skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't completely true. The App Store will only let you download previous versions of software you have already installed. If you try to download a new App and the latest version does not support your version of iOS, the App Store will NOT download the latest compatible version, it will just fail!

I have a side business, and a few weeks ago I decided to do a pop-up and needed a device to take payments on. I pulled out my older ipad, reset it, and decided to create a new apple account for my business. But, because this was a new apple account and the ipad was still running iOS 12, I was unable to download anything useful from the App Store. I had to find a new device, reset it, log in with my new account, download the latest version of the Apps I needed, reset it again, and relog in with my personal account. THEN, on my ipad, I was able to download the latest compatible versions of those apps.

I went through all that, only to open the Shopify App and immediately be told I had to update to the latest version, which of course, my ipad didn't support. So, yeah, I have this hardware that still works great, but for all practical purposes is e-waste.

I would love to be able to put Linux on this and use it for some hobby projects.
Can you compile for IOS 15? I'm stuck on big sur and can't connect to my iPhone anymore
Might be an example of how an AI just integrates whatever biases are out there (as there are probably more people complaining than saying they are happy)

My experience with Dell was great. I have a Dell Latitude (business line) that works without issue for more than 10 years (ofc, now it's only for browsing). And I also have a more recent Dell XPS 15 that got a full glass of water on it, and still keeps working - with the exception of the GPU - but considering it was soaked and out of warranty I am still happy with that.

Not sure what I would buy next, but would definitely consider Dell. In fact the most annoying thing for me is the pattern below the keyboard on the XPS, but esthetics is a personal choice anyhow.
But it is.
Are you a hermit?
Yep! I've taken an hourly dev advocate role as well as an interim fractional head of engineering role for a startup to help them bridge the gap between hires. Remote has been the primary driver for startups especially to become more flexible with their hiring practices.

I've discovered there are a good amount of small businesses trying to do what you are, so I think that's probably good validation that this is a strong space heating up. I've also been writing about it at blog.parttimetech.io if you're interested.
But are there better ways to build obedience?
Anytime you calling a group of people that includes Peter Norvig stupid is a good time to reconsider your classification method.
Other than the reference to SpaceX this post left the "engine" out of engineering more than I think is a viable amount of creative license.

Engineering, or science for that matter, doesn't include all the values that individually or collectively motivate human beings to do anything.

An engine can be the core component of what an airplane or rocket is, and science can help us optimize fuel type or efficiency, or make a more stable flight, but science and engineering will not lead us to decide whether to use that airplane for leisure or war. Perhaps in a perfectly technocratic society it is arguable that engineering and science are the ultimate guiding values and principles, but that is not the society or societies we live in.

As far as software, it seems to me its engine is the microprocessor, but much if not most software is not working in tandem with some engine on the other end, exceptions being cars, planes, 3d printers etc.

Rather, software is very malleable and although end users want things to work well, they also are accustomed to a steady if not daily flow of updates, which the author of this blog post has some expertise with (I would consider the development if continuous delivery an engineering endeavor).

All that to say is I think the author should look more deeply elsewhere than science and engineering as to the why and what to build, or ironically the epistemology, ontology, methodology and axiology will sort of just be pulled out of the air ad hoc, perhaps the least scientific way of operating.
> The purpose of the original phrase in my opinion was to encourage cooperation and communication as the solution.

I agree that this might have been the original intention, yet the phrase has become a way of virtue signaling and looking down on those who assume malice. IMHO, difference is minuscule, because in many cases consequences are the same.
> It definitely doesn't give me anything to ask about. Quotes like "Save a lot of time by automating an email process" are so vague

... are you kidding with these two sentences side by side? you just answered your own question, ask about the email process! and how is that outline of what I did even that vague? and everyone says to list accomplishments that benefitted the company instead of responsibilities, which this is a perfect example of.

I'll hopefully never have to write a resume again but if I have to I'll just pay an expert. The way I instinctively read and understand a document by actually reading it and caring about the content first is just too mismatched from the average neurotypical's way of looking at the world for me to empathize.
You know I always joked about getting a goat farm.

Now it’s looking more and more likely every day.
The staff/management must have been incompetent, or there was a discrepancy in the inventory and they overbooked. There’s no reason a hotel owner would want a person in the hotel to buy on hotels.com and end up with 15% less money due to having to paying commission to Expedia.
Sources? Otherwise it’s just speculation, which I’ve heard isn't generally worth considering.

FWIW, I work on a national news media app and advertising CPMs are down considerably year over year thanks to Apple's ATT update, so advertising is not the driver for these business as much as it once was. Many are looking to subscription revenue to fill the void, but even that's not enough to cover the loss.

I know less about the linear (TV) and print distribution side of the business, but my guess is they're also struggling given that their target demo is getting older and older while younger cohorts aren't adopting these legacy distribution channels. https://mobiledevmemo.com/att-is-killing-advertising-perform...

You're correct in that "if it bleeds it leads"; people are fixated by bad news.

I can say anecdotally after living in both NYC and right-leaning rural NY and PA areas where the crime and poverty rates are statistically higher that it's cleaner and these issues aren't as apparent, so something isn't adding up.
I have a fairly expensive Thinkpad X1 that I bought for myself and cheap MacBook Air M1 series for my kids. The M1 blows the X1 out of the water: faster, better screen, better screen aspect ratio, much better battery life. The only thing the X1 has going for it is a marginally better keyboard.
Because more and more software developers use hard dependencies on SystemD making alternatives difficult to maintain ?
What streaming platforms will let you stream at 1080p without widevine? (or equivalent)
Do you have some suggestions on companies whose priorities are better?

It would be good to know.
As much as TikTok is a cringe-fest, you find what you search for. Kids in China are interested in building wealth and "surpassing Americans" whereas the American kids are interested in online clout and popularity. TikTok will lose marketshare on it's own when American culture changes.
Nah, what you say is valid only for people doing menial tasks.

Sure, cheap developers implementing the same endpoint over and over for 20 years for a paycheck are like that, but a good chunk of them actually cares about solving a problem and get recognition in the form of life changing money.
We're not bothered by the actual facts of the situation. This is a pitchfork sharpening contest. /s

Sarcasm aside, if Apple isn't competing, and charges all social media services for the boost, what is unfair?
Even at a small company... the 'good' aspects are in the eye of the beholder, and can change quickly.

Some places I've been have been 'good' by department. People in dept X really ... tolerated things. Pay was decent, but periodic pushes for more 'work' burned out quite a few. But people in dept Y loved their setup. Each dept rated 'the company' relatively differently (not surprising).

Another place was... nice. Good... Pleasant. I was on the tech side - around ~20 people in the tech dept (a little bit of networking, some software dev, some testing, some support, etc). We had around a year of everything just humming. Then a new day to day CEO comes in and 8 people left in 8 months. Out of 20... that's a lot. The new CEO was quite damaging (and, I think he knew that he was having a negative effect, and wanted that for reasons that would only benefit him). Suddenly, that company that was 'good' for years got bad real quick.

Perhaps the 'good' companies are the ones where some larger culture can endure top leadership/personnel changes? Does that ever happen, or is it an inevitability?
> Have either of these actually happened?

Yes, people have been expelled and had their degrees from elite schools revoked for unethical behavior (usually academic misconduct).

Has it happened for misrepresenting their race on their application? I have no idea, since I don't keep up with such things. I would imagine that this situation is handled much more subtly and much earlier in the process (e.g., by noting that race doesn't match appearance in the interview and/or content in application). Said another way, if someone is able to con their way into an elite school via lying about their race, my guess is that they dodged the most likely filter (the admissions process).

That said, there is a blurb in almost all applications that says that folks can have their admission rescinded etc etc if their application is not true to the best of their knowledge.

There is also a code of conduct that says something similar regarding ethical behavior.

I've seen some whacky stories about these clauses being invoked, so anything is possible. Need an example, do a search for "the water buffalo incident" that happened at one of these elite schools (ostensibly for racial harassment under the code of conduct).
I also remember those episodes of Horizon! I distinctly remember their use of early computer graphics, The Planet Suite and the photos from the probes to create a stunning vision of a giant planet barrelling majestically through the cosmos.
> It's like a Denial of Service attack on our attention.

Stealing it.
> it's even illegal to listen to UK air traffic control radio

How exactly would they know that you're listening?
Or a carrot farmer!
My daughter bought an Alienware laptop and a key broke off the keyboard after about a month. I contacted Dell through Twitter and they sent a technician to her college dorm next day and fixed it.
Just today there was an article about police operation in UK with Czech people being slaved for sex work.
Maybe this is the way to contact google in case of issues! /s
All the hotel chains offer a Best Price Guarantee discount or maybe even a free night if you report that you found a cheaper hotel room than the official website (at the same time/date of shopping):

https://www.marriott.com/look/claimForm.mi

https://www.hilton.com/en/p/price-match-guarantee/

https://www.hyatt.com/info/best-rate-guarantee

https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/customer-care/best-price-g...

https://www.choicehotels.com/deals/best-rate

https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/hotel-deals/best-rate-guarante...
so obviously not that long ? might have been called wireshark at the time tbh :)
He's the person who threw the first stone in making ARM firmware and hardware more accessible, RIP.
I "vehemently agree" but I don't insult farmers or other blue collar workers because that's a shitty thing to do. The author is just an asshole and should be punched in the face by a farmer.
It's an extremely fast library for creating websocket servers. It's used by some crypto exchanges for it's high performance and low latency.
> People were already burned by building their sites in CoffeeScript and Google Closure Tools ..

Let's not forget Google Web Toolkit.
the consistent part about Apple is that they always exploit their leverage to the hilt in pretty much any B2B or B2C relationship they have.

Absolutely monstrous IMHO and I have no idea how they appear to avoid half the flak M$ got for being just like this in the 90s.
Ask HN: How do we convince all hotels to just provide free WiFi, no passwords?
I swear to god, the better the hotel, the worse the wifi.

If there's any kind of popup modal—they're doing it wrong. If there's any kind of pasword—they're doing it wrong.

If you are a startup that things you are "helping" hotels by helping them monetize their wifi or something, please pivot.

How do we spread the word?
The best Laptops I ever had were all from dell. Started with the Dell XPS 12 and the rotatable screen. I thought this won't last a year. THIS FREAKING THING still works to this day. It is now over 8 years old. Moved to XPS 15 when I started coding at a new company. They were provided by my employee, but we were allowed to install our favorite OS.
In my case, this is Arch Linux. For almost all XPS / Latitude and Precision Laptops there is a guide, what needs to be changed to get everything working. They work freakishly well.
I am now on a framework laptop (11 gen for linux support), which is also a great Laptop. However, build quality isn't as good when you compare it to a Dell XPS or Precision.

Every other Laptop brand I tried sucked in comparison (Lenovo, Acer, Apple all > 2000$).
>I had a coworker that nearly burn his leg when having the laptop on them and coding with Spotify in the background.

I wanted to argue: this isn't a laptop, until I remebered how my XPS 15 almost burned off my finger tips, and not only once, but several times. If you pack a gaming gpu into a notebook, guess what will happen: people will use it to play games, and boom: the thing is at a constant ~90°C while doing so...

How is a product like this passing any QA and beeing rushed out of the door ?
I’ve had a lot of Dell laptops through work.

2 XPS-13’s in the past few years. 1 with camera’s positioned at the bottom of the screen, which was the absolute worst design ever, unless you enjoyed showing off your nose hairs.

1 with the screen flicker and an issue with an internal fan that failed to start consistently which resulted an a blaring alarm. It would go off in the middle of the night.

The last one was replaced by a Dell XPS-15 (by my employer) which has worked fine.

I also own a personal XPS-15 that was my first Dell purchase ~3-4 years ago. It’s never had an issue and I do some heavy compute and web scraping.

I have a refurbished Dell Precision T-5600 with 128GB of RAM and 16 core processor 4TB SSD + 2TB SSD. It’s a beast, I’ve had it for 3 years. Run it daily for large scrape jobs, store and process a lot of data. It has never let me down.
(in climates with cool seasons)
I'd go even further: our conscious minds are a lot less capable than we care to believe. The vast majority of our actions are unconscious. Think of all the unconscious things that we are doing moment to moment, heart beating, breathing, thinking. Have you ever found yourself using the bathroom w/out having consciously decided to do so? How much of the day is stimulus->response w/out any conscious course correction?
As a single system, though, it beats all of them. My mom doesn't have a paypal but she sure has a bank account. More options is always better, especially if you are happy to swallow exorbitant fees from the various systems, but I can very well see why they chose SEPA as primary payment method. I often wish more websites supported it: I don't want to pay more middle men, accept more privacy policies, deal with more crappy websites that break every few months when using an ad blocker, etc. when I'm already paying for a bank account where I can just send money from.
> usually you can trust the police and governments everywhere on the planet today to always do the right thing

You jest, but a weaker form of "you can usually trust the police and governments today to do the right thing" is very much true for regular citizens in civilized countries.

The two problem cases are 1) people working to keep those governments in check, which is a necessary function for their operation but one that, by definition, said governments don't like, and 2) the private sector. The private sector can, and will, abuse everything it can get its hands on, to the extent permitted by the most strict reading of the letter of the law.
Problem with webpack is that freeform JS code is not "configuaration". Configuration presumes set amount of features driven by declarative statement.
Most of what I've seen done "in Webpack" in fact is shitty scripting in an awful language. I'm very happy to see movement away from this criminal waste of everyone's time.
Am I missing something here?

You are comparing a language which hit 1.0 and had seven years of additional refinement, to a language which is still at least 2-3 years away from 1.0 and spent most if not all its time in the past 12 months on self hosting compiler?
Exactly.

Malice is a legal, quasi-religious concept. A tiger can also quite actively exploit weaknesses and imbalances for the harm of its prey, yet we don't judge the animal as malicious - because we don't attribute concsiousness to it in the same way we attribute it to humans.

To have "malice", you need "intent", for which you need need "consciousness", in the classical folk understanding of the term: taking "selfhood", "free will", and "adequate theory of mind" as axioms. Whatever the scientific consensus on those, they seem to have little explanatory power in the domain of business. They're also a pretty high bar, so to speak - certainly higher than we give 'em credit for.

If those words really meant what they purported to mean, we'd be functioning in a much more humane economy; but for whatever reason these concepts just don't "stick" to what's really going on in the day-to-day. They're just the wishful thinking of Western humanist authors who were trying to set an example, i.e. mold the world in their own image a little bit.

> Functionally, though, your experiences may be very similar on the receiving end of incompetence vs malice.

Precisely. And since we're just people who just have objectives to accomplish, and our understanding of the consciousness of others takes at best a pragmatic role in pursuing those, our response to others failing us ends up being essentially the same: looking for ways to enforce compliance so that the counterparty delivers.

At the end of the day, "attributing malice" vs. "attributing incompetence" is about saving face - for the counterparty as well as for ourselves. Either way, dedicating effort to saving face detracts from the effort of understanding the problem at hand, which like you said is fundamentally structural.
https://www.trueup.io/co/fundbox
> I should be able to open a window and see all things in my clipboard.

In Windows, pressing Win+V does exactly that.
It's more about power than hiring in those cases.

My fave interview was when I was still in college I think the recruiter messed up and put me up for a sr role or maybe the company was a true unicorn: very few generic HR hoops, and heavy on the interesting problem solving with engineers.

Aside from that particular company I had weeks of HR screens, re-fill out your race/gender please(?) emails, and lots of time wasting that was a very very stark contrast for sure.
I've had best experience with Dell. Before switching to apple ecosystem I used dell laptops (Inspiron) and if I remember they were in $1.2k-$1.4k price range at the time. First one lasted 5+ years, second still works after 10+ years. Same with monitors, I trust only Dell. Just the other day I bought new 4k monitor from dell and it's great. Have 2 old dell monitors I bought 10y ago, my kids use it now. Overall, build quality is superb.
This is not about the syntax (indeed that's C-like), but much more about the style of API. This style of API was basically invented in Node.js land and then carried over to other languages. And lots of JS-style syntax sugar has been added to the other languages to make it possible.

If someone made a web app in C++, it used to be OOP heavy. There's no class declaration in sight here.
My only functioning laptop right now is a pinebook pro. I only use it to write fiction in bed. It can't really handle more than word processing.

If I play on lichess for example. Every time my opponent makes a move, the entire laptop freezes for a few seconds.
I actually was about to buy a Dell XPS machine a while back. When their ecommerce side was so incredibly crap to use that I moved over to Lenovo(which isn't that much better but seems to have much better warranty).

I'm glad their priorities are elsewhere, because otherwise I would have bought it first and noticed later. The enterprises that I met, don't actually buy directly from dell. They almost always buy through a third party partnership of some sort.
No, it's a usability problem. People use it with full Admin rights and then are amazed that when they run something from an untrusted source their computer gets pwned.

Or are you implying that Linux is immune to this? Because it's not. This is equivalent to running a bash script downloaded from internet with root privileges and then writing that you pwned Linux. Remember, VBA IS!!! a programming language, having the same access as any other programming language (tied to your user).

Now if this guy would've ran this macro using a normal user and then the computer would've been pwned, now that's a privilege escalation.
Isn't AWS's margin something like 35%?
Its Foresight. Poettering is a able person, but lacks any foresight on what world he is creating.
I used to play basketball, and I remember having similar "zone" experiences. It was like a combination of time slowing down, and me knowing with absolute certainty what move I was going to make and that whatever shot I would take was going to fall. The observing myself from the outside feeling was very real.
Many of these people aren’t moonlighting, they are working both jobs in the same 40 hour work week. They are just half assing two (or more) jobs and putting in the bare minimum.

Look up the overemployed subreddit.
I don't get it. How does this improve on the outside temperature sensor that comes with every heating system? Or is that not standard in the UK? Here in Germany it has been a standard feature for – well as long as I can think (several decades)...
My Dell Mini 9 netbook from circa 2009 (bought used for peanuts a few years ago) is still wonderful for console-mode Linux. Tiny, fanless, good battery, sturdy and very well thought out construction-wise (effortless disassembly, iirc). I think this was also a consumer-line computer, no?

On the other hand, I've always utterly disliked the 2008-ish Vostro 1015 we still have, though. Noisy fan from day one, bad keyboard and general ergonomics.
As someone with a ThinkPad from 2018, I consider general-purpose compute a problem that was solved by Intel 8th gen i5 (and higher). Bumped the RAM and SSD after I got it. Got my battery replaced a few months ago, and I'll happily replace it again if needed.

There's virtually no good reason for me personally to replace this laptop. It would be like buying a new phone because 'scroll performance is sluggish' after 6 years of constant use. Yeah, I can live with that.
It would be interesting to use this to embed tags for an AI to inference.