skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I see where you're coming from, "that's not how it's done" might not be the right answer when the things that are happening are already crossing ethical boundaries that are more serious than breaking with corporate traditions.

I think I would agree that making media rounds would be a crude move, but there are actions you can take along a continuum before that (like this blog post) that might help apply external pressure while still having access to the internal levers.

It reminds me a bit of Congresspeople who gain the courage to speak honestly after they've left their government roles. Yes, it's still courageous, and there are good reasons not to speak out while you're inside the system, but damn, you've just given up your best chance at making actual change.
summary: minimally updated cpu and storage. AND WE PUT BACK THE ESCAPE KEY LOT AT THE NICE PICURE (but don't us to explicitly say it). also we swear the keyboard might be fixed this time and we will leave you hanging if there's still a headphone port.
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
Ireland & Canada too, probably elsewhere: https://www.just-food.com/news/coronavirus-live-news-covid-1...
Another my work is my hobby cat
In engineering we say option X is objectively better than Y, if X is superior on all metrics. This is generally not true, so wether X is better than Y is going to subjective. So we will always end up with endless discussions with "yes but this.. yes but that..".
My new 16 inch crashes once every 48-72 hours. Been pretty upset with it so far.
yeah but its not all protein - fats are 9. I guess wild deer are pretty lean though.
> I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?

This part of the article jumped at me -- If this is true, then I'd have to say "yes, coincidence". No company (let alone one as large as Amazon) would be that stupid in 2020.
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> This has also not been a significant issue in other countries hit by Covid-19, that I'm aware of. What is it about the USA's meat processors that have made them vunerable?

We still underestimate how amazingly contagious this disease is.
Was? Did you go back to normal activities already?
I stopped at the mention of Naomi Klein.
I have the same machine, which served as my ultra-portable unit until say...2018. Now it's gathering dust.

It's just too slow now. Even browing web pages is unbearably slow. I wish it wasn't because I love the 11" form factor. If Apple were to offer something in that size again, I'd buy it.
They sort of do, the official KiCAD part libraries are actually hosted on Github https://kicad.github.io/. A lot of distributions kinda mess this up by distributing static snapshots, but I usually clone the Git repo and then direct KiCAD to that. The base libraries cover a ton of parts, and I then keep all my self-drawn or individually downloaded parts in a separate library.

It's still a pretty clunky workflow but it gets the job done. I really wish it was possible to have a point and click interface in the GUI for downloading individual new parts akin to a Linux package manager, but this is probably difficult to manage since there is no centralized distribution point for parts that are outside of the official libraries.
Not here, tuition is very low (<2k per year) at ETH (due to being heavily subsidized) and doesn’t depend on nationality
That was kind of the point...
Private officies are perfect for collaboration. There is no need to schedule meeting rooms. Just talk in your office.
I don’t think employees want to waste time commuting and employers want to waste money on real estate.

The reason most people still go to the office is because of the hurdles I mentioned above.

Yes, there is certainly a lot of work can’t be done behind a computer, or workforces that can’t effectively collaborate over a computer. But I don’t think that means they wouldn’t if they could.
Depending how you look?
Here is a great example: disable the service before installing -- i.e. make sure that even if someone installs the service, it won't get activated.

On systemd, it is "systemctl mask NAME". On sysvinit? Well, there maybe a file in /etc/default/ -- but each package has its own option name... and some of them cannot be disabled at all.
32Gb of ram requires DDR4 which in this case, requires 10th gen chips.

Reading through this, I can't help but think this feels like Apple's 2.5Ghz PowerMac G5 all over again, back in like 2004.

Back then, they promised a 3Ghz G5 CPU in under a year and IBM just couldn't do it. Apple even noted it as why they were switching to Intel at the time. They couldn't keep promises and it seemingly pissed Steve off to the point of basically trashing them on stage.

This order sheet only makes sense if you think: 'What would they do if Apple couldn't get enough 10th gen parts and they showed up late?'

Obviously they would skew them to the high end models as they move mostly lower spec models. That way your product line still offers the fastest Intel hardware. But it makes for a messy nonsensical spec sheet that confuses customers.

When should I get the 8th Gen i7 that Turbos to 4.5Ghz but then when should I get the 10th Gen i7 that Turbos to 4.1Ghz?

You know what floored me?

This press release:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/05/apple-updates-13-inch...

It seems to not mention 'Intel' until nearly half way through and exclusively uses it as a technical descriptor twice. (not `Intel's newest processors`, but instead the `10th Generation Intel Core' and 'Intel Iris Plus') The first reference to the CPU just calls them '10th gen processors'. It's like watching a person refer to an ex. This is the first Macbook Pro with a 10nm processor...why don't they say that?

This mess of product line just isn't Apple-like...And I think it has them pissed.
That’s also why some people don’t provide steady schedules or part time work, in order to prevent the employee from finding another job.
I am actually on record mocking this move by Google. Maybe the consensus on HN is what you say, but this site trends toward groupspeak and mass downvoting for opinions they don’t like. I wouldn’t necessarily take the top comments as the actual consensus.
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Yes, but another way of looking at it is that if you prioritize A over B, it's because the opportunity cost of not doing A would be greater than the opportunity cost of not doing B. So "prioritization" is another way of saying "minimizing opportunity cost".
These are higher performance chips in the MacBook Pro though. I don’t think the 16 inch has 10nm.
Most trade-in or authorized reseller values they'll give is 70-80% below what you'd get private party. I usually sell my laptop at a 30-50% discount to a friend, or get a little more value selling it on Craigslist. The nice thing about Macs is even at 5 or 10 years old, there's a market for used Macs.
The part that sucks the most is when opportunity cost of not doing something is "globally" high, but the other party only optimizes locally for themselves.

You will see, especially at work, when you have something that makes a ton of money, but people will be uninterested because it doesn't benefit them as much. At that point you require lots of escalations.
> You do realize even the Linux kernel doesn't make any commitments regarding API stability, right?

You say "even" the Linux kernel; actually most projects don't and Linux is a rare exception, and I do think it's a bad idea for both technical and nontechnical reasons. (Compare with GCC's refusal to offer a stable API between frontend and backend, which I'd argue is a big reason why LLVM is overtaking it).

> There's always BSD, if you want compatibility back to the Sun days in some cases, (Win32 is another option).

I actually do run FreeBSD these days; one of the reasons this issue still bothers me is that compatibility with BSD is likely to be collateral damage from the systemd push (it's getting harder and harder to run Gnome on BSD, for example). It was particularly frustrating that systemd basically killed off Debian GNU/kFreeBSD just as it was becoming a first-class architecture; that could have been the best of all worlds.
If I was going to play optical media, I’d be more interested in getting it to play on my TV than my laptop. Every time I played a DVD on the last laptop I had with a DVD drive it was always a nightmare to deal with power, HDMI, and deal with the laptops tendency to go to sleep. I’d rather just buy a dedicated optical player for the TV and be done with it.
Saying Thank You to the NHS, Using Clojure
I suspect Tim has a pretty good understanding of his ability to influence Amazon's corporate culture:

> At that point I snapped. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. I think I made them to the appropriate people.

And it seems that failed. What's left to do at that point? You can "sabotage" - in the sense of refusing to do your job. You can participate in a system you think is heading in the wrong direction (and with the knowledge you can't really change it). Or you can quit.
Thanks so much for the comment! I removed it (1.2) from the license.
I personally would only use the main one unless I had a specific reason to need the fork. I've never had any problems with Syncthing from F-Droid (and syncthing lite for the wimpy cheap android tablets)
macOS is definitely not a top class UNIX environment, not even by a long shot. It is an alien hybrid of outdated BSD tools and toolchains. Even Xcode, which was amazing a decade ago, is now a joke compared to other environments and specialized tools nowadays.

Since Jobs died, the company has slowly allowed their development-focused machines and toolset to rot. The company now only caters to artists and it shows with their "Pro" offerings, including the Mac Pro.

As for the desktop features, all 3 major operating systems are the same. Claiming otherwise is not knowing how to use each of them.
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I live in NYC and I'm back at my parents' place. No drinking, running a lot, doing well at work. Quiet time to introspect and observe spring around me. Saving a lot of money. I'm enjoying it and questioning if I even want to move back to NYC (if i can just go remote).
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
Every two years or so my software job will bring in a director from overseas and I have to go find another job. This has happened four times in 8 years.
> I still miss mag-safe adapters though. I still don't understand that decision.

As someone who’s never had a tripping accident with a magsafe charger but has had to replace multiple damaged chargers despite being careful, I welcome that change. Spending 90€ because Apple doesn’t know how (or doesn’t care) to make cables with a modicum of durability isn’t fun. With USB-C, presumably (I don’t own one of these) I could get better cables or replace them cheaper if they got frayed.

I was also excited for the possibility of being able to charge on either side, until I learned that comes at a cost: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
I had the same problems with Dell and Ubuntu ... four years ago. I guess some things don't change.
Yes. But I don't see what this has to do with the topic at hand?
> COVID certainly has a lower mortality right now

Yep. A vast majority of those who've contracted COVID are asymptomatic. The mortality rate might be significantly lower than previously reported.
Yes i'm a developer
You're basically just saying about YouTube/Google what people have been saying about any large corporation that does things that are legal but less than agreeable.

The difference is, if you think that WalMart's practices are bad for small businesses, you can stop going to WalMart and only shop at small businesses, and pretty much get the exact same products. You can vote with your wallet.

But on YouTube, you have no power as a consumer. You are the product. And boycotting YouTube traps you in a world of YouTube rejects, forced to construct their own platforms, who more often than not are right-wing extremists pushing violence, intolerance, and misinformation.

YouTube is a town where WalMart is the only grocer. You can give in to the large corporation to get what you need, or you can eat out at fast food joints for every meal.

So really, you have only three choices:

1. Get the laws changed so that the First Amendment applies to private companies, stripping them of their own freedom to cull what they publish, and making misinformation and violent speech much more difficult to address.

2. Accept that there is nothing you can do to compel Google to do or not to do things that they aren't legally compelled to, especially when the decisions they are making revolve around selling as many ads as they can to their customers (the advertisers) not making the product the sell (you, the viewer) happy.

3. Accept that Capitalism is why you have no power here, and work towards a future in which large corporations don't have the power to control and suppress you without recourse. Or sell your data and attention as a product as they act as the largest VoD platform in existence.
Russian bots are a thing, you know.
You’ll always get a better resale value by selling it yourself versus going through Apple.

The difference will be down to convenience for many people and potentially the lower upfront cost of purchase if you haven’t sold the previous device yet.
For anyone wondering why this viewpoint is wrong, recall Nash equilibrium. Society, made of many people, is often stuck in suboptimal Nash equilibrium despite no one actually wanting the global state of things.

The only way out is collective social or legal action (often seeded or inspired by martyrs).
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As a long time PC user I'd say the Razer Blade series of laptops are far closer to Macbook replacements than Dell's machines. Plus you get a nice discrete GPU to boot. I've been using my 15" blade for several years now - and they are even better now.
With many people reducing their hiring and more devs with experience on the market, you might want to rein in your expectations. You may also want to because it is highly unlikely you can accrue the necessary skills and find employment in 60 days. Think more like 6-12+ months depending on if you get a structured education or try to self teach.
That's not what "sexist" and "racist" means unless you have evidence that sex and race are the cause of their overrepresentation.

If not, this is just race/gender baiting and it detracts from the broader issue of worker treatment.
After several years I can unequivocally say I still hate the touch bar. I love touch ID, but the bar needs to go.

USB-C was all about standardizing. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, I did love magsafe, but I also love that in theory someday I'll have one cable to rule them all. And I'll be able to charge my headphones/laptop/phone/random device with a usb-c cable instead of needing 8 of them.
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Understanding the Wonders of Quantum Computing as a Layman
There's a flatpak binary for it https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/org.horizon_eda.Horizon...
Man, it's a really good thing none of us are using video conferencing much these days, otherwise it would be really embarrassing for Apple to release a laptop with a 720p webcam.
you can also try a search engine based on feedirss api called DatoRSS (https://datorss.com)
Spec bump (not even wifi6) is an indicator of a major design upgrade coming in the fall. I expect a significant exterior change or the switch to Arm processors come October.
> More highly skilled workers can end up in this situation, too

And the moment that happens, all those nice benefits go flying out the window and the SWE find themselves having to clock out when going to the toilet. Demand (and therefore the easy of replacement) is what makes the difference.
I got a brand new one evaled for free disposal. That was really generous of Apple.
The cryptocurrencies that will really take off (in the long run) will be the ones that are most programmable and win the most developer hearts and minds. Digital nation-state sponsored fiat won't be able to compete with the complexity that is made possible by "finance legos". I think Ethereum and maybe what's coming together at https://www.avalabs.org/ are good examples.
> It seems reasonable to call the homogenized looks of modern suburbs to be in big part a side effect of that invention.

Europe has lawn mowers too, but people still don't live in soulless unwalkable dystopian suburbs as Americans. It has to do with a lot more than automation. It's partially crimes, partially race relations, inequality, crime, a cultural desire for large living space deriving from manifest destiny and the dream of the wild west, extreme individualism, sparse population etc.
He analyzed one episode. The 0.3% probability is of that pattern happening in that episode. It would be different if he went searching for patterns through all episodes, but that is not what he did.
I haven't touched Oracle in like 12 years so I can't comment on that. But some of the examples are a bit strange or atleast lacking for PostgreSQL.

For example, in the partitioning, he states:

> SELECT * FROM sales_p_america;

But doesn't mention that if you select based on a region, it will use only the partition table.

> SELECT * FROM sales WHERE sales_region IN ('USA','CANADA');

While I believe if you do the equiv in Oracle it wont use the partition table?

---

The section on table inheritance isn't right either.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-inheritance.html

What he demonstrated was just a way of making additional tables based on existing ones. While inheritance works sort of like partitioning except the child tables can contain additional data. Selecting from the parent will display all data from the child.
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State of Linux Usability 2020
> hasn't access to meaningful entropy since running in a container

getrandom(2)/getentropy(3) should be using kernel randomness generation, which isn't affected by containers I thought.
You would certainly expect that these places should have strict hygiene standards, but investigative journalists have found time and time again that slaughterhouses in the USA are filthy places where human and animal disease alike are concentrated by the time pressure to go faster, to make meat cheaper and cheaper.

Fast Food Nation (https://www.litcharts.com/lit/fast-food-nation/chapter-9-wha...) profiled this in the early aughts.

Countless other investigative journalists have tried, even against the "ag-gag" laws we have in farming states, to uncover even more in recent times:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/meat-plant-wor...

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/05/14/probing_the_...

The consolidation of the meat industry has given them extraordinary lobbying power. They now have broad authority to regulate themselves:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administrations-new-hog-slaug...
I had a XPS13 a couple of years ago and the USB-C port was not Thunderbolt 3. The new 13” MBP has four TB3 ports which is a pretty big deal to me.
And probably the moment you do it, he'd take all the credit from you too.
Am I misunderstanding this? Is powering down an instance putting it up for grabs? Shouldn't that only happen upon deleting the instance from ones account?

> I’m currently betting on AppImage being the best solution for that (starting point so far: a build script that provides ruby) and plan to invest more work there.

A simple Docker install is perfect for this case. Would recommend a try!
Could have been fixed much quicker, I don't see why we are saying they did a good job on that problem when they just replaced it in exactly the normal product cycle.

Could have been fixed within a year but it would have cost more money so nah just ship a faulty product for 4 years they'll eat it up anyway and replace it when we were gonna do a redesign anyway.
Alberta's two largest current outbreaks are in meat processing facilities. I believe it requires extremely close quarters for long hours.
Ok, I will risk and jump in, because I am curious.
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You're not wrong - Kojima games are just as much film as they are video game.

But as someone who is inherently drawn to over the top narrative-based games (see Persona 5, FF7, Detroit: Become Human etc.) I can't help but feel like his style of gaming is the future of narrative single-player experiences.
Kind of, but you don't necessarily have to blog about work-related hobbies. You can blog on other interests!
Then it becomes an externality.

Why should sales stop littering when development is the one cleaning up the highway?
I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use an optical drive in the past 5 years. I'm guessing most of us are in a similar situation. For those instances, I pull out an old external USB blu-ray player.
I'm talking about form-factor specifically. Not "design" which is subjective.

XPS 13 has had thin bezel for a long time now. Sporting smaller chassis than macs on same screen size. Here's first google result, from 2015:

https://www.ibtimes.com/dell-xps-12-xps-13-xps-15-hands-ultr...

And here is a list of various laptops with thin bezels from different brands:

https://www.colourmylearning.com/2018/09/laptops-with-minima...
Fax uses frequencies that humans can hear though (up to 4KHz)
This became this way only once systemd has won.
At least during Debian systemd debate, both sysvinit and upstart could run Gnome just fine.

(also, what were the alternatives? I don't run GNOME myself, but given what GNOME wants do to, it does need a solid session management. I have seen ConsoleKit, it was worse than systemd.)
I would definitely agree with that. Having bought into the Apple ecosystem brings software features that you can't get elsewhere.
I think it's a company culture overall. The same experience with Oracle cloud, I saw low prices, decided to try... Their Kubernetes engine was purely horrible not even alpha comparing to Google offering. My bare-metal installation was much more mature.
Mostly because they insist on using supposedly eco-friendly rubber that frays dangerously.

Ignoring that me buying 5 chargers across the life of a device is far worse for the environment than just 1.

My Titanium Powerbook charger still remains un-frayed and I used that laptop everyday for 9 years.
Having both a macbook and a Thinkpad, the Thinkpad trackpad is absolutely horrendous to use.
What's your problem with the touch bar? My biggest was the lack of esc key, but they adjusted that.

I actually really like the touch bar. I don't use it very often, but I never used function keys.