skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am waiting on the edge of my seat for somebody to come up with a way to kill tracking cookies once and for all just so the EU will be able to drop this stupid bill.

Honestly, the more things go on, the more I think the very fact that websites allow fetching resources from 3rd parties is a misfeature. If I go to example.com, my relationship is with example.com. This would eliminate cross-site-scripting attacks, tracking cookies, tracking images, etc.

On the other hand, it would also kill CDNs.

Single sign-on would have to be explicit instead of implicit.

I'm not 100% sure those would be bad things.
It’s very bad because if you’re a C# developer you now have to worry about which COM apartment your Window is in and you get silverlight era error messages when something breaks.
In that case, we just use propaganda and conditioning through our education system and commercial advertising to Skinner box train everyone to believe in materialism and that they are nothing but meat machines, and there is no higher purpose in life. Meanwhile, the scientists can figure out how to modify everyone's genetic code to eliminate all the deficiencies. Or, even better, invent artificial general intelligence, and unleash the singularity.
Indeed, the signal to noise ratio for GitHub is pretty rapidly decreasing. It's getting a lot harder to find the important details on any given page.
Two years, tops, then it'll be unusable.
IDK dude, some things seem black and white. The Holocaust, for example.
What has been your primary cloud gaming service? I've been wanting to give it a go during this WFH period.
What does that even mean?

When i want to learn about what something is, i want information about what that something is.
It looks exactly what is written on the docs - if you have a table with capacity of 1000 and resize at 75%, it will resize at 750. Ok, capacity will actually be 1024 so threshold will be at 768, but this does not really sound like news...
Not at present, at least not reasonably. There are Python WinRT bindings under development (https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/package/p...) but they don't (yet?) support the "composable types" type system feature (basically a form of implementation inheritance) that the WinUI and Composition types require. So you'd basically have to write your own support for this.
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There is no competition because the business is not sustainable. Not everyone gets to raise billions of dollars on a promise of self-driving future - where the per unit economy might be sustainable. When that happens there will be tons of competition.
The whole thing is fucked up.

I have to bring back every single employee to convert my PPP loan to grant and also, use it within 8 weeks. None of them want to come back, and if they don't come back they will be out of a job and they won't get unemployment.

But the business is dead. So as soon as 8 weeks are up, I will have to layoff again.

Only 4 out of 10 employees that I laid off received unemployment. 3 were denied. 3 didn't qualify.

They shouldn't have given an additional $600 to unemployed people. They should have given $1200 per month for 2-3 months to everyone. That way everyone who is employed is happy, and everyone is who is out of a job can survive. Anyone who wants to quit their job and stay home should have an option.

I am not going to bring back 2 of my employees who are above 50. I don't want them to risk their life for my business.
I for one will pay extra to order from a nice web UI, and not have to make that phone call.
Foodsby has a cool model.

1. Set a time. Say 11:00 or 12:00. The food will be delivered at this time, no other time.

2. Set a location, a little table in the lobby of various buildings where the Foodsby driver drops off the food.

3. One driver goes to the various restaurants, and goes to the various dropoff points. One trip at one time can serve hundreds of customers.

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Every foodsby trip is synchronized to the time. As such, all orders and deliveries are batched together, saving time and effort on all parties involved.
In app insights are always tricky. The moment you need to compare this data with non GitHub data you need to move to an external database anyway.
This also seems quite similar to repl.it, which I've been enjoying a lot recently.

I wonder if they'll support plugins and importing other VS Code settings to the online editor.
Looks great!

At least now we don't need to run VS Code in another Chromium instance!

Now that Microsoft has Chromium Edge in Windows, it should be possible to provide a good way to spawn and communicate with Chromium GUIs/windows from native Win32 apps! That would be killer!
Codespaces discussion happening over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092904
Only if you're logged in and only to the first party server, though.
I've been tracking that. Almost certainly AMD exclusive since, AFAIK, NVIDIA prohibits GPU passthrough on their consumer cards so VPNs are forced into purchasing 'professional' grade GPUs.
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Not sure how food delivery works in US, but here in London I can get my food no late than say 45mins after I placed my order (via Deliveroo and afaik JustEat too). And the only time I ordered food in US, I had the pizza about 30mins after I ordered it (via UberEats).
Do EU laws apply when the target user base of a website is non-EU customers? e.g. if Verizon Wireless only operates in the US, do they have to comply with EU laws despite them not attempting to localize content for EU users (aka they get shown what US users get shown)?
Is that a new version that isn’t in use anywhere yet? Because for me reCaptcha is still a tool that analyses how much they know about you and if you dgaf about privacy, it lets you through.
> Delivery is expensive. It's time-consuming, and customers are rarely willing to pay the true cost of it.

I think that's the main problem. Delivery isn't free and so far has been subsidized by Uber's investors or draining the restaurants.
Which didn't have a choice because they where being undercut.

We'll end up with either paying a reasonable price for delivery or picking it up yourself.
Or maybe robots, but those aren't free either.
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The Borg were defeated by a rogue, time traveling captain who had no qualms with violating her unified society's rules to kill the Borg.
Being able to connect, do the work, run tests and everything without needing a strong laptop sounds like a good solution for people who like to travel.
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences
I agree with BRUDGERS - get clients - and for the tech part, it is hard to beat making simple web sites with word press.
If in order to get a job as a senior architect I have to have experience that I can only get by having access to come inside your house, then yeah I kind of do.
If you want people to do the right thing, it has to be easy, or it has to pay off. GDPR is incredibly hard, and it's costly.

Just knowing what I need to do requires me to wear my lawyer hat. Actually doing it requires me to wear my developer hat, or to pay other people a monthly fee.

I do this because I swore to do the right thing [1], and because I have a lot of time on my hands. I can't reasonably expect amateur bloggers to do the same. It's an unreasonable burden.

1. https://allaboutberlin.com/impressum#content-policy
The WSL integration is a pretty good result of that effort too.
I've switched to running my own delivery and just grabbing takeout. Cheaper, faster, warmer food, restaurant gets more money, such a win win.
Are you sure Dominos actually profits on the delivery itself, or do they just offer it at/below cost to sell more pizzas?
Get off your a** and do something
> Because of our desire to get a project going, most of us have a tendency to overlook and downplay early resistance and skepticism. We delude ourselves into thinking that once clients get into the project, they will be hooked by it and learn to trust us. This can lead to our bending over more than we wish in the beginning, hoping that we will be able to stand up straight later on. This usually doesn't work. When we bend over in the beginning, the client sees us as someone who works in a bent-over position. When we avoid issues in the beginning, the client sees us as someone who avoids issues. It is difficult to change these images and expectations of us - particularly if the client wishes us to bend over and avoid issues.

> Flawless Consulting, A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used by Peter Block (2011)
heh. True. Alright then, replace what I said with true decentralized Proof of Identity and consider this article merely another important step in that direction.

PoI is looking like it will have to be an amalgamation of different identity services anyway - something that is expensive, slow and hard to cheat at through the multiple providers. Passport is one piece of that puzzle
And it has negative carbon footprint.
:wq! because I really mean it!
The Central Limit Theorem.

It's hard to explain the precise way in which an understanding of the central limit theorem has changed my life. However, knowing how any random distribution sums up to a Gaussian has subtly changed how I perceive and comprehend the world around me. Over time, this has added to a significant number of choices and decisions that I've subconsciously made, informed only by rough estimates of a mean value and it's standard deviation.
My understanding, at least in the past, is that it's the same hardware with different drivers. The drivers "guarantee" accurate rendering at cost of a bit of performance (maybe). At one point there were even hacks that allowed you to install the Quadro (it's quadro btw) drivers on gaming cards.

The extra cost is mainly from getting the cards/drivers certified by every CAD/CAE software vendor as compatible, and possibly just extracting extra value from a market perceived as less cost-sensitive (ie, they are probably paying 10k/year at least just in CAE software licenses).
You don't have to keep working. Workers compensation, life insurance, long-term care policies all exist.

There's really not much different in what's available, only who's responsible for it. In America, you earn and keep more and it's up to you to allocate properly (or not). In other countries, the government does it all for you to ensure there's a base level of support for everyone.
Confidence is a function of truth.
“You live in a mechanical universe. It’s time to start understanding that.”

I was disillusioned with myself. I was performing badly in highschool(even dropped out) I couldn’t understand why.

I wanted so badly to do something epic. I feared being an average guy and living an ordinary life.

I didn’t understand this advice at first. However, I decided that I couldn’t take the life I was living, so I decided to change.

If you accept that the universe is essentially mechanical, then you accept that there is nothing actually standing in your way. You do not have inherent bad luck, and you aren’t cursed.

Probably the best example of this is Elon Musk. The guy watched his entire fortune burn as his companies crumble. He worked 20 hour days. But what separated him was a very specific ability, and it wasn’t just his ability to work hard.

“Most people when confronted with a disastrous scenario start to make bad decisions. When that happens to Elon, he becomes hyper-rational. I’ve never met someone with his ability to take pain.”

This is a paraphrased quote from Musk’s biography, from a Tesla engineer who knew Musk personally when the company was on the verge of collapse. The ability to make hyper-rational decisions during hardship is one of the most important traits of a leader.

This advice got me through that period. I understood that everything had a cause and effect, so I decided to change. Reading made me more prepared for anything. Building and making things made me more friends.

The second you understand that we live in a mechanical universe is the second you are given the key to changing it. I may never become the next Elon Musk(asking myself how can I do it better, but that's another subject if you want to talk about it I'm happy to do so) but my life will be so much happier because I understand that it can change according to rules.

Rationality and a cause-effect mindset is an incredibly tough road to go down because there are no easy answers. When you do, however… you can change anything.
It's a patch that's not merged yet.
Oh, so why it didn’t happen so that browser vendors and W3C did not add some HTTP header to disallow tracking, and browsers did not represent users options to manage their privacy, instead of these mandatory annoying popups?
I wonder if it's usable from an iPad. I haven't tried an online ide before, but if it works well it could be a great mobile development tool.

It would be awesome if this could be setup as a backend for vim as well. Given how well Coc.vim integrates with VSCode tooling, I'm cautiously optimistic.
And in the same breath, accepting that it's entirely natural / inevitable that others tend to operate as though the world revolves around them, and forgiving them for it (within reason). Carnegie's "How To Win Friends..." is corny and dated but still relevant.
We're actually building something along these lines, currently in pre-alpha:
https://www.dotbigbang.com
In engineering, practical and cost advantages are generally one and the same.
> It's sad to see GitHub moving slowly into spreading itself too thin

People have been saying this every time GitHub has added a feature that wasn't SCM. How is this time any different?

> I think GitHub becoming SourceForgeV2 is closer than people think. It's bound to happen at one point.

How do you possibly jump from Codespaces to SourceForgeV2, and somehow proclaim it as certainty?
That you are the average of your five closest friends. In other words, if you would like to achieve or become something, surround yourself with people who are also focused on (or have already achieved) that goal.
If they're that desperate, the company could already lower the wages.
Still on Intel i7 Y processors according to the article.
Both the 13” and 15” have WiFi6:

Wi-Fi 6: 802.11ax compatible

Bluetooth Wireless 5.0 technology

Xbox Wireless built-in (15” only)4

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-book-3/8xbw9g3z71f...

Where do you see otherwise? You’re talking about the Surface Book 3 right? Which is also Intel only currently.
Uber has a physical building in my neighborhood and I have absolutely no clue what possibly happens in there. I've never seen activity. It's not even an office buiding, looks like an old Karate gym or something.
Wired devices are way less fiddly for serious and professional use. No need to ever bother with pairing with the host, keeping a battery charged, or anything else; they will just work out of the box, and will keep working for the foreseeable future.
That's 10s of millions of small companies hiring half the people. The point being there's plenty of people in America becoming "owners of the factory".
I wish the vscode remote dev functionality didn't require a binary server/remote side component. I have a bunch of users who want to use it, but it's not compatible with the system libraries on our servers and dev environments.
Extensions like uBlock already use community-updated filter lists like EasyList.

I would be very perplexed if none existed that removed cookie warnings.

Edit: If you open uBlock's options and go to the Filter Lists tab, you can see that https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters#annoyan... and Fanboy's Annoyances List are two that block some privacy popups, but you'd probably need to enable them.

There are actually quite a lot of lists on that page (click the "+" marks to expand the unchecked lists) that are opt-in rather than on by default, so it's worthwhile to give them a whirl and see if any block cookie popups.

Easylist Cookie is another one I found in uBlock filter list that specifically nukes cookie popups: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist-cookie.t... (disable by default as well).
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Reading about alchemy, especially the concept of transmutation, has inspired my life in numerous ways. I would also suggest reading The Kybalion which, if I recall correctly, is about Gnosticism more than alchemy? Anyway, it has some great general concepts to open up your imagination, plus the prose is beautiful.
Assuming you live in Toronto proper. Most of the GTA is pretty sparse and car-oriented. Even northern Toronto (think Steeles) is already relatively suburban.
Neovim definitely has significant market share, you can compare Github stars as one statistic to consider:

https://github.com/vim/vim - 20k
https://github.com/neovim/neovim - 36.5k

This is in some part due to the fact that neovim has been on Github longer, but it's still a a major indicator.

Neovim has many benefits over Vim, and has been applying pressure on Vim for years to improve its own development and codebase. Nvim has first class support for Lua outside of Vimscript, which has enabled a lot of people to write more powerful plugins. A lot of NVim's featureset has been copied into Vim over the years (one of my favorites is the hover window, which has allowed IDE like support for code references/comments/source). Supposedly, Nvim's codebase is significantly easier to maintain and contribute to, due to the nature of having a community of contributors that built it from ground up, as opposed to one primary developer working on Vim.

The parity has reduced over the years, but Nvim has been significantly ahead in pushing new features and active development over Vim resting on its laurels.
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Three years, and we'll have a version control ribbon to replace all pre-existing UI elements.
> instead of just improving the platform they have. They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

Aren't they in the category of "improving the platform they have"? What exactly do you want Github to be improved then?
By this logic, Apple should have stuck to Macs and never created the iPhone..
...And with abuse patterns a lot of us had that ingrained at a super young age as a control lever our parents/guardians installed.

I think a hard part of this is that people commonly abuse these mechanisms for control in social structures. I grew up with it, I experienced it in school, I've experienced it in relationships, and I've experienced it professionally.

In so many ways it's human social nature to subvert each other and I think that's why so many of us get attached to those concepts. It's really hard to not get bitter and still let the good in =(
Isn't it better to go with a 7nm AMD Ryzen 4000 based laptop nowdays?

For example a Ryzen 5 4500U is also Quad-core with 8 hyperthreads, but has a 2.3GHz base clock.
How can I do this?
I just double tap the titlebar
More transient events are also orders of magnitude more common. If a black hole’s geometry from you lenses’s light from a volume of space that could contain a star for X time. Them it would lens an equivalent volume of space 10x as far from it for 1/10th as long, and but that volume of space is 10^3 times as large. (Ignoring the edge of the Milky Way etc.)

If you consider just how exact the alignments need to be for hour+ events the difference becomes even more pronounced.
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake.”
Have you tried exercising? Between reading Sarno's book and regular exercise / activity all pains everywhere are gone.

Everyone seems to immediately try to jump to some device that is going to fix all of their problems without actually taking care of themselves or changing their habits first.
It is probably related to the complete lack for jurisdiction in calling the US "lawless" that attracts the downvotes.
Most people understand that Saudi Arabian Blasphemy laws mean jack shit if you have no connection their laws can't apply. Making any pretense of validity beyond ability to enforce the laws just makes any making claims utter tools. Just because the other block is an EU nation instead of a backwards monarchy petrostate doesn't change that one bit.
nice! thought about an environment like that. would be great to have python, golang and c/cpp runtimes.
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I tend to agree, it's quite crazy what they are trying to pull off technically. It's hard to imagine how all these features will not impact the service. Also it's probably just bleeding money... millions of dollars on CodeScan alone.
He also has an interesting follow-up [0] where he looks at it from the gross margin point-of-view. His main point is that when you look at it from the perspective of what the rider pays, their margins are much lower and implies that perhaps it should not be categorized as a tech company (in the zero marginal costs and massive gross margins).

[0] https://stratechery.com/2019/neither-and-new-lessons-from-ub...
I'm not sure it's bound to happen. They're owned by a trillion dollar company and Github is a super important tool in their overall developer strategy.
Being able to predict ride demand, optimal routes, and pricing on the fly seems like a complicated enough of a problem that it would both require a lot of engineering and provide enough value over just a 'physical service company'.

I certainly enjoy using Uber and Lyft over Taxis, and when I travel for business I never rent a car these days where as I would always rent a car when confronted with the alternative of dealing with Taxis. Do you think i'm overestimating the advantage the software brings to the experience?
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I've pointed it out elsewhere, but the places that have been best at eradicating it have been islands. NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan. I suppose South Korea is is effectively an island.
> i have accidentally wiped my home directory on Ubuntu VM reinstall. I cant even backup it up easily.

Normally, it'd live on an nfs mount, or a cifs share.

If you're stuck with VMs for some reason, setting up a dedicated storage appliance would probably be the way to go.
Their remote development capability is amazing and was quite a game changer for me. Having a nice ide where all of the plugins work on a remote server as if everything is local is so nice!
Polarization is almost inevitable with 2 parties, and is arguably one of their best tools.

There is no other genuine 3rd or 4th option, so you drive people to your party or you count them as a loss -- there is no other strategy.
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That sounds like an old corporation problem. The world should not pay the price of old corporations inflexibility.

If someone hacks your system you certainly wont have a week to respond. The longer a vendor sits on a vuln, the more likely it is to leak or to be rediscovered by a malicious party.
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The issue is imho that the decision needs to happen server-side (so that a user with an incompatible client isn't slurped up by default), ergo the user-agent must declare the intentions of the user and the server needs to act on it.

P3P could be a hint for the the user-agent, but the user-agent would have to tell the server what level of tracking etc is acceptable to the user.