skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use linux at all anymore as a DE, but in a few jobs I did, using both (and for a while canonicals ill-fated WM), and the idea that gnome appears less flexible, slower, and just generally worse in almost all ways was usually (though not always) appeared to be the case.

Maybe KDE was a little too flexible for my tastes, but it sure worked better (most of the time - not always).

I also remember thinking - why the heck is gnome the default?

Haven't used linux as a DE for a few years now though, so no idea what the current status is...
It’s always easier to scapegoat “studio execs” whenever a production has ethical problems. In reality, smart folks like Coppola and Stone know how to play to certain audiences while still selling tickets to the less sophisticated. Most of their movies can be read in opposite terms and it’s absolutely on purpose.
Goldman Sachs in an American bank, headquartered in New York City. The bank is subject to the laws of the US, and of New York.

The events "happened in Malaysia" only in some very abstract sense that some key players may have been located in Malaysia at some points. The bank though, concretely, remains an American bank throughout. Nobody is going to tell a court that oh, this was actually a Malaysian thing, it's OK for American banks to be corrupt so long as somehow Malaysia is involved, that's fine...
You are impling the posts on the gnome subreddit are made only by the people that are unhappy, you should also check the answers to the posts, those are regular users and not one time posters, some of them are developers, developers of extensions or themes and they alo have complains, plus the plans for Gnome4 admint most of the technical issues mentioned.
Community likes options, but enterprises not.

Yet another DE means extra set of conformance tests, bugs to fix, look-and-feels, supporting pages. These all mean money but your customers may not even care about this feature.

So let's say GNU/Linux can use whatever DE and it will always be. But RHEL is just a business product derived from it, with a selected "blessed" packages. There're no conflicts.
I love it when a comment makes me want to read a novel and this is one such comment. Thanks!
Yeah, virtually all of it is from personal experience, although the most negative ones are fortunately rare! I manage a team working on a platform that lets non-technical people build communities through web & mobile apps, so the tech we're dealing with is roughly Rails / PostgreSQL / VueJS / Swift / Kotlin / AWS and you could loosely describe us as a social media startup.

I guess if I could summarise the above, it's that there's an awful lot of very ill-defined and irregular things that need deciding about and acting upon, and it's an engineering manager's job to corral that into some sort of order and make sure it all happens. Lots of spinning plates and dealing with things that don't really fit neatly into a job description, especially at smaller companies.
In my other writings, I've touched on how these tech companies compromise their stability and reliability when they engage in witch-burning campaigns.

For example - once upon a time, I could trust the google search engine, g-mail and the chrome browser. I recommended them to other people, and utilized them myself. But now, I can't in good faith steer folks to any google property, because they run the risk of losing access to their data. Today it's fashionable to cut off GAB, what will the moral panic of tomorrow be?

Another example - I used Pay-pal weekly to make purchases and send money to people and causes I supported. But after PayPal began denying service based on what keeps the outrage mob mollified, I've closed my account and have been helping website operating on the dissident right to transition away from a system that might deny them service on a fit of whimsy. Paypal, like so many other platforms, has become too unreliable to be a single point of failure.

All of these institutions were, until the last few years, treated like utilities - which bolstered their reputation for reliability. But now, so many of these giant Near-Monopolies have decided to become overtly political, denying their services without any manner of due process or even a reasonable amount of notice to the people being cast off. This damages the brand reliability, and where once customers could rely on their Registrar, Host, or Payment Processor, they now must consider it imperative to have redundant systems - lest they risk having their service cut because they suddenly find themselves on the bad side of "the fashionable opinion" of the hour. (Goal-posts that move by the hour, and today's cleric of the faith can easily find themselves tomorrow heretic).

A high-trust business environment is required to maintain the sorts of business relationships a content creator enters into with a platform/host/registrar. The fact is, as it stands now, no content creator, business or group can trust these tech-corporations to maintain a stable relationship - or even adhere to a basic contract - in good faith. Once a company - like PayPal for instance - has proven itself unreliable, it has already done half the work of replacing itself.
Yeah I tried pointing that out in the Known Issues section by alluding to adjusting the size parameter as a means to get the best images. But I think I'll just go ahead and be crystal clear on the "art of selection" part so that this doesn't come across as snake oil.
Yeah, that is fair. I think it depends on how you look at it. For me when I see a very early project with a shiny logo it feels to me like the author is more interested in getting popular than building something. But maybe I'm just jaded.
Lets also not forget the shell is so shit that they finally started shipping the linux subsystem.

Honestly I would have gone to primarily linux instead of mac years ago if osx hadn't been what it is (bsd/*nix).
They are not isolated from each other, they are just detached from those who don't what to hear them.

Imagine that you have a piece of rotting meat. It's unsightly and it stinks. So you hide it under the carpet. Now it's gone from view, and the smell is nearly gone. But it's still rotting down there, and at one moment you'll have to face what it will turn into.
The main iOS dealbreaker for me is the lack of strong AI offering. Google's ecosystem is just so good on that front. Siri is not competitive with the google assistant.

I don't have update issues as I only buy Nexus/Pixel. I've yet to encounter a single piece of malware in the years I've been using android, so this seems like an overblown issue. Mind you, I don't download that many apps, just use some of the more mainstream ones.

I believe Google protects my privacy just fine, but I do admire the extra security that iOS has built into the OS. Wish android did better here.
VS is a pain point? It remains one of the best IDEs out there IMO. What are your specific issues with it, aside from needing to run it on Windows?
Diversity has a value in stability of the ecosystem. Converge to a monoculture which brings highest short-term gains, and later it all can stagnate or even collapse for some single reason. See "banana monoculture".
Why Bitcoin is not like the lottery
.NET Core was never a pure subset of .NET Framework API: it broke compatibility in some places, and it had new features/capabilities in others, leaving the full .NET Framework to catch up on those. (There's an interesting overview of some of that in the histories of the .NET Standard versions < 2, when it sometimes felt unsure if the Full .NET Framework would be .NET Standard compatible, because .NET Core had the wheel on .NET Standard.)
I don't think it's as complicated as all that. I am in Canada and the truth is with 35 million people, you just aren't going to have giant companies with 10,000+ staff. Outside of a few companies in oil+gas, forestry, transport, telecom and banks, most companies can get by with a few hundred employees.

Of course, some of Canada's globally renowned companies have faded too. Blackberry used to employ 14,000 people in Canada as recently as 2011, but they're probably about 20% of that size today.
I believe MS said they're considering open sourcing them when they're included in .Net Core 3.0. But either they didn't decided yet, or they decided against it.
Why did you not try to publish those problematic results without your adviser's name on? There are venues focused just on negative/non-reproducible/problematic results.
I couldn't handle the extra screen area all of the Gnome menu bars took on my laptop. I tried a load of extensions to fix it and then gave up and installed Kubuntu.

KDE is much better for me. No problems at all
Tell that to people who deride their “green bubble friends”
I do love Geometric Albegra and hope it gets further adoption. In my field (physics), the project of moving to geometric algebra currently looks hopeless due to the inertia of other formalisms and lack of interest from established physicists.

The real shame is that the best opportunity to introduce physicists to geometric algebra was a hundred years ago when we were first discovering spinors. First the Pauli algebra and then the Dirac algebra. If physicsts at the time had been made aware of the geometric algebra approach to these things, I think it could have been an appropriate motivation to switch to geometric algebra. Instead, people came up with matrix representations of the Pauli and Dirac algebras and the field is stuck using those and saying "meh. Good enough."
What's interested about Gab is that it wasn't content hosting on another platform (Facebook/Twitter). It was their own platform, that people wrote and built.

What if you run a Plemore/Mastodon server that has users with controversial content? Is it okay for Vultr or DigitalOcean or Amazon to just yank your account? Sure you can claim capitalism and find another provider, but we've seen here that finding another provider is hard and migration is expensive!

I wrote about this almost a year ago when it happened to The Daily Stormer and I still think it's more relevant today:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

Shutting down platforms just drives people to more extreme platforms. You can't just yell "decentralization" because then you could have providers pulling individual instances of federated ActivityPub/OStatus based software.

At some point we're going to need to address free speech online, because it's not like the real world. You can't just go to another news stand or buy your own printer. There are a limited of people that can host general purpose VMs at a reasonable price with a decent provisioning API.

The domain issue is the most troubling. I don't see any reason a registrar should be allowed to pull domain services from people. Right now it's just content some people don't like, but what if a business starts pulling domain registrar service for business they just don't like, and claim it has to do with hate?
I saw claims of a 30% perf increase moving to .net core for a major software company. Can't remember which one, but that's still pretty impressive...
Avoiding the cascade is kind of the point, although I'm sure that sounds antithetical. IMO, the cascade should be treated with an "opt-in" approach, where you have a fine degree of control over what, precisely, is cascading and why.

In general, with component CSS, you will tend to avoid the cascade, except within your component. This is actually where utility classes have some value - if they're scoped very tightly to the parent, and their effects are well-understood - then your single purpose class can add an easy way to do simple updates.

That being said, for my part, and on my own website (doggos.com) we do not use any form of utility classes whatsoever. The entire website depends upon isolation, and through this isolation, I have a degree of control that I've not found in applications that have opted for other methods.

In short, it's worked very well for us.

As for your dark mode example... you should take a look at how Apple made dark mode a reality with their new Mojave update. I think you will be surprised at the level of isolation their interface demands and, although we're no longer talking about the web here, just how easy it was for them to implement...relatively speaking.

In short, I can make a site go dark with components, no problem.
All of these things are true but none of those have even come close to the way they moved the needle with the phone/pad.

Of course let's count the number of years it took them to get there from the newton. You can't just shit out a new groundbreaking ecosystem/product every year like clockwork. If you try 99% of those will be huge misses.
You might want to check out https://snake.li - It's a cryptography-based "social network" born out of a masters' degree thesis. AFAIR most of it works in the browser, while the server doesn't really know much about the data.

A nice idea that sadly didn't get enough funding, and their creators eventually moved on.

It's AGPL though.
iPhones already don't get full updates. They get progressively trimmed updates as time goes on. Stock android does a similar thing. If you get a Pixel, you get 2 years of OS updates (my Pixel from 2016 is running the latest Android), at least 3 years of security updates, and many software updates in the meantime (most of Android's functionality can be upgraded without an OS update).

FWIW, phones aren't designed to last 5 years. The batteries aren't, the screens aren't, the casing isn't, and the hardware generally doesn't (newer software = more demanding).

That said, if you do require to use the same device for five years, and need the latest software on it, than Apple is probably your only option.
Interesting points..

>For example there are 50 years old apple trees in my neighbour's garden that are oh-my-god out of this world tasty.

Ha ha, I've eaten a few Indian fruits that are like that, both as a kid and later. One is jujube [1], called ber in Hindi. When living in Central India as a teenager, used to wander around in open, lightly forested areas near the town, which had these ber trees. We used to eat plenty of their fruit for free. Very tasty. Sweet. The still-slightly-unripe ones were the best. Overripe ones had a bit of a bad smell though. Yellowish-green in color when under-ripe, red when ripe, a bit smaller than, or the same size as a golf ball. I think they probably were high in sugar (fructose, maybe) since when sold in bazaars, flies were usually buzzing around them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube

Another one was karonda [2]. Tangy, sour, astringent, may best describe its taste. Makes your mouth literally water - a lot. Punjabi people make a pickle from it. I had some of that pickle once in a Bangalore restaurant. Mind-blowing taste.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carissa_carandas
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Build their own platforms they shrieked...

So they did.

Then the people screaming cut their web-hosting, payment processors and tried to steal their domain name.

This has nothing to do with freedom of association, and is instead the blatant and open suppression of dissident speech.

How very... liberal...
I'd like more time to pass in order to see what shape (graph-wise) the network will take, and how realistic running your own personal node will be 10-30 years from now (provided Bitcoin and LN remain viable).

I like the concept of LN, but I am unsure what kind of on/off-ramp fees (I am only worried if it's in the thousands of dollars or more) people might have to pay in order to increase the funds of their node - and more importantly open/close channels (because services for topping up will surely be much cheaper than opening/closing channels). I'm not worried about that now, but in the future once a large percentage of the world might be using it as their primary financial interface.

And lastly, a big concern for me is the legal situation of crypto and LN (LN separate because it's much more anonymous). While technically nobody can stop you from using LN, it would be much better if I could run my node and use it for the majority of my financial activity(including receiving salary).

If I've said something reminiscent of concern trolls, please note that I think that Bitcoin still has the greatest potential (over Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum).

P.S.
I'd also like to know when we'll have a user-friendly, relatively bug-free (will never lose money) app for using LN. Or have I missed that?
That's not very helpful or nice.

The link to this submission was changed. It did point at the Red Hat 7.6 release notes. The question is a valid one.
Although Russia has plenty of satellites in orbit, do other nations have fleets of Hubble grade satellites pointing downwards as per UK/USA? Nope.

Okay, telecoms now go by cable, but do countries in mainland Europe have cables reaching out across the world leading back as happens in the UK? Nope. When it was just phone lines all cable for communication across the British empire led back to England, if you wanted to place a call from country A in Africa to country B in Africa it would not take a direct route, it would go to England first with a nice BT switchboard operator connecting the call. This infrastructure was built upon over time to have the fibre optic magic we have today. Much has changed but this inheritance from history is not to be overlooked. If a European company on the continent is trying to get a trade deal with a country that was formally coloured pink then that call is likely to be routed through Five Eyes comms, not some dedicated fibre. Clearly France have plenty of cables going across the border to Germany, but not to Australia.

Every king since the beginning of time has had his spies, there is no country on the planet that does not have some capability. However, The Five Eyes operation is on an entirely different scale to what nations outside of UK/USA have. Essentially the other three eyes are only there due to geography, they are lesser partners without the need or resources to participate at the level that the other two do.

The UK is also a junior partner, the reason GCHQ is so big is that there are laws in the US that are there to prevent the three letter agencies spying on the domestic population. GCHQ does that for them and has been built with the help of US contractors. It is one and the same operation with conflicts of interest on occasion - Airbus for instance.

I know it sounds wrong but I sometimes wish there was more spying going on from countries outside of Five Eyes. It would at least be possible to keep US/UK politicians a bit more honest if other countries has a bit more of an appreciation regarding what is going on. The reality though is that other countries just do not have the resources, people, skills, technology to do that. They buy the stories Washington and London tells them with no inside information to give them a more informed view.
i find the fact that you created a HN account just to troll us with your little puzzle to be 'counterproductive'. you're not the NSA, you're a PHP dev house. respect people's time and maybe you'll get the applicants you're looking for
Not really. I've been using Mastodon for the last four months and I feel pretty safe. My instance doesn't know much more than I already told it. And I don't get reminders, emails telling me to check in, or ads following me. I could also run my own instance, and still be connected to the people I know.

Mastodon is pretty cool.
Florida's a great place to do this because of the bankruptcy homestead exemption:

> In bankruptcy, the Florida homestead exemption allows a primary residence of unlimited value to be protected from creditors as long as the debtor has lived in Florida for 40 months or more, and the property is not larger than half an acre in a municipality or 160 acres elsewhere

OJ Simpson used the same trick to prevent the Goldman family from getting his house.
If the selective pressure was carried out for long enough, it probably would make a difference. Racial variation in eyesight has been observed to exist: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7457480/
1. I use it for my laptop. It works great

2. This will take a bit

First with the naive, as-described nix there are two options:

* For updates to propagate through all the build servers takes a day or two, so you can just be insecure for 48 hours

* Or, you can always build your packages yourself by setting your update channel to just be the head of the nix repository, but now you won't get binary caches for anything that has had its source updated since the last build. This actually works better than you might think, but is still a no-go for most people.

Both of those suck, so there is something called replaceDependency[1] that lets you define a package in terms of the already built-package and a new version of the library. This lets you quickly get a security update in a shared-library out to multiple slow-to-build packages quickly.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...
The existing way is to use replaceDependency(), which takes an input as an already built package and as an output the same binary but with different RPATHs for the shared objects. This however is just stopgap, as other approaches are being discussed. Since I'm not running a server, I haven't followed it as closely as I perhaps should
Apple has botched the Mac lineup and is becoming anti-consumer. I've been a Mac users since the 80's and this is a very different Apple today.
Added this to the Known Issues section.
> And yes, I'm definitely interested in doing video

As someone familiar with the libraries space, I'd actually be very interested in seeing a machine learning model that could deal with "cleaning up" old film (I've actually brought this up w/ several of my ML friends occasionally). One of the biggest challenges in the world of media preservation is migrating analogue content to digital media before physical deterioration kicks in. Oftentimes, libraries aren't able to migrate content quickly enough, and you end up with frames that have been partially eaten away by mold.

As a heads-up, these are some of the problems you might encounter on the film front (which you might not otherwise find with photos due to differences in materials used, etc):

https://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/05fall/physic...

https://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation-basics/vinegar...
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IMO people should be reporting "At grant" and it would be fair to gross public companies up by an estimated average market growth (~7%) .. ie 1/4th at 100% , 1/4th at 107%...
Python 2 is an old, soon to be unsupported version of a language that got a new major version many years ago.

KDE is a modern desktop environment that kicks GNOME in its ass.

There's a subtle difference :D
There is a fascinating book [0] that recently came out that describes Jho Low in a great detail, including the role of GS and the ex-prime minister of Malaysia.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079WVJZCH/ref=oh_aui_d_de...
Kenneth Reitz is the author of Python library Requests. After Requests exploded in popularity, he developed a somewhat unique approach to marketing his libraries, to the point where anything he promotes nowadays becomes controversial (i.e. “is it good because it is good, or because Kenneth writes about it all-cute-y?”).
I didn't hear about Google OR-Tools before now, but they seem to support .Net Core: https://developers.google.com/optimization/install/dotnet/so....
1) Send a staff member from the target country to grease the wheels of the local government officials

2) If that doesn't work, bribe them outright

3) Take a piece of the gargantuan bond issue contract, do whatever it takes to get people to buy those pieces of paper, including cooking the books

4) Collect year-end bonus and absolve yourself of all responsibility after the deal is done.

It's the same playbook every time. Greece in 1999, Libya in the post-Gaddafi era, and now Malaysia. Probably many others that I'm not even aware of.