skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't always do it, many times a product is slightly damaged or has some issues but I still keep it if I get a good price and don't want hassle to return it specially after I've installed it in my house already.

But when price also changes and there are issues, this leaves me no other option but to return the package. (Which I really hate)
If that were true, the cost of the energy consumed would be equivalent to GDP, and that is not the case.
It’s more like one murderer stealing a gun from another murderer, since they both use the tools against everyone else.
There are a number of categories to comfort. The aircraft itself makes a big difference. However, what the airline choses to do is also a massive factor. Seat width, AV boxes, padding, leg room, color choices, cabin temperature, entertainment selection, headphone quality, and so on.
Normal plastics (or polymers) aren’t all that bad. Some fish will choke on it and that’s terrible, sure.

But, if you want a real environmental shit-show read up of per fluorinate manufacturing.

Teflon, gore Tex, etc is the real deamon children of the polymer industry.
Thanks all for your thoughtful suggestions and advice - they are really helpful in thinking through this situation
Lately this seems to be virtually every story related to “spygate” from the times. One persons “scoop” is another powerful person’s attempt to shape narrative.
Microsoft made the switch from DOS-based with Windows as a layer to full Windows-based ("NT") operating systems by having both for several years. They could probably offer a Linux kernel with whatever Windows OS services mattered most for the future in parallel with regular Windows for a decade or so.

Doing so might give them a more attractive offering for the future while retaining most of the Windows legacy business. It would also let them leave lots of legacy problems behind, and pick up a lot of the "real desktop computer for real work" business that Apple is pushing away in its own gradual transition to the "controlled purchasing portal" OS they love.
It's nice that you made the clear distinction with the general "you" but it'd be good if you worked a bit harder to cut out the other insinuations. For example:

> At that point, it is, in fact, child rape, even if you aren't comfortable with the terminology and wish nicer language were used to describe it.

- Where did I say or imply that it wasn't child rape?
- Where did I say or imply I wasn't comfortable with that terminology?
- Where did I say or imply I was wishing nicer language were used to describe it?

I'm not sure how you hope to have an adult discussion on a sensitive topic if you're going to insinuate that asking you a question is tantamount to defending child rape.

I for my part have tried to find out more from someone who says they know more. I'm reading the research from one of the Wikipedia references you gave and questioning some of my assumptions while trying to remain sceptical and clear headed enough to analyse it.

> I don't feel compelled to try make it sound nicer given how damaging it can be to the child in question.

I think it's unlikely that most people in this discussion are condoning or defending this behaviour (or maybe they are but they should still get a chance to give their point and be challenged). Since we know most people will say they're for the protection of children wouldn't it be better to take them at their word, play the numbers and realise the majority here will be the same, and, if not tone down the description, tone down the attitude?

It's Hacker News, not Twitter.
> Even once cars are all electric, I can’t see gas turbine engines in planes, trains and ships being replaced in a hurry.

Of course most (non-electric) train engines use Diesel-electric propulsion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%E2%80%93electric_transm...). That's mostly because of the flat torque curve of the electric motor. Some ships do too.

I'm not sure why you think that battery-electric train engines or ships aren't going to happen. There is a lot of room for batteries on vehicles like that!
Scam? No! Companies can use it as marketing. If you plant it carefully you can get a few customers without having to fork a lot of cash for marketing by using Groupon.

Also, if you need to get rid of inventory you can sell the items at cost rather than have to sell it to a discounter at a loss.

Also, you decide whether to use them or not so you use them if it's an advantage to you.

Groupon can definitely be a plus to a company.
lol, looks like we broke the site :|

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
I Agree, It could be less than 15Gb for 2M WebSockets. But it's the first benchmark, and I decided to make it without much of optimizations - just to have a starting point. There is still much space for optimizations like reducing internal buffers and so on, but I will leave it for future tests.
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Last I checked Firefox still gives at least a warning + confirmation dialog if you try to install an unsigned / improperly signed extension with xpinstall.signatures.required = false, no?
I was really thinking about modern times. Post computer age.

But your answer is interesting, and goes to the library of Alexandria I guess.
Appreciate the reply, but we may be talking past each other here. Note I didn’t take the position of “you signed the contract, suck it up”. Renegotiations can and do happen.

Like you point out, people could get potentially be fired for walking out. At that point, those employees have demonstrated that having this clause changed is worth potentially not having this job. If that’s the case, why didn’t they negotiate on that clause before they were hired? Same things at stake, same gambit, just more direct.

Furthermore, now that these employees are trying to renegotiate after having worked with such terms in place for a time, what prompted this change? Were they once accepting of such terms but changes their mind? Or did they not object when that clause was only in their own contract, but now that they see it in other peoples contracts they are inspired to make some company-wide change? The motivations are far from clear.

The other part of the above comment left unaddressed is the implicit demonstration of priorities seems strange. The games industry has plenty of turnover, burnout, and rough conditions. So when some people choose to work in the games industry, presumably out of passion, their opportunity cost is substantial. Meanwhile, Riot Games has had a history of bad/abusive behavior within the company. So what kind of person does it take to go work at Riot but later decide “this is the issue where I’m taking a stand.” If they cared that much about working some place they like, and Riot already has this history, it seems strange to later be indignant about their workplace.
Of course not. The NSA didn’t put those vulnerabilities there. If we want to start pointing fingers, the first point of liability would be with whoever released the vulnerable software.
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Automatic updates give the update server the ability to compromise your machine.
Maybe that is ok?
I agree Windows file access is noticeably slower than on other platforms. But it seems like the issue has quite fundamental roots: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425.... Add to that Windows Defender scanning, and you have death by a thousand cuts rather than something that could be fixed by a single measure like adopting a faster filesystem.
One factor not discussed in the article is the differing attitude towards exports, piracy and copy protection. Historically, and even today, it's extremely difficult to legally view lots of Japanese content outside Japan, yet Japanese producers pursue copyright claims with rabid fervor. Japanese publishers for books and music were also extremely resistant to move to e-books, digital downloads or streaming.

For whatever reason, South Korean publishers were not as myopic, meaning their content could be more easily accessed -- at first technically illegally, but soon there was a groundswell of demand that led to large-scale legal rebroadcasting (TV stations showing Korean dramas etc) and that then led to today's juggernaut. Manga is just the latest example of Japan losing a market that really should have been theirs for the taking.
Why in the world would they do something as absurd as throwing over their kernel for a Linux kernel?

A BSD or Mach kernel, perhaps -- that's been done successfully already on the desktop. Linux? No chance.
The price of energy in Australia is very expensive. 20MWh is worth approximately $6000-9000 AUD.

So a 3kW system @ about $8k purchase price should return about $50 - 80k gross.

You can lower your efficiency substantially and still offset a substantial expense.
It's on-par with the terminals available on Linux...

Midnight Commander, htop, applications that make extensive use of VT command sequences all work fine.
I hear you. If both riders held up their end, it would have been mutually beneficial. But by "bad deal" I mean, notwithstanding the deal being mutually beneficial, there was really no reason for the weaker rider not to defect and sprint at the end.

In OP story, the stronger rider is expecting to finish first. Contrast that with the case you described in parent comment, wherein the stronger (GC) rider is expecting to finish second under the terms of the deal. Very different setup.
"one plus one equals" --> "one plus one equals 12"

guess it still needs to work on its math skills :P
I wasn't aware of that, thank you for the new info.

But isn't his life is endangered as the person lived on mineral water and clean air for most of his life in the US and how can he cope up with a much harsher environment there.
We’re in an economic war with China. It’s futile to compromise
Makes you wonder if the endgame is to eventually just gut windows completely and have a Microsoft GUI running on Linux.
The most interesting piece of work happening in the .Net world is actually CoreRT (which is already beta quality), which lets you write fully native apps with access to the large .Net ecosystem. For many, it could be an alternative to Go/Rust. c# is a more capable language that Go, and easier than Rust - a particular sweet spot.

Instead the announcement was primarily about unrolling the version mess created over the last few years.
I think part of the problem is that it'sn't visually obvious that ? and especially : are lower precedence than < and >. I suspect that most of the people with genuine objections would feel better about:

a<b ? -1 : a>b ? +1 : 0
# or maybe
a < b ?? -1 !! a > b ?? +1 !! 0 # perl6 style
# or
a < b then -1 else a > b then +1 else 0

not for verbosity vs succinctness but for the mnemonic that visually-smaller operators bind more tightly.
Having spent some time in Hong Kong, I'm well aware of that.

But I meant in the context of this discussion. China's intelligence agencies consider Hong Kong to be home turf just like the Puerto Rico is home soil for the NSA.
gfx passthrough is always a crapshoot. It normally doesn't work, and even if it does it simply adds a lot of complexity to something that doesn't need it.
>Just imagine something like cannabis lounge where you could take mushrooms in safe setting and if you feel overwhelmed you could talk to a trained staff member. Not necessarily a psychologist, just someone who can guide you through the experience. I really believe it could unleash incredible well-being for the society.

I believe the type of person you are referring to has historically been referred to as shaman.
Is this book new? I've read most of these stories, I think...
What in the world are you talking about? They have 3 business units they report earnings for. Which one is the “data mining business”?

If you need help sourcing this assertion, here’s their quarterly SEC 10-k filing. I look forward to understanding the basis of your accusation.

https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/static-files/fb546cc4-2cbe-41c...
Why run Windows on Linux when you can just run "Windows" applications on Linux...
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<Spoiler alert>

No witty comment here. That story is a great read.
> File change notifications still don't work right

WSL doesn't support the inotify api so even basic tools like tail don't work.
Re Armstrong link; that was a great read, thanks very much. Armstrong comes across with complete honesty, which is great to see - I just like when people write in an unfiltered, open way.

"When you name all the other winners from those days, all the riders, he was geared up in just the same way"!
"Java interoperability will be available on all platforms" I wonder if we will see a resurrection of the long gone Scala on CLR?
It does not make anyone wonder that. No one who knows Windows, anyway.
Did you read the article? There is no backdoor of any technology involved, let alone domestic technology.
I thought tesla open sourced all their patents? If that's the case, why would all these things be so guarded?
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I don't redo everything every season! I like to garden smart, not hard. Check out permaculture.

Last year, I put down cardboard and mulched - planting strawberries directly in the mulch and piercing through the cardboard. Fast forward a year, now that the cardboard is pretty composted, the strawberries were established last year had root systems in place, broke through the cardboard, and beat most of the weeds. The weeds can't thrive because the strawberries are taking up all the sun.
Konsole (KDE's emulator) doesn't use GPU at all and isn't any slower than Alacritty.
I was expecting something with a little more substance from an .edu domain. This didn't really give much detail. Randomly storing data in memory is not a new idea, this has been done for many years on game consoles to prevent people reverse engineering raw memory/disc dumps.

The "Unhackable" title is obvious clickbait and very easily proven wrong. Lets say you run nginx on this chip. You accidentally configure nginx so it is serving your config file on a route. The someone finds this out and breaks in by requesting that resource and then logs in to your server. No amount of memory shuffling will do anything about this unless nginx is totally broken every 50 milliseconds and in that case you may as well run your program on a rock from your back yard.

The only possible thing I see this fixing is when you have direct access to the memory at some kind of hardware level like if you have probes on the memory chip which can read and write but you don't have any way of accessing the memory mapping that allows programs to actually work on the chip.
But at least you get to choose who is on the list of potential suppliers.
There are a few therapy modalities that can help, check them out and see if any resonate with you: core transformation (my fave), feeding your demons (buddhist), internal family systems, focusing (eugene gendlin), coherence therapy. All are predicated around the same few core concepts of having different parts of yourself that view the world in different ways, acknowledging and accepting that each of those parts has some positive contribution to our well being even though they get into conflicts with each other about their proper 'domains' of applicability sometimes.
In this case, it sounds like one part is worried that you'll label it as bad and try to change it without acknowledging the ways in which it might be protecting or helping you. If you read the wikipedia page on coherence therapy for instance you'll see the steps around needing to address those parts needs before they're willing to compromise.

Happy travels.
The interop is pretty good, I don't have cowsay on Windows and I don't have node in wsl, but this still works:

C:\Users\Ryan>wsl cowsay hello
_______
< hello >
-------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

C:\Users\Ryan>wsl
ryan@DESKTOP:/mnt/c/Users/Ryan$ notepad.exe test.js
ryan@DESKTOP:/mnt/c/Users/Ryan$ node.exe test.js
hello, world!
From a quick search on the repository, the answer seems to be yes, it does support reflow: https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&...
These interviews with MS executives are quite revealing. I was especially shocked to see them on the record bad-mouthing UWP.

> Edge is also built on Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP), the company’s previous big push in Windows 8 and Windows 10 to get single universal apps that run across desktops, tablets, phones, Xbox consoles, and devices like the HoloLens. “Our third headwind was UWP. And it’s not that UWP is bad, but UWP is not a 35-year-old mature platform that a ridiculously huge amount of apps have been written to,” explains Belfiore. That meant things like multiple monitor support weren’t always solid for UWP, and the Edge team would have to wait for general UWP improvements. Microsoft had to get Edge back to a real desktop app, available across Windows 7, Mac, and Windows 10.

I agree with every word of that, but you could have imagined somebody saying, "let's spend into this; port UWP to Win 7 and Mac and fix the bugs."

Instead, Win32 has defeated yet another desktop competitor, as it always does.
if you have a bit of knowledge, you should know that every big organization has those types of settlements its impossible to avoid them
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How many employees from Microsoft in the 90s are still there now, calling the shots?

Microsoft is a company like any other, and like any other company we should keep an eye on what they're doing.

But too often the people who "remember Microsoft's bad practices" are completely unwilling to reevaluate the company based on what they're actually doing _now_, instead preferring to cling to illogical biases based on an old grudge.
That's a huge improvement! Really looking forward to Node taking advantage of this.
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On the other hand, they've been profitable since at least 2015 without invasive tracking. They have a lock on their niche in the marketplace, and their Alexa rank is in the top 200 and rising. Their main competitors are two of the biggest companies in the world, yet they are growing and showing no signs of slowing down. I'd call that a success.

Search engines are a mature market. You're not going to displace Google unless you manage to disrupt the entire industry somehow; social tried and failed at this, so it's not clear what this would even mean at present.

As a challenger in a mature market, DDG has the right strategy, and they are playing their hand successfully. I seriously doubt that branding is holding them back.
Most software updates risk compromising your machine, no?

I’m talking about whether external control is required for software updates to occur. As with Windows, where Microsoft can replace software on your machine at any time. On Ubuntu, canonical can add backdoored software to their repositories but they can’t forcibly install software on your machine AFAIK. Maybe I just misunderstood the comment I was responding to.
At the risk of sounding somewhat like I'm stereotyping, why is this? I never associated this with Japan in particular, but between losing out of loads of Japanese music I followed a few years ago and Nintendo basically invalidating everyone's Wii purchases it feels like it is ingrained in the corporate culture over there particularly for the large publishers.

Not that we have our own blemishes, DMCA, disregard for things like fair-use, parody and so on, etc. Heh, now that I think of it we have our own issues too.
Sure. There’s still some missing pieces of the motivation puzzle missing here, such as why this issue, why this point in time, why don’t employees exercise this option more often if this is a legit negotiating tactic, etc.

At the risk of being cynical, my guess is that this is a PR stunt as much as it’s an employment negotiation. We the outside observers would be the pawns of this tactic that can produce public sentiment to influence Riot. That’s why I’m not so quick to categorize this as simply another contract negotiation.
international or US only?
There isn't a clear definition of what counts as part of a country. For this purpose, it's about access to intelligence. By that standard, Britain is part of America too because they share intelligence. If it's decided by the country that claims it, then many disputed regions belong to more than one country. If it's decided by international agreement, then what happens when they don't agree? Like Taiwan and other disputed regions. What about Puerto Rico? Is that part of the US? If it's about control of the government and military, was Iraq part of the US when it was occupied?
Well if you haven't heard, they have made the console MUCH more like a Unix terminal in terms of architecture.

I think you may be referring to the old, awful, architecture.
Nidec divides the hard drive market into 5 segments: PC, External, Consumer Electronics, Datacenter, Enterprise. One of those five segments is crashing. External and Consumer Electronics are contracting slowly but will still be a cash cow for a while because those drives are still selling but don't require much if any R&D. Datacenter and Enterprise are basically the same for R&D purposes, and together are growing slightly.

There's a big difference between Seagate suffering the loss of (half of) one of those five market segments, and scaling the company down to a fifth of its size. Yes, they'll have a harder time funding R&D, but they're quite a ways off from having to drastically slash their R&D budget.