skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't take this as an indicator in general that online classes are good or bad (I'm personally not a fan). I think everyone can agree that the quality of classes is going to go down when you have to stop in-person classes mid-semester with no time to prepare for an online transition. Teaching online is a different style that doesn't necessarily work for every instructor or for every subject for that matter.

At the same time, university is extraordinarily expensive. If you are paying 50K/year and not getting what you paid for, you are going to feel like you are owed something. Add on the fact that many students' parents have lost all or parts of their incomes, or fear that they will going forward, and it would be surprising if we didn't see these lawsuits.

Ultimately, it's going to depend what is in the contracts that were signed. If there's a force majure clause favoring the universities, then the students may not have a case. If not, then yeah, they aren't getting what they paid for and should be entitled to refunds.
None of the examples you're listing are 2x; those are 1.4x, 1.6x, 1x, and 1.7x. The prices you're listing are also lower than what I see in the cheap grocery stores here, not sure why?

(They also are delivering to consumers; we've been putting in a weekly order and it's a way better experience than Instacart.)
I double that. Some years ago I almost lost the entire synced state after adding a new device that hadn't synced anything yet. For some reason syncthing decided that the new device has the most recent version of the data and happily started deleting everything on the other peers. Thankfully I had a backup, and not all peers were connected. After that I concluded that syncthing is fundamentally broken.

I sync my org files using a low-tech solution: I have a .dir-locals file that injects a post-save hook that automatically commits changes to git and pushes them to the remote. It's stupid, but it works, and I never have to think about it.
If it is ubiquitous anyway then why isn't it blocking malaria in the wild?
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There's some irony in doing so through Virgin Money.

Virgin is seeking to privatize the NHS, and the group has Virgin Care, which is one of the largest private care providers contracted by the NHS. Naturally, Virgin Care pays no corporation tax -- Richard Branson has an allergy to tax, and doctors and politicians have so far not found a cure.
I'm wondering the same. My wife has an i5, 16GB, 256GB air showing up today. At the same price of the base 13 pro, I think the air is the better buy.

I don't understand why they still sell anything with < 16GB ram in the base config.
This might be state/course dependent. In NY you have to take a class in order to get a license but the one I took well over 18 years ago only taught you the safety part, gun safety, don't shoot at things you cannot see, what to wear, basic navigation, etc., as well as when it is legal to hunt different game. If someone else didn't teach you the actual hunting part you'd be fairly ill equipped still after taking the course.
> I also love that in theory someday I'll have one cable to rule them all

True, although they could have done what many of the pc laptop makers have done. They still provide their proprietary charger with many models (ie. ThinkPad connector), but the USB-C port can also be used to charge the computer if you one already or want to pony up for a USB-C charger. For example, I've used my macbook pro charger to charge my last couple PC laptops too (ThinkPad and Acer). Like you said, then I only need one charger on my desk.

I assume these manufacturer's do this because their own charger, especially the barrel chargers that some manufacturers use, are cheaper than USB-C chargers/cables. In Apple's case, they could have kept the magsafe connector because it's a better connector. But, I assume it was lost to cost savings or aesthetics.
It’s often been said that VCs invest in people not products and there’s certainly some truth to that.

That said, having a realistic plan on how your idea turns into a sustainable business is certainly key too. That’s even more important with the economy we’re heading into where startups that are not financially stable are not long for this earth.
I'm REALLY hoping this was the last major revision of iPhone (and airpods) to retain lightning. I won't hold my breath but I hope they finally make the move to usb-c.
Sorry, it seems axiomatic to me. There are pressures on the working class that make it very difficult to "skill up" through no fault of the worker.

Also, the very next graph shows that real household income is virtually unchanged. And rent as a percentage of income is rising as well. One graph does not tell the whole story.
If you look into those magnetic things a little bit you'll notice they don't support full thunderbolt data rates. It’s largely physics that’s holding us up, not necessarily Apple. In theory data rates don’t matter strictly for charging but then we’d be back at a different cable/port for charging vs data transfer which would be subpar UX. If nothing else I think it’s why you only see these things aftermarket. I do share your sentiment, though.
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I’d denote stealing with my palm facing downwards.

I actually had to try it out in real life... I can’t think of gesticulating in the abstract.

Seems like you can take the Italian out of Italy but not Italy out of the Italian.
That was exactly the point. I had separate password on each box (which I did not have to use normally because I use it only to setup ssh key).
> What sorts of consumer electronics (if any) might be affected by a flare?

* Old things (ie. pre 1990) - ie. before it was common to put protection diodes on every CMOS input.

* Analogue things designed to be very sensitive, particularly at longer wavelengths. FM/AM radio, ECG machines, microphone inputs...

* More modern things if a power cycle can't reset state.
That some things are a more complicated doesn't lead to "doesn't solve anything." It solves many things. If they're not things you need solved then fine, but you can't deny that for many workflows it is actually useful.
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Good for Amazon for not caving to activist pressure. Google's past fecklessness in this domain has come to haunt it.
Also when this LLVM stuff doesn't work, it's a major pain to troubleshoot because all this is a complexity monster. Go and its Plan 9 heritage is more like 80s retro future and things like cross-compiling are super easy
Sort of, but since it's on a platform is it really "natural" traffic?

Think about it, why do you think FinancialSamurai was always just a decent looking WordPress page and never a Medium or FaceBook blog?
* Better Trackpad

That is an understatement.
If you are very idealistic I would recommend working for a smaller company that aligns with your values. It is naive to join a company like Amazon or Google and imagine it is some progressive utopia. These are mega corps, and in my imagination I see them like The Empire from Star Wars, and you will be a storm trooper on the death star - just one worker among many. You will be on the winning team, well compensated, and destroying your competition. But don't pretend you aren't employee #517384 even if you are a higher-ranking manager. Darth Vader will still strangle you if you get in his way.

All that being said, I would still consider working for the empire, just as in the past I can envision myself working for a major European military power or the Dutch East India Company, or like ancestors of mine who worked for Standard Oil and AT&T. Amazon and Google are the big corporate powers of today and your silly blog posts about unions won't stop them.
Legally, you are required to pay VAT and import duty when buying in the US and importing it, even for personal use.

Chances are, you aren't checked. But if you are, having the original packaging or charger will be noticed by customs. They might even have data to determine country of origin from a serial number, or notice that it's a version that wasn't available when you left for the US etc. And if they ask, the burden of proof is yours to show you bought it in the EU.
I made this switch. After a couple years of a single (but larger) display, I can enthusiastically say I like it much better. I have the Dell UP3216Q.
> Biggest difference for me is DDLs are transactional in Postgres, but not on Oracle.

The answer I received more than once from Oracle evangelists regarding transactional DDL: it's useless and if you need it, you are not testing your scripts properly
My threat model is: governments can read my email but that will incur a cost, a timelapse and a judge -- not just a point and click mega-spy interface.

I want to bash Trump's latest haircut without fear of incoming, frivolous litigation.

I do, however, expect consequences if I do something really stupid.
Yeah I noticed this too. In PC land, most ultrabooks have thinner bezels so this form factor would either have a 14” display or it would have a 13” display in the same footprint as the old 12” MacBook.

My $800 13” HP Envy for example only has about 2mm of bezels on its 4k display.

Apple is falling behind here which is strange considering how much they fetishize thinness.
I work at a FAANG. They’re OK with you working from home 1-2 days/week to run errands, etc, but not OK with 100% WFH except rare exceptions (usually people who have been at the company a while before moving). That may be what OP means. I’ll be curious to see if fully remote becomes more of a possibility based on how the next few months go.
Because of active union-busting efforts, which have made it hard for these workers to organize collective action.

Walmart: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/how-wal...

Whole Foods (post-acquisition): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/27/amazon-whol...

Uber: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/22/uber-lyft-ip...

Amazon: https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-re...

This is not a new problem; low-wage workers have always had the collective power to force change, and businesses and business-friendly have always worked tirelessly to disrupt that collective action.
Why would anybody let themselves be bullied into buying a car? That is seriously foobar
Nobody is excusing that.

I'm pointing out the irony of the most probable outcome after all the moralizing and hand-wringing here by (primarily) well-paid, privileged, white collar tech workers. The jobs will be automated away, Amazon will be no more morally virtuous than they were the day before, yet the outrage will simply shift to the next employer.

A fair assessment of Amazon's worker treatment would involve comparison to the workers' treatment if Amazon were not employing them. Presumably nearly all would be employed elsewhere. How would they fare at other employers? Better? Worse? More or less the same?

If the answer is, "more or less the same," then it hardly seems like Amazon is the problem. Perhaps they're just a more convenient target.
It's one of those things that doesn't matter to you, until it really really does. You only need one accident to make it completely worth it
Come on, Tim. You lost me at, "cost me a million dollars".

Congrats that you did the right thing, but no one should care how much it cost you to be ethical.
Not knowing what are other people’s pain points
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Python's Sum or NumPy's np.sum()?I found a big difference in time
Seems really simple to open "Macintosh HD" in the Finder and find all the "computer-y stuff" I could want. I also added my homedir to the "favorites" list. There's also the very handy cmd-shift-g shortcut for "Go to folder" that autocompletes paths on tab (also under the Go menu which has a bunch of handy links, including Home, Computer, etc.).
Ahhh, in that case I completely agree!

Thanks for correcting me :)
Thankfully no "high pay" labor ever just takes pure advantage of the environment (e.g., stealing product, stealing time, etc) ;) And never at great cost for a period of time before it is discovered.

Pay might be a factor. I think people are people, and their behavior and beliefs vary.
Please Apple, let me choose one without touchbar. I have had a touchbar for over a year now and still haven’t figured out any use for it.

Edit: spelling
what are the adjustments you made with bettertouchtool?
The Lenovo Thinkpad series is well built. The P50 (not sure what replaced it) is really solid, for example.
This is the law he was prosecuted under: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/20/1994-...

> A person who dishonestly, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another, by any deception procures the execution of a valuable security shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years; and this subsection shall apply in relation to the making, acceptance, indorsement, alteration, cancellation or destruction in whole or in part of a valuable security, and in relation to the signing or sealing of any paper or other material in order that it may be made or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security, as if that were the execution of a valuable security.

He intended to gain, and he collaborated with someone else to cheat. Loss isn't required.

Under the newer law (Fraud Act 2006) it's not necessary to show any gain.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/fraud-act-2006

> It is not necessary to prove or demonstrate any consequences of fraud (though they will clearly be material to sentence, compensation and confiscation). "Preddy" type difficulties will not arise (where the property obtained had not belonged to another);

To me it feels odd that you'd need to show a loss. How would you prosecute people who attempted but failed to defraud others?
Tim is not "an engineer". He is not gonna look for jobs.
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Is there a simple way to add encryption to a static site (e.g. hugo, jekyll etc.) and it can be decrypted on the browser without a backend?

This would be for something like a personal journal or close-friends only blog posts while keep the rest of the site open.
Which monitor?
"Surface Pro are extremely nice"

We have some at work and I don't think they are worth the money. Same for the Surface Book. I have it as my main laptop now but I think I will go back to a HP ZBook.
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Yeah. Looking here in Aust, this seems like the right kind of plasterboard (from a local hardware chain):

https://www.bunnings.com.au/gyrprock-csr-3600-x-1200-x-16mm-...

That's non-trade price, probably something like $US42 each. So, couple hundred bucks for that, then the rest (taping, joining, painting). Then the electrical.

That's without labour costs.
Also, there's an argument to be made that America is not actually truly capitalist.

The government intervenes in the market all the time, especially now. Nothing big is allowed to fail. $Trillions to keep the party going.

That's not capitalism.

Even Buffett is sitting this "recovery" out because he can see the lack of a free market.
Don't forget the secondary effects of shutting down entire countries: depression, supply chain failures, sudden poverty, degradation of infrastructure, and increasingly lack of exercise and unhealthy eating as this drags on.

I suspect that will account for most of the differential, and possibly even be the more important number. (because many countries diagnose deaths with covid as deaths by covid)
The 11" carry a particular premium in the second-hand market because there's almost nothing in that size / weight available anymore.

The HP Dragonfly is the closest new equivalent I can find, and it's super expensive.
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It brings GCC into the address space via libgccjit. GCC is not robust enough to be integrated into applications that stay running, and be repeatedly invoked.
Perhaps if there were more people like Tim Bray the Death Star might be a little more progressive and might not be the de facto “winning team”.
Someone has actually crunched the numbers on this! The person-years lost for COVID is currently about 10 years on average.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-kills-people-an-ave...
Upgradeable ram would be the only thing I’d want from Apple. With the advent of Dropbox & similar it’s been a long long time since I’ve run out of disk space. And as I’ve said before, I typically see laptops struggling to perform long before seeing their batteries give up on me.
This kind of model speaks to who actually buys it, I would never pay for a product with such limitations out of principle.
Depends on what you want. Personally, I use Gandi Webmail [1] which provides SOGo groupware [2].

NOTE: it is not as AJAXy as Gmail.

[1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2017/01/introducing-sogo-new-webma...

[2] https://sogo.nu/
>application express

Is it smart to have all of your web app code running in the database, making it impossible to run without the Oracle Database?
"...I can envision myself working for a major European military power..."

Hmmm
Genuinely curious, have you had your MacBook Pro knocked over from the power cord since switching away from MagSafe?

Lots of people complain about missing MagSafe but I’ve never seen or heard of this actually happening. I’m sure it has happened but it just doesn’t seem like a big problem. For me, just in the past month I’ve had the usb charger yanked out by the cord multiple times by people and pets tripping over it while working from home, but the laptop is heavy enough that it doesn’t budge and the cable comes out cleanly.

The benefit of having a standard port now, being able to get monitor, power, and usb connected through one cable, or being able to use the usb-c charger to charge other devices when traveling, is well worth the change IMO. I also used to get little metal specks stuck in the MagSafe port, and then realize the laptop hasn’t been charging all day and have to clear it out and make sure the contacts were connected securely. I wasn’t a big fan of MagSafe at all.
> Again, which is the mythical company you are using as a benchmark here?

Exactly. These kinds of criticisms are useless without a benchmark. Is Wal-Mart better, for example?
Ideas are not protected under law. There's no "stealing" of ideas.

You can steal data, code, and customer lists.
There should not be a single factor, sometimes the team make up becomes the multiplier factor. Say Jony Ives joins a team solving a not so good problem.
Of course I am claiming Linux is a major operating system. It is the most widely deployed operating system in the world, after all.

For desktop in bare metal, Linux is extremely bad, yes, but most people use it as a desktop in a VM within another host OS.

Xcode is an excellent IDE... if you don't know better or are into iOS/Swift development (due to legal reasons).

I know nobody that uses a MacBook Pro in my field. I know it is common in webdev and specially mobile dev fields, though, so I give you that.
Which company says "We fucked up, our old product was flawed and bad" in a press release?

For reference here's the iPhone 4S press release after the "antennagate" iPhone 4:

> Improving on the innovative stainless steel external, dual-antenna design of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S is the first phone to intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive.

Smoothing over the flaws in your previous product by focusing on the new and improved version is about as standard marketing-speak as it gets.
Looks like PostgreSQL only has ephemeral bitmap indexes used when making a query that combines multiple indexes - https://leopard.in.ua/2015/04/13/postgresql-indexes - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-bitmap-scans...
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I just purged Apple from my life largely because the touchbar continues to live on. Love my new Lenovo, btw.

As a workaround for the touchbar that worked pretty well, I bought a silicon keyboard protector for the Apple Magic Keyboard, cut out the area for the function keys, and used hot glue to glue it over the touch bar.

Prevented the touchbar from activating at the slightest touch and did return some of the feel of actually having a row of keys.

Plus, the hot glue causes no damage to the aluminum and does hold for a good period of time.

Turn this into a product people could purchase and you'd become rich :)
I've personally had the feeling for a long time that most of the things I write don't feel very worthy of entire blog posts. That meant that I just didn't write anything. However, writing stuff up is a really great way to actually absorb what you read / study.

So I decided to start taking public notes: https://paramsingh.github.io/notes/

I don't hold my notes to the high standard of a blog so they can be works in progress or just random things.
My urge to splurge is over and won’t be returning soon
Talking to US friends about jobs is always weird because they're so afraid of quitting/being fired, because their health insurance is tied to their jobs. This whole system conspires to make people afraid and subservient. Why you guys haven't replaced it with someone that actually frees you, is always a mystery to me.
"21st-century capitalism" is a system - it is characterized by low worker negotiating leverage, a fragile social safety net, and low or nonexistent effective taxes on businesses. He may have been better served by qualifying it as "21st-century American capitalism", but in context that is quite clear.

There were specific kinds of corruption and abuses that the Soviet system encouraged and abetted; there are specific kinds of corruption and abuses that the current American system encourages and abets. The system is indeed responsible for those abuses, just like any other system.
I tried this out on my system last night. Compile time was quite large (I would say about an hour and a half on my Ryzen 3600X.) I use the DOOM Emacs config, and was surprised to find most things working out of the box with the native compilation. I noticed no difference in startup time. The speed boost was surprisingly noticeable, however, when e.g. opening a buffer that causes a language server to start. Opening CCLS was... instant. It's usually quite quick, but this was noticeably faster.

Great job all around!
Just another existential threat to our civilisation that we all know about but assume someone else somewhere else is dealing with.

A toxic combination of normalcy bias, the availability heuristic, and hyperbolic discounting?