skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a lot of this probably just normal resignations that are not caused by covid so much as delayed by it? If X% of workers resign in a normal month for one reason or another, and we have a year where people can't do that or don't feel comfortable doing it, it would be expected to see a big spike once that year ends, right? Wouldn't the economical explanation be, "This system has been perturbed and has not found a new normal yet, so it's too early to extrapolate"?

I guess that proving that would require lots more polling and statistical rigor and would produce no viral headlines, but it seems like a more economical explanation.
> One Gallup client that focused on propelling organic growth through effective workplace culture found that engagement reduces turnover in critical high-turnover roles by 36 percentage points and reduces the 100-day attrition rate by nine points.

I think fair pay and better working hours have a lot more to do with employee retention than so-called engagement. I manage a team that is well compensated and has excellent work life; we work on some really boring stuff, but this team hasn't lost a single employee to more interesting work over the years.
This is cool. I like the idea of using something separate than Notion, because Notion tends to get too distracting.

Have you considered adding some operating templates for startups? I imagine your user is signing up because they need new process, and giving them some inspiration to play with may accelerate onboarding. (I signed up hoping to get that template you used in your demo video)

I'm not a fan of the superhuman interface, I've found that it create a big learning curve for what is could be a simple interface. At the same time I'm glad you guys drew inspiration from Linear, they have some great design too. I feel like they balance the hotkeys + clickable elements really well.

Slack integration is great. I think Loom would be big in my workflow too.

Happy to do a user interview etc to help out. email is in my profile.
It's nice to see North Carolina attracting people. I moved here in 2019 (from Ontario, Canada), and have been pleasently surprised at the quality of life, abundent nature, and half-decent housing prices (that last part may not last for long). My view of NC has changed from just another southern state that I wouldn't think much about, to a possible long term home.

Of course like many states my experience is heavily biased by my location within the state (Research Triangle Park, Raleigh/Durham area). The only major downside so far has been that most of the tech jobs are concentrated in med-tech, advertising, or sales, however with Google/Apple coming to town hopefully that'll change.
Chicago is a beautiful city and the summer is great (although it can be too hot for a city with a bad winter) but I don't see it becoming attractive to people in the next decade. Bad weather, high crime, and subpar nature in the region. People who work from home have better options, even though it does have some nice features; it's affordable, walkable, has rich culture, better food than most place in America, and lake Michigan of course. Not a bad place to live, but again, if you're working from home and don't have a family in the area, you would probably move once you have kids and not looking to live in a big city anymore.
> being on the surface of the moon would be a constant struggle

With today's technology, yes.

And as others pointed out, life on a new continent wasn't all roses, either.
Did anyone else notice the Arkansas numbers. Huge net migration in over the years? Seems interesting.
I've long wondered if something like this could replace more traditional VDI. Of course, it would depend on being able to use Linux as the desktop.

I imagined having Guacamole spin up a desktop container with a directory mounted into it for the user's homedir. The OS is ephemeral but not the user's data. It would never need to persist like the home directory.

Need a different base OS? Provide other images that could be selected between. Update time? Upgrade the packages in the image and they roll out as people log out.

Resource usage would be lower (than VM VDI setups) because the containers would disappear after they logged out.

I never really got past the idea, but this reminded me.
I keep wondering about this too, perhaps the intent is that there's some known component that works well with the ux goals - so if someone builds a native application (with vala), they can reference the eos 'web' app when implementing a web view.

It's still something I'm leary about. I switched from a mac to ubuntu (gnome) recently, and wonder how much lack of facilitation/communication leads to so many separate or incomplete apps. For example, I may use the gnome calendar app but also still have thunderbird setup to handle calendar links. Or evince (akin to preview.app) doesn't support drag/drop editing of pages so I have to also install 'pdf arranger' to do this.

I think there's a chaos tolerance one has to have in approaching linux, which is fine! On the plus side I've really appreciated hearing quickly from developers when filing bugs.

For anyone curious, I keep track of cross-platform workflows here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/148zTJUwfVv9xfDcpSoH3...
Widespread antibiotic resistance would be a serious turning point for the global economy and the current way of life
> And if one of them had physical temperature knobs and a small centre screen, id choose it regardless of the price difference.

Get a Mach-E. It has physical controls! Oh, wait, its just a volume knob.

I don't know why noone uses physical controls for basic climate in EVs. Its the strangest thing to virtualize, IMO.
COVID is dangerous to more than just the immunocompromised. It's more dangerous than the flu. This has been documented repeatedly by the scientific and medical community.

Reacting to COVID differently than you react to the flu, or a cold, is a wholly reasonable response.
> No sudden changes? Gnome3 was a pox and broke literally everything.

And it was released 10 years ago... perhaps it's time to move on from old grudges
I think it's a Gnome thing.

I've never understood Gnome.
As someone who moved out of California recently, no. Culture and politics had a large part to do with it.
I really wonder how zero came to be, was it a need to homogenize the algebraic tools (we have nice operations and want to reify the 'nothing' dead end into something that can be kept chugging along) or something else /
Even more affecting to me was Alex asking what colour he was: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/27/alex-the-parrot-is...
Google claims to be carbon neutral.

This claim is false when they are forcing employees to commute and not offsetting the emissions from this required activity.
Kind of weird that California is tied for 3rd on the list but they make it a point to say people are "fleeing" California before mentioning the other top 3.
Except everyone does it
What's wrong with cap and trade? It worked amazingly well in ending particulate pollution.
Long time Mac user (1992); I think the Mac UI peaked at Mavericks (some would argue Snow Leopard due to the dumb Save workflow in Lion). As soon as Yosemite started trying too hard to be minimal it started a descent into prioritizing style over UX. I haven't touched Big Sur yet and probably won't until I'm forced to with a new Mac.

Looking at screenshots of Elementary, it's so much more obvious how things work and what widgets do than on modern Mac OS. I've been running it in various VMs for a few years but didn't seriously consider switching to it full time until Big Sur was announced. I have too many paid-for Mac apps like Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Photo Mechanic, and others that prevent me from moving to Linux full time.
GTK3 isn't deprecated (like GTK2 is), and there is no rush to port things to GTK4 yet. In terms of it being 'pre-alpha' (besides the docs, which in my experience before was always lagging behind), everything in the roadmap is basically done: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK/Roadmap/GTK4

On the other hand, the changes in Gnome 40 were not as massive as the change from 2 to 3, and to me at least the change felt more incremental than disruptive (of course, the transition period is always a bit rough, some non-essential extensions for gnome-shell didn't work for me after the change, but eventually everything I needed was ported--I even dropped some extensions). I feel that saying that 'a lot of the work from 3 was thrown away' is an overstatement.
Great idea! I think it would be a neat UX if mentors could have a drop-in (iframe) widget they could put in their contact page, link tree, or other common contact points. "Looking for advice?" That would make it easy to funnel those types of requests into paying customers, but perhaps more importantly cut down on their volume of inbound requests. I see you already have a decent stable of mentors- how have you recruited them so far and how do you plan to expand the network?
I looked for VT (live there), but couldn't find it. Can I ask where it is?
That's one part of the equation, but it only works if you have teachers and a curriculum that are capable of imparting that understanding.
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Build your own BeBox and run BeOS using Virtualbox
>It's not device independent like "pt", it's not what most people expect it to be (one device pixel), and there's subjective "wiggle room" in what it actually means.

This seems to also be incorrect. px and pt are both absolute units, and 1.33px == 1pt. If you want relative units you need to use something like em.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...
Sure, it is not. Maybe you are not using your talents properly.

Consider a change in career to help others, maybe then you will find meaning and fulfillment...
I did google around but couldn’t get it work reliably. It seems have something with which desktop environment I use. And the performance isn’t great.

Also, I am not sure what you mean “jumpbox”, but it sounds like you don’t use the remote machine locally.
I don't use it, but based on my observations (i.e. looking at the Github repo), I can see that there have been several releases and continued significant development –not merely dependency updates– in the past few months.

I was merely offering an objective correction to the parent comment's statement:

> It hasn’t been maintained since October 2020
Any gains are generally directed towards chasing status. Rather than being allocated towards leisure activities, they end up being used to push up property prices and the profits of luxury goods companies.
Do I think YouTube is needlessly censoring creators? Yes.

Do I think that YouTube should be forced to allow content on their platform that they don't want? No.

Do I think the monopoly of cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc) should be allowed to censor content they don't want? No.

The solution here is finding a hosting provider to host your own content. IPFS is a great alternative, and LBRY has proven to be pretty open-minded.
Just because some don't work physically demanding jobs doesn't mean you can raise the retirement age for everyone. Even so, many hardly reach retirement age in good health.
Before that, it would be better to ensure that all incomes and all gainfully employed persons are taken into account for the pension fund and that such pointless things as a contribution assessment ceiling are eliminated.
Then the contribution could even decrease.
I was thinking of a wild variety of fennel that grows in Cape Town, Africa.

Flowers make an amazing tea if used fresh and the leaves have a very strong liquorice smell.

It is seasonal and we harvest it from the wild alongside the road.
It is what I use on Windows, so I'm familiar with it, and it supports serial comms.
"Cookie Autodelete" plugin might be what you want, then. Sadly I don't know what "like chrome" means, so don't know if the plugin's functionality is more-or-less equivalent, since I never use Chrome.
HDFS doesn't really work as a normal filesystem. I think some other commenters pointed out the challenges with FUSE.

If I recall correctly there isn't really a way to modify an existing file via HDFS, so you'd have to copy/edit/replace. Append used to be an issue, but that got sorted out a few years back.

Erasure coding is available in the latest versions. Which helps with replication costs.

I think, HDFS may just be a simpler setup than other solutions. (which is to say its not all that simple, but easier than some other choices). And I wouldn't use HDFS as a replacement for block storage, which is something I've seen done with Ceph.
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The New Urbanist architects have an interesting take on this. Suburban residents like their private way of life. Their houses, yards, garages, etc. But they’re not so much into the surrounding public realm. The stroads, the strip malls, the freeway interchanges, the parking lots. So the thought of any intensification or extension of all that, freaks them out.

It presents a hope, at least, that suburbanites could be won over with qualitatively better implementations of density, relative to the same development pattern but bigger and more intense.
See: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-fla...

There's also Flatseal (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) as a user-friendly way of managing permissions for flatpak apps. This version of elementary OS comes with its own permission manager, but with my limited experience with both, it seems like it allows tweaking less permissions than Flatseal.
You’ll be poor, but happy.
I terms of total number of people leaving the state, I would expect California to be first
I think in general people believe that freedom of association in business is a much more limited right than the other freedoms enshrined in the first amendment- particularly regarding not associating with people that you find disagreeable.

You cannot deny business to someone because of their race or ethnicity, and generally people think this is a good thing.

Legal theories aside, I think people feel that it is unjust when a monopoly or near-monopoly business acts in a manner discriminatory to one group or another.
I don't think you can yet.
All that had to be done was to cordon it into zones like in the bottom left.
When I'm on my Mac I don't really use a minimize button ever. I organize all my windows between virtual desktops. One for calendar/notes, one for browsers and maybe the downloads folder open, one for IDE and terminal, one for chat apps, etc.
This is really great! Thank you
> The more I learn about animal intelligence, the more I suspect we grossly underestimate it.

It goes both ways, in the past we had Clever Hans[1]. People believed Hans could perform simple math, when his cleverness was actually watching his owners expression for small changes. So any observed intelligence ends up under suspicion of them acting on information gained from a much simpler side channel.

[1]https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Whenever you read "we have reviewed" translate that to be "we used an automated process and no humans to reply to you."

Inhuman-ops
But I don't get a heart attack if you're obese.
you can do it with nightly but it's a pain in the backside
> Apple isn't required to stop redistribution of existing material; they're required to make a report if they have actual knowledge of users possessing or distributing apparent CSAM.

This isn't that simple. If NCMEC comes with the properties of CSAM (e.g. hashes) and asks provider especially those to be removed from their cloud, it is hard to remove them without looking for them. This is different than an obligation to actively look for CSAM in general.
People can complain about something, without believing it is illegal, and without already having a legislative or other solution for the problem ready.

If nothing else, it informs others about Youtube censorship - even the most radical libertarians are pro-informed consumers.
have no doubt that some christians likely dabbled with these things, as did their jewish forbears, and certainly some sects of paganism where this was explicitly allowed/incorporated

but it's one thing to acknowledge these various strands as ever having existed, and quite another to take fragmentary evidence out of context and use it as a basis to spin a whole narritive that all of the historical understanding is somehow fundamentally incorrect, and that there is some 'hidden teaching' (which incedentally and conveniently is almost always more permissive w/r/t intoxication/sexuality)

there's also the detail that this misunderstanding is also predicated on a false notion that medieval people were as hostile to medicinal plants as we have become after the advent of the pharmaceutical industry - if these plants are not 'evil' and 'suppressed', then it is less 'shocking' and 'world changing' to find references to them in what we might think are surprising places to our modern mind
Many countries already (plan to) do that. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/a05b71b5-en/index.html?i...:

“The normal retirement age of men will increase in 20 out of 36 OECD countries by an average of 3.5 years based on current legislation. The highest increase is projected for Turkey, from 51 currently to 62 years. Assuming that legislated life expectancy links are applied, also Denmark, from 65 to 74 years, and Estonia, from 63.3 to 71 years, will rapidly raise the retirement age.“
Like Japan?

Some context: I haven’t been following this at all for most of the last decade, but, some things don’t change. Kabul and the Northern Alliance areas have always been hard to win and hard to hold for the Taliban. They’re not above practicality, and they have common enemies in the border regions of the East and North-West. In the SouthWest, the Marine Corps had success in direct negotiations to combat the common enemy of drug trafficking warlords, which is the whole reason they gained support there in the first place, and similarly became the focus of US operations in the region as well. In this case, I’m not sure that makes sense, however, as the coalition government has, in the past, suffered accusation of influence from these outside enemies. It’s not a stretch to think of them as a financial empire, and unlike the US, most Afghans have stronger ties to their tribes than their 401k.
You misunderstand, Flatpak has no mechanism whereby the appropriate permission can be granted. At all.

https://github.com/flathub/org.wireshark.Wireshark/issues/4
I think that's the big thing for me as well. Slim fitting not shiny leather blazer style jacket with inside pockets is the best. $200 new
> Sorry, but what's the alternative exactly?

How about not exploiting people?

> Should you be given free shit simply because you exist?

Seems to work for the very wealthy, celebrities, and so on. Why, precisely, isn't this acceptable for everyone?

I'm not against people working. I'm against the wealthy callously exploiting people for grins while they, I dunno, race into space?
A Tale of Two Copies
I never liked them because it fragmented the space of apps available on Linux. You'd be looking for an app that replaces something on windows, and inevitably you'd find something, but it starts with a 'k' and you're on gnome. And now you're not sure whether it'll work for you, or whether you need to install a bunch of extra stuff to run one app, or whether you should keep looking for another 'g' alternative, or whether you need to just dual boot windows.
After "Do you like this story?..." popped up for the fifth time I stopped reading.
As popular as it is to make sweepingly nihilistic statements about all states being unethical (Trump's "you think our country's so innocent?" could have just as easily come out of the mouth of Bernie Sanders), I think this elides the differences between states, mafias, and totalitarian movements. The 'Ndrangheta, a mafia, is estimated to do about $44 billion a year in business, dwarfing the Taliban and performing some functions of a state in areas they control. They don't constitute a state. If they controlled all of the Italian government, Italy might be called a state, but the mafia would still be the mafia. Putin's gang is not a state; it's similarly a parasitic mafia that controls the levers of the Russian state. The Khmer Rouge was a totalitarian movement that came into possession of a state, which they completely demolished. Their reign of terror over Cambodia was never recognized by most nations and they were finally attacked and eradicated by, of all people, the communist army of Vietnam.

A movement is a permanent revolution. A revolution is not a state, nor is it a form of government. It can eventually settle and become a state, while still calling itself a revolution, as the Cuban revolution or Iranian revolution unfortunately did, but that only happens when it crystalizes into a non-revolutionary and stable form, having eliminated all internal enemies. Some movements never crystalize and require permanent enemies (Nazism, Stalinism). These resemble dictatorships and clothe themselves in state functions, but they do not demolish the basic structural aspects of the state. They keep them for appearances. What's left of the state itself operates below the movement and seeks whatever level of normalcy is possible through bureaucracy, just as the movement seeks legitimacy by cloaking itself with the state. i.e. the German state was a hostage of the Nazis. Some plain old despotisms even seek to impersonate revolutions (Gaddafi's little green book, the Kim family mafia). But the Taliban is much closer to the Khmer Rouge, or ISIS. Controlling the economic output of a territory doesn't make a movement a state, much as they may wish it so. At most, the Taliban are a mafia dressed up as a totalitarian movement which controls territory. When they controlled 90% of Afghanistan, there was no Afghan state.
I felt a little peace of mind seeing the responses here, especially about the software being disabled if iCloud photos is disabled. This response is odd though:

> Well first, that is launching only for US, iCloud accounts, and so the hypotheticals seem to bring up generic countries or other countries that aren’t the US when they speak in that way, and the therefore it seems to be the case that people agree US law doesn’t offer these kinds of capabilities to our government.

Apple's already said they're going to launch this in other countries - it doesn't seem hypothetical. https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-says-any-expansion-of-c...

I sense Apple's scrambling to respond to people's valid concerns. They should have just spent a few more weeks working on the PR before announcing this, anticipating people's attachment to their privacy, and maybe offering users a benefit to this more invasive system - like true E2EE for photos, backups, and drive files.