skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting deal with this from my personal experience (which matches yours)...it was often "contagious"...at least with shooting. If one guy was cold sometimes everyone was, and obviously the opposite if he's hot. Momentum is a fascinating concept in sports. Now I watch team sports on television instead of playing them. Announcers will talk about momentum as if it's a law of physics. It's universally accepted to be "a thing"...but what is that thing?

What's interesting is sometimes it's also not "contagious". And how much of that is placebo? All of it? Probably but any actual thinking about it is usually only at the sub-conscious level. Except sometimes the coach or bench brings it up and then it's not.

The psychology of sports is endlessly fascinating.
Those docks are a mess. USB-C/Thunderbolt is an AWFUL connector for a dock. The strain on the cables (docks are always shoved in weird corners with tight turns and pressure on the cable) and the ports get worn out very fast with the stress. HPs slimline docks with the retractable plug on the side was probably the best/most reliable dock I've ever seen in production.

And the Precisions have bad heat management. All it takes is a little dust and the temps go nuts. I have engineers using them on shop floors and they have to clean them constantly so AutoCAD doesn't overheat (especially when they're on the dock running full tilt with a couple of external monitors)
> Would they really? Was Elizabeth Warren punished by Harvard or UPenn for unethical behavior?

Good question.

Just because they can doesn't mean they will.

As I said elsewhere, I think that the most likely filter for race bamboozlers is in the application process when the stated race and the combination of application, references, and alumni interview does not tell a coherent story.

Regarding Warren specifically, I will honestly say that I don't think race mattered very much for her. I know it's a meme in certain circles, but she applied in a very different era, one in which admissions standards were much lower. Being capable and ambitious was probably enough regardless of her race. I could be very wrong about her specific case, but I am certain that the Harvard and Penn of that era was nothing like the Harvard and Penn of today in terms of competitiveness of admissions.
Admins; we saw you edited the title of that anti-Lenovo post a couple of days ago - moral quandary on this one?
I wonder if there is a point at which facebook pulls their apps from the app store

But more seriously i m concerned that tech now openly considers that end users are junkies to be taxed (via a Value Added Tax no less) for their junkiness

I feel sorry for every developer who is trapped in the App stores, but not for facebook
I'll rather buy an expensive machine and use for a decade without problems instead of buying a dirt cheap machine and suffer indefinitely.
Fine, but then the reasoning against Jewish students doesn't stand. How can anyone, except for the Stanford admissions office, deduce whether or not Jewish students are over or under represented?
I usually tell family members that if they’re dead set on buying a new laptop (as opposed to used), then don’t buy anything under $1000 since it’s going to be a piece of shit.

The only exception to that rule is Dell. Don’t buy Dell at all, since it’s always going to be a piece of shit.
An external thermostat on the outside of your house? This is unheard of in the UK
From the GNU coretutils doc [1]:

Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done better than handing down our present system. It is like a set of trapezoidal building blocks, with no vertical or horizontal surfaces, like a language in which the simplest thought demands ornate constructions, useless particles and lengthy circumlocutions. Unlike the more successful patterns of language and science, which enable us to face experience boldly or at least level-headedly, our system of temporal calculation silently and persistently encourages our terror of time.

… It is as though architects had to measure length in feet, width in meters and height in ells; as though basic instruction manuals demanded a knowledge of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. …

—Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date...
> “Users no longer need to enroll each device for each service, which has long been the case for FIDO (and for any public key cryptography)," said Andrew Shikiar, FIDO's executive director and chief marketing officer. "By enabling the private key to be securely synced across an OS cloud, the user needs to only enroll once for a service, and then is essentially pre-enrolled for that service on all of their other devices. This brings better usability for the end-user and—very significantly—allows the service provider to start retiring passwords as a means of account recovery and re-enrollment.”

I'm not so sure I like the idea of my private keys being synced to "the cloud". I much prefer my current workflow where my yubikey is the sole owner of my private key. It is unclear to me if I will be able to continue using this method with passkeys.
Around the corner from where I live in Berlin there is a store[1] that legaly sells LSD analogs. They also run a web shop[2].

It sold 1cP-LSD until summer 2021 (outlawed in July 2021, AFAIR), switched to 1V-LSD until that was outlawed by the government this September and is now selling 1D-LSD which, along BOL-148, is the last known LSD alike/derivative that is not outlawed in Germany (yet) AFAIK[3].

My guess would be that once those latter two get outlawed they may pay someone to find them a new variant ...

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/NDGuYNTSyE5ozAcv6

[2] https://www.lsd.shop

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_LSD-Analoga#Rechtlic...
They used to be fast booting before switching to the UEFI monster they have now.
I don’t like a digital tax but am also upset that the big companies are so often given a pass.
> they are being asked to answer the same question more than once, or they are being asked to enter data that is already contained in the resume that is also being uploaded

That's pretty much the point that I stop. As a professional in demand, I'm not going to do data entry for a mere job application. (But, if I see an apply button on some other job board that lets me upload a resume, I'll let the company's HR see my resume and do their own data entry.)

The problem is that hiring companies are treating applicants like a captive audience; and have little empathy for how frustrating their expectations are.

Interviewing for a job, especially a professional job, is always a two-way street. When I apply, it's because I want to know more. Extensive data entry for a job that I'm not sure I want, or that I'll be hired for, is a waste of my precious time.
Your router's power usage is nontrivial? That's surprising to me.
I like using catch2 (c++ test framework). the keywords are only reused when they group together in the code.

GIVEN("Some setup") {
// code to create the setup
WHEN("some use of the setup") {
// do something
}
WHEN("something else"){
// do something unrelated to the previous when
}
}
Virtual monopoly of what? Phones 50% in USA, 16% worldwide. Other stuff not so much.
Framework for the last month or so. Old Thinkpad T460s is still around. Both with NixOS. Framework works fine. On the Thinkpad, fingerprint reader doesn’t work and LTE modem has issues (ModemManager crashes in a loop; not sure what the issue is, and never needed it enough to investigate).
Futuristic Tram-Buses Will Be on London's Streets from 2023
Ok, you want a big brother to tell you what to do. But why would you bring me into this?
Compared to Rust at this stage of its development? No, Rust was far more popular.

If you search headline with Zig which reached HN front page, you will only see about 1 - 2 per month. Compared that to Rust, which isn't even as popular as it once was.

But still, I do wish the Zig community could quiet down a little bit. It would be nice if decent zig submission hit HN front page once every two months. Keeping the interest alive but not too much so people felt it is over hyped.

We will have a November Release soon and I can guarantee it will hit HN front page again.
>> Recently I wanted to apply to a company. First they had you read some weird document telling you how they can’t pay high salaries, so you should be modest with your expectations.

My favorite one was an employer who low-balled me for a job in NYC. Then he says "I know people who live in Pennsylvania and commute in [read: the wage doesnt have to be sustenance wage in NYC/suburbs, you can just commute to somewhere far away]." suggesting that one can make budgets work if one tries hard enough.
I have a 14 year old Dell laptop. It still works pretty well. Replaced the hdd with an ssd to speed it up.

I would say that Dell hasn't really been something I've found to be competitive lately. I recently bought a refurbished HP for a family member.
I was thinking this in a general sense, but I recently tried a distro with openrc and it was quite nice. Maybe things have changed.
I bought an XPS laptop for my wife several years ago, specifically because of how nice its display was. I hardly ever use it, and so it took me a couple years to notice there's a hot pixel. It now wears away at my sanity.
> They produce far too many models of laptops and 2-in-1. There are currently 285 models, it takes 24 pages of store just to display them all! (Compare this to Apple which is a far larger company and has ~5 laptop models)

Meh. Some people don't like the Apple "you can have any color you want, as long as it's black" product strategy. It's not a bad thing to not ape Apple.

I actually got a Dell recently, it it was solely because they offered an affordably-priced 16:10 model. If they did the Apple, "we offer 4 models, take it or leave it," I guarantee, none of them would have been affordably-priced 16:10 models.

> The design of their machines is so bad I have come to the conclusion that no one is designing them. I know this sounds like a ridiculous claim, but I am quite certain it’s true...

> Look at this camera positioning. Great for showing off your nose hairs!

Meh, again. I'm almost certain that camera placement is due to the economic decision to use a 16:9 screen on that machine, leaving a giant bezel that's just inviting someone to put something in it. 16:9 panels in laptops are a stupid fact of life, because people like cheap, but it's kind of dumb to jump to the conclusion that "no one is designing them" based on stuff like that and an experience with one of Dell's competitors.

> What is with the naming?

> There is a laptop named “New XPS 15”. Who the fuck names a laptop “New XPS 15? How am I supposed to talk about it in a year when Dell creates another XPS 15?

Is this guy even paying attention? The literal answer is in the screenshot with the broken image link right below this passage. That reveals that the "New XPS 17" has proper model number, and they offer both the old and the new model in their store (which is not a bad thing). It's obviously a just a good temporary label to make that situation clear to a user of their store. This guy obviously lionizes Apple (in comparison, at least), but they're worse in this regard: they've marketed literally dozens of models as "MacBook Pro 15," and the best they do to differentiate them is tack on a year, which doesn't tell you which is the new one unless you know thier whole product lineup.
The English version of that is to only boil the kettle with the amount of water you need for the cups of tea you are making

My mother and mother in law both boil a full kettle regardless of how many teas they are making
In gaming culture, a farmer is someone who repeats the same actions for extended periods of time.

It's not an insult in gaming context, and "farming" in the context of our craft does not relate to actual farmers. It sounds like taking things out of context to gain moral upper hand which allows for insulting the author.

I have to be devil's advocate, this whole shaming because someone else might have gotten offended is seriously tiresome.

Library is crafted well, guy's annoyed with self-proclaimed crappy devs, yet the freedom to say so is revoked by the very community he helps.
>If you install the app then they can proactively annoy ... sorry ... engage you.

I remember how I had all notifications and jingle bells on when I got my first smartphone back in 2015/2016. Nowadays turning off notifications is the first thing I do, and then turning them on for selected apps (e.g., phone, Telegram, etc). It helps I don't have social media apps in my phone, and whatever I use I access it in the browser (e.g., Twitter and Reddit).
Test plans that I've seen go one step farther: written instructions on how to setup the test, and verify results.

I've never seen a manual tester follow the steps that are written down, but I've seen a lot of effort put into writing down the exact steps anyway.
I need to time one of the latest ones we have, but as far as I remember, even they are faster than a certain company's servers, and Intel's reference/development servers.

Both were booting in 5+ minutes under normal circumstances.
It's very similar to an unidentified drug in Honduras, I wonder if it's the same organization creating them and distributing them in different places.

'Tiburón or “Shark” is a chemically-altered weed that is said to be more addictive than cocaine and sells like hotcakes.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZhxFtmAoXg
> You are not fucking suppose to verify or reference check on me before I even had my interview or offer. So now my boss / management knows I am job hunting?

OP is okay with employment verification, but it should wait until after the offer is signed. Any offer will be pulled back if the job seeker lied about their job history
I just looked at the help menu, and with the amount of options presented... I think it serves to prove my point.
Very interesting detail about linux and setting the time back to a value such that the boot time is before the epoch, with monotonic clocks.

Shamelessly I'll here remind people to never use gettimeofday() to measure time. E.g. setting the time backwards used to cause any currently running "ping" command to hang. (they fixed it about 10 years after I sent them a patch)

More fun examples of bugs like that at
https://blog.habets.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-...
That is what OS sandboxes are for, but they tend not to be liked by HN crowd.
The Surprising Reason That There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America (2018)
MacBook Pro. Build quality is amazing, but macOS is far far behind Windows.
I've never had this in the UK, even with fairly new ones. Looking at the models offered there doesn't seem to be any mentione of a feature like that, even on the higher end models.
Except that it’s on earth.
Apple’s green bubble strategy worked for iMessage, now almost 90% of teens have an iPhone: https://www.howtogeek.com/778355/new-study-says-87-of-us-tee...

Once the iPhone is essentially the natural monopoly/common carrier, how well do you think society will be able to regulate it from becoming ultra dominant?
Have you seen [libgit2](https://libgit2.org/) and the csharp libgit2sharp? Both seem to be reasonable albeit low level interfaces to a repo.

My opinion is that you’ll still desire some other data store for indexing and searching as your application grows.
> There simply aren't enough skilled workers available to do what the leaders want here.

Given how long it takes foundries to get up and running, this seems like something you can solve in parallel.
I mean, this is all hypothetical to me as I'll never make this much. I just don't understand how time (in particular time spent while in good health) does not become the most precious asset once you have the financial means to escape most societal constraints
Sequoia Capital thinks Twitter Deal can be a success
Most people don't spend energy to post "meh".
>> Moral of the story (maybe?): Just fill the thing as needed to get through the automatic gate-keeper, then wow them in your cover letter and real uploaded resume. Maybe some - maybe even most - will be pissed off, but you only need one job!

Unless Taleo blocks you centrally and now you cant apply to half the companies in the world.
When corporations fight, are we, the little guys, the likely winner? I don’t know the answer, just asking out loud. I hope so (in which case, pass the popcorn).
Is a growing middle class the real key to economic growth?
“A talking point” is a very sleazy turn of phrase. You don’t say it is wrong, incorrect, harmful; you just apply guilt by association even though the statement in question may have merit by itself.
IMO where Parcel shines is when you are building client side single page apps or JS/TS libraries.

I could see that it won't be the right tool for a multi page server rendered app.
A Durango Startup Curbs Wildfires, Creates Jobs, & Builds Affordable Housing
> You think the Communist commissar rewards virtue? you think a Hitler rewards virtue?

I know he meant it in a different way, but I find it makes more sense to think of political appointees as rewarding virtue. Of course, often times that virtue is simply personal fealty or loyalty to the party ideology, but I do believe that a despot rewards those he finds most virtuous -- as opposed to those that are the most productive or the most capable.
Not sure how it looks like nowadays, but during the early days of Mac OS X going mainstream, a common question on forums was how to run as root by default, some people never learn.
If you think Apple wont spend the next 5 years trying to bring this reality to applications running on their (currently) MacOS devices you're an idealist who's in for a rude awakening.
Have you seen any of these images? If so, then yes they were clandestine spy messages. https://vault.fbi.gov/ghost-stories-russian-foreign-intellig...
Your NAS's bios power settings almost certainly need tweaking to reflect the current state of energy prices. I did with my Intel NUC and got my 24/7 power usage down 40% with no noticeable performance impact.
"The App Store is now called Apple Stores, a touchphone that sells everything (provided by our third party resellers). If you dont like our stores go shop elsewhere.

I wonder if there is a legal case here, by apple forcefully escalating the business relationship from neutral/orthogonal transactions to one where facebook is forced to be a partner of apple. (And monopoly issues arising from the fact that Apple now has a business interest in increasing facebook's ad sales)
On Apple pcs you have maybe 4 main models, but you can still configure them however you like

Why not do the same thing? Have a few main models and allow customization (I haven’t checked if that’s actually possible on Dell)
I am personally convinced that the close correlation of the perceived sizes of the Sun and Moon, and the spectacularity of eclipses, drove mankind to study them and thence to measure intangible things. Next step: progress!
Also frequency re-use. They will talk on the same frequency to multiple ground terminals, but pointed different directions from the satellites perspective.
As an uneducated farmer this gave me a giggle, it suggests if I filed a ticket about a performance problem in the project it'd likely be fixed instantaneously. That quote is basically an advert, if the author wishes to establish such a high bar for themselves it'd be foolish not to avail of it.
Calling someone a "farmer" or a "peasant" is a well known insult. The gaming use of the word is much less known.

> 1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.

> 2. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. an unsophisticated or ignorant person, especially one from a rural area.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/farmer
>If you're a self taught programmer you probably didn't learn by finding a university's syllabus and trying to replicate it.

Exactly what I'm doing. I dislike being dumb because I missed something.
Mine cryptocurrency.
Twitter’s Elon problem could soon become Apple’s Elon problem, too
Homepage – AFJ
Stop writing in-app caches and start writing inherently cached apps with CLIPS
I can see how it might seem like it doesn’t explain the hard problem, but what I’m trying to articulate is that awareness or the self or subjective experience is just that system I described happening really fast. There’s nothing mystical happening here. It’s chaos theory sitting on top of a information processing system that has memory, decision making models, and the ability to learn.

Again we are searching for something more that doesn’t need to be there.
Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality
It's an extraordinary achievement by the pilots to keep going under the immense pressure of a 2 hour impromptu rollercoaster ride in the clouds with 6 lives on the line.
This is probably controversial, but from the perspective of a user, I’ve rarely seen a mobile-first web app (putting really simple use cases aside) that comes anywhere close to offering the seamless experience of a native app. Web apps can be good, but they always feel handicapped in some way - a little slower, odd steps required or a poorer experience with things like Bluetooth earbuds, getting logged out constantly, no native notifications…
100% agree. I have one of the XPS13 Dev that doesn't deep sleep properly which is supposed to have first class support for sleeping. Yes it does sleep but kills the entire battery in a few hours.

Dell won't fix it https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9310-Ubuntu-deep-s...
> Instead the Commissioner apparently decided that these people, who were not sick, couldn’t be allowed to work and earn their living

Demonstrably false. The commissioner's order (which I linked above) never required them to be fired. The order solely required they be kept off the premise which is not the same as fired. Sure somebody could fire them and then claim the health order told them to but that wouldn't make it truthful; the health code is very clear on violations being a fines / misdemeanors.

> But they could still go to grocery stores and baseball games, because those places aren’t important.

Sure. Perhaps the agency has the power to stop people from doing that. It's not explicitly listed though.

> An agency, no matter how well–meaning they are, is not allowed to take any action not on their list.

The legislature has delegated a vague do everything to the agency. So, everything is on their list ...

"Except as otherwise provided by law, the department shall have jurisdiction to regulate all matters affecting health in the city of New York and to perform all those functions and operations performed by the city that relate to the health of the people of the city, including but not limited to the mental health, intellectual and developmental disability, alcoholism and substance abuse-related needs of the people of the city. The jurisdiction of the department shall include but not be limited to the following:"

However, the Health Department does have explicit control over "(5) ... operation of facilities by other agencies of the city;". Which is exactly what they were doing. They were telling other agencies that they can't operate their facilities with unvaccinated individuals. They also tailored the order to be as narrow as it needed to be. The unvaccinated individuals are still allowed to work, just not on premise which is how a disease would get transmitted at those facilities.

[1]: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/covid/covid-19...