skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why is the user experience bad in Linux? I use Ubuntu at home and Fedora at work and no, it's not without frustrations, but neither was macOS when I used that for 8 years at work or Windows whenever I have to use that for something or another. Computers are fussy and irritating. Modern Linux is pretty alright, even on the desktop.

"bad user experience Linux" feh. Even nearly vanilla Gnome is pretty decent.
I found some slides: https://memcpy.io/files/2016-09-23/xdc-2016-fast_ui_draw.pdf
That would be amazing...

But yet somehow even Koalas are in danger. So I'm not optimistic.
You've successfully allowed a thread to have DOZENS of AaronFriel's false comments, whether or not they were lies, they were clearly misinformed. You've allowed his comment, which I'm sure multiple people flagged, stating this, to stick:

> I am beyond tired of people making excuses for public threats of violence from authoritarian right-wing actors. It isn't helpful to any discourse to pretend words don't mean what they mean anymore.

Fuck you, dang. Go ahead and ban me. You're a really fucking shitty moderator, and you allow fucking garbage political threads like this to go with one-sided, bad faith, bullying trash from people like AaronFriel. But, OOOH GOTCHA ISOSKELES, YOU SAID "LYING" WHEN MAYBE HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW. Fuck you. And fuck Hacker News.
Hypothesis' that fit this data:

* People with anxiety or depression go out less and therefore become less fit.

* Disease or environmental effects that hurt mental health also hurt physical strength.

* Things that degrade the brain also degrade the motor nerves reducing strength.
> It's not going to happen.

I'm allowed to hope, I've been using macs continuously since I was 4 years old, over 30 years.
Not very clearly targeted. MacBook Air was probably the most popular laptop on my CS degree, and I bought a low-ish end 13” MBP toward the end of it and still use docker on it constantly. And that’s probably even more common now that they’ve pushed the price of the higher end MacBook Pro range so high. And they’ve replaced Intel Macs with M1 in the store, it’s not additive, I can’t buy an Intel MacBook Pro for less than £1799 from Apple any more.
Ubuntu hasn't done anything nearly this bad, although the amazon fiasco was pretty rough.

I would still recommend getting comfortable enough with at least one or two other distro's that you can jump ship to if necessary.
Skeuomorphism is always on macOS and it's just getting worse in Big Sur in my opinion. They forced every icon to be a rounded rectangle which comparing to previous versions with free contour, does not present the beauty of skeuomorphism. Also the shadow on the message and app store icon is just visually horrifying and irredeemable. Apple moved to flat design years ago, now they are starting to move to no design. As one stated in a comment above, the new visuals there's no cohesive design language.
With how canonical is behaving with things like snap and such, I wouldn't be surprised if you find similar things. They just don't have the power of their own superior hardware platform to leverage it further.
I'm actually not sure about that. I was under the impression they were supposed to be cheaper (no cobalt, easier to manufacture, etc..), but if as a regular person you try to buy some from a reputable American distributor of a respectable brand they're pretty expensive. I don't know if the price of, say, Calb cells from EVWest is anywhere close to what an auto manufacturer would pay for something equivalent, but they do seem awfully spendy on the retail market.

Supposedly Tesla is going to use LiFePO4 in all their cars sold in China. It has less energy density, so I wouldn't expect them to do that unless it was actually cheaper. Or if they were somehow forced into it (e.g. government mandate to use locally-made or cobalt-free batteries, or inadequate supply of their regular 18650-cell batteries).

(I recently bought about 450 pounds of LiFeP04 cells for an electric car conversion, and it's the most expensive part of the project. About $6,000 iirc. That was buying from a local guy who has a huge stash of them from a cancelled industrial power supply project, and they were cheaper than anything I could find online, with the possible exception of some shady-looking aliexpress vendors. Not having to deal with hazmat shipping was a big plus, too.)
Thank you for taking the time to explain and write this up.

While you are here:

Any update on when Stripe will be available in South Africa ? We really need some alternatives to PayPal.
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Stealth ICBMs are not a thing. Re-entry prevents complete stealth, as the plasma generates a distinctive radar signature. You could use plasma stealth to make re-entry targets impossible to lock on, but they would be detected.

Also, the existence of stealth fighters was not a secret to the Soviets. They came up with the idea of a stealth fighter and figured out how to minimize the advantage they would give before the US did either, but decided not to pursue it. They were certainly aware of the US stealth program quite early on, and even before the US program started they knew it was possible. However, because of the problematic bureaucracy of the USSR from the 70s onwards this wasn't pursued for quite a while, and by the time the program reached maturity the collapse of the USSR was well on it's way.

That is to say, you can't really hide the existence of such big technologies and paradigms to near peer opponents - they probably thought of it before you've finalized your prototype.
Humans in Northern Europe have adapted to those conditions with very light skin that maximizes sunlight exposure.

> And how do you that for a fact? It's nutrition science. It's not reliable. These numbers of how much we need has been changing for as long as I can remember.

The changing numbers are why I gave such a wide range. Regardless of who you believe, it’s completely impractical to get the vitamin D you need from meat. It’s not even in the right order of magnitude. What is your proposed required daily value of vitamin D? If you’re going to go around claiming it’s possible to get your needed vitamin D from foods, you ought to have done some math to back up this claim.
Ubuntu doesn't run on the fastest/most efficient laptops that were announced this week.
I started my team thanks to Alteryx but happily moved all to Python a year later. UIs are terrible for change management, versioning and documentation. Once you have a big-ish team doing data work UIs will become a significant drag on collaboration and productivity
> Right, so either you're working for a struggling company, or you're working on the old stack while things are gradually being migrated and most new stuff is being done in a different stack

Well, currently I'm working for neither. Just a Ruby company that's doing well. I'm sure there's more of them. It's not as if the idea of a rewrite was never thrown, but honestly why would they? It would take years, all the while your old dev team needs to pick up a new language and your new hires need to pick up both Ruby and the rewrite language. If the whole architecture was service oriented that may be not too bad but many Ruby companies are running a few big monoliths.
Besides, this whole idea of lack of Ruby jobs seems weird to me especially if you're from North America. Mainland Europe is a different beast though.
This seems like a case of Apple engineers only testing these features on Apple networks and such, where obviously the pings are very fast and unlikely to fail.
I am a big fan of DI, but you can often get a lot of useful unit testing done when you try and keep I/O mostly seperate from the rest of the code. If you have ever programmed in Haskell you will know what I mean.
For most people, if there computer was ‘theirs’, it would be that way for about 10 minutes until it was pwned by a bad actor.

The general issue of other people (I.e. Apple et al) having a lot of control over your computer, is entirely valid even if some of the points in the piece are exaggerations.

The problem is that people want it that way.

They are in fact correct that computers are scary and too complex for them to manage, and they want someone they can trust to do it for them.

Stallman may have predicted the issue, but he really didn’t do much to solve the real problems.

The presence of open software isn’t enough without a way for people to know what is trustworthy without being experts.

Until we provide that, this situation cannot change.
We’re running Thinkpads at work with fedora and they really don’t.
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Not necessarily. It can be good in a different setting: guaranteeing that medical software is at least signed by the developer and untampered.
It’s not vitamin D that needs to be excreting but calcium. That’s why some supplements include vitamin K2, allegedly to absorb calcium into bones.
Had this happen to me after installing a secondary SSD. Windows was deactivated, and wouldn't reactivate. I ended up having to use the Windows Restore tool before I could activate again. Having to reinstall all of your programs is never fun.
I personally have settled for the 3rd option and I don't feel any loss for that reason. The really create FOMO in people, just look at how many paid Disney to watch Mulan early even with a subscription.
Git support, as opposed to getting a list of unsaved files, would be better served by installing vim-fugitive.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...

> According to a Newsday report in 2013, since 2000, there had been 270 cases of 6,000 dead people previously registered to vote in Nassau County, NY, who supposedly cast ballots at some point after their deaths. However, the paper explained: "The votes attributed to the dead are too few, and spread over 20 elections since 2000, to consider them a coordinated fraud attempt. More likely is what investigators in other states have found when examining dead voter records: Clerical errors are to blame, such as a person's vote being assigned to a dead person with a similar name."

Thus, when presented with a list like this, the first assumption must be to check how many are due to clerical errors.
Good point. I would say that it's because it's common for UX to be used colloquially as if it's a synonym for UI.

So while Linux's UI may be worse (in an individuals opinion) the UX could be better (in an individuals opinion).
Note that this has been practically unmaintained since Kevin Rogovin (fastuidraw's principal author) left Intel. It's also very suspect, my recollection from testing it before is that it was not up to the quality and fidelity standards of other libraries.
The alternatives are still completely unusable by most people.
This can't be linked enough: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
If you keep reading down the thread they say even with the release hardware it won't work for "months".
If you're not reading all the source of everything you're running, any or all of it it absolutely could be reporting usage/stats/your data to a "mothership".

Just because there's no single central org involved doesn't mean there aren't risks.
I think the question here is whether the arbitrary restrictions dissuade you from performing the primary function of the device. For the fridge, not having android apps does not stop your using it as a fridge, which was what it was made for. For the iPhone, not letting apps run without going through the Appstore is a direct hindrance to the function of a smartphone, which is to run apps.
It's true that tax-paying Americans don't get much from the government, at least directly (our 3%-4% of GDP spent on military has maintained global peace for 75 years, and VA/Medicare is awesome if you qualify.)

But you have to be factual when quoting Sweden as a paradise.

Sweden already had one welfare reset a few decades ago, and 90% (or more) of the recent migrants are on welfare, rapidly draining the Swedish welfare programs.

(The reason migrants target Sweden (and Canada) is because of the juicy welfare programs, which lets them have 4 wives, all subsidized by the state.)

> This senator, a conservative, anti-tax Democrat

That's a new one. lol.
It is useful as a justification. Not from a technical point of view, but just to support the pathway they have planned and the story around it.
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop

Disclosure: I am a Snowdrift.coop cofounder. I have no financial stake in the project (we're a non-profit cooperative and currently a fully volunteer team), although I hope in the future we'll have the income to hire me, for a modest salary.
The fact that you have 9 different ways all with their own different problems is exactly the problem here.
The time to choose to stop being exploited is, ever and always, now.
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Civil rights protestors were beaten, attacked by dogs, sprayed with firehoses, and put in jail. MLK had his phones tapped and his mail read. Where was the First Amendment for them?
The solution here is for authors of the eye-catching features to re-spend some of the rewards on infrastructure they depend on.

If a blender dev wants to improve perf and finds that the bottleneck is in some Linux kernel component, they should post a bounty for improving that component.
You are right, there are many secrets management services and they are good. But I address a specific need: be up and running in minutes.

For solutions like the self-hosted version of Hashi Corp Vault (and Pinterest Knox apparently), you need to install it on a server, run it yourself, maintain the thing... This is work, I'm doing it for you. This is time, I'm spending it for you. This is money, you are saving a lot here.

Managed solutions work too, but they are all an order of magnitude too complex, too expensive or both.

There are more than 200 topics complex enough in Hashi Corp Vault to deserve a complete tutorial on their website https://learn.hashicorp.com/vault. And this is not even the full documentation. If we want to make proper secrets management mainstream in small projects, it needs to be much more simple. With Knox, you have one view per project and you need a couple of minutes to learn everything there is to know. It does less, but you probably don't need more.
Have you tried pop OS?

They do bunch of optimization and come with tested and stable drivers pre-installed.
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No, we're talking about legal and reputation penalties.

I wrote:

> the penalties (both in terms of reputation and in terms of monetary fines) for this kind of misbehaviour

You wrote:

> What penalties?
Oh, I did not see the Pinterest project before. Not related. Thank you for pointing this :)
Interesting article, I've heard argument that nuclear war could cause human extinction, but never thought about it twice. Once you put it like this, it's almost obvious that those claims are hugely exaggerated. Great exercise in critical thinking! Though it's of no practical use, since it's obvious that no financial, territorial or political gains would be enough to justify a nuclear war.
Heh, indeed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-ag-trump-or...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-new-york-lawsui...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/07/trum...
I started writing this chrome extension once I realized it was within the realms of possibility to do the entire conversion in a chrome extension. No need to download a separate desktop app or CLI tool, just add the chrome extension and add a button to youtube.

I decided to add the Sia SkyNet/SkyDB integration as part of their ongoing hackathon. It adds a nice storage mechanism to save the converted files to make downloading faster in the future (for all users). In the event the Sia service is unavialable the extension will continue to work.
> To be fair, if this was truly a big deal, it would be a political issue with bipartisan support and taken care of short order.

Are you serious? Since you're using the term bipartisan, I'm going to assume you're also from the US. Have you been following the news/current events recently (and by recently, really I mean any time at all over the course of the past forty or fifty years)? Almost nothing actually gets "bipartisan" support these days. Our government is in a constant state of gridlock and it is next to impossible to get anything done.

> In times of strife, at least there's one thing you can always count on: Democracy. It never fails. If you can just remember that one thing, you should be able to sleep soundly at night. (It works for me at least, I used to be a constant worrywart until I learned this trick from my therapist, and I've been golden ever since.)

I'm really having a hard time telling if this comment is sarcastic. I'm not trying to cause you to lose sleep or anything, and honestly, I commend your optimism if you're serious, but the fact is that democracy is an abstract concept that is almost never put into practice perfectly. Even if democracy's promise of "most people being happy" meaning 51 people are happy while 49 people are not is actually sufficient, even that idealized version is very far from our actually political system in the United States.

I think one thing most Americans actually would agree with is that the way we do things here, right now, in terms of government, doesn't work so well. I think there is a lot of disagreement about what should change, and how, but it seems like very few people are satisfied with the current state of affairs. The more I think about it, the more I think this comment just has to be sarcastic, so this reply is probably a waste of everyone's time, but in any case, wow. I wish what you were saying here were actually true. That would be a nicer world to live in than this one (although, frustrating as it might be at times, this one is also not so bad).
You make an interesting point about judges. I wonder how prevalent behind the door blackmailing is given we probably wouldn't heard about them if the person complied.
I’m finding it kind of funny that the conversation about this Apple issue bounces between “you don’t own your computer” and “you can fix this problem by editing your hosts file to block the OCSP calls.”

Doesn’t the success of the latter kind of undercut the former?
> The presence of open software isn’t enough without a way for people to know what is trustworthy without being experts.

As Apple has demonstrated, neither has the presence of closed software. Between Apple and Microsoft, they're nearly 100% likely to get software that is not trustworthy, and cannot be made so.

This would be less worrisome if the state did not compel these organizations to provide their data to the military on demand without a warrant, but due to the vertical integration of big tech companies and US military spying, this becomes a major threat to our society and the basic exercise of civic participation.

It's hard to do things like, for example, investigative reporting against corrupt government officials if the government officials know every time you open Premiere, and where you do it, because they forced your chip/OS manufacturer to tell them.
Yo ucant say whether it's apple giving that value, or other developers
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Hmm, last I checked on Alibaba LiFePO4 was a bit more expensive.

Maybe they are using LiFePO4 for longevity and reliability despite less total capacity?
whats thr attraction of a fake cert over a real one?? it doesnt seem much cheaper...
Microsoft Windows also uploads your private exe’s, and then runs them on Microsoft servers:

https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
> In the consumer world the Dell XPS [...] are the way to go for a designer

I have to use a Dell XPS 9560 and had two issues with it, most people never realize:

1. The Intel Thermal management driver is buggy so the device shuts off on very high-load tasks. You have to find the old driver on the internet and install it, and prevent windows from reverting to a new driver.

2. Only after two years of hanging connections and dropped UDP-packets I ran a speedtest and realized that this is not my home-internet being weird, but a systemic problem of the Wifi-card, which others have reported on the internet as well. Switched cards - getting windows to recognize the new one was difficult - and now I have normal Wifi.

Both of these issues are terrible for customers, and I still wish I wouldn't have ignored/overlooked the Wifi-issue for so long, as it interrupted work for a very long time.
Thinkpad was one of the first laptop series which supported Linux explicitly.

Their competitor was Compaq NX series (HP EliteBook of today). Dell was late to the party and closed the gap by actively developing software for Linux (DKMS, Privacy Drivers, etc.).
I am literally working on two projects that are roughly 100kLOC each.

The Scala Spark project I can navigate, understand, test and consider to be average complexity... with some failures, unique to Scala.

The Python Spark project is barely readable.

People who built the Python Spark codebase are "experienced Python devs". While Scala codebase was built by people who used Scala for the first time.

(take this anecdote, as evidence for the poor tooling and guidance present in python community.... and BDFL's own failures)
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> If it begins make decisions based on what it prefers content wise it would lose a common carrier status

It can't lose what it never had to begin with. Information services post Section 230 have 0 obligation to be "neutral". You should read the law instead of listening to Internet commentators' fantasies and wishlists of "neutrality" and "censorship makes you a publisher". This is all bullcrap.
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That's what cryptographic signatures are for. No need for DRM.
>It's like 3 lines of code with most popular web frameworks

We doing DB/cron queries now with "web frameworks" ? :O
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Think of life outside the Western world for a bit. This was the case for most of colonised Asia, and is still is a thing for some places in Africa.
The private key mentioned in the notice is here: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/content/?...
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It's a new software. Take the note editor inside Evernote for example. It just slightly more sophisticated than a common notepad.exe, but it lags and freezes like it computes the Moon flyby trajectory by numeric simulation once every few seconds.
Or the new fancy autocompletion module for Spyder python IDE. some stupid autocompletion requires TensorFlow running and therefore I just can't use it, because my 6 core PhenomII ( which is enough for most of what I'm working with) doesn't have AVX-instruction set. MSVC had a decent autocompletion for ages, VisualAssist raised the bar even higher... But now I'm kinda forced to upgrade my PC to get a simply decent code autocompletion... What next? Quad-GPU rig to run notepad?
It's likely that I have purchased my last mac and last iPhone this month. This post marks the end of an era, and a real-life humanscale era, not a computer-time one: 30+ years!

I'll miss it.

EDIT: It's possible that via bputil(1) run from the Recovery partition that the signed system volume checks might be disabled in M1 macOS 11. This means I could remove the plists for certain intrusive/telemetry system services and still boot. I've updated the post, and will write more about it once I have the equipment in hand.

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html
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I use two 4K monitors. Desktop performance is uniformly excellent, using only Intel Iris graphics. I cannot imagine what you must be doing. I didn't need to do anything special.