skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that marc all talking about. I couldn't believe it and won't trust him.
But finally there are viable, open, replacements that are emerging: https://www.2dimensions.com/explore/popular/trending/all

which uses Flare:
https://www.2dimensions.com/about-flare

(and is using an Open Source runtime that runs natively)
Anyone have a link to get past the paywall for this article?
The only people with that problem are running sovereign wealth funds.

IMO that should be invested in the infrastructure and social services of your nation to create a more educated and productive populace which will return the investment in the form of taxes.
If you don't lobby for your selfish interests, you'll get out-regulated by companies who do. Lobbying is not an optional luxury. You have to do it. At least in politically sensitive industries.

As a partially made up example, I'm guessing the plastic straw industry didn't think they had to lay a groundwork lobbying for their existence over the decades. And now they're dead.
Oddly enought they are doing it 'right' with iPad multitasking.
> However, given real life self driving are already much safer than real life human drivers

Citation needed
The selling point is bang for the buck.

For $400 you get a device with an exceptionally high performance SOC that should get five years of of software and security updates.
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$365/year seems ridiculously expensive. For comparison protonmail is 48 Euros per year.
Exactly man. Salesforce is money making machine and overpriced crm.
I support this idea, but I wouldn't touch something like Tutanota or ProtonMail that doesn't support an open standard like IMAP (or doesn't provide it for the free tier or has "bridge" applications to install) for saving and archiving mails offline on a computer. Tutanota and ProtonMail are both walled gardens of their own making. I can't easily migrate out of Tutanota (or ProtonMail if I'm a free tier user) and take my emails elsewhere. I appreciate that they provide (or claim to provide) better encryption, but I like to have control over my data and where I have copies of in an easily accessible manner.

I'd suggest instead, for much cheaper, Posteo.de, Runbox.com, Mailbox.org, Mailfence.com or Migadu.
>Entire lives are wrapped up in Google accounts!...We seriously need to break this company up

How about users that don't like the TOS just find another service? I'm perfectly happy with the way things are.
- google pay

- google maps

These are the two things I find more or less impossible to replace on android. For Pay, there is no alternative at all.
For Maps, there is Osmand, which is good as static map, but not for finding addresses.
The thing is you could use NewPipe on an Android device without Google Play Services and a Google account.
I am on Gnome 3.32.2. I remembered Ubuntu lagged behind but didn't know this much.

Maybe the touchpad speed is added in later versions of gnome.

Your keyboard shortcut use case is much more complex than mine and I haven't used Karabiner(though I should try because until now I am hating my mac experience and I am stuck with a mac as a daily driver for the past month).

It should be possible to use multiple keyboards with different layouts and shortcuts as a colleague of mine used to use his build this way. I have always been on the road so don't have the luxury. https://superuser.com/questions/351936/separate-keyboard-for...

I don't use kitty but use alacritty and there is an option for changing the copy and paste shortcuts. So you can use command+c for copy. Also for your original query about command-c ctrl-shift-c have you tried setting it up as a macro? Maybe that would work.

> I'm glad they have that, but I don't want to give my browser that security hole, so I grant you that one's a bit on me. Should be easier to do a manual installation anyway.

I worry about this as well. I used to use this but later realised that I don't need new extensions and just use my existing list so I made a script for this which has been serving me well for some time now. Though with my shift to i3 my gnome use is quite limited for a few years now so can't say if it would hold for routine use case.

> I do not at all mean to trash the hard work people have done, I really (truly!) respect it. However, from this particular user's perspective, the problems are about equal to what they were a decade ago.

Agreed. A long road to travel.
Really? I run Raspbian, Windows and FreeBSD on my home on different machines for different purposes, and though all three have their weaknesses, they are much better than they were two decades ago.
My general expectation is that Autonomous vehicles will at some point become safer than human drivers. However, even when that happens, when they make errors they will be errors that seem stupid and incomprehensible to humans. This will be because the failure mode of an ML driving model will be utterly different to the failure mode of human beings. This will lead to a lot of fear and uncertainty, humans want to comprehend what might kill them, and autonomous driving, while safer will kill them in bizarre ways.
p.s. I think the LIDAR data is here: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/collections , not on Canmore. It seems to be about a gigabyte total.
1. We have democratic checks and debate now, regarding this issue.

2. I see no evidence that "massive, publicly-funded investment" would achieve this technological goal faster or better than via capitalistic means. Do you have any?

3. Lives will be lost regardless of how the tech is developed. Surely this is obvious. So what are you even talking about?
You could just link to your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21248111

(I assume that's the one you meant. "Ctrl-F" is very vague when you have a bunch of comments in this thread.)
It's time for governments to ban any auto-driving system which allows for autonomous steering until there exists a framework for validating that such a system is capable of dealing with 100% of situations that a reasonable driver would be able to handle.
I don’t think all of my emails and files get automatically decrypted and processed through Palantir, but of course I’d like to know if I’m mistaken about that.
Just because they both have dangers doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use the safest one!
"I base my understanding of the product on the bullshit some other sales team wrote for the company page two pivots ago"

is slightly more forgivable than the other things, particularly if you change "sales team wrote" to "marketing team wrote". In a company with more than one or two products it gets very hard to keep track of what a company actually sells, and the marketing material is at least theoretically a customer-consumable list of that.
A premium subscription to watch YouTube ad-free.
Stating it that way makes it seem like you're opposed to learning something new. That's fine, but a lot of people including GP just looked once and never did anything else.
>What kinds of accidents is autopilot going to prevent that automated accident avoidance cannot? Why does it have to drive the car to achieve the safety benefits?

Accidents from people who shouldn't have been driving in the first place. Part of the benefit of self-driving cars is not needing a qualified human, so the blind, elderly, children, drunk, etc can [still be] drive[n around].
AI has been a dominant force in the market since at least the 1980's.
From a HN user who used to work on circumventing ad-blockers: "The hardest to beat is uBlock Origin"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21036260
I switched to Windows (no WSL) a few years back, and have been making the joke that real hipsters use Windows natively these days ever since.
So in truth, when the 2012 MBP dies, I have no idea what I'm going to do to replace it.

There are used MBPs available from various reputable sources. That's my goto at work, when someone's laptop dies.
> You still, in 2019, cannot even move a window/app on the desktop in vanilla macOS using your keyboard?

> That, to me, is crazy. How can a company with the resources of Apple not implement this basic feature?

That's one solution to the problem of selecting the thing you want to work on.

Apple's solution has been to throw hardware at the problem. You have gestures, expose, mission control, etc. all available from a really good touchpad.

It would be crazy for a linux distro to take that approach because they can't bundle a high quality touchpad with every laptop they sell.

I definitely don't claim their approach that they will do best of class support for a pointing-heavy workload will suit everyone, just that it makes sense for a combined OS and hardware vendor.
It answers one part of your question. The other issue you pointed out doesn't actually exist.

> How can a company with the resources of Apple not implement this basic feature?

The answer, as it always is in cases like this, is that Apple thinks most users don't want or need the feature. Apple probably considers full screen mode to cover the use case of wanting two windows side-by-side. Personally, I never tile windows to either side of my screen — I prefer to have my windows laid out all over the screen and then switch using cmd+tab or mouse. IMO, this is what windows were designed for.

> What fundamental problems?

The ones pointed out all over this thread.
I just looked at the headers from some emails I sent this way. My gmail address does not appear there and both the <From> and Return-path are my domain address.
This article is absurd
Yeah. TBH I just want them to do business properly, you know, just give us regular quality books. I don't think I'm asking for a lot.

My local Chapters (A Canadian bookstore) closed door a few years ago, and some second-hand shops also closed their doors since then.
common folk don’t hate rich people (or the products they offered to get rich), they hate that rich people put a thumb, a palm, an elbow, and a foot on the scales in their favor. no one wants a handout, we want fairness.
> the beauty of capitalism is that consumers can force businesses to change by their actions

Wow. That's adorable. Did you just turn 14?
Clueless movements elect clueless representatives who mirror their clueless beliefs.
Just get a 2015 MBP. These are the last ones with MagSafe and more than Thunderbolt 3 ports.
I'm saying that you should aim to not get caught up in a lifestyle in which you significantly increase the chance that you will feel forced to do bad things in the future to maintain it.

I won't give hard figures because really this mortgage example is just one of many. It's a basic principles thing.

Poor people living hand to mouth have no choice. A qualified software developer really does.

If you mortgage yourself to the hilt and have two kids you can barely afford, then you might well say "oh, my responsibility is towards my family now". Some people respect that.

I think it's bullshit. Anyone can increase their lifestyle to meet their income, pile up debts and then claim they just have to do whatever bossman says because otherwise it'll all unravel.
Find a used 2015 mbp. I love mine (15 inch, mid 2015).

I probably would have upgraded for a better gpu, but the keyboards are too iffy for me. I shed a lot, and if dust/detritus is the mbp keyboard killer, it will never work for me.

Honestly I mostly use my iPad now. Work-work is still a dell laptop with win 10, and is daily torture to use. Mostly from all the corporate spyware my employer loads it down with.

At home, even for coding, I use the iPad second gen 12.9 and a vps.
How many do overs does socialism get? You can only say "that's not how REAL socialism is supposed to happen" so many times.
While I appreciate the sentiment I doubt the age difference between 31 and 34 account for the retention falls under the 'being older' category.
Most people have far better things to do than getting into a tinkering rabbit hole to enable basic desktop functionality.
didnt knew about torsocks, thanks
There has never been a truly communist society, they were marketed as being socialist (nazi party) or as communist (lenin and mao). None of those were what they claimed to be at all, or at best a corrupted version of what they were supposed to be.

See: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/cpml-ussr.htm

So there hasn't been any communism that turned into fascism, as there hasn't been any communist society. Most of the misconceptions about communism stem from post-WW2 propaganda, which boils down to "Capitalism = good, Communism = bad". (at least on western side of the iron curtain)
Apple 2019: plugging an external projector will most likely not work.

Is this true? Because I'll tell you a story about my early days of using Mac OS. We've all sat in meetings waiting for someone to do the Fn-F5/Ctrl-Alt-F3 dance trying to get the laptop to output to the projector. I had to do a presentation, and using Mac OS for the first to do so. "Oh, shoot, I don't even know the keyboard dance to do to hook it up. Meh, plug it in, figure it out in a minute." Plugged it in and...it just worked(tm). As soon as cable touched plug, it output to the projector. Fuckin'-A. And here's the kicker: Mac OS was running on a Hackintosh, not real Apple hardware. That right there was enough to sell me on Mac OS. I don't connect to random external monitors much anymore, but I've never had a problem getting output to any random display I've hooked a Mac to.
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TBH, i never personally trust Salesforce and this article is absurd.
He also became very disillusioned with the left there.

Also took a bullet through the throat, which he rather miraculously survived.
I still maintain that the problem is the UI toolkits.

The mac ecosystem now has _multiple_ viable indesign and photoshop alternatives.

AppKit, Cocoa, UIKit and all those frameworks gradually added all the features third party app developers hacked into their own UI libraries.

GTK is something developers frequently curse about and theme developers frequently abandon because the gnome team keeps breaking their themes.

QT while great is nowhere near the ease of use of the cocoa frameworks and for every 20 cocoa books you find one QT book.

Bottom line is, as much as you may hate Xcode it's exponentially easier to make a good looking application on a mac compared to any linux counterpart. At the end of the day, people want to use (for example) photoshop or something similar without dual booting.
Mac user since 2010. At the time the laptop hardware was just so far ahead of anything else when it came to battery life and sleekness.

I still like it for general use (web, development, terminal stuff).

But the hardware is driving me away. Un-repairable, expensive, non-upgradeable, failure-prone...

I have a 2 year old MacBook Pro with a fan that gets annoying clickity/clackity, $500 repair from the Apple store. No thanks I will live with it.

One of my biggest pet peeves with MacOS is that even though it's so nice to use, it's just so damn slow. Everything is slow. When I user a lesser Windows 10 or Ubuntu machine, it feels like a rocket.

The only thing that feels fast on a Mac is Safari.
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I switch between different keyboard layouts fairly frequently (I use a kinesis advantage 2 which is quite different from traditional keyboards) so maybe it is just being used to being somewhat uncomfortable when having to type on other keyboards that is making it harder to appreciate the difficulty it actually presents to others.

It seems like you are using different keyboards constantly so fixing it on one laptop maybe doesn't offer you much benefit. I doubt that everyone that reads this is constantly changing keyboards, though. For those it would certainly be beneficial unless they are for whatever reason using caps lock frequently.
I wouldn't call it a "lay off", but I have been "let go" from one company, "fired" from one company and "quit" two companies.

Overall I am glad. I was overworked when I was "let go" after 4 years of working in the start up, because the company was going into a growth phase and the CEO didn't feel I would be up for it. Rightly so-- I called bullshit on the Silicon Valley cult of overwork many times.

I was "fired" from one company because I called the CEO out on his shit and told him to shove it up his ass. I then created my own version of their product and have been running my own company ever since. So thanks for firing me.
This. If you want to be respected, use a service provider that values your business. Google ain't one of them.
Oh!

I read the book with conflicting views on communism/socialism/fascism in mind. Need to read in more detail.
Thanks for the clarification.
Maps.me (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/) seems a bit better for finding addresses
> Windows is so poorly designed that I still wonder why there's Settings as well as Control Panel offering mostly the same settings, and old settings dialogs from Windows XP or Windows 2000 are still around!

Mostly due to backward compatibility, as there were a fair amount of Windows applications that loaded DLLs to add a custom panel to Control Panel.

Well, many people on HN hate that Apple has a poor record on managing backward compatibility (like deprecating 32-bit apps or Carbon), but if they do to the scale of Microsoft, this is what happens.
Is this satire of the ridiculous false equivalencies so often employed in modern rhetoric? Does the author really think using a Mac in 2019 is a complicated and fiddly as using a Linux machine in 2000?

Or are people just upvoting something because it's the kind of lazy hot take that's candy for socially ranked sites like this? This is why I believe sites like HN and Reddit often make their readers dumber despite surfacing good information.
KDE's pointer acceleration settings have never worked on X11 unfortunately.
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Specifically the USB-C to HDMI dongle for the Macbook seems to be totally useless. It has terrible reviews, is one of the only Apple products I've ever seen that required multiple full machine reboots to install a driver, and is just completely unreliable.

We'll see if the new version is any better, but I'm not hopeful given either Apple doesn't seem to really know what devices are supposed to be able to play 4K iTunes content or may have just silently pulled the feature at the last minute and not told anyone.
You’re engaging in discussion and the downvotes aren’t disagreement here. They’re a sign your comment wasn’t contributing much of value.
It was also amazing to me that no home computer manufacturer
ever had a plan for a serious gaming home computer system that
matched (or came close to) the arcades in visual quality.

Who wouldn't try to buy a machine that could play, for example,
Outrun, close to the arcade? even if it cost 1000 dollars...

There were serious heaps of silicon inside those arcade machines. No way they could have been (profitably) sold to home users for anything remotely resembling $1K.

Check out the arcade board for After Burner; essentially the same hardware as Outrun:

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade/PCB/big/Af...

Gobs of RAM and custom silicon. Compare with any contemporary home computer of the era. No way these massive slabs of arcade silicon could have been produced and sold profitably for less than thousands of dollars.

There were other issues as well. These arcade boards were very power hungry and therefore put out lots of heat. Home consumers willing to put up with that would be a very small niche.
Adaptive streaming doesn't seem to be a difficult problem to solve. Most cloud providers offer video streaming services that can transparently sit in front of your domain or you can serve something like HLS or MPEG-DASH files through an appropriate js player. I must admit though I have no personal experience with this and am sure any home-rolled solution will be vastly inferior to Youtube et al, but it is possible and may satisfy the use cases of many people who don't want to put all their eggs into one basket.
Let's say that the lower bound is "working for a spyware company".

I get what you're saying but I think you're just playing devil's advocate.

Yeah, I actually do personally struggle with this. The vast majority of companies do, indeed, sell and produce shit we don't need, often to the detriment of society at large (they may temporarily benefit individuals).

I am concerned with the climate too. I consume products that have embodied CO2 emissions. Because it's literally impossible to not do so in the modern world. That doesn't mean just throwing my hands up and saying "lol fuck it, there is no moral high ground" and buying a Hummer, y'know?

I am free to pass judgement on people who do bad things, and I will continue to do so. I expect people to do the same of me. This is the process by which we evolve as a race. It's big girl time now, there are 7 billion of us and we've collectively attained demi-god status in terms of our ability to affect the fabric of the world around us.

We _need_ to learn a way to put the collective before the individual or we are going to comprehensively fuck ourselves.
And people who are not very good at driving! Myself included.
And if you do that, does it fail to render ads coming from YouTube?
This, everyone is complaining on how bad desktop OSes are now but even windows is great now, compared to mobile devices, desktop is heaven.
> What kinds of accidents is autopilot going to prevent that automated accident avoidance cannot?

Many accidents in stop-and-go traffic jams, people falling asleep due to being tired or bored (yes, that is a real issue) and veering off course, pedestrians stepping in front of the vehicle...
The most annoying thing about e-reader is the size of the devices. I wish someone built a device with an A4 letter screen. This would make reading scientific papers much easier.
What impressed me the most is that he made a webpage to help him do the knitting.

Example of a dinosaur:
https://lagomorpho.com/patterntracker/?pattern=patterns/chro...

This should be a product on its own. Take a photo, use some PyTorch and get a ready made page to help you.
Don’t know how many times I have printed A4 paper or handed my wife the iPad with a zoomed version of the receipt she is knitting.
> So many apps are not DPI aware.

I tried switching to a Windows laptop at work a couple years ago, and bounced off of it (returning to an ancient MacBook) basically entirely because of this. That, in combination with the laptop's 4K monitor, conspired to make it impossible for me to read text in some applications I used without a magnifying glass.

I suspect that Windows might be totally fine with so many apps not being DPI aware if laptop manufacturers weren't also doing things like creating 15" 4K monitors.
I think this subscription service could be useful to me to find what I like/what works for my home, end the service, then go purchase the plants I like.