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> - I use those buttons that seem to be MIA in the screen of the new Finder though (to switch between views, the sort menu, the cog icon with extra actions). Will I have to change my workflow?

No, because those icons are all still there. The cog button has become a … button, but it's the same menu.

> - I use a lot of items in the macOS sidebar. In the current Finder, my sidebar can show 12.5 items without scrolling. In the screenshots, it's showing 9. Am I going to have to alter my workflow here too?

No, just use smaller sidebar icons. System Preferences -> General.

> 3. It was in general unnecessary.

Depends what you consider necessary. I really think Apple wants to start pushing SwiftUI and Catalyst apps.

One issue with both of these is that apps written in either make completely different looking apps for Catalina and iOS 13.

In Big Sur and iOS 14, they'll look less different, which may help adoption. A Catalyst app with no specific changes made to be a good macOS citizen looks naff on Catalina but looks acceptable on Big Sur — so this helps lower the barrier for iPadOS developers to adopt proper macOS design language.

> I sure hope Apple hasn't gotten rid of these with the introduction of the Control Center

The Control Center demo showed dragging those items out to the menu bar so that they could work just like they did before.
Yeah--the article clearly mentions that too.
LOL O1 visa is still not easy. Even after 6 years of PhD.
Google used to literally have a feature for this! It was called Google Sets, back when Google Labs was still a thing.

https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/google_lab...
> Studies that estimate the monetary price we are willing to pay to save a life have long shown puzzlingly great variation across individuals and contexts. Perhaps in part because the topic is politically charged. Those who seek to justify higher safety spending, stronger regulations, or larger court damages re medicine, food, environmental, or job accidents tend to want higher estimates, while those who seek to justify less and weaker of such things tend to want lower estimates

If lawmakers are deciding the price, then we're already wrong.

Each person perceives the subjective value of their own life differently. There shouldn't be a unified "value of life". Each person should do their own cost-benefit analysis and decide how much they're willing to risk their own safety. The incentives should be placed in such a way that each person's decision doesn't directly impact other people's lives though.

And maybe those that "want lower estimates" don't really want lower estimates, but they don't want any specific estimate to be shoven down their throats. In the same vein that those that want less safety regulations don't really "want more accidents", they want more agency and freedom of choice so that each person can make their own decision depending on their priorities.
There are many more varieties, as you said. I am literally about 100 meters from maybe 5-6 varieties of bananas and 10-12 varieties of mangoes. There are 4 varieties of dragon fruit here too, all excellent.

The cheaper varieties of mangoes are similar to what Americans are familiar with, but much more consistent. Mangoes grow so readily here that in season I can get a kilo for $0.25 and they're always perfectly ripe. There is a more expensive variety that is purely sweet and has a more gelatinous texture, and it feels "decadent" in the same way that a rich chocolate cake does.

The bananas are way better, especially some of the smaller varieties that have a thicker consistency. There are cart vendors everywhere here that grill those small bananas and sell them on sticks.

And then there are many others in the markets, a lot of which don't have common names in English but all of them are great really. It's so cheap that in my diet I eat fruit instead of rice or bread as a carbohydrate source. Even most imported fruits are pretty reasonably priced, so you can still easily find things like apples, champagne grapes, cherries, etc.
Here's that projecting your own biases on a random thread again.
As far as I can tell, this makes no particular difference to anyone currently in the US or who has a currently valid visa. It does not restrict issuance or renewal of visas on its face, only entry into the US based on as-yet-unissued non-immigrant visas in the relevant classes.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
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Ask HN: Had enough of “next time will be different” seeking advice
I feel lost right now, and I need to hear other people's experiences and/or advice. Using an alt account out of respect and for job security (it's very easy to find my LinkedIn and this employer through my main username :p).

I don't agree with the technical compromises my company makes in order to secure new business, and I feel like the only one that is actually speaking up about it.

It's not uncommon for a tech startup to shift gears, sure, but it feels like EVERY big opportunity comes with it the need to implement some very specific change, and temporary solutions ALWAYS become permanent problems.

I scale back my PR review to "human linting". Code changes follow the path of least resistance instead of well thought out design. Just. Make. It. Work. When the work is finished, the company celebrates it to the tune of "wow! huge shoutout to eng! couldn't have done it without the assist!"

On principle, I just do not want to compromise on my values. I have cultivated them over almost a decade because I have SEEN them work before, both solo and on a team. There is not a lot of upward mobility for a senior+ engineer in a feature factory.

I am on good terms with leadership, and have a decent amount of respect within the company as a whole, and I am starting the early stages of conversations such as this with a select few at the C level. I want to make this a team I am proud to be on, but the amount of fighting I feel like I would have to do to get what I want ON TOP OF contributing to ongoing product work is insanely daunting.

In your opinion, HN, is this worth fighting for, or should I resign to the "fuck it, ship it" culture being immovable? If you have been in a similar boat I am VERY curious to hear about your experiences, what did you do and did it work? If it didn't work, what did you get out of it?
I don't believe the graphs that appear here. Trying it myself I obtain a very different thing. For example, from "matlab vs." the second completion is "octave", nowhere to be seen in tfa.
never in my life i had mushy dragon fruit and ate it multiple times a week when lived in Asia for years, i like it cooled from fridge

I've never understood what's even stinky about durian, it just has its own odor like any other fruit, nothing deserving special treatment media give it, must be some durian wholesalers conspiracy trying to make it more interesting than it actually is
When you say, "robotics + GIS packages", what exactly do you mean? I've had a little experience with ESRI products, and a lot of experience with robots, but I don't understand the connection here.
This article may alternatively be summarized as: "A theory of why Dilbert is so popular..."
Money is not comparable to peace of mind. With a stable government ( like under Obama or even Bush), you can assume that your visa is safe and will be handles in a logical way. Now its just gambling.
What ever happened to clock speed? Nobody ever talks about that anymore.
I had both white and purple. I had hoped the purple would be sweeter but I never noticed a difference. It's hard to describe in words what how sweet something is but if I was to rank every fruit I've ever eaten in terms of sweetness Dragon Fruit would be at or near the bottom. I've have bland watermelon but I've had tons of sweet watermelon. I've bland other melons but I've had ton of sweet ones. I've never had a unsweet mango or an unsweet lychee or an unsweet mangosteen. I have had unsweet strawberries but mostly sweet ones.

Anyway, I'll keep trying dragon fruit hoping for a sweet one.

I think at the moment my favorite fruit I've had in SE Asia is cherimoya and I'm surprised they are not way more popular as they are so dang delicious! It's like someone made an apple
+ orange creamsicle fruit
If everyone had a Peer to Peer optimized ISP and there was a national ID registry, it would be very easy to lookup someone via their national ID signature updated DNS entry. This could also carry other data.
agreed, kiwi is the most similar fruit to dragon fruit, never heard anyone complaining about kiwi seed, just eat it, jeez
I agree to all points. For point 6. Mapbox is a big contender for ESRI's current position.

For 8. Openstreetmap, GDAL and associated open source ecosystem offers a solution to proprietary format and API of the month problem to a degree. It is not surprising that there is no money flowing if mapping is not a core business of the users.

Aerial and satellite imagery is the heavily regulated and lucrative part of any mapping solution. If you are allowed and able to obtain that, you can probably get by just selling the raw imagery without geospatial processing.
>> Yet it is easy to show that we can both have more money and save more lives if we are more consistent about the price we pay for lives in the many different death-risk-versus-cost choices that we make.

TBH I'm not even quite sure what is meant by that assertion, but the article certainly doesn't contain a compelling justification and the claim is almost prime facie false.

There are such completely trivial counter-examples for the plain meaning that I'm not even sure what the author's intended meaning was. E.g., "lives are worth negative infinity" is consistent, and you'll always end up with more money and save fewer lives. Ditto for "1 life = GDP of the world".
The thing is, without some sort of barrier, they would be completely swamped by the public trying to get them to record these, and then would be practically forced to stop doing it.
Jackfruit is one of the most nutritious and colon healthy vegetable on the planet. It is full of healthy fiber and keeps you feeling full long after unlike other vegetables. Many families in South india cosume lot of jackfruit in the season. https://thejackfruitcompany.com/jackfruit-101/
I'd never consider this until I could self-host. Way too much regulatory "scaries" when dealing with money.

Remember that admin permission clearing command accidentally committed in Production last year that killed hundreds of SFDC orgs last year?

What I'd do to listen to that bridge call..
Here's a warning: Unreal Engine is a haphazardly designed (at best) GUI bolted onto a hardcore low-level game engine. It looks sort of like an IDE that you could sit down and get comfortable with in a few hours, but it's just an illusion. The whole UI is really just a thin graphical control layer over low-level C++ objects for which there is little to no explanation. Instead, you have menus within menus within menus...

Anyone trying to transition from standard Microsoft/Apple/Google developer tools to UE is going to be in for a shock. The documentation is ludicrously sparse, there's almost no "discoverability" in the UI, and even the sample projects will have you staring at the screen asking yourself, "How the fuck did they connect that to that?? Crap, did this thing hang again??". You'll end up reading blog posts and watching YouTube videos filled with screenshots of blueprints and step-by-step instructions for which switches to toggle and which values to put where. After a few weeks, you'll be completely astounded that you still have almost no idea really of what's going on.

So! For anyone thinking, "Hey, I like games and know C#! Now I can make a game!" Well, you probably should prepare yourself for disappointment.
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I'd like to see the EU fund efforts to develop open standards for all these technologies.
If you want to have a fun read: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1406862602901657/permalink/2...

a "French in the US" facebook community with 200 comments of people panicking.
Welp, now Google will lock this API down soon.
It is not in many cases. FAANGs pay similar or more to H1Bs. Maybe the local workers should work harder rather hide behind competition.
I've enjoyed working on an enterprise, GIS-focused application over the past few years (with no prior, formal geographic background) and one of the take-aways I always enjoy sharing with family and friends is the "point in polygon" question [0] and it's simplicity. I'm fun at parties. I have certainly learned how much more intuitive data is for users to explore when you offer (if you can) spatially.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon#Ray_casting_a...
Mobile robots are highly instrumented spatial data collection platforms. Here’s a very brief high level view. Regrettably I only touch on the surface of what is considerably deeper.

https://roscon.ros.org/2018/presentations/ROSCon2018_Unleash...

https://github.com/locusrobotics/qgis_ros
A good friend of mine has a somewhat similar story. Originally from Germany, she is a visiting researcher at an American university on a J-1 visa. Her husband is a refugee in Germany, who is going through education there and working toward obtaining German citizenship this summer. She used to travel to Germany often to see him since he cannot visit her in the United States because of his citizenship (his country is on a list of countries whose citizens are banned from entering the United States). Her employment was under a two-year contract, which was renewed for another year. Now she needs to renew her J-1 visa, which means she needs to travel to a consulate in Germany to do it. The US embassies have suspended issuing these visas. Their website says the decision to issue an emergency J-1 visa is on a case-by-case basis. She applied for an appointment. The embassy did not see her case as "an emergency", so her application was denied. It all happened before the EO was issued yesterday, which exacerbated her stress even further. She cannot pack up and move things, like many of her books or furniture, for example, because the shipping of these things between the United States and the European Union has been suspended due to COVID-19, as far as I understand it. She doesn't have a job in Germany and jobs in academia are hard to come by these days. And academia is not quick processing job applications. It can take months or even a couple of years before a decision is made. She cannot continue working on her book, which hurts her chances of employment in the future. So she is stuck in the US, where at least she can continue to work. He is stuck in Germany. They haven't seen each other in months.
The examples you give are simply not comparable. In all three cases, this was not someone throwing a ton of money at something and copying it to try to steal it.

Google was made by two grad students who came up with a better way of searching. They invented a superior product and it took off on its own merits.

Gmail was largely created by one person helming the project on his own, and again it took off because it was VASTLY better than existing options. I was a Gmail beta user-- I remember! It wasn't even close.

Facebook, again-- not a corporation throwing a ton of money at something. It took off on its own, exactly as depicted in The Social Network. It was made by a handful of college students and people simply loved using it in the beginning.

Given your examples, you see to have misunderstood me as arguing that a successful product can never be replaced or lose its dominance. Of course I am not saying that, that would be crazy. I am saying a corporation or any other entity with a lot of money cannot replace a successful product using that money. They can only do it by actually coming up with a better solution to the problem, and that almost never happens-- they simply aren't able to do such a thing in most cases.

Instead they deliver hollow, branded imitations like the many examples I named, and they fail.
You're right. I'm speaking anecdotally. I suppose those support structures and context around play time is just as important as the medium.
I’m my experience, Google Meet has very steep minimum bandwidth requirements by default. You can (and probably should) set the send/receive quality to 360p video, but it’s miles behind the adaptive bandwidth scaling that Zoom and Skype use.

If you force your network adapter to be 1 Mbps mid-call, Zoom will quickly butcher the quality to keep up. Google will drop out.
Meh building underwater makes more sense imo. Microsoft is already doing this: https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-...
Google results are "bubbled" based on the search profile they have on all of us, but I don't think it makes this technique any less useful.
You mentioned a number of times that the visa has to be renewed in your home country.

I don’t think that’s correct. Although often it’s considered advisable to do it that way (consular processing), there is an alternative process (change of status) where you apply while remaining in the US.

(source: renewed an L-1A visa a few years ago; advice received from my firm’a immigration attorneys)
Google employees are demanding the company stop selling software to police
I don't understand the sites that require a > 1.0 seed ratio... Like it's mathematically impossible for everyone to seed to > 1.0
Do you have any more information about this trace in HTTP requests? My understanding was that it was the _browser_ doing the requests; Selenium was just driving the browser.
How would they, without impairing normal users? You need an API for the public that allows you to get suggestions rather quickly without an API key, for all the users that are not logged into their Google account.
It exists, it's called a Facebook Portal. It's an outstanding piece of hardware and has been an absolute blessing for our elderly relatives in this pandemic. Of course, you are letting Facebook into your living room, which does give me the willies but not as many willies as the thought of our kids and their grandparents going 3 months without seeing each other.
Easy Mode Durian: frozen durian has most of the taste and little of the smell.
Amazing - how did I miss these? Thanks!
I don't have a way to programmatically detect abusive content, and for users the content's presence on the site implies it's legitimate. Just remove it when it's found, and shadowban the people who posted it. It isn't rocket surgery.
Didn't Skype used to sell such devices? Can't remember if they had video.
Cisco, among others, already solved that problem years ago.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoin...
I hope you're able to work through the issues you feel that you have and enjoy a happy life. Being single at 31 isn't terribly unusual in 2020, nor is it a terminal condition. There are plenty of other single people out there to work with.

> ...the issue is that society gives up on them before they even have a choice...

I was able to learn useful skills on my own without the education system supporting me. No doubt, high school helped build a useful foundation for learning other useful things. I was teaching myself skills using freely ( or the next best thing ) available tools and resources online. American poverty in 2020 includes access to the internet. This is evident by the interaction of impoverished and low socio-economic status Americans on social media. They're not here debating the systemic causes of poverty on HN, they're consuming mind numbing media on worldstarhiphop. Before I was able to get internet access at home I used the local library, or at my high school. I won't dox myself by talking about my specific professional interests, save to say they were important enough to me that I devoted my own time to researching it. I refuse to believe that there are people in first-world countries who have no access to useful resources like this. YMMV, obviously. I didn't have anyone in my life who encouraged me to do X, I just felt X was cool and I really wanted to understand more. Most of the people I've met in my field are the same.
I don't mean to project my own thoughts and experiences on to everyone. I feel that my natural inclinations were to learn, and all of the people I grew up with who were similarly gifted and inclined ended up escaping poverty in one form or another. You could probably count yourself among this cohort.
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People keep sprucing this at work:

“We need to be async only yada yada. It’s how the Linux kernel is developed”

We do that until our projects are late or we have an outage, then it’s just endless synchronous calls until we get our smug on again.

Just have both in moderation.
You haven't tried Cisco WebEx,have you? For a good chunk of time Skype was dead while MS was busy figuring out how to assimilate it. Google was out because companies didn't want google to spy on you, so your options were WebEx or zoom (which we didn't know was a spying dumpster fire yet). We eventually also had to give up on WebEx because it simply did not work consistently on our Linux Dev's laptops. So our option was "or zoom"
B and C list celebs have been doing autograph signings and meet and greet for decades. Performers travel to cities in the middle of nowhere and stay there for hours before shuttling off to another location. I think it is a bit silly to single out quick video messages, that they sign up for and can set their own price for, as debasement.
Really hard to read Kafka, frankly, but I love the major stories of his ("The Trial", "Metamorphosis", etc) and his many short stories so much that I've been trying to learn German (and French, though not necessarily at the same time) over the last year and a half. What I've learned is that I can quite easily pick up meaning and basically understand German when I hear it, about the same when I read it, but I still can't speak it at all - at least not conversationally. I could get around Germany in an emergency if I ran into any Germans that don't actually speak English, which I understand to be a rare occurrence, but that's not really the point.

I think I've discovered I need to be way, way more fluent in German than I expected to be able to read and enjoy (such as you can) Kafka, and I've decided I probably need to live abroad for several years to achieve this goal. Of course, it would be kind of crazy (but not necessarily Kafkaesque) to live in a foreign country for several years just so you could understand one of its authors in his original language. German was of course not his real original language, but you get my point.
As someone deep into the cutting edge parts of the geospatial industry that few ever see, I’d quibble on some of the points but it is a broadly accurate description of the current state. The industry has been comfortably stagnant for many years.

A critical distinction that explains much of what we see today is that geospatial analytics has almost no relationship to making maps at a technical level. There is a superficial similarity because they sometimes share presentation layer. All of the popular infrastructure and tooling was designed, either implicitly or explicitly, for making maps.

If you want to analyze some physical world behavior using multimodal sensor data, the paucity of viable data infrastructure is insurmountable for most companies. Unfortunately, this is what most organizations want to do these days.
Seamfulness: A UI/UX paradigm that prioritizes intuition over seamlessness
Not quite, although they were deeply involved for much of it.
YMMV, but I find that the taste of salak varies wildly. Sometimes they're mealy, dry, astringent and generally unpleasant. Sometimes they're crisp and tart like a tropical apple, and thoroughly delicious.