skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple SE is of course not really "low end".

But I do agree with your overall point; back when I worked at a computer store people would come in to buy a laptop, and they wouldn't want a HP – even when that was actually a good model and a good fit for their needs – because they had a bad experience with a HP printer. I think that's actually pretty fair too, although I usually explained that the people who design the HP printers most likely never even talked to the people who design the HP laptops, and that even within $brand laptops there are are huge fundamental differences.

I suppose that overall, on balance, the brand recognition of "Dell" or "HP" outweighs the negative associations people have across the product range.
Many sites that allow you to export stored resumes (such as LinkedIn) will also allow you to store _multiple_ resumes. But even when they don't, there's nothing stopping you from having these multiples ready on your machine and updating the aggregator site as necessary.

So even in situations where tailoring is needed, it's still a completely unnecessary step to solicit details that are typically found on a resume.

Prior to becoming a software engineer, I had to tailor my applications just as you pointed out. BUT I ALSO HAD MULTIPLE RESUMES READY for each situation, since writing a new one from scratch--each and every time--would've been a completely pointless use of my precious job-seeking time.
Functional neuronal circuits emerge in the absence of developmental activity
Oh, now I'm going to gush about this thing. I've been restoring old machinery for decades, but this is one of the best pieces of old Ohio machinery I've ever had my hands on.

It's a beautiful machine. It's a JT Towsley 24" jointer - the best I can guess is that it's from 1930-35 or so; there isn't a lot of information about that company anywhere.

It's somewhere around 2300 lbs - everything is solid cast iron (subsequently, I have retrofit some heavy casters because it was so unbelievably hard to move without them). It used to be 3 phase direct drive, but the shop I got it from gutted the old motor and set it as a belt and pulley drive to a smaller motor on the base. I swapped the little motor with a new Leeson 7.5hp. I painted it and replaced all of the bearings for safety sake (with new - old stock - American made bearings that matched the originals, btw), but other than that everything was in amazing shape. It has a massive 4 blade cutterhead with huge new blades the man that owned it put on it. This thing is amazing.

It sat in the corner of a cabinet making shop up the road from me for something like 80 years, until the owner died. His wife was going to have the local junker haul it out. It was the cabinetmaker's pride and joy. It had surface rust and needed to be repainted/all the bearings replaced, but otherwise it was like a brand new machine.

It currently lives in Illinois at a buddy's house while he waits for his own jointer to come in- it's his daily driver right now. But this thing is worth the drive to pick up. I've only ever seen one this size and quality in person, and I've never seen one for sale on the public market. I know I'm biased because I'm selling it, but it's just such a bad-ass old piece of iron.

I considered putting a helical head on it, and I contacted a couple of companies for quotes on custom heads. They're pretty reasonable (for what you get), but the companies are like 6-8 months out on custom orders and byrd won't even respond.

Anyway. This thing is amazing. I love old machinery, and this piece is super cool. The thought that went into making something that big also very easy to adjust and work with is just amazing.
Because you would theoretically be paying the same amount, just paying it as interest instead of principal. It's not practically that big of a deal, but it does mean you would have less equity. If you had to sell it, you would get much less back, and you might have more taxable gain if you don't qualify for §121 exclusion.
Do you think we'll still be using the same computer systems then?
In the US, 90% of loans are fixed rate for the entire term.

https://twitter.com/RickPalaciosJr/status/150811381352611430...
Registered an account just to spam your forex blog. Fuck off, you parasite-ass spammer.
It takes inner work to overcome a bleak view of people. It's too easy
to eschew compassion and faith in fellow humans to improve themselves.
I think the rehabilitation of our digital world asks us to give people
greater "benefit of the doubt".

Perhaps the hopeless people you describe are the product of a hopeless
context - the "enterprise context" you mention. That culture seems to
encourage intellectual sloth and shrugging ambivalence, and you give
good examples.

> Go look at /r/sysadmin or /r/

Please, I'd rather not :)

> executives who believe they're above things like "phishing awareness
campaigns

My goodness I've met them. They're basically paid too much. I had to
make a humint/influence piece for a major bank in London. Cybersec
referred to it as "the cock problem"; basically mostly male with high
six figure salaries whose security weakness was they "don't give a
fuck". Same kind of fellas who would get pissed-up and drive their
Aston Martin DB into a children's play-park. Major liability. They've
learned they can transgress with impunity and just use money to solve
it. What do they care if other people's money gets hacked? Not the
best model for business, which requires a more upright mind-set to
excel at. But banks don't exactly need to compete in a real business
world.

> Technical measures are much cheaper and vastly more effective

Only in the short term. You'll need to forever keep your technical
measures one step ahead of the mixture of malice and idiocy out there.
A changed culture replicates and even grows itself.
I have felt this about open source projects in particular. Feels like the hacker spirit is gone and it is now very commercial or for resume building.

Not really anything else however.
I would like to add that it seems the internet used to be a lot more hobby-centered before around 2009. I do miss that old internet, where people did fun and creative things just for the sake of fun and creativity.
Commenting to give this a try later, I've routinely been the person to get these kinds of gremlins escalated

I've long wanted for some sort of mock, "things are broken - I want to see how you think" approach for sysad
The only thing I can add to this discussion is I know my consciousness exists and has causal powers. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell you about it. If it didn't have causal powers, the consciousness would have no way of making ourselves talk about it. The body would have no idea it's there.
It's also good for buyers with low net worth, but high yearly income. I got into the tech world 5 years ago, fresh out of college. Many of my peers can afford monthly payments of $2-3k... but getting your hands on $100k cash for a 20% down payment takes time, even at decent income levels.
Sounds like a bad, private landlord not affiliated with landlord associations. If the landlord was affiliated, this would be a breakage of agreement and the tenant union organization [0] could help, drive the case against the landlord.

[0] https://www.hyresgastforeningen.se/
Not typical in the US where many/most? mortgages are fixed rate for the entire 30 years
Show HN: Filter message types for simplified team collaboration
Hi Hacker News,

Lampoint is an application for team collaboration between company employees.

The main concept of this app:

- Collaborate in a room with all message types.

- Collaborate in a room with one message type by using a filter.

In short, the main features:

- Create teams, collaborate in public and private rooms, or 1on1 direct messages.

- Communicate with regular and temporary messages.

- Create tasks and timer tasks.

- Publish posts and editable messages.

- Upload files.

- Filter by message type.

- Video and audio calls, screen share.
Can you not just enter an international bank account number (IBAN) into online banking outside of this area? How does transferring money work then, do you need to send couriers with cash or use third parties like paypal? IBAN is the most basic infrastructure I know of, and I've heard that in the past you also had bank routing so this paying via banks (and banks settling it later) can't be new.

I should ask my boss how we get money from customers in other countries. As far as I knew we just give them our IBAN, chamber of commerce number for tax reasons, and it just appears in our account.
Yes, HN effect lol-sob.

Mitigation: reducing servers life time temporarily so more people can try.
Sure, but who was opting for an ARM in the last 5 years?
Exactly, and you have to be willing to bear the time and expense of suing a corporation with more money and attorneys than you.

Every time someone has a casual "Well, you can just sue them" answer to being wronged, they forget that the court system (at least in the US) is inaccessible unless you're rich and richer than your opponent. If my employer does something wrong to me, like wage theft, fraud, harassment, discrimination, it doesn't matter that I can sue them in theory. In practice, it's me and my $5,000 in life savings vs. 100 corporate attorneys working at a $N billion company who will inundate you with paperwork and motions and procedural tricks. Not to mention, if you sue them, they will fire you in retaliation (which is also probably illegal) and may even go so far as informally blacklisting you in your industry. So you're giving up your time, your life savings, likely going into debt, and giving up your future employability, just to pit your one already over-worked attorney vs. their army. Good luck.
I would say the quality is pretty similar too, model depending. On the low end, quality is not comparable (nor are the prices) but you can at least acquire "lower end" hardware with Apple's build quality for a step up in price.
This is why I want to build an AI that goes around filling thousands and thousands of job applications with my information, and just gives me a firehose of the BEST remote interview opportunities. But then I show up at the interview just to mock the interviewer!

I would add metrics, and a global leader board to see who can jilt the largest number of the most valuable companies!

It would be a fun hobby, that many many people could enjoy together! Lets make hiring just /impossible/ for companies, so long as they want to have difficult yet exploitable job application processes!
No.

Write some code, or get playwright to generate it for you. Don't use DSLs if you value your sanity.
Definitely agree that pressure can come online or IRL but I don’t think it’s purely just people. There are many cultures, societies, communities, or heck just small friend groups where there is zero pressure to monetize. Eg I’ve been part of book clubs and movie clubs where we just talk about entertainment and art and never think of turning it into a podcast or YouTube series.
Because of course your application settings (themes, plugins etc.) have to be stored under '/Library'… sigh
This guy has a bunch of projects on https://mvpstack.io/ as well, some sort of portfolio I guess. None of them work properly; no finished projects that are currently functional as far as I can tell.

He claims to have sold off some of his projects for large sums of "$", If the numbers are correct and not fabricated the currency certainly isn't USD/EUR. Nobody would pay more than maybe a few hundred dollars for the toy API projects he claims were acquired, they are nothing more than proxies or web wrappers for basic operations (CSV is a common denominator? CSV API, CSV data source, etc).

He also lists a bunch of "big" companies as customers on https://nocodeapi.com/ but given the app literally doesn't work at all and would present no meaningful value to any actual developer this is probably misinformation.

This seems like a scam, beware of red flags if for whatever reason you decide to work with this guy.
This statement can only come from someone born in a 1st world country and have no sense of what its like to be poor. The desperation and clinging on to a hope no matter how slim of earning a wage higher than what they already have.
> So all your details like salary, social security number, etc. are public. What's the end result? For me, nothing. I _could_ care less, but not by much.

I'm pretty sure my antisocial neighbor would consider robbing me if he knew my net worth.
Ooh this is exactly what I need!
Things that could help:
-Scan as black&white (grayscale) and save as such (8bit instead of color which is 24bit)
-Increase contrast so background is pure(r) white instead of varying grays
-OCR and save as docx/pdf/txt with actual text instead of image of text.
No, the source is the waste water, the target is the fresh water.
You could either use a heat pump to move the heat from the colder waste water to the hotter fresh water, or use a direct heat exchanger to pre-heat the freshwater while chilling the waste water down, to then put a resistance heater between the heat exchanger's freshwater outlet and the shower head's input.

But it should be more efficient to run a heat pump against the heat exchanger's inefficiency/delta then to let it happen and compensate with an ohmic heater.

Yes, the wastewater discharge with a 100% efficient heat pump might actually leave colder than the fresh water comes, due to heat loss to the room exceeding the work required to pump the heat against the exchanger's losses.
One thing I like about living in a country of 330 million people is that the probability of being chosen for identity based malfeasance is lower

Than in a country of 10 million
I’m sure there are examples where Graal Native will beat the JIT version of the same program (e.g. it often does more throughout escape analysis, also, smaller object allow more data to fit inside cache, etc), but in case of a “typical” application I would wager that the JIT approach is better. Maybe that’s just the way idiomatic JVM code is written?
Or at least by the landlord and tenant organizations that establish rules and agreements with each other.
You mean the guy who served 15 years?
Abstract:

During development, the complex neuronal circuitry of the brain arises from limited information contained in the genome. After the genetic code instructs the birth of neurons, the emergence of brain regions, and the formation of axon tracts, it is believed that neuronal activity plays a critical role in shaping circuits for behavior.

Current AI technologies are modeled after the same principle: connections in an initial weight matrix are pruned and strengthened by activity-dependent signals until the network can sufficiently generalize a set of inputs into outputs.

Here, we challenge these learning-dominated assumptions by quantifying the contribution of neuronal activity to the development of visually guided swimming behavior in larval zebrafish. Intriguingly, dark-rearing zebrafish revealed that visual experience has no effect on the emergence of the optomotor response (OMR). We then raised animals under conditions where neuronal activity was pharmacologically silenced from organogenesis onward using the sodium-channel blocker tricaine.

Strikingly, after washout of the anesthetic, animals performed swim bouts and responded to visual stimuli with 75% accuracy in the OMR paradigm. After shorter periods of silenced activity OMR performance stayed above 90% accuracy, calling into question the importance and impact of classical critical periods for visual development.

Detailed quantification of the emergence of functional circuit properties by brain-wide imaging experiments confirmed that neuronal circuits came 'online' fully tuned and without the requirement for activity-dependent plasticity.

Thus, we find that complex sensory guided behaviors can be wired up by activity-independent developmental mechanisms.
My experience is anecdotal as well, but it confirms your hunch about collegiate athletes. The have been the best performers, but it's a small sample size in my case. It would be interesting if there is a different correlation between sports (e.g., individual vs. team sports).

The main complaints I've heard about the prestigious institution hires are:

1) They tend to excel well when given a problem that can be solved with a rather templated approach, but tend to struggle more with poorly defined problems

2) They tend to have higher turnover, with the speculation that they jump ship as soon as a perceived higher status opportunity arises. Meaning, they start a lot of projects but don't see them to completion

I don't know if I've had enough experience with the differing groups to draw strong conclusions one way or another.
The sad part was he was actually a very competent CEO and after he left they had a revolving door of CEOs until they admitted failure and sold the company.
It's interesting that Rocket League was brought up. I used to play RL a lot and every once in a while I physically felt like I was one with the car on the screen. Like my mind became the car. Everything felt more fluid. The jumps were precise and timely. The shots were accurate. It was an insane difference between my regular gameplay. I always wondered if professional gamers somehow end up mastering how to recall this behavior when competing.
Yeah, monetizers are partaking in SEO to boost their ad-ridden blogs to the top, whereas anyone else who's writing a simple blogspot to document their hobby gets left to page 12 or 13 of the search results.

It's a delight when I come across a personal site that goes in depth about something, and has no ads or donation begging.
>Also depends on where you live, but I live in Europe and here you see people having hobbies and doing random stuff everywhere you go, people just drinking a coffee and staring at the sky.

It's sad how in the US people are too busy paying medical bills that they don't have time to drink coffee anymore :(
Google doesn't need the play store, because it already gets a cut from everyone who makes money on the web with google ads.
you think people are going to pay mortgages they are massively underwater on?

This also ignores the fact that the Fed's stated goal with raising interests rates is to increase unemployment to slow inflation. You are already seeing the results in quarterly financials. Once layoffs start happening people won't have an option but to sell when they can't make payments
So too many buyers and not enough houses?

Sounds like a supply issue.
<insert item here> is a threat to our <choose one of: lives, democracy>, and so these regulations and encroachments must be enacted!
> It's also my not-so-secret hope that a sophisticated enough version of SadServers could be used by tech companies (or for companies that carry on job interviews on their behalf) to automate or facilitate the Linux troubleshooting interview section.

Yup, that's what I was afraid of.
The question is, out of those trillion ways, how many actually happened? This Swedish info is actually public since quite a while, and I have yet to hear of lives destroyed. I'm not saying it cannot be, just that I didn't hear.
Hotline Miami’s ultra-violence has influenced games for a decade
I'm looking around, and finding that the effects are likely not significant, and may even be nonexistent. Inhaling smoke is entirely a different ballgame than eating brown butter.

Any effect from eating browned foods seems to be minuscule compared to what the foods that you are actually eating are. It seems like the inhalation of the particulates given off by browning or burning food likely already dwarfs the effect of eating the food.

I'm interested in this conversation particularly because I make brown butter in large batches, and eat several tablespoons worth of it every week.
Yes, everyone’s final tax payments are published each year.
Is it? The blog post calls out their participation with Blender, and reading the linked blender posts and videos where they talk about their work with the company they talk about the relationship being entirely about providing advice and support, I don't think blender bought some closed source software.
My high-school GPA was mediocre because I simply was unable to pay attention in class, or to study at home, or to turn in homework that wasn't dinged over and over for "careless errors". I was born in 1956. Given today's knowledge of things like ADHD-Inattentive, I'm pretty confident that I would have been diagnosed. Some drug would probably have been prescribed, and it probably would have helped my grades (although I'm not convinced it wouldn't have hurt me in other ways).

But for some reason, when I took my SATs, I found it to be fun. I got completely immersed for the period it took to take the test, and truly gave it all I had, with real focus. I got the best SAT scores in my school, which was shocking to some people.

And it turned out that that was far more predictive of my future, including my college GPA performance, than my high school grades were.
System76.

I generally run Fedora, but when I got this box it came with PopOS and I wound up keeping it. So far I've been pretty happy running PopOS. I may still switch one day, just so I'm using the same OS across environments, but I don't really have any particular issue or gripe with Pop.
Rooftop solar is essentially drop-and-forget -- you have to do approximately 0 maintenance for the next 10 years (at least).

There are definitely moving parts in that video -- does it have to be cleaned? Do the bearings wear out? Will a bird nest in it? Fill with leaves?

I definitely hope it works but I'm skeptical this is really as mindlessly easy to do as to drop panels on a residential house.
Apart from health issues of sweeteners or sugar.

I really hate the taste of every single one of the artificial sweeteners.

The aftertaste lingers forever with its weird notes of wet cardboard and a chemical set for schoolchildren (don't ask me how i know).

And i always wondered how one could get accustomed this stuff.
Researchers uncover cryptojacking campaign targeting Docker, Kubernetes servers
I used to joke that we couldn't call ourselves Software Engineers without professional liability/E&O insurance, until I got a contract that required I hold exactly that and I learned it just costs $100/mo or so.
You've got it backwards. The bigger issue is that we aren't building new supply to meet demand. Corporations buying property is only an issue because we've stopped/slowed new home development/supply to not keep up with demand. Allow supply to meet demand and the corporations don't have a market to monopolize. This is the law of supply and demand 101.

But the same people that are usually against corporations buying properties, are usually against new home development and increased housing density. I saw many housing activists in the Bay Area who were against new housing at market rates and thought all new housing should be at below-market-rate prices--which simply isn't possible.
It's more of a general impression, but for instance the other day YouTube recommended me "Jesse Ventura | 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read | Talks at Google", it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing Google would host or publish now.