skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet its between 3-5 with the Dells. Its long enough that I often have that sinking feeling after issuing a reboot where I think its hanging and I'll need to make a trip to the data center...just to finally breath a sigh of relief when I see that 'ssh connection closed' message as it finally gets into the linux boot sequence.
I have more hobbies than work interests.

White water kayaking, surf, rock climbing, hiking, road and mountain biking, travelling, playing guitar, bass, piano and singing. Playing chess, lots of random stuff with my kids. None of them I take remotely seriously.

If I back off a bit at work I might even enjoy programming again in my spare time!
Malware is software. Just like any other software, it targets market share and ease of "use". So choosing a less popular OS (and, as an ecosystem, having lots of healthy competition) is a good strategy.
You might be overestimating their ability to communicate that information internally throughout the process. Even if their process was set up to request that information, it’s likely that many of the interviewers/hiring managers didn’t see it or remember it.
Reminds me of the Dijkstra, a unit for arrogance proposed by Alan Kay:

“I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras”
Sure. The Xcode argument is Apple's.
That's assuming you're only drinking tea when you want the heating on though.

Plus you seemed to have gone on the boilers rather than kettles.
I'm very... Selfish? I suppose is the way to put it.

Beyond what's required, I don't really care about the 'vision'. I'm here to exchange effort for money.

As long as it's reasonably in my skill set/responsibility and doesn't require me to push a boundary like kicking puppies, that's the deal of the day

I care about how I feel about waking up in the morning more than anything. The people I need to work with should be decent, and I don't do well pigeonholed

Finding a place with

- capable teammates
- restraint to not commit members to the first thing they are found to be good at forever

... is harder than you'd expect

If my anxiety reaches a certain level or consistency, I'll look elsewhere

I'm a wizard with Linux internals yet lately find myself "the network guy", for example.

If I didn't know my current team could catch up I'd be carrying so much burden
Microsoft couldn't make a phone and they could light money on fire for a long time. Even Samsung is only making their os as a emergency backup plan, and they have everything set up already. Suggesting any new companies make one and actually compete on more than tiny niches seems like a fantasy to me. Maybe a Chinese company could do it but the US would pull every trick it could to shut that down where it could.
The sub thread you are replying to was from someone with specific anecdotes where people whom they had hired were not meeting performance goals and it turns out were working for multiple companies.

The relevance here is many managers have experience with employees who seemed fine in interviews and barely met performance bars (or just flat out didn’t) despite working just one job.

It’s well within their legal rights (and a useful heuristic!) to not hire someone because they’re not comfortable rolling the dice on a candidate being able to meet performance criteria because they’re working multiple jobs. Because working multiple jobs is a lot harder than working one job on pretty much any metric one can think of, and is not a protected class or status.

They’ll also reap any blowback or rewards from doing so, including difficulty finding candidates, or not.
Early-life low-calorie sweetener consumption disrupts memory function in rats
The average user has to trust somebody, eh?

I can literally dope silicon and make my own chips, but even I have to trust "the system" to buy food and shelter, etc.

You can draw a line from the invention of the transistor to the eventual necessity of solving the ultimate human problem: how do we get along with each other?
This is a situation crafted by ISPs to ensure everyone has to pay them individually. There was a time when wifi was being thought of more like water fountains in US buildings or public roads. People used to intentionally provide free internet access to others on a broad scale, but greed and fear inevitably took over. We could have ubiquitous open wifi if we chose to, and i would argue we are already collectively paying for the necessary hardware.

There has been a cultural corrosion of the public space and how it is though about in general. For example, libraries don't have "customers". They are services to the pubic with the mission of providing information access. If any place should have free wifi it's a library.
Why is this downvoted, this is the correct explanation.

Lots of free-will-stans here mad at reality.
You can prove things even if then input domain has infinite size. For example n < n + 1 is always true. It's trivial to prove this. Yet the n can have infinite different values.
2 months is hardly far into the future, and no Apple analyst would agree that it's irrelevant. People expect it to be bigger than Apple Watch, and to eventually supplant both computers and phones.
Generally, they don't, and no-one cares. Airband scanners are freely available to buy online and in shops.

It really manifests itself when you look online to see "listen to ATC" live streams and YouTube videos. There aren't any from the UK.

https://www.liveatc.net/faq/
I'm not necessarily criticising, rather just observing - in capitalist economies, money truly is a proxy for time itself, which is arguably the most valuable thing any human ever gets.

In an era where the middle class is rapidly shrinking, decades of reckless monetary policy are producing generationally-high inflation, and people's lifestyles are deflating, I think a lot of people are either trying to outrun the treadmill of inflation out of desperation, clinging to the fleeting lifestyle of cheap gas, cheap air travel, cheap housing, cheap cars, etc.

This is why minimalism offers so much happiness, and room to start practicing hobbies for hobbies' sake again.

Desire is the root of suffering.
Would be great to see how this change affects SQLite’s absolutely gargantuan test suite!
Yes. I give references that aren’t problematic from a tipping off current employer perspective. If references are going to factor into the employment decision it sort of has to be before the offer or what’s the point?
This has been my experience with Scala. Even IntelliJ can’t figure it out sometimes and the documentation is all crazy type theory stuff.
>don't buy Dell!
>doesn't tell us who we should by computers from

Well how am I gonna know if I'm getting a good computer or not?

Kidding, obviously. HP's gone a similar route. I don't think I'll be purchasing a Dell or HP again in the future if simply for the decline in build quality.
Except you have to be willing to take someone to court over that.
> I do wish they could have just made the Air Tram part of the subway system cause taking a taxi during rush hour was certainly a mistake but Q ->... hmm I guess the A or J or whatever train would get me to the Air Tram -> Air Tram is a bit of a pain.

Unfortunately, federal law essentially prohibits cities from having subways connect directly to airports, which is why nearly every city in the country has a separate train shuttle to the airport (assuming they have a subway system in the first place at all).

For what it's worth, if you're taking the Q to the A, you're probably coming from a place where it's actually faster to take the LIRR (from Penn Station or Port Authority) to get to JFK.
Apparently NCC Group does this a lot. What does something like this cost?
Most full-time contracts have exactly that clause, you can safely assume that theirs did.

That employee also likely assigned all IP they created during work hours to two companies.
I blame hustle culture and self-improvement gurus. They have hammered the message "if you're not making yourself more marketable, or grinding to make money, then you're failing".
And would be awesome if it gave out the current time.
Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341840
It's also well within their legal rights to not hire somebody because the hiring manager doesn't like people who wear plaid. Not such a useful heuristic.
If you made a decision before you are aware of making it how can it be conscious. At minimum it certainly wasn't under your control.
I stand corrected. As I’ve double-checked now, unfortunately “UTC” is ambiguous in that it may refer both to the time standard and the time zone. In this case one can say that Unix time is based on UTC the time standard, but not the time zone. Although given that in Unix time every day has the same number of seconds and instead the clock is sometimes slowed down, while in UTC there is an additional 61st second, can we truly say that it’s UTC-based? I’d say it’s its own standard derived from UTC. Maybe that’s being too pedantic.
I suppose the question you're asking is why we've socially moved away from doing stuff just for fun in an effort to make a “passive” income and monetize as much of our time as possible.

Personally, I've seen my peers (by both profession and age) stop participate in activities that don't have an immediate reward, the only exception they make is if there's a long term financial reward. Odd.
Well done. Rude questions are good. If anything there aren't enough of
them.
Giving It a Second Thought
This is pretty terrible. I still don’t get whey they need to enslave their workers though. Looking at average loss numbers per victim it seems even if the typical victim loss was $10,000 and the average employee got one victim a week that is still substantially over the average wage in Cambodia and is almost entirely pure profit. Even if you account for governments seizing funds a third of the time it seems like they’d be more successful operating on a commission model for employees.
Get a UPS like the link below and connect the USB device cable ( not the charging port, the one on the back ).

MacOS will allow you to configure the point at which it shuts down after power loss. It's a built-in function, so you don't need additional software or drivers.

https://www.newegg.com/apc-be600m1-5-x-nema-5-15r-2-x-nema-5...
I see. I will try that next time
The XPS was their higher end answer to the unibody Macbooks a few years back, and peer with Lenovo's Thinkpad X-series.

The Inspiron line is a "cheap is expensive" trap for consumers, you can't blame people if they judge the whole company for their mass-consumption offering when its cheap build breaks at the hinges for everybody.
I need to travel to Berlin soon.
OpenSSL 3.0.7 update to fix Critical CVE out next Tuesday 1300-1700UTC
I wouldn't knock lead-acid for UPS use. That (and turning starter motors) is what lead-acid is particularly suitable for. They're also really effectively recycled right now.
I'm still of the opinion that handling leap seconds by ignoring them is a dumb idea.

Unix time should be a steady heartbeat counting up the number of seconds since midnight, January 1 1970. Nice, clean, simple. How you might convert this number into a human-readable date and time is out of scope/implementation-defined/an exercise for the reader/whichever variation of "not my problem" you prefer.
> My default answer is that it would not have affected your chances at all unless someone in your application process was racist. This would most likely have happened with someone who wrote a reference letter rather than someone affiliated with the universities.

Of course there was. An admissions officer saw it and they have to stop the school getting too Asian.
I'm entirely in favor of making lobbying as expensive as possible, but I disagree that there isn't something to be gained from having people be in the same physical location to achieve a common goal. Some things just can't be done very well over Zoom.

I do wish that more federal functions would be spread out throughout the country, in the same way that Germany does; many of their federal agencies are headquartered in places far away from Berlin. There's no reason why the USDA shouldn't be headquartered in Kansas City, the Fed in New York, and the Department of the Interior in Wyoming.
>Edit: Also, if anyone requests reference checks from your current employer, you should say no. It's not standard practice to check current employer, only prior employers (at least in the US).

Question for you: One of the previous companies I worked for changed their name after I left. The company is still searchable under the old name. Should I list the new name, or old name on the resume? I feel like it's not really my problem, but also is my problem, you know? It's a weird thing. I'm not sure how common of a problem this is.
With fresh out of college you have a degree in computer engineering just like the other 20 applicants for the one position. What you need is some reason - any - to stand out. Otherwise we will randomly interview until someone passes the interview and if you end up last on the random list you won't get an interview as odds are one of the first 5 accepts an offer. If you can stand out you can get to the top of the list, and that gives you a better chance.

When you get more experience, your experience speaks for itself. (not always a good thing - if you want to change from embedded development to front end for example you will be overlooked even though there is no reason someone cannot make that change quickly)
Interesting and informative, thanks for sharing! Looks like your link lost a ‘t’ from the word “article”
If not wanting to harm others, AND wanting to help others were core beliefs held by everyone, I think quite soon we would have nothing to worry about.
On the power layer, it seems the national grid is generally 400kV nominal, with regional sub-grids at 132kV and then towns with 33kV & 11kV. Is that 3x 11kV phases = 33kV? And then 33kV = 1/4 tap of the 132kV? '400kV' is actually 396kV?
Why is it "generic" and what does that mean? I could not find it in the docs
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I know not everybody is going to agree with this, but cover letters are in most cases a complete waste of time. If you MUST see my writing then ask for a personal statement, I have that templated and ready to roll at a moment’s notice. You will clearly be able to tell if I can write.
Well, at least it's the same mistakes it makes.
Dang. Spot on.
(Calling the NHS doctor in the UK.)

Me: I want to make an appointment

Receptionist: you can only make an appointment on the same day as you call, and you have to call between 0830 and 0900

Me: Really? Er...

(Next day around 0845)
Ring ring ring ring ring...

(0900)
Me: No-one answered between 0830 and 0900

Receptionist: you can only make an appointment on the same day as you call, and you have to call between 0830 and 0900

Me: ???
This alleged fact is not established by any of the arguments summarized in that article. Look into them in detail, and you will find, at root, subtle (and not-so-subtle) question-begging and appeals to plausibility.
Sure, if you stretch the meaning of "behavior" far enough, that quote is true because it becomes a tautology.

However, Skinner had some pretty specific ideas about what "behavior" meant and probably wouldn't have included stuff like playing a chess game against oneself in one's head.
Hi, do you have some resources I could check out to understand the concept of what infinite configurability is, and how to recognize it ?
One possibility is that some have a higher moral standard then you.
it solves one of the biggest fears against closed software, however nowadays also companies want engineers already to be pretrained in the exactly same area of the topic.
Exactly. Today's economy (in the US) is in a really good place. Moderate inflation, very low unemployment, decreasing inequality.

Yet the narrative is that the economy is in the crapper. The powers that be want to go back to the glory days of low inflation, high unemployment and increasing inequality. That's what we'll get if the fed continues to raise rates.
The earth has been here 4bn years... a species profliferating for over 300,000 years isn't even "making its money back".

Almost all of past human history has been spent dealing with mass death, and it isnt clear almost that won't be the case for future history, until we're extinct.

The world isnt made for us, and there's no reason to suppose we won't go faster than the dinos
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yes. except it seems to be hard to get a kettle that will do less than 2 cups. ive got a phillips one that does one cup. id like one where it actually turns off at say 90c rather than boiling for x seconds. there are a few that do that, last i looked though they were 2 cup minimums
Meta makes the apps. Apple makes the phones.

Obv they need to split the profits somehow, it does make sense.
They're referring to "Robotic Process Automation" (RPA).

I agree the name is a misnomer, but it's now part of the Enterprise Lexicon, which is filled with jargon.

I run an RPA startup, but as much as I hate the term (e.g:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755118) , once something becomes part of common language patterns, you can't unshift it.

I hate the modern usage of 'AI' as ML, but I can't change the new definition.
There are plenty of reasons to care, off the top of my head 1) are they working for competitors 2) are they more likely to burnout or not stay in the role, 3) can you really trust them given their deception, etc
This sounds like it would be great for an embarrassment campaign of tracking all politicians and C-levels responsible for this. Basically, it's the elonjet all over again.

If showing the data is legal, then highlighting specific datapoints should be as well.
I think it's about what people are choosing to prioritize. Money from tech industry or leisure. Turning a project into a job or a startup or something is performing your talents for cash payment, which is a different experience than performing your talents for leisure. The key change away from leisure, I think is a wider phenomenon where more people are spending their time looking for financial rewarding activities because money/the things money can buy are less and less available/distributed. Thus the growing preference for startups and day jobs rather than prioritizing leisure time.
Yes, exactly! Thank you for saying that when I forgot to.
>However, people mistakenly take this experiment to mean that we don't actually have conscious control of our actions.

This is incorrect. Libertarian Free Will, the type you seem to think humans have is an illusion and does not mesh with reality. No serious Neuroscientists or Philosophers of Mind believe it exists.

Note: this has nothing to with the political bent of Libertarianism.
This is fun! Except I was almost immediately stymied by a question that asked me to match both "like" and "live". I put in `/li[kv]e/`, which was not accepted, but passes in every regex engine on regex101. I'm a bit confused. Is this a bug in the game or did I miss something in the question?
Tiny changes with a smile. Now there are two of us. :) Pass it on.
> Virtual monopoly app provider for iOS devices.

Right, and Ford has a virtual monopoly on the F-150.
The unit of arrogance of computer scientists (et. al.) is the Dijkstra.
Gotta prove it and go through the not-so-easy process of suing someone in the US.
Almost as interesting, you can (as I understand it) look up the current salary of anyone you want to. Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.
I am really interested in wide color gamut images for the WWW. Lately I've been making this kind of image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

and tracking down some anomalies on my wide color gamut monitor I found that a sRGB anaglyph is degraded on a wide gamut display because the (0, 180, 0) green in sRGB isn't as pure as a (0, 180, 0) green on a wide gamut monitor and it gets transformed (by the web browser) to something more like (16, 176, 15).

Maybe that looks the same as the sRGB green but the extra red light goes through the red filter when it shouldn't, causing a "ghost" image to appear.

I think I can somehow publish a WCG image which will get closer to what I want on a RGB monitor but I'd rather do the anaglyph processing in WebGL. In my case conventional color management is not what I want, if I really want optimal color appearance I need to develop my own color grading system specialized for anaglyphs.
I installed a heat exchange between my shower drain and the water heater inlet. Still need to do some calculations but the heat recovery is dramatic.

I’m using a metal wafer pool heat exchange and a boost pump for pressure on the outgoing side.
Anyone else see the Linus Tech Tips secret shopper video covering Dell?

They repeatedly try to sell a warranty which they’re told isn’t wanted. Then they tack it on anyway.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Go5tLO6ipxw
Array Labs raises $5M for 3D-imagery constellation
Inevitable but pretty sad. UK gov briefly flirted with supporting small businesses and local champions but is now back all in on big suppliers. "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" I guess.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chief-digital-officer-ignore...
If you are doing passive radar, then a UHF/VHF TV antenna should cover you for whatever digital channel you choose
> The system only applies if you use in app purchases.

But the entire point is that Apple is now demanding that Meta switch to using in-app purchases for this, right?
What you describe may apply more to writing code, rather than reading code. Of course, knowing syntax is not sufficient for programming, but if you want just to review existing code, (unfamiliar) syntax may be an obstacle to non-programmer domain experts.

I've read something along these lines about the choice of OCaml at Jane Street, where they argued that their investor-types are able to proof-read new code, despite not being programmers, because the language "reads like english", similar to SQL or COBOL.
It's possible to encrypt all of /boot while using SecureBoot. That was my solution. It's a little annoying to type the passphrase at boot, but it's entirely doable.

I did the whole TPM thing previously on a Debian-only machine and it worked great until it stopped for some reason and I haven't had time to revisit. But on my latest machine I wanted to make sure Windows with SecureBoot worked and I was in a rush. So it's encrypted /boot for now.

I figure the threat is now that someone could clone the drive and brute force the passphrase and then tamper with /boot.
Even something as simple as coloring them like RCA connectors would've worked. It's insane how lightly this was treated in designing it.