skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wait a minute, wouldn't simply leaning forward chest on knees be sufficient to get that angle ?
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Same. I run Firefox Nightly with everything under "Nightly Data Collection and Use" checked.
It's very efficient for Microsoft. Evaluating pull requests for a different OS requires entirely different QA. At the end of the day, it's open source. Fork it.
the truth is that their theory is totally wrong, and has a whole crowd of people in this thread trying to extrapolate on top of it.

these particular bond yields are not a reflection of "how good a country is with money", this is only a discussion in developing nations and their yields are already 8-20%

so this whole discussion is moot.
Incognito will accept new cookies but to my understanding it won't serve existing cookies that pre-date the Incognito session. A fresh Incognito window is supposed to be like you cleared your history and cookies before opening it, and then cleared them again when you close it. But yeah, in between the browser acts as normal.

In a normal (not Incognito) browser window, you don't have to be logged into Google for Google to read Google cookies. Logging out doesn't make you anonymous; they still know who you are.
Consider Javascript, where undefined and null are both unique primitive values.
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Samsung is completely untrustworthy. I might buy another television from them in the future as the screen quality on my Samsung televisions has always been great. But their smart appliances are a joke. Read the reviews for any of the required Samsung "Smart" Apps and you'll find terrible software that doesn't work. Where it does work, at best it technically meets the advertised criteria, but in other cases it seems like bald-faced lies.

I've got a Samsung washer/dryer. They're fine. But the advertised smart features don't work without the app, the App basically doesn't work, and while they say they can be connected to the Wi-Fi, they can only be connected to Wi-Fi via WPS. If that was ever justified, it certainly wasn't justified in 2015/2016 when I bought them. Had I bought them for these features I'd have been furious.
The question isn't how many, but the scale of the fuck-up, and what it represents about the company. Maybe 5 people would have known that this ad campaign was using a non-phone-produced photo. Apparently that is enough for you to indict the 300,000+ people who work there.
This strikes me as possibly being somewhat similar to Habitat from Chef but, like Habitat at launch, I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what this does.
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I am not running a mail server on DO, but I do have several other services on their VMs, and they will do automated backups for you for a few USD per month.
>Seat upgrades on planes are pretty hard to come by these days.

Yeah, I have pretty good status on United (Platinum) and I almost never get an upgrade unless I'm flying at some off-hour over the weekend these days. I was barely even able to use a couple of free upgrade certificates this year and I've even tried to do a miles + cash upgrade for a couple international flights and nothing's been available. Most flights are near capacity these days.
Imagine you're running Wordpress on K8s. It actually needs ingress, Cert Manager for SSL certs and a DB. Locally you might want to use MariaDB for convenience, but in the cloud you want to use RDS.

Sugarkube lets you install everything in a single pass. In this example you'd create several different bundles (MS call them CNABs, I call them kapps to disambiguate them from apps which is an overloaded term). You'd create one for nginx ingress, one for cert manager, and one for wordpress. But the wordpress one is parameterised differently per environment to either create a MariaDB when running locally or RDS when running in the cloud. These bundles are just stored in a git repo.

Under the hood, Sugarkube calls Make with some predefined targets - right now just install, but in future also destroy - and passes a bunch of environment variables that the kapp declares that it needs. These can be loaded from a hierarchical YAML configuration which Sugarkube reads (kind of like hiera/puppet does). Oh, and it can template files as well.

'Make' just calls whatever you've implemented - Helm, terraform, any non-k8s stuff you need (there's no dependency on K8s in the architecture). You can easily drop down and ignore Sugarkube and just work directly with tools you already know.

Sugarkube also lets you control which versions of which bundles to release to your environments. It can support multiple live environments.

A final thing is it can also spin up clusters on a variety of backends - minikube, kops, and in future EKS/AKS/GKE, etc.

So altogether Sugarkube gives you a complete solution for launching clusters (ephemeral if you like), and installing your dependencies into them (all as a single golang binary).

Check out the example project (https://github.com/sugarkube/sample-project) which launches a minikube cluster, installs nginx-ingress, cert manager and 2 wordpress instances backed by MariaDB, and then loads different sample data into both databases.

It's still in preview but it can solve a real pain point around working with K8s and deploying applications.
It's worse than that. I have to do it day by day. Hotel cost night one, hotel taxes night one, hotel costs night two, hotel taxes night two, etc...

I have occasionally run into hotels where the price per night changes while I'm staying there. Las Vegas has hotels that do this for example. It's kind of weird to have to ask for permission to go over your limit for 2 of your 5 nights. Fortunately, every hotel receipt I've ever received has the nights and taxes broken out so it's just copying numbers onto the form.
The partial counter argument to that is $10000 is nothing compared to a promotion campaign for a product which usually costs millions.

The time and delay argument is a bit more valid. But if it is at the risk of such bad press, not sure it's a good idea.
This is a pretty minor thing, but with the open sourcing of WinUI, I wonder if there's enough open-sourced that people could try and figure out how to support Dark Mode themes in non-UWP applications?
As someone without a Big Company background, it just blows my mind how much corporate projects can depend on third party proprietary code..
At first glance, I thought Steam was in big trouble. Last MAU numbers I could find were 90m for Steam and 75m for Fortnite.

A game store is a marketplace, in startup terminology. Epic already has a lot of the consumer side, and 60% lower fees is a huge incentive for the developer side.

But UX-wise, so many games are built on top of Steam. In Rocket League, you get logged in with your Steam account. You invite friends to party via Steam.

And how would migrating work? Would Epic let me launch the game because I already own it in Steam? Or would I have to re-purchase? (No way people would do that)

If I'm playing on Epic, and my friend is on Steam, would we be able to party?

This introduces a ton of complexity, and while certainly troubling for Steam in the long run (once new games come out), I think their moat is still very strong.

Also 40% of Epic Games is owned by Tencent, so this would mean China's market share of the world's gamer market growing, for better or for worse (depending on your political opinions).
I don't necessarily agree with your expectations bullet point.

I feel that human beings are inherently focused on results/value. Instead of not caring about the result, I consider what the result is (or what it could be).

In a less roundabout way -- I am always thinking about what I am getting out of the current moment. Be it measurable impact or some sort of insight/learning. That way, even the most abject failures have value to me.
A median income female is buying a $15 bra at Walmart.

An upper middle class DINK/DIWK living in the burbs buys fancy stuff.
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> You're missing the point here. I don't care about the quality of Microsoft's metrics. I care about the privacy of my data.

And Microsoft only cares about the privacy of your data inasmuch as it has to, it DOES care about the quality of its metrics.

> The results of your arbitrary one hour opinion poll don't mean anything to me. You wanted that data. It doesn't benefit me, as much as you want me to think it does. Infact, if I had the choice between not taking the poll and not having you call me in the first place guess which one I'm gonna pick.

Sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it to. There's already global means to opt-out of telemetry data: don't use products that have it. Alternatively you can take the couple of minutes to turn it off yourself.

Seems you think you're entitled to this, which is fine, but that entitlement should be brought to the attention of your government.
> They make newspapers compliant [...]

That's debatable. Almost nothing actually meets the GDPR's requirements for freely given consent (that non-technically required consent can't be tied to / traded for the service, and is opt in; no pre-ticked boxes.)
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> The article doesn't mention anything about in-order delivery, which adds an extra bit of challenge because most message queues don't have any support for strict ordering

AWS has fifo queues with some limits (300 messages per second, only a few regions supported): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
My search results have been personalized for years without being logged in. I didn't realize this was surprising.
It doesn't look to me like they're pretending they took the picture with that phone. They are just using that photo as an example to show how the "background blur" feature works.
I wouldn't assume that. It's literally the number one thing people bring up with custom UI components, I'd be very surprised if Flutter ignored the issue.
The cycling grand tours are 95% slow TV actually.
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There's so much detailed craft and love poured into Hashicorp's codebases, this is great. Congrats Mitchell!
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I've been using Flutter for a little over a year and I absolutely love it. Hot reloading, Dart tree shaking, Static type checking, etc. What's not to love? Dart widgets are consistent, making UI design easy peasy. UI widgets are definitely skewed to Android (for now), but iOS work is moving quite fast.

Try it, you'll love Dart.
The announcement talks about "reliably provision application resources in different environments". Does that mean multiple clouds?

I'm asking because in the Ansible example in https://github.com/deislabs/bundles/blob/master/ansiblebase/... I see AZURE_TENANT AZURE_CLIENT_ID AZURE_SECRET AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID but nothing for other clouds.

Would you have to add configuration for every cloud you have to support?
in today's keynote, google announced that you'll eventually be able to use one dart/flutter codebase for ios, android, mac, windows, linux, and the web. you can't get much more cross-platform than that.
This is clear in (Common) Lisp.

There is a null class/type whose one and only instance is the special object nil.

This nil also itself names a type which contains no instance: its domain of values is the empty set. This is the type at the bottom of the type spindle, corresponding to the NULL that you're talking about.

nil is a special self-evaluating symbol representing Boolean false, the empty list, and this bottom type.

So you see, if we just don't conflate the null object with the null set type, everything works out.
Could you go further into why SOPS scales badly?
I think you have too many ? in there; you can't tell if T? is the same type as T unless you know if T is U? for some U. (This is true of untagged unions more generally, ? is just shorthand for | null.)

But T?? is always identical to T?.
Which is all that is worth speculating about and discussing in this thread, or are you suggesting otherwise?
> pet project of some fairly unknown software company

IIRC, illumos is a loose community full of former Solaris devs, there's no one company behind the illumos kernel.

Joyent, the company behind the SmartOS distribution, I'd say is far from "unknown" — they started that whole node.js thing after all!
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I’m hoping for their value bottoming around the time I join, cause that maximizes the number of RSUs I get for the nominal value in my contract.

After that I’ll be hoping for their stock to shoot up of course. And that’s the scenario OP was outlining.
Not necessarily. By opting out, there's no signal at all that it matters how the meat is sourced.
> It's sending back arbitrary data to someone else without explicit authorization.

You are giving very explicit authorization by agreeing to the EULA.

> You own your computer. You explicitly decide what data comes from it. NO EXCEPTIONS.

That's still true. And by installing a product and agreeing to a EULA which includes a section on telemetry you are doing just that. Thus, your options are "don't install the software" or "opt-out".
Haven't done it myself, but would suggest you try and take on some IT software projects on your team. Maybe start with some scripts or automation and offer to help on other IT software projects.

Once you have some real-world experience and a reputation for delivering, you can branch out.

Would also suggest that you be as capable on the development side as your developers. Python is perfect to start with.
> Making images of text is probably the most inaccessible thing imaginable.

Agreed. I love the concept of this site, but it would load significantly faster and provide better user experience if it utilized text instead. Loading this website took me 9.41 seconds.

Images don't scale, and people using screenreaders would be out of luck, for starters.
a) According to another comment there's a disclaimer there too: "The contents within the screen and images are simulated for illustrative purposes only". Most will never see it as those disclaimers are always buried as far as they think able to get away with. usually small point font, grey on grey, and on screen for too little time to read if it's a video.

b) Not really. Whether "Shot with iPhone", or DSLR pics cropped to the phone screen, they both imply to Ms Average that they could take their phone out of their purse and achieve the same results. Otherwise why bother with campaigns like that? Unless Ms Average has a bunch of slave flashes and lenses in there too it cynically misrepresents. A simple tripod or monopod mount would be OK, as that still fairly represents "what's in the box".

Like the GP noted, phone cameras are surprisingly good within their well known limitations. They could achieve perfectly good, but honest, advertising photos just by staying within those limits. They would just never achieve the results an SLR with large, fast prime lens, and large sensor, or even arrays of additional equipment plus phone could.

A vague disclaimer does not, and should not, replace honesty and presenting what's "in the box".
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Oh, okay. I think I see now. The stock market has always fascinated me and I admit I understand very little of it. I wouldn't know where to start learning about the ins and outs of it.
"hardly even an error"

not

"hardly ever an error".

in other words, NULL pointer errors are a trivial error to deal with.
If you're using something like kops or kubeadm, chances are you're on the latest anyway and updating will take you all of an hour and zero downtime.

The Kubernetes project is pretty explicit about only supporting 3 minor versions back, which gives you a full 3 quarters to figure out if the changes break anything you have deployed and fix those cases. If that's too fast, you're probably an Enterprise anyway and uncomfortable with anything but vendor support.
Dropping DirectX and allowing Vulkan on the XBox would be the great move.

Would that ever happen? Well, if they can drop EdgeHTML..
As a long-term emacs user, I obviously disagree, but it is a good joke. ;-)
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Interesting. I wonder if they only do product design tests (design to their best ability and ask for feedback from trial users) or do they hire a mechanical engineer to run FEA simulation through something like COMSOL or ANSYS.
> It's more charitable

I'm a socialist. I don't believe in charity
Don't think there are builtins for that, Flutter is more focused on drawing UI. For functions like these it usually just makes sense to call the native APIs over a bridge (there's a bridging mechanism included in Flutter - you pass messages over channels to and from the native code).
Yes, criminalize software bugs. Brilliant idea.
Not clickbaity at all, it's the essence of what makes the problem interesting. The fact that a DLL dependency can slow down your program at shutdown is not at all intuitive, particularly when it's a system DLL that should be bullet-proof.
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What HN post yesterday?
The format is cloud agnostic. Here is an example of a bundle that Bitnami built that provisions wordpress and Amazon RDS https://github.com/bitnami/cnab-bundles/tree/master/wordpres...
>- They inevitably don’t look or work like native apps in ways both big and small, frustrating and annoying users.

We're way past that in the mobile world, where both Google, Facebook, and other top dogs use non-native cross platform frameworks and looks (e.g. Material UI).
The example that was so hilariously ludicrous that you had to have real admiration for the PR people keeping a straight face was when Mark Hurd was forced out at HP because he supposedly expensed a business dinner that wasn't actually a business dinner. (Which turned out to have almost certainly been about more than a dinner but nonetheless doubtless a trivial sum of money in the scheme of things.)
Yeaaah, knowing you're into RPGs and random indies, I'd recommend JRPGs, and if you already have any JRPGs I'd add VNs. Certainly the options involving less high school relationship drama, which is why I say that the specifics are an issue and that 90% of everything is crap, but, well, there are some extraordinarily good non-teenage-relationship-drama stories out there in JRPG and VN land.

Some recs in that direction, based on what's presumably a collection of western RPGs and FPS games: Baten Kaitos (gamecube), Most Final Fantasy games in the single digits, Golden Sun I and II (gameboy advance), Umineko (PC), Steins;Gate (PC).
Or just copy paste the text to the image alt="" and voilà.
Its pretty hard to find a company that never lied in ads
It all depends on how many you want to sell. You can certainly sell n $350 bras. https://darkestfox.com/products/claire-velvet-set?variant=41...
I should point out that this isn't universally the case, there are plenty of people who moved into these areas during a very different era and are protected in the form of rent control, public housing, or simply purchasing during the height of the crack epidemic that did a ton of damage to the east village.
> I thought it was going to be a cross-cloud Terraform

Isn't Terraform already cross-cloud?
I enjoyed Curve of Binding Energy, and also Coming Into The Country, which is about the history, people, and geography of Alaska. Lots of interesting anecdotes: tourists fishing in pristine rivers, prospectors panning for gold using bulldozers, wilderness-seekers struggling to surviving the brutal winters off-grid. I also learned that Juneau may be the wind-whipped capital but it is really more similar to warmer parts of Canada. Anchorage is the grimy urban center, a port city more deserving of Alaskan fame. Neither really represent the forbidding interior of the state.
Yes, seems like Azure and Office365 is where the $$$ is coming from now. And Xbox, I guess.
It's all the blog entries, but usually formatted fairly well. There aren't too many blog entries (five or so), and typically ones that make HN are highlighted more.

All that being said, I see your point.
I probably get downvoted to hell for this, but: although the picks were interesting I didn't think they were as good for making it worth putting a list together. Looking at hn front page and checking through the comments I find something on similar excitement levels perhaps every third day.

Don't mean to discourage the authors, simply saying how I felt.
Right, by releasing the code they're saying "here's some nice code, do what you want with it", but not "oh and we're increasing our investment into this product by expanding the team" which is what adding non-Windows support to their official repository would entail.
Not as true as it used to be. In my experience any midwestern city over 100,000 in population will have an Asian grocery store, and it's often got the best fresh produce in town.
That doesn't mean the government can't default on its debts, it means that the new government would assume the debts of its predecessor. Context from Wikipedia:

> The states and the Confederation Congress both incurred large debts during the Revolutionary War, and how to repay those debts became a major issue of debate following the War. Some States paid off their war debts and others did not. Federal assumption of the states' war debts became a major issue in the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention.

As for the rest of your comments, I used to like it when HackerNews was somewhat civil.
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