skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the video of the Build talk been posted yet? I know it's only been a few hours, but I don't even know where to look to check. (YouTube? The Build site? Channel9?)
We've been using Full Calendar as part of our startup, and really really appreciate all the work Adam has put in. We honestly couldn't build some features if FC wasn't around - so thanks!
Well, every barrel of their stuff that is burned is one that wasn't sucked from the ground and put into the carbon cycle. So as long as it doesn't depress the price of gas much and cause consumption to increase, I'd take a bit of a less cynical view towards it.
Like I said the first time, I know all that stuff. I'm trying to express problems a new user is going to have with this syntax, and "but our reasons are really good!" does nothing for them.

It's not inconsistent to hold the simultaneous beliefs that "trying to fix Rust's syntax would make it worse" AND "Rust's syntax is insane".

And given those beliefs, maybe adding a postfix operator to express what everyone else does with a function call was a poor call.
Interesting that the focus of the article is on features rather than technology differentiation.
Depends on your organization, the licensing model you pick, etc. They generally license per core now, and you have to run at least 4 cores. Without giving too much away I'd say the cost of licensing a 4-core box running Enterprise is on the order of $20K, which you pay one time, up front. Then you just pay for your support contract. You can also do stuff like license an entire VMware farm or failover cluster, and then you can overprovision services for extra cost savings.
The negativity on this site towards people who express any opinion beyond the herd is making this site a groupthink echo chamber. This karma system has failed.
There is a good chance we will make jet fuel in the next 2-3 years. There appears to be a lot of demand for it. We're starting with gasoline because it's a much bigger market / impact, but it's not that hard to make jet fuel too.
This (esp the first figure) reminds me of economics research on long waves:

http://joshuagoldstein.com/jgcycle.htm
Do you have multi-AZ failover now? And probably many of your 600 instances would be fine on a lower tier?
On Azure (as an example) one gets 100 of the lowest managed SQL DB tier per 150K/year developer.
> IRC and FTP

IRC and FTP have widely used secure counterparts. Meanwhile, STARTTLS did not gain the traction that everyone hoped it would.

Edit: Additionally, we have secure working replacement protocols for IRC and FTP (such as Matrix and SSH/SCP).
I would be also interested in what country it is.

We had similar case - few years ago, the tax office switched to electronic VAT tax returns, which was Windows-only. There was a company that continued to fill their returns using the old-fasioned way (paper). In the court, they won, because the filing system was Windows-only, and the state cannot force you to purchase your software from a specific supplier.
Microsoft patents an Xbox controller with a built-in Braille display
They are moving from reimplementing syscalls to running full Linux kernel inside of a "lightweight utility virtual machine"
> but the desktop is still firmly ours

At this point I'm guessing that it's because there isn't a strong future for desktop apps written in native code. Even VSCode is written on top of Electron. Good, bad, or indifferent I think that there isn't a lot of point in developing a native GUI framework at this point.

(To be clear - I'm 100% sure that there are a lot of use cases that I'm blithely waving away, but I'm also sure that those use cases are currently being addressed with WinForms, Qt, GNOME, etc, etc, so why should MS invest in Yet Another GUI Framework?)
The energy density of gas makes it incredibly useful for storage and transportation as well. For example, Tesla's 50MWh battery installation in Australia has the same energy as only 1,500 gallons of gasoline. (It's not an apples to apples comparison, I just wanted to give an example of a "large" battery installation.)

Obviously there are lots of benefits of batteries over gas, but being able to load up a standard 10,000 gallon tanker truck with 300MWh of energy and drive it anywhere there's a road is something batteries simply can't do.
This kind of side deal in bike racing (especially when money is involved) is very common. And accepted by most who race at that level.

It has always bothered me as a fan.

I know one of the riders, and I know of the other. They both seem like good people.

Well-written story about aftereffects, and a reconciliation of sorts.
Poverty Is a Bigger Problem Than Gentrification
and then Uber's PR machine shows how much a stay-at-home mom just made driving someone to an NYC airport when all the other drivers dropped out

re-confirming all the stats in their prospectus about the unstoppable good their rides to airports are, investors love it
> File intensive operations like git clone, npm install, apt update, apt upgrade, and more will all be noticeably faster. The actual speed increase will depend on which app you’re running and how it is interacting with the file system. Initial tests that we’ve run have WSL 2 running up to 20x faster compared to WSL 1 when unpacking a zipped tarball, and around 2-5x faster when using git clone, npm install and cmake on various projects.
uBlock Origin plus PiHole for ad blocking.

Popup blocking is in Firefox itself.
Still of limited usefulness as long as WPF is not cross-platform.
> Rust is noisy because it has to represent concepts that simply don't exist in other programming languages.

In a few cases having to do with lifetime management and the borrow checker, that's certainly true.

But the example at hand is fundamentally just cloning ideas from Javascript.
Auto updates are great and the core has few security issues. I don't run many plugins.
I sure hope GPU access for things like OpenCL/CUDA are on that list :)
1) Probably on the order of about 200GB of random file types. Definitely within the range of reasonably priced HDD.

2) True, I just can't bring myself to delete it yet, thus the hope that someone had concocted a way to minimize the non-trivial cost of long-term storage.
This may be one of those things that is easier said than done. Number portability may make that more complicated than it seems. Any telco experts around?
Dell fails to deliver OLED option to the XPS 15 in April but clues point to June
Thanks for the feedback. I've reworked the page so that it's less likely that the game does not fit in a screen without scrolling - not ideal, but it'll help!
There is no waste. The only inputs are water, CO2, and electricity. The only outputs are fuel and oxygen.
If what you want is a "Warning, this game may be addictive" every time you load the game, then fine.

But I do not think the government should be passing hate taxes on things they don't want you to do. People mostly agreed when it came to cigarettes, now they're coming for sugar, and they're very likely to be going for animal based products at some point.

I don't think it's the government's job to control the populace. They can force companies to make risks clear, but if the consumer accepts the risk, that should be that.
I believe they’re looking for very cheap electric rates. Excess wind or solar power the grid doesn’t want could certainly be cheap. Or college dorms.
If you have to use windows, I'd suggest ConEmu.
Assuming you have a day job (ie, an office where you'll meet and socialize with people even if it's limited):

Invite them out, accept their invitations. You don't have to become friends. Get to know their friends and friends' friends. You'll click with someone, start inviting them out to things or over and accept their invites.

Create opportunities for people to be social with you. Go to a bar or restaurant that hosts trivia, attend regularly. Chat with the other teams, invite people you meet to join you.

If that doesn't interest you, find other activities. Go to movies (with dinner before/after since movies aren't really social), host a movie night, board games, set up a hiking group, or find one to join.

One thing I've learned, I have to take the initiative to invite people. And I can't turn down invitations when I've first met people. If I meet someone and sort of hit it off, but turn down their invites to activities, I'm not going to be invited to join them again (or I'm less likely to be). But when I invite people, I'm generous about re-inviting people who turn me down. I throw out invites to 10-30 people for events, and I may only get 5 to go.

At some point the relationship will become a real friendship, not based on doing activities together. But you have to start somewhere.
Intel cares deeply about backwards compatibility in hardware and it's worked well for them.

And of course, Microsoft is currently the most valuable company.
That's really quite ironic given: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825787
I needed a full text searchable database of companies for another project, decided to release it as a stand alone to test how many other people need this kind of search. The meta data is not curated it is collected with crawlers and NLP on the open web. If you would be interested in paid API access let me know I could implement that pretty fast. Or if you think I should dedicate more time to building out the free web frontend encouraging words would be very much appreciated.
Banks Look Safer with Deposits
I'd choose a proven, 100% reliable criteria such as markers rather than fuzzy methods like machine learning which evolve and can break/behave inexpectedly over time.
And missing 99% of the features.
> turns out that doesn’t matter as long as the electricity is zero carbon and low cost. If the cost of our equipment is also low, then we believe we can not only make zero carbon fuel, but actually compete on price with fossil fuel.

That's a lot of "if". How close are you to that?

If you plan to sell to car users, how do you plan to compete with electric cars, that can get about 8x the use out of the electricity (and don't have most of the many issues of combustion engines).

Am I missing something really obvious? Is transport through cable for direct consumption prohibitively expensive from the energy sources you're planning to use? Do fuel cells change the calculation? What's the advantage? Potentially take over a rapidly dying market?
This code example (Nile language not APL) makes me want to look into those languages:

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-07327016425ac646009769...

I think its so beautiful, just the math written down.
This is an interesting development since there is already a multitude of online IDE's that are based on Visual Studio Code:

- StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/

- Theia: https://www.theia-ide.org/

- Coder: https://coder.com/

Overall, this is a prime example of one of the synergies that Microsoft was able to create from the GitHub acquisition which was the missing puzzle piece. Microsoft now has control over a complete software development pipeline: a development platform (Windows), an IDE (vscode, vs), a code versioning host (GitHub), continuous integration (Azure Pipeline), deployment (Azure).

If Microsoft can leverage its control over this complete chain to make the whole experience integrated and effortless as it's doing with Visual Studio Online here, it could well take over the market, especially in corporate environments.
> I’m not sure if this is just an attempt to down play their results or if it’s more academic jealousy because the funding goes to the “cool stuff” like AI/ML in the CS dept. and the Stats dept. is seen as old and boring.

No one is trying to downplay the legitimately impressive results of AI/ML. Deep learning, convolutional neural networks and GANs have had incredible success in fields like computer vision, and image/speech recognition. But outside of those areas the "results" for the current fads in AI/ML learning have been grossly overstated. You have academic computer scientists like Judea Pearl decry the "backward thinking" of statistics and who are championing a "causal revolution", despite not actually doing anything revolutionary. You have modern machine learning touted ad nauseam as a panacea to any predictive problem, only for systematic reviews to show they don't actually out perform traditional statistical methods [1]. And you have industry giants like IBM and countless consulting companies promise AI solutions to every business problem that turn out to be more style than substance, and "machine learning" algorithms that are just regression.

There's a reason why AI research has gone through multiple winters, and why another is looming. Those in AI/ML seem to be more prone and/or willing to overpromise and underdeliver.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089543561...
I should also have added - SQL on RDS, the license cost is baked in. You have to re-purchase the license every year. You don't have to do that with enterprise licensing, which is a one-time upfront cost. You also can't overprovision, and you can't use alternate licensing models like MSDN.
What's the line in Apcolypse Now?

"When I was here, I wanted to be there, when I was there all I could think of was getting back into the jungle."
Just this morning I got a pop up on my windows computer with a 30 minute countdown to update time.

Which I know will fail - my laptop has been failing to update for the past year or so, but windows still insists on restarting my computer so it can fail the update again.

_Sometimes_ using the "defer updates for a month" will work. Other times, windows will completely ignore it and restart in the middle of my work day.
What about the device itself, its lifetime, and the resources used to build it?
Not "struggling in other areas" but thanks.

Been using VS and VSCode for a long time.

Don't care that the docs are open source.

My issue is that I guess I have high expectations for the official docs of a platform/framework/library/whatever. You shouldn't have to buy a book or read a random blog to find critical information on core functionality. The official docs should provide that, and Django is a great example. It includes how to do things, why things are the way they are, how to customize workflows, best practices, pitfalls, and on top of all that the source code is super easy to read and understand.

The pages at docs.microsoft.com are mostly just basic walkthroughs that leave me with a lot of questions. And the .NET Core source code is not nearly as readable.

It's getting better though. And I don't mean to take jabs at Microsoft because I truly do appreciate how much they've done in open source over the last few years, especially with VSCode.
I mean, .netstandard 2.1 won't be supported by .net framework sooo, yeah, they just pretty much obsoleted .net standard.
More than one person has mentioned this. Maybe an audio cue will make it more obvious it's on purpose...
First thought: maybe this one will be semi-usable?
You could say the same for Netflix, it's a giant CDN so why do they need 150k ec2 instances?

The problem they solve looks simple on the outside, the reality is different.

https://eng.uber.com/managing-data-workflows-at-scale/
This same race was a topic in a recent episode of the This American Life podcast

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse/act-three...
We expect a gallon of gasoline to require approx. 60 kWh of electrical energy. If the price of that electricity is below 5 cents, the economics work. If the price is lower, the efficiency of the conversion could also be lower if that optimized other costs (like capital). Electricity is routinely below 5 cents now at utility scale (wholesale), which is where we will want to be.
> Where did he do that?

Everywhere. It's the central thesis. All statements were rooted on complaining about how some people are rich. If you remove them you're left with no assertion at all.

> Screw off with the ad hominem.

Excuse me? You're actually making that statement in defense of a personal attack based accusations of how someone is "on their side"?

> So by your logic if you are poor and mention billionaires and income inequality then you are envious and full of petty jealousy.

That's correct.

You can also pick other scapegoats such as the queen of england or Bill Gates, but they are not the reason why there is still actual poverty and malnutrition in the western world. You don't attack poverty by mounting petty propaganda attacks on the mega-rich.
No, people have not specifically made that request to our team in the last 4 years we've owned the console. We get feature requests all the time, but I certainly haven't heard this version before.

Feel free to file it over at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal, and we'll triage as appropriate
So...you pick the weeds out of the collar? You've reduced the land you have to maintain to just that which this robot can't get to.
That's the 737 MAX problem. There was also a NYT article recently alleging quality issues at the Boing 787 plant in South Carolina. Most of the sources were QA inspectors turned whistleblower.
my problem with powershell is that cmd.exe based workflows are not compatable, and it's workflows are sufficiently different from bash/cmd to make me avoid learning it. Why spend a few days learning pwsh if I can just use cmd now and move on to my next task.
You could make a lot of stuff from the CO2 in the Martian atmosphere, for sure!
Having just switched my home desktop from Windows/Linux dualboot, to full Linux, this kind of makes me want to switch back to Windows. My only grievance is nvidia driver support lacking on Linux at the moment.
Pretty sure they can't because Trident is still being used in rendering a lot of stuff inside Windows, not mention the 3rd-party programs
Most of the schools appreciate any help you can give them. They are so neglected by administration and parents they're willing to take whatever they can get, within reason of course.
> You can really only define things rigidly if you want to make much in the way of guarantees. Any system held together by conventions can have those conventions violated and this is a harrowing sign of things to come.

The problem with this is that most new protocols (or APIs as they're popularly known now) are built by startups aiming for rapid growth. Writing an RFC for the underlying protocol of the newfangled dating app you're building is counterproductive if you don't know the company will exist six months later.
I understand the broader argument. Mine truly is as narrow in scope as my text: I do not think it reasonable to say the illegality of some addictive drugs has not prevented addiction for some people.
And that doesn't even take into account the superior UX.
At industrial scales, you can buy electricity much cheaper than $0.1/kWh if you locate your facility in the right place. For example, hydroelectric power near a large dam can cost as little as $0.02 to $0.05/kWh.
STARTTLS is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle and encryption downgrade attacks. Using a distinct port that only allows these application protocols over SSL/TLS (e.g. SMTPS and IMAPS) is better. It's also widely accepted. I don't think there's many that are still running unencrypted SMTP or IMAP connections.
What are the optimizations in JMAP that make it faster than, say, Solid? Solid is built on a bunch of W3C Web, Security, and Linked Data Standards; LDP: Linked Data Protocol, JSON-LD: JSON Linked Data, WebID-TLS, REST, WebSockets, LDN: Linked Data Notifications. [1][2] Different worlds, I suppose.

There's no reason you couldn't represent RFC5322 data with RDF as JSONLD. There's now a way to do streaming JSON-LD.

LDP does paging and querying.

Solid supports pubsub with WebSockets and LDN. It may or may not (yet?) be as efficient for synchronization as JMAP, but it's definitely designed for all types of objects with linked data web standards; and client APIs can just parse JSON-LD.

[1] https://github.com/solid/information#solid-specifications

[2] https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/issues/123 "WebSockets and HTTP/2" SSE (Server-Side Events)

https://jmap.io/

JMAP: JSON Meta Application Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol

Is there a OpenAPI Specification for JMAP?
There are a bunch of tools for Swagger / OpenAPIs: DRY interactive API docs, server implementations, code generators:
https://swagger.io/tools/open-source/ https://openapi.tools/

Does JMAP support labels; such that I don't need to download a message and an attachment and mark it as read twice like labels over IMAP?

How does this integrate with webauthn; is that a different layer?

(edit) Other email things: openpgpjs; Web Key Directory /.well-known/openpgpkey/*; if there's no webserver on the MX domain, you can use the ACME DNS challenge to get free 3-month certs from LetsEncrypt.

https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
Apple is set to face an EU investigation over Spotify’s competition complaint
> This isn't hypertext.

That ship has long sailed. HTTP is no longer just hypertext -- it's a ubiquitous and well-understood transport for RPCs, with lots of tooling and infrastructure support across the Internet.

I think at its core, HTTP abstracts away some of what you would want in a request-response protocol, but not really all of it. But _simply because of the ubiquity of tooling_, you get a whole lot of other stuff for free (load balancing, DDoS detection, in-browser debugging, etc.)

> Is it so complicated to work with a duplex-stream? Could a library alleviate the complications?

Yes, TCP streams are very complicated to work with (in my experience) -- there are way too many failure modes and corner cases to consider. IMO, your language's go-to HTTP library is that library that alleviates the complications.

All this said, I personally think gRPC is the right approach for RPCs, and I hope to see broader adoption of it over the coming years.
What is Microsoft's motivation for putting so much effort into VSCode? I don't understand the business of this particular product, and it makes me kind of uneasy.
I believe you misread the first question. It wasn't asking for the numbers on the conversion from CO2 to gasoline; it was asking about the rate at which you remove CO2 from the air.

What's the expected total removal per year in, say, your first, fifth, or tenth years of operation?
I think the biggest market for this is agriculture, not home gardening. Hopefully it can become better with time.
We expect a long lifetime (approx. 20 years or more), assuming modest maintenance costs. The capital is actually pretty inexpensive for a room temperature, unpressurized, electricity only system, so this helps mitigate longevity risks.
Proper resizing has existed in the console as long as Windows 10 has been out, and we've been aggressivly improving our copy-paste story. Ctrl+C/V to copy in cmd has been around since Windows 10, and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste in WSL was added just last year.
How much of what you are doing is "behind closed doors / patented / patent pending"? If there was a list of materials needed to do this on a consumer level, I could see a lot of people wanting to play around with this as a hobby.
congratulations, you made a skinner box.
I forked a project, didn't even realize it didn't have a license. I'll ask the original creator to decide.
This is a great update!

...I'm still running Linux bare when possible, though.
On tier 1 stuff, yeah. We certainly have a number of instances that would be fine on a lower tier, like dev instances etc that we can license under MSDN subscriptions, or that honestly would be better off as containers on individual devs' machines. But AWS doesn't offer that, and from those same numbers I see that a single-AZ instance is still $19K a year, every year. That's actually new cost because we can't BYOL for RDS.