skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'd also want to compare apples with apples.
The X200 (libreboot certified) has a maximum battery life (idle test) of 8,15 hours, while the past generation X1 has a battery life of over 24h in the same test.
When it comes to normal (wifi) usage, the current X1 has about 10h, while the x200 has a bit more than 3,5h of battery life.
Keep in mind that the X1 is faster, less bulky, weighs less and probably has a much, much better screen.

Today, you get the power of a W510 in a much smaller package (compare a current Gigabyte Aero 15 to a W510, say). Even a P1 (X1 chassis) outperforms the W510 by every metric, and is downright tiny in comparison.
Now, a current P53 features 16GB of RAM.. on its GPU! It can 128GB of faster RAM total.

But considering Intel itself - yes, more progress could have been had (and it'll come via AMD).
Nevertheless, the P53 processor is more than three times faster benchmarks compared to the W510. It's bound to be more extreme in desktops.

Most importantly, however, is the fact that the libreboot certified laptops are largely sold out (except the X200's) according to the certification website. In any case, they eventually will be.

So I feel that my point still stands.
With all due respect to the FS people, the critique of all alternatives (Purism, System76) may be valid.
But their approach amounts to simply not using a performant and portable machine, or eventually no laptop at all.
Funny because in my experience people are good at math tend to like playing games. At a certain level, every game is math after all.
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Technically (and I think this is what this thread's misunderstanding is coming from), this is not systemd being simple. It's systemd being easy.

Simplicity is an intrinsic property of a product, describing that it solves a problem without needing many parts. Easiness is a property of the product's user experience, describing that it can be used without much training.
Horizon probaly has the most flexible and modular library concept there I ever saw. You can reuse things, inherit from things etc.

This is a good summery (with a nice graphic of the structure of an example part): https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pool-why.html
With Anki retaining what you’ve learned becomes a choice. If you put it in Anki, you _will_ retain it. The challenge then becomes, What to put in Anki? I’ve memorized loads of history, often down to the birth years of notable historical figures. This doesn’t seems very useful but it has changed my appreciation of history. Every historical fact I hear now drops neatly into context. I did the same with geology, Ankifying much of the New History of Life course. I think the amount of trivia I’ve loaded into Anki is excessive, but because I have this amazing new superpower, it’s hard to stop using it. And once I have a fact in Anki and in memory, there’s just no point in removing it. That would be a choice to forget something I already know. Why do that?

I’m now using Anki to learn Vietnamese and to work through Linear Algebra Done Right. It is such a pleasure because I know what I learn won’t evaporate. It’ll be right there, instantly accessible decades from now.

Anki is an incredibly useful tool. I can’t recommend enough.
What you call goofing off playing video games others call research.
Also "I don't know what I'm talking about".
As Napoleon said, a soldier will fight long and hard for a piece of colored ribbon.
as an Italian, I understand this as "to steal"
looks very useful, but not adding a wired usb support throught the integrated USB port seems a bit short sighted.
> 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

Pay low wage, get low motivation. No one's going to bust their ass over a mcgriddle for minimum wage.
You think the students are in a stronger position economically than the universities?

If I've ordered a new Ferrari, and the dealership can only get me a used Toyota Camry, would you have me pay Ferrari prices?
Honest question: Which relevant technology is ever discussed dispassionately?
It seems exactly as difficult as with any other stuff written in C. Let's say uWSGI. systemd uses meson, and there's a file listing all the options, and the first match for "resolve" seems to be that flat: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson_options...

Furthermore, even if you compile it, you don't have to use it. Even if you install it, you don't have to use it. (After all it has 2-3 APIs, one of them is the /etc/resolve.conf symlink, if you instead just put 1.1.1.1 in that file, libc will not go through resolved. And similarly for the other entry points.)

It's possible to accidentally compile, install and have systemd-resolved set up on your computer, but it still seems rare that someone can compile and install systemd, yet not know what they're doing.
Like if you went to a 'make-your-own-pizza' place and were forced to leave the building by a fire marshal after having placed your pizza, with custom toppings, in the oven.
Some of the worst managers I have worked for didn't understand opportunity cost. Good idea to test during a job interview or before starting a partnership.
Nothing more maddening than working for an Ahab chasing whales.
You are aware of the fact that at most ~8000 non-EEA people can get a work visa in Switzerland every year? This includes what would be called EB-1 visas in the US. A CS PhD graduate with no work experience has zero chance at passing the legal requirements.

There are almost no Asian people at Google Zurich.
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Your manpages should match the installed version.
> There seems to be a consistent theme of employees being treated with suspicion, condescension and outright hostility.

That's because, unfortunately, a lot of them do need their hands holding. Many of these people have very low IQ and will always avoid work if they can. You can't compare them with the people in the offices you work in who have top 10% IQs. I know it should be like this, and should be like that, but if you would actually expose yourself to the kinds of people who work in these places you will see why these seemingly hostile rules are put in place. But think of it like this: these people get a safe working environment, comfortable lives which no high levels of responsibility, and they get to reap the benefits of living in a modern society. If they were left to their own devices they'd be in poverty.
Small classes are the best. I had an intro to the Standard Model class which had 4 students and the teacher... possibly the most enjoyable class I've had. There's no other occasion where a teacher will dedicate so much time to you.
Looking at land use in places like can be surprising - e.g. a great er percentage of the UK land area is peat bogs than is built on:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/land-cover-atlas-uk-1.74...
If our adversaries are that gullible and incapable of grasping even basic scientific principles, why should we be worried about them?
Thanks for "gaslighting" me, I guess.
I briefly worked on a timekeeping system (the one that records work hours). When I started running it against real data, I hit some bugs. The system was reporting that people had worked a few hours rather than a full shift. I had no idea how this could happen.

When I started digging into the data, it became obvious. People were punching in at 08:00 on Monday, and wouldn't punch out until something like 12:00 on Friday (change days as required). This meant that they were clocking 24 hours / day. The only way this could happen is if they were colluding with their store manager, as the manager was meant to close out the time keeping system at the end of the day.

The stores with employees that abused the system tended to have lower margins. This often led to them being closed down. It's not so much the individual being bad that's bad, it's that in industries where profit margin is razor thin, an individual can have an outsized effect on the group.

I expect over time (10s of years) the computer industry will get closer to other professional industries as opposed to being the wild west it is today.
That is exactly my point, while it is definitely good to have, it isn't the end solution that many assume at first thought.
> The fact is you can't go back to it as an individual, because the system has changed and as an individual you're powerless to change the situation at all...

Use Void Linux, help Devuan etc. You're not alone, but you're clearly in small minority.
It's a wake up call, or at least an attempt at that, for the likes of Amazon that if they are looking to have reputable people, like Tim Bray, associate themselves and their name with you, there are certain standards that have to be met.

Amazon, MS, Google, Apple, etc. rank among the most wealthy companies in the world and they've each had to deal with internal pressures where their employees voiced concerns about certain things or where there was some kind of whistle blower situation. And they each dealt with it in their own ways.

IMHO firing whistle blowers is the kind of action that should be called out as very negative and not something to be apologetic about.

So, I admire what Tim Bray is doing here and fully understand that he's having a hard time justifying working for what he's diplomatically not quite calling out as aholes; though the undertone is quite clear.

Of course as he is pointing out, he's in a position where he can afford to do so financially. But then, being able to and actually doing are two things and he's showing some back bone here by 1) walking away and taking a hit financially, and 2) writing about it in the hope that leadership steps up and acts to correct the situation: compensate individuals affected, offer to rehire them, and discipline executives involved in pushing this through. Unlikely to happen, but one can hope for someone with a backbone stepping up. It would be the right thing to do. At the minimum, they've just been exposed for what they are and that might have consequences elsewhere for them.
Unfortunately, in my experience using Syncthing while doing cross-platform development (coding on a Mac, compiling and testing on a Windows machine, both machines connected to the same Ethernet switch and sitting right next to each other), syncing with Syncthing is far from instant.

If you just want a cheap Markdown editor with instant syncing, I recommend self-hosted CodiMD. Of course that’s not an option if you actually want the full power of org-mode.
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Maxwell does not have unified memory -> custom code compared to latest generation along with performance disadvantages.
And even that is sometimes the right decision.

I personally experienced an important delivery being delayed several days because the tech lead wasn’t happy with the security settings on the database server. If the DB was accessible outside our internal network or contain any information that wasn’t publicly available, I would have understood.
For me, university was a bit more about direction-finding and serendipity. Few places can expose you to very different things in both a structured and unstructured way as college.

When I started university I was a returning student with a budding tech career. I promised myself I would get a degree, but I wasn't totally sure what benefit it would be. I thought I already had the tech skills needed to do what I wanted to do.

While taking some required political science classes I discovered the world of development cooperation. I did a bit of traveling. I decided to use my time at a 4-year to explore the world of NGOs and other large-scale initiatives. I did a study-abroad project to do some free tech work for a global nonprofit. I fell in love with a new city. I did a short masters to further my knowledge, and also see if it would be possible to combine my tech background and this new world. It was, so I did.

It's hard to know if something similar would have happened without that experience. It's hard to put a dollar amount on it, since I a) paid for my own education and b) probably earn less now that I've changed directions than I would if I hadn't. But I'm so incredibly glad I did. I also don't know how to compare this story to the many stories of people who graduate with 80k in debt and can't find a job in field in which they studied.
Give an inch and they take a mile. You could pay a McDonalds worker all you like and he'll still just try to get away with doing less work.
Wow, for me it started happening Monday, May 4, 5:50 EDT.
I live near the one of the best Döner and most famous places in Berlin and it is €4.10 including everything.
A new art life after almost 25 years (from Technical Lead Manager at Tron)
If you are low on disk space you want something predictable to happen: the oldest logs are deleted and the newest logs are written. This would be a nightmare to achieve with SQLite, as said above it's just way too complicated.
To point 2): the EU research programs are co-financed by Switzerland. Otherwise, Switzerland wouldn't be allowed to participate in these programs. Hence, the EU research grants are still Swiss tax money in one or another way.

5) There are scholarships for young Chinese scholars that are co-financed by the ETHZ and the China Scholarship Council: https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/global/eth-global-news-eve...
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Amateur programmer to paid professional in 60 days. What lang/stack?
If one is just beyond a beginner programmer with a proficient knowledge of basic data structures (think first year CS courses done) and one needed a job or contract work in 60 days, what should one immediately and totally focus on circa May 2020?

Assume it's not about particular desires or interests, but a pure market-driven formulation of what can one can learn given this starting base and what has economic demand? It could be anything from front or back end, Python or Javascript, C# or Java enterprise, cloud programming, etc. Consider it a "desperate" scenario of needing to program for cash as quickly as possible!
And yet, some soldiers will let it go again in order to maintain their honor.
Who can tell me which Android app should be used? Syncthing [1] or Syncthing-Fork [2]?

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[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.cat...
He may not be planning on a "next gig" — he's 64, so edging close to retirement. I'm assuming as a corporate VP at that age he's probably got his pension sorted: he probably feels able to make a principled stand in a way that, say, a 34 year old (or a 44 year old) couldn't.

Even so, good on him for speaking out.
From GP's link:

> Multiple GPG keys can be specified...
Agree! Wish I had the mental capacity to stay focused like this person :-)
Yes, it was even presented at PyCon.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/come-meet-microsoft-at...

"Steve Dower - Python on Windows is Okay, Actually - PyCon 2019"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoI57uMdDD4

And is part of official Python documentation, as mentioned by others on this thread.
It was downvoted, because many people here want in person classes to be useless waste of time. They don't want to hear they are better then online. That is mostly due to high price of price of us college.

But imo, content issues are fixable, it just takes way more time. Good online courses with good content and good exercises will become more common.

What will be harder is to simulate the social effects and mutual communication, that will be fixable too in time. That will however require also changes outside of school - people will have to learn how to find friendships and communities without institutional support of school.
I use Syncthing and it works really well, never heard of Fork though.

EDIT: Fork looks really good too, I've installed it to check.
Turn education into a business and students will treat education like a business. You can't expect goodwill in a crisis when you squeeze people like a US college.
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That's odd, it's pretty instant for me. I've been an extremely happy user for years.
You're right, they're not complex. For a person

They haven't been automated because it is still hard to do. Simply carrying boxes is easy, but picking up products (of different sizes, shapes, weights, "grabability", etc and putting them into orders is complicated.

That being said, it might be that different companies have different stress and pressure levels and different working conditions.
Never underestimate how quickly you will become like the environment you spend 8+ hours every weekday in
I know this is just a personal feeling, but I prefer paying the cost of writing f every time to have an indicator of where I'm expecting substitutions, rather than having the default behaviour of the language be that they're going to interfere with your string literals. It just feels like doing something non-obvious by default is more likely to cause issues, whereas the person forgetting the f in an f-string clearly knows about f-strings and so is going to find their error much more easily. Having said that, I'm not a someone who writes particularly pythonesque code in the first place so my sensibilities don't carry a huge amount of weight.
Yes, this doesn't address the article.

Conversations here usually shift from the article to some variant of "disrupt education" and college is signalling.

I find Bloom's 2 Sigma problem to be illustrative of the extent to which online learning is a loss to students. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

Studying in person has significantly different results.

The students are askign for partial refunds for tuition, not just room and board. I think this is a fair ask, and should be recompensed in some way or the other.
Depending on the place and people (i wasn't very well when I was in college), MOOCs can be better in many metrics.

- less anxiety being in IRC than in class
- more focused (less distracted by people inviting you, peer pressure)
- more communication with other students and teachers
- automatic grading systems being very exciting to keep improving solutions rapidly
You don't think there are higher skilled people trying to exploit the system?

I suspect the real difference here is developers are in higher demand. If we feel the checks becomes to unfair, we can go look for a different job.

If a warehouse worker doesn't like his smoke breaks being monitored, there is little recourse, someone else can be hired who will accept these condition out of desperation for a job.
He was prolific in the conspiracy space and famous in the UK long before YouTube even existed. He doesn't need YouTube to get his opinions out there.
Actually I was only taking about myself and how I see it, but perhaps this view is more prevalent on HN than in other communities, yes. I'd like to think that is, because people on HN are more technical and more informed about how this stuff works, than the average Internet visitor.

Anyway, they could offer people to support them for example via GNU Taler, which aims to keep the "buyer" anonymous and the seller not anonymous, so the problem of entering payment detail is out of the way, using a free software solution.
For simple projects, EasyEDA is basic but simple to use and free.
Nice feature is that sending your boards to JLCPCB is a click away as well as ordering some parts from LCSC as they are all the same company and many components are already defined.

Although, like any other EDA, you really need to check the footprints or make your own.
> The issue you are talking about is not a language issue, it's an ecosystem issue. K recognizes it by not trying to be all things to all people - it's incredibly easy to FFI directly, and to connect through various interprocess methods (including a native efficient KIPC well supported from just about every other language environment).

I'm afraid this only makes my point stronger. If I'm pushing the ugly complexity outside of K with an FFI, I'll be stuck writing the ugly plumbing (a major part of the job) in some other language. For the uninitiated it is very difficult to say whether or how much will be left for K to handle, if anything. That kind of thing would make K look like a one-trick pony, and maybe not worth investing in.

> Most project specs today include requirements that are accidental complexity, rather than inherent.

I agree, and I'm afraid that in many projects (including my dayjob) the accidental complexity is the bigger job. Even if I could solve the inherent complexity of all we do in one beautiful line of code, we're still stuck with a mountain of crap from 2-3 decades of legacy and bad design that really can't be changed.
You might as well solve crossword puzzles.
Some of my thoughts:

- "56% of the 3.4 million form inputs identified were unlabeled." - I would expect _some_ inputs unlabelled, but over half of all inputs on the internet? Crazy.

- "On average, home pages had 36 distinct instances of low-contrast text." - I'm still waiting for the "light gray on white" trend to decline. I consider myself having a very good eye sight, but even I struggle looking at my mobile phone on a sunny day.

- "Home pages with ARIA present averaged 60% more errors than those without." - Actually not _that_ surprising, because it takes a lot of time/experience to get more complex components fully accessible. My go-to resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/

- All those issues were determined automatically. This means: 1. Those errors are avoidable even without in-depth a11y knowledge 2. The number of inaccessible websites is _even higher_. :(
Just because they know not to say it anymore doesn't mean they stop thinking it.
I did not write it but I keep this in my notes when I have such doubts ->

Circle of competence (read about it on wiki as well):

Short-term

What job can you be hired for an hold for a year and make the most money? If you forced yourself to make money doing one job and holding onto that job for at least one year, what would you do? What skills does that entail? If you're not sure, go network and interview.
What gigs can you get right now and get folks to pay you - whether you advertise on Quora, Facebook, call your friends, family, neighbors, etc.? What skills does that entail?
What do people ask you to do more than they ask others to do? That's what they think your circle of competence is. They're part of the market. The market will value your competence whether you like it or not.

Long-term

What do you like doing that is a marketable skill? What do you spend your time doing? You'll get better at something you like doing and keep doing, especially if that skill is in demand and others are not as devoted to it or as interested in it.
The things you do which you like doing and spend a lot of time doing - as long as you make sure you keep improving - will become part of your circle of competence.
Funny, it was actually education that removed my racist tendencies yet made me look down on those who are fat. One is genetic and unavoidable, the other is 100% the result of choices made by the individual.

Fat shaming is also normal in many Asian countries where they have some of the lowest obesity rates and the longest lifespans in the world.