skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me like they're saying "Commercial development for LibreOffice is at serious risk".

It may be that all commercially supported development on LibreOffice stops-
I'm not sure this would be a terrible thing at this point.

Abiword (is a MUCH smaller editor) and gets a release every few years or so - There's not much it needs anymore.

Evolution is no longer commercially supported, nor is Thunderbird - Developent may have slowed down after they lost their patrons, but they already did most things that they set out to anyway.

Many OSS software doesn't have or need commercial benefactors.

My personal use-cases are certainly relatively restricted, but maybe it's OK to just let it go into maintenance mode?
LibreOffice already does pretty much everything I'd want it to.

I (again, personally) don't see a whole lot of demand for new features.
A simple built-in camera cover is not a cosmetic doodad. And physical covers cannot be remotely hacked, unlike the active camera light which has been overridden multiple times.

If we're talking about focusing on security, then the choice should be clear.
If you are still looking for books, Margin of Safety is good. Intelligent Investor (though very outdated) is good. Jack Bogle stuff is good . Read annual LP memos from hedge funds and institutions like endowments and pension funds. They are throwing around big money and it’s fun to see what they think about.

Some good memos - Baupost Group, Berkshire Hathaway, Howard Marks. Email me if you want any more info.
So: What commands can be given in the Kindle's search box?
Lines must be drawn with cancel culture. To avoid any slippery slopes, will eliminating or demoting this person hurt the project? In case of Linus taking a forced holiday to "psychology rehab" and Dr. Stallman being pushed to resign by someone admittedly too frustrated to do her job, meritocracy seems to be a good start. Too late, since a posse of wolves in sheep's wool (or XY-chromosomed persons in female-gendered clothing), is fixing to end meritocracy in favor of inclusivity. Would you agree to such a sacrifice?
The one from the story about the new clothes.

It's a metaphor.
That's unfortunate. Of all the conspiracy one-liners, this is one of the least dramatic, and most often true (whether due to insight or broken-clock style).
It's connected to the damn circuit! You can't power up the webcam without powering up the light any more than you can make the camera see through a piece of electrical tape.
> no opinion can be changed arbitrarily.

I've changed my opinion before when presented with new information. Most people have. Can't say the same for religion.
What makes you feel that way?

I enjoy the peace of mind and lack of a notch on my screen. It's designed and advertised as a feature, not an oversight.
Use a (black/dark) spray. You never want the camera to be active anyway... (and if you really want to, hey, remember to be creative!)
> There's a reason Zukerberg's laptop has its mic and camera tapped up

Yeah, people who don't understand how hardware works.
Not only they removed everything randomly (just a few things that I remember: terminal transparency/background, search on the local directory on nautilus, zoom on gnome shell) but it is still one of the most heavy DEs (the new KDE is surprisingly light) somehow when even my DWM has more features. Sadly I have only 8GB of ram and I want to run more programs than just the gnome shell (which takes as much memory as the average electron application).

As for gtk, they still have not merged the patch for thumbnails in the open file dialog.
Yep.

https://twitter.com/dabernathy89/status/1257341572267548673

https://twitter.com/dabernathy89/status/1257350535440748547
2FA is meant to prevent your account from being stolen even if you log in on a compromised system.

As you must assume such a system runs a key logger and will get you password this is a problem. But not a supper big one.

Except if it's a dev-account, because then a lot of things of high importance are linked to it.

I think it's a sane default setup for the causal user. But it and a fiew other defaults should be changed by telling google that this account needs to be secure or similar.
> Well, I don't really think the Gnome is being reasonable since they've ditched 2.34 for 3.0 pre-pre-pre-alpha and started to shove their "supremacy" to everyone.

Do you by chance know of an article that documents that? I remember seeing one back then that compiled discussions with gnome developers from multiple sources showing that, but I've lost it since then.
But this doesn’t mean that you can buy 1GB of mobile data for that price.

For Australia, it quotes an amount equivalent to 1AUD. (All subsequent prices I quote will be in AUD.)

If you want to buy only 1GB, you’ll almost invariably find it costs you $10; under some schemes it might be $15, and $8.80 is probably the cheapest around at present.

As you get more data, it rapidly drops to the vicinity of $2/GB.

But broadly speaking, you’ll only be able to get down to $1/GB once you’re buying more than about 35GB/month on the Optus network, or more than about 50GB/month on the Telstra network.

And sure, it does continue to drop beyond that point; if you’re wanting something like 100–150GB of data, it can get down to 50–70¢ (Optus/Telstra) per GB, though you may have to shop around to find that. And there are definitely outliers, mostly in specials (e.g. I can currently find 28¢/GB, becoming 38¢/GB after six months, so long as you want 100GB), but I think the figures I quote are representative of the general trend.

So yeah, this does feel as though it matches the data from the original source according to their methodology, but it certainly doesn’t tell the full story, and I feel that as presented it’s more than a little misleading, specifically because internet access and supply patterns vary so much by region. Access, because different parts of the world use the internet in different ways. And supply, because in some places mobile data will typically be augmenting other internet access routes (e.g. home internet supplies 100GB/month, so you only want 1GB/month of mobile data) while in others that infrastructure doesn’t exist, and everything is going through mobile data (so perhaps you’d like a whole 100GB on your mobile plan). Also, any semblance of unlimited access (which you get in some parts of the world, though not Australia for mobile data) really throw a spanner in the works.

My conclusion is that these numbers aren’t all comparable. It’s comparing apples and oranges: quite different so that you have no proper grounds of comparison, but both are fruit, so you can still kinda compare them. I like red apples. I don’t like oranges. I do like orange juice.

For Australian mobile data cost research: https://www.finder.com.au/mobile-plans/compare-sim-only?plan...
The real exploitation wouldn't come from individuals, but rather real-estate developers, who would see an opportunity to build communities with absurdly-high costs of living (due to e.g. being built in the middle of nowhere with everything needing to be imported, like Dubai), where the government would basically pay people to live there, by increasing their UBI commensurate to the increased costs of being there vs. somewhere else. Unlike now, there'd be no disincentive to moving somewhere "more expensive" — you'd be given exactly as much money as you need to balance those expenses!

You'd also get the same sort of wealth-transfer effect that you get when people move from poor countries to rich countries to gain access to rich clients who pay more for the same service; or, for that matter, when people move from the rest of the US to SV (but with the government, in this case, taking the place of FAANG.) Namely, that most of the goods that people want aren't inelastic-demand goods priced in "percentage of income relative to the norm for this market" terms; but rather are priced in absolute, static dollars.

This means that in a low cost-of-living area, saving 10% of your UBI could buy you crappy clothes and a crappy car. While, in a high cost-of-living area, saving 10% of your UBI could buy you nice clothes and a nice car, and maybe a boat and a new phone every year, too. Who, then, wouldn't want to live in a high cost-of-living area? You don't have to do any more work, or have any more skills; you just have to choose to live in a "basic" big-city apartment instead of a "basic" small-town detached house.

Which, of course, means that everybody would move to these places, and their housing markets would halt and catch fire from the overburden of all these people trying to cram into them. It'd change an equilibrium of regional housing prices into a rich-get-richer one-directional reaction. And probably cause hyperinflation besides, as the government would have to print money to pay everyone's rent, as the rents in high-cost-of-living cities would rise exponentially as infinite demand meets finite capacity.
Another highly intelligent person passed away from unusual immune issues. Tragic.
holy cow that last one is work of art
HN is filled with people who are hardly ever on the receiving end of abuse bemoaning "cancel culture". Yeah yeah, cry me a river.

People are really out here using Justine Sacco, who spoke about going to a country and getting AIDS and got rightfully attacked by the citizens of that country, as a poster child.

Lol it seems like a lot of you have lived lives without consequences for your actions and are suddenly surprised that this is how the real world works. I personally wouldn't cancel anyone but I hope cancel culture lives forever.
99.9% of users don’t even know what a browser engine is. Why would they care that they’re using WebKit instead of gecko or chromium? What they want is their bookmarks and such to sync between browsers across devices, and Apple lets that work just fine.

As an iPhone user I actually like that all phones use the same engine. It prevents the “this website is better viewed in <browser>” pop up from affecting mobile users (and in particular it forces google to support a browser other than chrome). In other words, the engine monoculture means that making a site work for any iOS users means it will work for every iOS user, which I as a user really appreciate.
Professionals call it 'negative PR', 'slander', 'sabotage', and other such words. Why can't we have 'disagreement culture' or 'better-alternatives suggestionism' instead?
Shaking Down the New Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
You can always show up next day with a dumbphone or without phone at all if you are feeling risk-taking.

I personally just bought the cheapest $60-80 Android phone from a random Amazon seller.
Is there an alternative to the service from Stitch labs? I didn't hear about them until now and I can see the application of their service. But Im worried with the acquisition, it'll become obsolete and push users to Square.
Amazon Said Their Memo Forcing Employees to Delete the TikTok App Was an “Error”
In Work Profile mode they absolutely can't do that. They can only remove the work profile side and all apps and data contained therein. Not the personal side.

Of course most companies provide phones, but many users prefer to use their own, both for the benefit of having to carry only one, and because they have more choice.

Another big benefit of work profile is that you can switch all work stuff and notifications off with one click! I really like it overall, it gives great separation.
Those people are not speaking - they are doxxing and actively harrassing employers in order to get the wrongthinkers fired. I am sure you know the difference between speech and cancel culture.
Ok, seems fair.

I was just giving 2 cents on practical learnings, which is indeed not an answer to his posed question. But perhaps useful in the idea behind the question ( starting with trading stocks).

Most important take-away from it: you can lose a lot.

Additionally, I always asses for risk. Eg. I lost 0€ because of Covid, because I had no stocks when the markets dropped.

I didn't mention how to pick stocks though, which is the most important thing. Since there are multiple reasons why you would pick a certain stock.

Eg. Markets re-open worldwide => I bought WTI on 29/04, endresult was 40%.

I'm positioning myselve right now to multiple market scenarios with an expected (gamble) vaccine in December 2020 ( which is pretty early, I know) and where the vaccine test results come in at the end of the summer. I'm also taken into account the pumped up market by the US government and potential geopolitical issues.

These things can't be done by a AI/ML right now. There is literally no precedent for it.

--

Just a question, what would your general strategy be? I did check out technical indicators in the past, but I have a hard time believing in it.

In the end, I believe the stock market is about emotions in a numbers "game". It's not that quantitive as most people think.

What's your take on that statement?
And would you trust them not to store them? I certainly wouldn't.
Then you haven't seen all the malware and spyware on phone apps that have been approved by Apple and Google right? I don't trust anyone regarding my tech as far as I can throw them.

I could have a System 76 machine with latest xyz hacker proof Linux distro and I'd still assume all was heard and listened to through that device. Just makes no sense to trust any mass production device.
It does not have to be a bulky cover. I used an extremely low profile webcam cover on my 2015 MBP for 3 years. I put a similar one on my 16" MBP, and it destroyed the screen after a couple weeks.

Specifically, this is the webcam cover I was using:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C24NBGL/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_T...
The space has a moat though - it takes a huge investment and long time to become competitive in this low margin space. Rackspace has shown themselves to be a market leader within this moat.
> I actually would agree with that, but I disagree that any consequence is always excessive.

Fair enough.

> I think it is unreasonable, or at least uncharitable, to assume the most extreme interpretation possible of a phrase simply because you disagree with the politics of the people using it.

I disagree that it was unreasonable or extreme. "Free speech doesn't mean freedom of consequences" is mutually exclusive of the statement "free speech does mean freedom from at least some consequences". You cannot logically support both statements.

It's also the slogan that is very commonly used to justify these cancellations. I think it's worth point out that the initial comment by wGeF7H8Z59y985y (not zimablue) was clearly framing things in the context of people losing their jobs over their political opinions.
What is the difference between a "looter" and a "robber"? You can't simply link every death that happens during this time frame to the protests and if you do, you need to compare it to similar deaths that happened at other times.

>I just feel that it's hard to justify it as worthwhile when people engage on a non-factual level.

Which brings me back to the first reply to you. You are asking people to click through at least 3 level of links before we get to a non-biased source that can provide facts. People aren't going to think that effort is worthwhile if the first page they land on is a site founded on spreading conspiracy theories.

Also I quickly googled Dorn and you are fudging the facts a little. He is a 77 year old retired police officer. His death had nothing to do with him being a police officer. He was working as a security guard when he was killed. Coincidentally police have also recently killed an on-duty security guard[1]. Mentioning one and not the other can be an indication of bias.

[1] - https://www.ajc.com/news/police-shoot-kill-year-old-hispanic...
If you are wanting to learn because you find it interesting or are looking to work in the industry - follow the advice in this thread!

If you are looking to do some personal finance - in general it’s not a good idea to pick your own stocks. You are going against massive analysis teams in Goldman Sachs, and they are probably going to win. Instead look into index funds or similar!
My Acer Chromebook 15, a budget laptop, enjoys similarly tight tolerances.

I think engineering excellence would be to incorporate a camera cover and physical microphone switch while maintaining these tolerances.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07289-x
I hope you have AppleCare+!
This whole thing is a load of nonsense, but this bit jumped out at me:

> Preferentially accept contributions based on the group identity of a contributor.

This is a straight-up straw man; nobody is "demanding" this or anything remotely resembling this.
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In work profile mode this is absolutely correct.

In other modes (COBO, COPE) it's not but those are much more difficult to enrol, as you have to do it from the setup wizard on a new phone or after a factory reset. So you don't happen to get into this mode by accident. They're only used for company owned phones (this is what the CO part stands for).
I'm curious as well, their inventory fulfillment + content management seemed pretty awesome. Im curious what alternatives there are out there.
This was likely the brand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obetrol
MIT OCW has videos of their Finance Theory class online, and it's fantastic. The professor, Andrew Lo, is a great lecturer, and explains everything really well. Doesn't cover everything you're looking for, but it'd be hard to beat as a general introduction to the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63B2lDhyKOs...

Not only is it interesting in its own right, but it was coincidentally recorded as the 2008/2009 financial crises was unfolding, and many of the lectures open with a few minutes of discussion about what was going on in the economy at the time. Neat to hear an econ PhD give a play-by-play on an economic meltdown.
350 Elephants drop dead in Botswana some walking in circles before face-planting
I think a big issue with Libre Office is that it’s simply an open source version of Microsoft Office. They have no identity in my mind. This lack of identity invites unfair comparisons to Microsoft Office whenever you’re using it.

The other office suite in my life is Apple’s iWork. And let me tell you, it has a ton of issues, but it is not a copy of Office at all. It has its own goals and identity. I self-published a book using Pages, it’s not completely lacking in features. But it does things in its own way. So I don’t compare it to Office. I evaluate it against the job that needs to be done.
I'm sorry you have to endure such an antagonistic social environment. Where I live (midwest US), it's considered polite for all people hold the door open for all others, regardless of gender.

I'm a male and if I worked in a place where women sneered at me for holding the door for them, I guess I would start only holding the door for men.
Pipelines May Transport Juice from Cutrale to Coca-Cola (2009)
> Taibibi is good at resonating when you are predisposed to agree with him.

That's what "resonates" means. I agree though that he's putting words to collective frustrations and not arguing in a persuasive form. I wish he did more of the latter, but nevertheless, this excerpt resonated for me.
The option is bad from the employee point of view, bit the company, having smaller expenses can outcompete its competition.
From WSJ: Amazon Says Email Ordering Employees to Delete TikTok Was Sent in Error.

I suspect Amazon realized late what a legal mess it is to ban an app on their employee's cell phone when they have no clear legal basis or governmental guidance. They banned employee using Huawei phones when I was working there, for some things -- don't remember exactly. But in that case, US government already banned it for its employees, so there is precedence Amazon can claim as legal basis.
"Rackspace became public in 2008, and in 2016 was purchased and taken private by Apollo Global Management LLC."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace

Read up on some IT chat boards about people's opinions of how Apollo has managed Rackspace before you buy into this IPO IMO.
Would be nice if they explained how the hardware worked.

Hardware is not free from bugs. Ask any hardware manufacturer!
The caring for privacy is only lip service. Consider that on iOS, you cannot get your location without also sending that location to Apple. You cannot install an app without telling Apple what you installed. You cannot install your own app on your device in a usable manner without giving banking details to Apple. You cannot subscribe to a service that has an associated app from that app without telling Apple that you've subscribed to it. To show how much it really cares, Apple moved Chinese users' data to allow the CCP unfettered access.

Facebook also says it cares about privacy, and I consider both claims to be equally believable.
I think it might have been canned due to revenue implications more than employee revolt. Google doesn't want to end up in a situation where dragonfly doesn't earn much money, causes constant headache from the Chinese government, and gives ammunition to both left and right wing politicians to use it as an argument against Google on everything.

I think enough money can buy silence from a lot of people, plus it's clear google already has the tech, as they show a banner on every thing relating to covid (search results, YouTube) and do a quite impressive job at that. So I guess they can just tweak it for dragonfly, or even get their Chinese employees to do the tweak, since they already hire in China.

Once the growth slows, companies look for alternative revenue sources, like Apple is doing with services. The problem is that google has shown itself to be wildly incompetent at non engineering parts of their businesses other than search. e.g, Google cloud might be the only cloud to raise prices for anything so far(Google Kubernetes Engine price update)

It will be interesting to see what they choose. I don't think dragonfly can make them much money anyways, since Baidu too isn't making a lot of money in China.(When compared to how much Google makes in the US). I guess mostly due to closed mini app ecosystem on wechat, and probably a smaller internet eco system outside wechat.
My understanding is actually that they tried to apply the principles of factories to school. It's not so much that they want to prepare people to work in factories, as they wanted to create a process where you could take someone through the whole school system in a repeatable fashion and get an expected result, just like factories do for cars.

So instead of everyone of every age in the same class or a mentor system, you have everyone of the same age going though the same material every year.

Unfortunately what it tends not to work as well with are students behind their age curve or ahead of their age curve.
Based on my personal experience (SlashMap - fairly successful Slack plugin), I’d recommend trying to verify an idea before giving up your full-time job. For instance, you can start with a landing page to do so. I must confess that combining full-time work with a side project was challenging for me and affected work-life balance heavily in my case, but it may be the best choice if you’re not ready to quit your current job. Working on a side project only in your free time will probably significantly slow down the progress, but you can think of finding a partner to help you with it (if the project succeeds you’ll probably need a partner anyways). Opinion and complementary skills of another person may be keys to success as well. I’d say that if you really believe in your idea, it’s very likely you’ll find a way to verify it before quitting your current job. Good luck!