skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have same model at work and even ignoring the keyboard the thing has been awful to use. The two ports are a complete nightmare making you have to juggle between power/screen and reliable storage (Tried 5 dongles, none can hold a drive reliably under heavy use).

Kernel Panics on waking from sleep almost every day, bluetooth chip crashes and requires restarts to get working again.

Not to mention the disgustingly low storage in the base model that my company thinks is fine makes the thing almost unusable for any semblance of "Professional" work other than being a journalist.

The design doesn't even feel modern and the bezels are janky compared to whats normal now on the windows side. I understand the new model fixes some of this, but they still thought this thing was absolutely fine to ship for several years now speaks volumes to me.
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It's strange that meat processing facilities in the US have been hard-hit by Covid-19.

These are places that have strict hygine standards during normal times, with employees wearing gloves and face masks as a matter of course. So you'd think they wouldn't be somewhere that diseases would spread easily.

This has also not been a significant issue in other countries hit by Covid-19, that I'm aware of. What is it about the USA's meat processors that have made them vunerable?
This is good. We need ecological solutions that don't involve killing bystander species, and this sounds like a good option.
I cannot agree more. At least for myself i would add MacOS as a huge plus over any other laptop. I know many people work in Linux but I just for the life of me cannot make it as comfortable as MacOS.
Malaria has been a big deal for the Gates Foundation for a long time. I recall reading discussions of his hope to breed, or maybe genetically modify, the relevant mosquitoes to make them incapable of carrying malaria, then manipulating the wild population to uptake the genetic change.

There's also this page: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do/global-health/mal...
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Electrical cables are untwisted, but they are also designed to handle a lot of current so the overwhelming majority would be fine. Unfortunately, ultra long distance power transmission cables are the exception.

The long term damage from that is significantly less than assumed. Yes, making ultra efficient transformers designed to last decades is extremely time consuming, but building something less efficient in under a week is also possible. There would likely be various electrical issues until they where replaced, but that’s vastly better than societal collapse.
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> I'd suggest working with or managing a place with low-skilled people. They of course aren't all like that but it seems it attracts low-motivation, low-effort, or low-caring.

As often as not, this is a failure of management. Of course no manager wants to admit to this. A great example is the turnaround at the NUMMI GM plant after drastic changes to the manufacturing process[1]. The same employees going from drinking on the job and creating tons of defects to a model of efficient manufacturing in North America.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010
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I'm not sure what AD has to do with the fact as root, you have a huge amount of power on ANY box and abusing it will get you fired. strace/ptrace is just another tool in that toolbox that you can use maliciously.

Your company either runs in a model where it trusts the employees or it doesn't. If it doesn't trust the employees they shouldn't be giving ANY of them root on a shared system.
The midwest has too many deer. Pretty much everyone acknowledges it, but what usually happens is that you get an argument about extra deer hunts vs birth control for the deer.

I'm not a hunter, but I think that most places in the midwest limit deer hunting to a bow season and a shotgun season, so at least you don't have the danger of people firing rifles all over the place.
The issue that I see is that the benefits of implementing something the "stupid" way (e.g. it's faster or easier to implement) are often enjoyed by different people than those who have to bear the associated future pain.
> Despite the small misunderstanding about which server to restart, the support was helpful and fast.

That's better than expected. We've had multiple occasions of waiting greater than 24 hours for any kind of response from their support team for tickets with priority: High.

Including 2 instances where they migrated VMs to new underlying host - thereby changing their IP addresses - without any kind of notification. Was only picked up by our monitoring setup letting us know something was badly broken.

It's the reason we're currently in the process of migrating everything away from Scaleway.

Should have done it sooner, but was hoping they'd get their stuff together. The dropping of ARM64 ended that hope.
A friend of mine created this one and hosts a half-day seminar every few months to go through how to use it (and what the numbers mean/why you may want to do different things).

I found the seminar quite useful and plan to use his model for our startup once we have enough data to make estimates for the inputs within an order of magnitude.

https://www.startupmodels.com
I've been feeling a lot more of this jank from MacOS than my other devices at this point. I have a 2017 15" MBPtb and a custom desktop that dualboots Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04.

Frustrations I've had to deal with in MacOs that have just not been pain points in other OSes (yeah, not even on Ubuntu):

* No DisplayPort MST support[1]. I spent a large chunk of money on a monitor that had MST so I could daisy chain across two monitors and charge my laptop all with one cable and no separate dock sitting on my desk. I was heartbroken to see that it JustWorks™ on Windows 10 using the MacBook or desktop, but not on MacOS. I ended up needing to buy another expensive dock and sacrifice some desk real estate.

* If you use bluetooth audio headsets, the sound balance randomly shifts to the right if you change volume while the CPU is under load[2].

* No built in window snapping or hotkeys is kind of ridiculous in 2020. Yeah, I have paid for apps like BetterTouchTool and Moom, but it's ridiculous that this is something users have to buy standalone. I often end up assisting coworkers on their machines, and it sucks when they don't have anything setup for snapping.

* Turning WiFI off and back on quickly sometimes results in the second action being ignored. That's such a ridiculous bug to still be there.

At this point, the only killer MacOS exclusive apps I still use are iTerm2 and Homebrew (and I guess XCode out of necessity for iOS/Mac target compilation). If Apple keeps on the trajectory they've been on, I feel like I'll shift away from MacBooks for my next machine.

[1]: https://medium.com/@sebvance/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...

[2]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/280145/macbook-pro...
Okay.
So today most desktop apps are electron.

The advantage is that it allows people to make windows, Mac and Linux apps with ease.

They're not going to go anywhere unless there is a better alternative.

Coding native is a waste of money in most cases. Especially for a chat app.

Hardware manufactures sell computers. The computers they sell need to be able to perform well on the applications that exist today.

There's no point saying the apps are shitty if the laptop they're trying to sell doesn't run well with it.

Maybe today laptops should have 16gb of ram at a minimum.

AMD's resurgence has shown Intel in some cases dropping the price of their CPUs by 50%. Maybe cheaper computers need to be more powerful.
I would add form factor in the comparison. Dell XPS 13 is smaller.
Worth considering capturing the keyboard input. I instinctively hit "delete" partway through to delete something I had clicked on and it took me back to HN and I lost my progress.
>Surprised? Statistics can be funny like that. Even very unlikely things happen all the time.
I would add the caveat that "when companies are growing" only applies to startups, and not traditional new businesses. If you are doubling your headcount every 3 months, then of course you can't set cultural norms, because there isn't enough time. If you have a lower rate of growth, then you can teach new hires the culture as they come in, and it gets passed on.
Just because you continue to use VGA, PS2, and FireWire doesn’t mean that everyone needs that. You have extremely niche needs, especially in a laptop, it’s utterly unsurprising that Apple won’t add the hardware to support them.
Having served, I can say pretty solidly that a huge chunk of the defense budget is pocket lining, contract padding, the DoD version of pork barreling, you name it.

The careful planning to ensure that every possible Congressional district gets a subcontract under the F-35 program is a blatant signal as to how this all operates.

The part of the DoD that actually gets things done despite the red tape, obstructionists, career ass sitters, grifters and outright thieves, has my eternal respect.

That our military manages to project power even though there are ten thousand competing agendas is a miracle of the modern day.

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For digital media, especially for kids, there are many better alternatives -- including ripping the DVDs, copying them to a MicroSD card and buying a cheap Fire tablet. But, Disney+, with an iPad ($329), and Apple Arcade (no ad ridden, play to win games) is a godsend for kids.

Why would I ask for dongle. I know plenty of sales people who live and die by adapters like these:
https://www.amazon.com/QGeeM-Adapter-Thunderbolt-Compatible-...)

You seem to want the equivalent of a Homermobile for laptops.
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Student/non-student is a high impedance mental model. High impedance when it comes to life-long learning because the student is always directed toward short term goals. Not just tonight's homework, the test next week and the required course. On the scale of adult life, even a four year degree is short.

But so much can be learned in four years. Years are the scale of life-long learning. Life-long learning means that sometimes life is going to get in the way. It will get in the way inevitably because we change as we grow and we didn't stop growing when we walked across the stage in a funny cap and baggy clothes.

With a bit of average luck there are sixty or seventy years of learning left and that's time to learn deeply and create things that elicit "How the hell did I do that?" when looking back five or ten years later. Good luck.
I use it. I wish I didn't need to.
Maybe it is because I always do 2-way sync folders, but I've used Syncthing for over 2 years now without ever having a hiccup.

I do take regular backups to Blu Ray optical disks 'just in case' but have yet to have need of them.
The integration with iOS/iMessages/keychain/homekit /FaceTime is extremely convenient for me. I don't mind paying extra for it, and I like that they have stores near me.
Any cloud email provider is going to have the same problem.
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You're right.

I've heard from reliable sources that this is actively being worked on.
Nothing in the announcement says it's novel, innovative, or created by Apple.

It says that it's new (as in a change for this model) and better for users.

Those two items, inverted-T arrows and an escape key, are very specific user complaint points about their keyboards since 2016.

Apple didn't get rid of them in some conspiracy to look like the good guys in 2020 after four years of user complaints.

Did you want Tim Cook to appear in a video groveling for forgiveness?
It is an improvement, but not as much as some people claim. The issue is you need to move your eyes/head too much.

If you have a wide or ultra wide monitor, it is better. Otherwise, a good desktop manager with virtual desktops helps a ton.
IIRC there was some problem with LPDDR4 having issues with sleeping power consumption that slowed Apple’s adoption of it.
I assume you're talking about the latest Air? I have the 2018 model and the keyboard is awful. Awkward to type on and it frequently registers single key presses as double-presses (or, sometimes, no press at all).
There are a few major differences:

For the most part, American towns are built next to the roads. If there's not a road, there's not a town. (Alaska is a notable exception.) In Europe, said roads and towns often long predate SUVs and wouldn't be passably in such.

Also a number of the countries being mentioned are relatively poor. The GDP per capita of the US is more than 10 times the GDP per capita of Bosnia (and close to 3x that of Portugal). That obviously has an influence on the affordability of vehicles and the quality of infrastructure.
Does this use the 2020 redesigned keyboard with longer travel? That's literally the only thing I care about that they can potentially change.
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He cannot change the filter on an account he has no access to.
It also shows how brave those who were younger and ended up getting fired rather than resigning were.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation apparently doesn't agree with that assessment:

"NERC recognizes that other studies have indicated a severe GMD event would result in the failure of a large number of EHV transformers. The work of the GMD Task Force documented in this report does not support this result for reasons detailed in Chapter 5 (Power Transformers), and Chapter 8 (Power System Analysis). Instead, voltage instability is the far more likely result of a severe GMD storm, although older transformers of a certain design and transformers near the end of operation life could experience damage."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150908075507/https://www.frcc....
This is then made even more frustrating due to the asymmetry when the opportunity cost for you for not having your problem fixed is much higher than for the person you are trying to reach.

Or, more succinctly, asking `Who has the problem?' has helped me over the years to adjust my expectations, because more often than not, it is me who has the problem, and not the person I am reaching out to.
As demonstrated, the example above works quite well with f-strings. However, I agree with you that there are some cases where .format() is a much better solution, which is when the variable values are provided dynamically. For example:

aa = [
{"foo": "baz", "bar: "bam"},
{"foo": "blah", "bar": 1234},
]
for a in aa:
print("This is my message which says {foo} and {bar}".format(**a))
I am not sure what value this post is besides a sales pitch for the poster. Don't mean to be overly critical, but really the number one factor is always customers. Do you have any? Also, How do you get more (cost of acquiring customers)? Market size? I suppose that's in the "underlying economics" section, but that's such a common question it should be addressed. VCs are looking for 100x return. Can you meet in person (or Zoom these days) and present yourself well? etc...
This is a problem with incompetent managers. They failed to understand the different between productivity and sitting.

Last company I worked for, the CEO said to me he doesn't care where anyone work as long as the work get done well. However, this was not the case with my own manager. He micro managed everything. He had an office manager sitting with the engineers reporting to him multiple times a day on if the engineers were sitting on the desk. You can feel you are being watch the moment you step into the office. It was an absolute shit place to work for.
I agree! But these aren't people who are going to spend days in the woods. They are people who work in offices, who are nervous about toilet paper shortages and are unprepared for the possibility of food shortages. Good for them for trying to be prepared and I hope many more people do take some steps towards self-sufficiency. Safely. Maybe with an experienced hunter friend.
Total confirmed Covid deaths currently stand at 230,000. But total mortality data, where available, points at excess mortality of around 50% to 100% more than that. That puts current mortality somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000. Malaria deaths are also around 400,000 says Wikipedia. But, crucially, that's annual death. Even in the optimistic case of Covid deaths currently being at their peak and going down as fast as they grew on the way up, total deaths are double Malaria's. And looking at the graphs, it doesn't seem like it's receding symmetrical to its growth.

As to regional differences, see here for some recent excess-mortality data that includes Ecuador and Brazil, two countries that don't have Malaria but share some characteristics with countries that do, such as climate and relative poverty: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...

This isn't going to spare the countries affected by Malaria, except that some of them have a demographic advantage.

The only redeeming factor in Covid's favour is that mortality isn't the only, and possibly not even the most important, harm of Malaria: Just like Covid, it kills only a minority of those infected. But survivors sometimes suffer chronic relapses, enduring symptoms such as fatigue, and, in children, cognitive deficits.
The article seems to misunderstand what table inheritance is in PostgreSQL.

CREATE TABLE new_table AS TABLE existing_table;

Doesn't create any PostgreSQL inheritance relationship between the parent and child tables. It merely makes a new non-inherited table with a copy of the data whereas with true table inheritance you're working with the same data (there's some visibility rules to consider between parent and child, but that's different than a copy).

I'm also uncomfortable with too simply stating that you should think of this like OOP inheritance; while I agree that in some respects there's passing similarity, it is its own beast and needs to be understood outside of the OOP paradigm to be useful. Many of the Object Relational aspects of PostgreSQL are very powerful, but can not be understood in OOP terms.

For inheritance, it's better to read about this from the documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-inheritance.html

Also, another part of the article talks about the ramifications of not having Oracle "packages". So while it's not completely the same concept and there are different sets of trade-offs, one option includes using PostgreSQL schema for this sort of logical namespace organization. Both Oracle and PostgreSQL have the concept of different schemas, but Oracle has a much more rigid idea about schema usage (related to database users) and PostgreSQL has a much more fluid idea about usage. As a former Oracle guy, I can see how that organizational tool might not be front of mind when coming to PostgreSQL, but I've used PostgreSQL schema for this sort of organizational purpose with good success.
Between selling cpu's 2 generations behind, the keyboard issues, and thermal problems in the Macbook Airs,

What thermal problems? I have had the Air 2020 in the Core i5 configuration for two weeks and the fan rarely spins up. Even when it does, I can touch the hottest part of the laptop without problems.

From off to account creation, the fan was already running.

That's not strange. Spotlight spends the first whatever amount of time on indexing the hard drive. Indexing implies parsing various files/file formats. This usually ends when indexing is done.

With the fixed keyboard, the MacBook Air 2020 is finally a MacBook that I love again, which I can't really say of the two butterfly Pros I had before (with the first I really disliked the keyboard, the second had a Touch Bar and I always had trouble pressing the Esc key blindly).
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Icke's Conspiracy theories are displacement of class discontent 2005: The Reptoid Hypothesis. In this context, Google has just silenced a form of dissent or at least evidence of dissent building. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20718709?seq=1
This pandemic is really bringing out the folly of concentration at the expense of all other business considerations. Sure, it makes food cheaper but at what cost? We deserve systems that are more resistant to shocks. We've allowed oligopolies to form in many industries, perhaps especially agribusiness. This has brought prices to rock bottom and commoditized living beings, putting pressure to further reduce prices. "Ag-gag" laws and the might of huge consolidated meatpacking firms makes it difficult to do investigative journalism.

Maybe it's time for people to try going meatless instead? People are so disconnected from their meat supply and the horrific conditions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/25/meat-work...) imposed on the people who provide that meat to them. If we had a different political climate, we could think about sensible reform in meat.

Meat should cost 3-5x as much as it currently does (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/21/the-true...) to allow for a safe and healthy habitat for the animals, and a living wage to the farmers and packers.

Finally - if you, like me, grew up eating meat and never considered what a meatless diet would look like, now's a perfect time to try while you're stuck at home learning new things. There's a large community of former meat-eaters that would be happy to help you start.
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I have multiple files in a Linux systems where I want to copy them with a single cp command into a different path and directory. Should I write a bash script to copy one by one?
FWIW, this has been a problem on all the laptops I've ever owned, including 4 different MacBooks built between 2011-2019, and a Chromebook Pixel.
If your family doesn't hunt, states often have "learn to hunt" or mentored hunt programs that will help teach you. I did a learn to hunt deer program in Minnesota and it was extremely informative and extensive. Everything from learning about the habits of the whitetail deer, scouting sessions looking for deer sign, rules/regulations, processing a deer in class, then going on a mentored hunt during a special season.
Does personality affect the uptake of ATP?
Media companies should be required to host and promote anyone’s content no matter what? If I send a video to you should you be required to host it on your website?
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Honestly since Intel chips have almost all flatlined into 14nm, with the only minute improvements coming from better binning, I don't think the selling CPUs 2gens behind is an issue.

Edit-they're actually selling the 10th gen chip, not 8th gen like you describe