skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well put. I tried the new 16" keyboard, and while its way better than my 2018 MBP, its still not good enough. Chasing thinness really just seems to be something a select few wanted. As the name implies, I wanted a "Pro" laptop that had high spec processing, ram and storage. What I got is a laptop that doubles as a lap warmer, white noise generator, and user hostile to OS environments other than MacOS. So now I have a mid spec Surface Pro for development, and use the macbook for more creative type endeavors. I wish I could find a way to extract the keyboard from this surface and put it in my macbook. That would make me less annoyed by the heat and fan while running windows.
Something curiously missing from HN threads about uni is the social aspect. I consider my social experience in uni, from living with other students (instead of mom and dad) to studying abroad for a year, just as if not more valuable than the academics, and a major catalyst for finding what I wanted out of life.

There's a lot more to life than credentializing for wage slavery.
I hope your MBP remains that way. I have a 13” 2018 MBP myself and felt similarly up until a week ago.

After evading all the issues that have plagued the butterfly-switched keyboards, I started seeing my “e” key repeating itself every so often.

I made the relevant changes in settings to minimize this, but I’m now seeing occasional repeats on both the “e” key and the “i” key (maybe once every 30 presses). Livable, but it worries me.

I think I’m going to look into their keyboard repair program later today
I was in my photography class and my magsafe cable was tripped about four times in one day. Crazy.
The contemporary Behaim globe had a rather narrow ocean, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel
We have several companies using it for tens of thousands of their customer sites. It's the only server we know of that can handle hundreds of thousands of certificates efficiently!
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Prices are in CAD, but that doesn't mean that the number that follows the dollar sign is the same. It's typical to see a $15 USD book sell for $25 CAD.
I had the same setup, but the 2015 MBP died. Repair shop said it was the touchpad, then touchpad ribbon. neither fixed it.

2020 MBP 16 "feels" the same just a little faster.
I imagine it can't (that would be way too good, everybody would be using it already). I also don't think there are many examples of supercomputers with diverse ISAs today.

But a system like this is a requisite for non-uniform computers to exist. Thus it must exist without the other, at least for a while.
That's not necessarily true. You can run X as user. You can run X locally and run the app on remote server using local X server over SSH tunnel using SSH keys.

I do this about as frequently as I need to install something on remote server that has graphical installer. Not sure why people think thought this is a good idea but a huge amount of commercial software in 2000s had that kind of installation process.
It reminds me a moment three years ago, when I asked Dropbox to make their API similar to Google Drive, as they basically provide the same service. https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-api-spec/issues/3#issueco...

It is just awful to see, how everyone tries to reinvent the wheel and not to be compatible with anyone else.
No gateway - native code written from scratch and optimized for our environment...sitting on top of regular, inexpensive hardware.
Their durability is eleven 9's - 99.999999999%
That's the same as Amazon S3.
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/218485257-B2-Re...
I'm still surprised that so many people are stuck on the Escape key but it's probably no surprise that the ones that are stuck are all developers using vi or emacs. I love the Touch Bar and had no problem adjusting/remapping and find the utility of the Touch Bar for video and audio editing to be invaluable now. I wasn't sold on it before but, over the last year or so, I'll be really disappointed if they remove it. Adding the escape key back seems like a good compromise for both parties, imho.
Started using Caddy because of OOTB ssl support which literally took 5m setup in container.

Have been running Caddy in production for a year with no issues and much rejoice over my 3 loc config which I can literally memorize.

All praise to Caddy's devs gj
Sure thing. How would you say the ability to wage free, self-fueled defamation campaigns (who bored people on the internet carry out for you) or things like false harassment / even worse (touchy topic, I do not say this lightly) false rape accusations are any different from the unilateral power to imprison (physically imprison, as in yes real jail ...maybe sans the torture) - just like you said?

Better yet, in the good interest of being my own devil's advocate, what would you say is an equivalent for this on the other side of the gender coin flip? I want to be very clear about the above: shitty people will be shitty people regardless of race / gender / religion, nor do I imply this happens often. But the massive imbalance of opportunity is already there is my point.
> People see that I've been a manager, and don't want me on their team because I'll try to take it over

Oh yeah, this has changed 180º in the last ten years. My experience in startups since, say, 2013, is that development teams are expected to be 90% self-managing. Managers spend their time doing recruiting and high-level meetings and spend maybe an hour or two a day trying to stay in touch with what their team is doing.

Confusion with the product team? Quality issue with a junior developer? Something gets postponed and you need to decide what to do next? Developers are expected to take care of this stuff amongst themselves. Managers get informed and maybe consulted, and of course have authority to intervene, but the traditional day-to-day responsibilities of management now belong to the senior members of the team. My recent managers have attended planning meetings with devs so they have an idea what their team is doing and are available to answer questions about priorities and help with tough calls, but they're happiest if the team handles everything without them so they can concentrate on big-picture work.

For someone like me who entered the industry twenty years ago, it feels like we're doing our manager's job for them, but it's the new normal.
I mean, Whole Foods wasn’t small before Amazon bought them. They’ve gotten bigger, no doubt, but they weren’t exactly a neighborhood coop either.
> This is maybe a radical argument, but I make it in good faith; if your business can only exist by paying workers at or below poverty wages, and/or enacting dehumanizing controls, it probably shouldn't exist.

Yeah, I agree, but I think another false general assumption people might make is "every retail or food service job is minimum wage" and that every owner is just shortchanging their workers to pay themselves more. That isn't the case across the board.

Best Buy doesn't pay minimum wage, heck even when I started there as a part time computer tech in 2002 I was paid $9.50/hr. That being said with the 1 year $80/share price they can damn well afford to pay more.

My friend who owns the pizza business pays more than his franchise based competitors, he has employees who have worked for him for years because of this. So he's not paying close to minimum wage but the "meta market" for a pizza keeps his prices in a certain range. As I mentioned in a below comment there are other market forces at work here (e.g., a national franchise has buying power for food price reductions, etc).

So knowing his very loyal customer base, if he had to increase prices to support extra cost, they'd probably stay to a certain extent, but maybe that results in less employees or hours. Who knows.

> If you're worried about the job loss or availability of services caused by such a position, there a whole sea of political and socioeconomic thought on how to solve that. It's probably beyond the current conversation.

Yeah, that's my whole point. Any legislation that increases wages has a disproportionate impact based on your business, and SBA says small business makes up 48% of jobs[0].

But like you said, the conversation is a level up from this.

[0]: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-...
Yup, that's the basic idea. If you ever wished you could use the cp command on an entire os, that's basically what docker lets you do. If that's not a thing that's useful to you (for example because you already have a reproducible build, or because you want to be principled about understanding how your system components fit together instead of shrugging and copy-pasting the environment that works but nobody is quite sure how), you probably don't need docker.
New COVID-19 lab opened in Nigeria with a capacity of 400 tests per day
Can you please stop putting "Excerpt" in your comments like that? It's enough to use quotation marks or ">" or some other visual marker to show what you're quoting.

The trouble with the way you're doing it is that it signals that the entire comment is an excerpt, and since you've done it a bunch of times, that makes your account look like a single-purpose account or a bot, neither of which are allowed here. I was going to post a totally different reply asking you not to do those things, and then I noticed that actually you're posting normal replies with a nonstandard header.
Not just because manager quality can’t be guaranteed, but because when you have 10,000+ employees, the odds that some are fired and subsequently make a false discrimination claim are high — and you need a lot to deal with that.

Look at how Amazon is treated: with nearly a million workers, a few dozen complaining is enough for major media outlets to broadcast that they’re a bad employer.

Can you point to any employer where 1 in 10,000 workers doesn’t have a bad experience?
Inkscape 1.0
That's seems to be the case most 3d printed contraptions. Extrude a framework, and the populate it with a bunch of traditionally manufactured parts, but then call it a revolution.

It's a disappointing pattern, but somewhat understandable given the state of the technology.
Can you use process substitution?

b2 upload_file bucket <(tar -cj huge-directory) archive.tar.bz2

The argument the command sees will be something like "/dev/fd/42", and the shell will provide the output of tar through that file.
I somewhat remember the Caddy team having a history of shady behavior: advertisements in headers, hostility towards contributors, telemetry you have to opt-out of. Has any of this changed or has it become worse?
I am not convinced that the protests were attempts to unionize or that the law is clear that on if these firings at Amazon were illegal.
Hacker Bribed 'Roblox' Insider to Access User Data
I suppose, I was just more referring to the parent's usage of public fax machines at local stores as being safe for sensitive information. The attack vector might be smaller, but if he's choosing public locations to make sensitive faxes believing it's totally safe, that's not entirely true. The owner of the fax machine, employees in the store and possibly other customers may have access to this info.
I wanted one because on paper it looked great for my needs.

But it turns out the CPU has passive cooling and the case fan needs to work very hard to keep it cool. At least the i5 model which is the one I was considering. I don't know about the i3.
Completely anecdotal.

It's possible some Amazon Warehouses are run better than others. A friend who recently got a job (5 weeks ago) at one of Amazons warehouses (NJ/NYC area) has only praise for the way things are run. They take his temperature 3 times a day, provide a mask, constantly monitor social distancing, clean washrooms every hour, enforce social distancing in any break rooms, work areas, etc. He says it's never an issue with breaks, lunch, etc. He has mentioned that they encourage him to keep an eye out for other positions he might have an interest in since he is eligible (after 30 days)to apply (he has some skills that can be more useful to Amazon).

I was always under the assumption from what I have read that Amazon was a sweat shop. It seems that at least his facility is run very well.
If https://healthcareinamerica.us/what-makes-bats-the-perfect-h... is accurate:

* variable body temperature (they heat when they fly)
* many species roost very closely in large numbers
* weird immune system traits (they have very fast metabolisms, so they present an odd environment for pathogens)
That sounds relatively fantastic. I interviewed with a few larger companies many years ago that had a similar thing. Each "pod" (or scrum team, or what have you) had an office with a door that closed, semi-private cubes within, their own collaboration space, and autonomy over much of their environment.

Interestingly, all of these companies ran outmoded spec and dev waterfall processes. And every truly agile place I've worked at or experienced has been everyone in an open room on each other's nerves. Weird correlation!
Is protection against fraudulent advertising, poisonous food, products, and "medicine" being used to eliminate political enemies? If so, is it not worth it to limit the ability to lie to prevent the massive ensuing harm?
> it is a decision we're all empowered to make

It isn't. Taking a job that will pay off your child's college costs vs taking a job that will leave them saddled with the debt is not an 'empowered' choice.
> the weak

well, there you have it. you're labeling a solid billion people (more?) as weak, ergo deserving of their fate. that is about as circular as it gets.
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Caddy 2 is a fresh new server experience. Some things might take getting used to, like having every site served over HTTPS unless you specify http:// explicitly in your config. But in general, it will feel familiar to v1 in a lot of ways. If you've used v1 before, I recommend going into v2 with a clean-slate using our Getting Started guide: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started

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This is the original announcement I'm aware of:

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/12/less-secure-app...
I don’t understand your comment in the context of this thread.
Fear of lawsuits related to copying APIs may also be a factor.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America
I play Tetris on a Game Boy Classic quite often (on "hardcore" mode, starts from level 19), it's an absolutely timeless game, I use the same cartridge that I've owned for ~30 years now and it still works flawlessly :-)
Comparing the Covid-19 Incarceration Model to Real-World Outbreaks
"Why should we focus on those 'disadvantaged' people? My life is hard, too."
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Building product : Radio For Babies. (just fun)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpExyHapRPU
Even if the consensus rules accept any passport public key certified by a government, how would this cope with revoked passports? Or worse yet, with a revoked government certificate signing key?

This idea goes against the decentralized, trustless and permissionless nature of cryptocurrencies.
My contemporary example since quarantine started is exactly Amazon. Have you tried the e-commerce experience ANYWHERE else? Haha.

I tried ordering things from Home Depot for instance (I have extra time on my hands, might as well fix up the house). If it's not available in store, they quoted week+ shipping time.

Amazon had it to me in 3-4 days.

Obviously Home Depot had little to no incentive to do better shipping until now.
By fully vested I meant the initial 4 years, which is the package you usually get when joining a tech company. Given his caliber I bet it was a fat one. Add to that the run the stock had in the last 5 years. At his age and with his wealth, it's not unlikely he has been considering leaving regardless.
$2k for an i5? No thanks. I can max out a HP Spectre x360 with an i7, 16GB, 4K OLED touchscreen, and 2TB NVMe and come in under $1900. Plus its lighter, has better battery life, better cameras, and a better keyboard. Get it with just the 256GB NVMe, and I can pare that down to $1570.

https://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/spectre-x360-211501--1
Almost certainly the other way around. The most useful measure is "excess deaths" -- those are simply the statistical "excess" of deaths we are currently experiencing compared with the average at this time in years past, and are uninfluenced by diagnoses, coroners, politicians, etc.

Here are some good state-by state graphs [1], and here's a country-wide graph [2]

By any measure, our "excess deaths" since February have spiked enormously, and significantly more than the current official Covid death count.

Some may be due to hospitals overflowing preventing other care. But it's pretty clearly all Corona-related.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronaviru...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/exc...
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We also have a region in Europe:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...
No, you'd probably need some Javascript.

But why not this: publish the blog post the normal way and configure the web server to only serve it to people with a proper username/password (HTTP Basic Authentication).

All browsers and web servers let you do that.

For Apache, see this example: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html#au...
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> Those are all pro worker.

Not neccessarily.

> Increased tariffs, renegotiated trade deals (increased tariffs)

Given the current situation where most production is offshored, this only hurts consumers in the short and middle term as there literally is no production capacity for most of the stuff that is produced in China (and other offshore countries), so the tariffs will be passed on 1:1 to consumers. To properly incentivize local production, tariffs would have to be so high that sum(offshore cost + tariffs) at least equals sum(cost of local production + extra cost of compliance with environmental regulation).

> attempting to tighten immigration

Did you ever look at which jobs have the most demand for immigrant (both legal and illegal) labor? It's mostly back-breaking labor: farms, hotels and bars, construction sites, medical (nurses and their unqualified helper staff). If tighter immigration would work out to help local workers, then Germany would not face a severe shortage of nurses or of farm workers or the UK a shortage of just about anything. The farmers complain "we can't get local labor as they're unwilling/unproductive or don't apply at all", but they never bothered to rise wages and working conditions (have you ever seen reports about what they call "housing" for the Romanian and other Eastern European slave workers?)... in the end, the "(illegal) immigration is killing our jobs" whine is only bullshit, it's underpayment that kills the jobs.

> lowering taxes on repatriation of cash

The mega-rich don't use that cash even when it is repatriated, at least not in ways that benefit the employees who made the riches in the first place! The only way I'd accept tax lowerings on cash repatriation is when said cash is at least partially redistributed to the employees.
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When I switched from mechanical engineering to software engineering people would ask me how the switch went, and I would tell them it was like I became a new class of citizen. The pay was better, I didn't get drug tested anymore, management was friendly, the rules were lax.

This made a lot of people uncomfortable (software engineers didn't want to acknowledge the privilege they've been living with and non-software folks interpreted it as bragging). I think it must be pretty tough to understand the gap unless you've been in both.
You can somewhat fix the macOS Magit perf problem --- at least the Aquamacs one --- by patching the vfork in the source. Doing that took me from keystroke-lag speed to regular interactive speed (but I've since switched to railwaycat Emacs, which I don't think has the problem, though maybe I just don't notice it).
Google Summer of Code Student Projects
> My sense is that major universities doing online stuff have video production crews (from Communications etc) and everything is heavily edited and redone. It's more like a television show than anything else. Much more preplanning, and interactions with the students are much more structured.

For some large classes in certain universities, yes. In the rest it's a regular professor giving a live lecture who is now doing it over Zoom.

> Students will be back in the fall. The risks of returning do not approach the risks of not returning for most undergrad-age students.

Students aren't the only people on campus.
I think we all need to re watch the Office Space meeting with the Bobs!
Can you use a Twilio number for $1/mo or some other burner service?
All students and pupils are forming a chain where each promotion is expected to move up one year, replaced by the next promotion. There ain't a pause capability in the educational system, things MUST move forward every year at a define schedule. If anything, that's a good example of what a "deadline" is.

It can ignore a few months of disturbance, as demonstrated by long strikes or major events. It can't skip one cycle.
NWU researchers develop a throat-worn wearable that could offer early warnings
5 Classes of skin lesions associated with Covid-19
Why do I want the Emacs team reviewing libgit2 or Magit?
I think we are jaded to the point that we forget that 2 cores and 4 threads was the norm just five years ago.
I think that's what I was asking for, but I'm not the person you were replying to ^_^, they were taking a more hard-line stance that it should be part of libstd.

Side-note I really appreciate all the work you folks are doing. Rust has changed the way I write software even when I'm not writing Rust, which is about the highest praise I can offer.

I'd love to pitch in.
NHS Covid-19: the new contact-tracing app from the NHS
What should students who were planning on graduating and finding employment do?
AnyChart uses SVG, so it will be about the same place as Highcharts, but likely slower.
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Well... that's just like, your opinion, man.
The intellectually honest thing would be for colleges to give a prorated refund and make their case that the students (parents) donate it. Plus that would make it tax deductible.