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> There were too many projects with none focusing on really making a better gui than mac/windows.

I don't think the target is "better than mac/windows", but I'd argue KDE focuses a lot on making a good UI. Read [1] a bit, you'll see that a lot of work is done on fixing usability bugs and bringing small improvements to an already great desktop environment.

By the way, I've entered in a store that sells computers and noticed the Windows laptops. I was shocked to see myself think "Wait, are they selling computers on Plasma now?". If think it was Windows 11, it's amazing to see that it really resembles Plasma with a white theme.

[1] https://pointieststick.com/
My dentist claims that the fact I was born without wisdom teeth is a sign of evolution as well.

Apparently its increasingly more common.

Happy to claim i'm more highly evolved than others :-P

(yes I know evolution is small gradual changes not some superpower. its a joke people)
The article asked the same question rhetorically. The last section was their answer.
You know, all of those were true at some point, but things change, and not in a good way, but in a way that makes Linux much more competitive.

About your #1, well a few tried and for some people they succeeded, but for most people KDE got about equally good some time ago, and both Windows and MacOS kept getting worse and worse. The result is that KDE is much better than those now.

About #2, with the new Office365, Windows is also lacking a reasonably good outlook-like client. The exchange OWA is a much better alternative now, and you can access it from Linux just as easily as from Windows.
It's definitely not a "hipsterism". I agree with OP as I've been using Linux as my daily driver on both desktop and all personal laptops since 2003. I've gone through a number of distros over that time and I do pay for a few applications that run natively on Linux. However all mainstream OSes, today, are a garbage experience comparatively. Locked down, too many choices made for you already out of the box, excessive local advertising and that's just getting started. I'm forced to use Windows or OS X at work, I choose the latter, but still do the majority of my productive tasks outside of Apple. I'd pick my aging T470 all day long over my corp issued 16" MBP.

I don't want corporations like Apple or Microsoft controlling my hardware. We can see where that's got us and it's a disgusting dead end of the user not truly having control or ownership.
Show HN: Chrome extension that summarizes text content using DistilBART model
After 20 years using Linux as my desktop, my new job mandates macbook as the sole corporate computer, I probably rejected the offer should I had known this restriction.
Just confirmed with my wife (ER doctor) that there is no situation where an EMT amputates your finger because they can’t get a ring off.
They're not IDEAL and they're not what you or I might choose in a vacuum, but for the people I'm talking about, they absolutely ARE.

- No other tools are made available to them by their hidebound, ossified IT;

- They don't have training in SQL or other query languages, but they are WIZARDS with pivot tables and related technologies.

One thing that's hard for tech folks to really internalize is that tool choice is secondary to results for many folks. That's okay. It's especially ok if organizational factors prevent better or more "appropriate" tools.
I've barely used anything but Linux desktops for over a decade. MacOS is Linux for senile old blue hair grandmas and little computing appliance kids.
Please don't be a jerk in HN threads, and especially not in Show HN threads, where it's even more against the guidelines than it usually is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Manufacturing is lower on the hierarchy of needs, however when you are blocked from getting these basic needs your economy immediately crumbles.

You can get by without services, you can’t get by without manufacturing.

There are no tech workers without computers.
> They have the mean tendecy to explode into super sharp pieces when you're not expecting it, so wear goggles.

This seems understated. Shouldn't you also wear armor?
I was trying to think of a distribution platform to sell programs on Linux. Steam, kind of?

Seems to be an unfilled niche. Is an opensource app store that sells closed-source software possible or reasonable?
I've made the link clickable in the OP now. Thanks!
+1

I lived in Medellín for four months a few years back. I'm dying to go back!

To add some numbers: Back in 2016,

- a basic but delicious lunch at the restaurant at the corner used to be ~7,000-8,000 COP (~2-3€ back then)

- rooms in shared apartments could easily be found for ~300,000 COP (~100€) per month (or even less if you're fine with very basic accomodation)

- a nice spacious apartment in one of the high rises was (at least) 1,000,000 COP (so ~300€) per month

USD and EUR have become stronger since then but at the same time the COP has seen some inflation, so I'm not sure what the current price level is.

> Ive been doing the nomad thing for almost 5 years now and the quality of life / $ is unbeatable.

What industry are you in? Is it only remote work that you do or do you (by now) also have people you collaborate with in Medallo?
Chicago tipped minimum wage is $8.4 to $9 per hour, NYC tipped minimum wage is $15 per hour.

Rents are probably considerably higher in NYC too, especially restricting to Manhattan.
Just to clarify, the parent comment was stating that for a change (read: evolution) to be that _fast_, it would have to help either survivability or reproduction. In other words, increasing survivability or reproduction speeds up a mutation's proliferation throughout the species.
systemd-oomd is going to take care of that

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableSystemdOomd
https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commits/master

The previous update was July 25, and the one before that was December 2020.

While the July update dealt with the updater, having 2 days of small changes since December is not very active.

As far as the advantages, there are plenty of comments now outlining them better than I could. For me there are many additional sites that work with yt-dlp that do not work with the other forks. I found myself using this fork more and more instead of youtube-dl due to the additional support, until I've now made it my default. It does have a compat mode so if you use a lot of youtube-dl switches that yt-dlp may of removed or depreciated in the cleanup, they will still usually work if applicable with this fork as well.
iMessage is the SMS app as well, so that makes sense. Forwarding of SMS and phone calls to your Mac is part of continuity. https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/
Someone purportedly writing authoritatively for an audience. You don't get to just invent history out of whole cloth because you "don't have time." If you don't have time to write a factual article, you don't have time to write an article.

So now this piece of crap is out there on the internet for the rest of time, permanently memorializing completely nonfactual statements. Fake news. Literal definition of. Wonderful.
I hear you, that would be nice to have more premium apps that are paid. I personally would gladly pay for premium apps, even more so if I pay and they are open source.

Until then, here three quality paid apps for Linux:

* Lightworks - professional video editing with GPU support
* Bigwig Studio (like Ableton live, creating EDM style music, midi arrangements etc)
* Maya - 3D animation software (Pixar uses this too)
* IntelliJ/PhpStorm/Pycharm/Rubymine/etc IDEs for coding
We need voluntary euthanasia. People should be able to go out on their own terms rather than becoming a burden on their family and society.
Obesity as well, since birth control is less effective on women who are very heavy.
I genuinely hate using YouTube because it's awful. Random pop-ups all over the page. Weird suggestions on the sidebar because I don't have an account and don't want one. Ads that start in the middle of a sentence and play again if you rewind, etc. so you can't actually understand the video you're watching. So I wrote an app that takes a YouTube URL, downloads the video with youtube-dl, and just plays it in a normal OS window. No web browser needed. No junk. It's awesome!
It's a different thing, though, isn't it?

I do a big charity bike ride every year, and track my donors in Excel (largely because the initial dump of donation data came from the org in that format).

I try to be smart about my appeals, and I rapidly ran into limitations on pulling certain sets of email addresses out of Excel easily/simply/etc., and my next-step turned out to be Jupyter. It's GREAT for that, and I can still keep my data in Excel as a source and just query against it.

But I can't imagine trying to do the whole thing in Jupyter.
I think partly so, yes. I also think in general the security industry is very bad at increasing the level of collective experience, so it sort of just stagnates.

Other fields like web development, consulting, engineering, lawyers, medical field etc all have very established career development pipelines, where you can join as a junior employee and learn on the job from those around you to become a better professional.

Security on the other hand lacks this. In the vast majority of organizations I've been in, security roles are something that you are expected to enter with an already established level of experience, and then you are dropped on a project by yourself with little mentorship or training. This makes it almost impossible to bring new people into the field.

At my company, we have a "security champions" program that is intended to allow software engineers to dedicate some of their time to security and help their team think through security challenges. But we really struggle with this program, because my company pretty much just hopes that the engineers signing up to be champions are already experienced in security. If they are not, we do not have processes in place to train them, even if they do want the training.

And what's worse, is that I even see resistance to making it easier for junior people to learn security. If you spend much time on r/cybersecurity, a common thing you will see is people insisting that security should not be an entry level job, and that everyone should be required to spend 5-10 years as a sysadmin before you're even allowed to apply for a security role. I think that's ridiculous, and not only for the reason that being a sysadmin has a lot less overlap with the world of security than people like to think it does.
> All of these posts on the various subreddits link to each other,

It's a common post, shared by all subreddits that adhere to the protest.

Those subreddits are listed in /r/popular because tens of thousands of registered users upvote them.

The top post on /r/popular this week is the post in /r/vaxhappened calling for action against misinformation, and so far is the top5 post of the past month.

> It’s funny because several of these subreddits have rules against cross posting for that reason.

Why do you feel it's appropriate or relevant to complain about alleged rules that may or may not exist instead of facing the fact that tens of thousands of registered users subscribing to any of the countless subreddits adhering to this protest actively supporting this message?

> It’s possible that 140K people in total are upvoting all of these while others are ignoring it or out of the loop.

The amount of people that may or may not be out of the loop is irrelevant. What's relevant is the tens of thousands of registered users that are actively supporting this message.

I remind you that the initial thesis was that this was a conspiracy from a hand full of users. Do you actually believe this is a realistic assessment?
> Assuming a family of 4 would live there instead, she's effectively removing 3 people from the city.

I think is overrated concern in general. Most popular cities aren't underdeveloped. Rather the problem is concentration of resource. Having less optimized areas are actually a good things as that means more areas are equivalent. Which is really what supply is in housing markets. It's when every one too young, old or poor have to move you get problems because now all the attractive things are in the same area. Which means the demand will be very high.

Also this is happening in the housing market in general but apparently it isn't a problem when it's wealthy people retiring in their forties because of the housing market itself.

> There's a gradient of prices as you move further from the city center, and this particular hypothetical woman is moving to a much smaller unit.

That is mostly true if you are moving voluntarily. Because if you couldn't find something beneficial you wouldn't move in the first place. It isn't as true when you are being forced to move. Often it isn't even about what you are moving to but what you are moving from. Once you can't live close to your family, acquaintances or familiar establishment it doesn't matter as much.

It's sort of curious how so many seem to agree that we are "losing our values" in society (or whatever) but then base everything on assets. If we want people to be able to live close to their grandchildren, know their friends from growing up, involve themselves in organization or otherwise make social connections it isn't going to be free.
Are you advocating for an end to all property rights or full housing nationalization or something? Do you advocate for 100% capital gains taxes, including on housing? I don't understand why you target rent control as the only thing that rewards the people who already have things.
That's what Ubuntu has been trying for years with it's store.
I just watched a season of Alone where people lived for up to 100 days in the Arctic with no more supplies than a backpack. Of course, you'd have to get good at hunting and bwasting wabbits.
> Like, would a coal power plant combined with carbon capture be more economical viable than a nuclear plant?

Yeah it's an interesting line of thought but is it really possible to ask that? If you scale up one technology you will hopefully find incremental improvements that will turn that initial calculation on its head. My guess is that any such calculation would be so speculative it wouldn't give you any actionable information.

So my guess is that the best we can do is try scaling up all possibilities until we have a clear winner?

(Although in your example nuclear should already be scaled up enough to give us some idea.)
I'm perfectly fine with businesses that use intrusive ads going out of business - none of this is essential to my well being. The onus is on them to find revenue gathering methods that don't suck, not me.

And before you say "but creators have to make money too" - independent art gets created just fine without capitalistic motives, and I vastly prefer the patreon model, or just paying up front for larger content (documentaries, games, films etc).

(Although in this particular case, I'm pretty fine with the sponsor method with most of the creators I watch on youtube - there's definitely a line where it could get overbearing, but for the most part it's pretty easy to skip if you want and the brand they're shilling still gets shown to you over and over again so the advertisers aren't really losing out).

(Also chiming in with the "I do pay for YouTube premium" gang as well).
I like this statement; at first blush, it appears uncouth and brutish - upon closer inspection however, it reveals the "natural state" of nature itself.
DHH on Twitter: “Rails 7: Promote tailwindcss as an alternative to Sass.”
If you use youtube-dl and haven't noticed that it hasn't been receiving updates it's worth aliasing youtube-dl with this project
Yes, those weird hipsters that think Stallman was on to something.

Free software is exactly what kept Linux free, the moment it would get locked up it would go the same way that Windows and MacOS have gone: consumer oriented platforms rather than computer operating systems. Ideal for pushing ads and for-pay software down your throat rather than tools for you to use as you see fit.
Relevant case law, worth reading through:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1771430.html

(how hyper-liberal Berkeley, CA balanced the need to maintain properties vs stabilize rents)
This reminds me of the early days of 2007, when the strange rumblings of the economy were starting to take place.

If everyone starts raising prices by 20%, will governments be able to spend money fast enough?

Maybe we are about to learn that you can’t stimulate every economy in the world simultaneously.
I want my kids to enjoy their time on earth rather than spend them caring for me, especially if it means chronic round the clock care. I hope I can muster the courage to take myself out (and we advance on assisted suicide) by then.

Your version of enjoying life is not an inevitability, and taking care of elders day and night will not inevitably lead to the opposite either.
The vaccines also lack a specific abnormal side effect that the infection may carry: risk of death and hospitalization.

Now with death, one could argue that it does provide much longer lasting immunity....

Seriously though, for most people the severity of infection-derived immunity is preconditioned upon them surviving the disease so this looks like the classic "planes with bullet holes" image?
I mostly don't do the extra stuff they do (as they mention Code works seamlessly and thankfully that's good enough for me and obviously emacs/vim do, too), the rest is just slower cross-OS file access and I need to tinker with it only roughly as much as with my Linux installs while getting the benefits of a native Windows install on top.

If you need anything Windows-related (e.g. to use a specific game or software) using WSL on top is actually really nice (I do all my real work from there fine when not on my Linux machine currently) and less hassle than dual-booting. If I decide not to use anything Windows related or do GPU-based ML (which I assume is worse on WSl) outside of the cloud I'll install Linux on another drive on this machine and go back to it fully. I honestly never expected to stick to Windows with just WSL on this machine when I put it on for trying some games.
Agree completely. Back around 2000 my daily driver was running Red Hat, Gnome, and Enlightenment DR16 and it felt like The Future. I still have a linux laptop that I use regularly but honestly don't like it that much compared to Windows.

Considering picking up and older Mac now that the hardware is finally affordable prices as more of it hits the used market. Not sure if I'll leave MacOS on it or install windows or Linux.
Other users take note: this commenter frequently makes arguments that are so off-base, that I'm convinced they're either a bad-faith troll, or unwilling to actually think about the discussion at hand.

Take that into account when reading this thread.
HILARIOUSLY wrong.

Excel is so far ahead of Google's offering - or anything else in that space -- that it's ubiquitous. It's insanely powerful, and its power is accessible to nontechnical people. That's an enormous thing.

Remember, spreadsheets were the original "killer app" that got PCs into the biz world. They're still a huge part of everyday life for vast numbers of workers -- and not just in the midwest as you sneeringly suggest.
I don't really understand what the limiting factors on ECM speed are. There's electrolyte heating, cathode heating, bulk electrolyte resistance, formation of salt boundary layers on both the cathode and the anode, and so on. But one thing I do know is that MRR is proportional to the area of the interelectrode process gap: twice the area gives you twice the MRR at the same current density, whether the current density bottleneck is in the cathode, the anode, or the bulk electrolyte between them.

Electrolytic processes are really interesting and complicated, and 200+ years after Davy used them to revolutionize chemistry, I think they're still underused. I'm preetty sure you can produce Fresnel reflectors for a given wavelength, for example, by anodizing aluminum foil to about a quarter-wavelength depth, and across a wide range of visible wavelengths by anodizing it to about 3 microns depth, with the electropolishing effect inherently eliminating the small asperities that make it so slow to produce lenses and mirrors by grinding.

Plasma cutting should work, but should be slower on W than on iron; WP says that at room temperature its specific heat is 24.27 J/mol/K, but at 183.84 g/mol, that's only 0.13 J/g/K. For iron the same figures are 25.10 J/mol/K and 55.845 g/mol, so 0.45 J/g/K. So tungsten should heat up three times as fast with the same power output at room temperature; but tungsten's heat of fusion is four times higher, and I think that's actually the dominant component of plasma-cutting energy consumption. But I think you have roughly four orders of magnitude more knowledge about plasma cutting than I do.
I built a lot of PCs and never once had a problem with this. Set the jumpers, use an appropriate cable for the interface bandwidth, plug drives (HDD, ATAPI, whatever) in, enter BIOS, auto detect, done.

I am baffled that this gave others the slightest bit of difficulty.
The notion that morning people are virtuous and evening people are lazy should have been shot in the back of the head and buried in a shallow grave the instant that the electric light bulb was invented, rendering forever moot any practical relevance of what hours the sun happens to rise to when people should work.
Stop spouting your biases. They are just plain wrong. Do some research first!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Spain

It isn't primarily due to high rents. It is due to the Spanish economy being shitty and badly run for decades.

Then foreigners swooped in and bought prime real estate.

But that doesn't mean that there is not enough housing. It is just that people were getting more and more poor with more and more unemployment.

Here is a relevant quote:

"Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the Spanish economy plunged into recession, entering a cycle of negative macroeconomic performance. Compared to the EU's and US's average, the Spanish economy entered recession later (the economy was still growing by 2008), but it stayed there longer. The economic boom of the 2000s was reversed, leaving over a quarter of Spain's workforce unemployed by 2012."

It looks like it has recovered some but unemployment is still high especially for the young. Also there was a lot of youth emigration though recently there has been immigration from poorer countries.

25% below the poverty line
15% unemployment
You’ve got it backwards. The newcomers will come - if rich people want to move somewhere, they’ll easily outbid any poor people currently living somewhere when it comes to finding a place to rent. The existing population will be displaced if you do nothing.

The options are:

1) rent control, plus a lottery or waiting list to determine who gets to live there. This is similar to what they did in sweden, where they have nine year waiting lists. That would be catastrophic for the growth of the city, so it might not happen.

2) allow the market to build new housing, so the rich newcomers will have somewhere to go that doesn’t require displacing existing residents

Of course, if you don’t care about locals being displaced, you don’t have to do either of these, you can make apartments illegal and watch land rents go up and do nothing about it. That’s the choice SF voters have made, up to you whether you think it makes sense
That’s interesting! Although maybe not surprising. I’d like to know more… do you have a source?
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