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You said it better than I ever could have!
[not op] Given that Microsoft/Apple/etc. aren't mentioned, G Suite has no real alternative other than Zoho (Note: nextcloud doesn't do email, so it's arguably not a GSuite competitor). This list would be better titled 'free/open-source alternatives to Google products' since excluding the other big companies extends past "de-google" and more into "open source living", if that's a good term for it.
I often think about this Michael Abrash story: (chapter introduction) http://orangeti.de/OLD/graphics_programming_black_book/html/...

When I'm stuck, or getting close to stuck, I always try to assume what I want to do has already been done in some way. Long Google searches or discussions with domain experts, purposely vague, looking for similar ideas. Even a ridiculously not-so-related paper or mention in a paper will launch me in a idea-generation frenzy and I'll quickly build confidence.

Love M. Abrash's books. Shame he didn't keep writing them, they were inspirational for me.
Ha you're right. I was quickly scanning a google result and misread it to read 100 billion. Edited. That number should have struck me as unreasonable :)
"Requires a way to sign up" undersells this. This forces apps like Hey to use the app store payment system even when they want to have their users do payment entirely outside the app store and download the app afterward.
In my experience, most folks aren't sophisticated enough to build their own tools. Having said that a workflow tool that has a default workflow that most users can adopt but also some flexibility that allows sophisticated users to adjust it to their needs without making it super complex to use is a win-win situation. I founded a company that solved a workflow problem for K-12 schools. Our initial launch was pushing school admin users to just adopt a single workflow. Most smaller schools were OK adopting it but as we went up market, we realized that even if they want to, it's very hard for bigger organizations to change their workflow (people, processes, bureaucracy). Slowly we started making the system a bit more flexible allowing them to tune it to their workflow needs.
> You have to do special config stuff to make it work

Flashing the newest firmware is about it, now.
Wayland and Input Methods
I don't think that's true. I could conceive of an alien "prime directive" like in Star Trek. So saying that it's out of the question is definitely not something that I believe. Humans, after all, are constantly observing other species. Why wouldn't aliens?
The hardest service to part with is Google Analytics. Sure, there are some awesome and open source alternatives but you’re either paying a lot for them or you have to set up/maintain servers/VMs/VPS for the app, the databases, backups, etc.
> I think it's plausible that a god would not want to talk to another intelligent civilization. Why would we? We would be to a god what bacteria is to us.

At that level of abstraction it might make more sense to think of humanity itself as an organism, and to their point of view an infant one. At the point we either either birth an AI or elevate people to digital organisms with vastly greater intelligence, then we've "matured".

There's still reasons for adults to talk to or help adolescents, mainly to help them mature well, so there might be reasons for "gods" to talk to us.

It might also be that we're only at the stage of speaking gibberish, so there's still a bit to wait.
Sometimes I have to print invoices, when I travel I make sure to print out the ticket/boarding pass just in case. We still send Christmas cards. I've designed and printed out a few A3 posters for a friend's bar.

We still don't own a printer, it takes up too much space, I just go to the convenience store and pay 10+ cents per page
I cultivated an extreme dislike for managers for years. Then I became one. Things are a whole lot different from the other side.

You perhaps overlook a few things: (1) Managers are people too. They make mistakes. They should be able to recognize and correct them as others. Ideally quickly, transparently and with the insights of others. (2) Needs evolve. The right process for proof of concept R&D is not the right process for global domination with a mature product. (3) Management is about competing concerns. Often a decision must be made within a limited sphere of experience, time and resources and reviewed in the future. There is no 'right' decision, and it can be fiendishly difficult to quantify decision quality in many such circumstances without the benefit of hindsight. (4) Different people can respond very differently to the same management, so 'bad management' is perhaps too uni-dimensional a notion to hold much meaning.
> The first real detection won't be some slight variance that we debate for years but solid evidence.

Don't count on this. It could well be some ambiguous anomaly in the atmospheric spectrum of an exoplanet that we only decide is real after years of alternate hypotheses.
there is a sub-reddit, the name rhymes with privacy ;)
Certainly I only watch with fascination when ant colonies destroy each other, I expect we appear much the same as ants to higher life forms.
There are many things you can do like that - that basically just represent increased overhead and non-game activities.

If you follow all of that logically enough - you start to wonder, why even work in game development?

Indie development right now is basically a mirage, because the only people making sustainably good profits are those with access to lower commissions by owning their own platforms or by getting better deals from platform owners due to their size. There is a huge survivor bias.

I am only still operational because I am in Ukraine. It would be impossible in a 1st world country.
They earn more money by not doing this.
It really ought to be that way, and as banks modernize that may become the case, but right now I feel like runaway subscriptions are a huge problem, and credit card companies don't provide elegant summary or control of your financial relationships and transactions.

When you leave big problems unsolved, then you're also leaving power on the table. Credit card companies are leaving a lot of power on the table.
Mesh Networking
Especially one that Google weren't even going to let the rest of us use (an entire "generic" top-level domain to use as a globally-routable in-house domain...) and only capitulated after it seemed like the pressure on ICANN might cause them to Do Something About That.
No one's arguing that they should be locked down alone in a room for the duration of the pandemic. They'll spend time with their family and probably see at least some friends.

Somehow kids are able to survive summer holidays or home schooling without grave developmental consequences.

This is purely about economic consequences and it's a calculated risk that the outbreaks in schools will be able to be contained without having to shut down the entire educational system again and forcing families to both work and take care of their kids.
>I guess if you don't appreciate the outside world

I never said that. Sorry, I didn't know you were throwing a tantrum. I thought we were having an honest discussion.

I can tell you, for sure, that there are people on this earth which are living under an overall worse standard of living than the one you would probably find in early mars colonies; and they outnumber people like us, with food, clean water, internet access, etc... That obviously sucks, but to say that life on Mars is going to be necessarily worse than life on Earth is an argument that is quite easy to disprove.
Yeap. Indoor space in a seismically dead world is very cheap. Energy is presumably also cheap. Paint the ceiling blue and you ciuld have real sized California.

For a contemporary example, people pay a premium to go to the mall. Just scale it up - not even a lot, 10x or 100x, and you basically have paradise. Far from abysmal.
The face with a mountain with coincidental lighting. Everything else has very plausible natural explanations as well.

You're hearing footsteps and hoping for zebras when it's probably horses.
bat is another great alternative

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
I can't wait for GPT-3 to be used in a production application and this to be the explanation for why it fails.

"Responding to a customer inquiry with 'noone cares, go away' wasn't really a failure on the part of the model. Rather, the model was simply creating a performance-art piece commenting on the way capitalism drives an emotional wedge between 'providers' and 'consumers'. Try fine-tuning on some economics journals to get that out of its system."
I dropped all google services and it wasn’t that hard.

The most tedious part is moving accounts from your gmail to your new email (I switched to using my own domain backed by fastmail).

Even with a password manager and a list of all my accounts this took me an entire day. You also learn how terrible most non-software company account management is.

On a lot of sites changing email is impossible. On some it lets you do it, but doesn’t actually delete the old one on the backend so you get emails to both (and it becomes impossible to turn off notifications on the old one).

One site couldn’t handle custom email domains, one site told me to create a new account and ignore the old one. One site changed my email, but still makes me login with my old email as the user, etc.

I ended up using an alias for the less trustworthy sites and filing as many CCPA requests as I could to the companies to delete accounts (naturally the sites bad about accounts are bad about this too).

The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube. I plan to delete my old google account and have a fresh one with everything turned off that I only use for YouTube.

Other than that though, it’s been a lot simpler than I thought it would be. Google is starting to feel like Yahoo to me, a company without clear vision or purpose.

They better hope their ad revenue doesn’t decay.
Wow. The organizational lines and brightly colored windows make it look like a flower.
Alias HQ - Easily reuse your tsconfig.json path aliases in your app's libraries
Aargh, autocorrect and expired edit window. original -> orthogonal
It’s based on Bing so it already exists.
It would be a good start if the Principled shader could be imported with some degree of fidelity. A lot can be done with just that one..
From a quick search on Gary, he's, in essence, spreading the word that GPT-3 isn't an AGI. Maybe this is useful to laymen to quench fears that it is one, but how should this garner a relationship with OpenAI? There are still people who have access who admit it's not, including OpenAI themselves already. I do wish the model was truly published openly, but despite it not being an AGI, it's already powerful enough to be potentially used for nefarious purposes. I do think there's an argument to be made that we should try to keep it in a good light to further interest in the field. How many more articles do we need like the one linked by OP?
Right - things got a lot more tricky due to this.

When I built my new PC I also spent a couple of hours on it, because most of the old documented and simple solutions did not work.

When I had a big partition that could hold the image the system wouldn't want to boot from it. On the small Fat32 partition the image didn't fit.

I think in the end I had to create 2 paritions, a Fat32 and an ExFat one. Then I had most of the boot files on both, but the big windows image only on the ExFat one.

That actually works - when the installer can't find the big image on the original partition you can point it to the other one and the installation will continue.
Healthcare Video Conferencing
Looking at this list, I would propose that it's easier to regulate and tax Google than it is to free ourselves of it via the private sector.
How I type 156 words per minute [video]
Perhaps, but it's an entirely different category of error than "evading the question and failing to track the location of objects". It did answer the question and it did (attempt to) track the location of objects. It's a much more suggestive response and it undermines the article's point.
I'd call it "rent for parity", not "buy". If all you have is a license, it's effectively a rental - not a purchase.

Rent for parity, buy or build for competitive advantage.
Some folks--including many on HN--have many more insights or "good ideas" than they can execute on. If they want to see them come to fruition they are not harmed by giving away a substantial fraction of them that they don't plan to execute on but still see the possibility of and need for.

See http://blog.fogus.me/2015/11/04/the-100101-method-my-approac... or https://www.nickbentley.games/the-100-10-1-method-for-game-d... for two descriptions of a 100:10:1 model. There are other models.
Ha! Thanks for the reading tip. I was unaware.
While it's entirely possible they'd have a good reason to be stealthy, I don't think it's likely to be anything we've thought of.

The Prime Directive is a mushy human emotional idea, not something that makes any logical sense for a space-faring civilization to follow. If there's any competition out there among space-faring civilizations, none of them are going to tie their hands behind their backs by refusing to touch planets that have native life on them.

And under the Dark Forest, the best way to survive would be to replicate as fast as possible, consuming all available resources. They would want to hide from external, more-powerful civilizations, but they'd have no reason at all to hide from us. Hiding from us would be a strict loss for them, as it means they can't mine Earth for resources.
And there's nothing stopping you from having a paying account with Hey where you didn't signup via the Apple platform. Hey is also free to charge some customers more than others. Customers get to choose whether they want Apple to intermediate financial relationships that ultimately involves a digital good being supported by the iOS platform.

Where there was one choice now there are two — the choice to deal directly with Hey or to have Apple intermediate.
> … without intending to spread unsubstantiated rumor…

So don't :-)

> … difficult to reboot into a Linux dual-boot…

That's likely to be a problem soon after 1st September.

> CI yml seems incomplete

In what way? "This GitLab CI configuration is valid."

> Some very strange issues like…

What else specifically?
Develop your talent stack through data and intuition
When are we going to see the unix filesystem reflect a threat model other than protecting users from each other? The filesystem permissions you're referring to being messed up work off threat model assumptions that pre-date unix.

I mean maybe if Apple provided a decent way to sandbox processes or restrict them outside the traditional unix user-owned-process model, but all their efforts here seem designed to pimp their app store.

/usr/local is just one place where this friction arises. SIP does not point to improvements here in the near future.
Atemporality for the Creative Artist (2010)
I hope not. My city of 400k is barely recognizable.
Voice Messages for Slack
Lecture transcript, from https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEBA42DF7953D8D87
The results are super iffy, if your area matches the designed solution it’s great otherwise you are in for the weird version of the place. Which seems par for the course with these AI based solutions. There’s some obvious funny issues that have cropped up in the media but in general the results are mediocre from the perspective of actually representing places you know. Iceland for example has a loooooot of trees and the height data is just bizarre in a lot of cases.

It is however much better than anything that has previously existed and as long as you squint a bit and accept the flaws it’s great fun.
Anytime you see an astronomy article in the popular press that sounds a bit flaky, you can bet Avi Loeb's name will appear in it.
> I do think there's an argument to be made that we should try to keep it in a good light to further interest in the field. How many more articles do we need like the one linked by OP?

This is how winter happens and is a decidedly anti-scientific mindset.

Do you consult with non-technical/low-technical execs on AI investments? If you did, the answer to your question would be obvious. For every dollar Microsoft and VC firms can spend on "we're the best technical minds in the world" Research&Marketing departments, there are thousands dollars in the rest of the economy that can only be captured by ensuring execs make prudent AI investments. Step zero is always deconstructing the hype around GPT/Alpha*/etc.
Schools and kindergartens even more are the perfect environment for spreading diseases and especially respiratory viruses. Spending multiple hours in a closed, often poorly ventilated room often without wearing masks is a recipe for disaster.

You're also misinformed about the risks to young people. An unknown amount of mild courses (I've read about estimates of 10%) result in long-term damage, just like with SARS. These people are called COVID long-haulers.
Good point. The professor who taught my course on FEM said most of the commercial tools had FEM models not much more complex than the ones you'd make in a graduate FEM course. The real money was the GUI (and market share).

One thing I've been waiting in Julia is a nice GUI toolset, but they all seem to be broken or incomplete. Julia's static compile ability is also lacking currently. My take is that there's an opening in the market for a good CAD program based on an open source modeling engine. Sell the GUI for money (or an enterprise polished version), but make the core engine and modeling open source and with a good API. It'd be a small market slice (e.g. grad students, small startups), but perhaps it could gain mindshare over time.
It isnt just Google you need to cut out of your life, all the global corps are complicit in building the surveillance state.
Copyright laws means you cant check your chips on your devices have not become persistent backdoors into your system. You simply can not check the code. Goal posts will always be moved as you are Resource Burned fighting the system. Welcome to the Matrix Mr Anderson.
How unique are people? You take a bunch of teenagers, ask them to non-conform, and they all come up with the same pierced, hair-dyed fashion. As if they're clocks ticking at the same rate. If you have several million clocks reading the same time down to the microsecond, that implies the existence of a master clock they were synchronized to.
London and Paris have fairly uninteresting airspaces from an aviation standpoint. Flat, not many airports. If sightseeing is your thing, there are better ways.

I wonder if it’s based on usage from previous versions of Flight Simulator.
Gradient free optimization is not used much in Neural Networks except in Reinforcement Learning.

I think it's because backprop is objectively faster for most supervised problems than other techniques (e.g. simulated annealing or GAs)
I discovered Cuppa few months ago. I started using it frequently. It's a great opportunity meet people with different expertises from around the world. I have learned a lot and connected with many experienced people on Twitter.

Also, We have got first customer for our startup thorough Cuppa (totally unexpected).
Was there really a question? Or did our policymakers start from the required conclusion - the peasantry go back to work - and from there infer backwards to "their children need to go back to school so that said peasantry can go back to work"?

With that kind of thinking, I can understand that they don't actually have any idea about the transmission of Covid amongst children; they don't need that information as it has little bearing on the required conclusion.

I have presented something of a leading question. I know what I think the answer is.
I use Zoho mainly for email but some other services as well. I like it very much but it cannot rival G suite or Office365 yet. Website states that it can though so their experience might be different. Text editor and spreadsheet app are way slower than both Google and Microsoft solutions.
Unity does support .blend files and has done so for the better part of a decade - however, it is implemented by the Unity editor invoking Blender to transparently convert the model from .blend to FBX. Here's a related page from the Unity documentation from 2013: https://docs.unity3d.com/410/Documentation/Manual/HOWTO-Impo...
That's an interesting and creative theory. I have to admire your putting so much detailed thought into it! I mean this sincerely.

Perhaps parts of the Windows 1.0 GUI could have been implemented like that, but the truth is much simpler and more mundane.

The bundled apps (including MS-DOS Executive) and the window decorations generally used the same GDI (Graphics Device Interface) calls as third party apps:

Text was drawn with TextOut() or DrawText().

Bitmaps were copied to the framebuffer with BitBlt() or StretchBlt().

Lines were drawn with MoveTo() and LineTo().

Rectangles were drawn with Rectangle() or RoundRect().

This is not an exhaustive list but should give you the general idea.

All of these functions operated on a "device context" (DC) that you obtained with functions like GetDC() or CreateCompatibleDC(). Some, like BitBlt(), used two DCs for the source and destination.

The MS-DOS Executive drive icons were bitmaps drawn with BitBlt() with TextOut() for the drive letter. The selected drive letter and icon were inverted with InvertRect(), or possibly drawn with the DSTINVERT raster operation code.

These are the same functions that any Windows application could use. The MS-DOS Executive was just another app.

The non-client area of a window (titlebar and such) was drawn with the same GDI calls as the client area. Your app would get a WM_PAINT message to draw the client area and a WM_NCPAINT for the non-client area. Most apps passed WM_NCPAINT through to the default handler DefWindowProc().

I was programming Windows apps starting with the first release of Windows 1.0. I spent a fair amount of time reverse engineering other Windows apps and Windows itself, along with people like Matt Pietrek and Andrew Schulman.

Andrew in particular would have devoted an entire chapter of his book Undocumented Windows to the text-based system you describe. It would be a field day for him!

Also consider memory limitations and programmer time. Remember that Windows 1.0 ran (slowly) on a machine with 256KB memory and two floppy drives.

Since they had to build GDI anyway, it would take more memory to also include this text-based system. It also would have taken more developer time, and provided less testing of the public APIs.

But again I do appreciate your interesting speculation!
amazing insight
Google's purpose is to help the NSA circumvent congress. Google is here to stay until further notice.
Disappointing article really, they discuss various ways to get a 2nd passport but only explore Italian ancestry and Greek ancestry. I would have liked a story about someone who “invested” in Grenada and how that’s worked out for him. Or an American ex-pat who got a relatively-easy-to-get Panamanian passport.
Dang, well I would wish it had started earlier but that would seem ungrateful.
If a company is based in an "X eyes" nation", but the product is A) self-hosted and B) open source, does it matter that the organization the develops it is based in an "X eyes" nation?