skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In your hypothetical, institutions would quickly realize that a bunch of non-college graduates were just as smart as college graduates.

Which would cause those institutions to move away from income as a means of deciding who gets in; much like in institutions now are moving away from standardized testing as a means of deciding who gets in.

> At least, these profit-seeking institutions don’t seem to think it would be better for them to shift their hiring from Stanford to kids with 4.1s and lower SATs who went to UCSB instead.

There's two assumptions here that you may want to reexamine:

1. Profit selling institutions are purely rational at hiring, and only hire based on merit. As in, if you're hired to work at a Wall Street firm, it's not because you went to Harvard; it's because you're smart. Which is very optimistic, to say the least.

2. That people are intrinsically smart or not, and the institution you go to doesn't change that. If test scores didn't correlate at all with merit, you'd still want to hire from Stanford over UCSB; not because the SAT scores are higher at Stanford but because Stanford is a better institution for educating people. So even if the people who go in are the same caliber, the people who come out are different.

To be clear, I'm not disagreeing that test scores can measure aptitude. I'm disagreeing with the line of reasoning where we have the following premises:

1. We live in a society where resources are allocated by performance in standardized testing.

2. Having more resources increases the likelihood you're successful.

3. People who are successful have high standardized test scores.

And conclude that standardized test scores are an accurate predictor of future success.
Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?
I imagine many of you use Apple, but I'm also curious to hear what those of you using Windows or Linux have chosen as your daily laptop.

Also, OS of choice (e.g. linux distro)!
FizzBuzz isn't quite a take-home. A good screen is something that takes under 1minute so it doesn't disrespect the candidate's time whilst also being vaguely useful -- sure passing FBuzz means nothing but failure is pretty much the red flag of red flags for SWE hiring.
GPT-3 wrote one paragraph at the beginning which is in blockquotes and clearly marked as written by GPT-3. It did not write the whole article.
In 2020 the house passed a supplemental bill to enable funds that can go to home replacement for Puerto Rican earthquake victims because the existing law doesn’t allow it.

The Senate never passed it and the President promised to veto it.

I have no crystal ball to know what might happen in the future but right now there is no earthquake equivalent to national flood insurance and recent history suggests the federal government doesn’t have the appetite to add it.
Same. Oh, the wonderful difference between sending a small shop my resume by email with an in-email "cover letter", followed by an invitation to interview the next day, and submitting to a big company's convoluted, bug-ridden, idiosyncratic application procedure.
Did you read the article? That's just the first section.
I still want to make giant parabolic mirror from mylar space blanket
It seems like the same fee they apply to every other digital purchase. What's strange about it?
> making your app available to billions of users

As an App Store developer, I eagerly await those billions of users.

Marketing is hard, and expensive. I don't expect Apple to do my marketing for me — and they don't — but let's not pretend that Apple is providing customers. Potential != Actual. Moreover, the existence of 3rd party apps is a selling point for Apple devices. Do we developers get a cut of Apple's hardware sales?

> while also keeping the platform safe

The crap store is full of scams. And now it's advertising gambling all over the place, even in the listings of non-gambling apps.

Is it fair to consumers that they pay a lot of money for a new shiny Apple device, but after they take the device home, Apple continues to demand a cut of things that consumers do on those devices, forever?
What a mess. (Plus, time is relative, i.e. it depends on the frame of reference.)
<<tell us why you want to work at (Acme Corp or Bunyon Doctors of America or Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company or whatever)>>

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read this! "Dunder-Mifflin" -- Me thinks: But, do they know it is a Python term (__xyz__)?
> The difference for Facebook and Instagram is that they currently don’t use Apple’s in-app purchase system for boosting posts while Twitter, TikTok, and others do. I’m told that, several years ago, Apple pressured Facebook to start routing these boosted post payments through the App Store and Facebook resisted.
Oh how I wish the Latitude line had Ryzen and USB4.
> doesn't seem like very good believer

Don't twist my words, only one writing here - he is bad - is you. It's like I will say about someone getting only Bs they are not very good student and you will argue I am saying they are bad student.
They are referred to as "research chemicals", so the implication is that they have been synthesizes for e.g. an experiment or animal trial.
This is merely puffery to hide the fact that it is a loophole to get technically not yet illegal variants of drugs.
I've had two XPS13s which both died for the exact same reason: worn out power connector.
Also, grade inflation is real and not uniformly distributed.
How is it your business if your employee is moonlighting?
If they are delivering, what’s the problem?

If they are not delivering, other jobs are irrelevant, they aren’t meeting the bar.
Have you looked at framework? I have not used them but you can load them up to 64 gigs of ram by buying the memory on your own.
Iirc apple requires tax for all digital goods. If Spotify subs are taxed then Facebook boosts should be too?
Wouldn’t this also explain deja vu? The memory consciousness tripping up and replaying or thinking it saw the same scene before?
Two thoughts:

When seeking investment, it's usually a bit of a red flag when someone asks for a range, especially one that's relatively wide. In this case, the absolute numbers are very small, but asking for $X or two times that, sounds like you don't really know how much you need. That suggests your business plan is very fuzzy, hence the red flag. If the range is because there's a couple of options for how to do it, it's usually good to just pick the best one, and present that.

Second thought: for $15k, that's pretty squarely in the range possible with a credit card, assuming you're decently employed. It's a horrible interest rate, but if your expected return is high (per your answer to another question), you can cover it, and that way you don't miss the opportunity. You can then seek a partner, small business loan, government grant, angel investor, friends-and-family investor(s), or some combination of these, once you've proven the ability to generate a profit.

Best of luck!
And of course Apple won't demand 30% from itself when it continues to develop its burgeoning ad business, right?

Look, I dislike Meta as much as the next guy, but how anyone can argue that this isn't clear antitrust behavior is beyond me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...

https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/05/apple-ad-business/

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/
Yes, that's exactly what it sounds like to me. They have "decided" to press the button, but the body hasn't yet followed the instruction. This situation will of course feel weird and unusual, but I don't think it says anything about consciousness being an illusion, whatever that might even mean.
Once you contact a slightly bigger company - say over 5 folks - you'll usually get one actually mastering their skill, for the initial talks. Then of course they'll send the lowlies to actually install and that's okay too.
Poor linux support on Developer Edition

Ouch. And the next ThinkPad X13 is confirmed :)
Anyway, always better keyboard and trackpoint.
I am actually almost certain that a paragraph like this:

> 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. I happened to work on a laptop project with a Dell competitor and saw how their “design” process worked. They wanted to make a laptop with an outstanding webcam, that was the purpose of the laptop.

Would not be written by a human in a serious critique of one of top producers of business line laptops though.
> Buying Dell's consumer line and having a hard time trying to cash in on the consumer warranty doesn't mean Dell is shit, just means their priorities are elsewhere.

This is the whole point of the site: don't buy products from companies whose priorities are elsewhere.
The extreme heat generated by my 4yr old latitude is great for heating the office in winter...not so much in summer. Solid laptop otherwise, no complaints &runs Linux fine except for the usual sleep problems.

Looking to replace it with a 17" looks like the Precision range is the way to go... hopefully the business lines have kept up standards. Any other 17" laptops that are recommended? Not sure how anyone codes on a 13" (without an external screen)
Thank you, very good points. Combining those factors probably makes for a perfect storm.
Hook up GPT-3 and thank me later.
At least they still give out the repair guide for just about every device. I think that should be the most highlighted thing about them.
Their monitors are top notch, though I did buy two and both of them have manufacturing defects
We have a fleet of Dell servers, and they are the fastest booting, most enduring, easily configured and managed machines.

This is true for many generations we have. We also have servers from other usual big manufacturers, and while some are close, Dells are much better.

Ah, also they're much more silent w.r.t. other servers even when you don't enable acoustic management.
"Considered attack scenarios and considerations:
Evil Maid: [.. ] physical access to a storage device should [not] enable an attacker to read the user’s plaintext data [..]. [or] allow undetected modification/backdooring of user data or OS (integrity), or exfiltration of secrets."

Am I misunderstanding, or is the the only attack scenario listed?

Seems like a lot of work, complexity and potential problems of all sort to fix.. something quite minor?

I mean: 1) Get a lock? 2) Will it actually stop an Evil Maid? I'm thinking of stuff like physical key-loggers, hidden cameras etc etc

edit: fixed and shortened quote
A standard practice in Common Lisp distinguishes special variables by "earmuffs": the symbol names of special variables, by convention, start and end with asterisks. No requirement for this exists in the language definition, but just about everyone follows it.

It would be really annoying to have the same sort of de facto requirement for function names. Making the programmer use funcall or apply when calling a function value is much less intrusive, especially since CL idiomatically doesn't have the tail call fetish that Scheme seems to have.
Good initiative.
But (for a topic I know) I can see it's highly incomplete with regards to the telecom sites.
In France, we have this site https://www.cartoradio.fr/#/cartographie/stations made for that purpose (and which is made by the administration that takes care of radio site registration). There is also this one for microwave links https://carte-fh.lafibre.info
Never attribute to malice what could be explained by...
well Poettering isn't stupid really, he's clearly very talented and intelligent, but I don't think he's doing it with intent more than he doesn't really think ahead to what the system he's creating is turning into. Again, I'd say most of the developer world has this issue, just see the post a few days ago from the guy who volunteers to help elderly folks with their computers.
> It shouldn't be too hard to find

How about decent keyboard with not flat caps? Enough interfaces? Changeable battery, maybe RAM and CPU also?
Most online forms are simply lead-generation collection for illegal staffing agencies, silly scams, or asshats social-engineering market data. Other forms retain detailed sensitive information for marketing/business-intelligence reasons, or ask flat out illegal questions only a naive kid would answer (targeting those who are vulnerable to legal exploitation).

A long time back, I would take the effort to expunge information from staffing services masquerading as company contacts (some places have data retention laws). As experience taught this was the number one warning sign for internal toxic business cultures, low ball compensation packages, and position instability.

If the first thing a company does is discriminate, manipulate, and or deceive... you likely won't want to work there... Again, please consider becoming a plumber , as it is the reductionist logical dream of all techs =)
In June I got a new XPS13 (without the touchbar), preloaded with linux. Upon arrival, the camera and fingerprint reader did not work. The battery lasted about 2 hours and the screen literally fell out. After 2 days of frustrating tech support calls, they finally agreed to ship me a replacement.

1 month later, no replacement arrived. Many calls to support yielded no answers. I finally got them to refund my order and cancel the replacement.

A very bad experience for me and I will never buy a Dell again.
The tech giants are having a shootout because of market pressure.

Apple is willing to take on greater antitrust risk for revenue now rather than later. I'm eagerly awaiting their earnings call.
No, it is a 30% price for using their service. The digital economy is not completely owned by Apple.

I get that the article called it a tax, but Apple isn't a state, they respond to market pressures, if people don't like it they can do business elsewhere.
Only for the phones, which seems like a poor comparison point. Their current laptops are ~230ppi; they base the desired PPI on viewing distance as I understand it.

So by Apples standards 330ppi is FAR too high for laptop viewing distances.
So, US citizens WERE given a secret Covid "decree violation" score. It didn't say ALL US citizens haha!
Or called CanKet because it was identified at the CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service that was opened in Canberra.

I guess there's a reason your account is shadow banned
So consistent it took 14 years for them to extend it to ads boosts that existed this long on the platform.
They're really close to recreating Second Life, created more than 10 years ago
Lucky in the sense that if 50% of your whole grade rides on one block of time on one day, you better hope to have a really good day. If you sit down and realize "sheesh, I have no mental clarity at all today", you're kinda fucked.
If they paid you 100 USD / hour (say, max 2-4 hours), would you do it? I would. In some places, Amazon gift cards could be used.

To me, they should do at least one solid hour on the phone/vid/in-person technical interview. If OK, then proceed to take-home test.
Pumpkin Plot – Alex Harsányi
doubt about the results of the 2016 election is still ok, right? Or are all elections now sacred, and when the next one concludes there will be no qualms allowed about the results of that?

"Denial" is a word only used by the militant in pursuit of orthodoxy. "Holocaust denial" was the first use of the rhetorical technique, the term was thrown at people who denied the Holocaust had happened and those who were educating the world on the details of what did happen, equally.
Why is it that comments on this post as well as elsewhere make it seem that there's either a love it or hate it relationship with Dell? Is there really a bimodal distribution in their customers?
> Apple cannot offset the costs of the platform they are providing for distribution.

Well, there's the $40 billion in iPhone hardware sales last quarter...
My biggest problem with Dell is that they refuse to perform even simple firmware upgrades on stuff that is out of support "with Dell". Dell.com support is for stuff you buy on Dell.com, not Dell products overall.

E.g. if you buy a Dell monitor from Amazon, warranty is handled by Amazon, not Dell. This means that Dell will refuse to give you firmware updates (and they are not freely redistributable), and Amazon obviously can't update the firmware for you. Your only recourse is to keep returning to Amazon until they come back with one with the fixed firmware.

And Dell monitors are plenty buggy. I have seen systems that would fail to boot (VGA card's firmware would hang during POST) with an A0-revision monitor from Dell connected with DisplayPort. And don't get me started on the Thunderbolt docking stations... we had to send so many for replacement, my company practically hoards the working ones now.
This is same for other manufacturers too.

HP: Pavilions are bad, Pro/Elite/Z series are awesome. Servers are good too.

Lenovo: Ideapads are eh, Thinkpads and servers, completely different.

The only company which builds all their hardware with comparable quality to other manufacturers' pro lines is Apple.
If your goal is to recover as much data as possible then something like GNU ddrescue would be more appropriate.
To be fair to the author, that quote is part of a longer passage about how one should not optimize for free form ascii first when fixed size buffers are an option. At least that how I read it, it's clearly opinionated writing.
> I’m still searching for a zero-conf full-stack pipeline which could manage both frontend and backend in a single project under a single watch command

I did create a proof of concept how this could be done in parcel https://github.com/mochicode/parcel-fullstack-poc.

The /src folder contains:

1. /api => backend

2. /app => react frontend

3. /shared => shared code

Once everything is installed, just run "npm start" and it will:

1. build and watch your src folder

2. react hmr/fast-refresh works

3. nodemon will reload your node server when things change

4. serve your react app on localhost:8000/frontend, currently hard coded, but I could also load this from the package.json file.

Not zero-config, but it almost gets you there.
Had a maxed out XPS13, worst experience ever. Fan broke down several times, horrendoues DELL support experience.
Indeed, nobody outside FB cares that Apple makes their life harder, per se. The issue is that Apple changes their "rules" all the time, and wields enormous power not only over the other giants, but everyone, especially those that have or aspire to run honest digital businesses of different sorts. Not only do they take a massive cut of it, but they're directly competing with those they "moderate" (aka rule over), in many instances.

The result of these companies growing like cancer into every related field, is that it gridlocks and stifles innovation. We've seen this with AT&T and Microsoft. It's always bad for consumers.
I‘ve had great experiences with Dells.

The only reason I moved to a Mac recently is the improved performance and efficiency on Apple silicon.

I’m also skeptical of advice that there are better products out there, but they don’t tell you which ones they are. There’s a lot of nuance to that it is easy to just say.
> Why do you think you're entitled to something that's not being offered?

It's not that I feel entitled, and more that I'm required to use a bank to not starve, or at least to participate in the modern society. I'm not in this relationship by choice, I'm forced into it at metaphorical gunpoint by the economy.

And, it still means the advice to "vote with your feet" is invalid. I have no one to vote for.

> there's a general point here about how retail banking is not really an ideal free market, because the barrier to entry is too high.

There's an even more general point here, that this applies to pretty much every good and service. Not just banking, not just phones, not just computing. It applies to cars and clothes and food and housing just as well. Hence me saying that voting with your feet/wallet doesn't work in general. Mature markets end up supply-driven - vendors collectively decide what choices are available; the only way to have a vote is to become a vendor yourself, which is a long, hard and risky process.

> On the flip side, the bank has to manage a complicated series of risks, and their investors might not want to pay the mitigation costs of the risks created by allowing anyone to use their service however they like. Hence the ToS.

Sure. There are conflicting interests here. But the right answer isn't one party dictating how the entire relationship works. That's abuse.
The first link on the page explains exactly what it is, and what the motivations are.

https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/blob/master/misc/...
Recommend this. It’s excellent.
> How can these be true at the same time? If you can just read a book and get a good score, why don't everyone just get the good score?

All you need to do to get 4.0 in Calculus 1, 2 and 3 and Real Analysis is work through Stewart, doing all the questions. Just because it’s simple to describe doesn’t mean it’s easy.
>The saving grace is that attestations can be forwarded

That would require you to have root on a "trusted" device so you can extract the challenge-response that proves you are indeed "trusted". Which is becoming increasingly harder with each iteration.
Probably, imagine my shock when I upgraded my iPhone, enjoying ios15 only to realise that my dev machine has become useless and that I can't downgrade IOS either. Being used to Windows I was completely caught off guard by just how terrible the ecosystem is if you don't keep buying new devices.
People vote themselves into dictatorships and economic crises.
Dell is the Walmart of desktops/laptops. Somehow their server line has remained high quality.

Lenovo is my laptop manufacturer of choice, but only the T, X and P Thinkpads.

They are doing their best to water down and trash the lineup. Along with the Thinkpad, there's the Thinkbook, Ideapad, Yoga, Legion, Lenovo Slim, and just the plain Lenovo.

But buying a 'Thinkpad' isn't a guarantee of quality. It used to be the T series was the standard laptop, X was thin and light, and the P series was a workstation.

Now they have the E series which is "affordable and stylish". The L series in "entry-level". Why do you need two lines of cheap junk? The Z is "is engineered sustainably from recycled vegan leather and recycled aluminum, then boxed in rapid-renewable, compostable packaging".
Question for those in the know - can apple get away with providing a plug or dongle that accepts usb c and outputs whatever the hell apple wants? They had little 1x2 cm changers when they switched MacBook plugs a while back…
I think that’s fairly low tech. Something like it could have been built hundreds of years ago (with human operators orienting the 63 heliostats to make them reflect the sun’s light into the parabolic part)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror#Middle_Ages_and_Renaiss...: “by the 16th century Venice was a center of mirror production using this technique. These Venetian mirrors were up to 40 inches (100 cm) square.”

And those were mirrors for reflecting images. The mirrors for a device like this need not be as good.
This is one problem with the BRICS narrative.
Oh I see how that was unclear. I don't mean using git as a database for user requests, but git as a back-end for collaborative applications. For example, in our case, translators and devs have to collaborate to achieve localization. Normally translators would work in some isolated cloud application and then data pipelines between said application and the git repo are built. But why doesn't the translator facing app just build directly on git? Then editing the translation strings would happen on the git repo and there would be no synching between two sources of truth (git-repo and cloud solution)