use of wifi.

Cheap hotels don’t really pay too much attention to that and so the wifi is simply a password given at the front desk.

To tell you the truth I would require people to have sign a TOS as well if I had a hotel.

These businesses are highly regulated and inspected. For cheaper hotels if they get sued they can just sell or walk away from it and still be alive.

Back in my home country I gave free wifi to some people in the village. And at some point I had to take it away.

So many people started to gather around the front of my house that it became annoying. Some people even started to come into the property. Suffice to say I shut it down soon. Then everyone hated me.

It’s not as easy as it sounds.

Nothing is free.
Because 3rd party drivers are very common on Windows, but the exception on Linux. Microsoft does what they can by forcing developers to run static verification tools on them, but that doesn't prevent a lot of low-quality drivers that would have never made it past Linux's code reviews.

And of course, you have not only device drivers, but also "drivers" for various other capabilities, some of which Linux doesn't have at all. Anti-malware tools started off in the 90s by using drivers to just hotpatch kernel functions, until Microsoft made official APIs for the desired capabilities and started putting defensive measures against code modification into the kernel.
> Computers are older than you think.

I doubt it. If by computer you want to mean any machine capable of mechanically doing some kind of calculation, then of course there are examples going back hundreds of years, or even millenia - the Antikythera device was without doubt a mechanical, astronomical computer, for example. But I wrote "the first commercial computer," and the first stored program, Turing complete computing machine that you could actually write a purchase order and be invoiced for, the UNIVAC I, was only produced in 1951. So, I cheated a bit with "less than 20 years old in 1973." It was 22 years old. The point being in terms of my post, that when I started, computers, and programmers, were still very unusual in the employment landscape, and for people like Ray, of the original post, the concept of being a programmer appeared AFTER their formal education in electronics was finished.
Dell also got caught scamming a Linus Tech Tips secret shopper: https://youtu.be/Go5tLO6ipxw?t=68
I assume you mean the CMU ones? They're decent for quick stuff but listening to a whole book with them is unpleasant. They don't really compare to the Nitech voices.
Both the official mobile app and the new website are horrible. If I couldn't use Apollo to access Reddit on my devices, or if they cancel availability of the old website, I'm done with that site. The content isn't valuable enough for me to suffer through their first party UIs, no matter what their KPIs say.
Lenovo Legion 5 (even though I don't play games) with Arch Linux. This is the only working machine at my home, so I have an external monitor and keyboard attached. No complaints whatsoever, works fine with UWHD on external display, etc. Silent, sturdy, sexy.
In case it isn't clear to some people, these are all nerdy references to fictional drugs in video games and science fiction stories where the drug plays an important role in the story
I’m saying that the test isn’t indicative of “aptitude”. Well neither are GPAs though. It’s not hard getting a 3.7 GPA when the teachers know that if they make the coursework challenging or don’t give plenty of make up chances that either most of the students will fail (in the small town I grew up in) or that the Karens will complain to the principal that this one teacher will keep her little Timmy from getting into whatever prestigious school she wants him to get in (in the case of the “good schools” my step sons went to)
Maybe a hot take but I think school pedigree is irrelevant.

I went to a top university in my country after transferring in after not getting in from highschool. Turns out myself and many others would have got a lot of value from going to a less prestigious university. Ultimately most of us end up working at the same select companies. But idk I am from Canada so maybe the intensity of selection is not the same.

We put far too much value in prediction of success and not enough value in actual success. Seems like the academic version of keeping up with the Jones's
I don't see how it could be, there would be correlation between the topic of the post and the comments relating to that post. As unsympathetic targets go, Dell is up there.

It would be funny to have GPT-3 create a website like "elonmusksucks.com" and then do a summary of the comments on HN.
It's worth considering the direction of causality here. I doubt the City has somehow priced out frequent flyers who'd otherwise love to stay near the airport in droves. The City could afford to buy those hotels only because demand had already evaporated.
... they killed off all the projects which could have made more profits. Worse than that, nobody in their right mind wants to depend on a Google product because it could go away at any time. What happens when they decide that email is too open of a protocol and gmail goes away?

Serves 'em right.
> shrug You know what I mean

Confusing file formats and documentation builders, but more importantly shrugging off miscommunication, makes me think you don't care much about documentation despite how much of it you wrote. Your position is thus unsurprising but also unlikely to inform my position (like I know it'd be pointless to argue about using static typing and running typecheckers with someone who sees ensuring code correctness as a chore).

> it makes me think "wait is there a more canonical reference than what I'm reading?"

Respect the user. If user lands on a doc section you don't know whether the user previously read everything else. You want to err on the side of more links, hitting a link and going back is quick but having to search is a major waste of time especially not knowing whether there is anything to be found in the first place. (This in particular applies to references, less so for tutorials that are intended to be read in order than jumped around.)

> I would assume you'd think twice about switching ecosystems from Python to Rust precisely because of your strong preference for Sphinx.

If I think Rust is the right tool and I want to work with Rust then I will use Rust. Documentation conventions are not much of a factor, they come with the territory, I don't see it as a demotivating chore or as a choice. Write language X? Use documentation system Y. Learn it and be satisfied with the end result.

If we are really talking about the least challenging ways to write docs then for me might be a Google Doc, should I do it? Of course I know it's bad, unsemantic, inconvenient to read and cross-link and generally completely wrong for the ecosystem so I can't possibly be motivated.
I agree and yet can you even imagine how dated and terrible it would be?
I have a XPS 13 9310 2-in-1, bought directly after release & put Linux on it. For a brand new released Laptop, this was the best Linux experience I had. Dell's preinstalled Ubuntu wasn't available as an option, but on other devices I used it always sucked, not suprising if the Ubuntu Kernel is much older than the device release. I don't understand why they do this half-baked thing.

Build quality is very good, except for the standoffs, the silicon is getting loose 2 years later. This was much better on Precision devices I had before.

I think this website is a rant by a disappointed customer, but does have lots of valid criticism listed.