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I hope they allow to run the VMs on local hardware. I would love to use my desktop resources (more than they are offering, which is still generous) for this feature.

I think Chromebooks are going to be a great use for this. Lightweight client but full editor and environment, with no hassle.
> You're still developing in a browser.

How so? Node/Electron != browser, though I see how the whole HTML/JS/CSS thing can be confusing.
Nathaniel Halpern (Legion) created an amazing adaptation of Stalenhag's artwork for Amazon. It's unlike anything I've ever seen and definitely worth a watch.

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-tales-from-the-loop-simon-st...
How can facebook turn a dumpster fire like reddit in a bot that response with more empathy than a human?

Didn't Facebook just merge all fb messenger and whatsapp data and trained a NN on the new chat db?
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This is hilarious! So is your username!
Yesterday I spent an hour trying to figure out how to NOT use vi to make a Mercurial commit on macOS. It was one of my most frustrating computer experiences in recent memory.
The people at Github that used to be paid to work on Atom may be the ones that built this :)
What languages does this support? It would be super cool if this supports `xcodebuild` :O
>forced to click "accept" like in some perverse skinner box.

Or you can just leave the website. It's not like you lose anything by not going to techcrunch, let alone lose your job or anything serious.

Targeted ads make the website a lot more money.
it amused me that if you posted an article called
"How Barack Hussein Obama is going to declare Martial Law" to HN, the title would be rewritten to be "Barack Hussein Obama is going to declare Martial Law"

amusement still applies with updated President of course.
(It’s often extended to mean Indo-Iranian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan)
Since when is saying "I think" considered to "proclaim as certainty"?
> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether.

I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...
> rely on thousands of lines of lisp code, like emacs does

Millions actually.

I'm an emacs user (who does not want to get into an editor war, mmkay). The plugins are so useful. I'm just learning magit and it very much takes most of the evil and hostility out of Git and I really like it. I also have dired (a sophisticated directory editor), and about to learn loads more such as Bookmark+ which allows links and jumps to anything you set, and allows you to save your desktop layout and files.

Emacs has so much, if only you can find it (align-regexp is very useful but there is so much more). Edit: look up M-x occurs if you haven't met it. Mega useful.

Consistency is going to be lost as you add functionality. If Vim doesn't have that problem it will in time.

Emacs isn't perfect, the package library melpa has dubious quality software, but emacs really is very good indeed.
Restauranteurs opt-in to their relationship with Uber Eats. If they feel they aren't getting compensated fairly, they can opt-out.

It feels quite condescending that you think you need to protect restaurants from Uber when restaurants are already capable of dissociating from Uber. You're essentially saying restaurant owners are too dumb to know what's best for them, so you need to make decisions for them.
The lack of thunderbolt 3 on the SB3 makes Dell XPS 13 a better thin&light option
Apple created Metal waaay before Vulkan existed and moved their whole ecosystem to it before Vulkan was production ready.

While moving from OpenGL to Metal was a significant technical upgrade for them, moving all their ecosystem from Metal to Vulkan is just a lot of work for very little benefit.

But yeah, sure, maybe they are just sticking with Metal to mess around with people.
For this price and the target market why are they not including TB3 and more ports? They are committed to keeping their users on their poorly designed dock connector when they are is a much better industry standard connector out there.
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The first bookmark on my bookmark bar is "Kill floater", and it removes most floating elements on the page. It even works on many sites that hide the page behind a popup. Use it on my iPad all the time.

The bookmarklet:

javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
> making the web less profitable

This could actually be a good thing. These days advertisers act as censors: all it takes is a bunch of complaints and a website's revenue stream gets pulled. The webmasters react by deleting the controversial content and avoiding the subject in the future. If this is what a profitable internet looks like it should probably die.

> Nobody has ever been hurt by a tracking cookie in the history of the internet.

How do you know?

> stamping out the little sites

Social media is responsible for this. Few people buy domains these days, it's much easier to register a name on some existing site. Most traffic originates from social media these days.
I've been self-hosting VS Code Server ( https://github.com/cdr/code-server ) and using it from Chrome on my iPad with a keyboard and mouse when I'm on the road..

If this is the same or similar approach, then it should work just fine.

If the pricing for Codespaces is reasonable, I'm going to move to that for sure. It's been kind of a hassle to keep my self-hosted setup running properly.
Airbnb hosts are building their own direct booking websites in revolt
The evolutionary biologist Diana Fleischman is currently writing a book (a bit tongue-in-cheek) called "How To Train Your Boyfriend". She's discussed the ideas in a few talks and podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jre_xN2HSrk
The coronavirus is outlasting our willingness to deal with it. It's not going away - though it would be wonderful if it did. There are things we can do to slow the spread of the virus even as we slowly open things back up but there are a contingent of people absolutely refusing to wear face masks and when asked to by the establishment they're visiting they've shot and killed the agent asking. It doesn't help that our leaders aren't setting a good example for others to follow. There are reasons the United States has endured 1/3 of the worldwide coronavirus deaths while only having 1/20 of the worldwide population. Is our national attention span really that short?
I don't see any conflict, personally.

In the linked article, he goes on to say that songs "are attracted to an open, playful and motivated mind". To cultivate that, you need to show up.
Definitely because this whole concept of consent, choices and protection against tracking done via modals operating on cookies or other temporary forms of settings, is pointless if the browser cache is being cleared either manually or automatically by predefined parameter or, when user accesses site via different browser or machine. The multiple devices ownership is another issue itself - everything becomes a logistical nightmare if user would like to set its choices on each of devices it interacts with, for each of site it wants to use or access. The problem seems to be almost non-existent if browser handles the choice - but then another issue emerges: how, what to display when users wishes to not being tracked. Timed content? Reader's view? Plain text?

DNT exists but either is not respected or as I've read around, being used to sieve out and track those who do not wish to be tracked.

In a perfect world where everyone is playing fair, site owners would be able to convince users that tracking is beneficial for them and such benefits for users would exist and would convince users to whitelist sites. But sadly, our reality is different and we're facing the aggressive modals - "give us consent or else you won't see the content".

I do understand that there's a need of earning money but this shouldn't be done by deceptive tactics of dark patterns and empty "we care for your privacy" slogans. But then I also don't believe that we'll face another "revision" of how tracking choices are handled done by regulators - not with Google around who's implanting this idea that Google Chrome is the Internet and we don't need address bar.
If your friends--or especially your SO--don't have your back, it's time to move your back.

You deserve to have at least one person in your life that is always on your side. Especially for an SO, if they can't do that, get rid of them. Far better to be alone.
Indeed, the Wine controls could use some help.

It would be great if someone could provide a new renderer based on Vulkan, for instance.
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My friend had to download java last weekend and he couldn't find the website. I kept telling him to google java download but he thought it was a scam. I can't blame him.
The current Sculpt Ergonomic desktop is wireless and I have had a lot of issues with it- if I plug it into my USB-C hub, it randomly misses keypresses. So I have to plug the dongle into it's own port on the other side of my Mac.
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It depends on the smartphone, there are still (very few) around that have one.

Beside the possible "planned obsolescence", I believe that the change was mostly because of waterproof or almost waterproof design, and (IMHO senseless) "let's make it thinner".
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I do realize that this is a pipe dream, but if literally everyone stopped tipping at once, the conditions would have to improve.

Also, I'm from the UK - while tipping in restaurants is semi-common(not expected), tipping delivery drivers is literally unheard of. Doesn't exist, no one does it. And yet.....somehow, delivery drivers still exist as a profession.

My point is - every time you tip, you allow shitty employment practices to continue. It's the same as giving money to beggars on the street - they continue begging because they know it works, it's a self sustaining circle.
I don’t really see how any of that is relevant.

Surface RT was running underpowered Tegra with 2GB ram and still does 60fps on the entire desktop/Start experience.

Have you used the Windows 8 multitasking interface recently?
This will probably be very unpopular but I think progressive taxation of companies would work. This would be disruptive for a while but I think over time smaller companies would thrive in such an environment.
It seems that it will be free for open-source, public repositories, and quite pricy for private repositories.

"A member of our sales team will reach out to discuss details" is a great euphemism for "be ready to pay quite a few thousand bucks per year for this feature".
There's a limit to this though. If the food gets cold or otherwise bad due to waiting too long, people will ask for money back or orders will go down.
I used to work for a B2B fraud detection SaaS provider. I haven't heard about any layoffs, I've heard fraud is up, right now, and your fraud prevention vendor is probably low on the list of services to cut. That said, I'm sure some of their customers were hit hard, and that does ripple down.
I wonder how much the difficulty of writing queries varies between languages. I was disappointed to not see Ruby on the beta sign-up list, and GitHub being a pretty heavy user, I'm sure they have their reasons for excluding it.
should check the stained glass windows made by Sigmar Polke here: https://www.grossmuenster.ch/de/das-grossmunster/kunst-am-ba...
This looks great but unfortunate naming means SEO will always compete against the flow type checking library even if you google "react-flow".
While it's a good point I wouldn't call it a design tweak but an hardware improvement ^^.
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This tweet from GitHub's lead designer would suggest so!

https://twitter.com/notdetails/status/1258070699165585410

... also this tweet from another GitHub product designer

https://twitter.com/mschoening/status/1258069269260038144
Wouldn't be my guess, personally:

https://github.com/atom
I'd counter that Pizza hut has a key logistical advantage of vertical integration. A delivery service is a very different business than a restaurant chain that does its own delivery.

I agree that GrubHub, Doordash, and to some extent Uber seem bloated when considering the sum total of the markets they play in. That doesn't mean these business models aren't sustainable, though. Some companies allocate resources to a few areas that turn into profit centers, some don't. The ones that don't will be sold off or parted out. And the cycle will continue. I'd wager that one of these companies will survive and turn out to be a profitable, healthy business in the next few years. The rest will probably be sold off or slowly downsized.

More broadly, to your criticism of SV's investment strategy, resource allocation is a hard problem. If you want to direct large sums of capital at certain business verticals, do you want to grow slowly and steadily over a 20+ year period only to find that the economics don't work, or do you want to fail fast with some extra waste in the middle? Failing fast has some upside to it, though I understand why I consistently hear this criticism on this site. It feels like the last decade has seen the pendulum swing towards fast money and back a little. I don't think were as far off from a healthy middle ground as some might argue.
by the time you've added enough protection (ie, extra mass and drag) to the towed battery, it seems like you would be pretty deep into diminishing returns. a large amount of the extra energy would be spent on moving the trailer itself.
Unfortunately I don't have exact numbers, having never been responsible for the budget of those. This is only an estimation considering the pricing I see from the cloud providers, and the rates I know from my fellow contractors.

Besides, I'm not exactly trying to win a war here. Simply trying to know under which circumstances it is better to go for on-prem vs public cloud.
There is an inflection point around the late seventies and early eighties which marks a huge expansion in the depredation of the upper class upon the middle and lower classes.

Prior to that point, increases in worker productivity positively correlate (at least weakly) with improvements in the purchasing power of worker wages. Afterward, working class purchasing power went flat or dropped even as their productivity shot through the roof. The owner class acquired the ability to capture everything, and they chose not to let it trickle down, by the terminology of the time. They didn't spend it. They loaned it or invested it, such that it never fully left their control.

After the abolition of slavery and advent of industrialization, labor movements have occasionally been able to claw back more of the workers' share of trade in the specialist economy, and then keep more equitable sharing of revenues going for a while afterwards, but the working class hasn't caught any breaks for a solid 40 years now, and unions are now relatively weak, compared to their historic peaks.

Prior generations got peanuts for their extra efforts, but they did at least get something.
This is great, I can't help but feel like the whole point of rewriting a part of VS in JS was to get to this stage.
> I don't click every consent banner and you also shouldn't.

And the regulation isn't for tech-savvy power users, it's for the general population. And they do click every consent banner.
It is provided by Khronos in the sense that they control the repository and they provide it as a permissive, open, free license, which is the important bit for end users of Vulkan.

Whoever develops it is not really important for managers deciding on technologies to use.
Sometimes. Or you give up equity. Or secure it some other way. What's your point? That it's hard to do?
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Everyone wants what he makes at the Charmin toilet paper factory
We're pretty stoked to have new friends in cloud-native development!

Microsoft/GitHub joining the dev-environment-as-code movement is huge, will likely save us all a few more years of dependency-hell.

(EDIT: Removed official blog post link because taywrobel posted it first)
I think this is going to go on for years, with short periods of stops and starts. There is no other alternative once the curve has been flattened, without a vaccine, or at least an antiviral you can get at your pharmacy.

Normality will not return for a very, very long time. It would be sobering for our leaders to admit this is a possible outcome.
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They claim lack of thunderbolt 3 is by design, for security reasons. I bet they just got their chips for surface connector working and they don't want to ditch them. The surface hub does work pretty well. One cable to everything. https://sup.news/microsoft-says-surface-devices-dont-have-th...
I tried running it in Vim (I have version 8.1.1401), with a regular bash script, and it didn't run the dangerous command. However, when I made a hard link to the same file, then it did run the dangerous command. My guess is that Vim defaults to writing a new file with the same name, but, if there is a hard-link pointing at the same file, then it has to actually modify the file in place. That is probably what bit you in the past (although I'm sure this behaviour is configurable somewhere).

If you want to force bash to read the whole script into memory on startup, you can put the whole script inside a function, and then, on the last line of the file, call the function you just defined.
Can't they use non-tracking ads based on the content of the page?
That's a depressing thought.
Yep, let's hope that becomes true - the last time I looked into[1] the situation, it seemed that the latest drafts have moved the settings back out of the browser.

I contacted my MEP at the time about this, and please do the same if you can voice your support for simpler, genuinely user-friendly and consent-respecting settings.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914283
Similar to sellers leaking from Amazon > Shopify. Reintermediation is the first step to digital enablement. Not necessarily the last step...
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> Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that statement isn't quite accurate.
And the login screen is just taken from the manual for the MVS TK-4 system: https://mobile.twitter.com/mainframed767/status/125802863861...

So the pictures are: a stock photo of a mainframe, a stock photo of a Raspberry Pi, and a cropped screenshot from an MVS installation manual. Looking at OP's other tweets he appears to be a pretty shamelessly self-promoting "thought leader" type so I would be pretty unsurprised if it's bullshit.
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out of curiosity do you apply this into expenditures too? ie spending time when it's expensive or spending money when its time intensive?

Classic examples could be learning to do automotive work to save money and hiring out cleaning services to save time. (please ignore the specifics, but understand the concept).
So.. let's say I host my source code with MS (GitHub), I develop using their web ide (visual studio code space) and then I deploy to their cloud (azure).

Give it a decade and you'll have Microsoft specific developers and organizations who are locked in beyond rescue.

It's always a fragmentation vs defragmentation battle.
Ask HN: Thoughts on developing SaaS with open sourced code?
Today I heard about how if you use GPL licensing you have to be able to show your entire codebase if someone asks for it.

With regard to how easy it is to just `npm install some-library` and `create-react-app`... I'm wondering if I develop a SaaS should it just be open eg. public repo.

My concern is you're not going to have "obscurity" as a security layer, I'm not saying you should trust that. But when you have your schemas clearly defined, routes exposed, etc... doesn't that mean it's easier to try and break in?(means do a better job)

But I have a SaaS project in mind and it would be pretty complex regarding having multiple-users, real time connection, payments, etc... but thinking about the whole licensing thing.

edit: when I say "open sourced code" in my title, I mean the SaaS code itself that I would develop is freely readable/all of it, down to auth/payment system(Stripe usage).
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> His investments have been made on an almost exclusive basis of growing wealth, which in the end is a very sterile end to aim for.

This is what investment is, no?
They say it has a mass of about 4 suns, which translates to an event horizon diameter of about 15 miles, so I think the lensing would be imperceptible unless you were right up close to it or it happened to perfectly occlude a visible star right when you were watching.
Having read through GDPR, I got the distinct impression that nobody involved in writing it really understood the technologies involved. There's a lot of handwaving about "reasonable measures" whenever they run into ignorance that's absent in the many chapters about inter-government protocols.
I just want them to come out with an external trackpad! There don't seem to be any options for an external "precision" Windows-compatible trackpad.
It's literally in the quote: "It's bound to happen at one point."
> load open source software from outside the Apple store - yes. Since that will never happen in our lifetime, probably not.

If that was non-negotiable why did you even consider an iPad Pro in the first place?
Thanks all for the feedback! I went ahead and made codes with the domain as the message to be free. As a potential scanner of QR codes, I feel like this is more/most helpful - I kind of want to know what I'm scanning before I scan it.
But how can we distinguish which models are good ones and which are poor ones (like the IHME model)? Some of the models have been rather poor ones, especially some of those designed by people without any type of medical background.
This, I think the gov should allow some businesses to attempt to operate but sad truth is a lot of people won't return to public spaces initially especially when we are still peeking cases.

I'm not going to pay to go to a movie theater or gym for a while.. I really don't want to fly, can you imagine traveling to another country and getting stranded or having to be sick and having to navigate the local medical system. - I think these things are going to have long lasting effects.

Furthermore it's going to be a seasonal thing with ebs and flows forever. Which means that no matter what it's hard to solve.
It was a keynote he did together with Sam. Loved it....
Correction: Dominos not Pizza Hut.
> Seems their core service is still holding up so far, but with all these moves in different directions, I'm getting a bit worried that the SCM and software collaboration part will be left out.

They literally just made teams cheaper and added to their free tier.
If you're considering a really low price point like $5/mo, you might be better suited charging businesses more and then having a free tier that's restricted to personal use in some way (e.g. license or no collaboration)
I consume content on my iPad and thought that having a keyboard would make me using it more productively. Turned out that the keyboard is not that great in my opinion (11", AZERTY, impossible to do a Ç in one second like I do everyday on a standard magic keyboard) and that the trackpad is a tiny bit too small for me.
Great article, thanks for sharing :)