skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue too much, not too little market research is the problem. They just have wrong (ok, misaligned) objectives.

Soldered RAM is invisible on the table at Best Buy, but the price savings to the manufacturer are very visible on their balance sheet. In fact, a laptop that becomes useless and you need to upgrade from 8 GB soldered RAM to one with 16 GB soldered RAM after 2 years is more than twice as profitable as one that a consumer stuck a new SODIMM stick in and used for 4+ years. Companies understand that very well, and the average consumer hasn't been able to prove that they are even aware of these problems.
I think this logic is flawed as hell

It sounds like "we shouldnt help the weaker ones"
CDC panel: frontline essential workers, people 75 and up should get vaccine next
But are the kids rediscovering those specific games? That's the "memory" we're talking about here. Flight simulation was very prominent as a genre in that time, but it barely enters into the coverage of any present-day "history of video games", let alone topping the lists.
I already don't have the job. I can't be any worse off if I fail.

By accepting the worst outcome, anything else will be a step up.
In Bay Area, you are partly compensated to not work at a competitor in Bay Area.

I hope salaries will not decrease by much because there will be a next Facebook that will decide to pay Bay Area rate regardless of location, and Facebook/Google will be forced to follow the new standard.

One example in the past is green card application.

Back then, at Google, you would need to be at Google 1 year before they will apply green card for you.

Then, came along Facebook who would apply green card for you immediately. Within a year, Google followed suit.

Another example is Facebook removing one year cliff. Then, Google followed suit very quickly.
I used KDE for a while and liked it, but KDE 4.0 burned me and I never looked back.
I've heard it's much better now, but haven't tried it. Okular, and gwenview were always nice, even during 4.0 days. Amarok used to be great, though I've not tried Clementine and I'm no longer a user of that sort of music library software. The reason I don't recommend KDE today is because I'm just not very familiar with it.
Ok, "cloud SAAS"...

Should be web savvy (unless the front end will be native apps for iOS and Android, etc. then API savvy)

Scalable

Should support modern user management and encryption standards

There are a bunch of things you are going to have to list for your needs; What will your clients be like - will it be to companies with varying seats, or direct to users?; Does it need to have geocoding/geo-searching?; managing esoteric data?; Speed of response; capable of modular back-end stuff? Do you want to own it in-house or outsource development?; Compatibility cross-platform integration concerns?; Are there libraries already out there that you can utilize from the start?; Do you want to license code/data sources/API, or be independent, of external influences? How critical is the service, need to provide 24/7 emergency support?

This will likely bring you down to selections from the top 20 languages, then you need to look at how those work with your plans for development, like costs of licensing, availability cost of talent, and/or ease of programming. Then you have to get your fingers dirty or at least read up in the development processes and try them out and see if they are a fit or not.

If you aren't sure of much anything at all then figure out how to get from point a to b without expecting a finished product (create an internal proof of concept) so you can shop around for interest and see if you want to do such stuff.
Virtually every Italian knows that San Marino used to be a "VAT tax haven" and other sorts of "tax haven" for many Italian entrepreneurs.

No longer the case, AFAIK.
That explains KDE's decline (Nokia owned Qt), but not Gnome.
I think you're missing out on the network effects of social services. Not having desperate people means you don't have the threat of crime. You don't have police who are one twitch away from shooting you at a traffic stop. You can have an argument with somebody on the street and, chances are it will be a civil one because they're probably an educated, unstressed person with a fulfilling life. People can make crazy decisions like making art, or quitting a job because their boss is an asshole. You won't have to worry if your kids aren't accademic - they'll probably be able to find a way.

There are tons of things like this, where you pay an enormous amount, but you gain an enormous amount more. The utility of money drops off pretty sharply above a certain amount. The utility of living in a well functioning society does not.
Which "he" are your referring to?

The author is a woman.
I wish more people thought like you. I love old stuff that still works for what I need it to do.

My original iPhone SE and Samsung Chromebook bought for $30 on eBay (with SDSU etched on the front) work perfectly for what I need them for.
Can someone please tell me what I should use then, if I just want a memory efficient, aesthetically pleasing, no-fuss experience (coming from mac OS)?

KDE? It has issues too, but I wonder if they're as severe. Heavily customized GNOME? It's possible, but that's extra work [0].

As much as I love to tweak my i3 config and enjoy trying to be keyboard-only as much as possible, I'm not enough of a poweruser to justify it and the cognitive overhead just slows me down. (I believe Apple came to this conclusion decades ago, too.) I just want to point, click, get work done without bugs or crashes.

[0] See e.g. https://gist.github.com/eh8/38fc8240ce4c8fd2e0ae065410045cd5
I worked at Nokia during OPK and Elop. I always have to cringe when I read these articles blaming everything on him, he’s Finland’s favorite scapegoat. Truth is, the rot set in at Nokia long before Elop arrived. What most people don’t realize was that the issue was not strategic it was cultural and political. Elop could have been the best leader, making the best strategic decisions in the world but it wouldn’t have made any impact at all on the outcome because the people in the company were just the wrong people. Changing the mindset and reskilling a 100k people company is no small feat. The only way Apple was able to turn the ship around in the 90s was through massive lay-offs and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, when Jobs came back he had the luxury of a small lean organization which he could easily change the direction of, had he come back a few years early he would have also probably failed. Nokia was so tightly tied to the Finnish political establishment, it became too big to fail and thus large necessary lay-offs were out of Elop’s reach, even if he had wanted to pursue them. It’s easy to blame one man, fits in nicely with our simple, linear, reductionist, narrative loving minds but the truth here is there was a giant systemic failure. Same thing is going on with Germany’s car industry at the moment with the attempted shift from ICE’s to Electric, the machines, the factories, the value chains, the politics and the culture are all pulling in one direction but the market is pulling in the other. Sometimes the environment just changes and the organizations and entities are so tightly adapted to the old environment that they can’t survive in the new environment and have to perish - no matter who’s at the helm.
When you climb the social ladder, there's a brief moment when yours and women's expectatitions aling, but that moment quickly passes and you enter the territory when the sides flip: women chase you, but you stay clear of any legally binding relationships. You perceive loneliness as a flaw, I perceive it as freedom, and while we're both lonely, we derive the opposite emotions from it.
These days I would say just buy an rPi 4B+ ... it's tiny, it's light, it doesn't need noisy fans (the first bane of old laptops), it doesn't require ancient non-uniform battery technology (the second bane of old laptops), keyboard and screen can be upgraded when destroyed (the third and fourth banes of old laptops), it's cheap, it's fast enough for nearly anything. Invest some extra in a wireless keyboard and mouse, optionally a portable screen or second hand Android tablet https://passivetech.com/2020/07/30/how-to-use-an-android-tab... for the tiny subset of situations in which you really need to compute and don't have one available at home/office/hotel, and buy a USB battery pack.
Honest question: If you take a copyrighted photograph and convert it to geometric shapes, how “blocky” does the picture have to be before it’s no longer a copyrighted work of the original artist?

I mean, if it’s almost identical with a huge amount of shapes, I can understand that it’s reasonable to look at it as the same piece of work, but on the other hand if you make it blocky enough that it looks like an interpretation of the original image as a new work in its own right, what ownership does the original author have? None, some, complete?
One thing to call out is that if you buy your own router, you’re going to have a bad time getting internet connectivity issues fixed. Unless there is an outage in your area, your ISP will just blame your router.

So it may be worth the extra cost just to hold them accountable and ensure reliable internet
That would bring him at risk for the protection as a whitehat hacker
Wayland security is not broken. Its just a single piece in a much longer term goal that spans many components. Linux was not designed for the current era where users run untrusted and borderline malicious programs regularly. While wayland may secure the desktop, there are 20 other places where programs can scoop up your data.

It looks useless now but without every part being fixed individually it will be impossible to create a secure linux desktop that runs proprietary applications.
Why does a user care that XFCE is on an old version of GTK? I can see why that would frustrate developers, but I don't see how that surfaces to users as a usability issue.
Don't forget drugs.
There's even a GitHub repo for that implementation: https://github.com/SimonHung/LodeRunner_TotalRecall
While that is true to an extent, I think you have to factor in (as far as quality of life goes) the amount of living people do in Europe before they retire. Many work only 37,5 hour weeks, and they have yearly five weeks paid holiday.

And statistics like millionaires per capita show that it is definitely possible to achieve financial freedom in Europe, too. Though US is ahead, except for Switzerland, of course.
Even so, going from designing computers using off-the-shelf components to creating your own processor design with an innovative architecture was a bold and risky bet. Not many computer manufacturers took this route.
I agree with you on Gnome 3's attitude - I know in design there's a point to be made for being bold, but I wish Gnome 3 had reconsidered.

I know that this is probably me being old and resisting change, but: I switched to Mate (which is essentially Gnome 2) and I haven't looked back. For me, a Desktop Manager's job is getting out of my way, which is exactly what Gnome 2 achieved. Gnome 3, OTOH, often got in my way.
> Second, the program installed 264,905 satellite receiving sets, comprising satellite antennas, satellite TV equipment, computers, and other related devices.

No internet in a region -> internet is a huge important jump.

I would expect of A) DVD's B) DVD's and Internet C) DVD's and Internet and Computer Rooms

B) Would win.

C) Would get into the Wests issue of installing useless tech that just distracts students, even in rural China in 2004.

I can't find if they compare these installed models?
I think the project wlroots exists to make it easy to just import wayland support so each DE/WM doesn't have to implement it.
I personally use KDE and XFCE every day. While KDE is very nice, it reflects the spirit of the Linux very well. Extremely customizable, extremely extensible. When everything settles down, it's a productivity monster, and I love it.

On the other hand, XFCE is much more approachable and usable for a newcomer. It's not intimidating. It's not infinite. It's more resource friendly and straightforward. For a newcomer I recommend GNOME or XFCE. When they're seasoned enough, they automatically gravitate towards KDE most of the time.
Having grown up in LA, I think I agree with you. In the 80s and 90s I knew a lot of people whose parents were involved with entertainment, and they weren't mega rich. They were middle class or upper middle class. They had consistent work at good wages, and they worked on films with small budgets that were in the theater for a week or two, which was long enough to make back their budget but not much more.

A lot of those people work on small budget stuff for Hulu and Netflix now (as you point out). I think the big streamers have replaced the big studios as far as funding small budget work (single digit millions budgets).
Take your disingenuous strawman elsewhere.
What? There's lots of Node-independent code in NPM.
I will definitely look into this. What I can already say is that it has the best name for a ES/CQRS library!
And then the lockdown happened, my kids are suddenly being home schooled in our tiny London flat. Thankfully my fleet of fun to refurb ancient ThinkPads find their reason for being, getting pressed into heavy everyday use. Overnight I've become a sys admin and in the months since migrated everybody to Arch Linux for ease of maintenance. Pretty happy with the setup. Icing on the cake my 9 year old brags to his friends about his kick ass Linux setup and the advantages of a tiling window manager. For the record the kids are running an X220, a T420 whilst I'm developing on a T440p. But sometimes I borrow one of the kids machines just because the keyboards are sooooo good to type on.
It’s not really just a “bottom drawer internet service” thing. Comcast rents me a Juniper switch for their metro Ethernet. I just consider it part of the price of the service. If they weren’t renting out the equipment, they’d just bump their prices up.
GTK2 fails in a lot of ways. The main one that bothers me is when I open a GTK2 app, it picks the DPI scale of one of my monitors so when I drag it over, instead of resizing to the new dpi scale, it will either become massive or tiny.
"Ah yes, "warned", by assuring us that the virus was no worse than the common cold, and we were rapidly "turning a corner", and that it would just "go away on its own"."

I suppose he shouldn't have listened to the WHO at the time, which told us it couldn't spread from human-to-human. Nobody really knew anything about the virus at the time, except China, and the lied about it...but orange man bad.

He was also being impeached at the time and the Democrats were too busy with this to care about the potential spread of Covid-19.

He also talked about hydroxychloroquine, which his doctor was using at the time as a preventative measure for Covid-19.

Was it a cure? No (he never said it was), but Doctors were taking it at the time and many were still were taking it before the vaccine.

Because everything Trump said is bad, it was equated with junk science and possibly lead to the deaths of many more people.

"If he really wanted to, what stopped him? He was clearly fully capable of closing borders, given that he did close the border to China (too late) and Europe (also too late). Where was the closure to South Korea when the virus was spiking there?"

Right. He could easily just make decisions without the Democrats using everything in their power to stop him. Where have you been the last 4 years?

Again, The WHO was warned about this back in December from Taiwan officials.

Trump has been stopped from making decisions every step of the way from the Democrats and then Demonized in the press (which spread false information to the masses).

You really can't then blame him for making the wrong decision.
My dad used to get a bit frustrated that I wanted to sit on the computer rather than tinkering with various engines (lawnmower, model plane, etc.) he was working with. One day I sat him down and showed him how I debug a bit of code, and the lightbulb went off that I was doing a very similar thing to what he enjoyed doing with engines.

We understood each other better after that day.

(Of course, now that I own a home, I wish I'd done more of the engine tinkering... I learned what a carburetor is and how to clean it via FaceTime.)
https://spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/Checkerboard_Construction...
It's very far from done and ready. Where is adaptive sync in KWin on Wayland? That's a major feature for gaming. Subsurfaces clipping is a huge mess and so on.

Because of all that I'm still using X11 session.
It's optimized for developers working on the thing. It'd be cool if the default changed based on your level of access (or settings)
I'm sorry but you're wrong. In 2010 Nokia was still fine[1]. I'm gonna stick to expert market analyst on this one.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NOK/nokia/revenue
Define "merit"
to be clear, the "assistance" the computer is providing is to connect rural learners to teachers. the title is a bit ambiguous
I worked there -- as an outside consultant -- quite a few times. It was a pretty ordinary, meh, office building. What I remember most vividly was sitting there in the office with two Nokia people, one quite senior, when the N8 was released, and seeing them watching the release video with lots of excitement -- until they realized the darn thing was running _symbian_. Everyone in the Maemo group thought it was (going to be) running Maemo -- every single engineer!

I had a wonderful time, but what a broken company...
Trouser cuffs do have a function. The extra weight helps the cloth drape better.
I think that the end game (we should be working towards) is food forests and robo-factories. Institute UBI. We create a system where our needs are met automatically, by design. Then the economic question fades away.

Part of the problem I have with this sort of thing is that it seldom addresses the "other half" of personal finance: how you spend your money.

I can't write a big long thing about it right now, but check out this guy:
https://earlyretirementextreme.com/about
> I've heard it's much better now, but haven't tried it.

I'm using KDE since 3.5.x including 4.0 release train. Its infinitely better. Stable, fast, extensible and infinitely useful (esp. Dolphin's services).

I'm not using too many widgets and/or activities, but it's better than anything I use (incl. macOS, albeit they're close).
I have been here a lot longer than that, and I do recognize some of these comments coming from long-time PJON users parttaking in the PJON gitter channel, asking for advice from other users, asking for new features, etc.

What is wrong with users of an open-source library commenting on the library? Who is better qualified to comment, and what is to be gained -- it is open source, free for all?
You have identified the right problem (a company with security like SolarWinds should not be used on critical systems), but based on your wording likely for a common, but wrong reason. The wording you are using indicates the belief that the breached company, in this case SolarWinds, was uncharacteristically stupid/incompetent and extremely below average and if they just adopted good practices (such as those on the highly secure computers) then the problems would be unlikely to occur. Unfortunately, SolarWinds is, with high probability, above average and above average is, in absolute terms, abysmal. In fact, even the "best" systems are inadequate and effectively useless against credible attackers. FireEye was hacked. Symantec, TrendMicro, McAfee were hacked [1]. Kaspersky was hacked and as part of the hack it was determined that the NSA was previously hacked [2]. Lockheed Martin was hacked and the F-35 blueprints were leaked [3]. That was done using the results from a previous hack months earlier on the company RSA as a part of EMC [4]. The NSA was hacked by The Shadow Brokers who were then themselves hacked [5]. Microsoft Windows gets hacked regularly. The same with MacOS/iOS. Android as well. Hospitals, banks, cars. None of these organizations can protect themselves from their actual foes. In absolute terms, there is no meaningful difference between the "best" and SolarWinds as the difference is like arguing the use of a piece of cardboard as a bulletproof vest since it is more bulletproof than a piece of paper even though neither actual accomplishes the goal of stopping a bullet. So, to answer your question of: "How many other SolarWinds are there?" All of them.

Also, as a secondary point, any security process that allows random, insecure systems to be connected to secure systems without positively identifying if the integration retains the security properties of the secure system is not a security process that creates "secure" systems. That is literally the first step of any good security process as you point out. Therefore, the "highly secure computers" in your example are actually very likely not actually "highly secure" as they were developed by a security process that is incapable of developing high security systems. If they are actually high security, then that would be purely by extraordinary luck as even the most trivial, amateurish of mistakes would violate the security properties and we know experimentally that randomly walking into high security is effectively impossible. A more proper terminology would likely be "high value computers" as they are protecting things that are important, just with inadequate security.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/hacke...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/israe...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-hackers/exclu...

[4] https://www.wired.com/2011/08/how-rsa-got-hacked/

[5] https://www.npr.org/2017/11/14/564006460/nsas-hackers-are-ha...
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From Ireland, and used them (a3020) extensively in primary school
nothing on Linux comes close to Mac. elementary OS looks pretty good though
Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest
It’s less bad than that. 24% in the 2010 census were under 18 and 9.9% were 18–24.

I don’t put those under “should be in Congress”, and constitutionally they’re not allowed to be until 25. So it is 13 percentage points out of 66 percentage points — about 20% of the population with 34% of the seats in the house.

Senators have to be 30 so the over 65 crowd would be an even greater share there.

Given that experience probably gives you _something_, it’s still out of whack but not crazy.

All of that said, personally I believe it’s far too skewed and we should have an age cap in Congress.
You reminded me of a similar bug we exploited for "Bards Tale 3" on the C64. Bards Tale had a character loader that would prompt you to insert your character disk to load characters from. It turns out that using other non Bards Tale disks (i.e. "Batman: The Movie") would yield corrupted characters, some with excess hit points or unusual items which could be given to your existing characters.
even if you just do copy+paste you copy over less dependencies because there is a cost. Each time you wonder: is it worth it? Ideally you don't do it at all though. As for avoiding authors who bloat up your hard disk, it's easier done on a platform that puts stones into their way like GNME does.
I struggle with Krita sometimes, but I think that's because I keep trying to use it like a Photoshop clone. Recently I've started treating it like a Painter clone in terms of my usage patterns and mindset when creating/editing things, and that seems to have resolved most of my issues & annoyances. Well, other than still not really having much in the way of a useful Photoshop clone, but I just run it in a VM these days, and that seems to work well enough.

Krita is an incredible piece of software.
Depends on how far back you go. In the 1800 / early 1900 if you wanted to hear music you had to see it live. Sheet music was sold for home music enjoyment. It wasn't until 8 track / records / tapes / cds were the physical mediums where that changed.