skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know it's a fundamental kernel architecture decision that Microsoft can't just "fix."

From the original NT microkernel design, filesystem access is all asynchronous messaging, and it can be intercepted and modified by drivers at many points. A lot of software takes advantage of that. But it's also why caching isn't as effective as it could be, since you can't rely on all those unknown layers returning the same result each time.

Plus a lot of Windows systems are running an AV which likes to check to see if you should be allowed to read any particular file in case it might be dangerous.
Windows Vista's UAC modal was a good example of this.

Even the most tech-savvy HNer was clicking through those without any thought and soon turned auto-consent on (aka disabled UAC).
It doesn't have to be a modal popup either. If your default is truly "off" then you could have a banner on top or bottom or somewhere saying something like "please help us make the site better..." or whatever.
This is pretty epic. VS Code has proven itself to be one of the best (if not the best) and feature-complete editor out there. It's basically an IDE of a ton of languages at this point, and it's completely free. Integrating it with GH is a no-brainer move from Microsoft's standpoint, to increase market share even further with more seamless integration.

If they're able to do setup for Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript projects, I suspect that'll be > 50% of all professional work (both FOSS and private) done on GH.
Airbnb froze hiring more than a month ago. They just laid-off 25% of their employees. Who is looking for a job there right now?
According to the updates page, they have a meeting of the DMSB today. In the previous interim report (April 22nd) they said they needed at least 200 more particpants to have sufficient statistical power.
I mean, putting all they keys in the home row is admirable but the up/down placement seems so counter-intuitive! Almost everywhere I see arrow keys put in a line up comes first…
> 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?

Maybe we'll eventually learn that artificially forcing business models to run at accelerated rates creates self-fulfilling prophecies of "fail fast."
The Great Unicorn Retreat
I've enjoyed their music for so many years. I got to see them live at Disney Hall in LA about 10 years ago - I don't think Florian was playing on this tour - and the A/V show was amazing.

The Fukushima disaster had just happened, and they played parts of Radio-Activity, which came across as prophetic.
Didn't we already solve this problem with containers?
Steve Jobs' explanation of the simple, obvious truth that the world is made up of everyone's contributions and how much power each individual person has to contribute and influence it too:

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is: Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know — if you push in, something will pop out the other side — that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
The more Microsoft move from Azure to GitHub the better
There are perpetual reminders all around that Microsoft's only pretending to like f/oss because that's where the developer attention (and thus corporate money) is. There's spyware in all of their open source apps (TypeScript excluded, because they couldn't get away with it there) that you can of course patch out, but you can't get it removed from the project because, free software or not, Microsoft gets to decide what goes in or out.

Bet you a dollar the GitHub mobile app that's going to come out pretty soon will also be totally proprietary with no source provided. It's a growing trend in developer tooling: even Docker's desktop versions (not Microsoft's fault, but still) are not even open source (much less free software).

It's going to be really sad in a few years when Microsoft starts turning the screws to extract more revenue from this free software ecosystem (GitHub/npm) that they are coming to exert major control over.

Soon, the most common "industry standard" tooling for the largest and most popular software development ecosystem (javascript) will rely heavily on proprietary software that spies on you continuously while you use it, just like Windows.
For those worried about the data being used maliciously, it looks like most of the metrics they'll be introducing are focused around things that can actually help unblock teams and aren't focused on individual contributors. Eg. distribution of code reviews across team members for better load balancing, average code review turnaround times across the team.

It also looks like you'll be able to proactively set goals for some of these insights as well to improve over time. I can see where this can go awry, but optimistically this should help teams better measure and improve their process!
The question is, how much do those restaurants charge themselves in a delivery fee? It wouldn't suprise me if they spend more than 5% the value of the purchase on making the delivery; in the same way that I expect more that 5% of a typical dine-in meal to go to fund the in-restaurant eating space.
Rather indirect reply incoming.

Elon Musk cares about one over-arching thing: making humanity an interplanetary species. I believe that everything he does is in service to that goal.

In order to make humanity interplanetary, lift costs must be greatly and sustainably reduced.

In order for lift costs to be greatly and sustainably reduced, everything in the lift vehicle except the propellant must be fully reusable. Also, the vehicle needs to be inexpensive, quick to manufacture and reasonably performant.

In order for the orbital stage of a lift vehicle to be re-used, it must re-enter the earth's atmosphere and effectively shed a large fraction of the chemical energy that was used to accelerate it to 7.8km/s.

In short, the 2nd stage must be able to repeatably handle intense re-entry heat.

For performance (and other) reasons, it must also be able to handle the very low temperatures of liquid propellants.

Given all of these constraints, specific types of steel are literally the only choice.

1. Low material cost

2. Low manufacture cost

3. Excellent high temperature performance

4. Excellent low temperature performance

5. Sufficient normal temperature performance

In fact, Musk has said that his initial focus on carbon fiber was a big error.

Re: Falcon: as others have stated, Falcon 9 is effectively a fixed design. It's now a 'cash cow', and there's no reason to substantially change it. In fact, changing it would risk a lot of profitable contracts that are effectively funding Starship/Superheavy development.
The two that I can personally thing of are using higher order functions unnecessarily (i.e. sometimes it is better just to use a boolean flag rather than handing in a callback) and too much indirection (though honestly I see this more in languages like Java than functional languages).
Boy do I have a surprise for you! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...
Just wait a few more years and you will have free delivery children. Oft of my childhood was the call to 'go get the pizza!'
Absolutely, Inkscape has been great and is a great example of open source done right.
https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-second-agreement-dont-take... , opening passage.

Be warned, there's a "woo-woo shit" risk factor here, which my skepticism keeps at arm's length. I'm more of a neuroscience / mindfulness meditation kind of guy. But I do cherry-pick from other areas, where my curiosity takes me. And the original quotes were good cherries.

Reframing the "nothing is ever personal" idea in more neuroscience terms:
some astonishing high degree of our neurological processes (90+% ?) are subconscious or preconscious. A similar percentage of neurons are formed before the age of 18. In many ways, the quest to improve ourselves reduces down to the skill of paying slightly more attention to the activity of our minds.

So when someone interacts with you in a way that causes you stress or hostility, you can choose to recognize the above facts as playing out in the arena of their brain, in the same way as they are playing out in yours.

This is not to excuse behavior, nor disregard the need for boundaries, protection, standing up for yourself, etc. But it does take the sting off. What's better for your own equanimity? Succumbing to a feeling of being singled out? Or recognizing your counterpart as being stuck in their own behavior loop, unaware that they're (arguably) in a state of some kind of suffering?

Socializing is our most complex and wonderful skill; there are a ton of attendant instincts that evolved with it: status signaling, negotiation and exchange; hierarchies for coordinating group actions; grudges and revenge as deterrents meant to preserve social harmony (see chimpanzee behavior; then see bonobo behavior for something more inspiring). All of this monkey software can be dialed down, even outright idled at times. Because nothing is ever personal.

These are some truly advanced and empowering concepts, so apologies if I'm probably not representing them properly.
Well done Meredydd and team. This makes Anvil a much more friendly investment for those who can't risk losing a service or can't run on a public cloud.
I tried setting the editor to TextEdit app path. That didn’t work. I also tried Sublime, which also didn’t work.

Setting the editor is really a 3 step process. Add application to PATH. Create an alias. Specify the alias.

VSCode has a command to do steps 1 and 2 for you.

My next weekend project is to learn Vi. (Any tutorial suggestions?) I don’t want to. But I have to. Smartphones are so intuitive toddlers can use them. Vi is so non-intuitive it requires going to external tutorials to learn how to edit text. Sigh. :(
Internet Infrastructure: Introduction to Subsea Cables
Facebook Blog post with more information and longer chat session example:

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch...
> it also keeps you and the rest of my visitors safe.

Safe? From what? Is comment spam or increased traffic/CPU load on your server now a threat to users' safety?

> It almost feels like that the inconvenience of using a multi-layered system equates to the people who want to get back to eating in restaurants while in the midst of a pandemic and will then complain if they catch Covid-19...

Excuse me, but you seem to have forgotten that your mouth is between your other cheeks.

EDIT: In case I wasn't absolutely clear, OP is talking completely out of his/her ass and deserves to get called out on it. It's not exactly polite to compare people who don't like CAPTCHAs to public-health-endangering hypocritical idiots.
Insider Trading on Soccer Trades
Yes, tablet mode on Win8 was good!

The problem was ramming it down the throat of all the desktop users too. I still don't understand how such a big company can make such obviously bad decisions.
I'm honestly grateful I've never been under any illusions of having grit. It sounds exhausting to be this laser focused on achievement and maximizing your success.
> Does he really believe it or is he just cynical

Neither, IMO. From observing him over the years, he knows what's good for him, and he knows how to get a good vibe going with others at the same time. The vibe can make anything true or false and is not known for being concerned with moral true/false questions, which get into subjective (qualitative) ethics. (You can argue that those same ethics prevent reasonably helpful business from being done in many cases, as distasteful as it sounds.)

I'd add that he has a good nose for opportunity and a higher than average threshold for risk. This is your typical "fixer" type.
>I think Chromebooks are going to be a great use for this.

A great use for this if you don't mind losing the ability to run Ublock Origin and similar extensions when Google "upgrades" the software on the Chromebook to extension manifest V3.

That is relevant because most developers probably need to look stuff up on the web while they are working. Some of us really don't like ads.
Have you considered a battery case like: “Google Pixel 2 Battery Case, 4700mAh“ https://www.amazon.com/Rechargeable-External-Protective-Port...

From reviews that product is likely terrible, but I know people that are happy with their iPhone battery cases.
According to Elon Musk it's not about saving costs but about speeding up development. Welding steel needs basically no tooling or setup time. It's hard to imagine their current methodology of rapid prototyping with carbon fiber. Other advantages are just a bonus.
This is terrible advice. Cash is cash, you can pay bills, buy food, get through hard times without needing to do anything but access it. Coronavirus should be showing everyone that random insane things can happen, so be conservative with emergency funds.
Dart 2.8
A report providing trends and insights into developer activity on GitHub
And maybe that's a societal problem we should be addressing instead of expecting people to give money to silicon valley companies.

Don't get me wrong. I've used and use these services at times. I'm not morally opposed to them. I just think that saying that telling someone by not using them they're hurting immigrants is just a whole lot of backwards.
Agree with the other reply 100%. If you payed for the upgraded Surface Go, it works excellently, and runs pretty well when you break out of Windows S mode.

I use it for travel and more portable uses. I specifically use it to read via screenreader (Kurzweil 3000--works best on Windows), when I need something more portable. I even got one for my mom for Mother's Day last year and she uses it as her primary Windows laptop.

It is better than spending $180 for the cheapest Windows laptop that you can get, due to the tablet form factor, durability, and portability. Sure, the battery is not replaceable but this is livable.
I'm not sure Ballmer would not have allowed that. Linux in WSL under Windows is not a threat to Windows; it's absence was beginning to be a threat, as a generation (both of people and technologies) was Linux native and needed (or at least it is way more convenient) it locally to do their work. So it is basically either MS did WSL, or people were going to migrate away.

And at least they did WSL cleanly, meaning that they do not rely on proprietary extensions for e.g. Linux projects in VS but simply use ssh. Maybe Ballmer would have wanted to attempt a proprietary lock in (the extend part) -- I'm not sure this would have worked in the context I described, because one important source of the need is people working on remote systems which are real native Linux, so they needed standard things anyway.
How close would a black hole have to be to cause some damage to the Earth or it's orbit?
Rabies is officially erradicated in Portugal since the 1960's. I've searched for official data at:
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data?s=rabies

Most cases (we're talking 0-3 in a given year) in Europe seem to be imported from tourists or immigrants returning after being bit by a wild animal. This was the case in 2011 in Portugal after a dog bite in Guinea-Bissau (article in portuguese):
https://www.publico.pt/2012/03/31/jornal/portugal-registou-c...

So looking at the data, it seems the little bats have been harmless for at least 60 years.
Google delays Android 11 by a month
How many of these reddit posts were themselves bot posts? Is it bots all the way down now?
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> There are two labs in Wuhan which performed experiments with bats and bat coronaviruses under unsafe conditions

First of all, they conducted experiments with deactivated samples of bat coronaviruses, not with live virus or with bats.

Second of all, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a world-class BSL-4 lab. They do not operate under "unsafe conditions."

> native to southern China, not Wuhan

A couple of things:

1. It is widely suspected that there was an intermediate host species between bats and humans, just as was the case in the last two major coronavirus outbreaks, SARS and MERS.

2. Nobody knows where, exactly, the virus first spilled over into the human population. Wuhan is just the first place where it was detected. A virus like this can spread for quite a while, particularly in the middle of flu season, before it is detected. There's nothing to say it didn't emerge in some rural village in Yunnan first.

> A large amount of the initial cases had no connection to the Wuhan seafood market. Factual.

With human-to-human transmission, this is entirely consistent with the first outbreak (or super-spreading event) occurring at the market.

> The CCP has ordered the destruction of evidence at those places

Did the CCP order that, or did the Chinese government order that? I've noticed a trend in which people who make extremely anti-China posts refer repeatedly to the "CCP." I strongly suspect that these people are just using that terminology for the shock value.

Beyond that, the news report (from Caixin) that I believe is the origin of your claim about destruction of evidence says that after the virus was identified, low-security Chinese labs were ordered to either transfer their samples to high-security labs or to destroy them. I recall this being a safety measure, in other words, though you could ascribe other motives if you wanted to.
Pizza parlors and Chinese restaurants have successfully been delivering food for decades with their own delivery staff.

It's only the Silicon Valley delivery services that are unable to profit from delivery, because they insist on paying executives and engineers 6+ figures when all of the value is in the delivery drivers, not the wasteful overhead.
If you want to be pedantic, you cannot observe direct evidence of anything. After all, when you look at your hand you don't see the hand itself, just the photons that happened to interact with it a short moment ago. Actually you don't see those photons, you only perceive how those photons interact with the cells in your eyes.

Evidence for black holes has been shown in the way they bend light from distant galaxies and cause stars to orbit around them. There's not much stronger evidence needed to prove their existence.
If delivery driving is going to be socialized as a jobs program, is it the ideal jobs program? I think not.

There must be unprofitable business activities that would make better jobs programs. Student stipends, vocational training, teachers aides for natives learning foreign languages, subsidized English language lessons, almost anything would be a better investment for immigrant men than subsidization of unprofitable delivery services. Arguably just handing out money and skipping the unprofitable business activity would cause less damage and waste to the environment.
Windows 8 was all about redesigning behavior and workflow, those were the aspects that were largely walked back in successive updates.

I was a big fan of Win8 (was fine with it on desktop as well) but tablet mode on Win10 was a major downgrade and I only ever use Surface in desktop mode, even on the rare occasions I tuck back or detach the keyboard. I still use touch a lot though, sometimes simultaneously with mouse or trackpad.
Couple of points

1 Where we live Whole Foods in store purchases have been cheaper than Safeway, who they are trying to put out of business Walmart style. Prime home delivery has got very expensive per item (and a lot of the items ordered don't show up, shown as out of stock) in comparison to buying in store.

2 100 years ago it was normal in most Western world countries for small vendors to deliver food to homes. Milkmen in the UK had electric milk floats until the 1980's, delivery bicycles and tricycles were very common until the 1960's, and smaller local vendors almost invariably offered local delivery. I spoke to an Ocardo delivery van guy in February based in Coventry UK who told his route went into Wales 90 miles away. In the US we are consuming incredible amounts of packaging to buy small items from Amazon.

I'm not seeing value in centralizing delivery through large entities via casual delivery people unconnected to the businesses they are delivering from, I see massive profits for a tiny number of people and zero oversight of our private business, what we order and from who. I'd like to see a return to local anonymous delivery via private arrangements with local vendors.

As a seperate topic I'd also like to know that my every move in an Uber/Lyft etc is not being tracked, filed away by God knows who and sold.
> None of this is meant as a critique of capitalism.

Lol, I was really with you up until this point. There will always be people like buffet as long as there is capitalism.
The dock for the original Surface Go was garbage. You were always better off getting the USB-C hub.
It certainly doesn't apply to me. I have albinism and even 15 minutes outside without sunscreen can result in the start of a nasty burn.
macOS has full keyboard access and you don’t need Karabiner to enable it.
That's correct it's usable from an iPad during the beta. There are a few known issues but we're planning on addressing those so that we can support this workflow (I work as the product lead on Codespaces).
That's the new way, which comes with Tag Manager, which is a technically a separate product at Google.

Here is how to implement Google Analytics by itself:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
The surfacebook 2 could not do vr with non windows mr headseats due to design changes that were made to make the tablet come off. I wonder if that is still the case with this one.
You should read the article...nothing to do with containers...
Similar thing on Android. Doesn't matter what browser you use, it asks you to "continue with Chrome".
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It used to be called Visual Studio Online (it was renamed to this) and you could indeed run it on your server, so I'm assuming that's not going to change.

No clue about GitLab integration. I don't see myself using a browser tab instead of an app to write code, and the app does have GitLab plugins, so I'm gonna go with probably.
Collecting data and being annoying are entirely optional and a choice made by companies. The law is a still a partial victory for privacy.
It honestly isn't nearly as difficult as learning Dvorak; you can be productive with Vim if you use it full-time for about a week. If you stay dedicated to learning and improving, you can get really good and become pretty productive.

While I love Vim and I use it most of the time, I don't really buy it when people act like it saved them a whole lot of time. I love the Vim keystrokes and philosophy, but I don't really know if I'm any more productive with Vim than I was with Emacs...I stick with Vim because I find that, once you "get it", it's relatively easy to translate stuff from your brain to the screen.
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092269 :)
Yes and it's not like they're going anywhere. Especially on the keyboard the cable is a non-issue IMO. I highly prefer wired keyboards. The only reason to have a wireless keyboard is liking the look of a total wire-free desk (which I don't care about).

And with the mouse it's just a minor annoyance (empty batteries are a bigger one so I have that wired too).