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Google added 2000 hardware head count with the HTC acquisition. Some roles were moved.

Pixel book is not going anywhere and they are adding to the list with the Atlas.

It was one organization that speculated incorrectly and others picked up.
I find it much quicker to navigate to the app you want first, then the window you want, than through all open windows (as on Windows).

Think about it, if you have N apps open with M windows each, then on macOS you need at most N+M key presses to reach your desired window, while on Windows you may need up to NM key presses.
I've always thought the Evernote sync issues got much less attention than they deserved. Both myself and my co-founder were repeatedly burned by Evernote sync when working on notes between mobile and desktop. Sync was the foremost reason we began working on a replacement.

We picked "sync" and "security" as the two core values we wanted to put most focus on when building our note app (https://www.amplenote.com/).

It's curious to me that Notion has so little to say about the effort they put into sync and security -- these seem like such essential features to a great todo app, and I don't think either can be done right unless it is an active, top-tier priority.
> imagine that whole discussion thread inspired this blog post

It's part of it! The original genesis of these ideas was a comment I made on HN back in 2017. It took me a while to sort out some of my thinking here, and that post was me trying to set up this one, and that conversation certainly played a part.
Probably not. I think going public ruins the ability of such a company to maintain a moral compass. It certainly vanquished any idea of maintaining their 'don't be evil' motto.

They simply could have committed not to becoming a publicly traded company. I know every YC investor looks at going public as the end all be all for every company on earth but I think the pursuit of the public market at all costs mindset typically espoused by communities like this one is morally devoid and obviously has long term consequences in the tech community at large.

Go public at all costs is the mindset here and in most VC communities. Make money at all costs is really what they mean to say. Get rid of that mindset.

Google used to have a moral compass. That was the Google I grew up with. Before all the pressures of being a publicly traded multibillion-dollar conglomerate got to them and now they are basically no better than ATT.
That generation does have a proprietary removable drive. You can get a replacement from OWC (and an external enclosure to put your original drive in). I recently replaced a failed drive in a 2013 MBPr.
> "It is not as slow as it sounds."

Yes, it is. 5%-10% in the very link you posted.

> "golang do heavy inline-ing"

No, it does not. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17566

> "most of its performance comes from concurrency"

That's just ridiculous. They didn't write all crypto and math in assembly just for nothing. Lumping bunch of slow function calls onto several threads is not where performance magically comes from. And you are confusing concurrency and parallelism.
Now there's someone who has never been hunting or fishing. Animals don't tend to get real fat in nature; you need to raise them on a farm for that. People can actually die of "rabbit starvation" from eating lots of wild rabbit meat without enough grease and carbs from something else.
if you care about your content, you should watermark it.
I too know too much about the bias in online polls. But this one touches home.

At my workplace we only have 2 of the new MBP with the new keyboards... 100% of these people have issues with at least one key. They're the most frequent users of the air blowing keyboard cleaner so much that the IT department decided to just leave it out on a counter for us to use without asking.

I'm about to do some moonlighting and cannot use my work computer for this so I'm building a Linux machine to do this. I've been using only Macs for 20 years and I'm going back to Linux for the first time since switching.
Google App Engine has spending cutoffs. Cloud allows API call cutoffs, but for actual spend it only has alerts. Their 'controlling budget' page sends you to a guide on writing your own triggers to respond to those alerts:

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets
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It's nice that it works for you and others, it doesn't for me and most people around me. Selling it as a magic cure leaves me and those people excluded.
While science has its pitfalls I think we should try to be more scientific than giving out general recommendations based on (potentially faked) online reviews for a marketed product.
I can recommend checking out the Sapolsky lecture i linked above which should quickly make clear that a single chemical treatment approach is highly unlikely to ever become a general cure for all cases of depression.
This is the correct solution. The big tech companies control the distribution channels. Currently, they bend to the requirements of large content producers. If they leaned the other way, toward open source and DRM-free distribution, the producers would have no choice but to comply.

Of course, content producers could run back to the state for more protection (as they always do) and get legislation forcing browser makers to comply. And around and around it goes.
Yes, with DRM. You can check if it's used by looking at the address bar: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r...
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I got a refurbished machine. The thing is, I wanted the 8th gen cpu with 6 cores, and for me it wasn't worth dropping slightly less on a 2015/2016/2017 MBP with old hardware.

Well maintained 2015 MBP on ebay are too expensive for the kind of hardware that they have. In my opinion, at least.
> resharing Instagram pictures

He uses that fluffy language but "resharing" is not an Instagram feature. He wholesale steals images.
If you spend a week or so clicking the "unsubscribe" links in all of the unwanted emails you receive, you might be surprised with how manageable things become. I'd estimate that 99% of my unwanted emails respect the unsubscribe and don't send any more mail.
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I think we need to zoom out more, even. The focus on freedom is too narrow - freedom at the cost of becoming disconnected is a raw deal.

What we want is power. In the desktop era, having source code gave us power, so we associated the two and demanded the former - but this obviously hasn't translated to the cloud.

You can't download a Facebook profile and then re-upload it somewhere else and still be connected to all your friends etc. That lock-in gives Facebook power over its users: proportional to how much they need what Facebook gatekeeps (e.g. "all the news about my grandkids is on there").

When I want to stop using something, but I can't, that's power someone holds over me. In my case, that's Google search, GMail, and Android. I actually hate the latter two, and I've tried leaving them all, but here I am. What they've got in common is that they're all protective layers over what I need to stay connected to the outside world despite being highly dysfunctional (i.e. discoverability on the web, email spam, and phone hardware).

Because of this, Google's got me in a way that - because of open source - Microsoft never could. Whatever comes after open source needs to address that power delta directly. We need choice, but also connection.
Yours matches the commentary of a friend in the field from about 2000. I do hope that the end of Moore sees improvement in this sort of design, and the tools required.

I do see some high speed low power networking hardware moving this way: Router Using Quasi-Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Design

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2634996&preflayout=flat
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> Without money to move, there is no economic growth.

Of course there is. You can have an economy without money. It's barter, but it's still an economy, and it can still have growth.

And, of course UBI isn't for buying beach houses. That was to illustrate the problem in an obvious way, not to be directly relevant.

> The economy is producing more than people can afford to buy

You have also claimed that UBI will grow the economy. If it's already producing more than people can afford to buy, first, why would it grow the economy, and second, why should we regard that as a good thing?

Since you seem to be misreading my position fairly consistently, let me try to be more clear. My claim is not that UBI is necessarily a bad thing. My claim is not that UBI is unneeded. My claim is not that the poor are doing fine. My claim is that your claim that UBI will grow the economy is highly suspect.
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This essay convinced me to just find a way to organize handwritten notes:

https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes
You're completely correct!

Is it perhaps possible that in this particular case, the difference you so wisely point to between a format and a protocol is possessed of a great and bountiful opportunity to be relevant? The discussion at hand is between "protocols" and "platforms", which might otherwise be cast as "standards" and "products".

Again, you're completely correct. It might just be worth considering that in some cases, a distinction without difference can be of limited value to a discussion where it is at best tangential.
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I don't use an alcohol wipe and I use an external keyboard almost 80% of the time. I still clean my keyboard with pushed air once every two weeks because keys get stuck. For the record I close my laptop when not in use to avoid having dust settle in.
Oh God, the "updates" tab has eaten so many important emails. It won't trigger push notifications, and I don't always remember to check it when I open the page. I still don't understand what the category was supposed to be, but it's main purpose seemed to be to hide important (but automated) emails. I took the plunge and switched to protonmail w/ a custom domain. It's not perfect, and I'm looking at other options, but it's still far better than Gmail. I also moved from gsuite back to MS Office, since I have more faith in the continued stability and it isn't 100% reliant on cloud. Keeping a windows VM around is a definite annoyance, but switching away from Gmail was actually surprisingly easy. The old Gmail address is set to forward all, since I'm still updating accounts as I go, but 3 months in and no real problems. Plus, with email tied to my domain it's far easier to switch providers at this point, if I felt really ambitious I could even run it myself. Definitely worth the time invested.
You've missed the joke. In the DRM case the honest people are the ones who should be allowed in, but the DRM only allows the pirates in.
I'm intrigued by your P.S. Mind expanding on why?
His actions make sense from a game theory perspective. Data ethics is a very hot issue to ethical employers. Unethical employers would be a better fit for him, but do not advertise themselves as unethical. By advertising himself as unethical, he not only filters out ethical employers but offers unethical employers a risk-free way to woo him.
I had to stop releasing music under creative commons because I noticed copyright trolls were trying to claim it was there's when some tried to use it as music in their youtube videos.
The whole point of releasing under creative commons is so the exact opposite thing happens.
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I think the best bet is the Thinkpad Carbon X1. I run Fedora 29 on it and it is flawless on all functionality. You have the user desktop difference (e.g. gnome vs osx) to get used to and the obvious os x only apps that may be superior, but all in all I recommend trialing it out.
"That's how it seems to be in professional sports, but that's a niche."

That niche is a bigger than you realize. One of the 'benefits' of amphetimine is productivity. Many meth abusers use it before work for this reason. Both physical and mental effort can be sustained for much longer periods.
[edit: shortened this comment] I’m not trying to be “pedantic”, just not grossly misleading / confused, the way the article and most of the comments here are, including the one at top of this thread. Frankly this nonsensical article should be flagged off the front page, as it is going to lead people who read it to be misinformed.

RGB display primaries are only related to the CIE system insofar as people use the CIE system for characterizing and describing them. But it doesn’t constrain the choice of primaries. The primaries are chosen (more or less) to maximize the display gamut under the constraint that there will be 3 of them. They don’t match human cone cells per se (obviously there is some relationship between cone cell responses and maximizing the gamut, but it is not a simple one).
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I don't like the idea either.

But I think I can also argue in this case that ethics are contextual. That is, in the culture of social media, likes, follows and shares are currency. What looks unethical from the outside is actually a slick automated version of what's going on on the inside.

If it were that taboo - again within __that__ world - there would be repeated spam complaints and blocks. The irony is, these "stolen" shares increase the value of the brand, not devalue it.
The money isn't destroyed though -- it's converted into wealth as an asset.

A bank provides a loan to Andy for $100 to build a house. Andy builds the house worth $100. Once the house is paid off, the bank gets $100+interest, and Andy has a house worth some amount relative to that $100.

The $100 never disappears as a result of the loan. Whether or not the bank then chooses to destroy the money once the loan is repaid is not really a material to the discussion. Replace "bank" with "parents" and it's clear that no money is destroyed as a result of the loan.

What you're talking about is really just a side-effect of our accounting practices and/or asserting that all lending originates from the Central Bank.
Veganism might have been a fad for you, but for others it is a necessary undertaking to remain healthy. I can't blame you for finding some choices difficult to make, but at the same time it's disheartening to see these "anti-religion" arguments brought out to dismiss the very real need of people (and companies) to be able to retain control of their own devices, for their own purposes which are not explicitly approved by the vendor.
A quick look at Simon Baron Cohen's tweet[1] (linked from the article) shows that this topic seems extremely divisive and inflammatory to people. Is this retraction and resulting modified study seen as an important victory for people promoting that there are no differences between the "male" and "female" brains?

[1]https://twitter.com/sbaroncohen/status/832490232721371136
> licensed

The author can't get a license.
E-cigarettes 'do not promote smoking in teens'
Old and tired is OK, but this one to me looks invalid too.

I can't say of anybody's personal goals, but "time spent doing something [one] enjoys" is often wasted.

First, because every time you spent has an opportunity cost.

Second, because empirically peoples' future self often doesn't have the same priorities, and occasionally finds "time spend doing something they enjoyed" wasted and a bad choice.

How many regret e.g. wasting too much time gaming when they should have been e.g. studying or practicing, when they turn 25 and have nothing to show for it?
> That's why no matter what you and society need to process the fact that you have broken the law

Not really. People can do what they want. And that includes breaking bad laws, and trying to get away with it.

There is no obligation to "process" this fact, by turning yourself in, for whatever.

A perfectly valid strategy is to instead break bad laws, and try to get away with it. And if enough people do this, then it has an effect, and may eventually cause the law to be changed.
> No, blame the movie studios, record labels etc.

More specifically, those associated with the MPAA and the RIAA.
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I’m kind of sad, I read the article and got all excited and went to my local Burger King, but they didn’t have it.
I agree with this, and I think that what I'm getting at here is more of "I don't believe that these actions are inspiring nor promoting that change, and so it is not effective as a tactic."
"when Netflix came begging for a solution to their DRM conundrum"

Does Netflix DRM even "work"? I've never personally seriously looked around for how to break it, but I note there are still plenty of people who seem to manage to review Netflix-based shows on YouTube with video clips of sufficient quality [1], and at least some of the reviewers in question I am fairly confident aren't getting any sort of privileged backdoor access or anything.

Is it "anyone can crack with a smidge of effort" or "it's really hard but it spreads once cracked"? I'm not asking for a lot of details of the crack per se, just general details of how successful it can be said to be in practice.

[1] I'm not claiming they aren't necessarily re-re-encoded by the time they get to me, but if they are, I can't tell for sure, so I'm going with "sufficient quality" as a description.
> Downgrading the prompt to a non-popup icon in the address bar unless it follows a user action sounds like the perfect balance.

But where should we put these non-popups? Perhaps we could have a dedicated bar for notifications, rss, and other services that a website offers, as well as any other relevant information. That way, we won't be clogging up the address bar. I'd happily sacrifice vertical 30px for that.

A "status bar", if you will.
Yeah, it looks like games will actually need to be built on stadia. It doesn't look like it just spins up an instance of vanilla install of the game. So there will need to be a deliberate choice by developers to support a new platform. Add that to the fact that many gamers already have a library of purchased games (like in steam) and aren't going to be thrilled at either buying them again or paying a subscription to play games they already own, and I really don't see how Stadia is going to work from a financial model standpoint.

This makes me think that Stadia might be a "build now, monetize later" experiment that will quickly be shut down if/when people don't buy/subscribe and no other revenue stream is easily found.

I might pay for Stadia if it was something like PaperSpace, where I can basically spin up a VPS optimized for game streaming, install steam, and play whatever games I have. Absent that, Stadia would need to provide offline copies of the games for backup should their service either go down or be cancelled.
Looking forward to where this article is going. It looks a bit AOP-y to me.
That one economics paper, as an example, could have made one seemingly innocuous assumption that might be overlooked by later work.

Let's say a paper that relies on the preprint take that assumption for granted. And then another paper references that one. And again. And again.

Then the fifth paper gets adopted by a government in some esoteric policy, which causes their economy to implode.

May not be necessary to just publish "stuff", but it is necessary to mitigate against the dangers of invalid assumptions.
I hate these kinds of articles. If you are willing to do morally gray things, there are all sorts of "life hacks" you can use to take advantage of people and companies.

It's like writing an article about "How I hacked the system to never pay for honey" and then when you read the article, it's like:

"Once a month I buy a sandwich at Chick-Fil-A and then take every single honey condiment packet and stick it in my backpack!"

Like... that's not a life hack, that's just taking advantage of someone's goodwill for personal gain.
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wow, bold move on his part.
Plenty of doping and cheating in soccer.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/feb/08/arsenal-ars...

The problem is that soccer/FIFA is so lucrative and corrupt that there is very little testing or it's simply ignored.
Well, one persons trash is anothers treasure. While most places probably want ethical, fact is, some do not. Perhaps it's a subtle but effective way of saying he'd work for the darkside?
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The problem with your question wasn't stupidity. It was the disingenuous and trollish way that you presented the question.

Socratic learning is definitely a thing, but it's mostly philosophical. In this case, you are asking a question that is presented in a way that suggests that using batteries defeats the goal of creating renewable energy. However, you did not present any studies, news, or any other information, to bolster this idea.

This logically fallacious tool is used a lot nowadays. If you believe that batteries are not green, prove it. Otherwise, why pose a researchable question in the first place?
The folks who don't care about the environment are not conservatives in general, but the big money that owns the corporations that do resource extraction and their employees, who happen to be mostly in conservative areas. Which gives a lot of people the wrong idea about conservatives.

Plus a few ideologues who idolize the free market and don't care about externalities. Which also gives people the wrong idea about conservatives.
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Why would they need to remove the DRM playback app in your scenario?

If they would only remove it from the browsers, they would start pushing their native applications like Netflix for Linux, Netflix for Windows, Netflix for Mac. And browsers would be free of their DRM which causes all this.
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> Download and sandbox the Widevine binary blob the same way that Firefox does. Done.

Mozilla has a license to redistribute the binary. You can't simply do that (legally).