skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The xps is a plastic laptop with a plastic hinged small trackpad. The mbp trackpad alone is worth the extra money. I keep a laptop for 4-5 years. It’s not worth interacting thousands of times a day with an outdated subpar input device to save $10 a month.

I’ve been watching the xps closely and the internal stats are good but the “plastic laptop with a small hinged trackpad” aspect of it make it a no go for me at the price point.
Association Between Screen Time and Children's Performance
Well, that's the marketing story, at least.

In my reality, a large part of my programmers' effort is spent battling various "capacity exceeded" AWS errors.
Magit is working on switching to libgit2 https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2959 to fix this.
Cloudfront costs a non-trivial amount of money per GB: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
> The current administration is from a party whose platform is as anti-labor as their opposition was under Woodrow Wilson

Is that true? Increased tariffs, renegotiated trade deals (increased tariffs), attempting to tighten immigration, lowering taxes on repatriation of cash. Those are all pro worker.
> you mean, "add -x to the invocation, get back a few screenful of text, wade through that looking for "export" lines and copy them to your terminal, find "start-stop-daemon" line, copy the part of the line and remove irrelevant parameters, and paste into your terminal as well?

I mean, yes? Granted I'm not a developer but printing out exactly what's happening line by line with all variables expanded and all logical conditions printed is awesome, it's something we try to reverse engineer into programs with tools like bpftrace and strace.

Conversely an opaque C application which fails has much less tooling in the way of debugging failures. Especially if your package maintainers have stripped symbols.

> Surprise! Neither dmesg or /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg usually contain startup problems! Sometimes the nice daemon might log stuff there, but it is no way universal or required.

Actually, that's the opposite. A "bad" daemon might not print anything to stdout when invoked (which goes to dmesg) but regardless, this whole comment just reeks of someone who hasn't actually dealt with systems before 2014.

> Are you running any servers? If so, you might want to connect to the monitor, reboot and see if any service has error messages. Or you can use console scrollback after the server is booted, but you might need to recompile your kernel to increase is size, it is pretty small. Or just install systemd, it has full boot logging fully integrated with primary logging. And even a special command which lists all daemons which failed to start.

Console scrollback is "nice to have", personally I'm very thankful that it does not use memory keeping things there because there is the odd regression when you configure something (like when you tell IPtables to log deny's: that also gets printed to console.)

re----gardless. I think we're talking passed each other. I had no real issue as a sysadmin with a fully fledged bash, because I can debug it. I get that there's issues with that and most people do not like it- I'm not advocating for it, just saying that what you presume to be "impossible" was somehow solved for decades, and quite competently. It may not be pleasant to you but the alternative is not pleasant for me.

The larger issue I have is that "the alternative" is embedded and entangled itself to everything- there can never be anything better produced.

With old init's, it was a small process with well defined functionality so replacing it was easy. (as evidenced by the many init's among unices.).

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.

If you want to see what systemd could have been, I invite you to look at Solaris' SMF. Please ignore the XML-ness of it, it's "very old" in comparison to systemd. :)
For some really annoying grunt jobs, you're not going to hire the most disciplined, most educated people with a good work ethic. People willing to do tedious, crappy work have no other options usually, and you also can't be too picky, or you won't hire anyone. These jobs typically have low value as well, so if you tried to pay more, the whole project may not be cost effective and won't happen.

You definitely need to treat people with as much respect as possible, but in some jobs, you have to have all these rules in place knowing you'll get people who aren't model citizens. I was never in the HR org chart here, never saw finances, but I suspect the people that I mentioned were paid near minimum wage. Few stuck around more than six months, and those who did, moved onto better jobs. It was all very structured and regimented. I would never fire anyone for trying to make their workplace better, assuming they did it in a non-disruptive way.
I had a neighbor in Boston a few years ago that was in the inner circle of the Lyman family. They had "real" jobs, etc but still definitely operated on the outskirts of society and the law. Didn't make great neighbors...
Recursive with Queries in Postgres (Common Table Expressions)
The Touchbar is terrible for Visual Studio Debugging. I have to take my eyes off the screen and cant rest my finger on F10 to step through code. That is ANTI productive. One of the reasons I spring for a macbook is so I can run MacOS, Windows or Linux on solid hardware. The touchbar is fine for things like Logic ProX or some other non development tool, but I need permanent function keys to work in Windows/Visual Studio. Thats a large part of what I do. IMO the touch bar is a GREAT idea if you also have physical function keys on the keyboard.
Walmart used to be in all these kinds of headlines if you look back across the last 10 years; shutting down sites that try to unionize, supplier pressure and mistreatment. Hilary Clinton got a lot of flack for being on their board during her presidential runs.

Plus there's a class aspect (People of Walmart) that made it easy for people to proudly say they're boycotting Walmart when they would never shop there anyways.
Eh, that model might still allow you to probabilistically send information back in time, in a way that saves the universe from an outright causal paradox (a weird "chronology-protection" principle of sorts). You can't send your patent back in time and generate prior art that destroys it, but you can end up with a 50:50 probability of doing so, and that description is logically self-consistent. Probability is still "classical".
We had water fountains in the back, you can always bring your own drinks, etc. It's hard to make an excuse for someone stealing a bottle of soda, a luxury.

It's not like anyone was stealing TVs, and that's what blew my mind about the stealing. It tended to be drinks and candy bars, stuff that not only was low value, but just simply wasn't necessary. It was stealing for the sake of stealing, because they thought they could get away with it.
Perhaps they are talking about a paid service that they offer,like Cloudflare Stream https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
> its quite ironic that their OS still doesn't support any kind of window tiling to use them efficiently in 2020

Luckily, the accessibility API make this quite possible to do if you're one of the people that can't work without it. (Do keep in mind that note everyone uses tiling to work "efficiently".)

> The display isn't micro-LED either, so it is instantaneously outdated

What? How many computers actually ship with microLED today?

> the retina display doesn't help you see your macbook-using coworkers any better because their webcams have a resolution of 1x1 pixels

Even with the current climate, reading text and looking at images in retina resolution is a huge part of most people's jobs. If you haven't tried a Retina Display, I suggest you do: it's quite nice.
> Trump has plenty of employees in his businesses, and support from lots of business folks.

On that topic:

For some, it was a plainly calculated choice. Thomas Peterffy, a billionaire who owned the largest estate in Greenwich, donated to Trump but never pretended to admire him. “When the choice is between two ideologies, then it’s a luxury to dwell on the personalities of the candidates,” he told me. “It’s a luxury that we cannot afford.” Peterffy, who made his fortune as a pioneer in digital trading, said that the choice was between “a high degree of government regulation or a diminished amount of government regulation, because, basically, that’s how the U.S. will get to socialism—increasing government regulation.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/how-greenwich-...
Activities give you an excuse to be together. It reduces the pressure to perform socially and thus lets things happen more naturally.

For example, think about dating. It can be exhausting to just meet somebody new for dinner. You have to keep up an interesting conversation without much help, hoping you'll stumble upon some common interests.

It's generally easier to do an activity where you can focus on the task, talk about how to do it well, have an excuse for lulls in the conversation, etc.
Get Current Weather Conditions via API for the US (Freemium)
Yeah, the semicolon bothers me too. I'll see how I can incorporate that in.
The clicking around was meant to make life easier on mobile phone users. I'll see if I can add a keyboard support without undermining this.
> oracle database is dying an its niche is shrinking.

This is true, but misleadingly not the whole truth.
On prem RDBMS is dying and its niche shrinking (at least in this part of the cycle)... having said that, Oracle cloud offerings are doing very well.

Amazon made a herculean effort, and made some headlines when they migrated most of the business off Oracle last year. That's wonderful, for Amazon. Most of Oracle's enterprise customers are not Amazon.

> I'd also prefer a galera or an innodb cluster

The thing is.. Oracle sells so much more than just an DB engine, and people are buying. Oracle RDBMS is not an inferior product to open source competitors, in most ways superior, and yet, it is really just a proverbial loss leader.
I have been involved in both working in services and in the management level of a restaurant business. It is still my opinion that the pay, disposability, lack of dignity, lack of future, lack of community, and disrespect are the primary drivers for bad workplace behavior. Treat people like animals, and they will act like animals. It's just exploitation, and I work my current job with fear of having to go back to that.

> But depending on the business (e.g., a local pizza place) there is no affording that.

This is maybe a radical argument, but I make it in good faith; if your business can only exist by paying workers at or below poverty wages, and/or enacting dehumanizing controls, it probably shouldn't exist. If the demand for the product or service is sufficient, price should follow accordingly to make that business viable and profitable. Saying a business can't afford to pay workers a living wage and treat them right is equivalent to unintentionally saying 'the business can't exist without worker exploitation'. I do not believe that is a defensible position if you don't axiomatically accept worker exploitation.

Maybe any given business model doesn't have a god-given moral right to exist. It does suck if we lose that local pizzeria, but clearly we didn't want the pizza enough to pay what it cost to ethically support such a business. If you're worried about the job loss or availability of services caused by such a position, there a whole sea of political and socioeconomic thought on how to solve that. It's probably beyond the current conversation.
Accessible Animations in React
On living wages in particular:

"A 2003 Cato Institute study cites data showing job losses in places where living wage laws have been imposed. This should not be the least bit surprising. Making anything more expensive almost invariably leads to fewer purchases. That includes labor."

Also:

"People in minimum wage jobs do not stay at the minimum wage permanently. Their pay increases as they accumulate experience and develop skills. It increases an average of 30 percent in just their first year of employment, according to the Cato Institute study."

Both of these are quotes from noted economist Thomas Sowell, who has done a lot of research into many studies on actual effects of living and minimum wage law.

As for the people you describe, there are plenty of people who make higher wages and are just as unreliable and untrustworthy. And there are plenty who do honest work for low wages, and work their way up.
that's probably one reason, but as far as I can tell, a large cost is formatting an colouring the master diff buffer when there are a lot of changes. When doing very large merges, it takes forever to refresh the buffer but aborting whatever magit is doing will leave an uncoloured but perfectly usable buffer.
He is a popular public figure who gets sent crank work claiming to have solved NP=/=P several times a week. His context for saying that is a little different than here where the author is critiquing someone for creating what is essentially a short survey of several papers alongside his commentary. The original author isn't claiming to have proved anything, and even is asking for feedback and public contribution to his survey. It hardly struck me as cranklike.

That said, Tao is a good example of why gate-keeping is so dumb. If Tao wrote an article surveying and commentating on the current state of covid-19 epidemiological research as someone with no experience in the field, I'd trust it. I'd actually probably be more likely to trust it than any random credentialed epidemiologist doing the same work.
I hate that so much. Physical punishment for using a laptop.
Excerpt:

The Problem & Market Segment - Moderate to Strong Predictor

"This would have been a stronger predictor had it not been for a few outliers at the top. Aside from a few companies who got a high number of intros despite scoring relatively low here, this was overall a very good predictor of who get intros. Picking the right problem to work on seemed more important than having the right solution by more than 2x.

So what was the most important factor?

Which area, if a VC only knew one thing about your company, was the most predictive of enticing a VC to want to meet?

Some founders might be disappointed, because its that age old question that they love to hate…

“How does it make money??”

Yes, the underlying economics of the business was the strongest predictor of whether a VC wanted an intro over any other aspect of the company. Founders who could clearly articulate an economic opportunity fared really well with investor interest."

Hmm, reminds me of some song lyrics...

"Come on, come on, listen to the money talk..."

-AC/DC "Money Talks"

Observation: Just as Scientists talk science, and Lawyers talk law, Venture Capitalists speak "Venture Capitalese", aka "Money", aka, "How much money could I the VC make with this?

That, and give me compelling proof of what you're saying in under a minute..."

Ideas, on the other hand, even great ones (to a VC point of view!) are the proverbial "dime a dozen" (or less even! An idea and fifty cents will get you a cup of coffee... Or, an idea and five dollars will get you a cup of coffee if you go to Starbucks...<g>)
9th paragraph:

> Other research shows that one of the best ways to reduce transmission in the workplace is to provide paid sick leave that encourages ill employees to stay home.
This thread might help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790857
This is huge if true - folks keep on saying Cloudflare can replace cloudfront for free. If we could put 20TB of binary content for software distro / videos etc on B2, then stream by cloudflare I'd actually believe the claims.

Every time we've tried this with other "free" providers there always seems to be "fine print" when you start pushing huge bandwidth on these "unlimited" plans. It seriously is not worth the time at some point.
Interesting that you seem to imply that the private sector is the one with overhead issues...
Just to play devil's advocate a little:

You should look up some of the ethical issues around cobalt mining [1], which Apple is at least indirectly complicit in.

Netflix famously made their culture documents transparent to much derision about their workplace being an unhealthy competitive environment. Relatedly, they're also arguably the most famous progenitor of the "unlimited-vacation-but-don't-actually-take-it-or-else" workplace cliche.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/a...
HNs guidelines are totally OK and the moderators have proven ywar by year how reasonable they are even to us who don't always agree.

If CoC were like HN guidelines and enforced the same way I guess almost nobody worth listening to would care at all if every project had one.
I've used sqlbolt.com! It's great. Very easy to follow and it's interactive. They have a resource for regex: https://regexone.com/, which I've gone through as well!
Bitcoin halving 21 days away grow your
It’s amazing how many communes depend on a cult-like figurehead just to hold together. So many are formed and dissolve because people start arguing over things like who does dishes.
This is really impressive. What would it take to persuade you to fix the 3D performance issues? :)
He is the only person resigning at Amazon over these firings. I’ve seen other emails sent to the activist email lists over people resigning due to this. But he’s the most high profile.

I have tolerated a lot of evilness from Amazon and justified it as a “different organization”. I work in Amazon Music which isn’t responsible for facial recognition or warehouse abuses.

But seeing them fire whistleblowers... that’s just heartbreaking to watch. Makes me want to quit too. The only reason I haven’t yet is to keep up the activism.
For those who have children, and who now have to care for those children (who are now home from school all day) and work, I can see it. But for everyone else? Why would the pandemic make people work longer? Why blame the boss sending you emails on Easter Sunday and expecting an immediate response on the pandemic, rather than on the boss having lost any sense of the employees having time away from work?

I mean, I suppose that work-from-home made it easier for the boss to lose the distinction between "employees are at work" and "employees are not at work", but that's really the boss's pushiness finding an excuse. The conclusion may be that, if you're going to work remotely, your boss's character and personality matters even more.
If you are not happy with the way amazon treats it's warehouse workers, you should work to get the law changed, benefiting workers at big and small organisations across lots of jobs.

Targeting Amazon just because it's a household brand simply makes an uneven labor playing field - sure, amazon workers might get paid better after your protest, but J J Doe and Sons Glassworkers won't change their ways. Nor will the no-name Ebayers.
Awesome! We use Caddy at Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=caddy+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com...) and love it. Caddy makes it much easier to run our app in local dev (with HTTPS and other nice things).
Ha, didn't think of that, the same for me then. Not as much cocaine in mine as I had expected though.
Thanks. When you say "without much issue", have you ever lost more than a few hours to "required tinkering" over those years, or was it pretty much plain sailing?

Anything else I should take a look at? What would your ideal next laptop be?
The way I understand, you can do this with images, eastdakota confirmed that here earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 not sure about videos.
> there needs to be transparency across the entire world economic landscape.

> Why cherry pick?

You have to begin somewhere. You could always ask "Why begin here? Why not elsewhere?". A fine response would be "Why do you care? Where have you started? Oh wait, you haven't, and you aren't even making it clear you intend to. Bye."
How Silicon Valley is not like Wall Street
If you would have asked me 15 years ago if having your own cubicle would be a positive, I'd have laughed at you. It's sad how this has turned out.
Apple’s Linker and Deterministic Builds
Sure one way to read this story is "I don't want to work harder" and criticizing that attitude.

Here's another way. As the worker, already working full-time, maybe you have better things to do with your life than working harder. Furthermore, the worker is probably thinking:

"If they want me to work more hours, why not pay me for more hours, including time-and-a-half overtime, per the law? Why offer a profit-share? Answer, mostly likely because the profit-share costs them less, and therefore, pays me less".

In that light, unless the factory management can explain how the extra hours they want people to work is likely to work out better for them then just getting paid for more hours, why should they accept?
The top-voted comment on your thread suggests otherwise.

I think the workers should be receiving more in hazard pay, but this whole round of controversy was sparked by their firing warehouse workers organizing for better safety, not pay.

Where do you work, BTW? Your account is about a month old and only seems to comment on stories about Amazon.
the new macbook pro has 4 thunderbolt ports only if you go for the top-of-the-line model. anything "regular" has two ports like the dell xps 13.

You also "forgot" to mention that the xps 13 is probably easier to fix if anything goes wrong.

Regarding hardware support... what do you mean exactly? If it's warranty, dell is probably as good as apple.
Yes, that's an important distinction. At the same time, if VCs graded individual factors, those grades could themselves be rationalizations. For example, they want to meet a founder, and give high marks to the categories they think should be important, not the factor that actually influenced them.
Ask HN: What's that one thing you would do, if you got to rewind your career?
I said 'cross', not 'join'. What I mean by it is, I don't get the sense these people, unless they knew someone was watching, would inconvenience themselves by refusing to give their custom to a business whose workers were striking.

Whether that qualifies as a "credential for speaking on socialism", I can't properly say. But I'm not inclined to listen to anyone speaking on socialism who I don't even trust to not cross a line.
Ontario's minimum wage would be $10 USD an hour, lower than quite a few US states.

And prices might be in CAD, but Canada has a higher cost of living than the USA. Some examples with prices in USD -- Rent on a dingy 1-bedroom apartment in a medium-sized city in Ontario will be about $800 USD/month. Gasoline is $3.90 / gallon currently. Chicken breast costs about $4 / lb.

And that's to be afforded on a $10 USD wage. The minimum wage here is not a living wage. Workers have every right to be upset with that.
How recent was that DDR3 design? Last time I checked length tunning on kicad was a nightmare to get to work properly.

If they’ve improved it I might give it a chance
So, if they are truly necessary: how comes HN and a number of other places works extremely well without one?
> Amazon has thusfar had far less scrutiny

This was true maybe 4-5 years ago when Amazon was the "darling" of the online retail industry. Those days are long gone.
Currently the first rank is 11 cases, and the second rank is 20 additional cases. The second rank covers WHERE with numbers, strings, dates and timestamps, IN, BETWEEN, AND and OR. Check out the guide tab in the game - it covers everything supported so far. Once you finish that, you go into practice mode where you're randomly asked the same kind of cases like the previous ones.
I plan on adding support for GROUP BY, aggregate functions, HAVING, aliases, JOINING multiple tables, and some more stuff with more complex cases to match.

And the 6 months countdown doesn't begin until the game development ends so you're enjoying longer access.
That has been the guidance for a loooooong time.