skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The user is to blame? Let's be realistic about how the average person handles technology in general, is aware of malware on their devices, or how many browser choices they have.
Ironically, the Inbox rollups worked absolutely beautifully and the gmail filters are really, really rough and don't work well. "Updates" are so incredibly nebulous that it's really a 50/50 crapshoot on whether or not google knows what should go in there. "Updates" and "Social" are commonly mixed up, and finance/purchases have zero place to go. Are they 'Updates' like when I get a 'Our ToS has been updated' email? Etc. The categories are too general to be useful.
I cannot speak highly enough of Tiddlywiki. I prefer shaping my wiki (https://philosopher.life/) to relying upon Evernote.
I wouldn't use Slack, because it's a proprietary / closed source application that creates another walled garden. So no.
I can't believe that the 2018 membrane version didn't fix the issue. That was my last hope. Time to look for a Thinkpad alternative. Which Linux should I install? Ubuntu?
No. How else can one accurately compare how valuable a currency is (Bitcoin is one of those, right?) without comparing it to other currencies?
One of the selling points of macs is the fact that they run macOS. Comparing other computer models purely on hardware specs doesn’t account for this.
I think the website is responsive but it may be doing something different than a straight media query like detecting the user agent.

FWIW, it loads and looks fine on both my mobile device and desktop.
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Very clever and well put. I have to let this one stew.

That said, still in the camp of "nothing is wrong," I think. It is a tough pill to swallow that companies that build around open source software are fundamentally vulnerable, but perhaps it's time to swallow. Open Source has never been healthier even ignoring those contributions.

If X manages to corner Y into a proprietary license, does open source win or lose? I won't name names but I used to use a project that went open core and the "open core" part of it became gradually more useless over time to the point where many users just switched off. I think what needs to be established is that what's good for companies trying to monetize OSS is not good for OSS.

There's plenty of other models for OSS that work. I'm fond of Patreon as a new monetization model, for example. Won't exactly get you rich, but if that's ever the point of OSS, then it really is dead.

We probably won't live in a future where everything is OSS, but we live in a present with an amazing amount of excellent OSS and I'm willing to take that personally.

I think the certification idea is interesting, but I definitely need to think about it a lot more. While I personally don't mind where OSS is, I also would not mind new movements, either.
FWIW, I wouldn't buy a T480s. The delta between it and the T480 isn't big and the T480 has a removable battery (and an internal battery so you can swap it without powering down or being on AC). I've had my T480 running on battery for north of 40 hours by swapping out batteries and I've also done some upgrades on it myself (2242 SSD where the WWAN card otherwise would go, more memory, etc.).

The T490...is a regression, more in line with the T480s, and it makes me sad.
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>> The best way to get a law changed is for everyone to be breaking it all of the time.

> Everyone is the magic word here

Unfortunately the "everyone" in this case is just a handful of centralized services - because data-hoarding, like so many other things, becomes vastly cheaper when you do it at scale. It turns out that Sci-Hub and LibGen are not so different from YouTube, FB and other SV unicorns - their vulnerability to legal shenanigans of various sorts is exactly the same!
So how do open source browsers like Chromium and Firefox do this? Surely if they have access to the blackbox, then anyone does? And if they don't, it means you can't watch Netflix on some major browsers.
I was surprised too! I could find nothing about this online that actually helped in any way

Migration during install, migration after install, migration from Recovery system - none of them found anything, and they would hang forever looking for data
It's got pending PRs that permit DMs. https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python/pull/322/fi...
In response to the first quote "Today’s developers have never learned about this history" I agree. I would love to see more CS history classes. I know that star schema were a thing, and hierarchical databases were a thing, but I know nothing about them. I don't know what their failings were that led to dominance of RBDMSes. I'm very curious to know how similar they were to mongo or other current schemaless databases. There are also probably many old ideas that would be practical now, neural networks definitely fall into this category.
> The Apple store becomes a failure point in this. A state actor could turn a low paid store worker to switch out phones of journalists coming in.

Not necessarily, the journalist could go to a random store and the process could be setup as an exception to a normal purchase flow, so the journalist only needs to identify themselves after the phone has been removed from stock (and any effort to swap it would be super suspicious).
> Is Apple going to accept that they’re currently alienating and undermining decades of goodwill by shipping broken computers in mass quantities?

That's exactly what they've been doing for 10 years. iPhone 6 battery-gate. 6-Plus bending in half when you sit with it in your pocket. The 2016 butterfly keyboard, the one with 58 screws holding it in. Firmware that slows your phone for seemingly no reason. Home button's that stop working and a virtual one to replace it. Screens that won't pull down anymore unless they do it by themselves. And getting them to admit a problem exists has ALWAYS been pulling teeth. Lets face it, you signed up for this. All signs for the last 10 years have pointed to a really nice OS with an overpriced, over-rated machine underneath it. Don't get me wrong, the inside of an Apple product is like electronic-poetry, but when something is poorly designed no amount of build quality will make something last.

You got taken. You should have known this was going to happen because they did it to you last year. And the year before. And the year before. Stop whining about your $3k laptop already. You could have bought 6x i7 powered Dells for the price you paid on one Apple. You asked for this.
If I understand the thesis of the article correctly, the idea is that most developers actually care about open source production, meanwhile open source licenses are only capable of restricting distribution?

The example given is GitHub versus open source bug trackers. You didn't come out and say this directly Steve, but isn't this basically flirting with the conclusion that developers tend to prefer proprietary platforms? You mentioned that the numbers speak for themselves, and you personally shifted your ideology from the Free Software Movement.

Couple this with the rise of SaaS as a business model, and it seems like a lot of the tension here is related to the way that proprietary platforms focus on production, while licenses themselves focus on distribution.
Maybe

But it is a github repo. Only a small number of interested people are going to be headed there
I have a required MBPro for work. I actually like the keyboard, although mine isn't broken yet. I don't like the change to the arrow keys though, I keep fumbling with them.

The touchbar is dumb and should just go. No physical escape key is such a braindead move it makes me lose respect for Apple.

Magsafe I'm kind of mixed on. Magsafe was awesome, but it also got super hot -- so hot that I'd have to change how I was sitting on the bed or couch. Haven't had that problem with the USB one.

The lack of ports is dumb too. My previous macbook was plenty light -- I don't need a thinner/lighter laptop. But thank god they left in the audio jack.

The ginormous trackpad is another braindead move. Do all Apple designers have tiny hands?
I'm familiar with the feelings you describe, but the Golden State's citizens appear to be unconcerned with this. The book's timeline is preceded by unspecified terrible events which have destroyed the old world. These events are said to have been triggered by lies, and it's this terror of repeating past mistakes that keeps citizens in line.
I shouldn't get it because I am doing okay as-is and don't care to do better
Yikes. First I’ve heard of that. Every time the keyboard issue comes up “get a thinkpad!” is the HN response. Why is there not a similar rage about its keyboard issues?
That's a lot of parens you've got there. You should try emacs. :)
> Google got the authority from everyone here who accepted chrome and IE DRM by default, to the point that even Firefox was forced to give in, so you all could be sedated by Netflix and other DRMed content.

Do you really, REALLY think that the very small number of people who are ever AWARE of this issue were enough to make a dent in it? So we could be sedated by Netflix? This attitude is intolerable and more harmful to the community of people who want a free web as using Chrome and watching Netflix is.
I used inoreader. I'm happy with free, but you're right I should start paying as I keep moving off RSS readers that get shut down.
Any advice to a potential switcher from Chrome? Anything you did to make FF more Chrome-like in any ways or whatever?

As a web dev, I'm scared of having to learn the new dev tools (I'm gonna use the same primary browser for web dev as for everyday, realistically). Do you use the dev tools, did you find it easy to switch there?
Exactly the same. I have a 2011 and 2015 MacBook Pro, and I would have bought a new one in 2018, if they:

A) made a non-touchbar, non-fingerprint[1] version
B) brought back the 2015 keyboard

IOW, I like my 2015 notebook, but would love to have the latest and greatest SSD, processor, graphics, space gray color, etc.

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1. My passphrase is > 25 chars and still takes less than 2 seconds to enter; I don't need an extra ARM processor and wasted surface area / more breakable parts for a fingerprint reader. And, I'd rather have the extra +$100 spent on something else, like better screen connection technology, battery, etc.
Bitcoin's jump to $5000 might have been an April Fool's gag
It has no depth, but it's crisp/tactile in a way. You can feel when it actually actuates, and you can rest you fingers on the keys without actually pressing them by accident too. Much nicer compare to things like HPs with more depth but "mushier" keys that are easier to press by accident.

Coming from a Thinkpad, it's just as accurate to type on after like a week or two it took me to get fully used to it.

...now I just hope it doesn't break :|
> No, if the Director had overridden the majority of the membership, the browser vendors would've shipped something anyway

That's fine. It's better that the burden for maintaining non-standard plugins be put on the sites and browsers that choose to do that, rather than be placed on everyone else.
> However, if you credit where the content comes from it’s usually not a problem.

This is easiest to say when you're the one stealing content as opposed to the one being stolen from.
I recently did the same, but for different reasons:

- I wanted first-class docker support, was tired of the wonkiness of OSX + Docker. Seriously, native Docker is better than any feature OSX can offer me.

- OSX lacking a package manager and the dissonance between where OSX installed libraries vs our servers was bugging me

- This is dumb but: I run everything in Linux in production. It is nice to be able to ship binaries from my workstation and have them Just Work instead of having to cross compile everything

- My work was letting me upgrade my laptop, and I noticed I was paying literally 50% of the price for a LOT more computer with the Galgo Pro compared to a MacBook Pro.

I have honestly enjoyed using my System67 Galgo Pro WAY MORE than I ever enjoyed the MacBook. Obviously, if I was a video editor or graphic designer, I would probably go with Windows or OSX.
OneNote is the closest thing I've seen to a Google Notebook replacement. I really hope they keep improving this product. It's great.
To me, most of these discussions about color come off as, “Weird flex but okay.” And I don’t care if you know how the human eye perceives color.

There is a distinct difference between how we talk about color and how we perceive it, and while it’s helpful to understand both (especially if you need to for your profession), I don’t find it helpful to act like you’re smart for knowing this. Or similarly, to act like other people are stupid and it’s a “pet peeve” of yours that they use the word “violet” to describe a color instead of spectral light. Words can have multiple meanings, and the violet ship has sailed.
The Ars article misses the point that google is an ad company that uses it's dominance in search to keep the ad money machine going.

Everything else is just playtime to google. So they have no interest in doing the hard work to support any play time projects at all.

They are so horrific to deal with at an enterprise level.

All this stuff that google shovels out, makes a splash with, and then cancels is just stuff that doesn't further the ad hegemony. You can take or leave the free stuff, if it works for you that's great, but don't expect it to hang around any longer than it serves it's purpose.

They don't charge money for this stuff and keep it around once it stops being relevant for ads because the price tag to make a difference to them would be way too high for anyone to pay for it, especially at the consumer level.

My exposure at this point is basically just Gmail & Calendar. I'd be pretty bummed if Youtube got the axe though.
The real issue I see is that there is no commercial appetite for such a solution and that this world is so dominated by humongous corporations that things like this simply have no solution.
Success should be gauged by daily transaction growth, network growth, and decreasing transaction fees, all of which are slowly improving. Price growth is a nice corollary with these factors, although it is disjointed in terms of timing. That being said, price is still important because it translates the value of that asset to our current medium of exchange, just like we do with all other assets. It's sort of like the "easiest" way to track bitcoin's success, even if it has little to do with the fundamentals of the asset.

edit: Also, Bitcoin should never be considered something that will entirely replace any other currency. There is room for both (or many) to exist (all serving slightly different purposes), and it will be many years before we know what a good natural balance is between both USD and BTC.
Yes we can say that checkoutpage is one of my direct competitor.
Checkoutpage offers more features than me (at least for now) but the big difference is that I wanted to focus on a feature and master it well. In my case, the sale of digital products. The whole application is focused on that.
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What video content are we talking about here? HTML5 video?
I'm a developer of an app on Firebase.

I really like the current iteration of Firebase but it's definitely languishing compared to what's happening at AWS.

Firebase is great for our use case as it handles auth easily and has sort of a JSON-put API as well as support for blobs via cloud storage.

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Anyway. This keeps me up at night.

Google has a history of just flat out ignoring products and then killing them. They're not TOO bad in cloud but they're really getting their ass handed to them across the board.

Microsoft is taking their lead in cloud and Amazon is at least 5 years ahead of Google.

I think we're going to look back at 201 and realize that this is the year Google started dying.

They're failing on Youtube with advertisers angry at them. Android developers are pissed on the constant platform changes and abuse from lack of customer support.

Just last week I spent about half a day trying to implement chrome extension inline installation on my site only to find out that they killed that feature six months ago but didn't update their documentation.

The chrome extension store developer console is a joke.

Right now I'm asking for "all permissions" for our extension as I need to inject a header in an HTTP response for CORS.

So we're under auditing for every update.

This includes ASSETS! So if we update an image in our chrome extension we have to wait a WEEK for them to re-audit our app even though the binary didn't change.

Something is seriously wrong at Google and they need to fix it ...
They’ll rewrite any article that they feel is a threat to their power systems and therefore a threat to China. No surprise there. We have similar measures in the US - the government is willing to strip your rights if they feel you’re a threat.

There is nothing really all that new in what you’ve suggested. I would be surprised if those things didn’t happen.
> No USB ports

What MacBook doesn't have any standard USB ports?
For international comparison sake, this graph is useful. One has to select Japan to add it to the chart.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/03/31/global-h...
Russian, more likely
DRM is not compatible with open source approach. So ditch DRM if you are making an open source browser. You'll deal with less garbage in result.
I used to agree with you on this, but frankly at this point unless you specifically need to write iOS software or run some particular audio/video stuff (I've got a Mac in my audio stack for Logic Pro still, but I use DaVinci Resolve for video editing and don't have much call for Photoshop anymore) a modern desktop Linux can do pretty much everything that a developer's likely to deeply care about.

I went from MacOS to Fedora and haven't really looked back. I have old Macs as boxes for Logic Pro, for iOS builds, and for the occasional Photoshop work, but I don't find myself needing to carry them with me anymore.

For me, and I suspect for a lot of folks, desktop Linux is probably good enough (and, for me, enjoyable in a way that MacOS used to be but isn't anymore) to be very productive and Lenovo's hardware is fantastic.
Oh OK, yeah that makes sense. Honestly, I forgot that existed.
One used by locked-in developers who'll buy regardless of quality or price?
In today's digital age, comments points are a valuable currency. By simply summarizing or taking a few key quotes a user can provide value to other users of link aggregation websites so they get the serotonin release without the work of clicking all the way through to TFA.
I'm not ascribing Google a motivation of wanting to screw over users and developers. I'm ascribing Google-as-a-whole the motivation of wanting to improve the experience because that's good for Google's bottom line, and Google-as-individual-employees the motivation of wanting to do that by shipping new products instead of shipping improvements because that's good for their personal bottom line. Neither of these are shady. They are both individually rational decisions. You don't become Google because you altruistically want to help people without profit; you don't work for Google for that reason, either. You work for Google because you want to do interesting work while being paid well.

I think Google made lots of mistakes with AMP that will be long-term harmful for the web, but I don't think they were malicious in doing so—they made genuine mistakes that it just so happens they wouldn't have been incentivized to make if there were no individual pressure to ship products.

I'm just saying that this pressure exists, and that I personally don't want to be subject to it.
Yeah the only thing I think it's actually useful for is chat apps -- and for the ones I use frequently I ended up downloading their electron app anyway
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Roughly, yes. Or, with slightly more nuance, open source has been synonymous with "uses an open source licence", but semantically, developers are understanding open source to be a more holistic idea of openness, rather than purely a software license strategy. And the licence can't possible ensure that the rest of those ideas are followed.
Unlikely given they've stopped selling the Time Capsule. More likely is replacing it with iCloud.
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In your world, a river would be flowing at a speed of 132 m/s (= 295 mph) after coming from 3000 ft [1]. Now compare this to rivers in the real world and you will see that you're overlooking a factor which reduces the speed of the flow by two orders of magnitude.

[1] Potential energy of 1 kg water at 3000 ft: 1 kg * 900 m * 9.81 m/s² = 8829 J. Kinetic energy: 8829 J = 0.5 * 1 kg * v² ==> v = 132.88 m/s
Plus the horror stories you hear of people losing thousands of dollars worth of games on a Steam account for one reason or another.

You never truly own anything that has DRM, you're just licensing it.
Google is being blatantly anticompetitive here and it's definitely not fair to OP. But as an aside, I actually would prefer this functionality to be provided by a browser extension rather than a separate app, like the OP describes at the end of the article. Please pursue this option! I think it would be much more convenient than having to launch a separate app, even if the functionality is reduced.
I hope Kodi makes some decent progress. I installed it a few weeks back and it is a rough experience. The docs on how to do simple things seem to be nonexistant because they don't want to be sued and shutdown entirely.