skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the latest version of xfce4 is what I would call a really clean, no bullshit modern desktop metaphor. I say that as a person who extensively used kde v1 and v2.x and migrated away from it when they started trying to clone windows vista.

In some ways xfce4 reminds me a lot of windows 2000.
Right now it’s “the ‘seemless’ way or the highway”.

As far as I understand they didn’t bother having alternative linking mechanism, like asking permission to the ipad though some other app or though safari for instance.

If it’s the same as sidecar 2FA is also mandatory for it to work. It makes sense for the proverbial 80%, and leaves a sour taste for the rest.
GP is wrong about Apple being a monopoly, but he was also talking about "antitrust" and Apple is certainly preventing competition.

It's not uncharacteristic. Apple was the leader of the wage-fixing cartel with Google, Intel and Adobe.
I'd assume they attach it to the substrate, glue on the IHS (the lid), and run diagnostics on the completed chip. If any issues are detected, the processor would contain functions to disable certain blocks (through JTAG or something).
Is Ghost a real competitor to Substack?
> it was a massive windfall for buyers

It was a wealth grab. They're the ones that voted for prop 13, and they're the ones benefitting. Meanwhile it's the Millennials and all subsequent generations that are stuck paying for their social security.
Your comment is interesting given that some of the strongest voices against the Keystone XL pipeline are the indigenous tribes whose lands and water would be jeopardized by it.
Let's share remote work salary information and make it publicly available
OP said nothing about style. My point is that a slightly used Toyota defies all of OP's concerns:

"hope that it's cheaper over the 3 years, hope it doesn't depreciate too much, and after 25 months (plus however many months to pay for the extra maintenance and servicing included in the first car) but I'm taking the extra risk. Maybe I'll come out on top, maybe I won't."

It definitely will be cheaper over the 3 years. Won't depreciate too much. Really won't have maintenance and servicing needed anymore than the lease. They aren't taking any risk and will come out on top. I know this, because lease financiers already bake all this into the lease for more unreliable cars with a hefty margin for extra profitability.
Isn’t that program enrollable though? There’s a thing to beta roll out a feature to select apps and then have it as an API or program.
I think there's unfortunately a pretty solid overlap between people cheering this decision and people who bemoan the erosion of trust in government institutions.

But who can blame people for lack of trust. Mom said we could have candy if we cleaned our room and dad showed up and changed that. Room isn't gonna get cleaned the second time around.
This is only one data point.
My partner also got the covid twice, at the same time obviously.

The important point here is that we got re-infected almost a year later with a variant.

From my experience, it looks like the flu.
The usual way to explain this away is that social capital was built while people could meet in person, and is now slowly fading away. I don't know how true that is; it could be completely true, or it could be just a false "fact" that pro-physical-presence people cling to.

Another factor that I didn't consider is that there was basically nothing to do but work in many places - most things fun were either banned/shut down, or unattractive because they came with the implied threat of catching COVID. This includes vacation. I bet once recovery sets in, a lot of saved-up vacation time gets used at once, especially in countries and companies where significant amounts of vacation can be banked.
That's one option, but personally I find remote utterly miserable and terrible for collaboration. I'd rather find a job where I see my colleagues in person.

The upsides for me of being in the office massively outweigh the downsides, but only if my colleagues are there too.
I can’t think of a single degree that has zero value to society.

At scale, I can think of several that have negative value. But generally? No, every degree has value. Some are abstract and hard to quantify in ways that economists can track but that doesn’t mean the world wouldn’t be worse without them.
I lived in a few recently, after living in a detached house, and my experience was not as you describe. The buildings housed all ages and we were all friendly with each other, and if someone was in the shared outdoor space, a neighbor would quite often come to join them. In the building before that, there was no shared space, but everyone was friendly, no different than the detached house place where I live now.

Which isn't to say anybody should be forced into a multi-unit building and mixed-use neighborhoods. But as you point out, prices for these types of settings are often higher than detached homes, indicating that they are under supplied and more people want them then are currently allowed to live in them.
Ok, give us the complete Windows source code then.

Really, all Microsoft does is hire some of the most obnoxious, power hungry and and political OSS devs.

Whenever I've a problem with and OSS dev, it's either Microsoft, Google, Instagram, RedHat (in that order).

Apple, Amazon, Facebook (minus Instagram), Netflix OSS devs are entirely unproblematic and often even actually nice.
We're talking about completely different things here, and it's a bit concerning that you're so confident about your understanding of the Canadian economy and various provincial economies while not knowing what Equalization payments are or how they work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canad...

As you can see this has absolutely nothing to do with projecting territorial claims, which is why I specifically did not mention that in my description. As I did specifically mention in order to provide relatively level standards of living across the country the federal government transfers money away from more wealthy provinces to less wealthy provinces. As you can see from the table in that link I posted above, provinces like Quebec receive over 10% of their annual budget in the form of transfer payments, this is an even larger percentage of the budget for some of the maritime nations. If you look at the second table on that page you'll note that literally only Ontario and Alberta have higher than Canadian average, average incomes, indicating that these transfer payments are largely funded by those two provinces, and because Alberta is so much higher, it is largely funded by them. As I indicated, figuring out a way to square the reality of these payments vanishing with the current quality of life they afford is a huge challenge for Canada.

Secondly, you talk about Alberta needing to diversify but say "BC's economy is still only ~20% driven by real estate", do you understand that this means that BC is less diversified than Alberta? That BC is more dependent on a single sector, and that sector is literally just flipping homes, not doing any sort of productive manufacturing, or providing a service? Like, I'm not sure how you're so confident in your diagnosis of Alberta's woes, while simultaneously appearing to have no concern for BC?
> Who do you want to pay for building and supporting this functionality?

No, I can assure you that other companies are perfectly willing to build and support other app stores.

Instead, Apple is the one spending extra money and extra effort in order to prevent this stuff.

Other companies would be more than happy to build these other app stores, if Apple would just get out of the way.
Why would it be sarcastic? Malware authors buy legitimate extensions for mountains of cash and then stick spyware in them. Users have no idea their previously good and trusted extension is now malware.
> How do you create a way to have conversations which lead to understanding

We could start by having dialog that tries to find commonality rather than division.
This a pretty unfair comparison.

Apple doesn't take a cut of any online purchases made through Safari. They also don't take a cut of any in-app purchases for physical goods. They only take a cut of purchases for digital good purchases and used entirely within an iOS app.

The proper comparison to Microsoft would be buying software or games for Windows through the Microsoft store. Which, by the way, Microsoft also takes their 30% cut too.
My brother-in-law who recovered from Covid was told that it actually put him at higher risk from a subsequent infection, and therefore taking the vaccine was even more important than if he had never had it. Every time someone with any prominence says, "I'm not getting vaccinated because I was already infected" there's a whole "well ackshually!" army that descends to insist that yes it's still SUPER IMPORTANT to get the shot. So I think your 99.99% number is overstating certainly the general public's level of knowledge on this question.
They use a wafer tester that literally has a tiny bed-of-nails array on it that contacts the bumps for a given die on the wafer, and can move over the wafer in x and y. It provides power and test signals, although power is typically quite limited (<100A of current or so). The good die will then go on to get packaged and further tested before being assembled onto a PCB
Then maybe as a customer I would buy from the seller that doesn't have the high fees. As soon as one business chooses to use the "cheaper and faster" option, then all other businesses sort of have to too, unless they want to be out of business.
That's not what's happening in reality though. I gave you two notable examples but I know of a few more as well. This isn't hypothetical, many companies are actively seeking to destroy their in-person culture (outside of company offsite events). Of course, since every corporate move has to have a feel good PR element to it these days, the buzzword to justify this direction is equity/equality, and that since DEI candidates will be more likely to be remote, it's especially important to destroy Bay Area office culture to make sure remote employees are on equal footing. Again, I know many people at SV companies so this isn't speculation but what I've actually seen happen at several companies. And I'm really not trying to cast judgement on whether this is good or bad for the industry long term, just again noting that the idea that people who don't want to work remotely are largely unaffected by these decisions is totally false.
I don't think that's what GP is referring to.

Ad-tech and similarly myopic business pressures are frequently at odds with usability, and those business pressures ultimately determine what solution makes it to (or remains in) production. Less usable websites and tools are frequently "better performing" when measured by a metric leadership is beholden to, and usability is easily sacrificed if faith in its value doesn't extend to the very top of a company.

I know this is HN and it's fun to pick on incompetent designers, but there are a lot of parallels with the lack of care for security that frequently tops the news on here. Poor usability often reflects company values, not designer capability.
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I think that's an interesting point - most of us more senior folks either have an innate work ethic or have been trained for years to fear a boss looking over our shoulder when we're checking facebook or whatever... Training good work ethic into people who have never worked in an office is an interesting question society will face - but do bear in mind that there are plenty of jobs that are pretty much unsupervised from day one. While a super market might look really open and visible stockers can wander off for a bit without anyone noticing and a lot of the contractor-employee jobs (uber, lyft, roofing) have never had much on site oversight.
Not sure about the UK, but as someone who lives in Canada and works at a tech company, I've recently been getting a blitz of linkedin messages and facebook ads encouraging me to apply to facebook as a remote employee.
I am right at the end of your range and noticing similar trends among my similar-aged peers. We all talked of condos a few years ago, but the single family home with room to breathe and quiet is overtaking our previous desires. I am still conflicted due to my hate of commuting, but the more I read about and experience the downfalls of busy-area living (noise pollution, air pollution, inability to change much about the property, etc) the more I feel the desire to buy straight up acreage in Wyoming.

I also see a lot better community with less people, and I'm sure there are many reasons for that.
In an idea world, probably, but unfortunately taxes are politically toxic in the US, to the extent that imposing a new tax whose costs will ultimately be born by consumers is impolitic in a way that creating new consumer costs whose revenue accrues to private actors isn't. Voters aren't rational, and elected officials can't do a lot about that.

Also, revoking the permit can be done entirely by executive action, where a new tax would require cooperation from Congress, which the administration would never get.
My worry is: let’s say my employer finally gives in and lets me work full time remote. Great! I can finally move to the Nevada desert or somewhere with low cost of living. I will likely take a modest salary reduction. Still wonderful! What happens 3 years later when there is new leadership or something and they pull a Marissa Mayer and declare remote work “bad” again, and recalls everyone to the headquarters? Now I’m fucked. I need to move back to the Bay Area after 3 years of housing price inflation! It’ll never work out. I fear once I leave I’m never coming back if the company changes it’s mind about remote work.
Because they enjoy the office. I prefer going to the office some but not most days and like occasional trips elsewhere so full remote is fine. I have friends who really like the social aspect of the office and working on a team where most of their teammates are remote would be very undesirable to them.

In practice I feel like you could just aim to have some teams be mostly people who like office and other teams be mostly remote. Would be awkward hiring wise though to send someone to a different team just on there office vs remote view.
Area-wise Norrland is roughly 60% of Sweden’s total area[1], while Montana is less than 4% of the US total area. I think that makes the comparison more fair.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Sweden
One thing I'm curious is how Facebook's remote / distributed work culture (if exits) helps this move. Some company has strong on-site culture. FB probably has some of that, but I suspect they also have some strong online-talking culture using their internal Facebook (for Workplace?) and maybe more.

After all, their service is about connecting people online. Zuckerberg definitely has that in his mind.
Why would it use iCloud for this rather than just pushing the files directly over bluetooth like Airdrop?
The Natural Resources Defense Council says:

>Tar sands extraction emits up to three times more global warming pollution than does producing the same quantity of conventional crude. It also depletes and pollutes freshwater resources and creates giant ponds of toxic waste. Refining the sticky black substance produces piles of petroleum coke, a hazardous by-product. “This isn’t your grandfather’s typical oil,” [senior policy analyst for NRDC’s Canada project] says. “It’s nasty stuff.”

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/dirty-fight-over-canadian-tar-s...
Yeah, but unfortunately xfce4 just covers the desktop manager + some utility apps part.

Most of the apps would be an assortment of (non Xfce) Gnome-inspired GTK, Electron (e.g. Slack, VSCode), custom (Firefox, Chrome, Sublime Text), and/or KDE stuff, each with its own warts and "modern" approaches...
If there were a carbon tax and similar mechanisms, I wouldn’t need to advocate for tilting the playing field, as the market would solve this naturally. Unfortunately, a carbon tax (“capture externalities” in your comment) is untenable in the US and fossil fuels continue to receive hundreds of billions of dollars a year in subsidies.

It’s a climate emergency with all of the urgency of afternoon tea. You must destroy demand for the root cause of the situation, as soon as possible (hence my comment).

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/14/e2011969118

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fue...
It's not clear to me whether the text could reasonably be perceived as causing harm to anyone, even if it does criticize a specific group of people... So, what is there to excuse?

Is there some expectation that whenever criticism or advice is written down, that there must be something in there that applies to everyone and every group?
I live in Portugal and we currently live a dreadful scenario.

In developed countries a house shouldn't take 40 years to pay
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There's definitely a social part of work that, IMHO, waxes and wanes as you go through life. In your 20s and pre-family it's a significant aspect of your social life. Then I think it wanes as you have a family and kids when you don't have enough time for everything and work socialization is a chore. Then I think once again after the kids move out work socialization becomes more important again.

Of course thats just a generalization.
Starlink conveniently solves that problem.
Yes, and you can still buy physical disks.
I don't understand this take at all, it's effectively saying that your pay should be driven by your needs as opposed to the value you create. I can see companies deciding that in-person value is different than remote, but where you are remotely doesn't matter. Especially in the same timezone. Working remotely from Kentucky vs Brooklyn makes no difference to the company, so why should they pay them differently? Do you ask people what their net worth is, and then pay high-nw people less since they clearly don't "need" it? What about DINKs?

I think companies will only get away with this as long as the supply of remote work is low. Once you start to see hard-to-recruit people leaving for higher paying remote work at another company rates will go right back up. Geo-Arbitraging digital nomads are only a corner case because most people don't realize it's an option. Once it becomes the norm then what?
Why do you feel justified forcing Adobe to make a deal with Apple? You could decline to install Acrobat until it's in a store you like.
The second link's poll includes a breakout of Democrats' beliefs in what Democrats believe, in addition to the overall figures. So 65% of Democrats agreed at the time that Democrats don't accept Trump as the legitimate president. I realize it's not the same exact question, but it is similar. There are also other polls that I didn't include that you can find with similar results.

As for the fourth link - I am not sure of the timing of that particular poll (I just pulled that from a search earlier), so I'll have to take your word on that. Thanks for pointing it out.
> It's already 80% there, and most of the fixes required don't seem super complicated.

I hope they make it evolve further, but it’s the story of Apple features. For the remaining 20% there are less seamless but more evolved third party apps (I personally use Duet, which is not without faults but has portrait support and more)
The video game industry noticeably rolled back a number of release dates but I don't know if it's fair to attribute that to team productivity or just a combination of supply line issues (big name games tend to launch with merch and physical perks that definitely would be impacted) along with the cost and stress of dealing with the pandemic. We've got some confounded variables here so it's hard to tell.
The US is the largest oil supplier to the US. You can kinda thank W for that.
You've explained how those two are different, but not why Apple is entitled to money from digital goods but not physical ones.
Bitcoin: it's the worst because criminals use it to evade authorities.

Bitcoin: it's the worst because it's transactions are traceable.
I'm trying to understand what specifically makes a worldview conspiratorial for you. Are you disagreeing that the "Great Reset" involves implementing particular ideological views and political positions? Would you agree that people are allowed to disagree with those positions? And that those who disagree with those positions are allowed to call attention to powerful people pushing those positions? Personally I don't see any of those as being "cranky" or "conspiratorial" as much as just regular political engagement.

Regarding the quote from Wikipedia - I don't agree with how that portion of the article is written or sourced. It is debated on the Talk page, and is a reflection of a growing bias in Wikipedia (https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/). That section starts off by mentioning QAnon, then says Trump amplified QAnon, and never makes a connection between all of that and "Great Reset" (it's a sort of "guilt by association" argument). Additionally, it lists out a number of right-leaning TV personalities and claims they were pushing a conspiracy theory, but none of the source articles they reference show any false claim from those same people. From those sources, it looks like these people complained that the pandemic is being exploited as a political opportunity to introduce and push various left-leaning political positions. That seems not only very reasonable to me, but also easily provable.

From my perspective, I am seeing people take the very small number of people who are suggesting the pandemic was a planned crisis with certain political goals in mind, and using that to discredit others who are not claiming it was planned but just disagree with the political opportunism and the political goals.
I was wondering, just for the effect, if i could translate this list into the world of computers

-Buy smaller/more efficient computers instead of the bigger/less efficient one

-let's move closer to work

-let's share computers

-let's not buy our teenagers a computer just yet

Feels strange to read. But ok, who knows, maybe compu, umm, smartphones fall out of favour some day as well.
If you have strong generated passwords that are different for each system and you use password manager then you would not need 2FA at all. Well maybe if it is for system that stores your password in plain text but who would be stupid to keep user password in plain text and slap 2FA on top of it.

U2F and 2FA came to life just because people are bad at making passwords and remembering them.

Making non technical people to use password manager with generating passwords for each page is still hard.

Making non technical people use SMS as a second factor is easy.

Making non technical people use tokens is still hard.

There is a lot of value in having SMS 2FA still, yes you can phish it or you can hijack the number. But that is argument like: "there is no point in having any security at all because if you install malware on your computer you will get hacked".

Yes SMS alone is not going to save you, but people have phones and understand that they type code that comes via SMS to the phone number they provided when registering. Barrier to entry for it is so trivial that I think it still has value.

Barrier to entry to take over someones phone is not high but random kid on the street is not going to do that just like random kid that can find your email + de-hashed password from database dumps.

If you have someone who is motivated to get you then probably given enough time they will get you anyway.

So take into account what that SMS 2FA prevents and what issues it is solving. Don't just throw it away.