skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you feel like that, what evidence is there for your hypothesis in your personal life, or in statistics that you’re aware of?

There’s a wide variety of viewpoints on HN, so I think it’s unnecessary to speculate on what other people think, but personally the thing that doesn’t sit that well for me is that you’ve stated an opinion with nothing at all to back it up.

FWIW, having gone to both a not super reputable college (state school), and also a very reputable one, I can’t say that reputation is the “main” value, I might have benefitted from it but I wouldn’t even know. The math classes at the reputable school had much higher standards, they were harder and I learned more. I have some lifelong friends from both schools, but the group from the reputable school is generally much higher profile and further reach. I sold a business to someone I met through the reputable school. I also now work for someone I met through the state school.
It's a little more complicated, but not much.

The real problem is failing to estimate opportunity costs correctly.

If you need to get Product X out the door and you spend two years rewriting it, you have to failed at basic cost/benefit analysis.

That's simple. More complicated: the user POV can look very different to the PM POV. Which is always a bad thing.

I use a number of DAWs, and on some DAWs the PMs keep adding releasing new versions with new features that are interesting, but non-essential. Meanwhile version x.0 is always broken in important ways, and may be so broken it's literally unusable. And some bugs are just never fixed.

From one POV they need to ship n+1.0 to keep the annual upgrade cycle humming and the income stream ticking over. From another, these companies accumulate a lot of frustration and ill-will, and when a realistic alternative appears not a few users jump ship. So they lose that income anyway.

What's the ideal solution? Other DAW companies ship updates less often. They rely on positive PR, better marketing, and general customer good-will. They seem to be doing okay.

I have no idea how the financials work out, or if they're even comparable between two products that are nominally identical but are used by different demographics.

Even so - the critical point is that someone in the management food chain should at least be attempting to assess these strategic trade-offs.

To an outsider it often looks as if this isn't happening. Instead, the org made a decision a long time ago, the decision has never been updated or challenged, and now the org is just following it robotically whether or not it still makes commercial sense.
Then make your own profitable company that takes advantage of this. I don't want things to be this way. It doesn't make me happy to say it, but all of the evidence is on my side. I suppose all companies start out with good intentions like you have. But the successful ones always end up like Amazon. The others are confined to your imagination.
Blogging about something useful is extremely difficult. If you:

• A lot of research goes into a new topic, most people paste
• Writing useful examples without errors and confusing extras take forever
• Making the text concise also takes forever

This is why I write rarely. PS - this guy serves as a prime example of someone who comes up in my search results a lot and never ends up being useful: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/2782-route-resolution-using-fa...
Stats for Fetch Image from URL in Spring Boot(Java) to Upload/Save Locally
You could give this a try combined with something like the ungoogled-chromium PPA:

sudo apt-get autoremove snapd
sudo apt-mark hold snapd

(I use apt-mark and some custom scripting to defer nVidia driver updates until system boot to ensure that they don't yank libGL function out from under me at an inopportune time.)

If it doesn't work sufficiently well when I'm ready to upgrade from 16.04 LTS, then I'm switching to Debian. (I'd intended to be on 18.04 LTS by now, but life doesn't always cooperate and I haven't found time to risk a day or two of squashing upgrade-induced bugs)
Well, that's what happens when everything "standardizes" after the initial wave of disruption.

15 years ago, there weren't any "programming bootcamps" or "entrepreneurship workshops" or "become a UX ninja in 7 days crash course" to the extent that there is today, Harvard MBAs didn't give much of a crap about working in tech, computer science students were there for the nerdy stuff, not because they wanted to be the next Zuckerberg.

There just isn't much risk left in tech. The path is that now you start a weird crypto startup (which aren't even that weird anymore because there's dozens of them) while you're comfy at Stanford, you hope to get a fat check before you graduate, and if not you go work to Google. Or you quit Google, start your company, get some investment because you were at Google after all, and hopefully a few years later your startup gets bought by Google.

Tech startups just aren't weird and new and unknown anymore, as far as the money people are concerned. Does it fit their idea of what a company on its way to a billion dollar valuation looks like? If yes write a check, if not tell them thank you and let the next team in.
The very first day I had my first USB-C mac i had an incident with my standing desk that Magsafe would have saved.

These days I tend to use my laptop at my desk with external monitors, but the thing that worries me the most when I'm somewhere else is the yanking of the cable weakening the and/or reducing the reliability. I had to re-solder the power adaptor on an old Acer a few times, I don't think I've got the parts or skills (or time) to do that on a few year old Mac.
Efficiently Reclaiming Space in a Log Structured Store (2020)
The secondary effects are much worse. The virus is being used as an excuse to get more control of the people and planet by the psychopaths. They don't really care about us.
I had the very last edition magsafe connector on my 2015ish macbook. And _that_ one had the infuriating problem that the charge port got so hot that it would melt the insulation right off of the wire! I replaced the charger every few months, and it just kept happening.

I upgraded to a thinkpad.
Can you setup google voice?
Hydroxychloroquine and the Political Polarization of Science
This and "why is it DDR3 and therefore why is it a Gen8 CPU?" and "why is the storage so bad?" (256GB base is doubled now but still laughable) and "why cant you just drop the useless TouchBar or at least offer that option?" and maybe also "why do we have 1" bezels in 2020?"
>> ... The Fed hasn't bought a single share of stock.

This is not aging well.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/primary-and-secondary-mar...
They added a link to a Colab notebook. The upsampling takes most of that time, so if you're wiling to deal with a noisy and compressed sounding piece, it's actually very doable.
Remote Agile (Part 8): Daily Scrum with Distributed Teams
Good thing the Dell XPS developer edition ships with Linux already set up.
I also read somewhere (I think PG said this) that generally speaking it's not obvious which ideas are good a priori.

It makes sense if you think about it. If we knew in advance what ideas will work anyone could have a successful product which isn't the case.
So it’s more convenient to lug around a bunch of DVDs than a tablet with dozens of movies at your disposal?
Same. And on 50% discount.
I have a blog but it's been a struggle to create new entries since I realized that my writing - at least in English - is not amazing - to put it mildly.

I was made aware of that by my friend who studied English for years and also dated a translator (some "expanding brain" meme potential over here), who agreed to correct one of my posts - and correct he did.

I have a lot to say, but just not enough time to write it down and publish.

So yeah, this will definitely land in my CV, but I don't expect it to be useful for anything else anytime soon.
Half the time a bank doing that is also reducing everything to a numeric pin and/or strictly limiting its length. Banks, on average, are a very bad model for password security.
Most tropical/subtropical areas that are malaria-free did it by virtually eliminating mosquitoes with pesticides long enough that malaria was virtually eliminated in the human population, which eliminated malaria in the mosquito population when the mosquitoes rebounded.
You shouldn't have to retreat to personal space. You should retreat to collaborative space. If personal privacy is not the default, then social expectations will have you rarely able to take advantage of it.
The Asus Zenbook, and the Asus Zenbook Duo, seem to expand on the idea in a more useful way. I am a bit surprised we didn't see the Macbook Pro go to a similar design (I.E. using the track pad as a display, or moving the track pad and adding a second display).
Starting the comment with "assuming this is the real reason" seems disingenuous in a post that seems to be supportive of the author.

But that it's repeated again in the 3rd paragraph, and that the final paragraph then mentions that it'll make Tim "hard to hire"?

There's no basis in evidence: Tim's wikipedia page shows a history of activism consistent with taking this kind of stand, and a staggering resume that indicates it's unlikely he'll have any trouble finding work if he wants it.

I'm pretty disappointed in HN that this is the top-voted comment on this article..
To build on this tip, the following will shorten file revert time but a couple seconds (default is 5 secs)

(setq auto-revert-interval 1)

Found in https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
How about this?

Work out the audience share of a service, then work out the audience share of its nearest competitor/competitors. If the former is twice/four times/whatever as high as the latter, then it's counted as a de facto monopoly and regulated.

So YouTube's got 74.08% of the market and Vimeo has 18.02%[1], and the former is definitely twice or four times more than the latter, so regulate the former.

[1]https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/online-video--12/youtu...
"Settings: Keyboard: Touch Bar shows" lets you permanently set to F keys or (my preference) the Extended Control Strip.
Nobody "fetishizes" small business. This sounds like big corporation mouthpiece rhetoric. Big business is responsible for wealth concentration and irresponsible economics that hurt everyone. The alternative? Small business. It's easy to see why people might prefer a reality where small businesses continue to exist. Not everyone likes the Orwell novel we're writing.
If you don't do it, your competitors will, and then eat you alive.
A handful of politicians have been trying to decouple health insurance from employment the last two election cycles but for whatever reason a significant portion of the country "likes their health insurance", whatever that means. Personally I've never loved any of my health plans and dread the yearly increases and frequent provider changes as I either jump between jobs or my job eliminates or adds new plans due to rising cost.
As long as I can register with a competent physician and dentist and keep the cost low I could care less who administers my plan. It truly is a mystery but I suspect resistance is tied to a belief that a government implementation would some how be more inefficient than what we have and the general disdain people in the U.S have against taking "freebies" or public assistance due to the history of social/racial stratification in the country.
It's amazing that it takes a deadly global pandemic for companies to finally abandon this very poor organizational tactic, not years of reduced productivity, increased worker stress, and (in environments where it wouldn't endanger workers' careers) constant complaints.
Perhaps I'm missing something but I can't seem to find what I get for my money, what concepts and commands are covered? How many "cases" are there?
If you’re into that kind of thing, RadTech makes microfleece screen protectors and sleeves that are already sized appropriately for various Apple products.

https://www.radtech.com/products/screensavrz-macbook-pro-key...
Roast mushrooms, elephant garlic, peppers and eggplant planks are essential at any BBQ! And I say that as a meat eater...
Years ago in NYC Chinatown I went to a restaurant called "Vegetarian Paradise" with all sorts of fake meat dishes. It was fun at the time but not particularly good. One notable exception which I have had in other restaurants is mock duck breast with mushrooms layered in sheets of seitan. I've had nice versions of that but yes I'd agree on your assessment.
You'd think, if it were so univerally taken-advantage-of, there'd be some studies in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_organizational_... that can be pointed to as the source of all this.
I love not having to maintain half a dozen init scripts for three distributions but just one unit file for a well defined service manager.
You can change it to show the F-keys by default in macOS settings. Then by pressing Fn you can view the "special" mode.
You make it sound like Apple is the only one making hardware that has issues sometimes. They simply have to be better than the competition, and most of the time they seem to be.
IIRC Apple Mail uses IMAP via Oauth.
I'm sorry for your experience but thanks for sharing.

Did you try to look for a sales partner?

What are you working on now?
I didn't expect I would enjoy the lockdown as much as I do. It probably helps that in my country we have a soft lockdown. I did have to overcome a tinge of bad conscience, but that didn't last. I wonder if this is related to the black hole you mention, does it have anything to do with shame?

I made a comic about my experience, but it's in french...
https://lecourrier.ch/app/uploads/2020/04/intermede-confine-...
Maybe it's that capitalism is incompatible with morality and the government isn't doing it's job to force behaviors that are necessary, but not aligned with capitalism.
At this point macOS is just a different list of pros and cons all by itself.
> At the end of the day, it’s all about power balances. The warehouse workers are weak and getting weaker

More and more victims of trickle down economics.
The amount of effort and time it would take to automate away warehouse work makes this whole question ludicrously moot, even concern-trolling. It’s akin to saying “at least Uber is employing its drivers because otherwise self-driving cars will automate them away.”

And Amazon is indeed a more convenient target because you would expect a company with its resources and power to have a higher standard of treatment of its employees. They can certainly afford to.
Ah, well I take it to be true that generally complex systems do not have intents, that complex systems do not select against subsets, and that complex systems with no single controller are in fact complex and made up of a multitude of push and pull pressures. That's just my take though.

> Also, the very next graph shows that real household income is virtually unchanged. And rent as a percentage of income is rising as well.

There is not a single graph on this page which mentions rent as a percentage of income. You may see Taxes as a percentage of income[^2], but this does not touch in rent. One graph does not tell the whole story, but you must offer evidence for your argument. You can't simply shrug and say "well I disagree with the evidence!"

> There are pressures on the working class that make it very difficult to "skill up" through no fault of the worker.

That's true for all of humanity. You haven't established that there's a special kind of pressure on low wage earners due to or related to capitalism. Whether you're a capitalist, socialist, or an 11th century peasant, you need to eat, work, pay your taxes, watch your kids and generally live life.

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
AFAIK there isn't much genetic engineering involved in that project at the moment. They just rear male mosquitos that are infected with a Wolbachia bacterium (making them sterile).
Seeing this on CNBC really makes me happy that it's getting some actual coverage. I hope having someone who isn't just a wagie quit in protest will make others at Amazon come to terms with their employer, and acknowledge their practices.
I came across https://write.as and it seems great. In fact I use it to share one-off texts with few of my close friends. But there's no commenting and I don't want to use Disqus.

Is there any simpler workflow to use this - without Jekyll I mean?
Thanks for the correction, 2399$ was the price of the comparable Dell modell. The VAT and AppleCare makes sense.
As suggested at the end of the submitted blog post, with the very same link.
> I had to go home and move in with family so I could speak to someone more than once every two weeks.

Eyeballs, friend, use them.
> I still miss mag-safe adapters though. I still don't understand that decision.

With any luck the mag-safe connector will be back in a couple of years. Of course Apple will call it "new".
simply no.
> neo-fascist dictatorship with corporate characteristics

> Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state

You seem very confused.
No one will acknowledge the use of "faster performance"? Alright.
If you assume everyone has a full workstation drawing 1500w peak, you really can't share sockets.
Would this help?

https://beorgapp.com/
Do you have a cite? My impression was that we do not have sufficient preparations in place to do this.

(E.g., we may have satellites that can be taken as weak indicators, but they are not designed for this, and there is no clear decision authority starting from possibly ambiguous satellite data to prophylactically shutting down power for 300M people against their will. Hopefully, recent events have made clear that "leaders will get their act together and act decisively during an emergency" cannot be the default assumption.)
The virtues and vices of any large group of people sort of coalesce into a big gestalt "culture." Companies hire for very specific virtues, related to competence and effectiveness, that they then amplify or dampen with metrics and training and so on.

Meanwhile, society and human nature have some baseline of pressures acting on them that amplify or dampen different sets of virtues and vices. Among these are a certain level of greed and cutthroatedness.

Companies rarely actively select against cupidity or avarice, and insofar as they do it's usually fine as long as it flows downward and enriches the company overall. So, as the company scales up it scales up in its capacity for evil too.

Though it's not as if "small" can't be evil as well. Small businesses are still part of a network of small businesses and subject to market forces that also select for and against different behaviors, many of which involve screwing over their workers.
What kind of return? Long term or short term?

Destroying a company through mismanagement is decried as evil too.
Big organizations (public or private) are always dominated by internal politicking - there's a lot of scope for opportunistic behavior and very little transparency of any sort. Sometimes a whistleblower throws some light on the dynamics of what's going on inside the organization, as we saw here - but this is incredibly rare. It's a marvel that large-scale profit-seeking companies even manage to be halfway functional, but that's usually because the technical benefits of coordinating effort on a large scale overwhelm the organizational drawbacks; Amazon's logistics operations are actually a case in point.
Here "materialization" just means that the query planner treats it as an optimization fence. That means the system doesn't do any optimization between the CTE and the query referencing it. It would prepare the output of the CTE as a completely separate entity essentially as if you had dumped it to a temp table. It may not be written to disk if there was sufficient memory, but either way you're sacrificing any optimization. I believe that it would even materialize the CTE multiple times if it was referenced multiple times, but don't quote me on that.

On the other hand, if the same query were written with subqueries instead of with CTEs, then the query optimizer would not treat it as an optimization fence. If it could utilize indexes or rewrite the query to be relationally equivalent, it would do so.

Note that sometimes that optimization fence is beneficial. There are situations where it's better to create temp tables and run smaller simpler queries instead of running an extremely complex monolithic query because the query planner isn't perfect even with hints. You can still enable that optimization fence functionality in PostgreSQL if you need to, but it's generally pretty rare that it happens like this. Still, you'll see stored procedures for reports still using temp tables and even cursors sometimes because they can be made to perform better in certain situations.
There is. It’s called Beorg. It’s fantastic.

https://beorgapp.com/
my wording was terse, but I quote the same story as the point you are making (the la times link). my point was that CA did what it could, given budget constraint. If federal had bailed out CA with that little money to keep the stockpile maintained, we would have been in much better shape nationwide.
I think the idea that workers need "profitable" degrees to work "profitable" jobs isn't as obvious as you think.

It used to be said that a college degree was a ticket to a well-paying job. Now, a few decades later, we're told to get a STEM degree, because other degrees are worthless. Who's to say that the criteria won't get even narrower in the future?

Degrees aren't a symbol of skill nearly as much as they are a way for the market to allocate well-paying jobs, and the allocation is getting smaller all the time.
Not saying it's a bad thing, just saying that it might not improve productivity compared to their peers that still want to finish that one thing on Friday before the weekend starts.

But indeed those employees (programmers, etc) saw that as a benefit of doing no more than 40 hour per week.
I think that is still an uncharitable interpretation of events. No one is claiming (so far as I know) that Who Wants to be a Millionaire? scoured all episodes looking for suspicious patterns. This is one episode where cheating was already suspected (though I would like to know on what grounds they suspected it).
No attached cubicle furniture? No drops from the ceiling to install for network/power? No issues with tradesmen? No worries about injury or liability? Those cords- they just laying on the floor? That'd be a violation.

Sure you can horse some cubicles around in a tiny shop with no oversight. But to move a department on a floor is an extended effort either way - move out, teardown, rewiring, maintenance (cubicles wear out and parts are expensive), cleaning and reassembly including built-in furniture.

My point is simply, drywall is a tiny fraction of the cost of expensive portable reusable modular units. In an office movein I took part in, the drywall and doors took a week. Took longer to order, get delivery and drop power/network to the 4 cubicles in the back room later when we expanded there . And the cubicles cost as much for 4, as the entire buildout for the front 20 people.
> Imagine if your lawyer pulls up in a mid-nineties Toyota Corolla, and tell me if you think you're likely to win the case.

I drove my upset and blindsided friend to her first meeting with her new divorce attorney after her husband left her. We were early so were sitting outside the Palo Alto firm in the parking lot when a pearl-white Mercedes Maybach rolls in with R&B music bumping and custom plates "MKHMPAY"

She seemed like a very good attorney, but my friend ended up going with another firm because that lady was too expensive ($1500/hr). Even the paralegal there was $500/hr.

Ultimately, my friend told me her divorce was 2x as expensive as her wedding.