skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, someone suggests that _other people_ change their way of life because it's bad, without any impact on himself of course.

It's really easy to preach without having any skin in the game isn't it ?
Then I would ask on SuperUser. If you want something entirely open source and you don't mind some manual steps and this is just for you, then you could simply mount a USB, use cryptsetup to encrypt it and use rsnapshot to copy your files over. Rsnapshot will create deltas of only changed files, which means rolling back to a date is easy and disk usage is minimal (just your initial data-set + change delta)

Your distro likely already has cryptsetup and rsnapshot in its repos.

You asked for a GUI though, so I think your best bet is SuperUser. They will be on top of all the latest open source backup solutions that have a GUI.

[1] - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot
Just so you know where I'm coming from, I personally would not pay for those games because they're closed-source, and I would not buy from any of their market competitors either for the same reason. Admittedly I'm not much of a gamer, my idea of a fun weekend is spending it on github. So the innovation doesn't really benefit me.
John Carmack and Yann LeCun really need to explain themselves for working for a data collection firm that aids the GOP.
I can't see the article. I guess I will never find out now how to detect business fraud.
They do care. Sure, they've made a few big mistakes, but they worked to correct them.

PC laptop manufacturers? With a few exceptions their keyboards are just garbage.
It depends on the trackpad. I think part of the issue is that Linux doesn’t have much calibration beyond what the firmware on the trackpad is reporting.

The other issue is that PC laptops tend to have much smaller trackpads for whatever reason, allowing for less room for fine adjustments after swiping.

My old Asus UX305 feels as good as a Mac, the trackpad is large, the scrolling has momentum and feels good, etc.

On the other hand, my HP Envy trackpad is terrible, the palm detection doesn’t work well, the trackpad itself is too small to aim properly, the acceleration is pretty high and hard to aim. It almost seems like the team responsible for the design of the laptop never considered what it would be like to use such a small trackpad.
Apple updates MacBook Pro 13“
> One of the real, hard, lessons of the coronavirus situation is that security is collective. You can hole up for a while, and avoid catching the virus yourself, but the economic effects will get everywhere.

Hence the need for FU money because the collective decisions are/will be lousy. You do not want to be dependent on the collective for security.
I don't see anyone in the links you provided saying they want ISPs to decide what sites they can visit or not. I only see them saying that they believe government regulation of the Internet in the name of net neutrality would be worse than having to bargain with ISPs about access to content as private entities bargaining with other private entities.

I happen to think they are wrong as a matter of tactics in this particular case: governments gave ISPs the special privileges they have now, and if we can't get governments to just withdraw those privileges altogether and force ISPs to compete on a level playing field, net neutrality regulation might be the "least worst" alternative we can actually achieve.

But as far as being skeptical of government regulation in general, and government regulation of any form of mass communication in particular, as a longer term strategic position I think they are right. Net neutrality regulation, even if we could get it, would not allow us to just sit back and relax, problem solved. We would still have to be prepared to protest the next time the government tries to overreach, and the next, and the next, and the next...
Property lists have a binary format. The XML one is convenient because you can open it up in a text editor and modify it by hand.
The flu is a contagious disease, but you never made a big deal about it until now, at least according to your post history. The only reason you're making a big deal about it is because the media is. The IFR is actually going DOWN, not UP.
Taking your bait: sure. The government is bad. Not too sure where that leaves us, though.
Consider Laravel (PHP) and Django (Python) if you want a like-for-like replacement in a better supported ecosystem.
You’re giving Dell / HP / etc too much credit. They’ve tried over and over again to build a machine with Macbook level quality. They have laptops that cost just as much, if not more, than a Macbook. And every one of them has some glaring issue.

It’s not some purposeful design decision. They just don’t have the same caliber of engineers or management that Apple has.
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> Do you enjoy cleaning up their mess?

Of course not. I may enjoy cleaning up my own messes, but not one that someone else has foisted upon me. The problem with teams like this is that the fast-movers are long gone by the time the impact of their expediency is being felt. They benefit from the accolades of a launch while shirking the responsibility of operating a product.

> In this case, why do you do it?

Because the product sucks and needs to be improved, but it is an unimprovable mess because everything was done expediently instead of well, some of which needs to be fixed in order to move forward. A lot of the hard work at this point is in figuring out the best pragmatic balance of what to fix vs. what to leave alone. A little forethought could have saved a lot of post-facto toil.

I do like iteration, doing things in small iterative chunks. But that is not the same as putting out a huge mess and hoping someone comes along who enjoys cleaning it up.
Yeah, but almost nobody opts for the super high resolution display because the screen is so small that the difference is basically unnoticeable. A similar configuration to my laptop is several hundred dollars cheaper, and that's a not insignificant difference.

Edit: I owned both.
This is really interesting (I remember reading it years ago), but does not, in fact, explain harmony. There is no explanation of why particular harmonies work that generalizes, nor any methods given for calculating harmonies de novo.
Try streamio
You don't turn warnings into error on production but it will help to have them enabled on your local machine, otherwise errors are ignored and you would waste your time debugging weird issues. You can do this per file too using the "ini_set" https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php
Not sure why I was downvoted for curiousity
Well that cookie banner is on every website. The other banner is pretty critical as it’s about covid. Not sure which third you’re speaking of?
They always had better scrolling due to custom drivers but it wasn't anything like today until 2008, when the macbook air came out with the (now iconic), Glass capacitive Trackpad. The presentation repeatedly referenced the iphone and how they were learning from the iPhone and using it's tech.
If you used a pre-2008 trackpad and then the modern Apple trackpad you would see massive differences.
Hmm, maybe this is stupid but I wonder if another advantage of wearing a mask is that it creates a kind of humid “microclimate” around your sinuses — combined with plenty of fluids, maybe a healthier scenario overall?
The lack of any vertical rhythm or spacing, at least in mobile, is atrocious.
Yeah, I remember noticing on first using an iBook (2003 or so) how ridiculously better the trackpad was than anything I'd used before, and that wasn't new hardware or software then.
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> and that, to my knowledge, it's not considered legally binding.

Violating the oath is grounds for immediate revocation of license which eliminates lawful practice forever whether or not professional. The actions that produced that violation may not be a lawful violation, but they typically are.

What in software is of similar consequence?
Again, maybe you do. You are not everyone. Stop assuming things to make your argument stronger. You know exactly nothing about 99.9999% of the engineers at these companies and their lives and their needs. You also do not know what they care about and if their morality lines up with yours (which you have decided to be the global "right" morality, for some reason)
I guess my first comment would be that cloning disks isn't a viable backup strategy. It hasn't been for a long time, especially since you don't have the ability to swap internal disks anyway. Apple provides time machine, which should give you a good backup capability.

Also, I'm not convinced the T2 chip is the problem here. I think an incorrect corporate backup workflow and deployment strategy is the problem.
Yes, there is. Show me a situation where the Touch Bar wouldn't have the ESC button there. Additionally, if the position and location are that big of an issue, there is a setting that guarantees that the ESC key and FN keys are always on the bar at all times.

There is literally nothing that the physical key does that the virtual key on the Touch Bar can't do.
Companies like Amazon were not always in the position you've described. It took decades to get there. And there would have been numerous opportunities along the way where a single engineer could have had a massive impact.

A single engineer at Facebook will not make a difference today. 10 or 12 years ago they absolutely could have changed the course of the company.

Almost all collective change is spearheaded by the ideas and leadership of a few individuals.
The only way that works is for Microsoft to refuse to license Windows to manufacturers that don't meet those standards, and you're not going to catch them refusing to make a sale.
Get the same with Firefox. Tried it with Chrome and it works. Makes me sad :(
> Effectively influencing people's behavior

Would a more constructive way to describe this be: 'helping people to grow'? To me 'influencing' sounds covert and without consent. They would also personally benefit from using the strategies you'd like them to employ, right? Why try to 'influence' them, when it could be something achieved with their full participation and consent? Then it becomes something you've done together, instead of you having successfully 'influenced' them (read: manipulated).

When talking about this I do acknowledge the constraints of modern day workplaces, and I think with that comes the importance of showing them the organizational constraints - the challenges you face as a leader or manager, in your role - and being open with them about how their various efforts can support you in that role.
Onramp is gentle... to a point. While I'm a fan of PHP for what it is, there are still plenty of footguns. Probably more than modern statically typed languages.
Thanks, I couldn't read the article.
Highly recommend "lying for money" by Dan Davies, a very readable account of a wide range of business frauds.
Am I the only one who prefers the red nubs on on Thinkpads? I find it very hard to use any touchpads. When I used a mac, I would carry around a mouse. I wish thinkpads would get rid of the touchpad. I'm perfectly happy with just using the nub.
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The physical key isn't what's important to consumers. The ability to back out and use the ESC function is and that's still there for everyone who has a Touch Bar machine.
The comments on this post make me think of that scene in American Psycho with the business cards.
Well written, I agree.

I've been thinking a lot lately about two different aspects of this same problem.

We are complicit in our vendor's deeds. If businesses stopped buying ads and server time from these companies, the situation would change rapidly.

We are complicit in our entertainer's deeds. If individuals stopped viewing or engaging with content on these platforms, especially paid content, the situation would change rapidly.

What's someone with a 7-digit annual ad spend to do? (Avoiding social ads is easy, search ads are harder to replace.)
That's not really accurate; a similarly specced XPS 13 is several hundred dollars cheaper than my laptop. But Apple is certainly winning the touchpad game, you're right about that.
What would you recommend currently?
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I mostly made this for myself, but put it up on the Chrome store if anyone else finds it useful. If you are a user on PredictIt, you can use this plugin to group related markets in a single view to compare prices between the different markets. For example, you could group all of the 2020 presidential election "battleground" state markets in a single group to see which one gives you the best price if you think there is going to be a red/blue wave.
Exactly, not sure why you're downvoted. His blog-post doesn't explain why it is slow but instead 'switches the allocator' and says he has "fixed" the issue. This is just a workaround, not a fix.

I'm quite surprised that there's no mention of profiling the actual allocator causing this regression to properly narrow the fault down to the source. Instead this blog-post encourages cargo-culting development to "fix slow code".
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Which also can leave stuff out for sensationalistic reasons, which the media is known for. After all the deliberately misleading information from "the news", I no longer take it seriously and instead pay attention to peer-reviewed journals with public data.
LOL ohhh the irony... Why is this flagged?

It's an honest question, 34 points in under an hour, 28 on-topic comments of people interested in and discussing the topic.
with my work enforced MBP most of the time i want to right click i end up clicking and triggering an unintended consequence just because i have my two fingers too close. On linux i never had this happen even on the cheapest touchpads.
None of the code in the repository was alleged to be copyright infringing, rather the software is often used by users to access infringing material.

GitHub page: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

TorrentFreak found the dev's DMCA Counter-Notification:
https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/91d5b5715f1c50877652e2...
(article) https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-suggests-github-could-be-held-l...

Does this mean that developers are going to have their repos shut down if their software is used by pirates? Are they liable? What happens if VLC is the #1 media player of choice for pirates?
Since the site is slow, here's a direct link to the Github page to Sponsor the project.

They want to hire a developer to fix the issues identified by the survey.

https://github.com/sponsors/gitclear
At this point, I would definitely use an external keyboard or even just an external Touch Bar (unless Apple releases mechanical keyboards with a Touch Bar). I kinda rely on it for media editing/scrubbing.
> Note that our results cannot say which of these is happening in greater measure.

That's okay. Every reader can figure it out.
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You'd also need to identify the size of the scroll wheel, which is particularly hard if the user has multiple input devices and you don't even know which one they used :)

(e.g. touchpad + mouse)
Reminds me of this gem from a few years back: https://medium.com/@UpOutSF/5-castles-that-are-cheaper-than-...
How to correct a team member? Hold yourself accountable for your own mistakes first.
Yeah, I'm aware of these. The point is these sites exist because the interest is there but game developers aren't interested in serving it. That's why people try to find leaked beta copies and even resort to hacking like here.
That's registered memory, not supported by Ryzen/Threadripper. Find unregistered ECC DDR4 3200.

Or convince AMD to stop artificially not supporting registered memory on Ryzen/Threadripper -- the early Athlons supported both.
With you on this one... a coworker put it well "[this tone is] at a 9, it needs to be at a 3".
So much virtue signaling and holier-than-thou in this article. Really embarrassing to read. We make ethical judgements everyday, from eating an apple to driving a car. Does the author use a smartphone built by low-income folks across the ocean? How about other tech, using rare earth minerals mined in horrific conditions?

The hypocrisy is astounding.
I'm from a 'prime' first-world country, The Netherlands, but I grew up in a developing nation where not having power or running water for hours was a daily thing, and not having either for days would happen with some regularity. Also the whole place was 90% percent corruption and 10% stale-mate level bureaucracy (to the point where my squeaky parents were forced to participate in the bribing at times).

As a teen, back in my fancy country, there was a highly unusual power outage in my country, in summer (which is really nothing extreme over here). Nonetheless, it caused chaos. offices had to be closed because there was no air conditioning and office windows couldn't be opened, trains had issues, people panicked, etc. I remember even back then thinking that if shit would ever properly hit the fan, I'd head to a place where at least the populace wouldn't panic. It's a societal panic and chaos that I fear more than having no power or water, or a 'proper' rule of law. Broadly speaking.
There are three things at play here that give Apple/OS X their unique advantage:

1) Size. I have huge hands. A 2015 MBP has a trackpad whose size I have yet to see on any Windows/Linux laptop. I'm too clumsy for IBM's trackpad and the tiny "touchpads" on usual laptops should rather be called "touchpadlets" because they are so small that most I have experienced have had my fingers awkwardly collide. I won't go back on non-Apple hardware until there is a decently wide offering of decently sized touchpads.

2) Drivers. Back with my last Windows laptop it was some Elantech touchpad with Elantech drivers. Installing some random drivers from some random other laptop on a forum hint somewhere in the 30th Google result area suddenly gave me a whole lot of gestures. Just... WTF? Why is this not a core OS component in Windows and has it been possible over the last five years (since I switched) to finally use gestures OOTB in Linux?!

3) OS primitives / integration. Windows and (IIRC, please correct me!) Linux operate on the concept of "steps" with absolute scroll delta values, while OS X (and iOS/Android) operates on ... I don't even know what, it simply feels utterly smooth instead of janky. But I also assume that this is the most difficult to fix :(
To backproject the causation of popularity of a given ecosystem and language towards cultural relativism and sociological in-groups rather than pragmatics just seems like a post-hoc rationalization. But, to take your comment in good faith (I don't want to dismiss it) I wonder if there really are generational dynamics at play here.

Earlier on, software engineering wasn't as glamorous as it is today, from either a material or cultural standpoint. I even recall a staggering difference now versus twenty years ago, when I first got into it, which even then was right before the bust of the first dot com bubble. While ostensibly by that point, the field of software engineering as a creative pursuit and an intellectual space had already thoroughly lost its pioneer spirit to the metaphorical urban and suburban "gentrifiers", there's no denying that the field itself continued to grow, and even at that point is a small fraction of what it is today. If software has truly eaten the world, isn't it possible that the languages and ecosystem that survived and reached dominance outcompeted the other ones?

That is to say, what makes you believe that another language is more fit to be in the position where Python is? While I will use whatever language is necessitated by the job (and have never had issues doing that) and even prefer the aesthetics and "handling" of Ruby and modern JS, Python is still the tool I reach for most often when I need to get some general purpose scripting or systems design task done. The ease with which I can go from zero to prototype and prototype to production and production to pain-free maintenance is unparalleled. The only two ecosystems that are remotely close are JavaScript and Java, and ostensibly Rails for web dev. Nothing else is competitive.

What would make you dispute this?
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Thank you so much for investing the time to do it, this was the only thing holding me back from using Caddy for everything over the last ~2 years. I know it's a painful process for Go packages in particular, but it's definitely worth it to be more easily installable for diehard apt users like myself.
I'm surprised they found a $2M home in Palo Alto.
It depends on the customer, will they give you a server dedicated for your Java framework so you can handle at maximum 5 POST request per day or will day give you access to the existing website they have for the company, that already has PHP,mysql installed. Honestly you are not doing the fair thing for the customer if you ask for a new server because you want to use your prefered tool and not the best thing for this job.

Btw my scenario was about sending feedback ro stack traces, this are just text, no giant file uploads and nothing insecure about it.
Check out their new documentation format: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1253031147459604482

They're using their design resources on product & documentation updates, which I can appreciate.
The "conspiracy" theory is the news often exaggerates or gives misinformation on a particular subject to fulfill a particular agenda or make more money on ads.

This is hardly a conspiracy theory.
I've been in those areas too. What drove me nutz is not being able to automate things. I've spent days doing something by hand that, if I were on a less-restricted system, I could do in literally seconds in a terminal interface. Want to convert a movie file from one resolution to another? "ffmpeg -input -output" No. You have to use a video encoder from 1995 that only outputs into avi, doesn't understand modern audio formats and can only extract screenshots from reference frames.
This. Async/await was a dream for standards orgs - yet I was using it. It felt like shaping, or at least sampling, the future
I like that term 'computational kindness' and will use it within my team. I've noticed that for some engineers this is a natural thing to do - they summarize threads, highlight salient points and document information so other don't have to waste time. They rise within the organisation as tech leaders who communicate well. For others, this doesn't even occur to them as something worth doing.
The corporations are their workers. The suits are only powerful because we collectively chose to listen to them.
I hear you, but that gets to the core of Apple design: They don't have a million options for people.

Some want headphone jack, many don't. Some like the butterfly keys, many don't. Touchbar, USB-A, Magsafe, Touch ID, small OLED form factor... they pick a side and go.
Didn't get any popup either, guess they'd resolved the problem.
A decade of it working is a success! It doesn't have to last forever to have been a great benefit to many people.