skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a secret. People need to do a minimum amount of homework before they spout off online.
They are still around.

https://kennykerr.ca/2019/01/25/the-state-of-cpp-on-windows/

Read towards the end.
Does it? VSCode is refreshingly quick while Word is (already) brutally slow.
From the article:

> I looked into existing budgeting software such as Mint or YNAB; they were feature packed but cumbersome to setup and complex to use. All I wanted was a simple, unified view of my transaction history across all payment mechanisms with a few spending categories from which I could do my own analysis.
Why is this happening? Forgetting ubiquity of tooling, is there something technical about HTTP that makes it so attractive?

I get JSON. People don't want to write text-parsers. But what's attractive about this abuse of HTTP? This isn't hypertext.

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

Could it be that developers are more familiar with HTTP than with TCP and so TCP scares them even though it's simpler to use?
Thanks! We are also going to make carbon negative building materials to remove CO2 that has already been emitted. Really anything now made from petroleum is potentially replaceable with air mined CO2 and renewable electricity. Will start with gasoline.
So the retailer is forced to provide a deep discount, even if it forces them to sell at a loss? Who gets the final say here, might we assume Groupon? If so, why would retailers continue to utilize Groupon if it ends up being a net negative operation?

Can you elaborate on why you think its a scam? What did the founders do previously which supports those allegations?
I want to stop naming files
"I'd say fragmentation hurts retention, which only has secondary effect on adoption."

I have no idea how you come to that conclusion. Any conceivable model for adoption I can imagine is a differential equation which contains "current adoption" as a term going into the first derivative. If people are leaving a language faster than people are coming in (and I speak in general, not claiming this about any particular language), retention is going to have major effects on adoption and the lack thereof.
> 10,000s of unemployed cobol developers in the US.

You need to find that Cobol developper, that can work at your office, that will still works for at least the next 10 years, that won't ask a ton of cash because he expect to keep a similar salary as he did before, that is actually competent, etc...

In the other hands, you got 10 000 unemployed java developer that get out of school in less than 500 km around your office, every year, that will do the job nicely for a pretty cheap salary because it's their first job.
Taking away people with gambling addictions, children, etc (all good reasons for these games not to exist at all), I've felt for a while that their success is a great example of disparity in disposable income.

I'll be forward and be completely honest: I've spent several thousands of dollars on a single of these games. And I've played many of them. Some with just straight micro-transactions (eg: League of Legends skins), some straight up "gacha" or "lootboxes" (eg: Fire Emblem Heroes, FF Brave Exvius, and so on).

When you look at a videogame compared to other form of entertainment, is just how efficient they are in a "fun per dollar" point of view. MMORPGs that cost $10-15/month and people play obsessively several hours a day are way better than going to a bar to drink, money wise. But what if efficiency is tossed out of the window, how much is "fun" worth to someone?

It's likely a factor of their disposable income. But we're now at a point where adult professionals are very much part of the player base. So if a game is free to play, but has a loot box mechanic that can make it "more fun", what happens? Well, for people without money to burn in a fire pit, it might not be worth it at all, so they won't spend a dime. For the senior executive who makes 500k or 1million a year? They could blow through 5 grands in an afternoon without really caring.

So if you have a gaming population where 90% (I'm making numbers up) don't spend a dime, 9% is spending a moderate amount because of predatory practices (kids, addicts, etc) or because they like it, and then 1% spend an INSANE amount of money because they have no real "limit", you may come up WAY ahead than if you charged a flat fee and the same amount to everyone. Because the rich people are just THAT much richer to make up for everyone else.

I know I've read some articles (none that I can find to confirm my memory) where some of the smaller gacha games with a few tens of thousands of players run fully on the pockets of a few hundred people, if that.
This has more or less been available for Azure Web Apps for a while now, it works great
No, Amazon themselves lie about which seller the product is from. They call it comingling. https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/03/20/1553085361000/Amazon-...
I suspect it's the "thin hypervisor", aka LCOW + hyperv isolation. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/running-doc...

(I work at Microsoft but have no inside knowledge on this; just speculating.)
Yes, almost every single bug (not cosmetics IMO) should have proof in the form of test. Not doing it ? Instant turn down for me.

But its not only about bugs, MS should not mandate new features on me, only security fixes. In one of my previous updates my camera stopped working so I couldn't use any IM any more. Tried to fix it for days in vain. Then latest update returned it so I realized that first time they simply turned it off by default (for paranoid people I guess that cover their camera with a tape; I found a setting after reading a changelog). Why ? WHy? WHY ? Why turning off camera FFS ? Or any other stupid decision like keeping windows.old for months with all those GBs of unused space ...

You are totally right about it - web apps need this, browser is their OS. Normal OS doesn't. Even phone doesn't. At least leave me an option.
The point is that with native HA, it doesn't have to be distributed storage. You can use locally attached SSDs or NVMe drives, which are straight forward to manage and fast.
Yeah, you don't know how big you'll need to scale, but I think that's a bit of a boogeyman for a lot of companies. Servers have a relatively massive amount of cores and memory these days, along with screaming fast IO, and you can handle quite a lot of web traffic with only a few dual socket servers if you don't bog them down with incredibly inefficient code.
I'm just going to nit on your phrasing here. NANP and the associated +1 country code originated from the United States. Technically I am talking about "changing theirs." The fact that it's very reasonably shared with other North American countries in a manner that allows for plenary power on the part of each other member nation is the source of this issue. I'm suggesting the US revise NANP and put more conditions on sharing the +1 country code, although most preferably with a consensus of the other members.

Bad actors in different nations than consumers shouldn't be able to leverage sovereignty or agreements like NANP to be bad actors with impunity.
Ok, but surely that's not used for IPC.
What? Satya didn't invent .Net. The idea of .Net, like the JRE, was to write once and run everywhere. What's visionary about it?

It's sad how so many articles and comments come off just pure PR now. Not saying your comment is, but I have to wonder how much of the "news", comments and internet content is now just PR.
The main advantage of renewable gasoline over batteries is that we can decarbonize the existing vehicle fleet without replacing it. Also, the very high energy density of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel will make sense for a long time in Jet aircraft, long haul trucks, and ocean container ships, for example.
This line also caught my attention. Really keen on finding out more!
I highly doubt Google runs any workload on Borg with CPU count > 24. I don't work there, so I'm just assuming but it goes against all modern scaling / deployments patterns.
I struggled the same and just want to add Fluent Terminal [1] to the list as one that felt the most similar to OSX Terminal to me and I barely see it mentioned online.

[1] https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal
The ad blockers are smart enough to detect and block that though.
Windows [...] turns my computer on in the middle of the night

This should be actually fucking illegal. Yet another nail in the Windows 10 coffin, then. It will never be on any of my machines. Never. The level of shit they think we will put up with is utterly outrageous.
Requiring ads like that will only kill small businesses. Big companies can get custom ads like that. Small ones have to rely on Adsense.

You can justify it however you want, the fact is if you remove automated ads from the internet, the internet would be a lot smaller than it is today.
Kube-hunter hunts for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
FYI: the person you are responding to is the author of Kubernetes The Hard Way [1], which is effectively a tutorial of learning how all the K8s pieces work together. He also co-authored the first book on it [2]. He's also a Google employee, but I would trust his opinion more than others just because he's probably seen more use cases than anyone else.

[1] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infras...
With respect, if you don't understand why .Net Standard exists, you've really no business wanting it to die.

For now, it's a vital bridge between .Net Framework and .Net Core. It's something I make use of regularly.
Ha! Guess it was nice while it lasted.
Sorry, replied to you above in a separate comment.
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Implying for the most popular feature of the smartphone, there isn't anything for Huawei to copy from Apple. It has been very long time that iPhone doesn't have the best cameras along all, what is the point of copying that?
The best location is one that gives us access to the lowest electricity price. The CO2 and water are in air almost everywhere (in a desert environment the water is harder to get from the air, but CO2 is evenly distributed). We will be next to utility scale wind, solar, and other renewable sources.
Many of those games are actually implementing gambling with their virtual currency.
They have events where you buy an entry ticket using the in-game currency then either double/triple-up or lose-it-all as the result of some random event.

I'm surprised this is even legal in the US, and not caught for app store TOS violations. It seems they've simply replaced the concept of casino chips with virtual currency. They do have some 'gameplay' outside of this but it is not much different from the various frills on video slot machines.
> .NET Core is cross-platform, with runtimes for Windows, Linux and MacOS

Microsoft used to follow the eat-your-own-dogfood rule, which would seem to indicate that the development tools should use the same run-time and run on all the targets, but the announcement only mentions linux as a target. As a hobby-only-on-linux-only developer who does not buy or sell any software or related services, I find this announcement a poke in the nose with a clue stick.
>> Maintaining a globally available data structure with these pairs of blocks came with its own set of challenges. Dropbox has unpredictable delete patterns so we needed some process to reclaim space when one of the blocks gets deleted.

I wonder what that means.
Henk Barendregt, the author of this paper, has an excellent reference book on the untyped lambda calculus called "The Lambda Calculus: Its Syntax and Semantics". I believe he also wrote a book on the typed lambda calculus but I have never read it. This is a good reference text, but in my opinion is not a good introductory text.

For a good introduction, I would recommend J. Roger Hindley's introduction to the lambda calculus and combinatory logic entitled "Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction". It includes some interesting info on SKI combinator calculus in addition to the lambda calculus.
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I'm originally from Euclid, one of the malls Amazon is snapped up. The area has been dilapidated for a while as it's a popular white flight city for East Cleveland transplants.

I remember ~15 years ago it was just Sears left.
In CSGO, your skins are a direct representation of how good you are. This is fact. If you spent 1k on a Dragonlore, you're one of the best AWPers in your region, hands down.
It works but it doesn't clear in the same day. If you need the money today, a wire transfer is the only way.
They did. And they were found guilty. This was widely reported years ago.
I've probably wasted more than three weeks installing kubernetes on 3 nodes. I've tried Racher, RKE, kube-admin, kubespray and doing everything myself. I always failed and the way it failed was completely opaque and I didn't feel like I could even understand what was going wrong.
> I'm saddened and disgusted by much of what has happened with the monetization strategies pioneered by mobile and free to play games.

There's a lot to be said that its easier to attract 1000 people and extract $500 from 10 of them than it is to get 5 bucks from all of them. Even more so when you add piracy to the mix.

Would these strategies have been a thing if so many people didn't flip their shit because a near AAA level game tried to charge a few bucks?
My guess is that they mean that they will fully support the syscall surface of Linux 4.19. I highly doubt that they're actually going to include the kernel inside Windows due to the GPL licensing, the linking issues would force open far more than even Nadella would like.
There are solutions to that, like IPC with some systemic "sudo server".

> Curiously, Windows is more secure than linux because it _doesn't_ have a sudo.

Seriously, even if so, and I really much doubt it couldn't be fixed, its case where too much security is bad for your choices. Majority of Windows devs disable UAC, honestly. Like, almost all of them ? Because its unusable and that Windows sudoers file variant named compatibility something something is just unusable too.

I keep telling my 100+ IT guys (mostly devs), do not disable UAC, its good to know that something requires elevation (even tho it sucks but there are bearable powershell sudo scripts) and you will certainly have to make it on the build server later anyway. But they hate it with passion. I learned to accept the terror.

There are horde of people asking questions on how to disable startup UAC screen for many tools (one example: everything search engine). What I do now is use task scheduler (like many others) to overcome it.
Hundreds of dollars is really not very much for many paying players to spend on these types of games. That would typically be considered a "casual" player which is just barely above a free-to-play player in terms of importance to the developers.
These are babies and toddlers with rapidly growing brains. Much larger drops are observed in slightly worse daycare/orphanage/foster situations, so a drop of 16% isn't surprising to me. In the bad situations, brain structure is significantly changed.

https://www.livescience.com/21778-early-neglect-alters-kids-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans

There is simply no substitute for a good mother. Being affluent tends to mean being industrious, conscientious, intelligent, and educated. It isn't popular for such women to stay home and raise lots of kids, but it makes a huge difference in the kids' lives and for the society that those kids will someday grow up to run.
Which is a valid argument, isn't it? Engineers are expensive! Whether they're more expensive than AWS depends entirely on what you're doing, but the answer is almost always "yes" at a small enough scale.
I worked at a couple of those self-hosted companies in the 200Xs. For me, as a developer, it was painful and way, way, way worse than AWS or GCP. Planning for big expected spikes of traffic was extremely painful, and once the cloud vendors started adding new services we felt continually behind the times.

I can only think it was "interesting" if you've forgotten how difficult and expensive managing your own infrastructure can be.
You must be quite rich. Every account I've ever seen limits ACH to $4,000 unless you have at least $100,000 in the bank, and then they will up it to $25,000.
>>> the IT bureaucracy tells them that it will take 2 weeks

You're not in touch with reality. Try 2 months at a bare minimum.
It’s also not going to be around much longer in its current form.
Great comment. Thank you.

This explains why the average quality of life/wealth gap between (Socialist) East Europe and West Europe was smaller than the raw difference of GDPs.
It is likely the Department of Homeland Security cameras that see you see next to stoplights are using facial recognition.
I completely agree! I’m not sure how to define the horizon, so I’m not sure whether we’ve passed it. It’s not clear to me exactly how effective advertising is, and its effectiveness also clearly oscillates over time and between demographics!
Not OP but, yes, server vendors are shipping with Optane DC Persistent Memory, like Lenovo [1] and Supermicro [2], among others. Google also has a testing program [3, 4] with access to instances with 7TB of total memory.

[1] https://lenovopress.com/lp1066-intel-optane-dc-persistent-me...
[2] https://www.storagereview.com/supermicro_superserver_with_in...
[3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/available-firs...
[4] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX1tN6Qt-aQUK2iVVi...
> (It would be weird if tuples were written "{1, 2, 3}", right?)

That is the case in Crystal. Doesn't feel weird - if anything it is consistent in that ()s always denote something to do with execution. Both ()s and {}s have multiple different other syntactic usages though, so it is not as if either is optimal.
This is really cool, I have a two questions the last one maybe a bit sillier than the first:

- I'm not a chemist, maybe you said this implicitly, but roughly at what rate would this capture a kilogram of carbon?

- Why did you choose the name 'Prometheus' the titan who created man, gave us fire, and as punishment for the latter part, had his liver eaten out by a vulture every day for eternity?
You'd think it woudl use tank tracks
What's the license on this tool for anyone who's in the preview? Such things can often contain ugly things about irrevocable worldwide licenses to do as the host pleases.
A compiler for little languages in tagged template strings
Realizing I can build anything I want with code
That is exactly the same way Haskell does "parametrized enumerants", and in C terms, str is like any pointer to a string, while String is like a heap-allocated string. What's "new" about any of this? C++ has the same thing going on with string and string_view.

If anything, Rust's managed to be a whole lot simpler than other languages. Python, JavaScript and C++ have some of the worst string encoding stories I've ever seen. And most popular languages don't even have sum types, so it's like they have an "and" and no "or".
What will happen to the embedded webbrowser control? Will it continue to be IE, will it be Chromium or will it disappear from Windows?
It's interesting that the voting on this comment has fluctuated up and down. If anyone happens across this old thread and would like to provide a counterargument, I'd be interested in reading it.
That seems to only address the stock market, and it is not obvious to me why an all share index would be immune to it. What happens if a company goes bankrupt? I think they just replace it in the index? So at least people who only invest in all shares indices would have done well?
how many watts today is required to produce one liter of fuel using both your membrane and the conventional way requiring distillation? What are your long-term watts/liter targets ?

Maybe a non-membrane version could be attempted that used renewable energy (sunlight) to do the boiling? Certain geographic regions might have the right combination of plentiful sunlight, water, and wind to minimize all these costs?
Can you talk a bit about the waste-water left over? Assuming it's non-potable, what does the disposal path look like? How much of such water is there at scale, e.g., water-per gallon of petro-product? Thanks, sounds awsome.
I never said there wasn't a cost. Every technical decision comes with trade-offs.

But costs don't hold us back from developing amazing new features [for developers and consumers] for the future. <3
Not sure about that, except if their phrasing is astonishingly poor, which is of course possible. I mean, in my book "Linux 4.19 kernel shipping in Windows" means a Linux kernel shipping in Windows, and that would need Hyper-V (Linux is trademarked btw, MS can't just pretend that they ship a Linux kernel if they don't). At the same time, I really hope that this is not the case and that it actually means that they are targeting a syscall compatibility with Linux version 4.19; because I'm certainly not gonna give up my third party VMs for some work, so if WSL is rebased on Hyper-V that means bye-bye WSL for me.
Pantheon, user's guide [2009]:

https://vimeo.com/51365068

Original title: "Panthéon, mode d'emploi"

Executive producer: RUHE PRODUCTION © 2009

Produced by:
UX films
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In association with:
La Mexicaine De Perforation
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// previously on HN, Feb 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052160

// Wired, Jan 2012: http://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1
If you're using Cygwin or Msys.... theres your problem. They're notoriously slow emulations of posix syscalls that don't translate well to Windows.

Fork & fs operations, certainly.... nothing to do with Windows itself.
Nice! OT, but have you seen any reasonably priced RJ45 10GBe out there? Preferably without screaming fans :-)
Anxiety sells and social media enables every person to play a part in signal boosting it.
Do you feel happy with your purchases still? Is there any buyer's remorse? I'm interested to know how many people who weren't obviously exploited and could afford to spend hundreds or thousands on these games feel honestly satisfied with their purchases and wouldn't in retrospect have preferred to use that money for something else.
But isn't winforms pretty much legacy? Microsoft has been encouraging the use of WPF.
automatic markdown formatting in all emails please!
See, now this is exactly my issue with this syntax, I generally expect to be able to "chain" things with the "." notation.
I've also switched but up to now Mac Terminal is still far superior to anything I can find on Windows, including much touted 3rd party emulators like cmder/conemu. Keybindings, scrolling, tabbing, drag and drop, copy/pasting and colors just work incredibly well out of the box on Mac, even in Linux land I don't know of a terminal emulator that good. I have high hopes in this new windows terminal.

Other things that are still better on MacOS compared to Windows: Keybinding consistency, system settings, PDF handling, system/app config system, backups and restores, migration assistant, system search. Its file system is also better for many small files. But still, for me the tradeoff is worth it because I can't stand butterfly keyboards, they are that bad.
My father lives in a small town in Tennessee where a lot of people have started to go to retire. A number of neighbors who have moved there in recent years have been from California trying to escape the high cost of living.
IMHO this is a waste of time. You are wasting clean energy sources to make dirty ones -- at best a 50-60% loss of energy.
And you end up with dirty fuel, that further produces CO2, in which the cycle repeats, with a net loss.

In the near future, cars and trucks will be electric. This is shuffling deckchairs on the titanic. Why not put 100% of your efforts into electric vehicles powered by 100% renewable sources?