skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, this can be awful if your org operates globally. This isn't a big deal in orgs that deal with a single region. However, I will say the worse part is that when things go wrong, you are first to get a call which can be very stressful. I still get anxiety when someone uses the :rotating-light: emoji.
>Why the downvotes?

DID is believing you have multiple people living inside of their system (their mind). Furries do not believe there is a cartoon character living inside of them.

The closest bridge between furry and DID is the tulpa community, which is more of an anime community generally.
Sure. The foundation of commerce is sustained relationships where value is mutually exchanged. I give you a few bucks, you give me a cheeseburger. If fix somebody's problem with a computer, they give me cash. Product for payment; value for value.

When some commercial effort departs from that, it's good to be suspicious. The bills are getting paid somehow. E.g., look at network television from 1960-2000 or so. The viewers were not customers. The viewers were the product being sold to people who wanted to manipulate them. Advertisers were the customers, so the programs were generally about getting maximum influenceable wallet-connected eyeballs; quality was at best secondary.

In contrast, look at what's happened to TV since then. We're in a golden age. [1] Why? Many reasons, but a key one is that people are now paying for TV directly. To Netflix and Hulu and HBO and all the other paid streaming efforts, you're the customer, not the product being sold to somebody else. Now they have a strong incentive to make things that you don't just tolerate but love.

Microsoft in particular has a history of monopolistic behavior that has been harmful to the industry (e.g., [2], [3]). Are these developer tools awesome just because Microsoft is run by nice, generous people? I'd say instead they correctly recognize that if they want to regain some of their lost market power, they're going to have to compete with the existing tools, many of which are quite good. Why are they good? I'd say it's partly because smart people have built a strong business [4] making those tools. If Microsoft manages to eliminate the competition, they'll lose the incentive to build good stuff, just like they have in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television_(2000...

[2] https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

[3] http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796793
There might be some space in trying to tailor an out-of-the-box frontend framework to restaurant ordering. But honestly you might get out-competed by wix/wordpress/whatever if they ever invested a pretty trivial amount of effort into targeting you - it'd be a thin thin margin to walk.
Thanks, I hate it.

One of those interesting side-effects of furry avatars that I noticed is that accounts bearing those avatars were always real people, with the added bonus that you can generally authenticate the human behind the mask if you know how. The reality of being online today is that we have to understand whether we're interacting with real people or just a clever piece of software, and this is far more true for folks who are not technically savvy.

Oddly enough, furries were the last bastion of humanity. (And a welcoming one at that, but I digress.)

This complicates that heuristic somewhat. This brings furry avatars on the same level as human headshots. I now need to, e.g., read and process the full account bio and spend more time authenticating whom I interact with online.

This is great work, but did you really have to?
A huge number of things are terribly supported on Linux. Just as much better linux generally is for software dev, it's that same amount worse for most else. When I last tried going full linux (admittedly over five years ago), I remember wifi being a nightmare. Netflix had issues I can't remember specifically. Even ubiquitous formats like pdfs and word docs wouldn't always work correctly. More recently, I remember spotify being a pain and youtube not working as well. Maybe it's better now, but support for new mainstream products always lags in linux.

It's why so many of us try to get the best of both worlds. Dual booting with mainstream OS and linux, or ssh'ing from a mainstream OS to a machine on linux, using OSX + unix terminal, or windows + unix terminal, both options together always seems better than either option alone.

Kinda like how you could do anything in C++ that you can in Python, and vice versa. But the ecosystem is often what determines the best choice. Sticking with one and only one limits you.
The only vegans you ever know to be vegans are those who bother to tell you, so it shouldn’t be surprising.
I am wondering what happened to paragraphs?

This one line one sentence style seems to be popular on Medium.

But there is no rhythm. There is no flow.

Each sentence must have started on separate index cards.

Why wouldn't you weave them together?

So much white space, so many long pauses.

Do people enjoy reading this kind of writing?
Does the pen still work? What about multi-touch and pressure sensitivity?
This sounds like some erotic sci-fi come true.

"In a world swept by a pandemic leaving billions unstimulated, teledildonics kept us together."
If they don't release the code for the cloud implementation, it could diverge.
Apparently the consultancy that built this closed their doors in February of this year.

> On February 25th, after a decade of business, we’ll be closing After the Flood to focus on other projects. We’d like to thank all of our clients and collaborators for their support.
I don't really see what the problem with this would be.

I'm assuming AWS does not give a "yeah looks like it", or "nah" response -- but rather "thanks, we will look into it" and then if it's a real one the rest is directly with their customer.

That way no sensitive information would leak between the providers
Cloudsplaining: AWS IAM Security Assessment Tool
This is great. I think we're just seeing the beginning of the crazy things that people are going to be doing by abusing (in the best possible sense) opentype.
I like the idea of a guaranteed jobs program.

Has this ever been tried? Any studies on it?
> We know it's a shady country

You think it is - in reality, it's not really so shady. He probably picked the name not because it's true but because it's believable.
No doubt the tech is cool, but this is actually somewhat disturbing to me. I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women, and an easy way for false nudes to begin spreading around. Even if they aren't real, they still violate the most intimate form of privacy.

Maybe this is just me.
Nintendo Wii Console (Black) – (Renewed)
Well, they're not guilty in the sense that that is the baseline Windows experience, disappointing as that fact is.
Point taken, but for some time Mellanox has touted at least cross-campus-type IB. I never persuaded anyone to evaluate it for use between two machine rooms, but there were obvious non-HPC cases for it within them. I'd be interested to know how the long distance stuff actually works, not being a beginner with sales talk.
Using infuse (a video player app) I can open files from icloud directly.
LOL, succeeded means something very different in this context than what you are implying. Linux did succeed on the desktop and in fact it has made many great strides that makes performance and desktop management better than Windows in almost every way. Just because it doesn't have majority marketshare, in part due to Microsoft making backroom deals to ship computers from the slave labor factories that Microsoft supports in order to sell $200 pieces of junk adware laptops at Walmart, doesn't mean that it hasn't been successful.
None of the top six companies were funded by billions of dollars that were lit on fire like today’s companies.

The early companies like Apple and Microsoft were started with a few million not even a billion in today’s dollars. As I said earlier, Microsoft didn’t even need the later rounds of funding and wanted to bring expertise on board.

The only one of the current top tech companies that weren’t GAAP profitable at IPO is Amazon and even it used its own operating cash to fund growth.
The politically correct term is "fluffer"
Emerson's take on Beauty is also pretty good:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/15437251/Emerson-on-Beauty
Its legacy thinking.
The worse part is requiring a SIM card on the phone the whole time, hoovering your IMEI and phone number in the process.
In central Europe it is illegal to film the public space in front of your billboard without special permit. Billboards that don't film the space in front of them are still pretty common.

An effective ad on a popular website could be a single jpg hosted on the same webserver as that website itself. You wouldn't need any Cookie banner for that.

But ohh, that isn't enough. No they want to be able to show your users content you didn't explicitly approve and run code on your users computers you cannot verify.

If you had a lemonade stand would you let some company film your customers faces? Probably not.

The GDPR law just makes sure you ask them before you do it
So WSL1 was like a reverse Wine?
Yeah, I agree you need a full up to standard clinical trial to really get something like this into the US medical system under normal circumstances.

I was just mentioning that things can be learned from this study retrospectively by creating a control group from an EHR.

It has validity in the short term for MD's who might begin using this treatment under our fast track system we're using for COVID stuff.

If this trial was done at my institution and my team already had all of the paperwork out of the way with regards to the data access we could have something useful in a week or two out the door. So I hope this will be done by someone somewhere, just to save lives in short term.
> do you acknowledge that current monetization methods for "free tiers" of services generally involve cookies/tracking?

I guess it depends wether you consider free plans to be a loss leader for the paid plans.

If you don't want to operate a free service that is without tracking, then don't. No-one is forcing you to, but you should be aware that you still need to follow the law for paying users too.
Just wait until AI create random cartoon shows and comedy that end up being funny. That will be uncanny.
> It would be interesting to hear what he thinks now of all the obvious lies he told almost two decades ago.

“If only I was in America, then with my talents I would have had an awesome career in law, politics, or business.”
I think it's not solvable with human delivery workers. Hopefully someone tries to do it with robots when we get there.
I agree they can look awesome, but I still struggle to find actionable components when using them, so I find them to be counterproductive most of the time.
signal and empathy seem orthogonal traits to me.
NIH = “not invented here”, I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
I also use Azure DevOps for work and am a recently-former MSFT person. From what I've heard from those still there, most of the new development is going towards Github Actions, which is also reflected in their staffing movements. However with GHA running on top of ADO pipeline infrastructure (public info), Microsoft's success with the strategic slow burn as OP called it, and their super-long-term-support reputation, it's probably not in their interest to rush the move. I'd be willing to bet that in a year+ or so the writing on the public wall becomes much clearer. To that extent, we've started planning a migration at my company.
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I don't line things up on my desk because it is difficult. However using Windows or Linux it is the default and I get to see more. I don't think copying the existing use case blindly makes sense. In some cases it does, and in some cases it may be more intuitive but there is no need to copy the limitations of our past when it is not beneficial.
Self-assembling systems work very much in this direction, where an emergent complex system composed of many simple agents assembles until the higher-level goals are achievable.
Roaming robots looking for metal to eat; what could go wrong?
You do realize that was over two decades ago? Almost no one from that time is still working there.
don't fine businesses, just require a certain proportion of shares be handed over. if the offences is bad enough, the government gets a majority stake and can force change. if its not, the prior owners lose income and influence on an ongoing basis, since their 10% share is now 9%.
I don't see why. People don't need laws to do insane things. Everybody can do insane things and respect the law. Law is not a magical thing that force everybody to act rationally and sanely.
One of the facets of the Boise decision which made it legal to camp on sidewalks in the Western United States is that you can make sidewalk camping illegal if you have sufficient shelter space. If you live in SF or anywhere else with homeless issues, and are tired of the status quo, the only solution that will ever work is building shelters and building mental health facilities. The decision for a camper would therefore be, spend a night in a shelter with social workers, move to a mental health treatment facility if they are mentally unsound or addicted so substances, or go to jail. The only way out is to build your way out, which is why opposition to shelter construction is so soooo stupid and morally abhorrent.
Also, most notes aren't literature but letters of trading, marriage arrangements and such. So they don't tend to expound at length—and while afaik colloquial usage is very helpful for reconstruction, there's still not much of it. Consider that poetry especially helps with reconstruction, since it directly reflects pronunciation.

Btw, for Russian-speakers interested in the history and workings of the language, and linguistics in general, I recommend Zaliznyak's lectures and interviews available on YouTube. He was great at spreading the scientific view, on the backdrop or relatively scarce popular scientific journalism and noisy, harmful and politicized folk etymology.
well the brain is still there working
India's Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Could Leak Patient Locations
.io domain is for British Indian Ocean Territory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
Great low code technology! This should accelerate usage
Thats windows 10x which is annouced earlier.
Probably contracts with Intel that haven’t expired.
That's been going on for a while now with young kids television on youtube. It's usually more CGI than cartoon though.
I can think of several other reasons:

- A/B testing.

- Limiting the number of articles a non-paying user can read per month.

- Persisting form data and shopping cart info. (Not all sites require an account to order stuff from them.)

- Improving recommendations based on what someone has liked or viewed on the site.
Are you not reading who I was replying to? I'm specifically referring to:

>I know a significant percentage of furries where their fursona is considered a real second personality.

>Furries do not believe there is a cartoon character living inside of them.

Heavens no. That would be absurd.
Well if you want to use spaces you need to use fullscreen, and since I find multiple workspaces invaluable I need to put up with the pain of using fullscreen.
If they need the car to get the pizza the time window the delivery kids can be used might be short..
Then your mailserver (if you aren't Google) will be blacklisted for spewing out hundreds of thousands of "rejection messages" an hour.
While these can be helpful, I'm not sure how widespread the availability is so you would probably want to provide these glyphs anyway. (I could be wrong here. But I also don't know a good way to assess their availability.) It's also quite nice that you can just type in data with Sparks and get sparklines which isn't possible with the glyphs you mentioned.
Reading news about this research over years, hard to be sure when the "world-first" event actually happens. For example, a couple of years ago (?) similar achievement was claimed by Energomash in Russia.

In any case this seems to be wonderful technology, when made working. Kudos to scientists and engineers involved, it's hard research.
Both false.

A/B testing is allowed and doesn't need opt-in if the A-or-B preference is only recorded in aggregate form and not tied to the user.

Same for the purchasing scenario. In this case, you would be explicitly collecting personal data to fulfill the order.
Yep +1 have sold $4m worth of PDFs/videos to developers since I started working on my first book in 2016. Developers are an amazing audience

Interesting how much money devs want to spend on learning!
That's a good question. I haven't used it but extending infinaband ... I'm guessing there's some sort of intermediary devices doing some sort of piplining or emulation, that's usually how that works out.
That's a false dichotomy. We're also talking about rates of fast growth vs. unrealistic hyper-growth. I'd argue that as the current tech bubble inflates, we've leaned towards the latter. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094568
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You are claiming AirPods are a status symbol, and you’re claiming everyone has them. Which is a contradiction.

They are not a status symbols. I see people working at fast food restaurants, in college, and other lower paid occupations with them. I also see them with iPhones and MacBooks and apple watches. But these devices aren’t that expensive.

I don’t see them and think “this person must have access to a lot of credit or be related to someone rich”. That might be reserved for having a nice home in an expensive neighborhood.

And in my experience, the utility and longevity derived from most Apple products far outweighed the extra few hundred dollars spent initially, so the amortized cost is much lower. I type this from an iPhone 6 bought in 2014, which at the time was the most expensive phone. But I didn’t buy it to be a status symbol.
The guy is clearly lying considering that even the US does extra-judicial killings both inside (citizen-citizen) and outside the country (Drone strikes, CIA assassinations), regular executions of people (death penalty, even for treason).

Most Americans don’t bat an eye that they pay taxes to fund this. As long as it’s in our interest we turn a blind eye. As long as it’s someone else we look down on them.
I'm using full ubuntu in it. The only real pain is anything that relies on systemd (which comes up unsurprisingly often).
I actually kind of like it. Not beautiful, certainly, but more usable, and loads lightning fast. I'm not really a fan of the bloated re-designs we're seeing these days.
This is tragic.

Kraftwerk, in my opinion, invented modern music and will be the classical music of our times.

There have been moments of my life where I would listen morgen spaziergang for hours in loop, it was the only thing that could get me through the day without rage bursts.

It's my Linus cover.

Through them I discovered all the bands I love, from the most experimental electronic ones to David Bowie.

His contribution in taking "intelligent music" (sorry, can't find a better term) from something for the eiltè to something POP will be fully appreciated only when we'll be long gone.

Gute reise Meister

The power plant will be producing its magic energy forever
Can we also please do something to put an end to End user license agreements?

It used to be that in the late 1800s that for example an electricity contract would be a simple one page A4 page which everyone could understand and you signed.

Now its pages up and down of legal content, that you almost need an PhD in law to understand. Many sign without even reading our understanding the contract.

I would call for the simple end user agreement act or put an end to the practice as a whole and just fall back on national/eu law.

Why the contract signing is asymmetrical power and you cannot alter the outcome either than simply opting out of the product.

Further you do tell if it was a person who signed the EULA or the persons cat. Who did the consent?
FunctionTrace – human-oriented profiling for Python
Not always: https://meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/ though that’s going a bit off-topic.

And, I believe that the distinction with what was mentioned is akin to, say, an actor on stage embracing or embodying the role of a character they are about to perform.
I'd like to be able to contribute to Firefox or Brave, but there's no way I'm going through with the setup.

If I could just do some small stuff, maybe write some unit tests, that would be fine.
> I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women

Why? And do you also see it as an expressway for the objectification of men? Of not, why not?
I’m not cherry picking data. Look at the top profitable tech companies today and compare the amount of money invested in them before they became profitable to the Uber and Lyft’s of today.

Amazon is the outlier when it comes to the lack of GAAP profitability for years, but even it was cash flow positive.
I have never seen a cookie consent implementation that wasn’t annoying, and absolutely do not believe that this law has had any beneficial impact at all on anybody’s privacy. It is the very definition of a bad law. It makes the web worse and more user hostile, and achieves none of its objectives.
Obligatory xkcd?

https://xkcd.com/327/
As a profession, developers are likely more responsible for imposing mechanical, inhuman metrics and instrumentation on society than anyone since double-entry accounting was invented.

Everything from upvotes/likes/internet points to in-house fraud detection to click tracking to Captchas to facial recognition and tracking... Of course programmers are going to emit signals that those signing checks are going to take interest in.

I recommend you learn to live with it, everyone else has to.
Thanks! This will save me a lot of time.
I think it's more about all of the integration leading to efficiencies that are hard to ignore while they're being subsidized / promoted. It'll start out as something where the value proposition is too good to ignore, but, as time goes on, they'll tier off features and charge a premium as you scale up.

There was a time when I was hopeful and though Microsoft would take a developer first approach with the end goal being making it easy to deploy to Azure. After seeing the VSO (the old name for Codespaces) pricing I'm a lot more cynical. Microsoft's going to be altruistic until they're not.

Go look at the pricing for VSO. They have a full time dev (100 hours a month - lol) estimated at a cost of $23 USD per month. Just wait until there's some type of marketplace for extension developers. The local version of VSCode will disappear overnight and (IMO) we'll be paying $50+ / month for the same thing that's free right now.

Get ready to pay for everything per user per month for the rest of your life.
This makes sense when applying changes is expensive. If applying the changes is cheep (or invisible while the settings dialog is open) then you don't need the confirm step and you can do it immediately or when the dialog is closed.

(just have a good undo option)
Running third-party application as a Windows service using NSSM