skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Argument of why you should not read this article:

Higher Education Excerpt: "Education flows down from the needs of employers. Companies outsource their recruiting efforts to universities, who gauge the quality of applicants on their behalf."

Employers who do not pay a single penny in tax? Who game the labor markets to keep salaries low? Employers who are nothing but a ponzi scheme where the people who make most money are not even employed by the corporation? Employers whose sole aim is to be a monopoly (and call themselves unicorns!)

This article needs a rewrite. The author does not bring the right arguments to the table.
Can Animals Commit Rape or Murder?
Yep. I switched to Figma as well.
There is an absurd oversupply of graduate students. Where there is an oversupply of labour, there are always abusive conditions. Academia can do all the soul-searching it wants, but the only meaningful solution is to rebalance supply and demand in academia; a very useful first step would be the provision of impartial and informed careers advice to high school and college graduates.
Man, that's kind of a hassle - I would have to create one profile just for music and videos, one profile for random personal browsing, and a third one for work. (And possibly a fourth one for work, if I explicitly wanted to watch work-related sound content without switching to a personal profile.) I don't think I need that at this time, but it's good to know.
an engineering "teacher of teachers" I spoke with was able to corrupt btrfs with a few well-chosen strokes, as it was told. The implication was - not ready. This was three or four years ago.
"Half of you think I’m describing Donald Trump. The other half, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez."

I also call them "unindicted co-conspirators in multiple federal crimes". Now who does everyone think I'm describing? I could smell the false equivalency coming on in the first three words of this article. I'm very tired of this urge within the hacker community to assuage what is happening with "everything is OK, this is just normal psychology, DT is just another politician, a symptom of something much bigger". No. He and his immediate family are likely criminals who are also likely compromised by multiple adversarial nations. There is no comparison to anything here not even Richard Nixon.
Interesting option for higher performance with a single command (lower latency).

However, this does not appear to work in a cluster.
Can't you tell? he's hacking e-corp
I’ve been writing code for over 20 years yet I don’t have anything that I can share in a public repo. My employer would sue me immediately. I don’t imagine I will be looking for a job via the “normal process” with recruiters and all, but if I did, would I need to put out stuff to github? Would I need to spend 6 months just writing random but nice-looking code so I’m not rejected due to not having github profile?

I think there’s a lot of people like that. Making github a mandatory requirement is strange.
Agreed, GPL is complicated.

I'm now considering MPL. It allow static linking without complicated technical requirements.
It’s interesting how competition used to be encouraged in the U.S. and now it’s pretty much the opposite. It’s all about consolidation, oligopolies and monopolies.

If standards lower margins and make entering easier, that’s what should be regulated for.
Extremely Rare but Interesting Body Features
I think you still always need to install graphics drivers from AMD/nVidias site, because the stub-drivers included with Windows don't have proper OpenGL support.
Microsoft's been on the 3:2 ratio since the Surface Pro 3 and Surface Book, which is pretty nice.
Geomarketing: What is it? How should you do it? Do you even should?
One thing that I find interesting is how none of the great dystopian works of the 20th century featured celebrities as the ruling class. The antagonists are like Bond villains, smart, sophisticated, rational, cruel. A worthy adversary you could respect and feel good about struggling against. Our reality is that we've made our lives so advanced and comfortable, that our fantasies can try to become our reality.

I guess Farenheight 451 and Brave New World come close with their focus on people immersing themselves in media, but even they had this smart, rational cunning clique running the show. Even in Idiocracy was based on the quaint idea that the ruling class was aware of its shortcomings and wanted to use rational methods to achieve objective goals.
I think you proved OPs point.
I love linux but damn, way to shift the goalposts.

edit:
Does any one else feel that redefining "working out of the box" to mean the opposite "just for linux", hurts linux's reputation more than just saying something non-hyperbolic, like it "works with a surprisingly minimal amount of driver treasure-hunt"?

As a tangent, I wonder if this applies to other things. if BMW users tell you "when talking about BMWs the term low-maintenance refers to not having your engine explode every 10k miles. With that in mind, BMWs are very low-maintenance", are you less likely to buy one than if they say "well there's a little more required maintenance than some other manufacturers, but as long as you do it the car is very reliable."?
This is a long, well thought out just-so story with graphs that ends concluding that the world is in chaos because there are more media channels than there used to be. Which is maybe true for some value of "true", but this is largely an empty essay.

The book that he references a few times, Revolt of The Public is pretty good though.
AOC is also under investigation for violating campaign finance laws, so...
I agree. As Tim Pool mentioned on Twitter: "AOC is left-wing Trump"
I did not realize the H200 was that old, that was the system we had the first computer class I ever took. The school got it for free from Honeywell.
X390 looks very interesting indeed. Did not at first realize that they have actually put the larger screen to the small chassis.

Lack of swappable battery is annoying. Maybe I belong to the minority, but battery life is still one of my main problems with laptops. Just so annoying to have to constantly look for an outlet in meeting rooms or conference places. I guess external USB-C batteries are the way to go.
The introduction's tacky and condescending tone lost me. Does it get better?
This comment makes no sense.

You say we shouldn't read the article because he asserts that educations flows down from the needs of employers. Your refutation of this point is that some companies don't pay as much tax as you'd like them to.

How does that follow?
It's pretty impressive that a browser based app can compete with such a complex and performance sensitive app like sketch. I understand why sketch is a native Mac app but having no windows or Linux port leaves the door open for competition.
"Populist" is such a cop-out euphemism. We should call them out for what they really are: demagogues.
I agree I would recommend industry to almost everyone. In fact, engineers ask me about grad school several times per year and I almost always discourage them. Too many people think of grad school as sort of a vague "next step" that will "open doors" or else a way of "leveling up" as though life is an RPG and a grad degree is a special badge or skin you can get. I encourage them rather to think concretely about what academia specifically entails: reading abstruse papers, writing papers with little chance of being appreciated, debugging software, writing grants, giving presentations, etc. Academia is only appropriate for a rare type of person, like being a classical musician.
Syncthing: Open-Source Continuous File Synchronization Written in Go
X220/X230/250
I agree. I just came across Alex Danco’s blog and it is very good overall. I can’t help to think though that he has flipped the cause and effect of why distributions have changed. My feeling is most of his examples are the result of an increasing wealth gap, and not the other way around. You can afford nyc, a $2000 phone, etc. or you can’t.
I used Arch Linux on a Dell laptop and my fan is pretty predictable. I have never used Windows so I am curious. Does the fan really turns on when you don't expect it ?
When I was a baby, my parents used a diaper service to exactly do this - cloth diapers laundered off-site. Here's an idea for a social-local-mobile business : bring back the diaper service.
My best friend is older mathematician is his late 70's. His best friend,Вадим Могильницкий, who unfortunately passed away, was an avid collectors of Richter's audio recordings and Richter's biographer. He published two books:
"Святослав Рихтер" (S. Richter) and "Рихтер - Ансамблист" (Richer - Ansamblyst). They were never translated to English.
Public utilities manage residential trash pickup and incinerators. The state also owns and manages landfills. Yes, there are private or at least nominally private exceptions to both, but state-owned facilities have unavoidable economic calculation problems, and these — along with legislation that permits certain levels of pollution — spill over into other distortion.

We seem to agree that the cost of waste disposal is too low. It isn’t capitalists who are setting that price.
> Accepting that others are vital to our self-perception is a corrective to the limitations of the Cartesian view.

This brought to mind John Calvin's Institutes. In the first chapter he suggests that knowledge consists primarily of two parts: knowledge of self and knowledge of God, and oddly, the best way to know oneself is to know God:

> If, at mid-day, we either look down to the ground, or on the surrounding objects which lie open to our view, we think ourselves endued with a very strong and piercing eyesight; but when we look up to the sun, and gaze at it unveiled, the sight which did excellently well for the earth is instantly so dazzled and confounded by the refulgence, as to oblige us to confess that our acuteness in discerning terrestrial objects is mere dimness when applied to the sun. Thus too, it happens in estimating our spiritual qualities. So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods. But should we once begin to raise our thoughts to God, and reflect what kind of Being he is, and how absolute the perfection of that righteousness, and wisdom, and virtue, to which, as a standard, we are bound to be conformed, what formerly delighted us by its false show of righteousness will become polluted with the greatest iniquity; what strangely imposed upon us under the name of wisdom will disgust by its extreme folly; and what presented the appearance of virtuous energy will be condemned as the most miserable impotence.

In particular the concept of the Image of God has profound consequences for the way you think about dignity and human personhood.

I recently watched Won't You Be My Neighbor, the documentary about Fred Rogers, and was struck by the way he treats an interacts with people, not as means to some end, but as ends in themselves, with real dignity and respect.

It was counter-cultural at the time, but boy is it strange now. It feels like everything is outrage and disingenuousness. We treat people like tokens of their tribe, with pure contempt and toss them aside like their worthless and inhuman.

Maybe Calvin was on to something.
The LG Gram teardown on iFixit was amazing. It's "moderately difficult" to remove almost everything including the trackpad and parts I forgot existed.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/LG+Gram+15-Inch+Repairability+A...
For the privilege to do what they really want to do, i.e. study something they are really interested in.

For myself, I am interested in logic programming and machine learning. I started a PhD in Inductive Logic Programming, which is machine learning of logic programs from examples. There's no way I could follow this interest in any other structure but a PhD on ILP.

In the industry? I can forget right about it. Even ordinary logic programming is out of the question. Machine learning? That would have to be statistical machine learning that just bores me to death.

In academia I have -so far- the freedom to pursue my actual research interest and all I have to show for it is success in understanding my subject and discovering new knowledge, which is exactly what I want to do anyway.
The Trump family are not likely criminals, they are criminals, guilty of perjury before congress (Jared), violation of the emoluments clause (Trump), intimidating witnesses (Trump), interfering with the AG (Trump), collusion with the Saudis (Jared), bribery (Trump), adultery (Trump), assault (Trump on his 1st wife).

The only thing which is not out in the open (though highly likely to be at some point) is collusion with foreign powers like Russia.
People can downvote you, but that doesn't make what you're saying any less true. Analysts agree that Trump used these sorts of tactics to win the election.
Reuters reporter deliberately withheld damaging info on Beto O'Rourke for a year
Consumers prefer super-thin soldered machines, sadly. The proof is in the shopping.
What? No, come on. You can’t extrapolate “someone didn’t read the manual” to “don’t use shell scripting”.
even there is a filesystem powered by it ! https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Don't forget Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA
I love my original X220 but it's just a bit too slow sometimes. Definitely would get one with a upgraded SSD and more RAM if you see one.
> the more you have, the more you can dodge supporting the country that obviously made you so very rich.

My point is this is not true for people who are on the upper end of middle class. You can't dodge anything because your income is taxed at income tax rates, not capital gains rates. You also get all benefits stripped from you as you rise in income. Can't get any breaks on health insurance, can no longer put money into a Roth IRA... Also remember, I'm not just talking about taxes. I'm talking about taxes plus the structure of the ACA.

The system is absolutely designed to put the middle class at the largest disadvantage. Whether you want to call it unfair or a punishment seems like personal preference.
Something very similar can be achieved in HAProxy using a powerful feature called stick tables. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-stick-t...

[2] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/bot-protection-with-haproxy/

[3] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/using-haproxy-as-an-api-gateway...
How I Would Cover the College-Admissions Scandal as a Foreign Correspondent
>the myth of laziness

If anything, there is a myth of "hard work" as a singular trait that a person has or doesn't have. And then "laziness" is described as contrast to that.

So is "hard work" a singular trait? Quite the opposite; there are numerous aspects of work that make it more or less good, helpful, interesting, and otherwise valuable to the person and to others. The work may be fast, or may be energy efficient. The work may be very precise, or may span huge scales. The work may be incredibly complex, or may have been simplified to surprising degree. It may be artsy, or may be highly professional. All those, and much, much more, can add to & improve utility of the work. Skill, education, proper time & place, those too aren't singular aspects, nor stem from singular events in life or singular traits of the person. Every aspect of work is built up from from, frankly, the whole life history of the person. You cannot separate, say, having good education from being in the right place at the right time, but also from having good contact with the right people (your peers that help you out); from being able to communicate well but also letting others talk when proper. And so much more. Trying to distill education - or any other aspect really - down to "got lucky at this junction in time" is just disingenuous.

Moreover, closer investigation of examples of "good luck" reveals that often it is result of others - particularly parents, family, friends - putting in considerable effort to help the person through life. Creating educational opportunity or connecting with other people. Good physical development via nutrition and exercise, just as well as fostering curiosity and ethics. Passing on experience or helping choose best fit career path. There's nothing shameful about having been helped by friends and family - if anything, it's both natural and praiseworthy. And those positive behaviors are likely to be passed along to subsequent generations, thus progressing humanity in the longer run.

>no amount of hard work can turn a 6 foot tall person into a 7-footer.

Have you ever wondered how many players under 6 feet had good professional careers in NBA? You would be surprised [1].

There is a myth of "hard work" as a singular thing, while, in fact, a work is good for the person and others for any number of reasons. And, conversely, "laziness" is lacking in several departments at once to the point that there's few people helped by the "lazy" person's actions.

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[1] https://www.ranker.com/list/shortest-nba-players-of-all-time...
I haven't really used Sketch that much, but I always liked the native feel of it on the Mac. In the world of Slack-esque memory gobbling monstrosities it was just nice to use a piece of software made for the Mac, similar to the Omni Group applications.

I'm for sure hoping that the web move isn't a step in ditching the Mac app. But perhaps the actual users of Sketch don't care, Figma is mostly a web app right?
I'm working on a masters degree at the moment for context. The fact that a professor has the ability to deny me the piece of paper I've been told all my life is my ticket to a better life based on arbitrary grading rules is horrifying. In my program there is a different professor for every class and how they grade and what they want has always been different, some demand title pages for every paper, some demand some specific source count, and others grade you down for submitting too close to the official due date. The professors who I have liked the most are the ones that act like the students, just scraping by barely managing to do their work, and not having the time or energy to be too critical of the students work. I'm sure professors are nice people and I'm even good friends with some at other universities, but there is a massive power imbalance and it is horrifying to students.
Are developers only male? Your biases are really showing in these comments.
Sure but I actually qualified it.
I think it really depends on a couple of important variables, including cash flows and company management. Our private equity overlords care mostly about the macro goals that are generally well defined in advance (sales targets, M&A budgets, bonus pool) and our CEO has done this a few times so he has a track record of predictable returns, which is primarily what a PE fund wants, vs the hockey stick growth of VC money.

In this economic climate and especially outside of the US, PE gives you a lot of the benefits of going public without the extra scrutiny and reporting. I've seen several established companies in my industry forgo going public and unlock liquidity via private equity or sovereign wealth funds.
Definitely well written and well researched. Interesting that this is also a culmination of multiple not professionally bound people's ideas, editing, insights and feedback.

Below is towards the end of the article, so just in case any one feels more inclined to read it, here it is -

> I’m indebted to the following individuals for conversations that led to this post and feedback that improved it. I’d like to thank Arjun Balaji, Brendan Bernstein, Alex Hardy, Kevin Harrington, Mike Dariano, one anonymous Twitter user, and Nick Maggiulli for all the energy they invested in editing this piece. They improved this piece immensely.

> I’d also like to thank Nik Sharma, Drew Austin, and Adil Majid for the conversations that led to this post. Each of them contributed unique insights that I could not have arrived at on my own.
> Until very recently, you couldn’t do that and keep your code private on github without paying.

Ok, but now you can.

> people dump stuff there for reasons other than explicitly wanting to share it with the world or show it off.

Maybe, but that doesn't change the fact you are sharing it with the world and you are showing it off, and if you put a bunch of sloppy inscrutable code on your GitHub, people are going to assume you tend to write sloppy inscrutable code, especially if you don't contextualize it with a Readme. That's just the reality of it. The real big assumption here is thinking people aren't going to judge you by how you present your work online.
Love my T420. Bought it new, used it for work for a long time. Now it's my field laptop I take with me when flying my quadcopters. It's been dropped, rained on, sat in the sun all day when it's 100 degrees outside and it still boots up happily. Have been thinking about putting a SSD in it but I really don't need the speed and the original drive works fine.
I sometimes think that the reason we don’t have these bond villains is because we were on the lookout and stopped them. And that caused us to miss the boiling frog situation of a ruling class of celebrity attention spinners.
I had the odd experience of nobody at work recognizing the Sputnik satellite. Granted, I'm probably somewhat nerdier than average, and am originally from Russia, but still - a 0% hit rate seemed odd.
This fails on directories, as the -r switch was not included:

mkdir foo; del foo

and including it will spawn file not found errors for the contents of the foo directory, if any.

EDIT: See also neighbor comment about appending filenames!
Not quite the same, but Eizo have made a 27" 1:1 (1920x1920) monitor. Looks fantastic.
That's because it's a random chinese board that attempts to provide up to date performance but not focused on up-to-date thermals/efficiency.

If a modern 13.3 screamer with battery life is what you are looking for however, check out the just released Thinkpad x390. It's even more modern and the battery life is a staggering 17-18 hours.
good point - there is far less reporting and PE has a much longer time frame than the 2 quarters everyone but Warren Buffet cares about
I've as well always been happy with Lenovos. I'm currently using an X1 Carbon (4th gen, FHD screen, ~6-7hrs battery) and a P71 (4k screen, in-built nVidia disabled, ~4-6hrs battery) and their fans run only when I'm stressing the CPU (e.g. compiling) and even then I only hear the flow of the air.
A 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet
I am happy to read this review a couple of days after I saw a video of this Unboxing guy evangelizing the use of other Thinkpads. Lenovo is definitely making nice machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZUSFda_W7k

"Unbox Therapy

After many years using MacBook variants I've made the switch to Windows. I've used every version of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air that have been released. My current laptop of choice is the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon / Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme.Turns out switching from Mac to Windows isn't as painful as I expected."
> And because they are poor, they pay disproportionately more of their income in taxes than the wealthy.

That's incorrect. The tax rate is lower for lower income thus they pay less proportionally.

> I live in the Boston area—even though there are 70 colleges and universities here, none of them are free for poor people.

Every ivy league school has income adjustment and will offer free ride based on need:

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/harv...
This fails on non-GNU mv(1) binaries such as macOS.
That's what TAB is for.
The convertible laptop market has had this for a while now. I for one just pull the screen off of my surface book whenever I am in need of a reading device.
I understand, and I in no way mean to trivialise what emergency patients go through. But in many cases, for many people, otherwise expensive medical procedures can be planned.
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