skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I fully support this ban, even if it's not that much more than a gesture in the larger issue of carbon and the environment, I think it's largely related to the very public and embarrassing row over badly sorted garbage sent to the Philippines. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-garbage-from-phi...

That incident is however an indication of how difficult it is to properly dispose of single-use plastics, and this will help solve that problem.
> A folder structure is a self-contained map that will help guide me to the correct document.

A hierarchical structure like folders also maps well to how we locate things in real life.

Suppose I want to get a particular book I have. I enter my home through the front door, pass through the living room, from it enter the corridor which links all the rooms, then enter the office, within it go to the bookcase, open the first door on the left, go to the third row, and it's one of the books which are located in that shelf.
Loans for All
> All that said, the designs in this project are beautiful, and there are some useful-looking interface ideas.

Agreed. I went in after reading some comments and fully expected to dislike it strongly, but there are some nifty ideas.

Might just need to add

- a fallback wm

- keyboard shortcuts (and all OS level shortcuts need to use Super/CMD/Windows so they won't collide with application shortcuts)

On a related note this might not be too much work to implement on top of KDE: it is extremely customizable and has tagging built in.
IBM's i Series, modern heir to OS/400 doesn't have a "filesystem" in the traditional sense (but tons of tools to emulate and approximate it). Everything ends up in DB2.

I've spent time crawling around the SCSI/SAS/Storage of systems like that. Wrote dirty hacks for end-user clients to cope with incompatibilities. EG multiple versions with the same filename are totally fine. Filenames needn't and aren't unique in such systems, just another col in the DB. How do you tell a Windows ftp client which of the 20 different "report.txt" files it should download? (Filezilla actually has 'VMS' options for this, its more common than you think.)

If all you ever deal with is relatively simple, well defined, CRUD type applications on entirely abstract systems in some remote infrastructure, its easy to think that's how all development should look. It doesn't and it shouldn't.
>forcibly cute

The repulsion to anything “cute” is always perplexing to me. It comes up quite frequently when discussing branding and design.
Every time I go to an AMP page my eyes bleed. I switched to Firefox just to avoid ending up at ugly and broken AMP pages.
Can you use Yubikey NFC to do 2FA on most/all iOS apps? That's my biggest barrier to getting a Yubikey.
Couldn't you have both? You have the right to a direct vote, but you also have the option to bestow your vote to a representative to cast for you. Seems like a neat idea and solves many of these structureless problems. Many people know that a topic is out of their reach or interest, but they may know someone knowledgable to give their vote to to cast for them. If they feel that person doesn't represent them, they can immediately reclaim their direct voting right.
I guess the common thread is that these services complement your browsing experience, i.e. they'd often be used in conjunction with Firefox - as opposed to, say, Thunderbird. But yeah, the main reason is likely the stronger Firefox brand, and the biggest risk is indeed of weakening that brand. Then again, it could bolster it as well: Firefox Send is a very useful service, and can be used to make people familiar again with Firefox as the relevance of the browser has declined.

(The specific issue with the "Charging for Firefox" articles, was, I think, that the root source of that was an interview with a German website, causing details to be lost in translation.)
Going to give it one, single try... then I'm on to Linux as my primary. Will have a Windows VM for some work, and may keep a mac VM as well. Most of the stuff I do works fine in Linux, and it really looks like Manjaro and Pop_OS! have made a lot of progress beyond the general dev stuff I work on (mostly via Docker/Linux anyway).
I've had mine on a keyring for 6 months and it hasn't shown any signs of wear. I'd be surprised if it doesn't last at least another 18 months.
The laught is on us when pension founds buy at the IPO.
A new book says married women are miserable. Don't believe it
Too few vodka on the screen.
I really enjoyed Tim Harford's books "The Undercover Economist" and "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back".

Maybe they are too far in the "popular economics" category to be included in a list like this (although there are some on the list that look similar) but he explains things clearly and argues well and I feel like I understand economics far better after reading them.
"Windows are now inefficient and incompatible with modern productivity interfaces"

What?!

I have to agree with some of the other comments here - this is change for the sake of it, and the arguments against current-day desktop UIs seem weak at best, comprising mainly of opinion stated as fact.
This article isn't about embedded SoCs? It's about desktop CPUs that are readily available at retail. Embedded SoCs are a pain to buy from most vendors except the Chinese ones you can find on Alibaba.
CSS Grid to the rescue!

First up, style for desktop so you know what the full table should look like.

Then look at the table with your data in it. Try it on mobile and check the usability. Maybe there are supplemental columns that you have put in because you have the data but are not so important to the person on the move.

In this scenario you can make it so that a click on a table entry brings up the whole record. This could be on a separate page or in a pop-up. Again, depending on the data and the intended audience this has to be worked out by a little bit of prototyping. In the mix are font sizes and options to all 'and'hellip; to selected wide cells that can be abbreviated.

Now the fun begins in creating the responsive layout.

For the grid definitions - grid-column-rows - the desktop layout can be replaced with a CSS variable. In the CSS variable a fallback of the desktop definition can be given. This should be there already. For the variable definition that goes in a media query. This media query can be set to the max-width that best suits the data, if the table looks good down to 40 ems then the media query can be for that and below.

This approach makes it easier for the next guy that comes along. They will only have to know CSS Grid and not any of the Byzantine methods of page layout that came before CSS Grid.

This should degrade gracefully to a stock table for anyone with an extremely old browser.
Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key
Agreed... I'm a bit torn on this, since they've done a lot for Linux support, may go 5700XT or Radeon VII to pair with 3950X
The alledged political motivations of the prossecutors is very much irrelevant as

a) Lula was in fact guilty of operating an extensive criminal organization that transcended his party (in fact the interim president was also caught and is currently jailed)

b) Lula and his minions quite overtly stated that if they were elected they would abuse political immunity to avoid payung for their crimes and also abuse presidential pardons left and right to ensure every single member of their criminal organization would pay for theie crimes.

Therefore any concern with Lula and his minions winning the election has more to do with not wanting the criminals they were prossecuting to get off due to political trickery.
I was honestly expecting (and hoping) this was an article on carpentry...
> Myst

Check out The Manhole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole
I live on a small island with poor cellular connection, so a phone number is pointless anyways.

People explored the entire planet without phones, I can get by without WiFi for a few hours.

When I visit more civilized societies where people have the expectation of immediacy in communication I just plan my days when I wake up. My friends and family all know that when you make plans with me it is usually more detailed than "I'm not sure where we will be, I'll text you later."

I use apps for all of my day to day communication. Email is also one of my main communication channels.

Some apps like PayPal are basically unusable without a phone number, so I don't use them.

I get asked why I don't just buy a sim card when I visit other countries, and it really just boils down to liking being disconnected and bored of seeing people staring at their phones every time they are confronted with a problem.
Do you think “technically excellent and precise software” is the core message they want to send?

The messages of “friendly” and “cute”/“soft” you derived from the new look are much bigger wins for a brand building their image around friendliness and safety.
The anti-American rhetoric has always been there, no matter what. The Communist party can even blame the tiananmen square massacre on the western world. This is called brainwash.
Restaurants already have requirements around those with special needs (including those with babies), requiring them to have a few washable stainless steel straws on hand is not much to ask. Granted, there may be slip-ups, those should be reported.
I'd feel a bit weirded out at the prospect of someone going through my digital records after I pass. Not so much for my own embarrassment (I'd be too dead to feel that, after all), but to protect the trust and confidentiality of everyone I've communicated with.
Disk space isn’t cheap on a Mac laptop.
Could somebody explain to me the vicious American hate for China from a totally uninformed viewpoint? Any links to read why I should also dislike China?
I don't know, but I know from articles in the local paper that the existing alternatives weren't considered ideal.

I'd venture that if your dexterity is poor enough that you require a straw to drink instead of being able to drink strawless, a lot of the other tasks associated with carrying around one's own metal straw (ie. taking it out of a bag, putting it in a drink, washing it after) may also be overly challenging.
Hear, hear. I hope Troy, and others in similar shoes, will read this and consider it carefully.
The browser logo still clearly has at least a fox snout - it's the Firefox product family logo that's just the tail.
I still miss the Mozilla splash screen http://books.mozdev.org/html/figs/moz_0607.png
This is a fun design exercise, but a couple things really do stand out to me as useful.

First, panels instead of windows -- a thousand times yes, please. Overlapping windows doesn't provide any benefit. Making everything either full-screen or splitting the screen is so much better. There's a reason so much software has moved to tabs and side panels instead of separate windows within the app.

Second:

> The desktop metaphor as the basis of computer interfaces is inefficient and outdated. Today, most of our data exists outsides of files and folders. The desktop worked great to get us started 40 years ago, but it was never built for the complexity and amount of work today.

I don't like the author's particular solution... but yes the idea of an actual "desktop" folder seems silly and antiquated now.

And it's about time that cloud content (whether file-based like Google Drive or content-based like Google Photos) got treated as a first-class citizen in the OS.

If the iOS Files app lets me treat my Google Drive as just another folder... why doesn't Finder? Why do I have to install third-party software for that?
They the boss.
Are you asking if they have something like this for their managed services in various Region/Zones? Or if you can configure something like this for your personally hosted services/resources?
Please keep these wretched ideological flamewars off HN. Think of it as an experiment in not having literally every internet forum burn with the same rage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have a good link about Valve’s model and are they a socialist / EMPLOYEE OWNED organization?

Update: I read about it and no, they are basically anarcho syndicalist and overall owned by a enligtened/benevolent set of owners.
Interesting correlation in the US: except for Pacific Time, it seems the populations in each time zone are more dense on the sunrise side. Aren't these health issues and economic outcomes typical of rural America?
I highly doubt that you're going to get a proper shell on the iPad.
Female-Founded Unicorns Are Being Born at an Unprecedented Rate in 2019
Three finger is the one gesture I actually use on my macbook pro. My thumb sits on the edge of the laptop, my index is on the glass, and my second and third fingers are hovering at the ready. At some point I got into the habit of scrolling with fingers 2 and 3 rather than 1 and 2.

Four finger, or really anything requiring me to lift my palm rather than pivot from the keyboard, is absurd though.
> Wow, so they passed a national law that essentially targets just a single park? How often does that happen anywhere? (I know the back story but I never knew Marineland was the only place... not saying this is wrong or right, just surprised)

What's the alternative where the law rules? If federal jurisdiction is where the law/regulation would belong, how else would you bring an end to that practice?
Oracle really screwed themselves here. Everyone is jumping ship to other JDK vendors, making them even less likely to pay for Oracle support
The EU is acting after what has come to light in New Zealand, Australia, and Africa. Unfortunately it appears they are acting separately because we are such great friends these days /s .

A lot of people only familiar with the surface link this to the trade war and Huawei, but those are largely reactions to the scope and reach of China's propaganda, control, and soft-power efforts that have been coming to light over the past few years.

Ultimately I believe these are all symptoms caused by a fundamental incompatibility between China's "communist", fascist government and the liberal democracies of the world. Unless that can be reconciled, which I don't believe it really can, everything else is just managing for time.
That is a best explanation of three phase I have ever read, and I have read a lot of different explanations.
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell is a book that changed my views a decade ago. I have skimmed through it a few times in the years since, through a full market cycle, and he continues to be spot on.
Microsoft’s Game Pass Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare on PC
> The World Economic Forum estimates that 90 percent of the plastic ending up in the oceans comes from 10 major rivers, and that currently there are 50 million tons of plastic in the world’s oceans."

from the WEF: researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean. Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger. [1]

It seems odd to mention that nearly all of the plastic waste comes from 10 major rivers and then not to name them (or mention that all of them are a world away from Canada).

1: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
No effect at all. Apple is unlikely to make this possible, and given the sandboxing of Apps on iOS a meaningful version of this for local resources outside of the App are prohibited.
The typical news cycle lasts about 48 hours. People have no problem remembering what 9/11 was all about because it was the top item for over a year. Now ask them in what year it was and see if you get the right answer.

If YC has to stop doing business in China, it will be a very momentary blip and China will most definitely not change course because of a PG blogpost.
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Our implementation of 2FA only happens when adding your account to a new device. Subsequent unlocks do not require any sort of 2FA except for certain conditions.

Our apps do not currently support U2F/WebAuthn when signing in, so they'll default back to TOTP based until we implement support for U2F. We aren't making any promises as to when this will arrive but at least two of our apps now have some form of support for it internally. It's far from complete and not ready for users but it is being worked on.

Note that U2F in this case is only about authentication, not decryption of data. This is why it's only used on initial setup of your account on a new device. The cryptography side for unlocking 1Password is entirely independent of U2F/MFA.

Hope that helps but let me know if you have any questions.

Kyle

1Password
Web Element Locator Strategies [a Student’s Experience]
>If I want to go to a site I want that site not a google cache of it.

AMP isn't limited to Google cache. Websites and CDNs (like Bing and Cloudflare) can roll their own AMP and cache it themselves, while still getting the icon in search results.

Example: https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6yj6iw/what_did_...
I'm still happy with awesome wm :)
Took me way longer than it should to figure it out. Then the slideshow took over my browser history :(
> The reason why the desktop hasn't changed much in 30 years is because it works.

That's not how innovation or success is measured in any way whatsoever. We had alchemy for centuries before Science, it was not right, nor was it good enough because it "just worked". This project is exploring a number of ideas and it reads like you are dismissing it because of the poor writing and its interest in non-traditional input methods. I think you would enjoy re-looking at the project if you just ignored the text.

It is fun to think about how much more usable the desktop could be, and it will be experiments and discussions like this one where we make progress towards that goal.

> No, they're not

I totally agree with you. Mobile sucks for just about everything if someone is used to working on a computer, but it is the case that many millions more people have mobile devices than laptops or desktops. If we could work on a system that gave them more power than the trash we have for them so far, that would be incredible.

E: for what its worth, I tried getting deeper into this in my top level comment further down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157536
No. You either have to switch to Firefox or use DDG to avoid AMP. I switched to Firefox.
Importantly, it's the animals that are grandfathered in, not the parks. So it'll take a while but this will eventually bring an end to Marineland's captivity program.
You seem to be knowledgeable in this matter. I have a question for you. Several years ago, I heard about a theory that these burst-prone "large, lipid-rich plaques" are essentially "band-aids" created for deficiencies in arterial walls. Does that description align with some of the literature you have read on the subject?
PBS newshour is daily what are you talking about
I doubt it. During the Khashoggi thing it turned a few heads but most businesses just stayed quiet for the few months it was a thing. Now biz as usual. I would expect that the same is happening for China money. Hush hush until we get out of the cloud.
> As a rider, you are liable for all personal injuries that result from your riding.

As a walker, you're liable for all personal injuries that result from your walking

As a dog owner, you're liable for all personal injuries that result from your dog.

> Without insurance, you are putting your financial life in jeopardy.

Most drivers are underinsured if they send a few people to the hospital. On a scooter though, covering the average cost of a scrape or the beyond costs of a broken bone isn't nearly as peril.
Brit here. Reviewing source code before a purchase is pretty normal.

I've personally done this for multiple companies that the enterprise I work for has purchased.

In all cases it was a 1-day review, while supervised by someone from the company being purchased.

It seems perfectly reasonable to get an idea of the state of what you are planning to purchase.
> Many games ship with a "packfile", which is a pseudo-filesystem that appears as a giant blob to the OS.

Games get to do this because they don't care about interoperability. The packfile is intended to be a closed environment accessible only to the game code itself, with no need for anything else to care about it.

This could be interpreted as a particular case of "can't trust the apps" - a game has no need or desire to trust anything else.
Scala 3 (known in its prototype phase as Dotty) will solve lots of the issues you describe. The language is reevaluating how some of its features are used in practice, and lots of common use cases that now are a bit clunky will be streamlined.

Other issues like better compiler errors and nicer tooling are being worked on. Both Scala and SBT have advanced a lot on that regard, and I'm eager to see what's next.
No, it’s not The Incentives–it’s you
One-hand three finger (text select, dictionary lookup, file and window drag and drop) and four finger (expose up and down, virtual desktops left and right) gestures are great on MacBook trackpad. At some point they were default in macOS but now I need to reenable them on every install in both trackpad and accessibility settings. Especially the tree finger one (point + middle + ring fingers) is so much better than click and hold to drag.
Heart Attacks are Common Amongst Silicon Valley Workers
In the near term, because animals already in captivity were grandfathered in. But those animals won't live forever, so Marineland's days of whale captivity are numbered.
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. By the time people start hauling in wheelbarrows of pre-existing quotes like this, intellectual curiosity is long lost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
hastags instead of folders

I understand that a designer might like that, but I don't.
SB Changes – Kent Beck
This sort of happens with Ubuntu installs on HP laptops, at least in my experience. The default brightness is 0 so you can install Ubuntu, restart to log in, and the screen will come up black. External displays work fine, caps lock toggles on, fan noises and everything are fine.

You just need to increase the display brightness using the F keys and it's fine.
Subscribing to a few major newspapers is probably not a bad idea. Otherwise we’ll only see the news/ads FANG sees fit to show us.

Christian Science Monitor is apparently an overperformer (very modest brand awareness and hence very affordable, but generally respected for its journalism).
I think having persistent access is the file system equivalent of logging in and working entirely from root.

The default should be a restricted system, with intentional, temporary, jumps into unrestricted access for making whatever infrequent system configuration changes.

What’s the use case for constant RW access? What changes at this level so frequently?
And bad things never happen when countries start printing more money to pay off debt....
Canada is not where the problem is at, so to speak

By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.

Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...