skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Consumer _anything_ is going to be hit or miss.

I kind of agree with that philosophy.

I have friends who had bad customer experience with Bell for their cell, have switched to Rogers, and for the rest of their lives will yell that Bell is horrible and Rogers is awesome. But I also have friends who did exactly the opposite thing from Rogers to Bell.

I have friends who have had bad personal experience with TD Canada bank teller / customer service, and switched to CIBC, and will spend the rest of their lives telling everybody how TD is awful and CIBC is awesome. And I also have friends with exact opposite experience.

One of my friendships completely deteriorated when they warned me to NEVER EVER shop at Canadian Tire. Why? In 1978 her dad had a bad experience with a Canadian Tire car shop in Regina. I made a mistake of engaging and discussing there are over 500 stores with tens of thousands of employees and millions of different experiences, EVERY company will have statistical error rate, and "This one time at a bandcamp something bad happened" might not form the pinnacle of my decision making process (not that bluntly of course:), I got a look like I'm an alien being and what KIND of friend doesn't immediately take another person's word to not shop somehwere, no follow-up questions asked???!?!!!11

Anyway :).

Every company will have some percentage of bad customer experiences.

Stories, even reviews, are a poor and maybe even deceptive way for a person to decide how to weigh their risks.

I don't know of a perfect way because we don't have perfect information - what is Dell error rate compared to Lenovo compared to HP? I do agree that every company will have an error rate especially in their consumer stuff where we are explicitly not willing to pay for quality, and only pay, at best, for superficial specs or attributes.

Nothing on that website has shown me any statistics or argument that Dell is special. Like others, I've had good experience with Dell business models, just like with Lenovo business models and HP business models. And I've tended to have bad experience with plasticky crap of consumer models.
We had the same issues with Precision for software development, especially with the docks. Dell released a series of firmware updates. It resolved the issues on a small percentage of the machines, the remainder improved but not by a lot.

They gave up, we were stuck with lemons.
One big difference is that everybody is aware and has agreed to it.
Did the "cloud hype" really "blow over"? Seems to be a pretty big thing nowadays.
AI Will Require You to Relearn How to Use the Internet
A generalization of Cloud-to-Butt!

>Substitute certain overhyped programming terms, such as "Deep Learning", and "Machine Learning", and "Artificial Intelligence" with more accurate replacements such as "Linear Algebra", "IF Statements", and "BS That Doesn't Exist Yet", respectively.

Wouldn't deep learning be more accurately described as "calculus"?
If you're using gas or resistive heating anyway this achieves very little.
I don't get this argument.

UIs changed in the past, and still change the whole time.

Why would shell be any different?
“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
And why should the bank's opinion be relevant here?
People who care about you, care about you.

The rest is trapping(s).

I thought our individualistic culture was based on the shared understanding that, the more value you provide to others' lives, the more your nonconformities are accepted.

Aint much you can do for your fellows when your hands are in handcuffs though, golden or otherwise, so we better keep up with 'em Joneses and don't dare imagine freedom, or else.
> You will never have the data you're asking for.

Why?????

Just wait.

Obviously you can't compare 20 years of data with "a few papers"

It means you're comparing hard evidence with something that is theoretical.

Imagine this:

"Cancer has been one of the main causes of death for people around the World, but we have these few papers about this new drug that say that it can beat cancer, se we can say for sure that cancer will not be a main cause for death anymore, without even testing the new drug, because I've read it in these papers here, written by people who work at developing this new drug, so obviously we don't need no data!"

If anything, the liks at the studies posted here prove that memory safety issues went down over the years, even without Rust.

Because, obviously, when going fast to develop something, you cut many corners, then, when your software is stable enough, developers can focus on improving it.

95% of the bugs were memory safety issues doesn't really say anything.

If those 95% issues were all edge cases, does it really matters?

If 50% of that 95% was something like "in some cases the interface is rendered slightly incorrectly" does it really matter?

I am much more worried by the 0,1% of them that end up in an arbitrary code execution vulnerability or worse.

> The reality is that whatever data you want is pointless

Then why even bother?

If it's pointless, why are you even arguing with me?

You're right by design, I'm quite sure I am not.

> Anyone who knows what they're talking about should be able to very easily conclude that Rust will have fewer memory safety issues than C

Doesn't mean anything.

If you put people in bunkers alone you'll see a drop in homicide cases.

Doesn't mean it's better.

That's all I'm saying.

I'm not a zealot, not a fan, don't have a political agenda and not trying to convince anybody.

We don't have the data, that's all, if you have data then show it to me or you have to agree with me that we don't have any.

I guess you put Linus Torvalds in the group of people who don't know what they are talking about

Sorry if I trust him more than you.

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And the *reality* is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety.
Never has been. Anybody who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus.

-- Linus Torvalds
It's a bit reductive to look at the format of a battery as a solution to the energy transition and energy crisis. But fundamentally you're not wrong.
What machines were you planning to plant and harvest that wheat with?
Macbook Air M1 (personal)
Macbook Pro M1 (work)
OSX is certainly far behind - because it's ancient history - but macOS isn't.
That library was on HN a few times, and I read quite some discussions he was involved in.

He's a bit like Linus. He knows what's up and sees all the people around him building sub par software.

But instead of telling them how to improve, he's very confrontative and I think those times of gatekeeping are over.
I only buy Dell products. I bought an XPS 15 back in 2017 and while on a trip to a country with no UPS/FedEx and the screen broke. The warranty agent worked with me to get the replacement screen shipped to a different country where a friend picked it up and delivered it to me in person. That is the best customer service I have ever had and so far sticking with Dell has paid off. Although admittedly I haven't bought anything other than their monitors in the past couple of years.
> I'm astonished at the chutzpah of this move. Reaching into an app and taxing transactions between the developer and the user that have nothing to do with the App Store.

This isn’t really new, Apple have been doing this with nearly all transactions since forever; now they’re simply updating “nearly all transactions” to “all transactions”, closing a loophole which previously allowed Meta and their users to transact in private.
What number is "extremely low"?
Today it's Meta, tomorrow it's your business model.

Not sure this is the future of computing I want.
Primary computer is a desktop (since going full remote): ubuntu on repurposed gaming rig. I'm really happy with how well this computer works. As such, it's taken some of the pressure off having a perfect laptop.

Laptops:

Dell XPS 13 with ubuntu (preconfigured with ubuntu from Dell) -- has been an incredibly steady machine for years. I bought the framework laptop, installed ubuntu, but never got around to tweaking it to work as well as the Dell. So even though the framework is new, hardware better in every way it just sits on a shelf.

I also use newer thinkpad for work with windows -- it's fine I guess.
I have a XPS 13 with a broken hinge. The hinge broke after about ~3 years for apparently no reason.

The broken hinge is also next to the power button, so when the screen is opened, the detached hinge section pushes the plastic of the chassis upwards. This has both cracked the plastic, and made it impossible to press the power button normally.

I fixed it by using some really strong adhesive I found (called “plastic cement” or something like that). The power button is permanently wobbly, but you can at least press it now.

But exactly a week later the other hinge broke in exactly the same way. So more hours of my life and more adhesive later, it’s somewhat salvageable, but I am very gentle when opening and closing the lid.

Maybe I got unlucky with a shitty unit, or you got lucky with a non-shitty unit. Either way, I think our anecdotes cancel each other out.
I wonder why they wrote the whole thing in header files...
Apple has become a company managed by greedy and risk-averse accountants (oxymoron?).

This should not be surprising.

I am glad that Meta is not treated by Apple with a "special deal" as many big companies do and as they did in the past.

I am pretty sure the lobbying is intense, hidden from public debate, I don't think we'll see the end of it this decade.
Everyone must make some kind of contribution in the betterment of the environment. Otherwise, the climate control would become uncontrollable in a few decades time.
Virtual monopoly app provider for iOS devices.

Pre-empting the web apps comment. It's not the same, in ways that are both good and bad for both the producer and consumer.
It's passed through the hype cycle to now be mainstream - whether that's a good or a bad thing is left up as an exercise to the reader. All major companies I've worked with / for are in the cloud now.
Explainpaper – A better way to read academic papers
5 year's ago I've bought a 2-in-1 Dell Inspiron laptop.

2-in-1 functionality turned out to be useless and annoying in Ubuntu environment, so I almost never used it.

1 year after the purchase, WiFi signal on this laptop started to weaken rapidly.
After disassembling the machine I discovered that the cable connecting WiFi module (behind the keyboard) and WiFi antenna (behind the screen) was torn apart as a result of lid movement. It was almost impossible to fix without complete disassembly of the laptop.

I was amazed how bad that design was. It was absolutely not suitable for frequent 360 degree movement of the lid.

It's ridiculous how easily they traded visual appearance (metal casing) for operational stability.
Work laptop (issued by company): MacBook Pro late 2019 (16", i9, 64 GB of ram)

Personal laptop: Surface Pro X (SQ2, 16 GB of ram)

I use a desktop for most of my work and personal things though, I only use the laptops when I'm not home
The article mentions about 40% of users have issues. You must be part of the 60%. Such are the dangers of anecdotes.
I don't think you need to map all of them to a single object - projections work well here.

There are very few cases where you need to work simultaneously on that many columns.
That's what Apple's lawyers argue. The 30% is to pay for Xcode and the APIs. It's BS; Apple's providing an iPhone SDK willingly in order to make the iPhone a viable product.

The argument completely falls apart when you consider that Windows devs don't need to pay Microsoft a per-unit sale tax, beyond paying for Visual Studio Enterprise licenses (which are completely optional; there's many other IDEs). Microsoft charging devs for Windows APIs would be nonsensical.

Running the App Store is just a cost of doing business. Again, nobody forced Apple to. It benefits them tremendously, and benefits users as well. Why gouge devs?
TFA:

> Inspired by and adapted from the infamous [cloud-to-butt](https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt) extension, as originally released under the WTFPL (here BSD0)
I guess it really boils down to whether or not you specifically received a lemon or not. There's always going to be anecdotal evidence on either side of the ledger.

That said, there's plenty of customer complaints that appear to point towards poor QA/QC by Dell. In particular, there's a very specific hardware defect with keyboards in the XPS line.

Just search for "XPS tilde (~), F1, F2 not working". You'll quickly see this is an issue plaguing various models of XPS.
Firefox (only talking about Firefox here) does not use CTAP2, to the best of my knowledge. What you think is "FIDO2" is likely actually U2F/CTAP1. Backwards compatibility with that protocol is part of the FIDO2 spec, but it doesn't enable no-username-provided authentication. LUKS uses libfido2, which supports CTAP2 (and most of CTAP2.1).
Linux, Fedora on laptop.

That way my servers and laptop's file structure and configuration stays the same. I can test on laptop, and then sync up to the server. Or if something breaks, can always sync down the files and check on laptop.
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.
Agreed. We hired someone who simply lied about getting their degree.

OP mentioned having to bring a diploma, and to me that does indeed seem ridiculous.

In the USA, the National Student Clearinghouse [1] provides degree verification that is the standard. It is much more reliable than someone showing a piece of paper.

How do I know this? The hire who lied about graduating also produced a falsified diploma, which blew me away. I confirmed it was false because when I checked with the university in question, they pointed out some things that confirmed although it was similar, they never would have issued one like this. (And the registrar confirmed this person did indeed never graduate)

[1] https://nscverifications.org/
And the leaders are supported by huge throngs of people who need or want money and are willing to ignore their role (wittingly or unwittingly) or are blackmailed into compliance.
Storage Incentives and the Evolution of Decentralization
“How can you prove your data is stored?

With storage incentives, things are very different. Here, you need to compensate a node for providing disk space for chunks of data. “It turns out that this was a much more sophisticated problem to solve than we initially thought. This is because storing content is a service that is promissory in nature, in contrast to instant gratification for providing bandwidth,” he explains.”
> They're looking for the sweet spot of desperation.

You've seen through the fog my friend...
what do people use for Ypsilon (υ) then?
I would argue the blue pill attacks _are_ theoretical for the majority of users, while DRM overreach are at least a daily occurrence.

The complexity and bugs of these "protections" is likely to cause more actual security issues AND headaches to average users than the "evil maid" scenario these blog posts like to speak of.
Some captive portals require a password, but all seem to require acceptance of their ToS.

Is there any precedence that a provider of open Wifi is absolved of any responsibility for nefarious activities by end-users when their ToS is agreed to?
Funnily enough based off Lenovo's reputation for their higher end laptops, in April I bought a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen10, pretty much as they came out. The machine is a nightmare, and has been through about 10 firmware updates over the last 6 months, but has barely improved.

From day one and still now... on Win11 that it shipped with it won't hibernate, just a black screen on resume, then pot luck over the next boots whether it starts or not. Sometimes from shutdown it does the same thing. Under little load, it gets hot as hell, you literally can't type on it, I use a bluetooth keyboard. If I'm doing light dev work, 3h battery life, tops. Audio drivers are broken, the internal 3.5mm just emits noise above around 10% volume and is distorted below that. Shipped with an underpowered 45W adapter... same SKU now ships with a 65W (an i7-1260p w/32GB).

I don't think it's faulty, there are plenty of people with the same story about Gen10s. Mine is in for repair now, so we'll see, if it comes back with the same issues, it's getting warranty returned.

I know the X1 Carbon Gen9 is a really good machine, maybe Lenovo got screwed by Intel's 12th Gen platform and Microsoft's support for the processor, but the machine should not be going out the door like that.

Come to think of it... my XPS15 9560 from 2017 is STILL a better machine, which is what I switched back to while it's in for service (and cost half as much!)
I write some Common Lisp and while it's alike, this C++ API is much more similar to the JS API than to anything I've written in CL or Clojure. But yeah, I guess the basic idea is from Lisp.
> This is same for other manufacturers too.

So true. Consumer laptops are really meh, but the only way to satisfy the demand for laptops is to have a designed-for-price laptop. In a way, the market demands cheap laptops whatever sacrifices in quality will attain.
For what it's worth, there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that suggests Canadian Tire is not a chain that prides itself on quality — from LED bulbs that last a month, to their auto department that makes it a priority to overcharge and over diagnose ignorant drivers.

Their markups are also a little nuts. If you can regularly discount items 90%, then you've been regularly overcharging.

They have the moniker "crappy tire" for a reason.
> Steam is pretty beloved in PC gaming, and they take 30%.

> 30% goes to the platform.

The platform is Windows, not Steam. (Or arguably the platform is Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc., but in any case not Steam.) You don't need to be on Steam to be on PC.

The issue isn't the App Store cut per se, the issue is having to be in the App Store to be on the iPhone. You never had to do that on Windows or Mac.
please explain how, I have been out of the Windows world for quite a long while.
Mac at work, but considering switching to a Linux machine (maybe System76/PopOS?) on the next refresh we do.

For my personal machine, and LG Gram 17" - I think about 2 years old at this point - the value/hardware is a pretty great value IMO (and frequently goes on sale at Costco), it's ultralight (important for me), still has a number pad, and a 16x10 display, unusual IMO outside of the Mac world. And the screen is gorgeous. Maybe not Mac/Retina (but I run my Mac screen at highest resolution rather than Retina anyways, so it more similar than you'd expect).
Unless you have a clause in your employment contract forbidding employees from having another job you have no right to care if they do as long as they are meeting productivity requirements.
What do you think about GPAs being non-standard? Test scores calibrate between schools - GPAs only kind of do.

I remember many classes that were taught by two separate teachers: one teacher consistently gave students higher grades. The other teachers students consistently did better on the AP test - much more strict with homework and test scores, but it ended up positively impacting the students.
Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th Gen running Linux (EndeavourOS)
Evil doesn't imply strong.
The interesting thing to me about this, and many other responses here, is that it's so blind to the reality beyond the tech space about how hiring actually operates for a job seeker. If you're in a position like, say, "software engineer," your skills are clear and unambiguous. You can list the same skills for every job application and eventually find what you want. But many – if not most – job seekers don't actually have that kind of experience. There's a ton of experience that needs to be tailored to the employer. I'm in the nonprofit operations space and there's about 10 different ways I can spin my experience based on what's being asked in the job listing. I don't WANT to copy & paste my LinkedIn because that's not going to get me the job – it reflects what my previous employer wanted, not what my new one might want.
You will not find many passionate people anywhere. There are a lot of great people who will do a good job for 8 hours and then go home. You can find a few passionate people who dream of working for you, but not enough who are also great that you can staff a company on them.

I work for John Deere, one of those companies that (where I live) has a lot of loyal customers who teach their children we are the best. Even still the majority of great people I work with just want to work their job and go home. (to avoid burn out we don't allow the passionate to work more than 8 hours very often, so the difference between great; and great and passionate isn't significant)
> According to Appcast, one of the industry's most respected recruitment data providers, the candidate drop-off rate for people who click 'Apply' but never complete an application is a whopping 92 percent

Employers, out of laziness and entitlement, have pushed away all responsibility and effort in hiring, which fell on to lazy, entitled and incompetent "human resource" specialists, who then outsource to applicant tracking systems that have not changed much since the 90s.

Predictably, employers complain that the candidates are lazy entitled when they have difficulty hiring.
It seems such a non-brainer to me that facebook should have ditched the app versions and go web-only. The app experience will barely be different, apart from notifications. But given the users' addiction to fb&IG, doesn't seem like a huge loss ... at least from a distance
Insulting an entire group of people, by directly implying that farmers are not skilful or educated, is worse than insulting the person who made the insult in the first place.
slimbook (with Ubuntu 22.10)

Works like a charm.

At work I'm forced to use a MBP and I hate it, battery last 1h is always doing noises is painfully slow, nothing works well with M1, updates requires 1h lost on a black screen. And sometimes release broken things...
Typically the drain pipe for such heat exchangers is a normal drain pipe — large diameter, no kinks, etc. — and made out of copper. A larger pipe surrounds it, bushings and T sections at either end of the segment. Cold water flows into one T section, flows around the drain pipe and extracts heat, then out the other T and into the cold water input of the hot water heater. There are a million YouTube videos on how to make one, and there are now readymade commercial products to buy, too. The tricks are getting at your shower drain and getting the cold water input piped over to it.
> On Apple pcs you have maybe 4 main models, but you can still configure them however you like

You mean: "you can still configure them however you like," as long as long as the only things you want to change RAM and disk space and nothing else.

> 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)

Didn't I already address that? "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."

Having more models increases the likelihood a customer can get what they want. Apple offers zero models with a 16:10 screen and a number pad, for instance. If that's what you want in a Mac, you're SOL.
Macbook Pro M1 Ultra (32C / 64GB RAM / 1TB)
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