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They don't need to steal. They can just do the same they did to ZTE, they managed to install a person or two into their board of directors as part of the settlement of the dispute.
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VC funding has nothing to do with it. It’s an argument against the business practice of leveraging monopoly in one market to subsidize selling at a loss in other markets to kill off competition before it can even emerge. That is what Microsoft appears to be doing with Github, and it is overall a bad thing for everyone except Microsoft. We will get less choice in the markets poisoned by Microsoft, and in the long run we will get less value for a higher cost.

By the way, this is not just about Microsoft. Google, Amazon, and to a lesser degree Apple and Facebook are equally guilty of this.
Ah, yes, that does make sense. Thanks for explaining.

I'm a fairly aggressive automator, so I forget that doing it by hand is actually an option.
RHEL8 doesn't include a Python 2 runtime that is supported for the whole life of the distro. There are a couple exceptions where Python 2 is used at build time, but that's it.

At the point when people started to work on pcp-dstat, it was clear that if you wanted X in the base distribution it had to be Python 3 compatible.
Whilst I am happy for you and that your business of providing these services is doing well, it is a sad state of affairs when small online businesses have to cough up anywhere between 3%-7% of revenue to deal with the regulatory mess the governments have created.
Because there isn't any reason for me to jump to a conclusion. For other reasons, I already have a carbon footprint and voting record almost anyone in that consensus would approve of. Is it really important that I "believe" all the things people are afraid of? I'm pretty content to leave some topics unresolved until I get more information.
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> It definitely makes it much harder for the few remaining competitors but also benefits the far greater number of users.

It only benefits users in the short term. The consequences of monopoly catch up with all of us, eventually.
I'm not sure what OP is complaining about. From GitHub's announcement it's clear that there's also a new functionality to make it easy for projects to link to whatever funding platform they use. Open Collective is mentioned specifically:

> Open source projects can also express their funding models directly from their repositories. When .github/FUNDING.yml is added to a project’s master branch, a new “Sponsor” button will appear at the top of the repository. Clicking the button opens a natively rendered view of the funding models listed in that file.

> The YAML format is flexible, so a project’s maintainers and contributors can decide how they want to fund the project on their own terms. They can showcase any (or all!) of the following: the GitHub Sponsors profiles of the developers who contribute to the project; a list of popular funding models including Open Collective, Community Bridge, Tidelift, Ko-fi, and Patreon; and custom links to alternative funding models.

From https://github.blog/2019-05-23-announcing-github-sponsors-a-....
Also check out the pimoroni kickstarter 32blit then. it's a bit cheaper than the play date (but not by much and at full retail cost will be pretty much the same) but has better scope and will be open source. it's not a Pi-in-a-box-with-retropie but a STM32 microcontroller with a light OS/SDK layer on top. a development toolchain that looks a lot like the editors for Pico-8
Conscience?
Tl;dr there are 7 billion artificial general intelligences in this world, and most of them are unemployed. Time and resources are the bottleneck to change and progress, not intelligence.

I agree with this assessment, and I think this is a much better argument against AI danger than the ones I use (which boil down to unfalsifiability, violation of the laws of entropy, and a lack of astronomical evidence of celestial AGIs creating paperclip planets).
Sorry if I reported it incorrectly. The point remains however that the ambulance services protocols put the safety of their staff over those of injured members of the public. I think I heard of heated exchanges between police officers demanding paramedics to attend to people and they refusing to do so. Is that not correct?
"MVS 3.8 so not current Z/OS."

Bit of an understatement, MVS 3.8j was released in 1981.
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It's more like selling a sword. You may use it to chop up watermelon but we both know that's not the main use case.
I'd say the power to leave is also a nice feature, it forces the larger government to provide some sort of value and not step on too many toes or risk being disbanded.

Imagine if California was free to regulate all of healthcare for itself. They could write whatever socialized medicine program the voters desired all while not burdening the people of Texas with the cost who perhaps prefer a free market solution of some kind. As different states implement different programs people would be able to vote with their feet as to what was the better deal, causing states to compete with one another to offer the best deals to its population.

States are too small to effectively implement what they want? That isn't a problem as they can contract with each other and if that goes south look to the federal government to resolve the dispute.
This is the second time I've read of this on HN and I've literally no idea what any of it is about.

I can perhaps imagine this happening in some [crappy centre-town, tourist-trap] nightclubs, but literally not in a ‘Denny's type’ cafe restaurant.

I can't even begin to imagine why, short of some scam or bored locals teasing tourists.
Could you please work on increasing the information-to-inflammation ratio of your comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Risk management has a cost. The question is what is the price? What are you willing to pay for being "safe". What are you willing to risk?

Are future generations worth more than current? Should we militarily prohibit poor countries from using fossil fuels which they use to better their lives?

You can say worst outcomes with other things too, meteor, nuclear war, pandemic, terrorism, etc. you always have to find a balance.

With the climate change debate, this balance is completely ignored and people are seriously suggesting making fundamental changes to society without having any ability to know what the consequences of those will be.

Climate catastrophism is itself a potential danger.
Since some of the paperwork was the same, I applied for PR alongside my second renewal (the one that got me 5 years) to avoid multiple trips to city hall. The 5 year spouse visa renewal took a week to be approved, the PR took 3 months. So in the end I only had the 5 year visa for 3 months :p
Even if for the sake of argument this person committed suicide with a gun in the back of the car, the officer involved should be fired for negligence.
Article author here. I get why people trip over that comparison. Unfortunately it wasn't added by myself, nor part of the original draft. The comparison is (somewhat) obviously intended to make it clear that it was a super-popular game.

That said, I'm glad that people like the rest of the article :)
Perhaps this is all a ploy to encourage us to get our credit cards on file with Github? They don't have my card details, and I don't intend to change that. I'll look for other means to donate to the open source projects I want to support, but it does not involve giving Microsoft Github my bank account details.
Huge congrats to Dependabot team! If you're starting a new project in Python (+ others), having Dependabot + CircleCI (or something equivalent) + Strong test coverage will save you hundreds of hours (eventually).

Best trick is to make sure your test coverage is strong early (I know this is easier said than done ...), then you can just merge updated requirements without ever worrying.

GitHub has a type of service that would check requirements already, it just never felt as polished as Dependabot. But it goes to show how far a committed team can prioritize over bigger players. IIRC, they still use Heroku, which seems like a lot of discipline in prioritizing the right product features over just building tech stacks in BigCloudProviders.
Nobody talks much about the original goal of
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." -- PEP 20 (!)

Back when, I lurved me some Perl TMTOWTDI as much as the next guy--plenty of uses for such a thing in a Swiss army chain saw--but then Python had a good (or at least different) answer to that by reducing the language load and focusing more on the problem.

So tell me, how many string formatters do we have now? Could we please decruft and dump some of them while we're at it? % or f' or .format or whatever, but please just pick one and get the rest out of my face.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
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I'm complaining about that this feature is not trying to improve the ecosystem long-term for open source developers.

It's great that you can now have a fancier link to OpenCollective. Thank you for that, Githubbers who are reading the HN comments. But it feels like smoke-and-mirrors.

The real announcement is the other, built-in funding platform they built. Which, if they wanted to, could have been built entirely on something open, instead of their own stuff. There is no special features that for example OpenCollective does not already have.

Instead they (not surprisingly) continue to walk down the path of closed platforms, while cheering for open source.
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An official list, containing only one library for each purpose, could solve the issue.
npm is worse IMO.

First it forces the node_module in your repository, which mean you have to configure tons of tools to ignore it or you'll have a bad time.

Then there is no way to have comfortable local command, so plenty of time you gotta have sudo -g. Recent npm version now have a tool for that but the experience is meh.

Plus there is no builtin tool to manage several versions of node, so you gotta add nvm on top of that.

And then if you work on the front end, you can't even use whatever you npm installed stuff, you gotta setup the entire webpack shenaigan, making it literally the hardest stuff to setup. It's so complicated we rely on black box such as create-react-app to do the job for us.
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They say that the production run will be very limited. Which means there isn't much incentive for gamedevs to make more games later, as the audience can never expand beyond the initial sales.
This would be something great for GitLab to jump on. A bit reactionary, but would be great for them to show support for a more open payment system.
> But: all the built-in tools will have an inherent advantage over third party solutions. This inevitably leads to increased lock-in and homogenization.

There's no lock-in, you can continue whatever integrations or pipeline you have now. This just gives an easier option. Them offering Github Pages isn't lock-in to their hosting, but it offers convenience in various scenerios.
> Anyway, I will stop here but I could go on for hours :-)

Oh please go on for hours; I'd love to hear more. Any format (blog or just semi-structured brain dumps in comment threads) will feed thoughts :-)
Two challenges: building AC systems are often surprisingly poorly designed and installed, especially if your building has ever had internal redesigns, so you’re picking which areas are either too hot or cold rather than getting the entire place the same temperature. Developers tend not to be high-status enough to get the building set for them — that tends to be the suit-wearing executive suite or, at many places, sales.

The other factor to consider is that people who are too cold can layer up but someone who’s too hot doesn’t have an option other than working from home.

One thing which increased environmental concerns is leading to is reconsidering both of these given how expensive AC is. Getting people to dress appropriately for the season would lead to a big reduction in peak electrical load in much of the U.S. In some cities like San Diego where distribution capacity is constrained that’s the difference between having brownouts or not.
That's a great idea! GitLab implementing native support for OpenCollective or similar would raise the bar significantly.
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If it were all transparent and above-board, and people knew what they were paying for and why, I'd agree. But that's not really the case. My father died a few years ago, and it was obvious that the funeral home staff relies on you being in a compromised emotional state, such that you'll just say yes to anything and not question the price.
There might be a tiny group of Americans for whom something being "Made in America" would significantly impact their product decisions, but in most cases I think price and quality are the main decision making factors.
Military passenger planes often have the seats facing aft. Even when they're the same model with the same chairs as a commercial airliner, they just install them facing aft.
Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19982371
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I've always thought that I ought to have learned WPF, but the reality is I don't work on significant desktop software, so when I need to build a little desktop UI, it's a quick and dirty internal tool, or at best a configuration dialog. WinForms is incredibly easy to bang out that kind of use case so it just never made any sense to put the investment in.

Maybe if Silverlight hadn't been such a deadend.
Google will argue that while this data is intimate (religion, age, personal preferences), it is not personally identifiable.

I have access to one of these data feeds of bid requests, and for the most part, they're right. Pick a random entry and even after hours of searching and correlating with the other data we have on file, it's unlikely I'd be able to identify exactly who it was (ie. Their name and address) on that website.

Some requests totally are identify-able though, for example if the user goes on to click one of our ads, buy something, and give us their postal address. In the eyes of the law, we have broken the rules there by re-identifying previously anonymous data.

While I think Google is technically in the right here, they're gonna loose big time because they're a foreign company and don't have much love with the public.
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It is nice that puppet defines a graph of dependencies compared to doing this in ansible.
What I find tough is that you have another indirection when using puppet to configure your tools. So you first have to figure out the puppet module’s configuration and how it maps onto the actual tools configuration
Oh, Germany as well. Honestly didn't realize these premium satellite things are still widely used over purely IP based content delivery options so they slipped my mind there.
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npm, yarn, bower, jamjs, pnpm...

Besides, I have 15 years of Python behind me, I code and train in Python for a living, and I still use just pip.

pip and venv are packaged with recent versions of Python and do the job fine.
Windows Terminal is like iTerm2 / xterm etc.
CMD.exe, Posh is like bash, zsh, etc.

It's less likely you'll "master" a terminal emulator. (Other than figuring out settings where the defaults get in your way of using it).
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From talking to professional producers I know, it takes roughly 10 years of practice to produce music that’s professional quality. Those stories you see of 18 year old DJ’s knocking out number one records? Most of them have been taking music classes since they were small children (or someone else is producing their music for them).

So if you suck at it, that’s normal. You just have to stick with it.
> It's great that you can now have a fancier link to OpenCollective. Thank you for that, Githubbers who are reading the HN comments.

It improves discoverability, which is important enough that it's a big part of why people use GitHub. It might just be me, but that seems like it might benefit open source developers no matter what platform they use.
Brave is a product built on Chromium - work of many Google engineers (mostly). And still they call Google an "evil behemoth corporation". And now this article - pathetic example of black PR and double-dealing.
Then maybe those large enterprise organizations should start paying for the long mature process with experienced developers
Nope, you can't build WPF apps on Mac using Visual Studio for Mac.
>the tubes are packed and the cabs locked.

Not during the middle of the day, which would have a knock on effect

>each train has CCTV coverage.

You could always keep a change of clothes
Your personal opinion? Moral judgment? International law... breitbart... where do you get this idea from, and what is the cut off line for this white-wash determinism?
> I suspect the majority would do the opposite and deny/understate the problem.

I don't know. I've seen so much fear-mongering in my life. We're all going to die from zika, n1h1, ebola, killer bees, aids, mrsa, terrorists, and so on. In each case, there's something to be afraid of, and you might actually know someone who died in one those ways, but the media and the lay people blow it way out of proportion. The people I've know who died have been from drugs, suicide, heart failure, stroke, and car accidents.

> The sensible thing to do in the absence of information is precisely to imagine the worst outcomes and act with them in mind.

I can't accept that as sensible. It's easy to contrive unacceptable courses of action by applying that rule: "The police don't know who the murderers are, so they lock up everyone to avoid the worst outcome." "The doctor isn't sure how bad the infection is, so we amputate all the limbs just in case."
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How do you even hold a gun to your mouth after having contoured handcuffed hands from you back into the front of your face?
But.....they also use the system more, yet pay the same as someone who uses the system less. That's not fair either, surely.
Not anymore, .whl files are now similar to npm packages, with static metadata and just unpacked on pip installed. Most popular packages are .whl now.
The OP-1 isn't just a sequencer. It is a synth, a sequencer, a sampler (which even includes an internal FM radio if you need a creative source), etc.

You should explore the machine if you get the chance or watch some of the stuff people do with it. It is a great creative instrument.
> only a few very small parks within city limits (the largest green space is the Père-Lachaise cemetery)

It might be a detail, but the two large parks (Boulogne and Vincennes) are within the city limits.

Also I don't know London very well, but from Google Maps I see almost no greenery in the center, while Paris' parks are maybe smaller but much more evenly distributed throughout the city.
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Sure, and there's the Extinction Rebellion stuff in the UK. Here in Australia we're kind of complacent/lazy, not often giving a stuff about anything except sports, celebrities, and limitless acquisition of consumer crap. But there is a bit of the school strike stuff happening.

It's all a bit marginal though, isn't it?

People might object to the 'quasi religious' aspect of what you're talking about. I'd make the point though that any culture which acknowledges even minimally the true nature of the living planet that is our home would appear mystical or religious to the deathly bloodless denatured worldview that so ruthlessly holds power now. The latter is either going to give way to something that is a better fit for physical reality, or it will destroy itself by soiling its own nest, largely in hapless ignorance regarding what's at stake.
LiberaPay seems popular with developers. But Patreon is not unheard of either. The guy that codes Inkscape is on Patreon for instance.
I think it is probable that big players would lawyer-up their way out but GDPR has little impact on honest competition, sure, if you want to join the dodgy-club without deep pockets and a legal department, it is gonna a bit harder, but tough cookies.
Did the New Yorker just quote the New York Times that quoted an April 1st joke tweet [0] about Patagonia no longer making vests for bankers?

Is this a comedy piece?

[0] https://twitter.com/binnaskim/status/1112727524675592192?s=1...
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The cost to importing an extra module is trivial.

Why reinvent the wheel, when Python ships with an already written and tested solution? The 3 lines of code you would write are probably going to miss some corner case.

If I'm reading some unfamiliar code I would rather see one use of a standard library function call than several lines that I have to read and understand. And if it was really the first time I came across the `fileinput` module, I only have to pay the cost of reading the documentation once, and then forever benefit from having to read and understand less code whenever it is used.
> Many Japanese will always consider them "less Japanese" or outsiders.

Isn't this true of other nations?
I don't think ATMs appeared equally early everywhere, but in any case, 'killer app' in this context points to the fact that the Visical application made businesses go out and buy Apple II computers, just so they could run Visicalc. They didn't, before Visicalc. That little piece of software made the sales of Apple II explode and laid the fundament for having something like the IBM PC in the office. ATMs were very useful for people, but it didn't create a fundamental change in the use of computers.
Are there options for delivery companies, for tradespeople with there trucks and machinery who come to Paris because that is where the jobs are?

Parisians as a whole think of themselves a separate entity from the rest of France.

Who cares if you can't come to Paris by car because there are no buses or because it simply takes too long to get where you want to go via train?

I always thought that most Parisians were snobs, I guess I was correct.
In the short-term, I think a lot of open source developers will get funding, who might not have gotten it otherwise. But I'm not too optimistic of a future where GitHub, as a closed platform, basically owns open source.

Copying from another comment I made:

> But with the new owner who sees GitHub as a way to get marketshare of developers, and not as it's own entity, it's hard to continue to cheer on them. When Microsoft have to either increase profits/decrease expenses and they choose between Azure and GitHub, I'm pretty sure the effort will either be to decrease the expenses of GitHub, or increase the profits of Azure. None of those two ways are good for the users of GitHub in the long-term.