skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or even just a filter that's poorly designed and becomes a breeding ground for harmful microorganisms.
In Office 365 Excel, there is no way to zoom out or in besides the browser's zoom which causes the whole UI to be scaled.
Solutions are fueled by growth as much as problems are. There's a whole school of thought that by assertion argues that growth is bad. It's not an argument that withstands scrutiny.
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China is harvesting organs from prisoners, so I don’t think we’ve evolved all that much.
That’s great if you’re transporting large numbers of the same thing like star link satellites. However, many payloads are worth sacrificing the first stage. Just look through the “No attempt“ missions in 2018 for some of the reasons why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_...

Which again demonstrates reusability is really expensive, though clearly not always as expensive as a new rocket.
With Stadia's "negative latency" technology, it's like it's already shut down.
The target needs to be marked with infrared ink: you can project only on specific surfaces prepared in advance.

Edit: discard this comment, I misread the parent comment.
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See the review on this product titled "Changed the formula?" ...

This is common, where a manufacturer will reduce costs by taking a formerly imported luxury product and re-create it with different ingredients from a different manufacturer, but all the reviews from the old product remain.

https://www.amazon.com/Its-10-Haircare-Miracle-Product/dp/B0...
They're already pretty close to fascism, it's just that the West prefers not to notice it because who makes all the iPhones? Much like Britain and France ignored Hitler's territorial exploits until it was too late. China already has the largest army in the world and asserts its territorial claims in e.g. the South Sea...
How big is the Claws Mail binary? A large part of the cost of starting up Firefox, or other large programs, is just getting the binary from disk into memory plus all the work the dynamic linker needs to do once it's there.
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Well, that's the other side of the argument, right? Apple has developed most or all of the technical underpinnings for this already, as demonstrated by the ability to do enterprise provisioning and install apps through TestFlight. It wouldn't require an amazing engineering feat for them to bring a version of Gatekeeper to iOS that let you install signed applications from anywhere, not just their app store -- the plumbing is basically already in place. The question is really whether there's a legal case for that.

While I've generally come down more on your side of that argument in the past, I'm not longer quite so sure; Apple's control over the iOS app ecosystem as things are now has no precedent in the history of computing I'm aware of, and I could certainly see a plausible case made that this control does ultimately harm consumers by making it effectively impossible to install non-Apple-sanctioned software on iOS devices. Both "if you didn't want to accept that you shouldn't have bought an iOS device" and "but you can technically jailbreak the device if you find a way Apple hasn't cut off yet" are plausible defenses, too, but neither one seems to me like a legal slam-dunk.
You’re absolutely right, would love any suggestions!
Just a question-- what would be a path you deem the best? Should Microsoft just work in its silo, while Linux develops in its silo? Should Microsoft not embrace linux?
I feel like the 2 strategies mentioned by the author simply let you point to the other one when the first one doesn't grip.
I'm always at a loss when these HN posts come about, because I feel like 99% of the hate/sentiment stems from the time Microsoft was actually a shitty company (I'm sure it is still shit in great lengths today, but not comparable to the Ballmer years).
Likely because you can like a company, or portions of their output, without being a "staunch supporter", depending on your interpretation of what that even means. I think most people are interpreting being a staunch supporter with ignoring their shortcomings. You may not mean it that way, and may correctly criticize them for their missteps (it sounds like you do, since you reference criticism), but if people interpret this comment as defense of defending Apple in all circumstances, then they're likely to down vote.

I think this is less a case of people being too for or against a company, and more people interpreting the same statement differently depending on their own context.
wow they even added shading, to do fake lighting effects
I used cygwin to do web development circa 2007/2008. It was a huge pain in the ass and one of the main reasons I switched to Macs. I've been back on Windows for a couple of years now using WSL and it's been pretty great. I'm excited for that integration to get even tighter with WSL2.

The broad categories I use professionally are office crap, web dev, and creative tools. Macs used to suck at the first and rule the last two, but they've really fallen behind in the last few years. The new macbook pro looks like a good machine, but I switched to a gaming laptop to get a better GPU and 64gb of RAM. This (2-year-old) machine does everything I need it to do and I'm now at a point where Macs are going to have to do something pretty spectacular to get me to switch back (or have Windows screw up in a comparable way to what Apple has done the last few years).

What's the point of all this? I think this article misses the boat pretty badly on who Micrsoft's talking to when it says it loves linux. It's talking to web devs like me who work and deploy to linux, not software philosophers who want to debate the meaning of free. From my point of view, they're doing great right now.
100 Billion is a vast overstatement.
> I would suggest that this is change, not a norm in the last few decades.

I am not so sure that we changed so rapidly. It would also make sense that this is not new, and it has just become more apparent in the last few decades, as people have been increasingly communicating with with more other people than ever before.

I think the vast majority of people never had the reason/opportunity to acquire critical thinking skills. It has been discussed by philosophers hundreds (if not thousands) of years ago, so I think it's safe to assume it's not new.

But regardless, I believe the real issue here is that we are not doing much to teach people to think critically.
Precisely this. Trade negotiations by their nature are written by the winners, and until the voters wise up to this, we are doomed to repeat these mistakes.
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It feels like this article is a lot of FUD spreading. MS is a business that likes to make money. At this point, there are developer minded people at the helm, and it makes more sense selling their software and cloud services than chasing negative returns on Windows. I can see that side of it through and through.

MS has open sourced huge amounts of resource and platform building code in .Net Core the past several years, and ASP.Net earlier than that. They did buy, and have expanded on the tools from Xamarin not shutter it. I'm not saying they're altruistic in nature, no company is. I will say that their behavior in the community, especially since Nadella took over has been better than any other company of it's size or larger that I can think of.

I'm not saying forget or forgive the past, but accept the present. Corporations, despite legalities, are not people. They are made up of people, and a significant portion of management has rolled over in the past decade and the outward facing culture shows that.
What incentive do they have to free it? Morals don't count. There's no incentive, so they won't.

That Apple freely releases anything is tied directly to Stallman resisting Jobs's snow jobs during the '90s, and later Jobs's Flash snuff.
Haven’t previous presidents and candidates met and talked with some of these cos about how to use social media to improve their campaigns and outreach. Not that we know what was discussed. But I’m not sure this is news unless I’m missing something
Microsoft workers added $850b while Satya Nadella is CEO.
> annual release cycle is the problem

Yeah, this is a problem. They announce a bunch of features at WWDC in June, and everyone expects them in September. If their WWDC announcement was just developer API stuff, and they announced the iOS features a few weeks before release, they'd have a better idea of what was actually ready. Then they could release features in point releases spread across the year.
What working people have brunches with friends during the week--except perhaps on a very rare basis?

I'll grant the tiny apartments but I'll also observe that, in undergraduate, we had space for a sizable number of people in a shared kitchen area. If where you live once you start working in a tech job is a downgrade from college, personally I consider that a problem.
Science doesn't have a great history of predicting politics.
Although Stadia might fail, I see cloud gaming (i.e. streaming A/V) as a revolution for multiplayer games. We can now have all kinds of complicated physics and particle engines, since all players are known to experience the exact same “world model”. It might help a lot with anti-cheat technology as well. It’s pretty exciting!
According to a friend within Microsoft, what you described is basically how it works. More so than other large corps, Microsoft seems to be a disorganised mess.

Some groups fight the good fight, some groups do bad things to get ahead, some groups don't know what they're doing or are pressured by bad management, other groups operate extremely well but are assigned to the wrong tasks.
Because it's inevitable at a certain scale.

The brand has a momentum, even if things start getting worse for customers there isn't an immediate response on a large scale.

A certain quality is important for the "true" advocates, but we're a small minority. Growth is driven by at scale customers who don't notice these issues because they're buying the products for different reasons.

In this context, improving quality to keep the hardcore fans happy costs money, but doesn't impact the bottom line significantly in the short term.

Growth is the only goal at this scale and that's driven by other strategies and not hardcore fans.

I guess long story short is corporations are cash machines and product quality does not play an important part at this scale.
to me it sounds like a person with some sort of addiction/mental health issue. she found a way to get her fix without starving (ie spending all her money on crap and being broke afterwards).

it’s true that good people are not resolving to this crappy behavior. it’s also true that are a lot of people that do cheat the system.

bottom line, this is a systematic issue and until the right incentives are in place this problem is not going to just fix itself.
Indeed, the evolution will probably in the other direction, with the on chip network adopting algorithms from wider networks to deal with scaling problems. DRAM interfaces use to be pretty simple, now they are being trained almost like a DSL line.
I would argue that it was done well because of that, not in spite of that.

The bottom line was the only thing that ever mattered.
Honestly, as soon as Google announces a new product, my first thought is to wonder how long until it is shut down. Google has completely lost my trust in relying on any of their products. Even when they come out and claim that this product will not be cancelled, for reals this time, pinky promise, etc. I simply can't believe them.
All of that is bad, but it hardly sounds apocalyptic. I don't doubt that we're going to get there, but until we see whole cities abandoned, people starving en mass, and similar events, calling things "apocalyptic" comes across as hyperbolic.
> This reads like an indictment of... Something. But what? Should there be public policy that helps socially awkward men mate like there's public policy that helps disabled people access public services?

That's kind of what the "pickup artist" businesses addressed and helped with.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone in 2 years or less. Stadia's launch has been nothing short of disastrous.
Open source piece of crap will smell just the same. If there are serious problems in Xcode open sourcing it will only amplify them since a lot of the stuff will be fix by people without deep knowledge of the codebase and probably introduce some new.

Keep in mind - I am not pro or against open sourcing it - just I don't think it will help currently at all.
> Microsoft loves Linux because it makes them money.

No, no, no. That's not the reason. Have you actually read the article?

The reason is that Microsoft is doing a sophisticated stratagem against Linux. It wants to infiltrate the Linux ecosystem, and then when they can keep taps on every piece of essential software, they will pull the plug.

The same with patent pledge, they want to bait as much companies to use Linux thinking that Microsoft will not patent troll them, and then they will reveal their true intentions, and sue them all.

That trick even got a name now. People in the industry called Microsoft's infiltration strategy "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"

Linux crowd will soon realise what trick they are trying to do, and I hope they will do that before it is too late.
> Kerberos can’t survive in untrusted networks...

Wasn't Kerberos designed to work in untrusted networks?
That's impressive, has anyone else done something like this?
I used to work for a food company that Costco required to make special sizes in order to get into their stores. That made it impossible to price compare across stores, because the sizing was unique. Not all products are as easy to search for as printers.
you should change it to a bidding war. would be fun to watch as the predictions change every day
no? the second link showed that it doesn't have to
I kinda want this to turn into a game. Maybe by being able to buy a ticket and bet that it is X days before/after the D-day. Whoever is closest at the time of the actual shutdown will win the whole prize pool.
Hah, interesting. A new spin on RIIR: RIIRFTSOETC ("rewrite it in rust for the sake of exporting it to C").
Not according to the comment that started this thread, which suggests that they no longer need the infrared paint.
Thanks, updated and added a note for regexp so as not to mislead!
Until you play COD with a latency of 80ms
I doubt food productions will be a issue. The problems I foresee is transporting food to people and the willingness of the rich to give to the poor.

Aquaculture and particularly aquatic plants and algae are such as small part of the global diet that statistically it might not even exist, and yet civilization could almost exclusive survive on it if needed. We have the know how to make such food edible. Oceans like the Baltic sea is basically in a death spiral because too much eutrophication. The nutrients is there, the farming technique is available, but the culture and economics are not. Similar to how people don't want bread made with grinned down insects, which is also a food production efficiency concept, algae is something that we could produce but won't because people will not buy the products. Even when giving away food we tend to use food that we culturally would also eat.

Right now in local context, this kind of culture crash can result in edible food having a value that is below transport costs. In lakes that suffer from overpopulation you sometimes do a push where you extract hundred of tons of fish in order to restore health to the ecosystem. As I hear, that fish usually get turned into methane and burned as bio fuel.

Food production all over the world is mostly the result of culture and tradition. With global trading we can add a bit more nuances, but even here we can find plenty of example where something which people eat in one place get thrown on the garbage heap in places which don't share the same food culture.
Good point. Harder soft diplomacy, maybe? Eg Drew in this post proposes a full trade blockade.
Plus gaming has a very sharp peak utilization at a certain time of day and then much lower. When not being used for gaming they can use the GPUs for training, so the marginal cost of providing the gaming stuff could be very low compared to if they had to idle all that hardware most of the day.
Is it possible for Cmd+P to work when you don't have the Debugger tab in focus? That one of the few things I miss from Chrome dev tools.

Performance-wise it's been running great for me. The hard work you've put into this definitely shows.
Because some news has limited geographical relevance. Are you going to regularly read about things like city council meetings about a controversial local development projects some small city in the NYT?

Hell no.
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See, Steve Jobs could get away with this because he was exceptionally good at making the right choices, at least in the later part of his life.

When others try to emulate him, it doesn't go as well.
Well folks who prepare documents in Word, esp. formal documents, more often than not, pick the default rendering of Times New Roman (and I know the default in MS-Word is not TNR).

And a standard MS-Word TNR document looks like crap. I'm sorry.

But I have to admit I have an over-reaction to seeing an MS-Word document after spending more than a decade working with TeX/LaTeX exclusively. So part of the blame goes to me, and actually hurts my ability to keep up with the literature when I start avoid MS-Word papers.
Good use case for a WYSIWYG editor!
I created a web app in Go and Angular, I'd love to get any feedback
I openly admit im fairly left wing, But I also can not think of a single serious major investigative right-leaning news org.

I'd love counter examples, This is not about filter bubbles.

EDIT: on Further consideration, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist might qualify, but they typically don't seem to do expose pieces.
The trouble is, this isn't nearly far enough and it's already sounding politically impossible. The carbon targets need to be zero worldwide without exception and the tariffs need to be more like 1000%.
It may have been buggier yesterday, but I had the change applied to my desktop client today and it is still buggy. Try to edit an `inline code` section. Or enter two code blocks back to back. Or paste in anything with formatting, especially if there is a code block at the end.
This won't be shutdown and I'm betting on it now. If it ends up doing badly, they will pivot chrome into another gaming platform similar to steam and the browser will become a Swiss army knife app where you do almost everything.
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Modern multiplayer games already do the "world model" calculations on the server, with clients simply rendering the little data they have.
Another point worth mentioning is that as we move towards zero trust by default, AD getting replaced by Azure AD is a logical step towards that goal.
I would agree - if every purchase of a game on their platform included a coupon for a physical copy of the game on my console/PC of choice.

The fact that I have to pay full price for a copy of a game that may go away at any moment is ridiculous.
> That Apple freely releases anything is tied directly to Stallman resisting Jobs's snowjobs during the '90s, and later Jobs's Flash snuff.

What does this mean?
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Could you explain the goal of this, and how it actually attains this? It just doesn't seem clear what the client and server are here, nor what the "local server" is behind that needs piercing.

Is this to, say, expose a server sitting behind a NAT to the rest of the world, or...?
Vista was necessary. Forced people to upgrade devices. Introduced the security prompt - where everything doesn't run with admin privilege. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 also came under Ballmer.
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I think the only way in which "Microsoft loves Linux" can be scrutinised is: does a successful Linux ecosystem help or harm Microsoft.

That it forms part of their business model is not enough, if Microsoft would prefer dominance of its proprietary technologies.

Conceivably, the future of Microsoft's business model may be where development and maintenance of Windows / the NT kernel is deemed burdensome and not critical to their business, and Windows becomes a premium Linux distribution with legacy subsystems.

Using Linux at work, I'm indirectly a Microsoft customer, using Office 365 and Azure (an expanding portion of their business), yet the investment in Windows desktop is lost on me, and unnecessary to retain my business.
Agreed. I am also carless, but I wouldn't want to move to San Fran. as it's much too expensive.

You should for sure consider other places in Cali. like San Diego, which has perfectly good public transit, but I would also consider the DC area, Austin, Chapel Hill (free and frequent bus service), etc.
Pokemon

Or

Micky Mouse
> You can have infinite confidence and still be kind/sensitive/considerate.

How is this possible? Infinite confidence would mean that you think it is impossible that you aren't right and therefore others must be wrong when they disagree or reject you. I can't see such a person being kind, sensitive or considerate.
Downscaling is widely employed at stages of the rendering pipeline where a full resolution buffer wouldn't make much difference (eg. reflections, post effects), but overall when you turn on 4k, you're mostly getting 4k. This is trivially verifiable by zooming in on a screenshot.
When you already have Safari running (or any other app), pull up the dock from the bottom edge of the screen.

Then press the Safari icon (or alternatively, press and hold on the Safari icon and choose "Show All Windows").

Now, all of those floating Safari windows are shown, and you can "toss them away" and close them.

Yes, it's not a very intuitive discovery process :(
Yes, I don't get streaming for realtime games.
> I'm not optimistic interest rates will rise as inflation stays low.

I agree that interest rates are likely to stay low.

I find it ironic to think of as inflation as low, given that housing is way out of its historical pricing band relative to the model factors.
This makes me shed a solitary tear for Google Reader :'(

And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,(
No they shouldn't just stand by. The current development and projection is very worrisome regarding the environment on a global scale.

What I think is often missing though is considering how we are contributing to the co2 output of those developing countries. A big share of their power demands is through production of goods for pretty much the rest of the world. It really grinds my gears how so many people suggest we can completely ignore that we are creating that demand in the first place, exploiting cheap production costs in China, which is in part because regulations regarding pollution are so lax over there, while at the same time patting ourselves on the back for reducing co2 output here, when you really just move more and more production to other counties.

And I don't have a good idea how to fix this either. Clearly, consumers don't care enough to vote with their money, or pressure local politicians. But turning a blind eye on our contribution entirely and conveniently pointing out how China is so horrible and we're so great isn't going to fix anything either.