skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice of my OS had an option to disallow any and all USB devices. Plug something in? Ask whether I want to allow it. I guess this would get annoying after a bit. But still, I only use a couple of USB devices on a daily basis, but I click on boatloads of cookie warnings every day.
Am I reading this correctly as Kuberetes-powered fighter jets? That's certainly not going to shoot anyone in the foot...
Humans have different interests from other human beings. Take a wide enough sampling of humanity (i.e. not people who already know each other) and you'll find a wide variety of divergent interests.

But the prime directive of any entity - whether it's a living being, or abstract idea like a corporation or nation state - is to continue existing. After all, every entity that failed in this is no longer with us.

Society moving away from oil is an existential threat to ExxonMobil-the-corporation. Climate change is only an existential threat to a large fraction of humanity, and a largely disjoint one from individual decision-makers at Exxon. So their incentives are somewhat misaligned here.
I'll be interested to see how this pans out. I have significant hearing loss in both ears from infections as a baby, and the doctors always said it was because the hairs in my cochlea are dead. I was denied a few opportunities when I was younger due to my hearing, and I still can't hear most higher frequency sounds (whistles, some cymbals, smoke detectors, fire alarms...etc). It would be nice to be able to hear what everyone else hears and not have to say "what?" so often.

Though, as a bald man, I've learned not to get too hopeful about scientific advancements in regrowing hairs ;)
Still quite unfinished, but my site https://lightmeta.com has a couple of posts that might interest HN readers, in the Blog section and the Perspectives section.
Yes, something like that. When a suboptimal solution serves a strategic purpose it is not TD.
At least Microsoft isn’t pulling an Oracle... yet.
California does not provide safe tap water to all residents: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/us/the-crisis-lurking-in-...
Not sure why your comment is being downvoted. It's completely accurate and welcomed counterpoint to a common misconception.
Legitimate content creators would be frustrated by being flagged as posting illegitimate content would they not?

Or are you just trying to take this out of context because of a casual tone?
I'll stick with iCloud.
Brand new account and a seemingly unrelated topic. Is this a bot/spam account?
Just because you run windows doesn't mean you like it. SQL Server, vendor app requirements etc. A windowless world is about as likely as a paperless bathroom and for the same reasons.

Also, not sure what huge risk you are talking about here besides licensing pricing?
Test and debate all you want, but if your application needs random data and it has access or intermittent access to the internet, use the Cesium isotope 137 :)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
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HN is global, but many of are happy to live in the (relative) freedom of the USA, not Singapore or Communist CCP China.

https://reason.com/2019/01/04/co-man-wins-175k-for-police-si...

> In July 2016, Joshua Condiotti-Wade of Colorado participated in a public protest with signs that said "Fuck Bad Cops" and "Blue Lives Murder." Commerce City police officer Chris Dickey approached him, accusing him of trespassing and disorderly conduct. [...]
> Condiotti-Wade has now received $175,000 in compensation from the city."

https://qz.com/890689/what-us-protestors-can-and-cannot-do-a...
This one hits home. I have been arguing with my wife over stupid things that have been triggering my anger. Two weeks ago I ended up in the emergency room with a heart rate of 220. Got diagnosed with Supraventricular Tachycardia. I have continued having episodes and it is obvious to me that the trigger is anxiety. I worry a lot about too many things. Always thinking of worst case scenario. I have a cardiology appointment in a few hours and depending how that goes my next step is to see a doctor to get my anxiety under control. Hopeful it will stop my anger issues.

Edit: I would also like to add that I think my anxiety and preparing for worst case scenario in everything I do has been a factor in my career success. I worry I will lose my "edge" if I change. Looking for advice on this.
That the company culture ain't what it used to be.
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Over time what you're implying here is true, but in the short term there are a lot of people stuck on .net Framework and it's difficult to get off of it.

It should absolutely be done, any company with old .net framework solutions that are not actively looking at moving them to .net core is being foolish.

But lots of companies are foolish.
Perhaps, but that's not happening here. The Windows license change doesn't retroactively apply to existing licenses.
Bananas are the first item in the store. Just based on how they are merchandised it would be easy to predict this. (I know it is more complicated than that, please don't reply with "loss leader")
The concept of "owning" land is baseless in the grand scheme of nature and existence. I like the idea of Bir Tawil because I think it surfaces the idea that land _should_ be borderless and ownerless.
What about the license makes Azure specifically cheaper? Does it call out Azure specifically?

Or rather, you can use the on-prem license in the cloud, but only on dedicated hardware?

If so, Azure Dedicated Instances would be able to use that form of the license, but why not AWS which also has a dedicated hardware option?
You can get small quantities at meh pricing of other bananas, too. The question is whether there's anything that can be produced and shipped in large quantities at reasonable cost, like the Cavendish.
Can you provide any details as to how it will be free, scalable, and decentralized? The word blockchain doesn’t inspire my confidence.
But does it really take a coddled genius whose mind runs wild to develop a modern web app and give it lots of storage space? Or was it just a cool idea that a team of regular-old software developers decided to implement?
PyPy is still not fully Py3K ready. I'd expect MesaPy to only have built on a stable version of PyPy.
It hasn’t.
This applies to new licenses purchased starting in October. It's not "in the middle."
I know a few .NET stacks being served up on linux servers (no MS DB, obviously)
One thing I don't understand - why would exceptionally high or uncapped safes be a bad deal for founders? The post mentions that this leads to dilution and other issues in the eventual series A, but doesn't an uncapped safe lead to less dilution in the series A than a safe with a lower cap? Why is it a bad thing that there are more "to good to be true" offers being made now?
The government benefits package has been a major selling point in the past; If you want a pension (or second one as a retiree) it can really help the ends meet. Pay in the 2000s was about $24k a year.
My BigTechCo experience has mostly been people working a 9-5 shift, and politics doesn't play into it at all. There is a general desire to avoid conflict and not be an asshole, and maybe do some occasional good with spare cycles.

The vocal minority you refer to doesn't influence my day to day or month to month. You get people posting manifestos, and people whining about XYZ, but you only butt heads with them if you actively seek them out and want to get offended.

The idea that there are some kind of political commissars reprimanding me for "whitelisting" features for certain customers, or giving out demerits for using gendered pronouns in promo packets, is a paranoid fantasy.
I’m currently in Mainland China for a few months. Just searched and surely it’s totally fine:

- Winnie the Pooh Baidu search: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/49120719/62957954-...

- Baidu image search featuring both Winnie and Xi: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/49120719/62958027-... (Memes are filtered or at least demoted, though.)

My local friends don’t think it was ever banned. (Of course they aren’t bored enough to monitor this every day.)

A lot of stupid claims about China in the Western press are easily debunked with the teeniest amount of Mandarin knowledge, or none at all. If it sounds too crazy, it’s probably false. Doesn’t help when people reaffirm each other’s totally unfounded opinions, and discredit anyone who speaks otherwise.
Yes and no. I work on some ASP .NET applications and on a big .net core project.

The .net core project indeed runs fine on Linux in AWS. It's a great success story for us.

The ASP .NET projects I maintain have a budget that doesn't easily allow us to just migrate them to .net core. There are some hairy legacy libs and code in there that would also prove challenging to resolve too.
In that case just 𐑤𐑻𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯, 𐑥𐑱𐑚𐑰? Works on the regular internet.
If properly licensed, it’s still open source. Free as in speech, not as in beer.
I still find it mind-boggling how some people can be so surprised by the fact that people in general act in their own interest. A normal, healthy human being is exclusively concerned by its own well-being and that of its immediate family. To the extent that we witness altruistic behavior, it is executed for signalling purposes (this is the reason why there's virtually no completely anonymous charity, see "The elephant in the brain").

There is a part of the brain that is responsible for integrating events into a continuous narrative. That part of the brain is why we perceive ourselves as an integral being and not a set of parts, but that part is also severely biased in healthy humans, biased to paint ourselves as kinder, more altruistic, more intelligent, while also rewriting the motivation we cite for our past actions, so as to put ourselves in the best possible light.

But no, there's nothing special about those Exxon researches, that's just normal human behavior.

And to go further, acting against ones own interest requires going over a strong emotion. The body let's you know that you shouldn't be doing something through a gut feeling. Repeatedly ignoring or repressing those emotions is not healthy for the nervous system, and much has been written on this subject.

LE: And regarding claims that stopping global warming was in their own interest back in the 1980s, there's the hyperbolic discounting effect (among other things).
Depends on the app. Legacy LoB / Enterprise stuff is very Windows-centric. For example, think of the huge sub-industry of “component vendors” that service the legacy Visual Basic ecosystem. If your CTO says they want that LoB system _in the cloud_ without rewriting it then you’re in the market for a Windows cloud provider.
The original paperclip maximizers
If the magnetic field protects us from the sun, then, when it shifts in some unexpected way, could that leave us unprotected?
Even if every researcher in the University of California system stopped publishing with Elsevier, this problem would still exist: UC libraries would need contracts with Elsevier for their journals, because researchers at other universities publish with Elsevier, and UC researchers need access to their work to do their jobs.

There is a campaign to boycott publication in Elsevier journals more generally, which has been going on for many years, but the collective action problem means it hasn't dented Elsevier much: http://thecostofknowledge.com/
“If a person harassing you inside Holynetr he or she or a group of them will be banned from the system.”

How will you prevent the abuse of this system? In other SN there are ideologically motivated gangs censoring people just because of disagreements.
> And fwiw, the literal translation of terra nullius isn't "nobody's land" it's "empty land".

But isn't terra nullius a play on res nullius, which in Roman law meant a thing nobody owned? Perhaps it literally meant 'empty thing'. (My Latin is very weak.)
Do many people even use byo license on aws to begin with?
HarmonyOS is launching in China first. In China, you only need to have a few apps on your phone to make it worth buying, because those few apps let you do EVERYTHING. WeChat, AliPay, etc. WeChat even has its own mini-app ecosystem because of this type of usage preference.

Because of these consumer demographics of how they use their apps and what kind of apps they prefer, I don't think it's inconceivable that they can get a big initial customer base in China. In a country of a billion-plus people who also wouldn't mind supporting a home team company, that would be enough to keep HarmonyOS sustainably alive.

Need a thriving app ecosystem? You think they can't convince a number of Chinese app developers to develop for HarmonyOS? Especially the big app developers if the government asks for it?

Yes, there are questions whether HarmonyOS can become an internationally prevalent OS. But that's just a larger definition of success. I would not be surprised to see HarmonyOS become huge in China by itself, at least on par with iOS in terms of Chinese market share, if not better. And if that happens, I cannot see how I would consider HarmonyOS not a success.
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Having official apps for WhatsApp, FB, GMaps, Youtube, Google Voice Assistant, Twitter helps a lot with the ecosystem part.
> Also what if your family has both teenagers and preteens?

"When I was a kid" preteens and teenagers were expected to be able to get to the bus stop on their own; But maybe that's just because both of my parents worked and left before the bus came.
I don’t know anything, but I would not be shocked to learn that malpractice insurance does not cover "exploratory" practices paid in cash under the table.
The thesis isn't that major advancements aren't happening, but that they're happening more slowly. Or maybe more accurately, there was an period in the 20th century that is now over where major advancements happened unusually quickly.
The current Interior Secretary is, of course, a former oil industry lobbyist.
But that's the point. It is a fuzzy thing. Software is built on business priorities, not technical ones. These align a decent amount of the time. Spending the extra time and money to set up tests is very much worth it.

Is it worth implementing a cache layer in a system? One on hand, you have a better system that can handle more load, on the other, you've spent time that could be spent doing something else. Your systems will almost always have limitations, it's important to understand these and communicate them well. Tech debt should be managed so it doesn't tip over and cause issues. Really good devs and dev managers develop the eye to see when that's about to happen and make sure they convince product that you need to pay that down soon.
I've also come to realise that technical debt is everything. Anything that is resistant to change is technical debt, which includes the code you are writing "now", whether you anticipate its need to change in the future or not. There's the stuff that you know is painful or messy, but then there's the stuff that is suitable for today's needs but those needs may change in the future. Nothing is free from debt.
I can anecdotally confirm this. When my tinnitus starts up, I do this immediately. Like, stop whatever I'm doing immediately (obviously not driving), and it does give me some relief. It's really weird hearing quiet afterwards, though.
> Why is it okay for . . . .

It's not okay.
I agree that Kubernetes-powered fighter jets is a bad idea, bordering on catastrophically bad.
That said, I assume they'll be using Kubernetes as a development and test platform -on the ground- to produce some form of binary output that would go on the plane.
The drop-down lets me sign in and out of my one account, but I don't see a way to sign into another one. Similarly, there's a "Manage Teams" button I found, but you can't use it to add a team from another account/server there.
> It would be nice of my OS had an option to disallow any and all USB devices

Any desktop computer would have to be redesigned to add a "allow new device" button since they have no other input.

Even on many laptops, the internal keyboard and mouse are USB devices, when you install a new OS, do you have to accept trust to those as well? Or how will you stop an external device from spoofing them with the same vendor/device ID?
I use it every time I'm using SVG for the web.

My only problem is that when pasting SVG directly from Illustrator it finds an invalid character at the end and refuses to use it. I have to paste the SVG into an editor, remove some invisible character at the end, and then paste to svgomg.

I reported this and offered to PR but never got an answer: https://github.com/jakearchibald/svgomg/issues/145
Because they don't ship well-- skin thickness and ripening time. We can have them in the US and EU, but not at a reasonable cost.
And worse versions too.
True evil is also believing all crap that yellow press and country-level echo chambers produce and then to bring it at someone’s table.

While I completely disagree with a commentor who calls “not interested in politics” an euphemism, as if they were disgusting and uneducated, your set of scary factoids likely falls right into this category.
App idea: iOS/Android/PC/MacOs/ipad/linux clients to encrypt/decrypt documents on Google Docs.

Just encryption -- you don't need the whole blockchain.

Not sure there is a way to do that with Google Docs, though. You need a layer between them. You can use Google Drive of course, but then the client has to come up with all the clever features Docs provides.
This sounds like ad administrative issue with how Teams are built and organized within Teams. It can be clean, simple, and effective when managed properly but user training is important.
My opinion is that the Amazon threat vector is overblown. This cable is better suited for inside attackers (friends & family) or for highly targeted attacks.

Amazon reviewers would quickly notice terminal windows pop up on their screens or keystrokes happening at inopportune times, assuming a more advanced exploit isn’t used. (many of these attacks simply try to spawn a terminal window and type commands, a very noisy approach) Scary device regardless, I just think the Amazon vector is overhyped.

If you are a high value target, pay close attention to your supply chain and how you receive packages.
Once upon a time, reaching out to contact editors and reviewers, getting together reviews, shepherding the editors, managing publishing decisions, formatting manuscripts into articles, and printing physical journals, and mailing them to customers cost significant amounts of money. So it was more-or-less in everyone's interest to support publishers, as a key actor in disseminating and consuming scientific knowledge.

So what is the reasoning?

Pure institutional inertia.
Which office suite are the tools based on?
FYI you can copy any vector in Illustrator and when you paste it somewhere it is actually SVG code.
There is no such thing as a non-incremental major technological change, all changes in the history of humanity took time, sometimes many decades.
This implies one needs to act against one's interests to take action on climate change. Lack of imagination on Exxon's part could explain this as well. They could have started ringing alarm bells and used their massive strength to push for environmental research and favorable regulations.
That’s amazing. Reminds of a personal finance class I took where we played a stock trading simulation based on prices from the actual market. One of my friends edited the HTML on the games page to make it look like he made millions. Teacher almost bought that one.
Alternatively, I can create a new team or channel myself without oversight, standards, or any sort of best practice. That functionality is not locked down allowing freedom but the possibility of a wild west chat system.
Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters
Not even close to true. The last project I worked on had a Windows Domain entirely hosted in AWS with Windows server instances including DCs, CAs, SQL servers, etc.

>Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO ofAzure, Microsoft's cloud program, said, "One in four [Azure] instances are Linux." Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, "it's about half now, but it varies on the day because a lot of these workloads are elastic, but sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux." Microsoft later clarified, "about half Azure VMs are Linux."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/
A related (but less automated) advantage is if you're building react components that render SVG, this minified output will be much shorter and hopefully easier to reach through and figure out where you want to insert your own colours/child components.
The problem is that banana seeds are large and inedible and trying to eat a banana with seeds is very messy. Hence, triploid and cloning.
I bet somewhere on Redhat's sales pitch deck there was a mention of "1 - click deploy updates" slide, somewhere, for sure.
From the blog post[0]:

> Azure Hybrid Benefit for Azure only

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updated-licen...
Anyone know why they (The NYT) want people to create an account in order to read their articles? I have always been curious about this as it seems to me there is no finical benefit for them or am I missing something?
That IBM acquisition is starting to pay off.
Well now it seems like they're much more strategic and Machiavellian
that's it. wow 50% increase in stars in one day. sly HN success!
You're projecting a lot of things onto what I'm saying. I never claimed hunter-gatherer was for everyone. Getting back to nature is. That's science.

Privilege is there to be shared. This includes privileged wisdom.

Indigenous cultures are dying out due to settlers and colonizers decimating their lands, cultures, and people. This is not news. It has nothing to do with their way of life, aside from not having developed appropriate weapons and immune systems from those who would seek to kill/displace them.

As for the global food problem, I personally hypothesize capitalism needs to fall or radically transform before that can be addressed.

Learning to peacefully and freely share food seems like the simplest way to address current food issues, but people's desire for money seems to get in the way.
I don't know if software developers are all that risk adverse. I mean we're typically changing development environments and tools a lot, usually at a very high expense to change, with little evidence of time savings. Sometimes however those changes may feel like time savings or is just a cooler way to code. For example consider someone coding standard REST services vs adopting GraphQL. The adoption itself is a huge risk, probably exponential cost of introduction, probably a little more convenient code once that initial risk is taken on. Yet companies are adopting it like gangbusters. Similarly with React and a lot of other (Facebook) tech.

Ton's of risk, arguably lots of reward, but doesn't seem to be perfectly correlated with risk alone.
Building ephemeral media messaging for Android
Surely if Elsevier was so bad the magical hand of the free market would simply have solved it by now.
These animals/plants do not have a choice in the matter. They have no say whenever we destroy their homes or their food sources. How do people honestly think it is their right to destroy and take all for their mighty money? Why do we let corporate greed take over so many things that should be simple?