skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Marx not understand opportunity cost?
Eating meat is not going anywhere. Veganism is a US based fad. The rest of the world isn't cutting meat consumption. In fact it's growing... by a lot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47057341
> The reason why the desktop hasn't changed much in 30 years is because it works.

Thank you. I am always amazed at why this is apparently so hard to understand to so many people. Perhaps most of them are young and the drive to innovate (for the sake of innovation) is simply so strong that it makes them ignore simple truths of life? In regards to desktop interface I so wish that many more companies and projects understood this already and stopped wasting our time with new fancy "ways to operate desktop"...

It's easy: the screen is a rectangle of pixels that needs to present information. We have inputs. For the inputs, the keyboard and mouse works the best. There are some other tools and there is some variation, but in essence, that's it. It is simply the best way to operate a desktop for a human. Out of those two initial variables there are only so many ways to organize the multitasking of that information, and we have figured it out already. The human design is not going to change for many more decades, the way information works in this universe is not going to change, the way point to things on a screen is not going to change, etc.

I guess humans, despite being very sophisticated neural networks (ok and perhaps some other architectures mixed into them), still do get stuck in local maxima, and knowing that tend to do that, they always try to get out of the maxima where they find themselves, just in case, to try to come up with a new maxima, to see and figure out if they have missed something. It makes sense and thank god for all those people trying to do this and innovate for the sake of innovation. But to me at least it seems very certainly that the desktop as it is today (and in many ways as it has been for 30 years) - is the global maxima of computing interface. We don't need another way, this is the best way already. Solutions to some problems are just created very early. Sometimes the traditional is the best.
Combining funnel with recordings enhanced with javascript error tracker, priceless.
Isn't this Would you feel differently argument goes both ways?
Would you feel differently if you killed someone and the police found you only thanks to such dubious from privacy standpoint practice.
You're using some lingo I never saw before, what's a SAFe and a PI?
The war on drugs failed, you want to go to war with everything else humans can abuse?

In the end it's up to the person to practice self-control, passing the buck to the government just ends up in less freedom and more black markets.
I find it amazing that plastic has only been around for less than a century, but has now become so ubiquitous and commonplace that it's a nuisance. Nearly all the other materials we use (wood, metal, etc.) have been around for many many centuries, but don't seem to pose the same inherent risk.
Not op, but I agree with them. To me, it's more like "if it ain't broke, don't break it". We already know how anti-productive mobile UI is and we've already seen attempts to make desktops more mobile-like fail hard (e.g. Windows 8).
WhatsApp pledges to SUE users over off-platform misbehavior
Starting the Iraq War, starting the (Still on-going, in case anyone forgot) Libyan Civil War, fanning the flames of the Syrian Civil War are all crimes against humanity, with a pretty horrendous body count. Is it internal repression? No, of course not. Did it add misery, death, and suffering to the world on an industrial scale? It absolutely did.

And, notice that how regardless of whether team Red, or team Blue get elected, the ship seems to be unable to change course on those matters. Hell, a decade later, three quarters of the ship's steering committee don't even consider that course to be a mistake.

Just because we're a representative democracy, of sorts, doesn't mean that we are capable of course-correcting.
What I'm talking about is Apple flat out refusing to update their Nvidia drivers, so Nvidia powered eGPU's won't work with Mojave

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/14/video-nvidia-supp...

It's been a stalemate for months and months now
> If society believes that some animals should not be in captivity at all due to moral/practical reasons, it is worth asking: What other technologically driven solutions can be made/used to help people of all demographics experience what it is like to be in front of X animal?

Honestly, I think it's a bit weird to think these problems need to be solved at the same time. If we accept that there is something deeply immoral about holding these animals in captivity, that absolutely and immediately overshadows the problem of, how do we get these animals in front of as many diverse demographics as possible now so they can (we hope) act in favor of conservation?
Any recommendations for books written post 2000 that might bear comparison to Orwell's "1984" come 2070?
Prophesizing/foresight aside, just as a narrative it's a great book with a really satisfying story arc. Can't say that about most of the books I read in high school.
I don't know about good, but Disney does put out content people want to watch. Star Wars and Marvel are both very very popular franchises, for example
Shipright – track all your product feedback in one organized place
Answer: you get lucky by having a great flat organization. Great people and great cohesion.

Structure is a pricey insurance premium. You best case will never be as good, but neither will your worst be as bad.
I had the same question. I think it's a way to throw a jab at the kingdom's treatment of female citizens.......
I've seen this tossed around a lot the last few months, but I've yet to see any evidence of its truth. Do you have a link to a study or some other source for this?
I have to click a button in the extension to get it to fill. Not quite Auto fill, but pretty close.
Threadripper obviously is not a consumer desktop class platform; it's one of the workstation/server platforms that is substantially more expensive than consumer desktop platforms. It's not quite as overpriced as Intel's workstation and server platforms, but it's in the same general category. (It also has only four DRAM channels, which contributes to its lower prices than Intel's 6-channel platforms.)

And yes, AMD's consumer desktop platform is getting a substantial update next month that will put it well ahead of Intel's current consumer desktop platform. But PCIe 4 is also driving up the cost of that platform quite a bit, at least in the near term.
I like Newtonian physics better as a comparison. Is it a perfectly accurate system that solves all problems? No, it doesn't handle very small things or very fast things. But it's a pretty good model for anything I need to do with it.

I do like some of the ideas here though - especially the fullscreen column mode. It feels like a more powerful and flexible version of the multitasking in macOS plus what's coming in iPad OS. I think it'd fit right in on Mac, if they could figure out an intuitive way to interact with that windowing model.

Not sold on their trackpad gestures. No issues with multi-finger gestures in general, but I like having 3-finger drag as a direct interaction with my content instead of taking 3-fingers to interact with the window manager. Definitely wouldn't want want to go back to the old double-tap-and-drag.
> the invisible hierarchy problem

I'm not in favour of flat systems for exactly this reason. I think they try to solve the problem of bad leadership structurally, by simply pretending to abolish leadership. IMO, it would better be addressed personally - e.g. by investing in leadership training or vetting candidates for leadership roles more thoroughly.
Heinlein :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth
Probably Neal Stephenson novels, based on what I've heard (Snow Crash is the only one I've read).
Just tweeted to site owners, hope they will solve it.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1138540511713746950
It's worthwhile watching the launch of the Chinese Long March vehicle: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/06/china-first-sea-laun...

They appear to shoot the entire vehicle out of a cannon-like container, then air-ignite the booster. I can't think of another launch vehicle that does this. The US did this sort of launch for the Sprint anti-ballistic missile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA
> A 4k display running at 1x is easy to find, but a good 5K is a very different story.

I have to ask - what's the value of 5k over 4k? 4k is already 'retina' quality (speaking of my 32" 4k as reference), what does another 1024 horizontal lines bring to the party?
Would you please stop posting political battle-style comments to HN? Also, this Barbaria thing is flamebait; please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Assuming I understand you correctly, we must throw out the conclusion because they do not understand the full historical context of the conclusion? I don't understand how that works in real life. Understanding the full history of software isn't required to understand the difference between good or bad software.

I understand that Marx has a grand unified theory of history and economics. But it is folly to point to anyone else that does not have a grand unified theory and blame them for not fitting into his. I wish he would spend more time defending his view and showing the merit of it, rather than attacking people for essentially not seeing the whole picture like he does.
Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart.
As someone who has been waiting on the sidelines to buy a home for years now, I'd love to see the Chinese begin pulling cash out of our real estate market.

It's said that most of this cash has pushed up prices mostly on the West coast, but I have this belief that a lot of money has trickled into almost all metro areas of the US. I can't see any other reason for home prices to be so out of whack in medium-sized US cities with no apparent influence (e.g. Amazon HQ2 in DC).
Just a block
I'm glad you brought this up, even though I disagree with your analysis.

In my experience, in the power vacuum there are several types of people:

1. Those who are blind to it

2. Those who want power and have charisma

3. Those who want power and lack charisma

4. Those who do not want the responsibility that comes with the power, but take it to save the team

5. Those who do not want the responsibility and explicitly avoid it

The problem is that those five categorizations are independent of competence, in terms of technical skills but especially in terms of leadership skills. So if you do this sort of social experiment, what you get are people who want power regardless of competence.

Now if that's what you're looking for, then by all means, do it, but I'd bet that you're actually hoping to find the capable ones, not the power seeking ones.

I don't have a good answer for how to set up a self-sustaining organization that consistently surfaces excellent leaders, because I've never seen one, but I'm pretty sure the power vacuum won't do better.
Inheriting this kind of functionality with just a little bit of CSS is pretty dang convenient though and a pretty sensible default, if nothing else.
Bay Area startup promises a house without down payment blues
A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations
alt-command down works for me, I had an monitor that took a minute to warm up, actually I grew to like the cyberpunk vibe.

I got to learn how to log in blind since my 2010 MBP takes a few minutes to settle down once started.
To say nothing of accessibility.
That's the one. Although the interview was mostly to make sure you knew the basics of how audio files worked and why people on the site cared about upholding their quality: nothing an hour of studying couldn't prepare you for.

The database of various rare releases, artist graphs, user collages, etc. were the biggest loss.
The alternative, right now, is nobody can do anything at all like this. There's not even the opportunity to create conventions in apps.

Opening up application data to OS tools, opens up a whole new world of opportunities (and hazards) for app developers.
I would also like to assert that non-western countries are very influenced by trends in North America and Europe. (Source: I am from such country in Africa, and am living in another in Asia)

Once the west establishes plastics as something for the uneducated and poor -- that they[the west] got away from, people will rush to use their fancy not-so-cheap bags.

Same with fossil fuels, recycling, carbon-related policies, ... etc

* I don't mean "uneducated and poor" literary, but just generally less fortunate people in the no-so-developed world

Related comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157820)
One answer I've seen is to create multiple users for the same person. The second user becomes the "backup" user with a different physical device and is used only to reset the primary.
I have only used Linux for the past decade, but your point still stands as I only get to use crummy windows trackpads. Mac trackpads are indeed much better. I probably would be more amenable to gestures with an actual functional trackpad
Also clicking through on it seems to have a massive lag at the moment in loading slides (presumably due to a spike in load courtesy of HN frontpage appearance amongst others?). I just saw the same cover slide over and over again until eventually it caught up.
Like windows does with the event store?

Naaahhhh thanks
So it is a tiling wm with eye tracking and a database for a file system? Seems a lot less sexy when you put it that way. I also see this being very frustrating to use!
... according to a "a student researcher from UVic who assisted" a surfing advocacy organization and some other randos.

Yes, litter will still be an issue, and no, you shouldn't just throw compostable things on the beach -- but comparing polymers which will float in the ocean for hundreds of years vs some compressed corn starch is no contest.
"you can now COPY FILES!" applause
A lot of our environmental issues have gone out of vogue because they tend to clash with the trendier value of immigration. It's easier for politicians to grandstand about carbon taxes and straws than face the real problems.
No need to punish everyone for the problems of a few. If you were to ban it, it would make sense to only ban it for those that cannot be responsible with sugary drinks.
much of this seems to boil down to window management, which ive used to great effect in blackbox for 20 years (pinning, rolling, always on top, transparency, tiling, etc)

while i dont want a mobile ui on my desktop (do you sit at a keyboard and only use your thumbs??), it is true MS and Apple have been content with their duopoly and are not innovating in this space at all (for each useful feature in either I can think of a regression).

The only reason I have windows over linux is gaming, and the only reason I have mac (book) is the hardware. Neither reason to use either OS is the OS itself!
> extra proprietary components

Exactly. So not "insanely powerful" by any objective measure as used by other folks in the industry. It's just secret magic applesauce[1]. Yet you feel free to throw adjective around anyway because it just "feels" like it must be "powerful" based on the language you're reading about it. To wit, I remain amazed at Apple's marketing.

[1] Which, fine. Maybe you really need that applesauce and the 2017 Supermicro board wouldn't have ever worked for you. Great! Still not an argument about "power".
It seems pretty reasonable to assume that equilibrium looks like taxis and private cars with app hailing. Personally, it wouldn't affect my usage much; I just use these services when I'm traveling because they're better experiences for the most part than taking a cab.

But, anecdotally, a fair number of urbanites regularly use Uber/Lyft instead of public transit or just because they don't want to drive. Presumably, significantly increasing prices would lose casual users who are using these services because they're a bit more convenient.
Now I would like to see it done the other way around. The cyclists in my neck of the woods don't stop at stop signs. They ride about 3 feet out in the road and sometimes have a fiberglass pole that sticks 3+ feet out in the road with an LED on it. They will ride side by side in packs of 4 going up windy roads. They hill-bomb and crash into my neighbors all the time. The tricky part is, they don't have a license plate.
It is on my to-read-someday list but Snow Crash was published in 1992!
SAFe is the Scaled Agile Framework.

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/
You're just countering his subjective opinion with your subjective opinion.

It's like he said he prefers cherry pie, and you're saying 'no that advice has issues, I prefer apple pie.'
I always find when I move to a new city (or perhaps become a bit despondent) a new bit of energy emerges from Meetups. Go to a few, find some interesting people, maybe learn a skill or two and enjoy the new diverse group of people. Cheers
Unless DNS is compromised.
Getting users to tag data has already been attempted. Heck Office has had this built in for years (decades?).

We live in a world where after nearly 30 years of the folders paradigm, the vast majority of every day users still store everything on their desktop.

(Though IT policies are working to change this, forcing files to be stored on network drives and such).

Some more advanced users may use a folder called "work".

Years ago I went through and tagged all my photos. Of course the photo management system I used up and died. After that I gave up. I do have some photo organized and stored locally, but now days Google Photos handles most of that for me, including the auto-tagging.

When people sit down at a computer, they generally have a task in mind. Be it write a document, calculate with a spreadsheet, or send a picture of their dog to a friend.

Most people don't think ahead to "5 years from now I may want to find this document so I should think up of every possible word I may search for then and apply it as a tag."

Tagging data takes time, and a good deal of thought to have a coherent system. Then, technically, those tags need to persist and transfer across disparate OSs.

I personally love the idea of tags. My capstone project in college was exploring different UIs for tagging files, and trying to make the process as fast and friendly as possible.

But changing users habits is hard.
I am not sure he cared one way or the other about opportunity cost. But it is pretty clear from his criticism of Bastiat's work that he didn't really debate the merits of "That which is seen or unseen." He focused on showing Bastiat didn't understand the true nature of wages and therefor any argument was fallacious.
Biodegradable plastic has its own issues as well. Nearly all of them are food-based and will set off one food allergy or another, plus you may also have issues with straws dissolving in hot liquids.

Someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned straws made of lobster shells. In addition to shellfish allergies, such a straw isn't going to be suitable for anyone who's vegan, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't kosher either (TBH, I'm Jewish, but I don't keep kosher, and I don't know enough about the laws of kashrut to say whether or not drinking out of a lobster-shell straw is equivalent to eating lobster).
Security isn't binary.

That's not to say that we shouldn't have verifiable builds (we totally should), but if we follow this line of logic we will never be able to call anything secure. By the time we have verifiable builds we will have identified other security risks that also need to be addressed.

Apps like Riot are secure compared to the majority of alternatives available today. Arguably we shouldn't use a binary term to describe that, but I'm sympathetic to the idea that consumers think in those terms and that it's not too harmful to use them. Other metrics typically don't see this kind of feedback (for example, you hardly ever see anyone complaining about someone marketing their app as 'fast', even though performance is also not binary).
And nobody mentioned prediction markets yet?
Can someone with experience using iCloud for family photo management pitch me on it? My devices are two iPhones, one MacBook, a Windows 10 laptop, and two occasionally-used digital cameras. So I feel like this might be a good fit, but it's also a problem a lot of companies have tried to crack and failed at. I'm a little nervous about vendor lock-in, for example not having a good story for a future Android phone, but potentially willing to pay that price if the cost and features are otherwise right.

If you use and like iCloud for photo management between multiple people, how is it?
That's why democracies have terms of office, and that's exactly what we do in our student organisation.

You're right: there has to be a way to get somebody out of a misfitting leadership role without completely humiliating him. Regular elections are a great way of doing so, and giving many different people the chance to lead benefits both them and the organisation.
Yes, their claim can be easily falsified by a full investigation.
Golang Boilerplate with Fully Managed Versions to Kick Start Golang Development
Yes AORs are great and is quite a complete system (rough consensus is nice too but that’s only a part of the solution) - here’s more details on AORs:

https://blog.asana.com/2017/12/distributed-responsibility-en...
...and they'll also get soggy and dissolve in your drinks.
Funny - they think their Ad Blocker popup is going to get me to buy but I'll just stop reading. How Medium-esque of you.
Robert Heinlein, "The Menace From Earth"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth

sorry, should have refreshed the page oftener...
> trying to tackle slow loading pages out of selflessness on Google's side

I'm not sure where you're getting "selflessness". The faster pages load from search the better people's experience of using search is. This directly benefits both Google and people who use search.
Would that be a spam vector, though?
Artificial Intelligence in Africa Initiative
> And it it turns out that co2 reduction is necessary to save those lemurs, so be it.

The threat to lemur habitats is 1) Malagasy people practicing slash-and-burn agriculture, exacerbated by a very high birthrate on the island which means there is ever more need for new agricultural land to exploit, 2) Madagascar’s poor using charcoal for cooking because they cannot afford something like kerosene, and 3) rampant logging so that the exotic wood can be shipped to China for the furniture industry. It has nothing to do with the CO2 crisis.
> Overlapping windows doesn't provide any benefit.

Another example: Overlapping my work windows over the Slack window. The red "you have new mention" indicator is a poor indicator for determining the importance of the mention; being able to see the channel it occurs in at a glance is very nice for prioritization. There's no real need to see the whole slack window.
I want to find a way to run each application I use on its own machine so that memory attacks (like spectre/meltdown, etc.) are theoretically impossible.

I still want to have a reasonable computing experience (e.g. copy + paste works and the experience is kind of like using one computer the normal way).

Any ideas? I was thinking some kind of remote desktop setup with a bunch of cheap boxes, each running Linux, on a LAN.
There’s nothing non-semantic about inline styles. And most css-in-js convert thise inline styles to a separate stylesheet with classnames.

I’d say web developers care much mire about semantics now than they did ten years ago. At least now you can finally have meaningful conversations around accessibility and screen readers.
At least it looks fine on HiDPI displays, which is more than a lot of old native apps can say.