skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And while they've dropped any explicit mention of it, it would be much easier to find any surviving evidence of it being a derivative with the code available.
I loved GEOS and annoyed all my friends ranting about it in the early 90s. It really made me appreciate that with skill you can get orders of magnitude more functionality out of the resources at hand.
> ... margin wasn't the problem because 30% of nothing is nothing, and his issue is no one discovering his games.

Doesn't that make the 30% all the more problematic? If you have to bring eyes to your Steam page anyway, you might as well just sell direct.

From Grey Alien, "In the past I have felt positive about Steam, but these discovery changes and the recent revenue share changes that are only relevant to hugely successful games don’t make me feel particularly positive about the future of selling games on Steam."
Thanks for the first article.

“Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it.”

This reminds me of a story I heard that early on at Amazon supposedly the company used applications built onto Emacs instead of building in-house web applications for internal use. I had a chance to talk with an early employee but unfortunately forgot to ask about it.
I'm not sure it counts if it's a Google website working better in a Google browser.
I'm pretty sure this is illegal. Covalent is inducing Americans to buy a security and guaranteeing them from losses, both regulated activities.
The issue is that CUDA, unlike OpenCL, is only available on Nvidia hardware.
This strikes me as ten years too late.
We've been running our private cloud on Triton / SmartOS with Packer and Terraform for a while now and for us its really working well. I do think however that Triton / SmartOS works best when used in a true cloud native fashion (meaning stateless containers). One could probably use it in a "classic" way but you might not reap all the benefits of the solution.

I also like that Triton has clear upgrade paths when new versions are released. Something that was usually the biggest issue with OpenStack.

I try to run everything as much as possible in native (ie. Illumos) zones since I like SMF better then systemd. But if I can't get it to work I use an LX zone (container with Linux ABI compatibly) with CentOS. Which gets me all the benefits of true containers (Zones) with ZFS and dtrace.
EA had some titles on Steam before Origin.
Introducing wolkenkit 3.0
It is definitely a premium price for a premium product, and absolutely out of reach of many.
But that's the case for a great many custom and/or early adopter products.

It's not crazy. I regularly spend 80$+ for bras I don't like, and if I found one which worked with my wardrobe and truly fit comfortably, 350$ would not be a luxury purchase.
Didn't they restrict the practice somewhat?

https://www.vg247.com/2017/08/18/valves-new-policy-on-large-...
Did anyone else find the macro at 13:05 kind of enticing? Obviously the name is tongue-in-cheek, but it felt eerily like something I'd be happy using.
This post inpsired a lot of great discussion about the Spanner family of distributed databases. Someone asked about TiDB there, but there was no follow up. Can someone answer that question?

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-syst...
There's a really good point in here that I had to learn the hard way: one of a founder's most valuable assets is a deep understanding of the customer's problem(s) and how to solve them.

The tech is far less important.

She first tried a naive tech-focused approach and realized that she didn't understand the problem well enough and making adjustments to the tech was slowing her learning down too much.

She made a great decision to optimize for learning speed and temporarily build a more traditional custom-fit bra business. She has learned a lot about the problem space and what makes a good solution.

Now she's using technology as a tool to enhance and optimize the process that already arrives at a good solution.

We do the same thing when we write code:

1. understand the problem
2. write a correct solution
3. optimize the solution

When it comes to coding we know Knuth's Law of optimization by heart, but still make the same mistake in other contexts.
WPF (and the other UI technologies listed) still rely on a lot of the underlying Windows API. Now that they are open sourced though, someone outside MS can work on a port, though I imagine it will take a non-trivial amount of effort.
The change here is that .Net Core now supports it, but only if you reference the appropriate SDK[1]

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/04/announcin...
> the store itself allowed you to inspect the source that went into building the plugin

Or at least build it from the source code, like F-Droid.
Agreed. As hardware and even operating systems themselves become more or less commoditized, Microsoft sees that the writing is on the wall. They see their future revenue (or at least a significant part of it) coming from advertising and services.
Specialized tools are specialized: just remember the limitations!
- Bad with heterogeneous hardware (Cloudflare experience)
- Non-throttled recovery (source replicas flooded with replication load)
- No real delete/update support, and no transactions
- No secondary keys
- Own protocol (no MySQL protocol support)
- Limited SQL support, and the joins implementation is different. If you are migrating from MySQL or Spark, you will probably have to re-write all queries with joins.
- No window functions
Kanpur fellow here.

People here wouldn't realize that the situation in Kanpur is far worse than one would guess from description. :)
The light rail proposal was shockingly expensive relative the the number of riders it would handle, even by North American cost standards, which are already significantly higher than those in the rest of the world.

A plan with a more reasonable cost/rider probably would have had a much better chance.
>As support for the theory, they had a map showing recent wild land fire activity in California vs. Mexico. In CA the fires were growing larger over the decades while in Mexico they were not.

That could just as easily be the result of climate change.
Maybe this is just my opinion and not a fact but I have created tests and have found that Edge has the best quality of all three (Chrome, Firefox) when watching videos on Netflix. Can anyone explain this?
I'm afraid UWP isn't open source.

In the meantime, Uno is the closest thing we have:

https://github.com/nventive/Uno
The problem is, these "personalized results" have become mostly useless. For more technical (or simply specific) queries, Google seems to vomit useless only vaguely related links instead of, you know, pages that cover what i searched for.

This does more to encourage me switching to some other search engine than any privacy concern.
> But I refused to use WPF for my apps because back then you'd have to force the user to install the latest .net which I thought was too much of a bother.

That always puzzled me, even though I've seen some of Microsoft's reasoning and blog posts about it.

Microsoft has repeatedly stressed that you can't assume any particular version of Windows comes with a specific version of .NET preinstalled (or VC++ runtime, for that matter).

Windows already bundles various things, and the major .NET frameworks seem like the thing to bundle and preinstall, and they actually do[0], just not consistently or universally.

And, Windows Update can already update the .NET frameworks, in fact I recall that some new major .NET versions were treated as "recommended" installs by WU in the past and were automatically installed on systems that didn't already have them, but they aren't doing that consistently and universally either.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/astebner/2007/03/14/mailbag...
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I'd rather them just push for a Linux based "Windows".
Macro-Scale Quantum Computing on the Horizon? Focus: Computing with Wi-Fi Waves
That's a good question.

So I have only taken Master's courses at two schools, but I have taken many courses at these schools, and a few online.

The professors were from famous institutes and from unfamous ones. It was a top 20 (but not top 10) school. So assuming that it was a wide sample, I think I have some sense of how good the courses are.

You are right in that they might have even clearer teaching at the top 4 (Stanford, MIT, CMU and Berkeley), though some of the teachers I worked with had taught at some of those schools and/or got PhDs there.
Why was YouTube so much more successful than Vimeo?
This has become a popular opinion recently because the old proper tools stopped working.

The problem is that the institution responsible for inflation doesn't control the state budget, just central bank lending and banking rules. ...and I don't think you can say with any kind of certainty that "new macro," corbynomics or any of the other current ideas will work, are safe, or don't come with other side effects.

Personally, I'm not sure there's a constantly true answer.

ATM, businesses don't have ways of absorbing more money. You can Google, FB, msft, Amazon or Apple $100m... it probably wouldn't affect what they choose to to in any way. They already have money piling up. Tesla might use the money. They have factories to build, but Tesla's are a rarity.

In that market, to get stimulus/inflation, governments need to spend it themselves.

In 5 years, it could be different.

The problem, imo, with those types of ideas is that public spending is very hard to put in reverse. Even if the value for money sucks, you tend to get trapped spending it.
Do we think Microsoft is getting away from maintaining their own browser just so they can go right back into the business of maintaining their own browser?

Maybe someday they'll do that but it's hard for me to believe that's the plan they're starting off with.
Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumors
1. The Republican Party doesn’t have a monopoly in any of those things.

2. There are lots of conservatives who don’t hold those opinions.

3. I’m not expecting you to respect those opinions and never said I did. I’m saying it’s ridiculous to refuse to even coexist with people who have different views than yourself.

4. You could help in shaping the realities of said “ignorant morons”, but instead you choose to live in your own political bubble, which, I hate to break to you, is largely comprised of its own flavor of ignorant morons.

I personally am very liberal, but I live in a conservative area and as a result understand that these hated “others” you live in fear of are good, reasonable people, and whatever extreme political opinions they may have is almost always due to the same self-imposed intellectual and cultural isolation you have chosen to impose on you and your family.

So thank you for your small mindedness and your contribution to the death spiral of empathy and discourse in our modern society.
I don't find any mention of screening for steroid use. My understanding is that steroid use is much more common in weightlifting than running. I would have expected them to rule that out as an alternative cause of the effects they are measuring.
in Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml - Data/Telemetry

This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read Microsoft's privacy statement to learn more.

For more information on telemetry implementation see the developer guide.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement

https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

Looks really easy to disable, but probably something some folks need to be aware of. Love the license and effort Microsoft put into this.
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"Impactful" sounds so buzzwordy. And so are "leverage", "data pipeline". So many buzzwords.
In Canada, at least, happiness surveys tend to find the cheaper, smaller, more rural areas to be the happiest. Theory for this is less stress due to finances, shorter commute times, and less people to deal with overall (foot traffic, road traffic, lineups, etc). So, maybe cheap rent and short commutes are some of the elements of a happy life.
let's hope we will switch to electric ASAP so these dictatorships won't have any leverage over other countries and they can go back to their camels
Let it burn includes intentionally lighting fires as well.
I think it's been said elsewhere, but it's the difference between something being seen as premium (Jura coffee maker or 15" MacBook) vs ludicrous (Juicero).

This is decidedly the former. For top-heavy women, especially the majority who are a bit asymmetric, a perfectly fitting bra is an impossible dream.
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As an employee, I'd rather work in a place where I can get a relevant job from dozens of different employers, made easier by overlapping networks, versus a city where I could only really work at 1 or 2 places.

You can definitely have fun visiting Nashville, but if I moved there I'd quickly run out of new places to discover; nightlife and entertainment are concentrated in a few places and activities.
Machine vision is actually a good place to be in this context. There is a lot of institutional knowledge on what good features are, and if you have enough data DNNs can do a lot of heavy lifting. If you arent doing DNNs, the decision on how you featurize the problem will probably play the most significant role.

Its some of the other areas of ML where its not known ahead of time what the good features would be that tooling for feature engineering would help a great deal. Especially when one doesn't have the luxury of throwing a DNN at it and be done with it. The situation has both good and bad parts, the good part is that there is a lot of space to be creative in the design of features.
1994: trust the browser for presentation

1997: geez the browser makes some dull or terrible decisions about presentation and we want to control our site's presentation

2005: OK but semantic web and CSS tho'

2013: JavaScript all the things!

2015: whoever thought the semantic web was a decent idea, the browser is THE VM, CSS is teh sux0rs, when can I just treat it like a compile target like every other kind of development

2018: oh hai what if we invented some way to let users control how they see the content of a website
Firefox does this too, see Mozilla Maintenance Service.
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No Justice for Old Men
Well, this has been public for the past 9 years...

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-...
WebKit was forked from KHTML. Chromium used WebKit, until Blink was forked. All of that was only possible because the browser engines are open source.

As with anything, you always need somebody (or a group of somebodies) to help something new gain traction. There's no magic pixie dust that will let you develop a major new platform without commensurate resources. What open source does do is lower the cost of entry and make it easier to build up to a level where you can make an impact.
Does anyone else feel like the entire system of expensing is kind of bizarre? This is kind of a tangent, but I feel like a few examples of expense fraud are less interesting than the fact that we're all using this deeply ingrained system that incentivizes cheating.

I'm thinking just about travel expenses here, obviously taking out clients is somewhat different. But most companies will have a per diem for travel but you still have to itemize every cost within that range. It's a pain for employees, and they are forced to lend the company sometimes thousands of dollars for a month or two at 0% interest. I think you could also argue that it's a pretty regressive cost as I'd imagine it could be hard in some cases for lower-income employees or people with extenuating circumstances to front the cost of their work travel before getting reimbursed. There's also the constant effort of deciding what should and should not qualify as a valid expense, which isn't always black and white.

Why not just pay the per diem in cash? Even aside from any actual fraud, I'm sure everyone has seen a lot of wastefulness when it comes to work travel, like going to relatively fancy restaurants every night or ordering extra rounds of drinks because you can expense it. Why should it matter to the company whether I'm doing that stuff or eating cheaply and pocketing the money? Why
should it matter to the government for tax purposes whether I'm doing one or the other?

I have no idea what a different system would look like, since this is a pretty fundamental part of how individuals and businesses are taxed. But it seems like there should be a better way.
You use your truck for utility, many people use them for vanity.
I don't think you understand my point. In India, if you can afford to hire a car, it essentially comes with a driver because of the ratio between the cost of the rental and the cost of the driver. There is therefore far less of an economic benefit to having a self driving car if the purpose is to be cheaper than hiring a driver. India (and other places where the ratio of cost of labour to cost of cars is similar) will be one of the last places where self driving cars will make economic sense.
Whatever awards can be won for impact, this campaign should win them.

One of New York Magazine's "Toys to Buy Now Before They Sell Out" is an $80 unicorn that 'poops' glittery slime.[0] Obviously, an homage to the Squatty Potty ad, selling for more than the Squatty Potty.

[0]http://nymag.com/strategist/article/top-kids-toys-for-christ...
I really doubt anyone can be paid a decent salary to do something "directly comparable to laying bricks".

Brick laying is completely repeatable iteration, requiring no modification or thinking. Anything "directly comparable" to that can be done by a program. That's not a job - that's a short programming project.

More broadly, there's always a set of roles which haven't been automated... just yet.

Being a sysadmin, for example, used to be a job. People used to be able to make pretty good living from managing a small custom set of servers sitting in a room somewhere. It was extremely common, too. Almost every company had some of these people on payroll. Must have seemed like a good, secure career.

It required a ton more learning, skills, and thinking than brick laying. Yet it got completely automated. Now we have devops, which are programmers who write programs to do what sysadmins used to do. Each devop is effectively replacing hundreds or more of those former sysadmins, by leveraging automation.
The Windows stuff is an add-on pack which is Windows only.
The culture and entertainment of the Bay Area is overrated compared to other metros. Everything closes early for some unfathomable reason. I'd say most transplants are there for the tech money. Good food scene, though.
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People on the internet being dogmatic? Never!
Even if Windows is open sourced (which would be pretty cool just to peak in there), there’s no way on Earth you’d be able to compile it. I heard a full build takes over 18 hours on insane hardware, talkin 64+ cores.
My benchmarks are these:

- They'll try to make you feel guilty about something that is otherwise not a big deal

- They tend to be negative about almost everything and invite drama from all spheres of their life

This is in contrast to:

- When you mess up, they'll either call you out on it or let you know without really making it personal (it's about what you did and not about you). I believe a true friend is one who tries to make you hear what you need to hear and not just what you want to.
Linking Your GitHub Commits with Azure Boards
Don't rip it up and start again. The cumulative effect of incremental change
Show HN: Goto – Shell navigation to aliased directories with autocomplete
https://jfindlayportfolio.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-has-youtu...
They're still in a market, and the market rewards (with reblogs and followers if not money) more extreme and more addictive forms of whatever product is being sold.
The airport is international - any airport of any size is (a lot of one runway airports serving only small planes are international). You pretty much need to hire your own plane if you want to fly into it, but it is international.

I think meant to say the airport isn't a major hub so you can't actually get anywhere without going first to some other place you don't want to be. That is a fair complaint.
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The very next sentence:

> It would serve as an initial check for cancer, with doctors following up positive results with more focused investigations.

As a cheap, quick way to approximate whether or not a patient has cancer, I think think is a huge improvement over the current method of relying on many expensive, slow tests. That does not scale, and I bet many folks that cannot afford it die because they have no way of knowing, with any percent accuracy, whether they have cancer or not.
Very similar. Can someone more familiar with Crossplane/KEP comment?
It stores your browsing history on Google's servers.
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I can. I just did, in my original comment.

People's brains work in different ways.
The New Word Processor Wars
First look at a rich code navigation experience
Yep! It's worth restating the fact that wrapping a pointer in an Option in Rust actually takes up NO extra space, because Rust's smart enough to just optimize it back into a nullable pointer.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/struct.NonNull.html
Is there something similar but for vim?
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>not near an international airport

A quick Google shows lots of daily access to hubs. Unless you fly weekly, quick access to a local airport is much better than an hour and a half on the subway and air train to get to JFK (which has fewer destinations than the big hubs). That's not a real reason.

http://www.iflyjackson.com/iflyjackson/
I'd love to find more examples of org mode used in the sciences! Any for molecular/cell biology type work?
For a lot of topics I just find myself with a lot of fake answer sites these days. About once a week I’ll get almost an entire page of results that way.

Seems like dark SEO is winning.
Ideas: Get some good headphones and listen to trance/edm/whatever music to get yourself in the zone. Get distractions like phones away from your desk and use a web blocker to zap crap sites like this one. Adrafanil or nicotine gum, maybe.