skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's weird, it's pretty indistinguishable from the other browsers for me. Reminds me of a cross between Opera and Firefox.

It's run by one of the principle Firefox devs (Eich) and none of the stories about it ripping people off or being insecure appear to have been well founded.

I've used all the major browsers, starting with Mosaic and Netscape, was there when FF was phoenix, have been writing websites for 20 years (only a small amount of that time commercially). YMMV but it seems trustworthy, privacy focused, fast enough (ie I can't tell if it's different in performance terms).

It's just reskinned Chrome with privacy extensions built in and a system to enable people to try and send micropayments to sites if the sites are signed up.

It's not reminiscent of Eclipse in anyway for me (mind Eclipse to me most evokes poor DE integration, I'm a long time KDE user, and having a billion settings).

Use the browser that pleases you most though.
Definitely there's been some influence of these HN discussions on me. I started using Firefox and Duckduckgo and never really looked back. I also looked through different Google account settings and turned off whatever I could find related to personal data collection.

Gmail and Google Maps are two services I still rely on. There's a few good online map/navigation services where I live (Prague, Czechia), and I'm starting to migrate there - it takes time to kill a habit, though.

Gmail seems like the hardest thing to let go.

Oh, and of course deleting Facebook acc a few years ago has been one of the best decisions for my mental health ever.
Today's latest round of Gmail lockout horror stories prompted me to stop being lazy and go through my various business and customer accounts. At least the important ones. And change them all to my email on my personal domain. I have a 15 yr old account so today's story about a guy losing his 15 yr account hit kinda hard.

I'm still using other Google services. Have a Chromebook I like, and still defaulting to their search. But at least I won't be at their mercy when it comes to email.
I mean there really is no realistic replacement for youtube at the moment. The youtube breadth of content is at least two orders of magnitude above the next competitor.
The average HN reader has company-provided healthcare that is substantially superior to Canada, UK etc etc.

There is no argument that it sucks to not have health insurance in the USA. For those that have excellent insurance, the healthcare infrastructure is the best in the world. Go visit a One Medical office and try to find something like that in Canada. Our medical clinic looks like a five star hotel, we never wait, everything is digitized and modern. But not everyone has access, that point is ceded.
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Some weird ones I'm seeing:

Airtable doesn't seem to be an alternative to Google Sheets, it seems like a much different application than a generalized spreadsheet that can do math operations.

Vimeo isn't really a replacement for YouTube, it's fundamentally different in the types of content it markets itself as being for.

The Google Docs alternatives all seem to be note taking applications (except for Zoho), not document editing software.

Dark Sky no longer offers an Android app, not really a good replacement for Google Weather.
The universal experience is that Hacker News is incredibly biased against whatever you happen to favor.

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But then you will need the space freed from agriculture for the solar energy production, instead of forests? In the end, isn't a field of corn a massive solar energy plant?
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There is no competitor for YouTube in content. I might use youtube with a fake id if I want to avoid sharing ton of personal data with Google.
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Promox is great, as the other reply mentioned.

We don't use any virtualization like that. All bare metal as we are running a single app.
Questionable search you may have to explain to your family includes:

"How to kill child of parent with fork"
merge into a stabilize branch and test that...
Looks like they also reduced the speed of the builds, so their 1000 minutes are getting wasted even faster.

On my repositories, setting up NPM now takes around 120 seconds instead of 20 seconds a month ago, time of npm run build has been increased from 7 seconds to 20 seconds...

The same build that took 2 minutes last month takes 4-5 minutes today
True, although the notion of a climax forest in New England is a bit of a myth, since they are constantly changing. For example, there is something called a "fir wave" where waves of fir trees die and are replaced with other trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_wave

For more information, this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9698421-nature-guide-to-...
has wonderful information about how northern forests change over time.
Because the people calling the shots don't understand the "market". They've been coasting on their (predecessors') early success for years. Their numbers with respect to audience size is dependent on the same factors that OpenOffice depends on: people with a faint awareness of what the project is / once was but no real exposure to the ins and outs of what has changed about the projects in the last several years.
This is an announcement of an announcement. Those are off topic.

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It's in companies' (and the websites' who write about them) interest to make it to the trough as many times as possible, but our interest is to wait until there's something new to discuss.

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A "git repo" isn't completely neutral either, at least in the UK.
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I've diversified hugely. I still use them for search, maps, and YouTube. However, if I was to get banned by Facebook or Google, it wouldn't be a huge deal.

If Apple decided to ban me it would be fairly miserable, but I don't see them pulling this sort of shit in the same way FB and Google do.
It is difficult to prove a negative. Altho it’s easier to prove a negative with specificities.

Example: it’s is less difficult to prove: “there are no purple antenna sprouting aliens in farmer bob’s field”

Vs

“There are no aliens”
No, I think there are plenty of fair criticisms of both. Just like there are plenty of fair criticisms of init and X.

But fair criticisms aren't really the comments I tend to see in these threads. Instead I see fear/resentment/anger expressed in the form of "How dare you choose to use X, when it doesn't solve my problem Z? Good ol' Y never lets me down on Z, you should just keep using that. And no, I don't care that you have problems A, B, and C with Y".

Which... looking back at that sentence... I sure used a lot of letters, but I think it captures the point.
Why you don’t think arm can function on iMac scale?

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/02/apple-smaller-mac-pro-a...
The NYC Subway had a yearly ridership of over 2 billion in 1946, higher than it is today (pre-covid). One could say that we should be building a subway that can transport 5 billion riders per year and have six tracks on every line but that would be silly and there's no legitimate reason why that would be the case.
Hm, just seems like really bad copy. They seem to have meant that any new presentations will be public.

Prezi's response in linked thread:

This copy does not reflect our policy - thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we’re currently fixing the mistake. Any private presentations created during your trial or paid subscription will remain private unless you change the privacy settings. (1/2)

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You should find an affordable TLD option at https://tld-list.com/

Looks like .cyou is currently the cheapest TLD at $0.65 per year for renewals. There are a lot of other options for just a little bit more. If you can afford it, pay for 10 years in advance.

One domain can be used by an unlimited amount of mailboxes.

Regarding DKIM etc, most email providers will help you with that.

GMail is only a "no brainer" if you don't care about privacy or until Google locks you out.
I’m curious the types of data that are useful, what goes into them, and what the curators of that data might make for them.
Everything relates to everything else. No corporation is giving you things out of the kindness of its heart. They have a plan to get paid.

The price of the Ferrari is not just the price of the Ferrari. It's the price of all of the logistics and inventory management as well.

The extent to which OVH lags behind Amazon in terms of selection and ability to absorb a large order or a new large customer is all factored into the price differential. Putting 'billions' into the title role suggests an audience of people who make million dollar purchasing decisions (lots of servers, and get them today), not tens of thousands of mom and pop shops trying to save $1000 a quarter. But maybe that's just me.

It's one thing if Amazon is price gouging. It's quite another if OVH is undercutting to build market share. We keep arguing in bad faith about the price difference between a company that can sustain their price point for decades versus one that will have to hike their rates the moment we get comfortable, or risk going bankrupt. If it were all the former, yes let's discuss. If it's all the latter, I don't understand how in 2020 we can still be having that sort of conversation. The road behind us is lined with gravestones, and we should know better. Having another conversation of that sort ranks, for me, somewhere between root canal and spinal tap.

Probably it's a bit of both. I doubt very much that it's that OVH knows how to get a $1000 server cheaper than Amazon can do it.
The conflicts in Africa had already existed before the Europeans. I argue that the preexisting conflict is the fundamental cause of the lack of prosperity in Africa, not colonization. Colonialism in Africa only contributed to the problem.

Before America was colonized, there were also political divisions and multiple distinct cultures. Then, a new culture showed up and eliminated all of it. Rightfully or not, it was the establishment of unified central authority that gave America its prosperity. Go look at a map of North America and notice there's only three big countries. In Africa, the situation is essentially a stalemate because there are so many competing factions.

A group of small nations is always going to be more inefficient than one big nation. Just imagine what would happen if you abolished the federal government of the United States.
Just don't make my mistake of using YouTube Music from your brand account on YouTube, or you'll always see this when trying to upload music:

Switch accounts to upload
You're signed in to an account that doesn't support uploading. To upload music, switch to your personal Google account. Learn more

There's no way to share or migrate liked songs, apparently. And YouTube Music never warns you about the upload limitation before you start using it from "the wrong account".
I’m hoping for more iOS component integration. Specifically things like a better camera + IR to do face recognition. Smaller and lighter devices. Maybe even better waterproofing — doesn’t matter to me but the kids are more careless.
No there will be no touch screen Mac. People have kept saying this for years, yet it never happens. Why? Because it is a terrible idea, and we don’t want it.

If you want a touch based OS from Apple, then that already exists. It is called iOS.

Why would you want a touch interface on an interface optimized for mouse and keyboard?

You cannot have both. What works well for touch will be terrible with a keyboard/mouse interface.

Microsoft was morons trying to merge the two paradigms. Win 10 is one of the worst OS’s I have used.
They did settle, but it is worth noting that Microsoft is not Google. I consider Google to be much higher on the ladder of evil.
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That's a vox media survey weight heavy towards vox readers.

Who are Vox readers? Rich under 35. It would make sense why this group identifies with major brands as a status symbol. I would love to see what people over 35 and/or make average income or less think.

"Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old"
Not at all. Some people, me included, look at hardware and it falls to bits. Really they're not particularly durable machines. Apple could do a lot better.

Thinkpads are ok though. I haven't murdered one of them. Yet. I've tried and failed several times from coffee to catapulting them and they just eat my hamfistedness.

I just bought a replacement iPad for my daughter for the one that we bought in 2013 though. Stuff can last a long time.
Oh sorry, I guess I didn't check it properly.
> “email” is interchangeably used to mean either the protocol, an address or a message

"email" isn't a protocol. SMTP is though, and referring to RFC 5321 ("a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport"), section 2.3.11 [1], we see that: "As used in this specification, an "address" is a character string that identifies a user to whom mail will be sent or a location into which mail will be deposited."

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11
That's such a narrow-minded, salt vinegar take.

How many leaps away are we from 10 year olds making their own Star Wars movies? Not many, I posit. And I think that many of them can and will do better than George Lucas.

This technology is going to give so many more people the ability to create. As we begin to automate the tedious jobs and industries, it's important we have something fulfilling and engaging for people to move to. The creative field is rewarding and leads to self-growth and entrepreneurism.

The future is going to be a Cambrian explosion of creativity and expression. Look at YouTube, TikTok, and Patreon. Imagine what more tooling will do for these folks. Brains are teeming with ideas and imagination, but they often don't have the resources to breathe life into things imagined - with this next round of tech, we're going to change that.

Conversely, the concentration of wealth and production value at the top (entities like SpongeBob and Cardi B) will erode once everyone has the ability to generate character designs, animation, music, lyrics. More money will pump into the system, and it'll spread more evenly.

This is the Internet / Smart Phone revolution all over again.
I think I was pretty clear that it is an informal survey. With that said, I don't see how that survey data is any more biased one way or another than Hacker News, which was my initial assertion. I didn't make a statement that Twitter is correct and Hacker News is wrong, just that whatever OP perceives to be reality here is far from the case elsewhere.
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If the data made a few dollars per thousand dollars traded, it would take you a long time to make meaningful income from it, as opposed to a market maker.
Recommend Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com) as an alternative to Brave. Same Chromium based browser, but without any of the crypto stuff and has a lot of nice built-in features. Works on PC/Mac/Linux/Phone.
With Amazon offering cheap high performance ARM hardware in the cloud ARM based docker containers will be very useful in the future.
Facebook's moderation rules have determined that Keto and Low Carb aren't scientifically supported, so now tend to suppress resources that proliferate those views.

I emphatically don't agree with this, but this seems to be the line of reasoning with a lot of things. The reality that much of science is never truly "settled" doesn't really matter.

On the one hand, I feel there are a lot of leeches to society that hop on trends to pull money from unsuspecting victims and under-delivering. On the other, I am very much opposed to corporations that half the population uses daily acting as broad censors of information.
>You're just trolling at this point. Please reconsider your confidence in this material, because you are egregiously mistaken.

Why the heck would I run such a long expose and troll you and be mistaken at the same time.

>How does this Haskell program write to stdout if it doesn't mutate memory?

Let's not be stupid here. Every program on the face of the earth must mutate memory because that's how computers work. Assembly instructions mutate things. We're not even talking about that. We're talking about application level programming where we only deal with primitives that the application programmer is aware about. I am saying that at the application level within the category of Hask nothing is mutated.

In your example tell me what haskell primitive.... What variable or data was mutated within haskell? That is what I'm referring to.

Try to implement IO or ST in another lang using only purely functional primitives. Use your algebra to make it work. You'll find it's impossible. What this means is that imperative primitives must exist for any programming to work.

>Then it doesn't work. Every Haskell program does nothing, because mutation of program state does not occur.

Obviously I'm operating on a certain layer of abstraction here. In X = 6, X is obviously immutable in haskell. A runtime is obviously executing your haskell program and mutating the console but your haskell code itself is pure. But you know this. It's quite obvious you're the one that's trolling.
Clearly I understand that.

I had 3 replacements. Each one I could reproduce a hard crash on reboot. There are many many kps.

It’s widespread.
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