skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that the answer lies along a different axis than the other commenters. I think Word is a consequence of the the fact that modern office work is optimized to extract the maximum short-term resources out of people, or at least put up the appearance of doing so.

Consider someone dealing with inter-departmental collaboration on documents at a company in the 70s or 80s. They could potentially invent their own system, make paper copies mandatory, go full computer, or any number of solutions in between. Technology was considered hard and looked recognizably so, and management was less likely to question technical views and opinions about this. People were way less likely to get fired and generally visualized staying there for a while, so they were comfortable sticking to their viewpoints.

Today, your boss and their boss are all concerned with how to get the maximum amount of work out of you in the time you're at the company. So if you propose retraining everyone on Open Office or Markdown, because it has high potential for a better way of tracking changes or something, you'll get pushback from a) management, because the CEO is going to say “but I use Word all the time, why can't you just use that?” and b) the workers, because they know they will be forced to learn it on their own time rather than being given a proper amount of time to train and learn. [1]

I think modern society and modern work are slowly defaulting to the idea of quickly throwing in the towel and just using whatever technology is approved by the milieu. This is true even in our industry, consider this article [2] by Latacora [3] for instance: it's full of statements which approximately say “Just use CloudTrail”, “Just Use Jamf”, “Just Use Okta SSO” etc. If our industry is doing things like this to optimize extraction (even the article acknowledges that SOC2 is purely documentation optimized for selling to big companies), why would we be so surprised that publishing departments and such are optimized to Just Use Microsoft Word rather than a technically better system?

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[1] Think back: when was the last time you had a proper training about how to use a certain piece of software by people from the company building it, or at least certified trainers? These were way more common back in the day.

[2] https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

[3] A very respectable security company focused on startups.
They're not unique in this behavior. Basically every political subreddit that exists, and even some that arn't innately political but get taken over, do the same thing.

I remember there were a bunch of posts in /r/zerowaste about someone explicitly advocating to be made a mod so that they can moderate the subreddit as an anti-capitalist. I really had to credit that person for the bravado of saying: "I'll ban people I disagree with, voooote for meeeeee".

In fact, the ONLY political subreddit I'm aware of that does not engage in this behavior is r/Libertarian. Credit to them for putting their money where their mouth is.
Lower quality or equal worse human rights.
You need a lot of man power and environmental ignorance to feed our needs.
QTel has been around for years. I used it once, it seemed to work okay.
A good rule of thumb, but it's worth noting that content banned from reddit isn't necessarily 'too cancerous', it can also be 'the wrong kind of cancerous'.
How is anyone surprised? It is the grave you, the liberal tech people, have made. You can dig up threads here about Confederate Flags and how the people waving them (or not-burning the flags) need to be pushed into wood chipper.

Suspect the outrage of this thread is largely performative too.
A Mindfulness bell seems better. Reminds me of the book: “The Island” (except for the implant part).
I guess that's a pretty significant improvement, but I still don't understand why a server console needs a web browser at all? Why not just fire up a VNC server and call it a day?
There is so much publicity over Boeing problems. I'm wondering if 30-50 years ago they were more thorough or just it was more accepted to have accidents. Probably the latter. I'm just worried there is too much safety everywhere and no one takes risks any more. Its a wonder Tesla autopilot is still allowed.
I mean maybe in books, but Deus Ex and the remakes are as fresh as a few years ago now we have Cyberpunk 2077 coming out and Detroit Become Human is fantastic from a story setting. Not to forget The early 2000s telling of Ghost in the Shell and the the most recent ones from 2016ish to now.

Less story inclined but just as cyber punk being the Watchdog games.

Cyber Punk and it's ideals are very much alive, however the medium of expression has changed to ones more fitting of Cyber Punk IMO.
The Importance of Securing Real-Time APIs
Handling cash isn't 0% cost[0]. What I really mean is that government has no business telling business how to charge customers. If a company wants to mark everything up an addition 5% to "hide" credit card charges and "subsidize" them with others' payments, then they're welcome to do that, just as they're welcome to charge any markup and make any profit the market can bear.

[0] The merchant is paying employees to handle it: take time to count it at the register and make change; take time to re-count a register in the back with a witness; take time to count it again before making the deposit. And actually, the bank has very detailed fees listed on commercial accounts for handling cash and checks in deposits. (The bank takes time to count it to make sure the deposit is correct.) So the "cost of a cash transaction" is greater than zero; it's the sum of all those fees divided by the number of transactions - you could even proportionally apply those fees depending on the transaction amount or possibly even the configuration of the cash (it's easier to verify a single $100 than to count 100 $1 bills, for example.)
you should choose the defaults of your communication culture in such a way, that it works under the absolute worst conditions

The defaults are sensible. Throw money at it and pay someone enough to sort things out and get it done, e.g. you as a freelancer get a data dump and ask the right question and the problem is solved. Sure it costs money. But everything costs money.

Git works great among peers. But most organizations are hierarchical. And the boss doesn't have to give a shit about which draft is the latest because the boss is the boss.
This sounds cool, will we be able to get advice from professionals for one-time things as well? Or does it have to be a mentoring relationship?
> The pieces are fabricated and joined with the aft pressure bulkhead at Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C. plant

At least one airline has refused to accept airplanes from boeing's SC plant because of the poor manufacturing policies practiced there. if boeing does shut down it's everett assembly plants as part of the downturn, i will stop flying any recent (post classic 737) boeing equipment for my own safety.
"The pieces are fabricated and joined with the aft pressure bulkhead at Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C. plant and then delivered for final assembly to the company’s nearby final assembly building or flown to Everett, Wash."

Not the first time quality control has been an issue at the N.C. plant.

From a New York Times article back in 2019:
"Ever since, Qatar has bought only Dreamliners built in Everett." [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
I'd love for you to elaborate on why you believe QUIC / HTTP/3 is a "purely corporate need". My understanding of the technology is that it represents an encrypted-first approach to HTTP, improves performance vs HTTP/2, and enables easier integration of technologies like ESNI.
The TikTok Ban Should Worry Every Company
Would lacking spirituality or belief in a higher existence make you mentally healthy or unhealthy?

I agree, the sliding scale only strengthens whomever is in power. In Florida, the baker act is used like this.
I feel like that phrase was extremely accurate... before the buggy OSes, awful keyboards, and hordes of security prompts. If you're starting to use Apple devices in 2020 I can see why you'd think that phrase is infuriating, but believe me when I say things used to be so much better!
Getting excellent battery life on Linux nowadays should be as simple as installing the "tlp" (the laptop project) package. I can't compare to a Mac, but I use both Thinkpad and Latitude and on both get better battery life on Debian than colleagues on Windows 10 (also and related: much less fan noise...).

Now he complains about battery life after one year. There is a Thinkpad feature that helps a lot: one can limit the charge level to a configurable value. And tlp does support this for Thinkpad. By just limiting the charge level to 90% for example, and making sure never to discharge the battery completely, one can greatly extend a laptop battery life. You can't use the range fully, but then the battery is much less stressed: Li-Ion batteries suffer at the extreme of the charge range. As the battery last enough for me (and charges quickly) I never found this range reduction to be a problem. And my 5 years TP battery is just fine.

The Dell Latitude also supports this BTW, but it's in the BIOS and not integrated with tlp.
You might have success in managing symptoms by modulating diet and lifestyle. I personally find that a limited diet, no caffeine, and ample sleep help me a lot (I have Chrons), but every body is different.

Dealing with the medical system and outside advice in general can be very frustrating. Hope you can find a way forward! Good luck!
But they can't (and shouldn't be able to, even while I agree, they would want to) ban you from starting your own subreddit with your own rules.
This doesn't seem like a complete story or any kind of rationale for taking down apps, if you have a problem with hate speech you should probably get off the internet.
Some Fediverse apps have ban lists within them for certain instances. This has been hugely controversial in Fediverse community, to the point where some apps that fork apps with ban lists and republish them without those ban lists, sometimes get removed from F-Droid!

You can't just keep banning Fediverse instances. It's like banning websites. So what is this going to mean?

Approved instances. Here's a list of 200 instances ... get on our approved list to be a part of the app. That list might grow to 3000, but if you're not on it, your instance is not accessible.

That is where we're heading.
Thanks a lot for the write-up.
Preach.

Peter Drucker, in the 90s, encouraged businesses to emulate non-profit organizations. He was popularizing case studies which showed some of the most effective, efficient orgs in the world were non-profits.

From wiki:

"The importance of the nonprofit sector,[35] which he calls the third sector (private sector and the Government sector being the first two). Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) play crucial roles in the economies of countries around the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker#Key_ideas

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I like your use of "metrics". I usually frame market design in terms of "incentives", but I might adopt your frame.

Price discovery and surplus (profit) are not the only possible metrics. Markets can, and have been, designed to optimize pretty much every other conceivable goal as well.

But the thrall of corporatism (aka Freedom Markets™) keeps those alternatives out of public discourse. Anything not optimized for surplus (profit) is dismissed with pejoratives like socialism.
My all in one notebook:

* Dropbox folder called Notebook

* Has a file called Notebook.md which has links to other files: Tasks.md (to do lists with date headers), Blog.md, etc

* VSC with some markdown extensions

* Markdown All In One

* Markdown Preview Enhanced

* mushan.vscode-paste-image

Doesn't do great as far as mobile note taking, but aside from that, its ability to organize is limitless.
I used to use chanu years ago, and I vaguely remember it installing with no imageboards registered to it. You had to go into the settings and tell it which imageboards you wanted it to access.
It's a question of what is meant by the term censorship. In the strictest sense, moderation and censorship are very often the same thing. If for instance, I post something terrible in a comment on here, and the administration of HN deletes that comment, then that's censorship.

However, when most people talk about censorship they're using it not in the strict sense, but rather as a shorthand for someone violating their first amendment right. In this case this is really only a crime when it's a government entity doing it, although people don't typically differentiate between the government and any large organization, which technically are legally allowed to censor you on their platform or property.

There's a larger discussion that needs to happen with regards to censorship. There are two extremes at play here, on the one hand there's the absolute freedom stance of literally nothing censored (only example I can think of for this is maybe the dark web, but really everyone censors if only a little), even shouting fire in a crowded theater or posting child pornography. On the other extreme is the absolute censorship of someplace like China, where only permitted thoughts and expressions can be posted. The US and most of the rest of the world tends to fall somewhere in the middle.

The big struggle right now is that everyone has recognized that there's clearly some kind of problem. We're seeing unprecedented levels of misinformation, and a frankly weaponization of social media both for profit, and for international politics. I don't know that anyone has a good solution for how to address that problem, but the pendulum seems to be swinging towards a more censorship focused response.
Those are excellent points that I had not considered (or even been aware of). Still, though, while the set of brands and products available at a brick-and-mortar store is predetermined in a way that the customer has little to no influence over, it's at least much more visible if I go into Kroger one week and there's a full selection of different brands of mac & cheese, and then come back the next week and it's all Kroger brand with no sign of any other brand; whereas if I go to Amazon and search for, say, AA batteries, or Lightning cables, and all I see is AmazonBasics batteries and AmazonBasics Lightning cables, is that because Amazon stopped stocking Energizer batteries and Anker cables entirely, or because Amazon forced them to a later page of results to bolster sales of the AmazonBasics brand?
You say that, but it's a well trodden argument.

> We don't have to subsidize their free use of internet resources.

We subsidize the FAANG's use of internet resources; the Internet was largely originally created with public money (military, academia, etc).

> They are welcome to buy their own servers or even rent them.

Are they? What if they get banned from there? What if they can't collect money from their community, because all the donation sites ban them? What if their donation sites are killed because all the payment processors drop them?

Your argument leads to the logical end of "they're welcome to make their own internet".

What happens when something you like to discuss falls into the category of hate speech? You think it couldn't happen, but plenty of topics that were totally reasonable subjects of discussion, plenty of totally reasonable publicly-held opinions from 20 years ago are now in this basket. It's totally plausible to imagine some newer topic you feel strongly about eventually becoming so, and you ending up on the side of wanting to have honest discussion about it and being locked out.

Can't imagine it happening to you? Well, maybe you don't like pedophilia, or the huge push of incest porn that seems to be everywhere. Maybe you have legitimate, non-racially-oriented concerns about the riots around the country? Maybe you're worried about some particular changes coming to your children's education, or you're worried about the impact of ideas like UBI? Well, your opinions that are acceptable to post in polite places today might not be in 2030.

The only way anyone should be okay with this continual incursion into free speech is if they have truly tied themselves to the idea of being 100% on board with whatever restriction is coming down the pipe next. Such a person has no principles, and it's hard to imagine defending them.
to be clear, I believe they will be defederating from instances that push over content against the flagship instance's ToS; those instances will still be able to run Lemmy software.
The OP review is very patronizing of MBP but I could not take it after this. Colleagues at our lab meetings have been harassed by external display issue week after week at lab meetings. Some of them reported external display failing immediately after Catalina upgrade.
I'm curious as to why you would bother with HAM. It used to give you something that wasn't available otherwise, but that hasn't been the case for a very long time.

There are plenty of ways to communicate with whoever you want, however you want, whenever you want and completely encrypted too!

I see a lot of anecdotes of special distaster cases when HAM was the magical solution, but I don't remember normal communications infrastructure not being available for the last 30 years. Perhaps this is more of a thing in sparsely populated countries?
yes. husky in particular is a fork of another app called tusky, that internally implemented a login blacklist of explicitly-nazi instances and instances with lolicon content, after the author decided they didn't want those users running their software. husky's explicit sole purpose is to be tusky without that blacklist. tusky has not been removed from the play store.

i'm not familiar with the other apps on the list but i expect it might be some issue like promoting such instances in their registration screen.

also interestingly, the instance OP links to qoto.org is known within the fediverse for being full of creepers, because they've implemented a partial defederation and block circumvention. if you have an account on qoto.org, you can follow users who've blocked you, on instances that have blocked you, because it will recognize such, pull a list of posts via RSS instead of via activitypub, and fake an activitypub actor internally to generate posts for your feed. in their defense they have said that the posts are public anyway, and the user could just browse the public feed with a web browser, but it's clearly a bit different when posts from a person who has tried to block you appear in your feed normally as an item you can interact with. it's certainly against the spirit of consent.
Autodesk Fusion 360 uses Qt gui library. Some screenshots of its UI : https://www.google.com/search?q=%22autodesk+fusion+360%22+ui...

Here are some more CAD apps using Qt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Engineering_software_...

(Although Fusion 360 was launched June 2013, nobody edited the wiki page to include it yet.)
Obligatory callout to Apple zealots who say that having a single AppStore and no sideloading capability is a good thing.
No, the problem is apparently boeing has been getting away with BS at their south carolina plant because of lax oversight, and that wouldn't have "flown" previously: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-p...
> where the view-controller isn't necessarily aware

That's a really poor excuse. If that "awareness" is missing then the code is structured wrong, probably because somebody cargo-culted a design pattern without ever once thinking of the user.
This is workable, there's already cutouts for "private" property that serves an important public function like a town square or a mall.
Specifically, I’m concerned about government placing restrictions on individuals based on their mental health history.

What is the process to dispute it? You can’t just take a blood test to say this isn’t really a problem.
I think you meant Argon
Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet with Technology Made by U.S. Firm
I can relate to this story. Went through something similar, though with different symptoms. Just never recovered completely after an illness, even after years. No definite or discernable cause. There seem to be lots of triggers for latent autoimmune issues and other inflammatory problems. I think that there are also lots of things like novel species-hopping viruses that randomly get a few people but never become contagious enough to turn into pandemics. It's not like doctors have or use tests to identify most viruses, unless it's the flu or a pandemic. The one silver lining to Covid is that perhaps more research will go into these "long haul" illnesses that result from viral infections or other traumas.
I don't think it's necessarily anti-free-speech. The idea of free speech is that everyone should be able to express their opinions without being prosecuted for it, not that everyone is entitled to a platform for those opinions. You should be able to write an article about absolutely anything, but you're not entitled to put it in my newspaper.

I of course agree that the mastodon ban is a bad move because it sets a double standard where browsers can access arbitrary web content but other apps can't, and because it grossly limits the things that the average user can do with their device. However, these are consumer rights issues, not free speech issues.
It definitely makes it seem farcical to see our representatives crucifying Facebook for selling browsing data when states are apparently selling everything you would need to actually damage someone financially, and not just hypothetically. With an ID and a SSN, you can quickly get down to business with a lot of different types of transactions, and gain lateral access to accounts from there.
What are everyone's thoughts on buying a new MBP this year with the announcement of Apple Silicon replacing Intel in the near future?
Roam Research for Map Notes: Leela Maps
Out of context is the favorite goto for most news orgs that want to push a particular set of ideals.
Stripe is potentially a very good credit card processor for online-only businesses. It's fast and easy-to-implement for someone with developer experience, and also relatively inexpensive.

Really huge company
If we're supporting millions of COVID survivors, it might be a further argument to limit air pollution - banning coal and oil burning in power and transport, for example.

I had Asthma as a kid but COVID has triggered it back on again. I'm now a lot more sensitive to pollution.
I don't like hate speech. But the only thing that worries me more than the fact that there are so many people filled with so much hate is not allowing that to be out in the open where society can address it.
Just star watching in general's become somewhat disappointing. I remember satellites were nearly as rare as meteors to see and almost as exciting when you spotted one. Now though, it's hard to even look at the stars without something moving in sky. Every couple minutes there's satellites.
I doubt the US Government has any hand in this, other than not wanting to be the ones running social media.
You are absolutely right, and this is scary.

Absolute fear.
Yes, I found it eventually. Although the video doesn't show the first fatal shooting so we don't know how it all started.
> This is a good sign

No it's not.

Boeing has struggled with the same 787 composites mfg. problems since 2010, plus wing-root cracks and Lithium-ion battery fires.

Failure of a pressure bulkhead in flight usually causes loss of the airplane.

I wouldn't fly on the 787.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
No you are. (See how that works)
Yeah. Just read this fresh news: "Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from the Play Store" [1]. To quote source:

"Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech"

THIS is what you are so tirelessly advocating for

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275