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(previously asked and unanswered)

If you want to develop software for Microsoft’s Linux distro/kernel (Azure Sphere for IoT), it appears you must use Windows 10 + Visual Studio, https://seeedstudio.com/productDetail/3052 & https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developing-an-azure-s...

> To use MT3620 Dev Board for Azure Sphere, you’ll need a Windows 10 PC with the latest Windows Updates, along with the Visual Studio Tools for Azure Sphere (which will be available for download from Microsoft). These tools will include application templates, development tools and the Azure Sphere software development kit (SDK).

Can someone clarify if Windows 10 will be a hard requirement to use the Microsoft Azure Sphere Linux SDK for IoT/embedded boards?
That's a great example that clearly demonstrates that local law can be enforced, even on companies like AirBnb. I hear lots of arguments on "You can't enforce the ban", but it's simpler than ever to just do that.
What was their argument? Do you have a link?
Thank god. Too often, they just work as a hindrance to get the help you need.
"Who's more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
> Am I not the master of my own existence

Not really, humans live in societies. Your existence is not purely yours. Maybe it applies to Gaint Pandas that spend all of their lives in solitude.
I see supermarkets as having 100 years of A/B testing to make sure that you don't stick to your list.

These include strategic floor layouts, the smell of fresh bakery goods such as bread and cakes, special offers, slow music, reduced lighting, fresh produce first, eggs in strange places, expensive products at eye level, and of course, the items in the checkout.

Having a shopping list does help. It's the sticking to it I'm curious to how easy that is.
Users never wanted chatbots, really. But platforms wanted them because it meant yet another way to ensure content is locked away inside their platform. So, platforms shout to the high heavens, and everyone rushes to adopt they realise there is no audience.
> An oversized assumption has been that apps are ‘over’, and would be replaced by bots

That was never going to be the case for sufficiently complicated tasks with enough decisions to make. Same reason Google Home/Echo are awkward interfaces for almost anything other than getting music to start playing.

GUIs on phones/desktop are tremendously productive because they're information rich and trivial to use. I can search, choose, customize, and purchase an item on Amazon in like 15-30 seconds flat. A bot isn't going to beat that for the general case.
> Apart from the British, which other country has contributed to more invasions in foreign countries for the sake of purely economic interests?

The "purely economic interests" qualifier makes your question difficult to answer, but France has likely been involved in more invasions in foreign countries.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7ax7g1/all_countri...
Monzo are a new UK bank, and the first bank to get onto IFTTT. It's really interesting to see what automations users are creating to make automatic transfers to savings pots, based on things like sleep, exercise, social media activity.

It's been a day so far, so once they open out more features it could be quite a gamechanger.
Not disclosed in this post: Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of the Linux Foundation, which has a price tag of at least $500k per year.
Does feel a bit off-topic for the discussion at hand.
Unfortunately, I can't help clarify, sorry
Yep, my wife was on Zoloft for ~18 months after a pregnancy (postpartum depression), and it absolutely made a massive difference.
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She generally favored cities developing somewhat organically (little plans as the headline says) and in keeping with the needs and wishes of the residents.

Today I think you see a certain cherry-picking of Jacobs' beliefs going on. A lot of people latch onto her opposition to running a highway through Washington Square Park because they don't like car-centric culture.

That's all well and good. But, as you suggest, she also tended to be against other types of large-scale urban planning. She probably would have been skeptical of the school of thought that the SF housing situation would be so much better if they'd just bulldoze the Mission and build residential towers.
Is carbon capture underrated?
Partially but not for any physical reasons, just "social status" reasons.

Like, the quality of the construction is really good and these days is very modern and stylish. Maybe in 1985, pre-fab houses were crappy mobile homes that fell apart easily. But these days, no, pre-fab is much nicer than a normal home constructed in the 1960s (most homes in NYC metro are very old).

However, if you are at the country club, and you mention that your house is a pre-fab... well... the vieux-riche people will have a very negative opinion of you.
suicide....
What I find interesting, he is a poster-child of being "everywhere and tried everything" and supposedly should be the least person you expect to commit a suicide.
China eyes building of a global HVDC grid
Ask HN: How do you keep notes while learning?
Hello HN,
While learning, watching online courses, reading books I would love to keep notes in a way that I can easily access later to recall and improve. When I don't take notes, it does get overwhelming after few hours of study.
I have tried Cornell notes method, writing down notes in a notebook and Evernote but with notebook writing, it can be hard especially if I'm reading or watching on my laptop.

In other words, what's your procedure for better learning and information retention?
They are wrong and this is absolutely not good for open source. Voice of reason? More like voice of ignorance.
When every tech journalism outfit is saying "<X> is the future." you can be sure it won't be.
You're not very diversified... Why only two stocks?

My pension and stocks picks are 90% equity/bond split (between Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap and their Lifestyle 80% fund).
other discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264376
Don't Eat Before Reading This (1999)
"I should’ve died in my 20s. I became successful in my 40s. I became a dad in my 50s. I feel like I’ve stolen a car — a really nice car — and I keep looking in the rearview mirror for flashing lights."

From the man himself.
1. The universe is largely void and hostile to life.

2. Sure, there may be times where a person may rationally chose to die. That doesn’t negate the fragility and value of life for its sake. Two things can be true. Some people may have a rational reason to wish to end their lives, and some people who would end their lives would do much greater harm to themselves and loved ones than good.

3. It is my firm belief that we may use #1 to evaluate the worth and even ethicality of choices and actions. Those actions which solely promulgate life or enhance its existence are ethical. Those actions or choices which violate the former are unethical. Actions or choices which solely diminish the life or lives of others or outright end lives are unethical - unless that termination of life ends suffering larger than the benefits of life. That’s a very fine line.
I seem to remember these were the objections that were made at the time.

The basic tech dates back to SHRDLU and ELIZA. In some ways this is similar to the partially-self-driving-car problem: if it's a mechanical interface where the human is in control it's fine, and if it's a hypothetical human-equivalent AI it's fine, but in the middle people forget to adapt to the limitations of the system. And the limitations are very severe as soon as you go outside the lines.
> ancient hardware startups aren't so different from today's computer startups

It reminds me of the grossly fabricated download numbers some open-source software products boast of to give the impression of a large user base. Not sure if it really works when they add four zeroes.
I'm a professional salesman and I still suck at sales. The only good salespeople are those who either have a strong ivy-league type network (seriously), or have an excellent product with strong PR (aka inbound leads coming in hot all the time).

Sales skill is 90% prospecting and 10% being a trusted adviser.
A question about mandating Microsoft Windows to develop Microsoft Linux apps is off-topic on a Linux Foundation article about Microsoft?
Perhaps even more worrying then that nothing came out of it: now all that money has flowed into the hands of short-term opportunistic thinkers who might amplify or incentivize even more hype driven companies in the next iteration of this mechanism. Sure, by no means are all of them bad apples (some just jumped on the bandwagon but will long term perhaps become the next Elon Musk), but I think a strong argument could be made that there are enough people of that ilk in the cohort to be worried.
This makes me think of the VW emissions scandal.

And of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17262510
I too slipped in before the crack down. Got a rustic place in Kyoto. It was definitely no-frills but as you say, gave you a sense of really living in Japan.

When you have a family of five, hotels add up fast (it was hard even finding a hotel room that would allow 4, forget 5).

Still, there are always ryokan. Not quite the same as "living native" but somewhere in between that and the expensive Western hotel.
> there’s not much evidence to substantiate that this is just a chemical problem

> we aren’t dealing with any of the underlying social problems that probably play a much larger part.

I assume your concern for evidence applies to your pet theory as well, are you able to share any?
As far as I can tell it's only the Hacker News title that mentions PyTorch 4 (in fact the repo description says "PyTorch0.4 tutorial ..."), and I think it's far more likely that that was just a typo/misunderstanding that some sort of insidious marketing technique.
And they charge you money to read it, how nice of them! I hope they spend it on solar panels.
So can you change an electric outlet? That means turning off the individual circuit (or mains if you are paranoid) then opening, disconnecting, connecting a new one.

What about installing a ceiling fan? Assuming the wiring is already there.
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The current mainstream view is that depression is partly physical, so you're not wrong.

(edited for clarity) Some say that depression is a chemical imbalance, but this is not a mainstream view any longer (I think, although it's often mentioned in comments on the Internet), although treatment is still very much based on chemicals like SSRI drugs, which have very little proven effect, require constant upping of dosages to gain the small effect they provide, and also having several undesirable side-effects.
ReCAPTCHA v3 Beta – The new way to stop bots
Whenever a company's phone is answered by an AI, it never does what I ask it to do.

At that point I just push 0 and repeat "speak to a human."

Why, oh why, would any rational person think that this kind of technology was about to suddenly take over everything?

This is a typical example of groupthink delusions.
You lost me here - what about Prisoner Dilemma is relevant here?
Isn't it also a little selfish to expect someone to live out their life in misery simply because you would feel bad if that person ended their own life?

I have people in my life who have been struggling with mental illness for many years.
If any of them decide that they no longer have the will to fight, I would not think less of them (or call them selfish) if they decide to end their own life. If I did, I would be selfish.
First off a disclaimer:

Personally I'm not vehemently against this takeover, like others are. That said, I'm not super enthusiastic about it either. I've seen MS acquisitions go both good and bad before, so I'll simply wait and see how it turns out before passing judgement.

Consider me neutral[1] at this point.

> Ah, a voice of reason

I'm not going to argue "reason" or not, but the Linux foundation is not impartial in these matters: Microsoft is a platinum Linux Foundation partner.

They're obviously going to be biased.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts
Everyone points to mental Illness. You can't want to die if you're not mentally ill right? But "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -Jiddu Krishnamurti

The illness is not all in the heads of the people killing themselves.
That’s where you’d be wrong and I think the book agrees, it’s not bullshit if you don’t think it is. The job provides value that it feeds the family and kids. It may not be a value to the company or “the greater good” but it does provide meaning to the person doing it.
If the chatbot revolution didn’t happen then did those people make a return? Or are you saying it’s the employees getting paid (who also piled onto the dad) who are now the ones with capital?
Why not just comply with the laws? I have a friend who did this, but in tourist-y cities this was turning into situations where a person would rent out 10 apartments at $2k/mo and rent them on at $300 a night.

A great business, but if you live in a block with constant travellers then I guess it can get super annoying fast.
Have you ever heard what advergaming is? Let's learn here
Agreed.

While on the whole, I definitely can see the argument that AirBnB needs more regulation, in this particular case it seems more like a classic case of "established players using the law to shut out competition" than "creating regulations to curb some of the issues created by AirBnB".
I don't believe there is a valid rational reason to justify suicide.
But I'm open to being wrong.

This have been explored philosophically in the school of existentialism, see Camus and his work.

EDIT: i guess a valid reason is significant physical pain and suffering that has no hope of being cured.
Sole-tenant nodes for Google Compute Engine: when sharing isn’t an option
I guess Bourdain didn't have anyone around him who could say 'how are you' right?
Well, if anything it's more 'meta' than the content of the article. But I suppose you just wanted to highlight it rather than pose it as a question :)
Yeah. There's effectively never been Uber or similar in Japan either.

People just respect regulations and they generally do work very well.
A powerful quote that may resonate with many of us and sum up his humility and fight with depression, from an interview with Biography.com (via reddit):

"I should’ve died in my 20s. I became successful in my 40s. I became a dad in my 50s. I feel like I’ve stolen a car — a really nice car — and I keep looking in the rearview mirror for flashing lights."

Rest in peace.
> suicide.... What I find interesting, he is a poster-child of being "everywhere and tried everything" and supposedly should be the least person you expect to commit a suicide.

Mental health problems can affect anyone; regardless of background or lifestyle. Even people who publicly might seem happy could be suffering from depression in private.
> ...and they are backers of The Linux Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative and many similar efforts.

Looks like disclosure to me
I'm pretty sure if you told that to anyone who was suicidal, it would only quicken their departure. These people need some compassion and medical treatment, not more guilt.
> Linux Foundation article about Microsoft

*About Microsoft buying Github.

Yes, most definitely.
I think this is where social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat) should allow friends to suggest anonymously to contact such a helpline (probably show it as an ad/post). Any other way would be considered judgmental/confrontational by the one who is already suffering. An inanimate / non-human thing like facebook suggesting to contact the local helpline may be very very effective in such cases.
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I first felt the genuine desire to seek out and socialize with strangers after a dose of kava. I now can’t take it as it conflicts with other medication. But before then and after then, I genuinely experience discomfort around all people.
Integrating QML and Rust: Creating a QMetaObject at Compile Time
The chatbot revolution didn't happen but there were plenty of companies sold, with founders who've now gone on to become investors (of the, I claim, possibly hype-jumping kind).
California tech group bets on distant 'purple' candidates
This was very interesting, but sadly: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/exchang...

> Note: As js-ipfs@0.29.0 currently doesn't support DHT peer discovery, the peer from which you are fetching data should be within the reach (local or in public IP) of the browser node.

The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files
My point is that plastics can be synthesized from a variety of sources, just like fuel. I'm not saying it's trivial in either case to switch to renewable sources, I'm just saying that I don't see why we should ignore economics and reserve fossil petroleum for plastics.
Private Internet Access has been subpoenaed by the FBI before for user logs and they were unable to comply due to not saving any [1]. That's probably the best reassurance you can get for a VPN.

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...
Nice result, but I'd remove the "breakthrough" in the title.

If I could fully editorialize the title I'd suggest "Link between the Higgs boson and top quark finally measure as expected".

The Higgs boson is relate to the mass of the particles, so it should interact more with the heaviest particles. In particular it was expected that the easiest way to make a Higgs boson is using a top quark, and the easiest way that a Higgs boson decompose is into a top/anti-top pair. In the previous calculations this relation was used to estimate the production of the Higgs boson. Now it is finally measured experimentally.

This is totally expected, but it must be measure in case there is something weird going on there and because Physics is an experimental science after all. Anyway, unless I missed some detail, this is the result of a lot of hard work but there is nothing unexpected here to call it a "breakthrough".
Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers
I keep maybe 2 months cash and the rest 50/50 in VTI and SCHF, a very diversified low cost us and international etc, respectively. I'm early 30s so I don't anticipate needing it for a long time.

I would comment that for me 6 months sitting in a savings account is unnecessary as long as I have enough in a liquid wtf after maybe a 20% haircut. Selling the etf, settling and transferring would take only ~3 days so it's not so much having that money not doing anything but having it liquid.

As for tech and finance specific exposure, I definitely try to remove exposure since my personal career is already correlated with that segment.
So DuckDuck go needs to prioritize non AMP pages?
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Ahh yes, Jim Zemlin the man that famously Attends Linux conference using a apple mac Computer and not Linux.... (am sure that will soon be replaced with the Surface running Windows 10 with the "Linux Subsystem" ...)

The Linux Foundation... the Business Organization that rejected the individuals of the community and focus solely on its corporate sponsors one of the largest being Microsoft

It is not shocking that the Linux Foundation supports their Corporate Master Microsoft in their acquisition of Github.. To do otherwise would cost them many many thousands of dollars
Without saying the same as others, they are there to listen for the most part. A lot of the times, that's what someone under stress and who might be considering taking action needs.

What a lot of people don't understand is that a friend who might be considering suicide doesn't need to be "fixed", or to be given a bunch of quick solutions, or worse to be told "just get over it". What they need is someone who is willing to listen without passing judgement. And if necessary, to provide that friend guidance in getting to a safe place where those with experience can provide care.

For disclosure, I am not a trained counselor. I've had various, very short, training sessions for several close friends and relatives so that I would know what to do, and more importantly what not to do or what not to say.
The simplest way to look at it: everyone is not the same

In particular everyone doesn't have the same experience, market value, expectations and behavior associated. For instance you will have a manager that is super happy with what an employee does, but in practice the employee is already at the top of the game, paid accordingly, and has a special status in the company.

This employee's raise will be proportionally a lot lower than a junior guy who went above and beyond his role and could leap two ranks ahead with the skills demonstrated.

Both employees are valuable and merit praise, it just won't translate to the same proportional amount.
Then your problem is with the targeting of advertising more than the idea of advertising. Which in itself is only a sliver of what marketing is.
>Elevating what is essentially an economic activity to the level of a "calling" seems strange to me.

I'm not quite the OPs age, but I'm in his orbit. When people like us started doing it, there was zero economic incentive, at least for me. It was something we just loved doing, like drawing or writing music, or writing stories. We just got lucky that it ended up being lucrative. That's what he means by being a calling.

In fact, in college, I seriously considered not doing coding as a profession because I liked it so much as a hobby. I believed if I had to do it for a job, I would fall out of love with it. Fortunately I ignored those concerns and have been coding professionally since the late 90s.
I'm sure all those people who at Google who forced this decision will feel great. When the tech industry in China helps China become a pre-immenient force using AI for military purposes, I'm sure they will regret their decision.
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Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Squirrel is in beta
Do you think you contributed to the conversation or that anyone might have been missing part of the picture but you pointing out that black swans are a literal thing that are not uncommon unlike fairies that don’t exist or “black swans” (like “bull runs”) that are by definition extremely rare?

I once said “there’s no such thing as a bull run” in some context with a group of friends. Do you think you would have chimed in to say that there’s a big one in Madrid every year?
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In what way? Sorry, not sure what point you're making here.
I have observed competency & morale of associates are tightly correlated w/ the individual store's management. Some stores' associates avoid eye contact, shy away from customers & do not interact well w/ other associates. While at other locations associates actively engage customers & co-workers, and even have fun doing their jobs. The early signs of management competency is if cart corrals are full/empty, how/if you are received on entering building and if inventory is littered in aisles on pallets/carts or if it is properly shelved. The bummer for management is, if they put together a working team & environment their reward often is to be transferred to a miserable store to "turn it around". Having worked on 500+/stores over the last decade, the stark differences are apparent as soon as I pull into the parking lot before they open for business.
Someone might want to inform MS Legal dept that they work for a "far far far different" company than a decade ago, the MS legal team seems to have missed that memo