skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just didn't seem to last as long, for one reason or another. They were fine when functional. We just replaced them at a much greater rate than our Macbooks. BUT this was about 2 years ago, so a lot of our macbooks were older devices without the new keyboard mechanism.

In my personal life, my 2010 pro is still going strong. My mother uses it now - no complaints. Some things have failed, the optical drive. But man is that thing a tank.
Sounds like someone needs to do a little research as to the military industrial complex. A lot of respected people, to include Eisenhower, or a Marine General who won 2 x Medals of Honor, have cautioned against trusting the defense industry.

Start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Beware of survivorship bias.
I'm fairly heavy handed so maybe that's why it doesn't appeal to me. I use Box Navy switches on one of my mechanical keyboards. Those are notoriously heavy.
It's carbon fiber composite and machined aluminum. Yes, there is some plastic, but it's solid as shit.

No coil whine in mine. Touchpad idk, because I don't care that much about miniscule differences in touchpads, but it does the job as well as any high end laptop. All touchpads are trash imo, so I find it hard to prefer one over the other.

Most important for me when writing code is keyboard and screen. The kn is acceptable. The matte screen is a must for me. Even if it was all plastic, tbh I'd still take it for the matte screen.
Ah, I read the "chance of it reoccurring" as "another massive storm hitting Earth". I'm sure they happen all the time, most just point in a different direction. We probably can't even detect the ones heading in the opposite direction from Earth, erupting from the other side of the Sun.
After upgrading from a mid-2014 13 inch MBP (8GB Ram, Dual-core i5) to a MBP 16inch (32gb ram, i9 5.0ghz Turbo Boost), apps like Slack and VS Code really do run a lot faster and I have many more apps open than I used to before. Maybe I could have done well with just the i7 and 16gb of ram, but it's good to know that this computer should be good for web development for the next five years.
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I've a macbook pro 13' 2017 - It's the worst laptop I've used in the past 10 years. It continuously gets smoking hot lot of fan noise and very often kernel panics. I have lost faith in apple macbook especially when price to hardware ratio is higher than anyone else in the industry I expect the machine to just work seamlessly. I'm very soon disposing the laptop and buy a dell or a thinkpad. I'm not looking at apple again for a very long time at least for macbooks
I'm curious if they still have the high CPU issues when charging the device on the left.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573

[2]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
I would run Windows Vista if it was the only OS with multi monitor support. Its absolutely crucial for my productivity.
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GT's MSCS is a totally different instruction model. It's all MOOCS, not focused online learning with regular sized classes. Most of the classes have 600 students in them.
I think it depends on the strain (species?) of malaria and even the geography of where a person has been infected. Some infections are more resistant to treatment than others.
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Well, a lot of engineers - those making bridges and passenger airliners and cars and phones - are taught that it's bad if their products kill people.

Engineers at companies that sell missiles to Saudi Arabia have to take a more nuanced view, or a more laid-back view. As these are not universal, they have to be selected for at hiring time.
Gun owners must have a way to lock it up, of course. That's usually just a locked case. Not cheap but much less than the firearm itself. And you'll want it to transport the firearm anyway.
Yes really.

Suppose there's a hundred different possible sounds, and each sound has a 1% chance of randomly correlating . The probability of at least one sound correlating would be very high, but once that's identified you would calculate a 1% chance there.

That's selection bias. You selected the cough to look at because coughs were the ones that correlated. If something else correlated you might have looked at that one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23060083

Sounds similar to some things I read this weekend
absolutely. I find a pretty common workflow for me is writing code in one window while having documentation (or a header file) open in another. it's not the end of the world if I have to alt-tab back and forth, but it's much more efficient if I don't have to.

a 24-27" monitor suitable for coding is only $200-300. if you code for money, it seems like a no brainer to just get two.
> There seems to be a consistent theme of employees being treated with suspicion, condescension and outright hostility.

The reason for that is simple. For jobs with few qualifications, undisciplined people and people who struggle with thinking are in the highest supply. Ask anyone who operates a bar or restaurant what sort of behaviour they can expect from low-qualification employees, hired without significant attention, at the going rate.

It may be a matter of privilege for a lot of people; I know many brilliant and well-intentioned people who have had a hard go of life because they picked up a counterproductive fear, insecurity, or opinion when they were young, but it would not surprise or offend me that their employers would grow to dislike them. I have had some advantages on this, because I was blessed with a referral for my first job, and my first colleagues guided me away from my self-destructive behaviours (I was 17).

That's not to say it's all of them, but if you hire people for work that requires little or no discipline to meet the hiring requirements, you are going to be exposed to a lot of candidates who lack discipline.

There are many people working jobs that have a low- or no-skill entry level, who are incredibly hard-working, disciplined, and passionate; but there are also many who are none of these things.

You can observe a maybe-similar effect with specialized "consultants", who merely have to claim to be able to resolve problems like one you're experiencing; then they get paid for a few months to have a go at it, and it turns out they don't know any more than you do about your problem.
LP = low power. It gives Apple laptops incredible sleep times, and Apple will take LPDDR3 over DDR4 given that choice.
Would publicizing such a donation help him or would you then want to know why he published the details of his donation?

Your question is one where both possible outcomes result in attacking the messenger instead of considering his message.
It is notoriously impossible to host your own email. Large email providers have created an oligopoly of email "quality" acceptance, and there's effectively no way to get your deliverability to a reasonable rate unless you use one of them.

I don't think it's necessarily malicious in nature - more the product of spam filtering.

I wonder if email authentication methods like DKIM/SPF/etc.. help this problem these days.
The actual crime was "Procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception" as defined in [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception_(criminal_law)
I recently switched from an Air to an XPS 15 9570. I was very excited, it seemed to have all the best qualities of a MacBook, minus the shotty keyboard, and superior performance per dollar (at the time).

Things went downhill rather quickly. I've had massive cooling issues, I've removed and replaced the thermal paste. I've been forced to operate the laptop on the "Cool" thermal setting; downgrading the performance of the processor. Now, the two of the screws in palm rest, which hold the screen in place, have sheered right off. Doing some digging, this was commonplace with this particular model.

I'm not doing anything particularly intense either. Docker with a few containers running a dev website.

I can't speak for the latest XPS 15 7590 build quality however.
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current monthly charges are around 300eur. totally running 3 servers.
That's really interesting. I've had a Killer wifi module in a Razer Blade Stealth running Debian 10 for about a year and I have never had any issues at all.
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This. The sums of money at stake in soccer are far greater, the rules are much clearer and the participants routinely cheat yet no-one is ever prosecuted. Even the suggestion they ought to be seems risible.

I never understood the point of this prosecution.
As he said, you don’t go to the media when you’re a VP at a company. You go through channels. Anything else -would- make you radioactive, because it means you can’t be trusted to work at fixing things that you carry some responsibility for as a senior leader.

Caveat: companies where everyone is a VP probably have another title that denotes senior leadership: Managing Director, Partner, etc.
FireWire is actually a trademark of Apple.

You probably mean IEEE-1394
> Which is the mythical company treating their low-skill workers far better than Amazon?

That's an easy one: Costco. Do a cursory Google search and you'll generally find positive stories going back years. There's nothing "mythical" here, it's a matter of explicit policy difference between the two retailers.
Can we comment on the web design on the page?

That mouseover highlight and share option is obnoxious. It's strange that Apple went that route.
There are enough company-backed products with terrible UI to make your argument invalid.

Software UI is hard, that's it.
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I also don't have more than anecdotes, but just to add to the collection - my top tier school has lots of people who boycott companies like Palantir and I, personally, declined an Amazon offer due to their business practices. (why did I interview? I wanted salary leverage while negotiating)

Really, the main reason you don't see stuff like this is because those people wouldn't work for Amazon to begin with.
“IANA” being “I am not a” - commonly expressed as IANAL (I am not a lawyer).
> You quit in disgust, but now they leak that you are a poor performer who is no longer relevant, and your speaking out about worker conditions is just a poor performer trying to distract everyone from their inability to get things done.

I'm not sure this is worse than quitting in disgust and then publishing drama and negative opinions about your past employer. At least the poor performance claim can be countered with actual past reviews.

> It is very, very difficult to win some battles from the inside

It's even more difficult if you don't even try and when everyone who wants to and could do it just leaves.
Funny anecdote: Apple offers a trade-in when buying a new Macbook. I decided to have a look.

I entered the serial number of my Macbook Air 11" (Late 2010). I confirmed that it boots up, has no defects, has no optical faults and that I will include the power supply.

Apple offered 10€ ($12).

Yay?!

PS: This ancient notebook runs macOS High Sierra with the current 2020-2 security patch and sells for an astonishing 200€ on eBay.
The latter it's much easier: the stocks are vested after 5 years, the unspent disposable income is saved somewhere and now and you are ready to leave.

Also the turnover of engineers in Amazon is among the highest in the industry and only a few stay beyond 5 years.

In comparison, refusing to work for some FAANG takes 10 times more courage for someone out of college and without saving.
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Not GP, but want to mention:

I’ve found it invaluable to copy comments I like in to my quotes.txt and use them as inspiration / paraphrased / cited when I want to say something similar myself.

We model our behaviour on those we like.
Objectively? No, that’s clearly a subjective call. But it is a huge factor for why people keep buying macs.
Well, as somebody who is unimpressed Amazon's corporate dystopia, yet also owns a significant amount of Amazon stock, I don't think the stock market is the place to look for these changes.

At a stock level, I imagine their longterm plan is to replace warehouse workers with robots anyways.
In seriousness, having to run 5+ tabs and Electron apps that each take 500-2500MB is the only reason 8GB of memory feels cramped for work purposes, for my case. Take those out of the picture and I can run a few light VMs and still have enough room to work, on 8GB.

Main reason 2 cores + hyperthreading gets laggy and unresponsive at times, too, for that matter, compiling aside.
Razor has a 17” laptop that can be configured to have a 4K display, but you also have to upgrade the GPU to a RTX 2080 Max-Q. The RAM and storage is end user replaceable though and you’d have an absolute beast of a machine that could handle pretty much anything you’ll ever throw at it. It is $3700 though.
https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-pro/shop
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An invaluable resource is this Google TechTalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM it was my first introduction to org-mode.
I understand that. It's just weird that they'd specify anything for components like that.
There has to be a better basics tutorial than dice.com which is laden with ads and tracking scripts.

Maybe something visual
> I don't see the misunderstanding you mean. I said if you think a selection of the least-length or sparsest solution is ad hoc, then so is your choice of prior. Solving the same system without priors would be analogous (actually mathematical equivalent) to solving an inverse problem without regularization. Or failing to solve it in the ill-posed case.

Oh totally, I agree with that.

> As for deterministic, I mean not probabilistic. As in linear algebra and "curve fitting".
As for "nice-to-have", I mean you can do machine learning without having any of the statistical understanding we've talked about and instead making various choices simply "because they work".

Yea I agree with this too, at least in principle. No issue with solving a lot of problems from a non statistical perspective since many times statistics is not the clear “right” choice. E.g. understanding that L1 regularization corresponds to a “Laplace prior” doesn’t give you that much deeper of an understanding of what you’re doing, since most people use L1 regularization to encourage sparsity. Also, if you’re more comfortable with a non-stats perspective on things, no problem approaching problems in the way you prefer.

Summary: I agree with everything you’ve said here. All that’s left is I think a difference of opinion about how important it is to understand the Bayesian perspective and I think that likely comes down to (1) the types of problems you typically work on, and (2) personal preference. I find personally that understanding the Bayesian interpretation is extremely helpful for building a deeper understanding of a wide variety of ML algorithms but I totally concede this is not necessarily a hard truth. So I stand by my advice, but will definitely agree that there are alternatives. I took the route of understanding ML without Bayesian stats first — really didn’t understand or know Bayesian stuff for a decent amount of time after I got into ML. I’ve found the Bayesian perspective has helped tremendously but that’s just me.
Wouldn't this be less of an issue if you could say '[org.clojure/clojure ">1.2.0"]'? Or any of the other version number matching formats rubygems, npm, cargo, or any of the other package managers seem to manage?
Calling it a "meat shortage" is glossing over the situation. In the US we're killing 160,000 pigs a day just to throw their bodies in the landfill.[1]

So the solution is to go kill more wild animals. Awesome.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/closed-jb...
I had a boss that would try to bully employees into buying expensive cars they couldn't afford, just so they had too much debt and he could exploit them... because they could no longer afford to quit.

One might be disappointed how effective this technqiue can be.

Now imagine you have car payments, a mortgage, and a family to feed.
The lone asshole taking advantage also makes the other 19 miserable. The effect on morale is crushing. Always think past the first order consequences.
> and how the new Mac Pro is actually a Pro machine that they're headed back in the right direction (post Jony Ive).

Hardly, considering the lack of professional tools support outside Hollywood movie makers.
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I'd be surprised if mine is not, since the 2020 Air runs significantly cooler than the 2019 Air in spite of having twice the cores and being faster. It being 10nm is the best explanation for this.

This might also explain the lack of an eight physical core option for this 13" pro. There may be no octacore 10nm desktop/laptop chips yet. It would make sense that Intel would prioritize lower power chips like the one used in the Air as these benefit most from the new process node.
Maybe my point wasn't stated clear enough: the crontab itself is in spool, obviously, but the scripts started from crontab entries reside in my home directory. And while a procmailrc can live in some spool too, the files to be delivered into are in my home directory too.
UK libel laws aren't that bad for situations like this — if he were sued in the UK, he could rely on the defence of honest opinion and I imagine he would prevail.
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You could connect Oracle to Postgresql using HA and from Postgresql to Oracle using FDW.

If your client was paying Oracle already, he should take steps to move away from it, not setup himself up for paying licences forever.

I cringe at having to call Oracle Support. It takes forever and they make you send a ton of files before someone even looks at it.
Interesting. Investors are interested in making money on their money.
Stay safe and avoid large crowds while grocery shopping:)
Online courses I've taken have been much better than in-person courses.

Online courses have several advantages:

1) The lecturer can prepare a video, refine it, and have others review it before it makes it to the students. Errors can be corrected and annotations can be added.

2) Quizzes, tests, and projects can be effectively randomized to dissuade cheating (see coursera courses).

3) Other resources can be linked directly in the material.

4) Written information for the courses can be intermixed with video lectures.

5) Asking questions is easy and doesn't disrupt the rest of the class.

6) You learn at your own rate.

Most of my more challenging courses at university (math and engineering) did not have any discussion anyway, and the instruction was extremely poor. If Khan Academy or Coursera had existed at the time, I'd have done much better using those courses than learning from my actual professors.
It's interesting. From the GPU and the remainder of the configuration (2 USB-C ports), the two cheaper models seem to be the same as the 2019 MacBook Pro, but with the fixed keyboard plus double the SSD storage for the same price. If this is the case, then the CPU/GPU are even weaker than the mid-2018 4 USB-C ports model.

Which raises the question, why would anyone (who doesn't care about the Touch Bar) buy the 1499 MacBook Pro and not the 1499 MacBook Air? The Air is slower in multi-core benchmarks, but offers double the SSD at that price (512GB), has 3733‑MHz LPDDR4 memory, and has a more power-efficient 10th generation CPU, AVX-512, and probably better GPU.
I no longer care about removable batteries. I finally recycled my 2011 MacBook Air late last year, after 8 years of hard service doing development work on the go. The battery had half of what it once had, but the CPU and Ram could no longer keep up.

Removable batteries were more important back when batteries sucked, now they last the life of the machine.
Yeah, that's the stupid part about tech specs honestly--so many hidden caveats--I always thought it was interesting that Apple benchmarks usually outperform competitors when comparing similar hardware, usually to things like this.

Mostly annoyed now, because you are correct, it's running at 15W[0][1].

[0] https://imgur.com/a/ry5eAIy

[1] source for [0] (pg 11) https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/xps-13-7390-2-in-1-laptop_se...
Use UV-C air cleaners to kill all airborne virus and bacteria in each closed office. Very inexpensive. Look for HEPA air cleaners.

Conference rooms, and lunchrooms can have a personal UV-C air cleaner quietly blowing sterile air at each face.

Closed offices are healthier and much more productive. Employees deserve the increased floor space cost - especially outside urban cores.
The Apple list is shorter because you ignored nearly all of the differentiating features enabled by the Apple ecosystem. You also ignored many of the non-obvious details of the Mac hardware.
Don't rabbits die if they are infected with tularemia? Is there actually a correlation between temperature and tularemia spreading in rabbits? It seems incredibly rare.

I can see there are more cases in humans during warmer months, but that is probably due to insects that are the most common disease vector, no?
I don't want to disagree with most of what you are saying, but this is where I can always tell the majority of HN hasn't started a non-tech, low skill business before (restaurants, sales, salons, construction, etc). Your workers consistently put you in bad positions. People will call out for no reason, no shows are frequent. Sometimes you just get people that completely disappear. That's fine in the tech world where most of our deadlines and time estimates are made up anyways, but when you have one of your line cooks or stylists or sales rep fail, to show on a busy Saturday it can be disastrous if you don't have the good will of another one of your employees covering.

Seriously, next time you get a chance, talk to your local restaurant manager, construction manager, barber shop owner or sales manager, they all say the same things: how difficult it is to find good workers. (and "good" here is a pretty low bar: show up when you are scheduled on time)
LPDDR4 (X) is a thing...
Oracle and SAP have products that touch niche areas of businesses. Oil company with complex shipping and receiving looking for accounting software? Global metal foundry who needs to track raw materials to finished goods and forecast everything? SAP and Oracle can sell your VP overly complex products for almost anything.

For the DB, corporate executives types feel much more comfortable choosing Oracle or IBM. It usually bites them in the ass down the road due to licensing or support costs.
Excellent point, thank you!

There are also the u"u-strings" which were reintroduced to reduce the workload when converting the Python 2 programs; unfortunately they forgot to do the same for the relatively common (at least when defining regular expressions) ru"ru-strings" and ur"ur-strings"...
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On top of that, my org folder is under version control, very useful if you somehow manage to lose all your devices (very unlikely but... the Tao of backup you know http://www.taobackup.com/)
I have an older XPS 13 with a glass screen (same design but previous generation) and one big annoyance is that every time you open the laptop, the screen will have grease marks across the centre where the keys have touched the glass while closed.