skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think it makes it immune, but it shifts the balance of action.
If you're rich being "Immune from the law" is not a binary thing (and we've already seen Elon treat the law in this way), and owning Twitter could make Elon immune from the law for longer.

If the SEC got an injuction against Elon tweeting, how it would manifest and play out would be very different depending on whether Elon owns twitter or not.

Currently, twitter have no interest in defending Elon and would fully comply with any injuction, ban Elon, and let him fight it out with the SEC and jsut go along with it. Whether Elon wins or not, he'd be banned from twitter for weeks/months until it was settled.

If Elon owns Twitter then they are not going to remove him until every legal avenue has been exhausted. Both Twitter and Elon personally would be fighting the injunction. They would fight every point and, even if they knew they'd lose, throw up any delaying action they could just to keep Elon on Twitter for longer.

Basically:
Independant Twitter: Elon is silenced for months while the courts thrash it out
Elon Twitter: Elon is very vocal for months while the courts thrash it out

And that is ignoring the possibilty of Elon manipulating the world and using twitter to manipulate the court case (which we've already seen him try to do). Imagine if he threatened to let Trump back on twitter and whip up anti-biden sentiment in the run up to an election? The SEC/Courts are meant to be politically independant, but in reality he might even get the SEC to back down completely. Something that would never be possible if he didn't own twitter and wasn't allowed to tweet.
Thank you! And yes, I tried to be a bit unique to differentiate.
I doubt Chrome would be in a position it is if it wasn’t open source. After all blink just started off as a fork of webkit (which was a fork of KHTML..). Had they had to build a browser from scratch it would had taken them years to have something that could compete with IE, FF and Safari. Also Apple didn’t seem to be very interested in promoting the Windows version of Safari, so it was basically the only webkit browser most people would even has access to.
Yikes, one must be deeply suffering from Stockholm syndrome to think that wanting to do things differently makes someone unreasonable.
> Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones.

This would limit the population of "people who can trick others that they are Emmanuel Macron" to people named Emmanuel Macron, which is such a small edge case I don't think it's worth considering. Add photo validation to ensure that a profile picture is actually you and the problem is pretty much solved.

For brands, it doesn't seem impossible to do verification for any brand through DNS proofs or something like that.
You can find our pricing here https://thin.dev/pricing If you're not using the free plan, you're paying 10$ + (2$ * GB of data traffic). This is likely a bit cheaper than Firebase (but Firebase has many more pricing variables, so it's non trivial to compare) :)
Edge is chrome.
I don't think the user is aware that you can change the entire display scale for readability if you need to. There are also numerous mouse button remapping utilities out there.
Thanks a lot! Hope you like it, and if anything, I am just an email away (and on Twitter as @strzibnyj too).
For realtime audio, Pipewire basically solves this problem on Linux. It appears as JACK, Pulse and ALSA to client programs and allows seamless interop between all of them. It's slowly landing in mainstream Linux distros as the default audio solution.

This means that without any special setup, both real-time audio software (which uses JACK) and 'normal' software (Pulse, ALSA) can co-operate on a single system with a single digital patchbay between all of them and the system output devices (including Bluetooth audio devices).
> If I stick a USB cable between my phone and Linux laptop, I can see the Android files on my laptop. I can open them, move them around, etc. On a Mac I need to install some shonky 3rd party software which rarely works.

You didn’t used to have to do that in macOS? I remember plugging in my android phone and it mounting my memory card. Is OP referring to accessing something else?

> Mount an SSH or NFS drive

> In Ubuntu, I get a nice little GUI for picking network shares. Impossible on Mac.

I’m a little curious what the difference is between macOS and Linux here.

There’s definitely a lot of legitimate points here and a few questions on others.
That's true. I am also exhausted :D
> Some things in that list are pretty silly

Maybe. I mean, I've never wanted to do most of the things he lists as impossible (on either my macOS machines or my Linux machines). But if that's a list of stuff that annoys him when using macOS, I guess they're not "silly" to him.

Since my main daily driver for probably 2/3rds or more of the last three decades has been a Mac, I'm more familiar with it, so things like focus-follows-mouse takes a bit of getting used to when I open up my Pinebook or my RasPi400 - but I gt over myself and get used to it pretty quickly.

People who complain that macOS isn't exactly the same as Ubuntu (or Windows or $randomLinuxDistroDeJour) seem, to me, to just be wanting to complain about stuff.
Thanks for giving it a try so early! :)
They're referring to Android File Transfer, which I agree is a shoddy piece of third party software.
They have rights. When a person makes a mistake on twitter thier feeds are turned off. Algorthms make thousanda, millions, of horrible mistakes every day but are allowed to continue.
Tech is means to an end.

If you are doctor shouldn't you hire tech to solve an intricate problem that only you know how to solve?

If you are a petrochemical dude shouldn't you hire a bunch of techies to solve an 'insider' petrochemical supply-chain logistics problem that only you know solution for and have enough network to get ball rolling on your first few customers and validation?
I agree. It just feels different to $job money, doesn't it?
I remember I used to be able to force-quit an app by two-finger tapping on the red "close" button. Then suddenly after some update, the feature is gone. I hate when they change shit for no reason and dont think for a second about breaking peoples workflow.
Imagine if Trump or Biden bought twitter

you have the same blindspots about Musk character as voters have about their candidates…and for the exact same reasons: he made promises to bring relevance to the things you care about such as Mars, EV cars hyperloops and all the other techno-utopian concepts he touts

the general population isnt as fanatically fixated on these things and so they dont have such blindspot.

as much as SiliconValley/tech community prouds itself of being so much smarter than flyover America some things and phenomenons stay the same regardless of a person having an IQ of 50 or 150.

Also Musk is not very good at concealing the issues he has and the many flaws in his character.

So you get a situation in which right wingers are happy until he inevitably clahes with Trump's own business interests represented by the Truth Social, at that point they'd all dump Musk for Trump.

Left wingers are unhappy because of obvious reasons.

Tech enthusiasts, financiers and cryptobros with a blindspots are the only ones being happy long term about this deal because they dream to become billionaires themselves, further they dream to become the peculiar billionaire flavor that Musk represents.

EDIT: When I say tech enthusiasts I mean startuppers. Musk isn't very popular in academia, material science, virology, urban planning or really any field in which he shouted his opinion on the interwebz giving experts in such field an opportunity to look at what's under the hood. (Eg. the "Zero Covid cases by April 2020" tweet)
Uhhh… how close to being herpes is a service that locks like being authentication[0].

I think of my service more like security but it does shorten…

[0]: https://waaard.con
Try the other way around. Much longer list, I guarantee you.
Thank you - it's nice to receive feedback like this.
>> It is the basis for Internet consumption, it shouldn't be in the hands of a single company.

Somehow I agree with you but this is a slippery path.

Should we do the same with x86 ISA?

Should we do the same with Windows?

YouTube?

Where should we draw the line?
The keyword here is "MTP device". Some phones mount as mass storage device and works out of the box, but MTP requires extra software/drivers.
>I've never "got" the appeal of a Mac

It’s hard to keep reading when this is the first sentence. You can’t really criticize something you admittedly haven’t “got”.

I had the opposite experience almost 40 years ago with the classic Mac and 20 years ago with Mac OS X. The appeal was obvious and instant.

The only thing I can relate to from the post is that I wish Apple added native support for FUSE.
very true, macos is shit for cusomization & the window manager is always fighting me. I am actively paying for the development of Asahi so I can run a more customizable/less bloaty OS on my M1. ngl, I'd use windows on it if I had too. Luckily macos is available ;)

That being said, I've tied using a pure linux system for my work. I gave up when I couldn't get a somewhat current ruby version installed withing 30 minutes. The grass is a vague yellow on all sides if you ask me.
Try KDE/Plasma or XFCE
> Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?

Not at all. But it's also really easy to see that giving someone used to one of those behaviours the opposite one - would make them unhappy.
I had to use a Mac at work some time ago. Here's my list:

* Cannot drag to copy, middle-click to paste.

* No way to disable sticky keys lock.

* No way to set ESC as Caps Lock.

* No way to set a keyboard shortcut for each specific language. (I use five)

* Alt-tab to an _Application_, not a _Window_. How many times will I Alt-Tab to.... nothing!

* Return from sleep will rearrange the order of the connected monitors, even though they have not been disconnected, if the laptop lid is not opened.
I totally get why you would want these features. But why not just use Ubuntu if you want them?

No OS should try to emulate everything that other Operating Systems do well. You can‘t make a highly opinionated OS like macOS highly customizable without compromising the initial vision. The same is true the other way around.

MacOS allows for a surprising customizability through third-party apps and I personally think this is a great solution. It hides the complexity in a way that makes it invisible to users that would be confused by additional option and allows them to get customization as an app that is supported by a third-party dev.

I personally think Windows is what you get if you want to be macOS and Linux. I‘m financing my studies by supporting MS365 instances and I don‘t think it works all too well. While I like the new scripting capabilities, the UI definitely got more confusing since the Windows 7 days.

TLDR: I personally believe diversity is good for the OS market, not every OS has to accommodate every type of user.
This is really the only issue from that post that I would really like on macOS. SSH mounting as well, potentially. The rest are annoyances that while I believe are very important to the author, they feel rather irrelevant to me.

Right now, Android File Transfer of macOS is so bad I basically just use adb for everything.
That's the reason that social media companies do this, but in practice among the users it becomes a status symbol (see: anyone campaigning to get a blue check on twitter)
So it seems this allows us to understand when phase transitions occur, I wonder if this has applications in improving high temperature superconductors.
> Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs

While I agree on bugs, "late on features" is at least partly a lie. Features are pumped out by Chrome at a rate of ~400 new Web APIs per year [1]. And Chrome pretends they are standard even if often both Safari and Mozilla are against them (e.g., most hardware APIs, constructible stylesheets in their original form etc.)

[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
Thanks a lot for supporting my work. I am happy you like it. Would you consider making a testimonial? In a way what you just wrote here, reads like one.

Send me an email or Twitter DM at @strzibnyj with a name and personal/company link and title if you up to it. It would make me very happy.
Your use of the word "past" is very confusing, yes a very fast spaceship can be used to travel to the future, no you can't travel into the past, that's all there is to say in short.
Lasers and the sad state of online health information
Just to be clear, you're saying that with the exception of OSs, open source is always worse than a proprietary alternative?

Tell me a single proprietary web server and reverse proxy out there that beats Nginx, Traefik, HAproxy, etc.

What about databases? Is Oracle, or B2, measurably better than MySQL, PostgreSQL?

Let's go down to a personal anecdote. The other day I was sent a DOCX with a form to fill out. I tried it on Office365's Word. Some of the form fields I couldn't change to the correct answer. I opened the same file on LibreOffice and voilà, in 10 minutes I had filled out and sent the form.

Now, you talked about Linus... What about git? What proprietary SCM software is better than it?

Browsers. Is Edge better than Chrome or Firefox? Was Internet Explorer? Is Safari?

I could go on...

Edit: s/OpenOffice/LibreOffice/
When I tried to profile it, everything went too fast. Previously, going from PRB to PTO was several minutes, after I enabled profiling in firefox, it took several seconds (first 2 times I've crashed, because it was too fast for me). It was fast up to end, but when I was near PTO and about to land, everything slowed down and I had consistent 830ms per frame. I'll try to check later when I'm back from work.
If I wanted a duct-taped inconsistent UI, with advertising, "telemetry", forced updates when I am in the middle of something important, 30 min software installations and being the target of most existing malware on planet Earth and spending 10 min to copy a file, by all means I would use Windows.

With Windows, put simply, you don't own your computer.

I haven't used Windows in over a decade and cannot be happier about it.

Windows at this point is a games console for keyboard and mouse games. Nobody uses Windows for anything serious, except old ATMs running Windows 95 and airports that want to embarrass themselves with blue screens of death. Most of the stuff on Azure including Azure itself is Linux based.

Also, I hate Hungarian notation.
There's issues where one "side" of the argument is pretty clearly against whatever scientific consensus exists. I think globalizing this to all views of a "side" is definitely wrong, but I don't think for instance there's much of a "both sides" argument on things like "vaccines are actively harmful" (or if you want a non-politicized example, something like flat earth theories).
While I like windows, I don't think it has native "always on top" support.
I just hate being told "no" by a piece of software that I paid for.
Have you tried it recently? The difference it makes is - at least on my Mac - only a couple of pixels. The "large" size is hardly bigger than the regular one.
Levels.fyi Is Currently Down
I've been trying to access levels.fyi for the past 15 minutes but it's currently down for me.

It appears to be a DNS issue.

$ nslookup levels.fyi
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Server: UnKnown
Address: <removed>

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
To remap keys, you may be able to use hidutil. For example, to remap the Application key to right-hand Command:

hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000065,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000e7}]}

See https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...
https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ works, can use soundflower too if you want to compile etc.
I use a pair of BT headphones (paired to 2 devices) and a keyboard. Both have worked without a hitch since day one on Ubuntu Mate. Funny enough, it's the only device I own that will work with my prehistoric HP printer from 2005 without any hacks. Newer versions of Windows don't work with it (I probably need to fish out the CD with the drivers), MacOS never did.
The Apple line of thinking probably is that force closing apps shouldn’t be a part of peoples workflow.
With the caveat that I've not used it, it seems the wonderful sshfs is available for macOS, which should solve the mounting files over SSH thing.
I know there are some PPS that are designed specifically for projects. Usually they are big and expensive.

I was really hoping for something cheap. That's why I tried USB wall chargers with a $1-2 step up converter. It works great at 12v with lower amps (.5 ish) but can't handle the higher stuff (1.25-1.5 ish). Then I started looking for higher amp chargers and saw that some will do 12v so I don't need to do the conversion, but I don't know how to signal them to send 12v vs the other voltages. Not to mention they are expensive.

I ended up ordering a 120v AC to 12v DC module last night. It's about $5. Now I just need to see if I can find empty wall transformers somewhere to make it look good, or if I have to wonky looking inline project box and bulky clamshell plug.
I guess `why` author made equivalence to an ideology with which follows justification for removing freedoms you have outlined. The `who` on the other hand sounded more like deliberate democracy at the workplace.
> "No way to set ESC as Caps Lock."

Huh?

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys -> Caps Lock Key
> No way to set ESC as Caps Lock.

You should be able to do this with Karabiner Elements.
The one that bugs me the most is the fact you can't disable the transition delay of 300ms when switching workspaces. Such a basic thing, but the number one reason I won't buy a Mac today.
Thanks for sharing. It's great that you are still able to sell after such a long time.
What’s the docker equivalent in Apple world to run something in a container?
Agreed, this article seems to focus solely on employees though. I think communicating your 'why' to customers is much more effective than 'who'.
I'll add some to the list:

- Control external monitor sound volume. There are buggy paid and open source solutions, but they all trigger all kind of bugs with sound and macOS itself.

- Capture game audio with OBS together with microphone input.

- Being able to wait for files to copy and work Finder at the same time. Yeah I could find replacement for Finder, but why the hell?

- Use Valve Proton. Yeah, Linux is great to play games now.

And yeah PulseAudio is just so much better than everything macOS can offer.

PS: Yeah I'm currently on Mac because M1 is amazing and I left my Linux desktop at home due to unexpected immigration. Still I really wish to come back to use Linux as soon as I have option to.
It's perfectly possible that it is Russia but hack attribution is and has always been a complete and total shitshow.

If I were executing any kind of hack attacks these days I'd consider masquerading as a state actor to be standard opsec.

It is way too tempting to blame state actors for a variety of reasons:

* Public/shareholders will be more forgiving.

* Insurance (as is the case with Sony).

* Makes you seem more competent if you "know" who did it straight away.

To add to that, once youve picked your culprit you kind of have to double down on it which means embarrassing evidence to the contrary uncovered later will be swept under the carpet for fear of humiliating everybody who said it was [ state ] when it was [ script kiddies in a basement ].

Thus masquerading as a state actor offers a decent amount of protection for a non state attacker coz once attribution is locked in the motivation to track you down evaporates.
There is a specific per-window style bit for it, that you can set with the Always On Top Power Toy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/always-on...
What’s the difference? Do you get full access to the phone file system when it’s mounted as a MTP device?
Using Profiling in Elixir to Improve Performance
Cool it never was, but it might still be usefull.

Different people use it for different things. It is still a reasonable option to document things, where it provides a slightly better abstraction than just arrows-and-boxes. This was also the real usage I used to see.

The use case of generating code from it, in my opinion, was a disaster. It was much faster to just type the code than to slowly draw the diagrams in not very good drawing tools. Tooling vendors heavily promoted this, and the backlash was probably a big part of the near death of UML.

There were also the UML purists. I got in an argument with an architect who insisted that my diagram was useless, as the user was a slightly different stick figure than the Official UML Stick Figure. I wont repeat my response to him here, as we are in polite company. But that perfect-UML-or-useless attitude was pervasive.
This refers to MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Very old Android devices (with Android 2.x) used to pass-thru the SD card to the host as a USB Storage Device, but that solution was clunky as it requires detaching the SD card from the phone itself.

MTP is file-level protocol and you can continue accessing all files on the phone at the same time as accessing them from your computer. MTP is part of the "Windows Media" framework and so works out-of-the-box in Windows. Linux supports it for 8+ years through GVFS and KIO, while Apple doesn't to this day.
Exactly, both informative for MacOS users and those who never used it.
MacOS users can quickly scan and think yeah I don't care about this feature, or think huh this is something that could be useful and maybe I should look for a 3rd party app which has this.
Those considering switching to MacOS can compare to their existing environment and have a greater picture of what possible pain points to expect.

I would like to see more of posts like this for all Desktop environments. Like things you can do in MacOS but not in default Ubuntu setup.
The suggestion is to look at Web Components. I would think, too, to look at orchestration (composition of dataflows). As a substrate, Yahoo Pipes remains an inspiration in that way.
Kind of like the app you had to use to side load apps and do android development back when it first started?
From personal experience - after a year on macOS you simply forget about such handy bits Linux has.
I like the landing page for the book (is that the right name for it?) except one detail and I wonder if it done so purposely - I don't see any any info about the book (file) format. I assume it is only available as an e-book.
It might take a few more lines of code to do stuff in a real programming language like Python (I would recommend Deno actually) but at least there's a decent chance it will actually work reliably.
For full screen on same workspace: option+maximize button or double click on title bar (works with some applications)
> I totally get why you would want these features. But why not just use Ubuntu if you want them?

Because, as I say in the post, I have to use one for work.

I agree that diversity is good but there are some things - like basic accessibility - which should be non-negotiable. And they certainly shouldn't be paid-for addons.
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