skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s strategy to handicap Safari/Web is paying off big time, but it is hitting consumers.

If local businesses are going to be charged an extra 30% tax to notify people of events, then they are just going to slow down. If we get rid of targeted advertisements, then all the ads will be mega-corps and erection pills. Already seeing niche tech companies close shop because no one knows they exist.

In an interesting way, Apple’s system is providing consolidation of sellers towards amazon.

I also think that Apple’s approach to killing the web is what killed stadia, as google knew they were not going to be allowed to get an html version working, and customers wouldn’t pay an additional apple tax to play games over apps.
That's probably actually a good way to sell "good wifi experience" to hotels: Airbnb does it better and it's easy to compete with that aspect.
HP Elitebook x360 1030 G2 (maybe another order of words)
i5 7-something
8GB
Aluminium case

I needed a laptop, specifically a convertible for note taking by hand too. Went on ebay, could decide between a Thinkpad and the HP. Actually wanted the Thinkpad, but wasn't available on that day, so I went with the HP

I run both Windows for school and Linux for private stuff on it. Aside from some annoying things like freezes when converting, it works. Definitely not the machine of my dreams and HP annoys me a little bit, but overall decent device for what I need. Also cost only like 300€ or something. Can't understand how people carry their 2k MacBooks around in their backpack without worrying constantly
It might be alright to work on things that don't solve humanity's problems, if they still give someone some joy or make something better or easier for someone.

But a lot of people spend a lot of time working on things that make things worse for a lot of people in order to enrich a few people, and I think maybe that's not okay.
There have been several attempts, such as:

https://jsonresume.org/schema/

But nobody uses them, because nobody uses them. LinkedIn and other proprietary recruitment services like TeamTailor want to keep all the details locked in - there's no advantage to them to allow you to mass import/export candidate details.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear. CMU allowed Pitt students to register for CMU classes. Your degree would say Pitt on it, but you would have attended the exact same classes as the CMU students. As in sat in the same classroom with the same professors at the same time, doing the same assignments and taking the same tests.
> 90% of the Application's Data are already in my LinkedIN... Why the heck do I have to fill it in again.

Why isn’t LinkedIn providing this info as a glob of structured JSON for pay to the ATS sellers?

Or just offering their own ATS for that matter? They could own the whole process from search (most recruiters just use LinkedIn anyway) to hire, as a springboard for expanding beyond there?

They could go the other way too: fill out the application and it generates a LinkedIn profile for you. When my gf worked there there was a push to expand LinkedIn beyond “professionals” to trades.
As for the cost, I agree. Just charge me more on the room itself. But in EU and many other countries, you are responsible for knowing who does what through your network.

As for the user experience, why not just give you a personal generated password when you check in? Then they have the info they need, and you just need to enter the password. Both iOS and Android support auto filling SSID and password through a QR-code and NFC, so that's the best solution I think.
In this case, legitimate apparently means “with sufficient political support”.
I feel the same way, though some kind of configurable rules to determine when the debit comes out would go a long way to solving this. You can imagine an autopay interface where you say when your paydays are (every other friday, nearest-business-day-to-3-days-after-the-1st-and-the-15th [this is really my spouse's pay schedule], monthly on the 12th, whatever) and then rules like "always take the money the day after the first paycheck in a month, and only if it's less than $500". Bonus points if this gives you extra grace period compared to paying manually.
"Farmer" is even more degrading in Swedish ("bonde"), to the point where you avoid using it even for actual farmers and say "agriculturalist" ("jordbrukare") instead.
I have a latitude from 2013 that I bought 2nd handed in 2015 or 16. I still run it on holidays (convenient 12.5 inches for travelling) and it still has 4+ hours of battery and works pretty well. I switched from Ubuntu 14 to Lubuntu and it feels like new :) Lacks a bit of RAM (4Go) for some tasks but still does ok.

Probably its replacement when it dies will be a used thinkpad though, will see.
"then continuing to use that (a la GPAs) as an admissions criteria _is_ sexist."

Please define sexist/sexism. This use doesn't match with my definition.

The measure is an objective one, which is highly correlated to graduation rate and thus pertianate. It's not like this is used to discriminate.

Yes, you could have individual teachers showing bias, but it seems that the data in the article doesn't support this being impactful. I'm actually a little skeptical that bias is rampant given how overbearing many of the school policies have become and an inability to explain grading differences would be highly suspect. I'd expect people to get sued/fired left and right over this if it's truly widespread.
Yeah, he's extremely satisfied by the things he accomplish, but he doesn't think (or care) about the effects of his accomplishments.
My point is that the 24% from the link above is a BIG effect when applied to infectious diseases.
My primary work computer is a Thinkpad X1 extreme from 2020. I use it when working from home, as if it were a desktop. I ordered it while I was hyper-irritable from high dose corticosteroids, and to its credit, there's nothing about it that irritates me. It replaced a Razer Stealth from 2017 that was plagued with bios and hardware bugs.

I have another work laptop that I carry around when in the office, a Thinkpad P15s from the IT department. Its touchpad's middle click emulation is frustrating, but is otherwise fine. The touchpad is also polished shiny from my fingers, despite very infrequent use.

Both ThinkPads are currently running Ubuntu 20.04. It works decently well as long as hybrid graphics are disabled.
It's also part of the story how we ended up with a duopoly of airplane manufacturers.

I think there's room for regulation and forced audits. The important part is that the compliance costs are small compared to development and production costs. That's true in the car industry unless you have really low volume, while airplanes are pushed over the threshold by much lower volume and much higher regulation.
Yeah. Dell support sucks. I've been a customer of theirs for almost 30 years. Rarely have I ever been satisfied. Most always they trigger my rant mode. For a while I tried other vendors like HP but they were even worse! Now I have seven wonderful older laptops. I Know which older generation laptops were built well and buy them from eBay. Granted none of them are light. They are all 17" top of the line beasts costing well over $5k when they were new. Usually going on ebay for 10% of their original price. The disks, ram, fans, CPUs, GPUs, and most everything but the cases and screen are replaceable by the user. No need to talk with idiots that trigger me. I'm thinking the current seven laptops will last me 20 to 30 years by simply replacing components as they go bad.
As Sam Harris phrases it, thoughts and senses are "merely representations" in consciousness. The self, as we perceive it, is a representation in consciousness.
This is what terrifies me about leaving. My current job almost called the place I was working at to verify my employment, but I requested them to wait until the interviews were over, because my last boss was the kind of guy to fire people arbitrarily.

Once he fired a guy for not working on his house...that employee was hired as help desk. Thankfully I passed all my interviews and they called him right after I was almost guaranteed to get the position. Took a few insults from the guy, but haven't heard anything from him since I left thankfully.
I am an account from 2017, I have a bridge to sell to you.
Same - besides 4g/5g coverage is excellent in European countries, where I mostly travel.
> For example: it was impossible to open the screen on the XPS without using two hands. One hand was needed to hold down the base and the other to pry open the screen. Clearly nobody tested this before it went into production.

I am sorry for the actual 1-handed users but this limitation was a blessing for me, toddlers wouldn't be able to open it in the disastrous case when they could reach it.
This logic makes “date rape” drugs the most dangerous of all. But they’re not treated like that, are they? Possession of such is almost certainly probable cause to commit kidnapping, sexual assault, or conspiracy to lure people into those. Yet people sentenced to life for drug trafficking would have been better off selling the actual assault drug.
Dyalog: Escrow
Request to the author: also do a GPT-3 summary of the comments here, and see if the conclusion is different.
Because a job requires doing repetive work you already understand, so you shoul learn to do that. And because practice builds long term memory.
1. There's some trend lines, or you can see a Kotlin module during build taking a lot of time. However, we can't tell how much of it is due to Kotlin and how much as an artifact of optimizations such as [1] that we work for Java and not Kotlin for now.

2. We have more specific metrics for parts of the build that we know would improve. For example, migrating annotation processors to use KSP instead of KAPT makes modules build faster. (This doesn't mean we can easily expect a different trend line in the top level graphs since in the meantime the amount of Kotlin code is changing.)

3. I'm not sure what your experience is, but according to mine it will be a "nice to have" but un attainable or at a cost of real user improvement. For example, if a lot of people build at once network caches might be slower. How does one remove that noise? Up the caches - that's more money and other updating issues; try to take it into account in data? maybe, but that's one of many issues (going back to the next point)

4. The commenter asked for numbers on builds. I don't think a graph that's jumping up and down due to the complexities and optimizations of Meta' build architecture is useful to anyone outside Meta. I think deducing results about Kotlin build times from it would be deceiving.

> Why? Just do a clean build on a local machine. Report real and user+system time. (man time). Repeat.

This number is not stable. Even if you shut off network caches and other similar things. But more importantly - this number is not useful. Our users rarely have that experience. One of the common sub goals we have when dealing with build times is to minimize the times someone will have to do a clean build.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2017/11/09/android/rethinking-and...
> Continuously monitoring workers to make sure they are "delivering" is too hard

Wow. That's...astounding. If you're such a poor manager that....managing...is too hard. Perhaps you should go back to IC work.

Employees don't have to be continuously monitored to see if they're doing work, that's how you wind up with spyware and butts in seats mentality. Are they checking in their work? Are they completing their stories on time? Are they getting near the average number of story points done in a sprint? If so, leave them the fuck alone.
Great site. Takes me right back to the 8 bit days!
It's fairly simple; there is a captive portal where you have to enter your phone number, phone number that ends up being validated by sms.

and yes its actually surprinsingly enforced. I remember reading an article a few months ago where café's owners had to pay hefty fines for not implementing those "safety" measures.
> I will never, ever understand why Marijuana is illegal, I can guarantee you, even if this thing is relatively harmless, it will be outlawed immediately.

Because of racism or tribalism.
When you compare the prices of an Apple MacBook to a comparable higher end machine, the prices are not really that different.
I strongly doubt they don't have enough office licenses. What's probably happening is no one can be bothered to fix the user hostile copy protection.

I bet cracked versions of Office don't display that message, so it's an indication that this one is actually legit :)
My take though is that UPS is a scam.

You can spend $500 and get 5 minutes of battery life, enough to have 5 minutes of terror to save all your files. If the power goes out you skip the 5 minutes of terror and usually wind up losing a small amount of work.

In 2 years the thing will wear out and you get more like 5 seconds of battery life, if it doesn't catch fire and burn down your house first. Either way you'll have to dispose of toxic lead.

Maybe if Schneider Electric went out of business (and didn't merge with somebody) a competitor that makes decent UPS might emerge.
I have an HP EliteBook 850 G8 that I didn't choose, my employer chose it for me. I actually asked for a ThinkPad but they were out and I just got a HP. It's... OK? The keyboard isn't horrible, the touchpad is OK, it has a reasonably decent number of ports and overall it's an OK machine.

For personal use, I have two laptops: A Surface Laptop Studio and an MSI GS66 gaming laptop. So far I really like the Surface's form factor and the ability to work with it as a tablet or laptop. Touchscreen, keyboard and touchpad are all great, and it's fine as a personal computer -- I went for the top of the line model but in retrospect I could've gotten by with a lower-end model. It's not quite powerful enough for a good gaming machine and more powerful than I need for everything else. Not a big fan of their "dock" or whatever, it's overpriced and doesn't even have video output.

The MSI gaming machine is great as long as I don't have to use its keyboard. I have Linux and Windows on it, mostly use Linux and run Stable Diffusion on it quite happily. Takes two NVMe drives and is easy to upgrade.

The keyboard is atrocious though. Mostly this isn't a problem because I use it connected to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. But when I've tried typing on it directly I loathe the action of the keys and the spacing of the keyboard. I think they went for a "cool gamer" layout instead of something functional. If this was going to be a machine I typed on directly with any frequency I'd have sent it back. Have run Pop_OS! and Fedora on it with no issues.
As an app developer on Facebook a lifetime ago I remember when they forced me to give up 30% of my in-app revenue to them even though I was already buying Facebook ads to promote the game…that’s pretty much when I gave up on trying to build a business on top of someone else’s, I have no sympathy here for Facebook
Doesn’t that argue that neither college test or the standard tech interviews are effective.
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Moving off Looker to their open-source competitor Lightdash
If you're attending the meetings you're required to attend, are completing the work you're required to complete by the agreed-upon deadlines, and are not working for a competitor, it is no business of my employer's what I'm doing at any given hour of the day.

This paternalistic bullshit will be the downfall of companies who care more about micromanaging and controlling their underpaid employees than they do about actually delivering something to the market. If someone isn't producing, fire them. If someone is only being given 10 hours a week of work, and they have enough free time to get another W2 job and earn another full-time salary, that's 100% a company/management problem.
Why?
It was simple and understandable.

systemd has everything and a kitchen sink, it is a big blob of software.

Finding out why the heck my resolv.conf contains some 127.0.0.x entry and not the real nameserver was the final thing that made me question sanity of distro maintainers and author of two worse pieces of software: pulseaudio and systemd.
(I was very surprised that it was the same person).
Clevo P17SM as personal laptop with Windows 10 and an Asus Rog Strix G15 as work laptop with Windows 11
Interestingly, your comment is now in the article itself.
Usually, captive portals make you enter your name and your email address. Many times, you can just put garbage, click ok and you have your internet access. There's no email verification in many places.

Some wifi access points (like the ones from cities) make you create an account though.
Meta lashes out about Apple's new charge for social media boosts
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Vanguard poised to usurp BlackRock as manager of largest bond ETF
https://archive.ph/GM6CO
> Because almost no one today has the tools, skills, experience, and supply chains needed to recreate the Industrial Revolution.

And even if we did, there is no easily-accessible source of energy anymore. All the accessible coal and oil have already be exhausted. We're now digging under thousands of meters of sea water and seabed to get to the sources of energy that are left.
Fixed, thanks. I always confuse those.
Could be a competitor in a future possibly-irrelevant product line is a far cry from being a competitor.
I test embedded devices with RF. You write most of your test drivers in python, RF simply orchestrates the tests and collects the results into a report, which works well in simple QA scenarios.

Robot lacks features you'd need to support larger-scale embedded test, such as with a device farm, where you need the concept of tests leasing resources. If you build a test stand with 10 testable devices and need to run a suite of 100 tests, it's ideal to run the tests in parallel as devices become available. Some test setups might require more than one instance of a testable device, or instances of more than one type of device (for example, to ensure that a V2 product can still interoperate with a V3 product.) Robot doesn't really support this.

While a feature to support this could be made extremely general (resource classes, instances, and leases) the RF developers have been uninterested in incorporating this aspect of test into their framework. The result is everyone who does even mid scale embedded device testing has to writes their own.

Another complaint about robot framework is that when you have an expensive setup like a 4 minute flashing operation, you don't want to repeat it more than necessary. So in a file, you might make the expensive setup a suite-level setup, followed by the tests cases that depend upon it. When this file grows, you might want to refactor it into a multi-file test suite in it's own sub-directory. However, these tests no longer share a suite scope (because robot's "suite scope" is actually a file scope" for legacy reasons) so in practice you may need to tolerate 3000 line files to avoid long setups.
>>> Depending where you are, its illegal. For example in France, if you dont keep a register of whoever used your wi-fi, you are in breach of anti-terrorist norms.

> It's fairly simple; there is a captive portal where you have to enter your phone number, phone number that ends up being validated by sms.

They have similar requirements in China, and they do exactly the same thing there.
Dells are like Toyotas. You can take one to almost any repair shop because components are replaceable/upgradeable, and the service manuals are available online.

Apple by comparison is like a Tesla. Nothing is upgrade-able and they do their best to prevent you from serving it anywhere other than their own service centers.
The Misunderstanding of Small Wins
Most dishonest people don't stop at one lie. The smart ones do, but once you get away with one, you are a lot more likely to try just one more. It works until it doesn't.
This is partially why everyone hates managers.

What the hell else are you even doing that you don’t have time to ensure your employees are doing their job? You’re really not that busy.
They weren’t meeting productivity requirements.
>the Wild West 90s internet is long gone and nothing will bring it back. This is where things are headed, because the risks of the status quo are too great. Suck it up and get on with your life.

The "Wind West internet" is very much alive, but as it was in the 90s, its hidden and far away from the "normal" users. And regarding the part with the "suck it up and get on with your life" - I always was a "Don Quijote" type personality, i don't think i will change this attitude...
>"Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;)"

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Microscopy reveals how psychedelics light up brain’s neuropathways
Yes, exactly. We shouldn't upend everyone's lives for the sake of the elderly and the feeble. The median age of a Covid-associated death in the US is near the average life expectancy[0]. There's a case to be made that the lockdown-related life loss, including the great increase in deaths of despair, as well as future poverty in children who more or less lost two years of schooling, will exceed the Covid death toll. Our policy response has been madness.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
What stops your boss from lying to the company: danjoredd? Never heard of this guy. Never worked here and if he did, he would have done a lousy job. Glad I could help!
I can’t see how it’s antitrust behavior. The system only applies if you use in app purchases. All payment providers charge some for usage, even VISA charges fees. Apples fees just happen to be higher.

And as always, facebook has an option to make their own phone instead of the metaverse nobody is asking for.

To me, Apple is the good guy here. They should charge meta 100%, pass 70% onto consumers to cover the costs of the psychological disorders caused by metas products.
Even a "local admin to Ring0 without reboot"-exploit might have some uses in malware.
Thanks!
It's nice to read your words.
Any collaboration (or proposal) will be welcome
I don't know, as an employer I would do optional cover letters, so it is up to you if you want to provide one. If you don't, it is an instant reject, because it just shows that my company is not interesting enough for you to even write a measly cover letter. Obviously depends, if I just need mercenaries I would not require cover letters.
I definitely know some people who are able to speak at length without conscious thought.
Not a good idea considering the security and privacy of open WiFi.
I had a 2-in-1 XPS13 a few years ago and it was total nightmare. I had a long list of 16 problems (OS / hardware), so much so that Dell refunded me after 1 year.

The main problem was it was absolute crap in terms of CPU perfs. Totally impossible to run even one VM despite a price tag of more than 2000€. Who would know that the beautifully named i7-7Y75 Processor (up to 3.6 Ghz!!!) is the modern equivalent of a Celeron processor? I should have.

I then bought a Thinkpad with works OKish, but for the same price and same specs (except processor), allows me to run 3 or 4 VMs w/o a problem.