skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not who subscribes to self help gurus, but this article has some parallels with Jock Willink's extreme ownership. The older I get the more I've developed an attitude of every personal outcome has been predicated on my level of effort and discipline. When I started removing excuses of external forces being responsible for my failures I started becoming more successful.
The traditional silicon valley approach would be to fund new ways of doing delivery. And behind the most click-worthy headlines, that is what is happening! [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/09/starship-technologies-is-s...
Okay, I give up. Who's the third U?

Also, why all the hate for the National Institute of Health?
It's plausible, given that VS Code is effectively a web app. (the exception in features could be Extensions)

Not the first IDE to have full-feature parity on desktop and web.
Is this built on top of open source technology? Say, can I integrate it into a gitlab instance, or host it on my own server?
That keynote from Nat Friedman an hour ago looks interesting. How do you play past segments in this thing? (All I see is this: https://i.imgur.com/KR6UMgu.png)

Also: I've got to say, seeing things from this particular Nat gives me a nice late 90s throwback feeling. He along with Miguel ruled the Linux desktop universe back when we we're all hopeful that the Linux desktop would win over the Windows desktop.

Edit: The FAQ implies recordings are manually uploaded at some later time. (Meh!)
> someone else's privacy, without their consent

I didn’t say anything about not getting consent to share personal information. I think almost everyone would agree consent is always necessary.
Yes, it takes some precautions to make crypto unseizable (sufficient encryption and/or brainwallets). Even then, governments always have the "$5 wrench" option, in which they hold you in contempt and jail you for not turning over a password they believe you have. Still, for better or worse, a crypto-asset is a tool that can be used to store value that is purely under your control. Whether that's a good thing, or even should be a socially permissible thing, is certainly an open question.
If anyone else is interested, the direct link to guidelines mentioned in article is here: https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_gui...
At first glance this seems great for me. I was a big fan of Cloud9 before they were purchased by Amazon.

I was new to dev world and had never touched AWS so the transition to AWS C9 left me bewildered and I just gave up on it.

This seems like this would fill that role for me pretty well.

Bonus points - I currently use Visual Studio Code as my goto tool.
What did they expect training it on Reddit posts?

Seems to me the bot is working fine.
At the same time, there are other people who like the newer UI style much more. I think it looks and functions better. These are matters of personal opinion, including the end judgments of whatever team created it.
It's been a little while since I researched[1] this, but I'd recommend spending a little time to find out what the latest state-of-play is.

There was definitely a prior movement to push these cookie consent settings down to the browser (where I think they have the most chance of being respectful of the user and their consent choices) - but the situation changed later during subsequent ePrivacy regulation drafts.

Please voice your concerns with your MEP if you can - displays of support can and will change policy directions.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914283
I wonder if Tesla could modify their car models, such that the passenger compartment can be on a different HVAC system than the front compartment?

Now that the world has a recent concrete demonstration of what it means to be in a pandemic, with all of the emergent problems revealed in gory detail, shouldn't we change some things so that we can cope better in case it happens again? Like I've said, no one buckles their seatbelt in expectation of getting into a high speed crash on their current trip, but we prepare for such a severe circumstance due to the cost/benefit.
Delivery is profitable for dominos. But the real money, well that is in garlic bread.
FYI gitpod.io offers 16 CPU / 60 GB RAM, and works great on Chromebooks & iPads.
So seems like GitHub is in the shape of VS Code now. Good job Microsoft. Atom is not your child anymore.
My guess is that you ended up on a machine that has the default editor as
vi. TO fix this, set your shell's EDITOR env variable to something like
nano.

I agree that VI's default is so different from the modern editor that it's
very frustrating to get stuck in it. However, learning vi pays dividends.
What's Behind South Korea's Covid-19 Exceptionalism?
This is another keynote from CodeMesh in memory of Joe joining together the tiddly wiki and the SonicPi, by Sam, Erlang co-inventor Robert Virding and tiddly wiki inventor Jeremy Rushton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUji_DlXjm8
“He rejects all questions about extrajudicial killings or humanitarian atrocities as propaganda: “The media is often reporting that we execute people, which is not true,” he claims.”

Interesting article. I often wonder about the mindset of people who deny the obvious facts. Does he really believe it or is he just cynical?
I don't know about steel but carbon fiber has so far never succeeded as a material for cryogenic rockets or fuel tanks.

The proposed space shuttle successor was designed around carbon fiber fuel tanks / hull and engineering problems with them eventually killed the project.

The material struggles with low temperatures of cryogenic fuels (brittle), high temperatures of re-entry (just burns), oxidation in oxygen tanks. Also they apparently tend to sponatiously combust with rocket fuels.

Some reference: https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/an-update-on-compos...
> Give it a decade and you'll have Microsoft specific developers and organizations who are locked in beyond rescue.

Don’t need to give it a decade, you can find plenty now, or two decades ago. It’s not like Microsoft is a new entrant to the IDE market with VSCode or GiHub Codespaces (hint: the VS part of VSCode).
Why do you think that will be done sooner? (Sincere question; I just don't see any dates there and looks like they are still recruiting participants.)
alternately, its much < $87k based on Computers, peripherals, and smart home assistants CPI-U.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/supplemental-files/home.htm
They have Mac runners for GitHub actions, so maybe they could (although you’d have to pay a steep price since it’s hard to virtualize OS X).
Windows isn't a major product?
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Ask HN: Digital agencies- are they or are they not tech companies?
I haven't gotten many answers to this question, but most tend to lean that they are not tech companies. The prevailing attitude towards them is that they don't treat their developers as "first class" and that generally underpay them, relative to the average developer salary in the rest of its job market. I argue that digital agencies ARE tech companies because they would not exist without the internet. Doing work on websites is always involved in the transaction for their B2B model. So what is your view of digital agencies in the context of tech companies?
Any language you can run in a Linux container, so not XCode, because Apple
They can’t until advertisers agree to it. Today, that means walking away from the big networks and finding your own advertisers to sign for one-off deals. Some sites do it (slatestarcodex is one) but it’s hard work.
NVim certainly has it's own cult following, I would expect that it pales in comparison to Vim for actual day to day usage.

Glad to see the project is still alive and moving forward. Seems like most new editors or forks in general die a quick death.
It was disliked by users but designers really loved it so they forced it everywhere they had an ounce of power. Notice how UIs that didn't have to please some designer didn't bother with flat UIs.
They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

I am not too worried about spreading themselves too thinly. GitHub Actions is much nicer than some of the competitors I used before (though I still love sr.ht builds).

Also, it would be bad for them not to branch out. GitLab is now a strong competitor and they also provide many features beyond code hosting, such as CI, registries, etc.

It is nice that there are three large players now (GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian). GitHub was stagnant for a while, but they seem to be moving fast again after GitLab became a serious competitor. It's a clear case where competition is benefitting the users, both in price and in platform capabilities.
Samsung Android: multiple interactionless RCEs and other remote access issues
The Visual Studio Codespaces have coverage of using your own server at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/online/how-to/....
Still no TB3 -- https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1253917701719769088 -- but I am surprised Microsoft is admitted defeat and is unable to come up with secure a secure DMA implementation. There have to be enough kernel and firmware developers there to do it, right? Or has that org wasted away...
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Small bug in the signup page, if you select and then deselect "Other", it still stores the selected state and doesn't let you send the form [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/tNAzrFw.png
Thats right. In this world, things sell on their technical specifications alone. I was so mistaken all along. I should have been taking my product advice from HN!
I have a 15" Surface book 2. The spine on it is absolutely massive and it is heavy as all hell. Got a comparable dell 13" and im not going to look back
Differentiation of Self

https://thebowencenter.org/theory/eight-concepts/
> Acting like there's an off-switch for this that magically sets us back to a time where we're BaU that we can flip solves nothings

This is kind of a strawman argument though. I say "kind of" because yeah, there are some crazies out there saying that the virus is a plot by the government to crash the economy or some other insanity about 5g and bill gates mind-control vaccines, however, this isn't what most leaders are saying, not even Trump.

> without actual policy makers making new policy

Right... "a bill focused on reopening America" is literally "policy makers making new policy". Whether or not those policies will effectively address the issues at hand is another question entirely, but I don't think there is anything unreasonable about ostensibly looking towards policies that could start opening some things up.

> We're on a long, trying road, and the poor leadership is the _main_ reason.

I'm in total agreement with you here and I think things are only going to get worse once the elections are over and Trump doesn't feel any more re-election pressure (yes, I'm assuming he'll win), but that's a separate issue from the stated goal of trying to get people working again.
That's your preference. Most of my workday is spent writing code in maximized windows.
It's four fingers for me. I've not yet managed to train my fingers to click the desktop most to the right on their own, it still involves visual processing and thought. It'll probably come naturally me in a few more years.
Article says finds black hole.

There has never been direct observational evidence for one.

Hmmmmm...
Maybe the flowery words obscured the message for you.

If it helps, I first came across the quote in a blog post by Austin Kleon[0], an author, talking about people who say they have a book in them.

"I never feel like I have a book in me. I always feel like there’s a book around me. It’s like I’m a planet and there’s all this space junk orbiting me, and all the junk starts smashing together and forming book chapters. My job is to grab that stuff around me and shape it into something."

[0]: https://austinkleon.com/2019/06/06/its-not-inside-you-trying...
Privacy of children is potentially at risk with as we shift to online learning
So it's just your average Facebook exchange?
I was expecting this years ago when GitHub started work on Atom. This will be quite useful for people who are willing to participate in the Microsoft ecosystem.
That's correct, Emacs is a platform to write applications that can connect to a text editor. This is a different proposition than vi. Like other unix tools, vi goal is to concentrate on one thing (editing), and let the rest, like email reading, git operations, etc., to be handled by other UNIX tools.
1. At first I resented AirPods for not sealing out background noise, or fitting securely. But then I realized its a feature and not a bug. You can be in a private space while not fully disconnected from the public space. Just another tool in the arsenal
2. People have mentioned IEMs. If you feel discomfort from most headphones, you can get custom ear molds made for IEMs. In the US, this is generally a co-pay to an audiologist for a visit, around $50 for the audiologist to make the impressions, and around $100 for the custom plugs. IEM technology has not changed drastically, so you can buy used or older models. A 10 year old triple driver IEM will likely sound better than any non-IEM option. Make sure your IEM choice has detachable cables, as life happens. Plus, you can then use something like the FiiO UTWS1 to turn your IEMs into a more modern experience. There will be a downgrade in quality but it will be worth it for convenience.
3. Microsoft likely made a mistake with the size of these buds. They look like gauges that people put into their ears. This will either be a failure, or in the modern world of branding, an unlikely success.

FWIW, FiiO has cheap IEMs that are pretty good. For under $200 you can get a pair with 3 drivers in each ear (F9 Pro), and the aforementioned bluetooth “true wireless” adapter. Add another $200 and you have custom ear molds.
>Their screen keyboards are garbage,

Have you tried the WordFlow (swype or whatever it's called on other platforms) method on the keyboard ? Seems to work as well as Windows Phone did, which is pretty damn good.

It's fine as a portable Windows PC to me. Great for travel, does pretty much everything I need, including Visual Studio. iPads are so much more consumption oriented that I can't see myself every needing one in addition to an iPhone.

>If Microsoft invested a bit more in improving the tablet experience, they could really eat some of Apple's marketshare.

They did with WinRT (not the tablet the API, now called UWP) and it failed because they decided to throw away backward compatibility of APIs.

Windows 8 and the Metro design language was my favorite UX by far of the last two decades.

This time, I guess they've decided to throw away the user experience in favor of backward compatibility :-)
To even have a snowball's chance at success, they would have had to make use of reddit's voting system. Tons of toxicity and disinformation still makes it up into highly upvoted comments, but I'd expect throwing away heavily downvoted comments to exclude a good fraction of the utter crap.
> The generator failed to start as a result of contaminated fuel despite monthly tests.

I don’t think this is he first time I’ve heard such a thing. I wonder if the people running such tests know how long you have to run the generator to flush the fuel lines? And aren’t there failure modes for ICEs - and diesel in particular - where the engine stops working once it reaches operating temperatures?

I had a car that would occasionally conk out due to a damaged O2 sensor (due in turn to a crack in the manifold).
"Among Joy's list of achievements are BSD Unix, NFS, UltraSPARC designs and some work on Java" - not to mention Berkley Sockets. But his greatest gift to man was vi? I think not!

Full disclosure: I'm an "emacs guy" but I don't care about the silly old emacs/vi wars. I would just say as awesome as people find vi to be, it's among the least of Bill's accomplishments. That's how awesome he is!
We support all languages that can run within a Linux container, see https://github.com/mcolyer/codespace-containers/blob/master/... for a base example image (I work as the product lead on this).
> keep the prices at an affordable level

They're a bank. They can afford it.
His argument seems to be that unlike supermarkets and wholesalers which provide positive value from which some profit can be siphoned off, delivery megacorps provide negative value so there's not much profit to siphon.

Your argument seems to be that food middlemen should exist in some form, although you provide no reason; However, the existence and fetishization (for better or worse) of "local farmers markets" seems to point in the opposite direction.

My local pizza place delivers; there doesn't seem much room to create value to pay some engineer's salary and some VC profits a thousand miles away. Or rephrased, VCs and engineers are expensive, and their offerings can be undercut by every local restaurant in the country that has a phone and a teenager with a car, which is not exactly the strongest network effect or vendor lockin I've ever seen in a marketplace.

The delivery market seems to be of the form "We all need an offering in the market to stay competitive with everyone else losing money on every delivery".

The best possible exit for a delivery startup seems to be improving something in the already adequate infrastructure then pray Dominos Pizza acquires them.

The uphill battle is the main complaints people have about fast food is the cost is high, few choices, and the food is unhealthy. Nobody seems bothered by logistics problems like pizza taking a half hour to arrive or routes not being optimized to minimize gasoline consumption. Its true that customers are bad product designers, thinking of the anecdote of Ford's customers wanting a better horse, not a model T. However a business model of door to door horse feed delivery, logistics optimized by telegraphs in California, was also not a winner.
So how would this differ from CodeSandbox or StackBlitz?
It is worse than UX issue - it is a billateral UX really for what both designers ans usere can do tying functions together to "subvert the purpose" in combinatorial explosions.

The political is in trying to limit the options to either party like the Computer Fraud Abuse Act charging someone for entering in every possible phone number into a phone directory.
The extreme unlimited (il)logical extreme is "If the user is capable of exploiting several 0 day escalation of priveledge attacks to download all of the credit card information and then delete the website that is on the designers for making a shoddy website" being legal. That would be a pure "no politics" UX system with many obvious and inobvious side effects.
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I was referring to the IaaS in this question.

As for the SaaS, I guess your mileage may vary. I trust some of them really make a point of securing your data :)
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This is not how it works. There is a network effect. If everybody uses Uber Eats then as a restaurant owner you have no choice but to opt-in. Talk to some restaurant owners.

And to make a more general remark: the free market doesn't always have the desired effect. See for example Net Neutrality which wouldn't exist if the free market had its way.
An interesting issue with climbing the corporate ladder is that often your time spent actually increases. I've yet to find a role w/ seniority that is less than 40 hrs a week.

Some have even said that getting a promotion+raise can lead to less $ per hour because of a variety of factors such as more responsibility/time spent, increased requirement for dry-cleaning (suits or whatever)...
Tegra has a good focus on graphics, so it's no surprise that it could do 60fps animations on the Windows 8 start screen. Nice eyecandy, I suppose. And 2GB RAM will still run pretty much anything a Surface RT user might care about, except the modern web of course.
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I'm canadian, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to emigrate to the USA. Warren Buffet has huge biases and blind spots when it comes to sociological analysis. I strongly doubt the man understands what it's like to be making 7$ an hour working at Dennys somewhere in the bible belt because the public school system left you semi-illiterate, or living in any heavily criminalized urban area, or picking fruits in california because you had to escape cartels in mexico/central america. None of the people in my examples or developing their full potential, and there's a massive proportion of americans in this bottom social class.

*And canada could be doing way better. There are glaring social inequalities here too.
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It makes a pleasing change from our usual HN party animal's fascination with cocaine, MMA and casual sex, is why.
Caveat emptores: With a couple exceptions, Surface devices cannot be repaired, nor have the battery replaced. Not even by Microsoft. iFixit's repair scores on all the devices, except the Pro X, range from 0/10 to 1/10. If you have a problem that would require repair, you need to instead get it replaced with a refurbished machine. This means you have to back up your machine and set it all up again on a new one. If you're out of warranty, you also need to pay hundreds of dollars for this: $250 for a Go, $450 for a Pro or Laptop, and $600 for the Book or older Pro 4. It's unavailable altogether for anything older. They trumpeted improved repairability for the Pro X (edit: and Laptop 3), but I can't find anything suggesting a similar effort for the Book.

I like my Surface Pro 4 a lot. I initially got it for the pen when I was a math Ph.D. student. It was great for taking notes and giving lectures. I don't do that anymore, but the Surface machines still appeal to me as potential upgrades. But it's tough for me to justify spending north of $1,500 on a laptop when I can only expect a few years of life from it.

So, please, other laptop makers, make some 3:2 laptops. Dell, good job with that new 16:10 XPS. Microsoft, at least make the damn batteries replaceable.
It is very hard to observe lensing around a small object. A light source needs to pass directly behind it, and stay behind it for long enough that your camera exposure can capture it (which for distant objects, can take days or months or years).

That's why gravitational lensing has only been observed for

1. very bright stars behind the Sun (event that lasts a second detectable with sub-second exposure)

2. Galaxies behind galaxies (event that lasts millions of years detectable with hours-long exposure)

3. an SMBH warping the light generated by its own disk (permanent event detectable with years-long exposure)
God's not real. We're just apes whose ancestors caught a lucky break when an asteroid flattened the dinosaurs 60 million years ago. We shouldn't even be here.
One thing that really annoys me about Github/Gitlab et al is that they don't provide a nice UI to show CI results in a structured way.

There are semi-standard XML formats that can be used to provide file position, severity and message, which could easily be produced from CI actions and would give devs and reviewers a great view of failing tests, compiler and linter warnings, ... With links to the files etc.

Instead we are still stuck with scanning text logs to figure out what failed.

I always assumed this is not implemented to eventually upsell something automated.

This is still a great feature though, which will probably prevent a large amount of bugs/vulnerabilities, assuming they can minimize false positives.

To give credit where it is due, I'd also note that most of Githubs new features since the acquisition were already present in Gitlab [1]. Github will be able to commit way more resources to make it polished, though.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/secure/

Edit: apparently both Gitlab and Github have at least a limited version of this now, although Gitlabs implementation seems much nicer. See below.