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Could say the same thing about Apple Vs Surface and Apple lacking touch/pen support, replaceable SSDs, SD ports, high viewing ratios, thicker devices.

But it's just cherrypicking isn't it...
That is a good point. We're getting closer to fines that actually hurt the companies enough not to do it again.

Not there yet, but closer.

The frustrating part is that they kept doing it even after they said they wouldn't. And FB amassed a sizeable revenue breaking a law while snuffing out competition, growing bigger, and reaping the benefits whilst still paying a fine that was essentially "worth it".

I heard in a podcast the idea how the next "Facebook" can't do what FB did to grow -- because all that stuff is now regulated, closely watched, and fined.
> Some companies have begun mentioning a return to one of history’s more derided office-design concepts: the cubicle. There is talk also of the cubicle’s see-through cousin, known as the sneeze guard.

So we will replace open office layouts with transparent single person cubicles.
Have you ever purchased a Dell ? Well I just did (Dell XPS 13 2-in-1) last month and let me tell how you how horrible the driver and support has been. I really wish I could chuck this brand new 1400$ device out the Window for days of troubleshooting I've got through. I deeply regret it and wish I purchased a Surface device instead (note I'm not an Apple user)

For the price premium and judging by the quality of the drivers that Apple produces, I WOULD MUCH RATHER PAY THE PREMIUM than struggle with Dell.
I personally wish Apple would make something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Quick-Char...

Before any of you see that and go "awesome, exactly what I was looking for!" - I've had several coworkers try various models of those adapters and all have told me they universally suck. Don't waste your money.

I trust Apple could do it with quality - frankly I'd be willing to spend $50+ for a reliable version of that.
That’s not even remotely close to what I said. All I said was it is censorship to remove something after it was posted.
Around 500,000 people died of malaria in 2018. COVID-19 deaths are currently at 250,000 (according to worldometers.info), but deaths are only just starting to slow down, and it's unclear how many deaths are going unreported. (There has been suggestion that in some places, actual deaths may be twice as high; apparently even after one adds reported COVID-19 deaths to an area's expected "regular" deaths, there is a shortfall vs actual deaths.)

It's worth noting that in terms of person-years lost, an average malaria death is significantly worse as it predominantly kills children under the age of 5.
> This pandemic is really bringing out the folly of concentration at the expense of all other business considerations.

I think that's just the hackers's infatuation with decentralization speaking here.

Using decentralization to prepare for a disaster that happens once every 100 years costs so much, you'll be uncompetitive 99% of the time, which means you'll likely be out of business by the time disaster strikes.

Furthermore, when it does strike, you'll probably have prepared in the wrong way because you didn't foresee everything, like the disaster affecting every decentralized place at once, as it would in a global pandemic.

Keep in mind that the meat supply hasn't been severely impacted yet, might never be, but even if it was, there would still be a grain supply that hasn't been impacted at all.

Lastly, the average American has enough fat on their body to sustain them for at least a month of eating nothing at all.
> Withings move ECG is another popular fitness tracker with ECG functionality

Hadn’t heard about that one, thanks for sharing. Might work for a family member who won’t wear anything but an analog watch.
Has Apple ever designed a product solely around just a couple of specs? No. Consumers unfortunately fail to realize this and compare A vs B based on cherry picked specs. The reason you can't get a top of the line CPU and GPU in the MacBook is that Apple would then have to increase the price past the point which the machine would have broad appeal, or make concessions in other important areas.

What are those important areas?

- Speakers, Mic, Webcam
- Trackpad
- Aluminum chassis and form factor
- Touch ID
- Mac OS (like it or not, this is perhaps the most important feature for those considering Macs.)

It's very possible the competitive landscape has changed since 2010 and they are placing more focus on these ancillary features than before, but the strategy has always appeared to be to deliver a superior holistic machine. I, and their financials would argue they have been doing that from before 2010 through now.
If AppImage does not work out docker is the alternative. Thanks!

And yes, powering down is putting it up for grabs. You also stop paying for it, says the documentation I read afterwards. https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/instances-shutdown-modes/. I think that's a mistake in the current situation. Harmless when there are enough instances going around, really dangerous now that none are left.
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>> I use the VGA port in many conference talks I give. Modern, digital projectors are still not a guarantee and it is very awkward to go ask around for another laptop or a dongle

Ever thought about buying your own dongle? Sincle you give many conference talks it might be a great investment :)
Only two USB-C ports?!? That's really disappointing, I always have a yubikey in one so that only leaves one free.

Seeing this, I'm actually more inclined to get the Air since it has faster ram, a newer processor, and no touch bar. (I'd love 32gb but at Apple prices I could VPN to a custom built rig and still be under budget)
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Keep an eye on https://github.com/hofstadter-io/DMA

I'm working on DMA this month, and using https://cuelang.org instead of JSON. There is an open PR with the latest work on it.
I've been a happy Dropbox + org-mode user across multiple devices for some time. I tend to divide up my org files across different subjects and then tie them into org-agenda. I also archive my org items on a regular basis to clean up certain files.

What's the benefit of Syncthing? I know nothing about it.
It cost $150 to have an office framed, dry walled, taped and muddled, and painted? Please explain how this is possible, the 5/8th drywall for both sides of the wall is practically that much for materials alone.

That stuff doesn’t exist when a space is being completely remodeled either. I work in construction doing tenant improvements, so I see a lot of construction drawings.
I've seen plenty of white guys blame minority quotas and nothing else after being turned down for a job. There is also little evidence that companies are hiring hoards of incompetent people to fill minority quotas. If they were, then why does every tech company still struggle with a lack of diversity in the workplace? It would be easy to just hire whoever can tick a diversity box and fix those numbers, but they're not actually doing that because that would be stupid.
Show HN: Pose, a simple web app for character posing
Very cool @doronlinder
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This seems convoluted compared to say moving the Lisp implementation from Emacs Lisp to Common Lisp, of which several native code compiling implementations exists.
What are the demographics of the VCs whose responses are summarized here? Were they from a wide array of cultures and histories? Were they primarily rich white men?

Ethics in AI would ask us to consider the unconscious bias introduced into the algorithm's outcomes. The same interest applies to human-generated outcomes. Either way, the input is a group of humans making subjective decisions, and since unconscious bias survives summarization, it should be accounted for.
You can take a kill to a butcher. You can drag an elk out with a ATV or other means than relying on your own strength, but some can do that as well. You don't need a truck necessarily, an elk can be quartered or de-boned in the field. A bone saw is helpful, but it isn't necessary.

Millions of Americans hunt for deer and elk without a lot of the gear you list.

Hunting isn't some sacred thing that can only be accessed through special means, even though plenty of hunters frame it as such. You can pass a hunter's safety course in less than a week, while learning the basics as you go.

However, I agree with the idea that using legal hunting as a means to survive during a national food shortage is grandiose.
Huh, interesting. Personally I have always found homebrew to to be a poor imitation of apt-get, and really enjoyed moving back to it using WSL2.
> All of my friends who work at Amazon warehouses have college degrees.

Quite a few of my friends who work in dead end jobs also have college degrees, and they have them in the things you'd expect: the fine arts, intricate degrees on languages or theory, and other non-profitable skills. A degree does not equal a job, even if your college recruiter would like to tell you differently.

> And by all means, if you are capable go for it

And that is one of the most disrespectful things I hear applied to low wage earners - that they are incapable of learning new skills, that they're not as capable as other workers or that they they're doomed in be in low wage jobs forever.

That's false. Usually what many of these workers need is help navigating how to get a profitable job, what skills actually pay and where to learn those skills in a way that results in a job. As we've established above, "get a four year degree" usually isn't a great path and these folks know it - but right now our culture is stuck on that phenomenon.
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I use function keys all the time and am indifferent to the Touch Bar. It's fine. I just set it to show the function keys all the time and off we go. I don't need tactile feedback for keys for non-typing keys.
One of the big changes in 12 allows the optimizer to work properly with CTEs, which was a major barrier to using the more expressive language features. There a good writeup here: https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-12-with-materializ...
No, that's not really the case. It doesn't matter if something is done on the basis of race or sex. If the end result hurts those groups disproportionately it's racist/sexist.

I guess this just may be a difference in definitions, but I think when most people are talking about racism/sexism on a macro level, they are using this definition.

You're right, the broader issue is worker's rights, but it's definitely worth pointing out that among workers with the least rights, minorities are overrepresented at Amazon.
Vim users too.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon is my dream I wish I wasn't poor :(
I was going to correct you, the 8th gen intel chips support DDR4, but you're right, they don't support LPDDR4.
Do you mean a SwiftUI app disguised in UIViewRepresentables? Nice work regardless!
The escape button escaped from the touchbar!
A p-value of 0.3% is not that low given the multiple hypothesis testing nature of the show.

A quick Google result shows that 592 total episodes have been filmed of the show. Under the null hypothesis that there was no cheating in any of the shows, you would still expect more likely than the chance that some show has a strong p-value of 0.3% for cheating to be 1-.997^592 = 83%.

As a jury, I don't think I would convict with just a p-value of 0.3% alone. You'd want something like a DNA test with a p-value expressed in 10^-6 or something to reduce the problem of multiple hypothesis testing / setup assumptions. Or you'd want to rely on other evidence like a confession or wiretap.
Perhaps a little off topic but I notice that despite the huge number of upvotes, this thread is ranked below other stories with far fewer points from around the same time.

Are people flagging this story? It would be interesting to be able to see the number of flags a thread attracts on Hacker News.
Ask HN: What are some great online learning resources available for free?
What are some great online courses and learning material to pursue as I am now spending more time at home in times of COVID-19?

I am looking for recommendations of specific courses or programs. And not learning platforms in general. It could be courses, interactive learning, educational games, or other forms.

I am interested in a wide variety of topics. For example computing, machine learning, math & statistics, leadership & organisation, economics, psychology, etc. As long as the material is great!

Please provide some reasoning for your suggestion.

Thanks :)
Its obvious they do feel invisible. Firstly, its well documented (books, movies, studies). They respond as if startled, sometimes stammer and have trouble responding. As opposed to other folks who respond fluidly, as if social contact is not unexpected.

I'm not opposed to anything you say. But the conversation can't be had without saying this stuff out loud. And hindering conversation is an order of magnitude larger problem, than pedantry about terminology.
I am no expert on anything related. They say the following:

"The goal is clear, make the Librem 5 last at least a day of regular use. "

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-power-management-improvements...
I have the same and it’s making me want to move to a Linux laptop.

With the bluetooth chip, do you get an error when it crashes? Airdrop basically never works on mine and I was wondering if it might be a related problem.
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It's pretty disappointing how few ports the XPS 13 has. Only two data ports (both USB-C), but it's really only gonna one because you're gonna be using the other one for charging all the time. And I use hardware security keys for everything so I always have one plugged into my laptop, so if have zero ports free and would need to attach a USB-C hub to do anything else. At least there's wireless keyboard and mice ...

Any idea on battery life comparisons between the two? I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch, and don't have any Apple hardware at all except MacBooks, but honestly, the Mac here might be worth the extra money for the ports, build quality, and longevity. My current laptop is a 2013 top of the line MacBook Pro 15" that is still chugging along fine without any problems.
>In the 60s and 70s there was close to 75% support for ending immigration into the UK for non-whites.

Why is it "racist" for a white nation to keep their country, but ok for blacks, asians, etc to oppose white immigration into their countries? Recognizing basic human rights is not evil.
Insane how poor the MacBook line cameras are for the machine price, even the $400 Surface Go puts them to shame.
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You'd probably want to store them outside the US.

Though this discussions seems a bit provincial. Won't the sun knock out the same things all across the planet? Why are we only talking about the US?
And I say it isn't. Speaking of logical arguments, you haven't really brought a lot to the table, by the way.

And you've misused "literally".
My guess is Apple.
I think the person you replied to is saying that while the grade of macbooks is good (which normal people call quality), the quality of macbooks is not (ie, does what it says on the tin, and the keyboard lasts the life of the laptop).

It's the BMW argument. Great interior, power, handling. Feels like quality. Actual quality sucks because the thing needs more repairs than a Toyota.

https://www.brainbok.com/guide/pmp/study-notes/quality-vs-gr...
> That is not relevant because the "common standard" in this case is the logind D-Bus API. There are no other active and viable alternatives to login management. It has two implementations, systemd-logind and elogind. You can choose either one, and only the first one requires systemd.

Is there any commitment to treating those as stable interfaces, with a decent deprecation cycle around any incompatible changes? If so then that's a big improvement; there certainly didn't used to be.

> I don't see what this has to do with anything. It's open source. If you want to collaborate, you can submit a pull request, work with the maintainers and get them to spend their paid time reviewing and merging your code.

I saw patches submitted and rejected on the grounds that the project leadership had no interest in supporting non-systemd (and/or non-Linux). Even if the leadership does want to accept a patch, that can take months; in my experience it's not worth making a change if you can't run it on your own systems without upstream getting involved. So if a project is large and not cleanly factored into smaller pieces with stable interfaces between them (or at least open to being factored that way in principle), then it's just not worth trying to contribute unless you can work on it full-time.

> It is not reasonable to expect that every single person will have the time and expertise to contribute to any given project, or that every project will be structured in a way that lets them accept maximum contributions. I don't mean to dismiss your frustration with being unable to contribute. I get that. But you continue to have the opportunity to do so and you will for as long as these projects remain alive. The code is not going to magically disappear one day and it's up to you to find the time to actually dive in. Good luck.

I believe in open source not because it gives me a chance to write code but because it lets me fix bugs or change behaviour that's bothering me. It's the "RMS printer driver" situation; if something goes wrong in Linux these days I feel like I'm no better off than I would be on windows. For the moment I'm using FreeBSD (and KDE) and I can still patch stuff without my patches getting broken every other month, but as things integrate more deeply with systemd it seems like a matter of time before the programs I use go Linux-only.
I've heard the same accusation being made by minorities, LGBT, women, etc. especially in the context of someone else, typically not from the less privileged group in that context, who is abusing the moral concern to shut down discussion rather than actually trying to help. One of my friends, as somewhat of an activist on these issues (I'm purposely staying vague for anonymity), has gotten exactly that type of vitriol from people who obviously see themselves as "woke". They got hit with some pretty nasty stuff that was pretty transparently moralistic character assassination rather than an honest attempt at disagreement. I'm impressed that they're able to continue working on these issues despite the crap they put up with from people who are supposedly on the same side of the issues.

To put things into context, I hear/see the above issue orders of magnitude less often than people parroting right wing talking points, but in the cases where I think the accusation is well-founded, I don't think it's about hypocrisy at its root. I think it's about being disingenuous. Then again we may be using two words to mean the same thing.
Has anyone switched to the Chromium Edge from Chrome? If so, why?
Perhaps the biggest long-term issue of this (once the immediate damage is repaired, which would perhaps take years) is the loss of decades of human knowledge - everything on hard drives, tapes, flash memory, and just about anything that isn’t an optical disc - with no real warning.
There is also https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/projects-madewithlibrepcb... which shows a few projects made with LibrePCB.
$179 for an excel template, in case anyone is curious. $10,000 value though!
Same impression with the 2018 15" MBP. Topcase was replaced twice, and a full exchange for the third repair, all within the first year. The screen is now pressure damaged everywhere... by gently wiping with a damp microfiber cloth? I'm certain it's a manufacturing defect, but I can't seem to find similar complaints anywhere.

I've been buying Macs for 20+ years, let's be honest... I'm not rage quitting and moving platforms. The productivity hit would be too much. So now the game becomes: waiting until the next full redesign to see if they fixed everything. The 2015 era was great.

For anyone on the fence, avoid all of these.
It could easily be Google.
Last time I complained about this on HN I just got told that I should have bought a higher specced version. Guess my £1800 wasn’t enough for more than two ports on a “Pro” device, thanks fanboys!
One reason I'll recommend an Apple product over any PC to friends is the Apple Store. Aside from being able to see and play with the hardware, Apple's support experience is better than any PC maker's.

Why doesn't Dell open a store in every neighborhood that has an Apple store? They should be able to match the Apple consumer experience, but more importantly (to Dell), they could run business support operations from those stores.

I'd be a lot more likely to buy the XPS machine you mentioned if I could take it someplace when the coil whine becomes apparent.
Being paid to move coffee, to coffee-deprived people, is where we started. Taking the money and not doing that, is something like fraud.

Make all the meta-argument you like (Capitalism! Stacked!) That's substantially moving the goalposts. Feel free to have that conversation, but its a big left-turn from where we started here.
> The victims weren’t abstract entities but real people; here are some of their names: CB, GB, MC, EC, BM, and CS.

> I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?

I hope this guy got permission from these people to post their names on a public forum. Also, there's really nothing in those names to tell if someone is a PoC or not. At least one of those names is both a male and female name.
> The fact of the matter is that we have open plan layouts with minimal space per employee (basically a desk plus chair) because of cost.

This claim is repeated in every HN post about open floor plans. I'm sure there are some cases where it's true (Manhattan!), but in every case where a manager forced me into an open plan layout, I pushed back, and they admitted it wasn't really about the money.
> You don't know...

Do you? I've worked in plenty of these "unskilled" environments. It's absolutely the reason for these rules.

Is every low wage worker like this? Certainly not. I assure you I've encountered plenty who are, and the system of un-trust tends to breed untrustworthiness in those who otherwise might be trustworthy.

It's not just the system, however. My grandfather ran a small construction business. He had no such draconian rules (and paid far better than minimum wage). I can't count how many new-hires he had to fire for crazy things like constantly showing up drunk, showing up late or not at all, etc. One guy would only show up on payday when checks were being handed out, work two hours, then leave. (Obviously, he didn't last long; still, Grandpa was too generous.)

I don't defend such draconian systems as just; I despise them. However they absolutely do exist so that large companies can just hire disposable employees en masse, regardless of their work ethic.
Couldn't disagree with this more strongly. You can have a goal. It's good to think about them. But some of the most innovative theorizing in history was done by people with no thought about the practical goal in mind. Studying something simply because it's interesting to you is a valid choice. But you do need to be aware that that's what you're doing, and not expect some reward to materialize other than the knowledge itself. "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" is a very good book on this topic.