skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've (literally) employed people who were working 3 jobs without any of the other employers knowing about one another. We were being scammed. This happened not just once, but with 2 people (1 full stack engineer who is a HN regular, and another was an account manager).

If that employee does all of their work for you, why does it matter if they work another job? Are they underperforming? I'm sorry, but I don't see how that is a scam. In retail, people work multiple jobs all the time. Why is it suddenly unethical the moment it turns into an office job?
Please cite a source for gender discrimination in admissions. Seems like this would be a textbook Title IX violation.
In most jurisdictions, you bet. It’s also a criminal offense to lie about material job history or qualifications.

It’s rarely prosecuted outside of high profile cases though.

So employers beware and all.
My last 5 Laptops have been Dell XPS 13's with Ubuntu.

Still no complaints with it at all. Solid specs, all hardware works (with some sounds blips every now and then), decent build quality, decent price.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that the consumer line has less support and extras than a business-class device backed by an enterprise support agreement.

I'm not sympathetic to someone dropping $1,400 USD on a new laptop, and gets written off because "consumer _anything_ is hit or miss".

Like, half of the complaints come from devices like the XPS 13, which isn't some $300 cheap-o WallMart special, that's supposed to be their flagship top-of-the-line device. If Apple did the same to like, the MacBook Air or whatever, there would be months-long complaint threads all over HN about it.
Cover letters are useful for two types of candidates:

Fresh our of college (or even looking for an internship), or other non-traditional path to a technical job, where you don't have experience and need to convince me you are technical enough to interview. (this also covers people who have large gaps trying to get back into something technical)

Candidates who know they are over qualified and need to explain why they would accept the position anyway, and thus it isn't a waste of our time to interview you for a position that can't pay something reasonable.

Otherwise I read them, but they don't tell me anything. I want to see evidence you have done technical things like the type of things we need someone to do. Your resume should give me a better indication of what you can do because it is what you are doing.
Apple confirms USB-C iPhone will happen, but it may not be worldwide
Having coverage with multiple insurance companies is pretty stupid. Typically the employee will only have coverage from the "primary" job.

Of course you pay for training, why wouldn't you?

Working for competing companies is even more stupid than being overinsured, and could potentially be illegal (for the employee). And rightfully so.

Company withholdings don't change so this is not your concern.
Why Does Every Tech Company Want to “Democratize” Something?
Technology cannot cure human problems. Exploiting the weak are a problem only morals and values can solve.
This is not much steganography and by ditching steganography completely you could make it so that the file is both a valid image and a valid zip.
At least that would make it easy to extract the data.

Needless to say that too has already been done many times in the last 20 year.
My experience with trying to use Cucumber for tests pretty much shown me that it doesn't work there. But one thing that I played a bit and seemed that it might work was using Cucumber for writing requirements. At least for when the requirements are written by not technical people, it could give them better structure and for me as a tester make it easier to spot possible problems in them. But I haven't had to chance to try this more, so it might up end not working just like tests themselves...
LinkedIn does have a jobs platform. I’m not an HR person, but the bits of it I used were pretty good. I liked the AI bit that auto-filtered-out people with nothing at all relevant on their resumes (which was pretty accurate from my spot checking).
Both nazi germany and soviet union were poor countries at the time.
Dell Latitude 5410 at work, Lenovo T460 at home, both with Windows 10.

I've tried using Linux Mate for a year at home (no hardware problems with that), but I didn't like the occasional switching for (better) gaming performance and the Creative Suite applications. Single boot is more comfortable.

Thinking about switching to a MacBook Pro at home, but I can buy 10 used Thinkpads (one every three years or so) for the price of a MBP, so I'm not sure whether I could get more value out of an MBP... Also not sure that I want to buy into the Apple ecosystem. Kind of "happy" with my self-hosted NextCloud, Android + f-Droid etc...
If anything, the credibility is diminished by the timeframe being 15 years ago. You would have thought their market share would have collapsed underneath the weight of all these quality control issues.
I wish I knew. I just wing it and try to guess from whatever signals I'm picking up. Sadly I don't always get it right.
No.
Usual estimate is ~20M.
High end is usually ~23M.
It doesn't grow that fast.
I assume the MalwareFox driver already got through automated reviews to be signed by Microsoft?
The DOS version of Railroad Tycoon runs fine on Dosbox. Unless the Amiga version or something is what you're after.

I've still played the PC version occasionally on Dosbox. Despite its faults and aging, the original still seems to have something unique to it that other newer transport business games lack. Some of that is probably nostalgia but I think there's something else to it as well.

Some of its bugs and limitations can be fairly annoying, and at some point I toyed with the idea of making a rewritten clone with those issues fixed kind of akin to what OpenXCom has done, but I was never able to gather the motivation to do the hard work of reverse engineering the gameplay mechanics etc.
> As for the user experience, why not just give you a personal generated password when you check in? Then they have the info they need, and you just need to enter the password.

In my experience, a lot of hotels already do this.
Sounds like the more reasonable solution is to remove taxpayer funding for healthcare. That way, people who make bad choices wouldn't be subsidized by the public.
My grandfather had a nice saying: "The state is not your friend nor your ally, it is -at best- a adversary with whom you live in an unstable truce"
> I asked GPT-3 what it thinks about Dell laptops. Here is what an AI learned from summerizing the internet

Are there any details about how this text was generated? Or are we sure that there was no bias and no leading questions involved?
These are all things that LinkedIn could and probably would do if it were its own company. But unfortunately it's owned by Microsoft, and there's just not enough revenue in these to justify it.
Came here to say. Case is better than gazelle. Overall “just works”.
They most likely didn't considering the author was born in the 90s.
>It's not unbelievably high, go have a look at what any platform charges.

That's because they are all monopoloies and that's the monopoly rate.

I would gladly host a competing app store to apple or steam where I took less than a 30% cut. In fact, I would do it at cost. So what's preventing me?

Don't you dare say that apple doesn't have a monopoly here.
Most companies are okay with it if regular employees sit on a board, too, as long as there isn't a conflict of interest.
>> Support

I guess they don’t do this anymore but a good few years ago a colleague at the time was able to attend some kind of training/cerification thing with dell and it meant all our hardware issues could be fast tracked. Rather than going through the normal support channels they trusted him to order replacement parts and/or directly book onsite visits for server mobo replacements without going through dell support first. I remember people using his relationship to get faster support for personal devices too and this was all above board / part of the deal.
Work issued System76/Darter pro, running PopOS 20.04. Have a beefier desktop that I actually use for work, again on PopOS 20.04.

Personal, Framework 11th gen running Manjaro/gnome. It’s pretty great with the exception of some issue with the touchpad which sometimes doesn’t detect left clicks. Not a huge problem, since I’m spending most of my time in the terminal, but still annoying.
Bandcamp: Streaming's Secret Savior (2018)
Why did't the other teachers correct their grades at the end of the term?
Yes. However, at some places, like inside some buildings, you have a good wifi but very bad mobile network reception.

In high speed trains the wifi might also be stabler than your phone because the system behind the wifi is designed to work with the high speed you are moving at.
This is not limited to consumer transactions like banking apps, and deployment is never guaranteed to be the result of a rational decision-making process. I have now had more than one employer who deployed remote attestation in a bring-your-own-device ecosystem. They do this because they are told by some vendor tutorial that it is more secure, but they end up disabling user devices by accident. My current IT department told me to buy a new phone if my current one couldn't pass a SafetyNet check.

The problem is that if you are inside a project developing something like this, you can clearly visualize your expected use case, but it's impossible to know what other use cases will be contrived. Of course in this case, we have predicted a few major malfeasances and I think anyone supporting a project like this needs to know the harmful use cases and be responsible for developing with them in mind.
Still using an old Macbook Pro (late 2017s), randomly using it since I am more active on PC, and I always take it while traveling.
I can kind of understand the sentiment, but as we’re all discussing in this thread, it takes serious time to fill out applications. The reality is that applicants are submitting their applications to dozens of companies. It’s a significant burden to write a long form letter for each individual company.

Plus, it’s just kind of dishonest to have a requirement and list it as optional. No offense but that sounds toxic.
Seriously, if you're raging out at unrelated people because you have a bad day, as an interviewer and potentially coworker I really want to know that, because I don't ever want to work anywhere near you.
> It’s not like Facebook is a competitor of theirs

In a way, yes: both are competing for ad dollars in the iOS space.

If Facebook is forced to slow down or increase ad prices, those are dollars that may end up in Apple ad network, if the customer is targeting iOS users.
Big hotel chain will have a legal team, which will demand a terms of service to cover their butt, which will mean a captive portal with a checkbox.
The past 15 years I had 4 different Dell laptops. Linux was always compatible. I had zero problems.

My current one is a Latitude and I have it since 2018. Still works great.

A long time ago, one of them had a problem with the monitor. They came to my office and fixed it on the spot!

On the other hand, my macbook experience was never good. I guess it's luck
This could benefit from a more complete description/title: vlc.js: VLC ported to WASM a full multimedia framework and player in the web browser.
A substantial increase one year cannot undo sixty years of wage stagnation. We have to keep going.
> With 24-hours per charge on a lot of these modern laptops, why do you need to carry spare batteries?

At least for ability to quickly poweroff my laptop, for example if OS is hanged down or maybe if some water spilled on the device. Also I do not want to carry laptop to a service just to change battery. Last but not least, internal batteries use to be unique per model while external batteries use to be a mass product, good luck finding spare internal battery for really old laptop.

> A singular USB-C hub can support 20x USB 2.0 A devices at full speed.

The main reason of my hate to all kinds of external hubs is that when your mobile device has a beard of hubs and adapters then some of that connections are going to lose a contact mechanically. Why not just to drill more holes in the side edges of device instead of making side edges empty?

And you told nothing about where to get a modern laptop with as comfortable keyboard as in my x220.
Guess and check is not engineering. That's what the author describes.

Engineering is also not normally scientific investigation. The author uses "hypothesis" in the worst layman manner. A hypothesis is not something to be confirmed, it is something to be disproven.

No, engineering is primarily about the application of predictive knowledge and models to create and implement designs which are robust to known operating parameters and unknown model error.

Guessing and checking frequently (via CD) has merit. In fact in the limit you can eliminate the human in the loop if you add in some basic rule like "reduce error with each step". That's automatic optimization.

But if you want to talk about engineering you need to talk about constraints, predictive formula, and industry knowledge guiding design choices. If you need to serve 1M QPS, is a single sharded single node Elasticsearch instance on an MX5 large sufficient? Why or why not? That's an engineering discussion. If you need to identify the closest points to a vector in Nd space among 1B points what algorithms produce tenable runtimes? That's an engineering discussion.

Other disciplines have centuries of accumulated knowledge and modeling to fall back on. They don't have to guess (mostly) which metals will survive high temperatures. Or how air will flow around a given shape. We have similar knowledge that explicitly removes the need to guess. Again, checking is always good, but the valuable tools in an engineering toolbox massively reduce the search space before any implementation is attempted and that's the heart of engineering.
Speaking as a human/Terran I am very much against this.
> how much would an extra employee or two cost to analyse the resumes?

just send them to the hiring manager. It is very obvious who doesn't have the skills at all so it takes seconds to reject them.

I suppose you could fake someone with the right skills, but I don't understand how such a scam could make you money so I don't see why anyone would.
I agree, closed source means we can't do anything apart from decide whether we believe Meta or not.

But my understanding is that the 'report' is from a user's WhatsApp client—if someone sends you a message that you think is reportable, you can report them to Meta. As part of the report, your WhatsApp client will forward some information to Meta.

Assuming Meta are not actively lying, this would not mean that it's not E2EE.
The fact that it’s a slam dunk lawsuit for the plaintiff.

https://www.justia.com/employment/defamation/
Stenography is quick writing using a vowel-/tone-based script usually used to record the spoken word. You are thinking about steganography, which is hiding something inside other data.

The ZIP thing is a nice trick, but by now is being checked for regularly when computer forensics come into play. Also, I would argue that it is not actually steganography, for it does not hide itself.
Let's just hope that this will be more successful than Quaero and Theseus, the European search engine research projects that burnt 350 million Euro in government money just to fail spectacularly.
macOS Ventura: you no longer can sort WiFi networks by priority
I have long suspected that the feeling of struggling with math is the feeling of not closely riding the coattails of the unconscious mind, sort of the opposite of flow. When attempting something challenging for the first time, the intuition isn't developed yet and choices that aren't deliberately reasoned at some higher level are inevitably wrong. It takes a long time to train intuition and math is unforgiving about immediately telling people theyre wrong compared to most areas of thought.
> What did people do for interviews back then? Reverse-a-linked-list?

The last time I was hired for a purely software-related position was 1993. They were looking for an IC (they didn't call it that, then) who would quickly transition to tech lead / system architect. The technical part of the interview involved role-playing myself presenting an initial proposal to a potential customer who had provided a brief written requirement. One of the interviewers role played the customer. IIRC the interview schedule was something like 30 mins to read the requirement and think, 15 mins to ask initial questions, an hour (perhaps longer?) to develop the proposal, an hour (?) to present it and face customer questions.

In essence I was being asked to spot ambiguities in the requirement and develop an initial estimate. I passed. I would have failed had I applied for the same job straight out of uni.
I do have the 2-in-1 version of the XPS 9310, which was only available with Windows, replaced it with Archlinux. In the 1st ~3 months after launch (of the Windows product, Dev version wasn't released yet) I experienced this problem too, but nowadays, s2idle drains the battery < 5%/day. So I highly guess your Ubuntu version has an old kernel where it's bugged.

Which takes us to the main issue, the preinstalled Linux on all Dell machines I had is garbage, premium support only helpful for Windows customers. Why do they then even offer this option? Sadly, when Lenovo started offering Linux preinstalled, they claimed it's a feature that they only ship open source drivers, even on nivida machines. Don't know much about the HP dev one, but partnering with System76 is hopefully making this a better OOTB experience.
Maybe google can come up with a way to profit off indexing resumes so it becomes desirable to do so.

As fun as it is to rip on recipe blog it's really nice how standardized they've gotten so your plugins can yoink them easily.
Pretty simple explanation here:
The cheap hotel is cheap because that’s the price it takes to fill the rooms up. If they could charge more, they would. Cheaper hotels need more amenities to attract guests, or else they’d be even cheaper to fill rooms.

Expensive hotels have enough going for them (location usually), that they can afford to nickel and dime you because they know they’ll fill the rooms anyway.
Right! We obviously cannot perceive things in "real time" as they have to be processed, which introduces latency.

I'm not really sure from the article what they mean by memory. To take a computer analogy, I doubt all my experience is being constantly written to the hard drive, but it will be in RAM.

So to the extent that my experience temporarily exists and persists in working "memory", then sure... But how could it be otherwise?
"On Unix systems we measure time as the number of seconds since "the epoch": 00:00:00 UTC on January 1st, 1970.... this definition is not based on something sensical such as, say, the objective frequency of vibration of a Cesium-133 atom, but on a convenient fraction of the time it takes a particular large rock to complete a full rotation around its own axis."

Well, seconds have not been defined as "a convenient fraction of the time it takes a particular large rock to complete a full rotation around its own axis" for quite some time, and the origin is set to an abstract event in the past, which is not (as far as I know) subject to retroactive revision as a consequence of the vagarities of planetary or celestial motion (if it is, I would be fascinated to know more.)
Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter
Not just the federal government! All levels of government have limits on their powers. Important in the context of a New York state court ruling.
Personal laptop is a Macbook Pro (2021, M1 Pro). Work laptop is a Fujitsu Lifebook U Series, running Ubuntu 22.04.

I didn't get to choose much about my work device though. I was told to install whatever OS I want and "most of the team uses either a current Ubuntu LTS or a recent Debian", but I was free to install Windows or something entirely different as well
I had other forms of proof that I worked there like paystubs. He could have lied, but it would not have worked. Now my performance? He could def lie about that. Thankfully my other past jobs could verify my hard work because I left with good relations, so if he lied it would have been an outlier.

Reputation is important! It can be the difference between one company having complete control over your future, and being able to choose to do what you want.
Just post the salary range then?? I'll decide if it sounds right.
How would you verify your email address while you're trying to get wifi access if you don't have wifi access?
The luxury influencer raising millions of dollars from voter rage
> "Tell us why you're passionate about middle-of-the-road paper-pushing"

You're missing out on the perfect opportunity to tell them about your severe head injury and/or paper-pushing fetish...
How do you think having an open access point would provide a good experience to hotel users when anyone can log on?

And what problem are you trying to solve?

I mostly stay in Hiltons. You just enter your last name and room number and you’re in. It’s even an easy enough process with my Roku stick that I take with me that doesn’t have a browser.
> there's no indication of how efficient such recycling will be in practice

Europe has one of the highest recycling rates in the world. Automotive alumiunium has > 90% recycling rate.

I will bet on Germany engineering its way out of the energy crisis.
I think for your claim about what Twitter's good for to have much meaning we'd have to define "tweets" and what you dislike about them. Are you saying the whole idea of breaking a long writing into smaller pieces is out? Do you just dislike the UI? Do you dislike people being able to comment on each piece independently?
Excellent question. I’m of two minds here. As a high school student, I too struggled to get great test scores. I took the SAT four times, which finally resulted in a score that could get me scholarships.

Did I become smarter? - I sincerely doubt it.

Did I become less likely to fail out of college? …Seems unlikely, but I don’t know.

As an admissions rep, I understood that high scores, whether SAT or GPA, are certainly both proxies for a prediction: If I admit this student, are they going to fail out?

Unknown: It actually might be the case that students who get private tutoring are less likely to fail out because their parents can financially endure them struggling to repeat failed courses. I’d be interested to see a study on that.
Wikipedia gives different 2021 numbers including (percentage of global solar installed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

China: 306,973 MW (35.8%)
United States: 95,209 MW (11.1%)
Japan: 74,191 MW (8.7%)
Germany: 58,461 MW (6.8%)
India: 56,951 MW (6.6%)

With 2020 numbers for percentage of electricity generation by solar: Germany 9.7%, Japan 8.3%, India 6.5%, China 6.2%, and US 3.4%
Natural biomass is not enough to support a specific kind of diet for $7.8 billion. It still is enough to support all kinds of diets for humans and animals. Walk outside of the bubble we have invented for ourselves.
I don't buy the argument really that it is "to pay for" Xcode. It is just another revenue stream and they charge what they can get. Microsoft would charge for their product if people were willing to pay for it.