skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely a market for self-hosting as in the case of Nextcloud, for example. There are lots of reasons companies, much less governments, may not feel comfortable using Google or Microsoft SaaS offerings.

But, as you say, that's different from running a local application. While some heavy-duty multimedia still benefits from running an app locally, that ship has mostly sailed with office suite software. I still have LibreOffice installed on most of my systems, but even if I'm not collaborating on a document, it's incredibly useful to have docs that are "just there" and I can access from any device--even including my phone in a pinch.
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Whoever pays for the internet.
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The average Joe today can't even type facebook.com in the address bar, let alone anything else. One day Chrome will remove the address bar and few will notice.
View from online courses and digital degrees at UC Berkeley
Agree. For classes of problems that human have poor understandings (e.g biology) even better algorithms can not provide better answers. The optimisation might need to happen elsewhere such as re-phrasing the problem or better understanding of related fields (neighbour area). However sample efficiency is indeed very helpful in data deprived area such as biomedical research.
As a counterpoint to myself, I also agree with the link below. There are good reasons for and against using real names. I do not mean to paint with too wide a brush; all free people are and should always be able to decide for themselves whether to use their name or a pseudonym, and readers are usually able to tell why authors do so from context. It gets a bit muddy where social media comes into play, which is why this debate will never be over, and why there is no one right answer. I hope I didn’t come off as someone imposing my choice on others. I simply think there are more downsides than upsides for readers when it comes to pseudonymous authors; however, some texts will never be written under an author’s real name for perfectly legitimate or no reason, and the world would be diminished if those voices were not also heard, and those stories not told.

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...
We pretty much only do Windows. We've only started allowing Mac for some UX or UI developer people, but it looks like that went well and could expand in the future. These are all company devices. We have a fairly strict personal device policy not even allowing any personal device with a LAN port to be on campus.

We don't have any network capable Linux devices for end-users. We have Linux servers and a couple air gapped devices in experimental labs.
MSFT had reason to believe that the Ribbon was more accessible and discoverable to users than the old menu structure. I was dubious at the time, but since the shift I have come to believe that they are correct. I think the Ribbon is better for the vast majority of users.

Interfaces shouldn't be changed for no good reason -- and MSFT is certainly guilty of chasing fads or tweaks without a clear benefit, too, in other areas -- but neither should an interface be frozen in amber if a better idea comes along.

(Also remember that mass market software isn't designed for people who post on HN.)
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(LO Dev) We actually have quite an active ui-design sub-group, which tries it's best to refresh the look and feel.

Feel free to join in :-)
And university may try to please the chinese as well. There is a break. And like it or not it starts with a rule ignored guy.
No doubt it's hard and technically limited too, with the state of customer-grade sensors (like the mimu, or eye-tracking devices) and VR. There are still many hurdles to simply running VR devices, so we're far from the kind of adoption that would lead to meaningful inventive approaches to something as complex as what DAWs and their physical extensions offer.

However it's more about thinking of musical creation very laterally. It could mean leveraging tilts of any place where one can put an accelerometer (heck, the OP1 does it in a gimmicky way to change any specific setting you want for a given track for example), your finger movements position in 3d space (mimu does some of the finger movement stuff), heck even smoothed-out eye "gestures" could be explored (google-glass-y devices would need to succeed since you're not going anywhere with current tech without invasive things like the EyeLink II). Pivoting around 360 degrees in a "musical cockpit" could also be a thing.
Voice too, and NLP could be leveraged in creative ways (to bring forward different aspects of the tool or to give instructions at a high-level - "take the first four measures of the first guitar track and apply melodic inversion, shift down one octave and paste at the 2min mark on the bass track").

Different parts of the music-making process could take on different shapes in spaces that add multiple dimensions. As the mimu shows, a lot of what those dimensions do could be entirely configurable and fitting the creator.
Conductors are a good example of someone leveraging rotations and depth (over half-sphere surfaces) to create expressions and rhythm and so on.

Plus nobody has to throw away the current tools either, once could think of the advantages of AR (Augmented Reality) which could leave perfectly clear the areas of your synths (or under a certain line of vision or even physically marked delimitations) during a performance, and all of the glory of ye olde knobs and faders can remain intact.

Current VR is out of reach for too many people for much experimentation (basically forces you to be on Windows, requires either heavy-duty hardware or has very little room for fine details), which means all the exploratory stuff to lead to even a subset of what I mentioned is only accessible to a handful of people so far. Same for multi-modal interfaces (the mimu is still a toy for rich artsy-techy people, the Tobiis are either too basic or too expensive, etc).

But we're still in the infancy of much of these kinds of tools. And while the usual engineer will talk about why everything's impossible, a designer or an artist will always be curious to see what just could be eventually.
Ive done that too. But I've experienced a lot of people removing it again.

The result is uncomfortable, since Signal never knows the other side removed it, so messages land in thin air. Several times did I have awkward moments when someone was angry "I thought you'd let me know if it was cancelled" - "I did - I sent you a text about that two days ago! On Signal!"
Universal basic income requires elimination of food stamps, rent subsidies, welfare, unemployment, etc....

None of these places are doing that.

The entire argument is that you can get rid of administration and people can spend money on what they need.

That said, after seeing how many people listen to Dave Ramsey's Snowball method + anti vaxxers, I'm personally convinced UBI will not work. The people that need it the most cannot make rational decisions.
Interestingly enough, my experience has been the opposite. I liked the concept of the Touch Bar at first, then got one with a new macbook. I liked it at first, but the more I use it, the more I hate it. Yes I spent time using it, yes I customized its icons, yes, yes, yes. It's been more than 2 years I use it all day long. My next macbook will be the Air one, just so I don't have to use the Touch Bar again.

And I'm not even using F keys on regular keyboards.
I wanted them to open an academy. Even though I am likely too old for it, I'd definitely apply to be a space cadet.
Show HN: A public space for early product ideas
A Twitter feed of great product ideas people are thinking of building.

Get your product ideas out of your head and in front the public.
Sounds like a good reason to stop trying.

A bit of snark but also maybe stop trying to use a data collection engine to leverage anything for yourself?
How the US Army trains to attack an enemy held city
> It doesn't matter if it's FOSS or commercial

It does matter, you can't fix a problem with IntelliJ, you need to wait until the company considers it economically viable to fix, ie enough people report it or its critical.

But if something in an Open-source system pisses you off, you can fix it yourself.

It not for everyone, but at least it's possible to fix FOSS systems yourself...
> influence became based on connections and favors

Just like every other corporation, in other words.
My experience in industry is primarily IEEE 802.3 meetings, which is industry but all academic types. I currently work in academia. I can say that the productivity focused nature of high end industry is focused, but suffers from inefficiencies in administrative and ego-shaped overheads. In the sexy research areas you don’t have to waste time on all of the things related to scaling up that industry does.

To get back to the topic at hand: industry can have rooms with stimulating conversations. Academia can have rooms devoid of interesting conversations. I’d put my money on the organization that focuses on intellectual discovery to be the one that garners more interesting discussions on average than the organization that is driven by profit.*

* Academia is still certainly sick with money and corruption problems at all levels right now.
The idea is to entice Enterprise and similar customers to pay for support, spending a small fraction of the money they save from not buying MS, to help keep the LibreOffice eco-system going.

So still much cheaper than MS :-)
Heavy restrictions on how apps use third party SDKs for signing in, forcing FB to change its policy of requiring the SDK for native apps which use FB to sign in.

And then reject new app updates which don’t follow the new rules.

Or just outright ban this spyware.
Excel kept the old Alt based keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Alt D F F for Data > Filter > AutoFilter still works.

If there was an alt-keyboard shortcut for paste removing duplicates, that should still work.
Doesn’t mean nothing can be learned from doing it. Not every test need be a double blind placebo controlled trial.
Top Google trending search suggestion on my phone right now: "iphone spotify app keeps crashing"
I take my screenshots on the iOS simulator on my Macbook Pro. Then I frame them with this cool tool I found on ProductHunt called AppMockUp. (https://app-mockup.com/)
I'm using it for realtime analytics (dashboard like mixpanel) also this brings authentication and other FB Integration
What if I want to keep using Messages app (I know I know, but I can’t avoid it)
Is Windows Good for Developers Again?
The ribbon interface was adopted in 2007. That's 13 years ago.

What is the jank? It's a tabbed interface of buttons instead of menus and sub menus

I've been using Office since the early 90's and the ribbon interface for the last 13 years. I still can't find stuff easily in the ribbon interface. It's like there's some cognitive barrier to me retaining the layout of anything beyond the Home ribbon (or tab?). Any time I switch to the other ribbons (tabs?) I find myself hunting, wondering if I've got the right tab.

There's something about the spatial layout that seems to impose an extra cognitive load. I know menus are spatial too, but it seemed easier to remember them. Perhaps, because each menu occupied its own area of the window when expanded. With the ribbons, the same area is reused when you switch tabs.

With Word and Outlook, I've got slightly better retention. However, with Excel, where I seem to have a wide distribution of seldom-used functionality, it's an exercise in frustration. I know something exists, but it takes ages to find it because the last time I used it was probably a few weeks ago.
All no doubt very good points, but they also don't meaningfully matter. The cold fact is that Epic is doing way better than most people want it to, regardless of how bad it is or how shady it's investors are.
The one question about UBI I haven't seen a satisfactory answer for is what's stopping landlords from raising rents to match the UBI? If everyone suddenly has an extra $1000/month, what's stopping my landlord (together with every other landlord in my city) from raising my rent next year by $1000/month? It's very plausible this would not show up in small scale pilots where only a small percent of a population received income, but would show up at scale when everyone does.

Unless UBI comes with a massive overhaul of zoning restrictions and a shift of the housing supply, I don't see how this doesn't end up as an indirect way of increasing income inequality by routing the UBI from poorer tenants to wealthier landlords.
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We shouldn't shame people for posting selfies, because without selfies there could be no meta-selfie:

http://panevin.ru/uploads/blog/2016/lenin_selfi_1024-2.jpg

(not only was Lenin a mushroom, but he invented the selfie before the west?)
The big factor with covid is, people know it's temporary and still need to keep their careers going. Behaviour would probably be very different for a permanent scheme.
> No state regulates guns as I wish. I won't elaborate much because I doubt we're going to find any form of agreement there.

Let's take a state like Hawaii - what additional restrictions would you like to see them place on guns? It's already about impossible there.
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Agreed - students have already moved to google docs or MS Word with OneDrive. We are used to giving feedback using these tools, students making changes and getting those signed off by us.

Full history of changes. Full history of lecturer comments. Backed up online. Editable on phones, laptops, PCs...

This is the world they are expecting when they enter employment, or start their own start up.
Well it went to basically everyone (in many countries, obviously don’t know yours) and was rushed out the door with no sustainability in mind. I’m sure it can be retooled and refined. You can’t toss it out completely already.
The FBI's own statistics showed that ban didn't accomplish anything.
The people I know use LO for essentially political reasons.

I've never really tried to use anything other than MS Office, because for my whole career I've been interacting with people on Windows using standard Windows/MSFT tools, and so any inconsistency / glitch in document exchange would automatically be my fault if I insisted on using LO or Apple's tools or whatever.

Plus, honest go God, Word and Excel are really, really good at what they do. Word got their more slowly, but once Excel ate Lotus 1-2-3, there really never was another competitor there, and Excel just kept getting more and more powerful. It's a wonderful tool.

(Now, there ARE people who learn Excel but refuse to go further -- into a true database, or into a proper business intelligent /reporting tool, or whatever -- and end up creating their own really janky versions of these things within Excel with macros and insane formulas hidden out in AA:5234 or whtaever; that's a problem for sure. But it's not so much an Excel problem as it is a problem with the lack of an obvious next-step ramp for those users.)
I am quite surprised to see this default-to-no-action comment here on HN. Sometimes, a problem isn't your fault, but you are still compelled to fix it. If people have this attitude, then "we" (as a species) are absolutely screwed vis-a-vis climate change. In a generation, nobody is going to be around who did all the polluting, and hopefully everyone doesn't just sit around saying "Well I didn't do it!"
Interesting, from that slide I should always null my variables after I'm finished with them.
It's not true UBI either, it's a "guaranteed minimum income" of about the equivalent of $1000 for households, $500 for individuals, specifically for the "poorest".

Personally I favor a UBI but I think it needs an intellectual basis, i.e. I am not for "stealing from the rich". Perhaps part of this intellectual basis could consist of an appreciation that natural resources are not distributed equally.
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My company was in the process of allowing people to use Linux laptops. I was one of the people in the "Testing Group" and most issues were solved. If it was not for some key people on this project leaving the company and the pandemic we would have had them by now.
Stefan Zweig, in the Eros Matutinus chapter of The World of Yesterday https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1...
discusses how porn and prostitutes were peddled in the latter days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (A.E.I.O.U.).

He even speaks of delaying puberty until after graduate school:

p.71 "Here, too, an inner dishonesty disclosed itself, for the middle-class calendar in no way agreed with that of Nature. As far as society was concerned, a young man did not reach manhood until he had secured a “social position” for himself—that is, hardly before his twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth year. And so there was an artificial interval of six, eight, or ten years between actual manhood and manhood as society accepted it ; and in this interval the young man had to take care of his own “affairs” or adventures."
Actions like these would be much more effective if we addressed our own human rights abuses like concentration camps of refugees and others at the border, rampant over-incarceration, and police brutality.
The problem is that governments don't seem to be doing the other half of universal basic income

1) Realistically, you're going to have to raise taxes to fund it, not just deepen deficits

2) You're going to have to cut many social programs as well that overlap with basic income. For some people this isn't really a good trade-off. I saw one blog-post proposing a long list of social programs such as disability support and wheelchair funds, and a local activist parent of a severely disabled child pointed out that this would devastate his family financially.

I get the appeal of an anti-bureaucratic one-size fits all solution to the social safety net, but I'm skeptical.
1. I don’t see where your charts show that lower income immigrants leading to a deficit in the safety net.

2. Your study is 20 years old.

3. The Center for Immigration Studies is not un-biased on immigration. The exclusive focus on Mexico might have been a giveaway. The first section of their Wikipedia entry:

“The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers, and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham and eugenicist and white nationalist John Tanton. The organization was founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and is one of a number of anti-immigration organizations founded by Tanton, along with FAIR and NumbersUSA.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studi...
If we're talking east-west in the US, there are two major mountain ranges, many smaller ones, vast deserts, let alone getting contiguous land in the East.
> Until quite recently it was accepted belief in Europe that people from (approximately) east of the Oder [...]

The Oder wasn't a border until fairly recently. For quite a while, it was just Germany on both sides, without too many distinctions. (Of course, if you go even further back, things get more complicated.)

Do you have any sources for your assertions?
Well, for one thing a separate organisation is likely to get more funding. It’s the nature of politics and bureaucracy. And increased military investment in space could produce flow-on benefits to the civilian side of the space industry

If the dreams of people like Elon Musk come true, USSF may end up being a far more important organisation than AFSC ever was.
For end users who need affected apps right now:

1) Download NextDNS from App Store

2) Open app. Hit (...)

3) Enable Custom Configuration, Config ID 22776a

It’ll DNS block some ads and Facebook domains. Turn off after you’re done.
Also assume any DNS server offered by random dude as poisoned.

Edit: Issue resolved! People, turn it off or switch to your own configuration.
I think part of the goal too is to remove the stigma associated with those programs. I know some people look down on those who use food stamps, or suspect that people use food stamps to buy lobster and filet mignon, or barter their food stamp purchases for things that you can't buy with food stamps.

With UBI, everybody's using cash.
I stopped tipping with DD.

I used to tip, when delivery was "free" (included in the menu price).

But DD jacks up the menu price (which, at least around here, is already increased to account for their own direct delivery service - they use DD to source more customers) and then adds a delivery fee - if I'm paying that much more of a premium to use a specific delivery person, I don't really feel I owe them a gratuity on top of it.
The platform lock-in because of this is immense.
None of these are good, but they are far short of genocide of our own citizens.
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I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. A cursory glance over my comments would show that I don't have a desire for big government. I think we should immediately abolish the IRS, ATF, DEA, and NSA
> otherwise you just have an unsorted collection of links - not helpful

Yeah I think this is my problem. I’m on iOS so I use Safari’s reading list feature to keep track of articles I want to read. But it’s just a dump, no organization, and after I read an article I don’t know what to “do” with it anymore so I just delete it.

I think I need to figure out a system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again. Pinboard seems like it could help
Poverty in America is a terrible problem but bringing that into this discussion is a derailing tactic (at best). Class inequality is a very widely reported issue with US society.

From the little I’ve read white people are not uniquely targeted by opioids and in some stats fare better than other groups.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/opioids/data/race...

Please retire the use of “whattaboutism”. It’s been done.
What if you want 100 billion an hour?
So this isn't universal basic income, as it's means based, but this article keeps calling it that for some reason. I really don't understand how a temporary traditional welfare program can give us insight into what would happen if everyone was guaranteed a monthly income - even if the richest didn't have a net increase in income, for example, my behavior might be different if I had a guaranteed income of $1,000/month but paid an extra $12,000 in taxes at the end of the year (because I am high income) than if I didn't have that monthly check and paid $12,000 less in taxes at the end of the year.

Beyond that this is unprecedented times/circumstances so it's really difficult to make general conclusions about this "experiment."
.. and chrome and your IDE. They're very bursty, but those bursts can go smoothly over many cores or slowly over a few.
It encourages people to get out of the damn cities!

There's a reason why it costs a king's ransom to rent a hovel in a city: finite space. Nothing you do -- not density, not UBI, not anything -- can create unlimited space out of thin air. Fortunately, we've got plenty of space, just not in urban centers.

We need to learn how to use space rather than let it use us.
Imperfect information isn’t limited to “solo capitalists”. How absurd.

Humanity is full of grifters who may be known to some but unknown to others.

Trump wasn’t getting loans from American banks so he went to Germany.

To a giant bank everyone knows is shady af. You think that bank couldn’t find out what’s up with Trump?

Society itself doesn’t give a shit about.

Society will do little all about it’s embedded institutional issues. It’s more interested in armchair expertly doing nothing but flogging the memes grandpa rammed down its throat like kowtowed babies.