skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just went through a round of applications recently. Luckily I got hired from someone reaching out to me on HN, because the experience was fairly miserable.

More often than not, they’d ask for my LinkedIn, which I’d assume would pull in my resume. But no no no, I then had to manually enter all of my past experience. When you have over a decade of relevant experience, this is quite cumbersome.

By the end of each application, I was so irritated that I declined to submit a cover letter to any of them. No one has time for that.

Out of 12 applications, I got 7 flat out rejections and 5 no-responses. I chalk it up to the cover letter, but I’m sticking to my guns on this. Cover letters aren’t useful these days, especially when platforms such as GitHub exists.
To some extent a State is a gang, but at a larger and more sophisticated scale. So is any sufficiently large company. The 'criminal' aspect is always a relative measure.
I'm more comfortable with the Windows OS. But why is there not a single competitor to Mac in terms of build quality??
Entroware Apollo (UK company) delivered with Ubuntu 20.04.

https://www.entroware.com
Ubuntu on a Thinkpad X13 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U.

Everything works: Bluetooth, fingerprint reader, webcam, suspend etc. Battery life is good: more than seven hours. I'm very happy overall.
This is where computing as a whole is headed because it's the ONLY way to provide defense in depth against cyberattacks. Signed code path from first boot to user space code. Remote attestation because you can NEVER trust the client. Microsoft and especially Apple are already doing this. Linux needs an answer, and "no, it's too user hostile" is NOT a valid answer; it will just make Linux an untenable security risk.

It's like I keep saying, the Wild West 90s internet is long gone and nothing will bring it back. This is where things are headed, because the risks of the status quo are too great. Suck it up and get on with your life.
I dont know, what you describe does mean to me as a consumer that dell is shit so it seems pretty justified
Most hotels are small businesses. Business ISPs are expensive for the amount of bandwidth that then needs to be shared across rooms. They need ways to limit who is accessing it.

The more expensive the hotel, the more likely the customer is business traveler and can expense the cost or won’t be too inconvenienced by add-on charges.
I have for some years just bought Dell at work and home, and everything works well with Linux out of the box. Never had a problem. However, this issue

> the laptop does not sleep when closing the lid and thus the battery dies very fast

is actually an understatement of the problem. Apparently Dell changed the system for suspending laptops to something that does not work with Linux

https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-General/Dell-XPS-15-759...

That would make it difficult for me to ever buy a Dell laptop again. I don't see how it would be possible to use a laptop without suspend.
Arch Linux on Lenovo P51 (since 2019). Topped with 128Gb of RAM, this was promary reason I got this laptop as at the time it was the only option with motherboard supporting that much of RAM. No issues so far :)

I also have a custom-built stationary running Arch - since 2011ish, still in service and in very good shape :)
The truly awkward question is that GPA is important because colleges give grades too, but maybe the classwork grading and tests are bad and not conducive not education overall.
I used to build a blog engine using git as the storage. As a result, my blog users can view their update histories and also collaborate on a post through a pull request like process.

behind the scenes , I used libgit2. By default, libgit2 uses the filesystem as storage backend, which is more difficult to scale than a database.

You can replace the default backend with your own database backend, but it seems to require lots of work.

If there was a solid SDK built for the above cloud use case, things could be easier for me.
> led me to weird solutions that seem to work, but are unlikely to be 100% bug-free.

So you're telling me you don't unit-test your code? Big red flag there!

Rust is one of the few programming languages where unit testing is an integral part of the toolset.
As someone that is familiar with what a Lake House Arch is, I remain confused with what Delta Lake is mostly bc I find it difficult to differentiate what is Databricks Delta Lake marketing and the virtues of the Delta Lake Arch (Delta files, etc). It's frustrating, and I've given up...

I am however keeping up to date with Apache Iceberg bc it's much easier to follow and it seems to have a lot of advantages over the Delta Lake external table format (delta files?).

Iceberg seems to be better especially in handling schema evolution and drift. They both seem to use parquet and avro below the surface and generally have the same design, but am I missing anything by dismissing and ignoring Delta Lake?
Build strong back muscles and core muscles. Do rowing movements like inverted bodyweight rows or maybe pullups if you can.
do it before they force Beyond Goat!
How reliable is the Apple Watch's blood oxygen sensor?
Designing Squrl, an End-to-End Encrypted URL Shortening SaaS
Primary computer is a desktop (i7-10700k, 16GB RAM, 3070 Ti)

Work laptop, given to me by the company, is an HP EliteBook (i7-7700U, 16GB RAM)
Back when Dell had its Latitude series they were known for being as indestructible as the Thinkpads.

Little did I know how shitty Dell laptops were afterwards. My excourse had gone through the 300/310 Touch Ultrabook series, the XPS13 and XPS15 series, and the Dell Precision series. Bought 5 laptops from Dell, all broken within under a year of lifetime.

It was so bad that in the Ultrabook the GPU literally melted, and they claimed this laptop is working totally fine by just using the internal display with more artifacts than actual pixels.

And now, here I am in 2022, using my Thinkpad from 2012...because it keeps working.

I don't even know what to buy after the Thinkpad dies, so I have one other as a spare parts donator.
Huh, wasn't aware of that. Reading through, it looks like this is just talking about Microsoft "Secured-core" hardware, which seems to be hardware specifically marketed to provide a Microsoft-certified boot chain.

I'm not sure that's the same thing as Microsoft making it harder in general for people to bring and use their own keys (or just turn it off altogether).
It’s long past time to abandon Apple products. I’m as guilty as anyone, typing this out on an iPad. But I’m also using a system76 laptop in parallel to my MacBook Pro and slowly moving more of my computer time to it.

The truth about Apple, and probably any other company that managed to get in its amazing situation, is that they want the whole pie. They’ll always burn partners, customers, and rivals to slowly (or quickly) boil the frog and consume the whole pie. It’s been clear for a long time, but their devices are so great that we’re all in denial. They’re a bad actor, we have to move forward and figure out the next steps for ourselves.
Ah I didn't see the About this Extension part, just read the description underneath the title.
Great question - the short answer is that our Admissions office did not attempt to normalize non-mathematical factors. At first, this surprised me. How often do we as students somehow get the impression that extracurriculars, magnet, Montessori, AP, IB, student council, <more trophies/achievements of your choice/> are somehow positively associated with college admissions?

From a non-Admissions perspective, accounting for these non-empirical differences seems wise and fair. However, they introduce subjectivity into the equation, which increases the likelihood of a human decision maker being unfair.

So what normalization did we do? What would you do? Knowing that no equation is perfect, you must start with a goal and find the least-bad equation.

The goal: Only admit students with a high likelihood of not failing out.

Why: Failing out has consequences for most US students who take out large loans and must repay immediately if they fail out.

The realization: High schools already provide a proxy for degrees of past failure - letter grades.

Assumption: Assume that high schools use their letter grading system as a method of normalizing and displaying how hard their courses are. A B+ should represent a certain level of achievement regardless of school. The school has the autonomy to use any letter system they choose.

Solution: Assign a point system to letter grades and calculate an average. Use only classes correlated to success at your university. This is the normalized GPA.

Surprise #1 - If your high school thinks a tougher-than-average letter grading system (eg a 93% is a B+) somehow makes students more attractive to the majority of the 7000 US colleges, they are wrong. And probably causing students to lose out on scholarships.

Surprise #2 - If you believe this system is unfair, you can aim the blame at technology. Applications to most universities (until recently I’m told) increase every year as digital applications make it easy to apply to 10 schools instead of 3. To handle the increase, colleges can hire 3x more admissions people, or find ways to speed up the process.

Surprise #3 - Colleges always want more applications than ever before. By dropping SAT/ACT as criteria, it removes a point of friction in the customer experience, and removes a step in the calculation effort. (If they could drop GPA and keep SAT/ACT, this would the ideal situation from a metric and efficiency perspective, but Marketing and the public would throw a fit.)
Do you normally fill out a 1 hour questionnaire with bizarre drop outs for your first dates? Don't accept the power imbalance that is the status quo.
LG gram (14", 1 kg, 16:10 display) with Fedora
> leap seconds

Unix time is UTC based, so it ignores leap seconds and deviates from how many seconds actually passed since the start of the epoch.

The actual number of seconds passed corresponds to TAI, but you can't convert future timestamps from TAI to UTC since you can't predict leap seconds, so you can't display future TAI timestamps using typical date notation.

> For recording and calculations, it doesn't.

Depends on what you're recording and calculating. Storing a UTC timestamp generally works when recording an event that already happened.

But it doesn't work for scheduling events like meetings, since there the authoritative time is often local time. If you simply store such future events in UTC you'll run into problems when the definition of the relevant timezone changes.
In the 90's there was a huge amount of software. I can count zillions of multimedia CD-ROMs even in Spanish.

Now that work it's better done from a web for a lot of culture/hobbies/information related software.
Porting Fedora to Modern C
This looks like part of a larger overall EU 'strategic action plan' for developing a (sort of) closed-loop battery manufacturing and recycling industry across the EU's single-market system. Closed-loop implies that battery materials will be recycled, although there's no indication of how efficient such recycling will be in practice. Regardless, expanding battery production in the EU will require what looks like large imports of mined elements from other parts of the world. Here's what looks like the overall plan:

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/industry/strategy...

Some of the links there ('strategic action plan') discuss the importance of securing raw materials:

> "The EU must therefore secure access to the supply chains for batteries raw materials. Lithium-ion is currently the main chemistry of choice for electro-mobility and will dominate the market in the coming years. Various raw materials are required in lithium-ion batteries including lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite, silicon, copper and aluminium. The supply of some of these materials, in particular cobalt, natural graphite and lithium, is of concern today and for the future in view of the large quantities needed and/or very concentrated supply sources."

> "The Commission will build on the EU list of Critical Raw Materials, established in 2017, to map the current and future primary raw materials availability for batteries... [and] use all appropriate trade policy instruments (such as Free Trade Agreements) to ensure fair and sustainable access to raw materials in third countries and promote socially responsible mining."

Without secure supplies of raw materials, building a Europe-centric battery manufacturing to expand the overall volume of battery storage won't be possible, although there are some limited European sources of needed materials. Notably the 'third [world] countries' that contain most of the 'concentrated supply sources' could grow their own economies by domestically manufacturing and exporting the batteries themselves...

It's a bit reminiscent of the British approach to the American colonies in the 1700's, i.e. "you send us the cotton and we'll do the textile manufacturing here, and don't even think about setting up your own factories." In particular this use of the term 'sustainable suppy' is a bit odd, 'secure' or 'guaranteed' or 'not subject to competitive disruption from Chinese buyers' might be more accurate.
It can be.

But that was never the primary purpose of Docker. Like I can use Mac Minis as door stops, etc.

Docker runs best on top of Linux. As in actually run a Linux host , everything else in my experience is a hack. As long as you have internet access, spinning up an ec2 instance to test stuff shouldn't be too hard.
Why are drinks more expensive at a stadium or in a 20 oz bottle at a gas station? A mix of captive audience, no other options, and convenience (sprinkle in business travel/expensing).
Australia's Medibank says data of 4M customers accessed by hacker
Show HN: Use Notion to manage content in your Laravel app
The #1 difference between college and HS curriculum is that colleges have far far less classwork.
Galago pro, with the current pop os, with some MacBook pro usage on the side. https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/galp5/README.html
> I've (literally) employed people who were working 3 jobs without any of the other employers knowing about one another. We were being scammed.

I fail to see how verifying decades-old degrees would have prevented this.
macbook air M1 / surface laptop 3
FWIW, I spoke with 5 recruiter friends about cover letters while I was applying last year.

Their stance: ain't no one got time for that – unless it's a tiny company. Each of the 5 said they never ever read cover letters, but allowed that truly small startups, who are thus extremely selective, may put some weight into them.
And share their bandwidth with any of the surrounding businesses/individuals who don't want to pay for their own?
I would have no idea where my actual physical diplomas are.
Not just completely unethical, but also illegal even if unlikely to be prosecuted.
I think asking translators to use git is a hard sell.
I used to use ThinkPads exclusively, but Lenovo's priorities for ThinkPads no longer match mine.

I've since moved on to HP Dev One. It's well-rounded for me, was easily upgraded to 64GB of ram, and came with Pop! OS out of the box. I've also used System76 machines in the past with success, but I'm rather attached to having a pointing stick.

My dayjob provides a Dell XPS 13 (factory-loaded with Ubuntu) which is an acceptable machine, but I don't travel with it much.

I always use GNU/Linux. Of late I've been sticking to LTS Ubuntu or Pop! OS releases. I'm a strange case though, because my desktop is LXDE, and all I ever really do is run a browser or two with a pile of terminals, so I'm not running heavy desktop apps like Slack, Discord, or LibreOffice.
Pretty much any high end Thinkpad or Macbook that is a couple of years old can be an incredibly good value (if you don’t mind cosmetic imperfections), since they’re very reliable.

I buy them on ebay, so if they don’t work I get buyer protection. As long as it doesn’t die within the return window, I assume it’s fine. I’m sure there are more scientific methods than that, but this has worked for me.
(1) Many colleges are already practicing affirmative action for boys because many boys are not applying. Schools are glad to have girls but girls don't want to go to a school which is 70% girls so they try to admit more boys to make the social life more normal.

(2) There is a serious representation problem in primary education, particularly elementary schools. Both boys and girls benefit from having male teachers, boys particularly, since as it is they get the unambiguous message that school is an institution by and for women, one in which they don't have a place. It's bad enough that it shouldn't be thought of "we need to hire more men as elementary school teachers" but "we need to stop hiring women as elementary school teachers".
The other obvious difference is they are rich and the rest of us are not.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
> “The laptop does not sleep in Linux" is not a compelling reason to hate a manufacturer without a lot more details

Did you miss the detail that having Linux pre-installed by Dell was one of the primary selling points of the laptop model in question?
What's the keyboard on the X270 like?

Personally I like the X200, X220, X230, ... series (as well as T400, T430, ...). One of the primary deciding factors is the quality of the keyboard.

P.S. What's it like to run 9front on a laptop? Is this a practical machine for getting the job done, or do you just want to learn about OS'es and experience the joy of Plan9? (I wanted to run Plan9 in the 1990's but was not yet open source at the time; plus computers were still expensive and finding a spare, compatible computer for a what would essentially be a hobby machine was out of the question.)
This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds

Weird. Mormons getting salty?
Employment (and unemployment) by the city, which is a governmental entity, is held to a higher standard of scrutiny than private employment. It is unconstitutional for the city to fire a city employee based on arbitrary and capricious reasons, just as it would be unconstitutional for the city to impose any other sort of administrative restriction on its citizens on an arbitrary and capricious basis. Would you find it legal for the city to only issue marriage licenses to those who provide proof of vaccination?
Did not know that, neat. Phased arrays are so cool.
Just some of the problems I have dealt with undisclosed moonlighters -

Ever had a medical claim by your over employed staff? Which insurance pays?

Do you pay for training?

In case of intellectual property theft from you or the other company, do you know what are your obligations? (Receiving company is can held liable.)

What amount of taxes do you withhold? What are the penalties for withholding significantly wrong taxes in your jurisdiction?
But this is about access to Meta products isn't it?
How is a person receiving calls from customers and trying to solve their problems much different from say my job which is receiving calls from coworkers and trying to solve their problems.

Sure, I am paid many times better and the problems I am dealing with are way more complex and varied and I know a lot of people who are asking me for help, the calls are over Slack or Zoom and the timelines and involvement in the issue is much higher. Otherwise, this is the same job.

But to say that the people who are less capable are somehow composed differently psychologically, more resistant to doing repeatable work... it is the same as thinking that people in poor places on Earth are somehow very much different from us, less intelligent and outspoken. This is simply not true -- just go and visit places (and not just tourist attractions). Go to youtube and see people visiting places. Go to library and read a book about people visiting places.

Everybody says that the first thing they experienced is this feeling of everywhere in the world they thought being so much different, actually being very much the same as home. Buildings are different, views are different, weather is different, wealth is different. But the people and their daily problems are strikingly the same.

People who are paying low wage jobs have exactly the same kinds of problems, they just also have other problems like paying their rent that is keeping them doing the job they don't want to be doing because they just don't have any other option.
How is the keyboard on the X250 compared to other X200, X220, ... series Thinkpads?
> Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely… the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.

Excerpt From A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
My personal choice is Linux but MacOS doesn't have anything near the amount of exploits and vulnerabilities that get released daily for Windows.
My take is that standardized tests are a road to social mobility. People can bullshit their way to higher grades but there are some rich kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag and the one way we can stop them from laundering their parents accomplishments is standardized testing.
Most over qualified won't accept the job for the pay you are willing to give.

I have seen over qualified people take an entry level job - but it was only offered because they explained they had personal reasons to want to move to the area we were hiring (a non-remote job, though this was pre-covid), and were willing to take a pay cut. As soon as review time came they go a promotion. (At the time we only had entry level positions open, as we had "too many" senior people on the team)
Someone healthy enough to be a firefighter has a near-zero chance of being hospitalized because of Covid.
Bun Go FFI with ClojureScript via nbb
Poettering's work is a love letter to windows xp.
This is very low tech. It's just mirrors, and not even particularly precise ones.
He was wearing gloves; a momentary contact like that wouldn't harm anything.
It's called "defense in depth". A signed, attestable boot path is how you get defense in depth against malware attacks. Period. All computing is headed this way.
Corporate boards typically meet at most once a month, and often only a few times a year for 3-4 hours. That is very different from a 40 hour a week job.
Now Thinkpad T470, T480 for the 64GB RAM (2x32GB slots). Previously Asus starting with one of the 1st netbooks Eeepc 701 with 7" screen. Loved that little netbook, perfect for the backpack
Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1625/ https://xkcd.com/1679/

This is one of those things you'd better do with a userscript instead of yet another addon. Way more flexible too.
Windows from my experience is preferable because:

- WLS as a development environment

- better multi monitor support

- better window management

- more configurability

- less likely to crash

- has tons of useful features baked into the file explorer like being able to explore zip files, cast media, et cetera

I love the design and feel of the MacBook Pro, but the OS just doesn’t match the hardware unfortunately