skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consolidate on something, at least. Here are the connectors to devices purchased from Apple in the past 12 months:

Beats Studio headphones: micro-USB (for serious, Apple?)

Beats Powerbeats Pro: Lightning

iPad Pro: USB-C

iPhone XS (a little more than 12 months ago): Lightning

See a pattern there? Yeah, me neither. I might as well have purchased them from separate vendors. And Lightning at this point isn't even a standard within Apple, it's just some jackass proprietary shit you have to buy special cables for.
i don't get your point. are the direct offspring of a wealthy person more at risk or less at risk than that wealthy person's community?
Mine did too occasionally also had other issues (like random wakes and not returning to sleep), but the upgrade to 15.4 fixed everything.
Ask HN: How long did it take your SaaS to reach 2K MRR? 10k? 20k?
Is there anything you'd do differently in hindsight to speed up that process?
You're missing the point. People don't want "nothing" up there, they want the keys that belong there.

It's great that it doesn't bother you, but some of us use those keys.

It have an easy solution, though... I just won't buy one.
Well, you could if it worked, but it doesn't, so you can't :-)
Nice to see someone standing up. I have a hard time understanding how developers with options to move to different companies ethically justify working for companies like Amazon, Facebook, Oracle or Walmart.
Minor correction, racism does not have to be systemic in order to qualify as racism:

> prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior
What do you expect, you delusional borderline psychopath. You have zero empathy, apparently. Why wouldn't they do things like that? They barely make enough to live. The whole system has told them they are barely worth anything. Why would they behave? Why are 2/3 of workers even decent, is the real question.
As a bystander species, I support this argument.
Not much incentive - the logo is essentially free advertising.
As cowpig has mentioned in another comment, I also doubt Tim would have trouble finding other opportunities if he wants to. However, as Tim says:

"The victims weren’t abstract entities but real people; here are some of their names: Courtney Bowden, Gerald Bryson, Maren Costa, Emily Cunningham, Bashir Mohammed, and Chris Smalls."

What about these people that were fired? When people get fired for whistle blowing, what does that mean for their future job prospects? Does it severely hurt your chances at a faang?

As a PhD student of color guided by a moral compass who has to make employment decisions soon, this is an important question for me.
Composable Architecture – Swift with composition, testing and ergonomics in mind
As a exclusive emacs user for the last 20 years, I'm quite excited; my main complain about emacs is its slow down with some more sophisticated packages. I wonder if it improves magit performance with large codebases.

Pigs fly just fine with with enough thrust.
> This trope started reaching fever pitch during the first wave of OSS commercialization hype/fervor in 98. It wasn’t true then and I see no evidence it is any more true today.

It is not. And I know of several major banks leaving oracle "en masse" because of licensing nightmare. The major decision makers are now endangered by their choice of oracle as a database to consider. Oracle in a new project is now a firm NO.

Regarding HA, active/passive and failover is enough for 99% of the use cases.
For the rest you'd need citus or patroni, but it's totally manageable.
I'd be quite dismissive of an architect who suggests oracle if there are no extreme availability requirements.
I'd also prefer a galera or an innodb cluster for active/active architectures.

Let's face it: oracle database is dying an its niche is shrinking.
That's where "content is king" and search engine basics come to rescue. If search engine does its job well, high quality content will always turn up before low quality ones. If a programming article turned up on page-1, then it shouldn't matter whether it was written by someone with or without knowledge gap?
I worked with a gas station chain and they had a similar approach. They cumulatively lost thousands of dollars from cashiers stealing from the registers, but I guess it was less than having to pay them more? They usually recouped the stolen money through store surveillance, but still, it was a surprisingly high amount of time and effort; I figure an easier solution would be just to pay people more.

Now working with grocery stores, they commonly tell me how difficult it is to find cashiers. Pre-COVID, I was at one, and they had 10+ cashier openings, and no applicants.
A simple example would be something like predicate pushdown:

with mycte as (
select a, count(b)
from foo
group by a
)
select *
from mycte
where a = 10;

There is enough information in the statement to plan it as

with mycte as (
select a, count(b)
from foo
where a = 10;
group by a
)
select *
from mycte;

Before, Postgres would have computed the aggregate for all values of `a`.
>I'm fortunate to have a solid WFH environment at home

I feel this is pretty important. I am only renting a room (not making FAANG money) and as such quarantine has me spending nearly 24 hours a day in my bedroom. I can't follow the standard advice of maintaining a separate space for work
Yes. It's the moments when you're carefully editing something really important... precisely pasting some line into a new location... you double and triple checked that everything is right.... and then BOOM your window is gone and replaced by some other app, or a control panel or... some weird thing happens and you're not sure what.

It's ridiculous.
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I'm not saying that it is wrong - experiments and data to date seem to mostly validate our current theories etc - I'm just trying to point out that it's not inconceivable that we might not have a 100% correct theory and that that the parts that we're incorrect on could lead to possibilities that we would otherwise consider inconsistent (within our current understanding).

I'm sure that historically, scientifically minded folks who believed in whatever they thought they knew at the time considered some aspects of their "knowledge" to be incontrovertible given how overwhelmingly the evidence until then seemed to support their theories - until it didn't.

There's not a reasonable reason to expect that we have arrived at the ultimate understanding of most things such that most if not all new discoveries will only be refinements; the evidence until now has shown that that approach to science has been incorrect for basically most of history.
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My wife bought a MacBook Air last year, and the row of function keys with Touch ID sensor at the end is perfect. I'm so jealous, and hope they add the option to get that keyboard layout on the next iteration of the MBP.
This is true for simple services. It's different when you're dealing with something like a Cassandra or Elasticsearch cluster, where the system isn't stateless and scaling up takes some time for re-balancing.
I swear on my Apple ][ (which had the stiffer spring under reset) you had to press ctrl at the same time. Mine had an after-marked Videx keyboard controller though, and maybe that was a feature of that controller?

edit: indeed, yes it was:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Enhancer_II_Installation_a...

I forgot how amazing this controller was:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Enhancer_II_Installation_a...

It had macros:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Enhancer_II_Installation_a...
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I worked there in 2004. Fired for insubordination. My team was harassed by the VP of QA, he was soon also fired, just to prove that I was indeed onto something in my whistleblowing. Larry something, can't remember. One of those super two-faced goofballs.

Amazon culture then? It was sad. Workers are pawns. The dreams of the Internet startup culture dashed and dying. I was on the team w the first Infosys flood.

Amazon is a place to make money. That's it. It's a strict military hierarchy like all US corporations. No real culture of betterment for humanity. Quite the opposite. Yes, those that got and kept their options possibly doing very well. Yes, if tech is what you live for, yippee! A better future for all of humanity: strong "no!". Stormtroopers and low flying helicoptors for any that dare organize.

Didn't you see the HR video where a plastic Jeff spews all the corporate lies and BS? Made me sick back when. I was an idealist. You were probably spared the worst and protected, given the humanist version on the surface.

There's a culture of trying to get rid of people after a few years. Not many make it over the 3-5 years mark, right? Policy of "fire the bottom 10%" thing every year, so trump up some lies to have excuses.

Anyways, better you got out before the rot set into your heart. No idealists there. The top guy is obviously quite extraordinary. Thanks for making a statement. Maybe something will break one day.

Whistleblowing needs to be kept alive. It's our only hope.
I think technology certainly is a key to a more 'Utopian' (desirable) society. The underlying problem is how we leverage the technology.

If technology is simply used to displace and concentrate wealth and power through private ownership without adequately sharing the benefits of growth in technology with everyone (reduced labor, more free time to pursue personal goals, etc.) then yes, it absolutely isn't helping (basically the situation we have now).

Can a Star Trek like economy ever exist? I'd love to be apart of one, but it seems unlikely given many underlying human behaviors.
That's a fair point but this is for my family photos and videos; in the event I die I'd rather the S3 bucket I hand over to my wife/kids in my last wishes look like a real filesystem rather than a bazillion blobs that require a special tool with a programmer's expertise to reassemble
Why pay them more when you can offer some of what they're stealing as a benefit for working there. It's probably a lot cheaper and creates goof faith.
To be fair though, if you're working at Oracle or Comcast in particular you're probably not under any delusions about their ethics or morality. ;P
Ask HN: Is there a list of educational resources that are free during Covid?
Just as the title says. I am looking for a list of all the online courses or educational sites that are offering free (or discounted) pricing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

I searched GitHub for Awesome Lists but didn't find any comprehensive or updated one.
He did go through the proper channels:

"At that point I snapped. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. I think I made them to the appropriate people. ¶

That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned."
Im curious what happens when my employer says its time to come back into the office and I just say no, don't show up, but keep working.
I'm not suggesting either, just that hoarding resources for your immediate family does not sound as altruistic or venerable as hoarding resources for "your community."
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Show HN: Puzzle Tradr – A classifieds website to trade puzzles
Before I dive in, I wanted to wish everyone well during these tough times. I hope you and those closest to you are all staying healthy and safe.

Hi Hacker News! I'm a first time Show: HN poster here with a lightweight MVP for trading puzzles.

Given the amount of time we are all spending indoors and with puzzle sales through the roof, I thought it would be useful to build a classifieds site for trading puzzles locally or across states in the US. It is mainly inspired by friends and family who post puzzles on their Instagram stories non-stop and this NPR article: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0....

I've tried to keep things as simple as possible for this initial launch - stripping out a lot of functionality from the Classima WordPress theme. My hope is that I can gauge interest and gather some tangible feedback before sinking more time into it.

If you're curious about the under the hood stuff and costs, check out the info below:
- WordPress 5.4.1 (hosted on SiteGround). $0.99/month for the first 3 months!
- Classima theme (Classified Listing PRO). $40
- Google Domains. $12
- Logo from Hatchful by Shopify. Free

Huge shoutout to my sister and buddy Alvin for their time spent testing/giving feedback. And of course, my girlfriend for her encouragement and push to get it out as soon as possible.

I'm all ears for constructive feedback or improvements, so please let me know what you think :)
If Kmart paid their employees more, people would shop at Walmart.

And they did. Sears paid their employees very well, and consumers rewarded sears by shopping at their new competitors that offered lower prices.
But meat is sooo good, and there's nothing else even close, that I'm willing to pay more for it. I'd rather see the supply chain issues worked on, even if it just means more expensive meat. Going meatless is like cutting of the nose to spite the face.
> compilation to native code, graphical debugger.

You have this on postgresql.

> RAC and distributed transactions across a database cluster

Needed only in telcos where galera would be enough
Yeah, from what folks are saying here it seems I made a mistake using Glassdoor for the analysis. In the future, if I do something like this again, I'll probably use Levels.fyi or something else.
That's some... creative usage of the verb "electrocute", which implies death.

That said, I did feel the electric current when the 2012MBP was not grounded, but the 2017 model does not have the same problem.
It might be this issue https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1724323#p1724323
We are adopting go-MySQL-server, SQL execution engine that powers Dolt
I literally just bought a new 13" macbook pro. It arrived just a few days ago! Do anyone know if they have any type of exchange service or am i stuck with the one a bought?
Some of the instructions are worded weirdly, almost like they were auto-generated or mostly copy-pasted.
Yep! Alternatively, perhaps new physics would allow for what appears to be "time travel" but in reality is not (travel between the present here and a different "time" in a remarkably similar but parallel universe).
No one who runs a business that hires multiple employees can reasonably call themselves lower middle class.

Showing my work:

> My parents treated the workers well, paid them fairly[1]

>His salary was lower than my mom’s. Not lower than the workers.

Let X be a fair wage, Y be your dad's wage and Z be your mom's wage.

Then Z>Y>X, so Z+Y>2X. Any household that makes more than twice a "fair wage" is not lower middle class (many lower middle class people don't even make 1x a fair wage).
I've run across a couple of cases where the "depends on" part seems to intermittently fail. That is, the implementation seems to end up with a race. That presumably means that the dependencies were specified incorrectly, but getting it right seems to be quite difficult. Or, conceivably, it's a bug in systemd, but debugging that is a lot harder than debugging a couple of tiny shell scripts.

I'm not necessarily a "remainer" on the subject of systemd, but I think it's not correct to sell it as a huge win on simplicity. Maybe it is simple when everything goes right. When it doesn't, though, systemd is fairly nasty to deal with.
I believe you still pay Cloudflare costs, but the traffic between Cloudflare and B2 is free on both platforms. But it might be worth double-checking the fine print.
> Amazon has thusfar had far less scrutiny.

Are you quite serious?
> babel included a picture of Guy Feiri for a while...

I refuse to believe that there are real people so eager to jump on the JS hate bandwagon that they unironically believed every word of an obviously satirical article.

(babel has never included a picture of Guy Fieri.)
I worked at a major pizza chain in high school. One of the assistant managers would use his access to update his time sheet so that his login time was 12 hours off from his real login time. So if he logged in at 4pm, he would update it to really be 4am. At first glance his clock in times would look correct, but he was stealing 12 hours of wages. This went on for months before he was caught and fired.

That was the biggest thing I saw. There was a TON of smaller theft in the form of drivers faking customer complaints so that the order was freed out, even though the driver had been paid cash for the order.
I've had good luck on big (multi-GB) SQL dumps, which often have very long lines, with

https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
You seem to think you can't clap if you're annoyed. That's not true.

My sister is on the frontline. She's just finished a bunch of night shifts in an ITU as a HCA so I'll text her later, and if it's anything like recent weeks she will be exhausted, scared and frustrated.

She will be exhausted because there aren't enough staff.

She will be scared because she is working with Covid-19 +ive patients and is a single parent - she notes on ITU that PPE supply is actually OK, it's when she gets shifts on general wards it becomes more of a lottery.

She is frustrated because politics, economics and healthcare have collided in horrible ways in the last 25 years or so in the UK that has left us very much on the back foot in our ability to deal with a sudden emergency.

She won't be alone in those feelings. There isn't a nurse or doctor in the country who doesn't experience those things in some measure at least some - if not most - of the time.

The first time the clapping happened, she cried. It was recognition of thanks for the tiredness, fear and frustration that she and her colleagues go through.

It's OK to be pissed off at the Tories AND clap. It's not mutually exclusive.

The problem is when we are asked to be pissed off OR clap, and we choose to clap, and then trot down to the polling station and ask for "more of the same please!"

We need to remember this at the ballot box. If you clap and you then vote for this shower of pillocks, well, you'll go to the grave aware of your hypocrisy, and let's just hope the NHS is still there to make it as painless as possible.

This Thursday go out and clap. If you have kids, get them to paint a rainbow.

And then vote when you get the chance.
It's small scale manufacturing for communities, I am doing this work in India where it can help quality of life of people who are not aware about mechanism/machines which can improve their productivity and safety.
Thanks for the note! I suspect the issue with those sites is that (as far as I know) they don't offer data on European and Canadian salaries which I wanted for this particular comparison. Feel free to correct me though!
when I worked stateside I knew a co-worker who had an auto-immune disorder and required medication which was heavily subsidized by his workplace insurance. Without it he would be in financial hardship. He was interested in moving into Machine learning and data science (he was a software developer by profession) and asked me for advise. I told him frankly he just needs to quit and learn the material, that's when I learned that was impossible for him to do that. (I was on my way out the door anyway by that time).

This was a at a medium size traditional corp along the metro-north line of coast of Connecticut. By all accounts and my own experience was a pretty good place to work, with minimal (but some) scum baggery, good but not FAANG level salaries and excellent healthcare benefits.
I can confirm this, having first hand experience with it. We hired many low-skill workers at a big tech company that you've heard of about ten years ago. These workers received a couple of weeks of training, and then were set to do a rather simple, menial, repetitive job.

These workers didn't sell products, but did very low level tech work, but the entire operation was mired in drama. For example, we had a strict no drugs policy, and no weapons policy on campus, zero tolerance. So, say that one of your employees comes up crying that she is getting fired because she did heroin during work hours, and she needs to money for her unborn child (this happened!), or a guy gets angry at being fired because he was pulling out his new .45 from his waistband to show his cubicle neighbors. We had a LOT of this stuff, and as a result, many zero tolerance policies.

It's difficult to understand how many hard living, disadvantaged people there are in this country, even in wealthy areas like the Bay Area of CA, who bring their rough living to work with them. What do you do as an employer? Do you tolerate this to be friendlier to the employees, and someone gets killed, making you liable? Do you come down like a hardass and dehumanize them even more, but cover your butt? Neither choice is good, but it's the latter that usually happens.
I am not going to defend that particular guy. I am surely not going to take this kind of advice from generic Joe Doe.

But here is the example that comes out of Chief Public Health Officer of Canada: "Canada's top doctor told CBC News the federal government could have made earlier efforts to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from sweeping across the country — but moves to close borders and screen travellers for the illness sooner might not have made much of a difference."

This might not have made much of a difference really got me. What if it did make effin' difference. When this kind of argument is presented by top health official with top credential I do not even know what to think. Ok the CBC could've misquoted/misrepresented her point of view but then where is the correction?
Cubicle groups are either fed from a whip coming out of the wall, or the whip coming out of a poke-thru device. It’s a single connection point, and the devices can be snap-in for ease of installation.

Power poles are less common, but still used sometimes. It costs less for open area lighting vs lighting an office.

You can buy decent cubes for $2000, with full-height walls.

I’m not a fan of working in an open office layout, fwiw.
This leads me to several points:

1. What if AUS and NZ are doing fairly well because their population just megadosed on vitamin D as they just had their summer.
2. The same could be said for sunny california, but to a lesser extent
2. What if this is the reason why African Americans are particularly hard hit. Americans are typically Vitamin D deficient. Blacks, especially so.
3. What if closing the beaches is will make this worse, not better.
Do you have any USB-C hubs attached to it? It happened to me, and it stopped when I switched hubs (tried over 4 of them)
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