skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atom, it's slowly dying with now only bug fixes. Language Servers which were open to all ides but newer versions restricted to their own ides and code editors. I think you would see many similar scenarios.

They are trying hard to extinguish Google Chrome on Windows too. That's your embrace, extend and extinguish.

It's only practical from business perspective to extinguish competitors. Imo, when their open source software have monopoly they would update license slowly. Let's face it, even if you fork the code afterwards there wouldn't be users and contributors to maintain it unless it's revolutionary. You could take example from Cloud9 IDE, BitTorrent etc.
My parents lived in a vacation town and the local club directory included members’ summer and winter addresses, phone numbers, and the summer and winter email addresses.
If your app costs $100, and you only sell 100 copies, and they all ask for a refund, then at the end of the month you owe Apple $3000?
Given that he's declaring bankruptcy going after a fine alone might make him judgement immune.
There's an often-shared image of the excitement of a technology looking like a V shape, with a valley of disappointment following a big media hype. I wonder if that's why the Bill Gates quote rings so true: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years"
Republicans are just as concerned about crappy government.

They just want to solve the problem with less government instead of an oversight agency.
And if the worst thing that happens to early Mars astronauts is "a 3% increase in the chance of dying from cancer someday", they will ecstatic. The list of more pressing risks is long.
I believe the article is referring to this poll[0]. The poll contains several questions concerning "internet giants." For example,

"Do you think that today's internet giants should be subject to federal anti-trust review given that they offer largely free services?"

Yes 68%, No 32%

[0]: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/HHP...
>Of course water by itself isn’t enough. You’ll also need the correct chemical makeup, pressure, light, temperature range, etc.

Something like Underwater Volcanoes to Arctic sea, from Sulfuric Acid-water to something like Lake Natron?

>Billions of chances might not even get you out of the star system.

"might" is the perfect expression ;)
> Not if your speech is protected, that's the point.

Actually, the point is that your speech is protected from the government (and with certain specific exceptions). Your speech is specifically, emphatically not protected from non-government actors.
No no no. That only applies if you aren't a cop. :)

Sarcasm aside, I do think it varies by PD. My local department had zero issues when protests went on, even going so far as to take part, and then _not_ turn right around and start beating people.

Seems kinda like a bare minimum, but at least they hit that.
Interesting how using the word "yo" seems to be important to this trick, since it's not a common English word for this style of writing. This seems to be a way of exposing a deeper-level signal to the surface as a probability on a single word, bypassing the English interface.

Once you're doing tricks like that, it's getting a bit unclear whether it's really a natural-language interface anymore. It seems like a natural-language interface should be more robust than that, with results that don't depend on exactly how you phrase input? (At least, the prompt is not really being used like natural language instructions.)

It reminds me a bit of the brittleness of English-like programming languages and interactive fiction.
> Honest question here. Why are we, the taxpayers, paying for 27 months of free housing and food for this guy?

That's a great point, he should be sent to work in the uranium mines of Kamchatka to earn his keep for those 27 months.

The non-snarky answer is 'because sentencing in this country is a mixture of rehabilitation, punishment, and public safety', with a very heavy emphasis on punishment. (And quite frankly, I could think of more sympathetic persons and sentences to raise your question in defense of.)
Sounds like what Alibaba already does in China, where they digitize local stores and their stock but make it available on their platform. Imagine Square, Shopify and Amazon all rolled into one to help digitize your brick and moartar.
> I'm not taking sides, or claiming I'm an expert on economics, but isn't the question with monopolies always "what is the market, and what are the competitors"?

Pricing power is a key way in which that question is answered: if an actor doesn't have it, the people to whom business goes when they raise prices are the rest of the market they are in. If they do have it, there are no actual competitors.
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The count is sadly out of date. We now have over 3000 OpenAPI definitions! (Maintainer)
Agreed! Embracing is purely positive. Extending can be negative, but it generally isn't frowned upon. Heck, it's one of the reasons for FOSS existing!

Extinguish is the only purely negative part, people seem to forget that...
Whenever I want to show someone the valley mindset I will pull up this comment. The app download numbers are at an all time high! That must be good, right guys? Right? ... Guys?...
So let's say I did the same thing. I don't have any money, so there is no meaningful financial punishment that can be applied to me. In which case, we'll need an alternate punishment, ie - jail.

In which case we've just set up a punishment system where poor people go to jail and rich people don't.
I stopped selling on Amazon nearly 10 years ago. FBA was a newly introduced feature which was the trigger for me see Amazon's disrespect for 3rd party sellers.

They skim the seller for the sale (because they do the marketing for you).
They skim on payment processing (it costs them less than they charge)
They skim for exposure (ads are almost a must have to ever appear in search results).
They then skim on delivery via FBA (they charge more than it costs them).
And they skim on warehousing via FBA (the pricing was already unbelievable back then).

Fast forward 10 years, they have started to skim sellers off their business analysis and risk taking effort (They have the data, and will compete with 3rd party sellers on products that sell decently enough, and even place their product before yours).

I've recently taken the time to edited and publish a book that is in the public domain, on their KDP platform, a few days later I see that Amazon is selling that same book and even redirect customer clicks from my page description and book cover to their line item to buy.

Amazon has no limit.
And 65 is too old to vote. Mental flexibility decreases, and senility sets in, as do degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. You no longer have children in school and you're no longer working for a living, leaving you dangerously out of touch with the needs of the majority of the country.

So tell ya what, Dr. Gelertner. I'll accept raising the lower bound when you agree to establish an upper bound. Because otherwise all I'm seeing is a call to exclude your ideological opponents rather than a rational consideration of who should be allowed to make decisions.
This is a very misleading title.
TikTok blasts 'copycat' Facebook as US starts probe
The indictment [0]. He plead guilty to [1]:

> Levandowski admitted to taking a single spreadsheet called “Chauffeur TL Weekly Updates — Q4 2015.” According to court documents, the file contained quarterly goals and weekly metrics and the objectives and key results for Levandowski’s team. It also included a summary of technical challenges the
team faced and some that had been overcome.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1197991...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/19/levando...

TL;DR he stole lidar and plead down to a lesser charge.
https://jacobbuckman.com/2020-01-17-a-sober-look-at-bayesian...

"But in practice, BNNs do generalize to test points, and do seem to output reasonable uncertainty estimates. (Although it’s worth noting that simpler approaches, like ensembles, consistently outperform BNNs.)"
Although I agree, one key difference from this case and your analogy between Vim and Notepad++ is you don't save a few hundred/thousand dollars switching from Vim to Notepad++.

That's an extra factor that, at least for me, made it worth switching and investing some hours into adjusting for hotkeys/shortcuts/etc. To be fair to your point though, I don't have a decade of full-time work invested into Photoshop so perhaps my muscle memory was more malleable.
Lenovo Legion 5

Great performance, sturdy, sleek design, great air circulation. 144hz refresh rate screen.

I'm using its predecessor Y540, intel based, GTX 1660 Ti. Great for gaming and work. The only downside is the speaker's not that good. Never been this satisfied with a laptop with this price range.
Call me overly cynical, but I don't see Musk getting this done in time to be back in 2031 and win the race.
I thought maybe there was a risk with C# tooling or Xamarin but so far they seem to be keeping up Linux and Mac support. Windows is still the lead platform but I think I can live comfortably with this level of cross platform effort.

They updated the Linux .net profiling tools and are committed to a cross platform UI solution.
This is a great example of unequal prosecution. A startup that has its IP copied illegally would be lucky to not be ignored by the feds. Even if it was the proximate cause of a startup’s failure (which is admittedly rare).

But for Google and Goldman Sachs which never suffer any real damage in these cases, the feds are their private army capable of raiding and imprisoning anyone who copies some files illegally, even if they suffer no actual harm whatsoever.

There is no question Google should be able to use the law to stop someone from using their IP illegally and be compensated for any damages. But this attempt to make an example out of someone just because they’re powerful is despicable.

The combination of powerful corporations with vendettas and prosecutors out to make their bones is a huge flaw in our system.
A History of Police Uniforms–and Why They Matter (2014)
I just started paying attention to Blender again after some years. The tutorials Ian Hubert does really demonstrates how powerful the product has become - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8Ol2n4o4A
This is from Saul Griffith of Otherlab (https://www.otherlab.com/) who has detailed his comprehensive plan to decarbonize the US economy in several different reports but most recently the Rewiring America handbook: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook

The bottom line is that by electrifying everything (transportation, HVAC, etc) at rates as fast as possible, we reduce total energy usage by 40-50% due to inherent efficiencies in electric. We also switch over all electric generation to solar and wind deployed massively and before the typical replacement cycle of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Surveillance isn’t going anywhere - nearly every country is utilizing it (be it widely known or unknown) and that trend is only increasing.

The hope of democratic nations is to use it well, with ample checks, balances, and protections. It is arguably a necessity for national and international security. Proper checks should keep it confined to this space.

Surveillance has been in use for decades by most countries, somewhere along the line we forgot though that the enemy isn’t surveillance itself, it is abuse.
Disney World During the Pandemic Is Extremely Weird
I really hate their dark-pattern of holding your credits hostage if you want to pause your account. I have like 10 credits that I don't want to spend right now, I'm backed up and hardly reading and I can't pause my Audible membership that's $24/mo without losing my credits. I also don't want to be rushed to pick out 10 books and possibly waste my credits so I can pause. I'm VERY picky about what books I burn a credit on.

It's a really crappy way of keeping me tied in and I want to make sure people know about it.
I think this is a somewhat questionable threat model. Some people would say it is reasonable. Other people would say that the service has already been pwned so relying on that breach being exclusively contained to the password database and nothing else, requiring the hackers to actually use the ordinary authentication flow to do anything bad, is a fairy tale.

I personally don't feel like I have enough information to decide whether this is a reasonable threat model or not.
1) It's again that time of the year... although this time he merely promised FSD to be feature complete by the end of the year. I think same will happen 2021, 2022, etc.

2) That they did achieve pretty much that, just a bit late.

3) Head scratcher, but some speculation it was to fend off a hostile takeover attempt. A bit fishy indeed.

4) They do replace all HW 2 & 2.5 computers for free, if the owner got FSD package.
If the proceeds from the crime are astronomical, then the fine should probably be astronomical too: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
Probably as a deterrent for very meaningful IP theft, and/or enforcement of existing laws and their punishments.
I suppose, but the way I think of it is --

Q: Why do we (or should be) putting rapists, thieves, murderers behind bars?

A: Because I'm happy to chip in and pay for their locked-up housing and food to make sure that they're not on the streets hurting people.

But this guy? I don't give a damn about him. He's not a threat to me, my company, or anything I'm involved with, and I shouldn't be paying for his punishment or rehabilitation costs.

If this guy walked past my home at night I wouldn't give a damn. If Brock Turner came anywhere near my home or friends' homes I'd be scared. Which of the two really should be behind bars? Why is this harmless-to-me guy being locked for 27 months at MY expense but Brock Turner getting 6 months?
Didn't they change their mind in the end?

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/issues/16#issue...

@kuldeepdhaka the aliases have been removed from PowerShell Core 6.0 for awhile now
USPS should be making every effort in such a crisis to expand the number of things it does for the community, not decrease them. How about, neighborhood banking services, ID verification, government benefits administration, etc? A whole slew of services that they could be the local outpost for -- in every single town in the US?

Unfortunately, the same Congress calling them to task are the ones tying their hands from being able to innovate what they do in this changing world. And produces a dysfunctional, costs-go-to-the-consumer mentality that is destined a slow painful death.
White collar crime vs blue collar crime.

White collar crime steal $179MM of assets and get 27 months of home arrest.

Blue collar crime rob a bank to steal $10,000 and spend 10 years in prison.
Reminds me of how the first version of AlphaGo used recorded games played by humans, but later versions were able to surpass that using self-play.
Yes, "prosecutorial discretion" is one form in which corruption occurs.
americans, this is the time to ring up your legislators. elections will be stolen | rigged in broad daylight. first the president says mail in votes results in voter fraud. appoints a postmaster general that will do his bidding. then consider the legislation passed by R, to get USPS to lose money. once again, Fascism comes draped in an american flag carrying a bible. Remember people are already getting snatched off the streets - only the beginning.
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>FreeRTOS isn't really a microkernel.

https://www.freertos.org/RTOS.html

>Also, Genode is a user land.

No it's a operating system framework, and every kernel they provide is a micro-kernel.

> Saying Genode and sel4/fiasco is like saying Debian _and_ Linux.

Debian is a Distribution, Linux is a Kernel, you could have said Gnu/Linux and you where less wrong, but your comment is utter bullshit and full of flaws, with my links seL4 and fiasco you have a "fully" working system, reading your comment it's like saying that Linux from scratch is just a kernel.
Seems like a low-quality signal.
"So instead of sending a rover with 4x or 10x energy"

The rocket equation is a real jerk. You're likely thinking "that sounds linearly harder" when you should be thinking it's exponentially harder.
Thank you! We would love to work with CAPS departments. Out of curiosity, do you have any people you could introduce us to who might be able to tell us more about CAPS at specific schools?
Rule of thumb for me is that every DELETE or UPDATE query should start life as a SELECT query.

The eight stages of DELETE:

- SELECT what you're deleting;

- fix the mistake in the query (there's always one);

- SELECT again;

- BEGIN TRANSACTION;

- DELETE;

- SELECT to confirm the right deletion -- twice for good measure, and maybe ROLLBACK once or twice if you're feeling twitchy;

- Hover finger anxiously over the un-entered COMMIT command for several seconds while resisting Dunning–Kruger effect;

- COMMIT. :)
I briefly tested it with 'That doesn't make sense.' which worked, but switched back to yo because I'm looking at the probability of the first word and 'That' is too common to assume that the rest of the completion is 'doesn't make sense.'
That's quite unfortunate. At least Google Glasses are still going strong in the enterprise sector and it's great!

https://youtu.be/habz0xdysoM?t=126
Microsoft to remove all Windows downloads signed with SHA-1
Getting a refund from Apple is really difficult, so I don’t think this would be a problem.

I once forgot to cancel a subscription, cancelled one day after renewal, and they would NOT refund me. It was a time based pricing model, so it’s not like I could’ve used any in-app credits.
Donations to an OSS fund are unequivocally positive. It's basically impossible to spin it otherwise. Buying Github could be seen as EEE, but this is only positive even if after a while they stop doing it.
It’s great to see how easy it is for bad actors to undermine the institutions Americans depend on. And by great, I mean absolutely awful. I hope that going forward governments are better about drafting legislation that doesn’t allow one person to slowly dismantle everything according to their whims.

I assume this is partly why my BarkBox shipment from USPS, which used to arrive in days, has now been stuck in transit for over two weeks. Bark says it’s because of COVID, but based on the news coming out about USPS, seems more like it’s conservatives trying to dismantle the post office.
> Fully self driving cars though I think should have been more obvious that it wasn't going to happen anytime soon.. not just to Musk but to everyone working on it

Well, yes, this is my point. He _must_ have known that his cross-country no-driver car wasn't practical when he was promoting it. If he didn't know himself, any expert in the field would tell him, and presumably did.
Title taken from the similar Reddit-thread[1] since I found that title significantly more informative.

Hope that’s ok.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/i00xpk/want...
Not a huge exaggeration - but I'd like to see some explanation of why that's in any way relevant to the trial.

Maybe the DOJ should be requesting funds from congress to help improve prison safety or even look at upscaling work-release programs - or maybe the executive branch could pardon all those low level drug offenders and the DOJ could finally remove mandatory sentencing rules around possession charges. Maybe in this virus world centralized prisons aren't morally acceptable and we need to look at smaller more integrated facilities for all but the max-security folks.

But it doesn't matter for this dude's case, it's completely irrelevant. He can take on the same risks that society deems appropriate for black kids who had a joint behind their ear.

(edit: As I noted in a response actually yea, it is a huge exaggeration so I don't disagree with the parent's point. I still personally prefer to tear down the BS from the angle I noted above but yea the lawyer's numbers are also totally BS)
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But they could make the refund wait until you do!

It wouldn't be foolproof in case of backups but it would be a lot better than an honor system.
AppGet?

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...
Things I would change about Notion's UX/UI
Both companies use Microsoft products instead of their own or from 3rd party companies. On the surface, they are independent companies. Hotmail was also independent company at start, now it is tightly integrated into Microsoft. Even Xbox was independent previously.

Maybe in a decade or so, when they think they could create a profit model from their integration, they would become Microsoft LinkedIn and Microsoft OneHub something.
It's a feature-complete paid service which has been 100% bug-free in the seven years I've been using it, yes, daily.

It is possible for software to be finished and only require minimal maintenance.
Are they going to have to change their name to Vacuumbus?

Although, it is a cargo ship, so maybe Vacuumtruck would be more accurate.
What are some Illustrator features that Inkscape is missing? I edited a few SVGs in Inkscape yesterday and didn't feel like anything was missing.
Presumably the patent minefields of the CPU industry.
i'm not convinced the issue is GIMP not matching Photoshop so much as it having awkward UX that's hard to adapt to. Also, Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 (!)
Yeah, but there are multiple levels of evil:

1. Microsoft in the 90s (and IBM in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Oracle at any point in its history).

2. Microsoft right now.

Microsoft right now it not obviously worse than Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. They shouldn't getting as much flak as they still do. It's not rational, it's IMHO resentment for events from 10-20 years ago.
Can you buy and refund and buy and refund the same app multiple times? Can you use this to ruin your competition?
Hey here's Kenton's promised blog post! I hope it gets separate attention on HN!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

HN Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23989270
The thing I find odd about sms 2fa is I sometimes get multiple services texting me through the same short code. Isn't that a security hole in itself? If a user recognizes a number as the "security number that texts me sometimes" and I as an attacker know this, couldn't I somehow abuse this?

For example: "Please go to x url and enter your password" -> user enters pw -> show new form with 2fa code input (and in the background, try logging into their account with the pw supplied) -> user gets another text from the same number, enters in your site -> profit???
"capital punishment means those without capital get the punishment" Applies everywhere regardless of the crime
I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. The executives show up before congress, they get grilled with a bunch of questions, but what is the real change that comes out of this process?

I could certainly be very wrong, but this just seems like a circus act. Everyone is going to express their outrage but will there be an real change?

Will Apple have its 30% cut of app-store sales changed?

Will google stop showing google results at the top?

Will google be forced to actually not show ads on trademarked brands for their competitors?
Am I getting this right? New York (along with California) forced Uber and Lyft to reclassify their contractor drivers as employees -- and then refused to pay them unemployment, as their employee status would require?
Perhaps, but when courting support, dumping half to a local majority of the potential audience in the first paragraph is ill-advisesd. Locally, police surveillance is equal opportunity.
Top comment: unfairly lenient

Second-top comment: unfairly strict

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23989857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23989843
So, 27 US states are farther north than Canada, eh? (2017)