skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't seen this automated, but I have seen internal issues raised by folks within large orgs when their extension started breaking things. But it's only once you have 50+ to 100's of engineers working on a product, each with a subset of extensions installed, that you can rely on the cross product of engineers and their installed extensions for realistic coverage.
(In response to yourself and the other Amazon reply) I mostly agree, especially given Twitch and the potential futures ecosystems there. I think it might be a bit harder with antitrust as well, but don't ask me why that is the case, but it reminds of Congress having antitrust hearings where they drag in Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple, but constantly never included Microsoft, which now seems to be the most likely buyer).
Surprisingly enough this gives it more credibility in my book. I refused to use it for a while until a revenue stream was introduced (Nitro) and still gave me an unsettling feeling with all the data harvesting - I still won't download the desktop app simply because of the information it collects about the games you have installed, without the user's consent.

It also feels like there's much less of an inclination of it failing like Skype has, with a high likelihood of joining the Xbox division while keeping the brand.
Speaking as a US professor, and speaking of all my students not just international ones,

Increasingly, never

Had a students father drop off their mask for them before class last week because they forgot it

This is one of the long lasting impacts I’m seeing covid have on society already
Introducing Microsoft Teams for Gamers, a new platform that empowers gamers to get the best out of their gaming sessions. Game, meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place.

Discord Meet Now is now available in Windows 10 taskbar so you can meet with a simple click. No sign ups. No downloads required.

Would you like to try Discord in the new Microsoft Edge, "the browser recommended by Microsoft"?
Yes, the score is always normalized like that, but the Flynn effect shows people getting smarter over time.

So intelligence is increasing while IQ stays the same, to be pedantic.
It won't. When Google acquired YouTube, there were similar concerns that the platform would be "corporatized" to death and be replaced. Corporatized, it has been, but its dominance in its marketplace is stronger than ever. Twitch has emerged as a serious competitor for games, but YT remains just as big if not bigger than Twitch in this corner.

GitHub and LinkedIn are similarly thriving under Microsoft's wing, without a Twitch-like competitor in sight.

Instagram is more popular than ever since it was acquired by Facebook.

Discord will be fine. Microsoft has a lot of experience in the gaming space thanks to the Xbox ecosystem of services, and in the online chat room space, thanks to Teams.
Markets exist in nature with the whole “seeking equilibrium” of so many natural systems (eg, chemical reactions).
What do you need pockets for? Did you forget the 3rd gen iPod Shuffle?
It's better not to fulminate. If the market restricts access to housing for working class people, we can't just wave our hands and say "oh, well, markets". Chicago doesn't have rent control. The implication of the story is that the market is failing in Chicago, and that's a problem, whether or not it's the product of top-down policy or bottom-up market dynamics.
Yeah, the ultra-thin keyboard would have been fine for me if it stayed crisp and clicky for the lifespan of the laptop. It could just barely deliver a small fraction of that.

The butterfly keyboard implementation was just too fragile, for one. Keyboards need to be able to take a beating.
> Sure, it can learn how to fly planes and drones, or drive tanks or terrifying robot dogs

NB: self-driving cars, drones, and Boston Dynamics robots are all examples of systems that make significant use of hand-designed control algorithms. AFAIK none of those systems are doing (especially end-to-end) deep rl for control.

I think the answer to your question might be something like "neural nets aren't as good as you think and have gotten a lot of credit for things they aren't used for and aren't even very good at."
For that very reason, we cannot accept their narrative at face value. We certainly don't have enough information to confidently eliminate the lab escape theory. The media has largely suggested that the lab escape theory has been disproved.
Microsoft may try its hand at integrating Discord within the Xbox ecosystem.
I think it would be more straightforward to say expressions (/bindings/return types etc) can be null, but not implicitly so, and must be checked for a value before attempting to use the value. Or as a sibling comment said, in TypeScript terms, `strictNullChecks`.
Dell won't sell me a battery and their batteries have DRM so you can't use a 3rd party unit

Dell is horrible for this type of stuff. Had to retire a server early because of this type of policy. I wouldn't recommend them at all.
That was my thought. It's typical in Canada that an employer will pay you out for the rest if your two weeks or whatever, and in the U.S I don't know, but have it really favours the business. I'm still at abloss as to how this works in what is apparently most of Europe. Notice is more like 2 or 3 weeks.
This is going to suck... now 2% of my users won't have HTTPS referrers.
Lesson for other countries next time: order early enough from 5 different vaccines such that any two working will vaccinate your country. Make sure that your order comes with up front money to setup a supply chain for you, separate from the rest of the world.

Once any vaccine hits adjust orders up as required. If any vaccine makes it late enough that you don't need it, donate to a poor country or just pay and ask your doses be destroyed, thanks for trying.
There's this thing, which happens to scientists. I think its a variation of the Gell-Mann effect. They know they're smart, and they know their core subject. They assume this transfers over to knowing anything else, if it even tangentially relates to their core subject.

So, he was a scientist at Pfizer. Does this make him an expert in epidemiology? No. There are lots of kinds of science in Pfizer, and there is no strong indication he really understands epidemiology, more than me (I am not an epidemiologist)

He's a specialist in Allergy and Respiratory research according to the Haaretz article.

Compare this to (emeritus) Prof. Ian Plimer, noted Australian Geologist, and long-time AGW denialist. He isn't a climate scientist. His core field relates, but is not the same. He has to resort to "its not really science" to maintain a coherent position, and is notably on the board of companies which stand to benefit from ignoring AGW.

I say this is a variation of the Gell-Mann effect, its more like the inverse Gell-Mann Effect. Gell-Mann says you see things in the paper in your core field, and say "thats crap" but you believe the other stuff you read. This is, you see things in your field you believe you understand, and see other things in other fields, and believe you must understand them too because you're a genius.

Science stands or falls on method and critique. Getting outside your core competency and doing the critique in blogs and the press rather than reasoning inside science, and publishing proof, or critique of proof, is really a-scientific.

When Scientists do this, it can be for good effect (pugwash maybe? there isn't a lot of "scienting" in what scientists do in pugwash, its mostly mapping science to policy) or it can be for bad effect. I think this is an instance of the bad effect. Whats the underlying evidence, that the vaccine is causing mass infertility? Where is he getting the data from, to tell him there is a radical reduction in womens (or mens) fertility which at root traces to the vaccine? Yes, there might be a drop in the UK birth rate. There are other reasons why, more plausible.

If there is some allegation the clotting goes to fertility it would really help if the reasoning was clear.
> As someone who maintains an open source development tool that I work on in my spare time and don't get paid for, reducing my support workload is absolutely more important to me.

Docker Desktop is produced by a for-profit company, and while it is free of charge itself, it is a key customer-facing part of an ecosystem Docker monetizes by selling subscriptions to services which it leverages. It's not some solo developer’s spare time project, and if Docker wants to be a viable business, it won't be treated like one.
I too use Teams at work and I think it's fine. What do you dislike about it more specifically?
<quote>It has since been changed to 18.</quote>

Could you provide some source as to when the age of consent was changed from 16 to 18 in the US Virgin Island? That would be really illuminating! A link to the Act, an article, something? I haven't been able to find any.
> C# has been extremely portable for years now thanks to .NET Core. Even SQL Server runs on Linux these days, if you really just enjoy spending money.

My experience with C# and .NET Core on ARM Linux is that it comes with a lot of crashes and segfaults. On x86-64 Linux it works well, though.
I faced that choice years ago, and chose to rent. It was a $500k mistake (over ~5 years). The condo was near Google, and it was a bit after 2008; your results will probably vary.
No travel gets you the Atari 400 keyboard and that just hurts your hands.
I don't share the pessimism over the office that many commenters here share, despite largely preferring home office work.

Many people don't prefer remote work, and they have good reasons for it. Even ignoring all people who are impacted by factors they cannot control, some people really just don't so well in a home office environment. The routine and structure of going into the office to do work and coming home to not do work is pleasant for many people. Some folks don't have good control over their work behaviors when they're not in that environment. They thrive more in an in-person environment. I'm willing to bet that's a lot of your coworkers.

There's a good chance that you'll need a lot of stuff to support people coming back to the office if it's anything more than a small fraction. If 50% of your workforce actually prefers to come into the office every day, that's a lot of investment! I would naiively expect that to support 50% of your workforce you'd need to invest more than 50% of what you used to invest to support the in-office work environment. I'm thinking bigger firms here, the ones that actually spend a lot of money on this stuff.

And lastly I'm just not convinced that businesses actually act based solely on hard figures. The math may point towards it being advantageous to have a more remote or distributed workforce, but the world doesn't run on people following "the math". People are messy and irrational and emotional and, critically, in key leadership roles that drive what the heck their company is actually going to do. Have a handful of executives who can't wait to get back into their comfort zone - the office - and that office spending budget will find a way to get spent.
Yep, I basically do the wheel but I try to avoid taking assignment. I just roll out calls if the stock start creeping up. I initially only sell against a portion of my shares so I have the ability to sell more options, at higher strikes, and not take a loss.

If I'm underleveraged, on a weekly expiration date (MWF) I'll sell a bunch of options a few strikes out a few hours before expiration, with stops. Usually they decay down and you get a lot of premium in an hour.
I love substack. My trust in domestic mainstream media is at an all-time low.

I am perfectly happy to read a diverse body of opinion, think for myself, and consider current events policy and many other matters on my own.

I think you should too. Substack makes that possible.
> swift support for windows is non-existent

I was prepared to suggest WSL, but apparently Swift support for Windows is existent[1].

1: https://swift.org/blog/swift-on-windows/
>I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus.

So the huge growth in asian hate crimes year over year is completely unrelated to this misguided effort to somehow blame China for COVID?

>Also the CCP definitely cares.

The CCP cares so much that they never once made a statement to Trump to stop calling it the china virus. Again it's not the Chinese who said stop calling it the China virus, it was Americans who were correctly fearful of being attacked for being Asian.

>Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.

This is the most laughable comment. The country that had negative PR for decades about children working in sweatshops and factory workers killing themselves is suddenly going to turn heel about the China virus when it's worked up till now. I remember all that "negative PR" being so successful when it came to Hong Kong.

If negative PR actually mattered, American imperialism wouldn't be so successful. CIA-backed coups all over the world never hurt America's economic position.
Note that Microsoft Teams for Gamers doesn't work with Microsoft Teams for Enterprise (Linc) or Microsoft Teams for Home (Skype).

Microsoft branding is such a clusterfuck.
An update to Android System WebView has been crashing all my apps; they go back to normal upon rolling back the update.

On the brighter side, during troubleshooting I finally got around to re-installing some of my apps via F-Droid....
Isn't there a site where you can bet and win if you can show the opposite, that it's originated outside the lab? What is the name...
Nice note. One problem is that you are left without options, only hacks, to work around this heavy handed behavior. It wouldn't be so bad if you could opt-out with autocomplete="off".

And even if it did work, a spec is always underspecified even for the password manager who wants to follow it 1:1, so even in a best case scenario, you don't have implementation consensus. For example, you would think password manager heuristics wouldn't look outside the current <form> to assume the username field, but some do on some browsers.

The end result is that if you have a need that isn't the general case, you end up having to trade away UX to cater to software.
https://www.nscai.gov/
Microsoft Teams for work/school, Discord for gaming/life (Xbox tie in?), Skype for... what?
>"What really pisses me off is that the US Gov had 30 million doses of Astra for several months and it it isn't even approved for use."

The drugmaker must apply for emergency use authorization before it can't be approved in the first place. They still have not applied for EUA as of today.
Google Wing Virginia
I think that's mainly only known to savvy people, other that perhaps general stuff about energy efficiency, which can go both ways in terms of gas versus electric or whatever. All things being equal in terms of cost, the average person still prefers the modern architecture of big kitchens, big windows, master bathrooms, walk-in closets, etc. It helps to sell your house if you add these things.
Why would rubyists need elegance in a different language for perf? Do what everyone else does, and write a C extension.
My MBP has a tactile escape key. A much needed improvement over the full touch bar.
So many white supremacists here! China innocent. China do no wrong. China loves you long time.
Isn't deno a nice typescript setup for this use case?
"The analysis found evidence of some kind of procedure, possibly a surgery, performed on the woman when she was alive. The team posits that someone applied a red ocher pigment around the injury, possibly for therapeutic or symbolic purposes."
I will never cease to be amazed by these ancient examples of assumed surgeries. However, it would be nice if the article expanded more on that or left a key to accompany the photo of highlighted areas on the skull.
AI is good enough to do some planning for you. Looks like we're just getting to the point where they can engage in dog fights. But there's a fine line.

You don't want AIs replacing human generals, because generals need to make tough calls. So tough, that their decisions are still debated by us 100+ years after. War is the most sophisticated application of human intelligence. Dog-fighting F-16s are more like a self driving car in this sense, than a general intelligence capable of winning a war.
Agree. My first rule of smart home is that the device must continue to work as if there was no smart home layer. The only place I violate this is for devices like outdoor holiday lights where I’d have to walk outside to flip the switch - though you should also be able to do that, if needed.
Imagine if Twitch had went all in on becoming a Twitch / Patreon platform instead of the failed game store. One stop shop for monetizing and interacting with your communities.
I'm sure I can find proof on the internet if I want doughnuts....
That raises a question. How do other impoverished groups escape the poverty trap more quickly? Historically Chinese and other immigrants's needs were served by their own official and unofficial institutions. What can be done to keep dollars within a community to grow wealth within?
I get irritated whenever people make a snarky comment about litigiousness in the US, because I used to work in litigation support and one day I came across an issue of an industry magazine which had an article about how Brits were financing American lawsuits essentially as a form of venture capital.

Whenever any American is involved in something sketchy anywhere in the world, it's obviously another example of Americans corrupting things.

But whenever anyone is making American problems worse for profit, it is assumed to be the US at fault for providing the opportunity.
Many people, my self included, care indirectly about the supply being limited, because they perceive that this will bode well for its value denominated in currencies which have supplies which aren't being tightly managed.

I agree that in a vacuum nobody cares about the supply.

I'm regards to the stability thing, bitcoin volatility has been steadily decreasing over time. It's still very young and has a lot of price discovery left to go. I personally believe its volatility profile will align with the normal range for commodities and currencies over the next let's say 20 years.
Certainly, but with their example of retiring at 40, you have an 8.5% chance of going broke before you die and a 3.4% chance of going broke before you even reach a normal retirement age.

That's a much higher level of risk than I would accept.
The point isn’t about detecting fraud - it’s about teachers knowing their students.
The 3 biggest problems I have with it are search, history, and stability. Scrolling back in time past a few weeks will frequently just crash Teams for me. The search Teams has is beyond basic and genuinely unhelpful most of the time, and I frequently just don't get my alerts despite being available and someone directly @ing me. Then there are tons of small problems like Teams automatically setting me as away if I don't touch my mouse for 15 minutes or sometimes I'll have Teams on a second monitor while working in a primary monitor and Teams will have set me as away for no reason. Also Teams threads are literally the worst UX I have ever had. I am not exaggerating
Don't recall if they refunded replacements before they put that policy in place though.

From Apple https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...

If you believe your Mac notebook was affected by this issue, and you paid to have your keyboard repaired, you can contact Apple about a refund. https://getsupport.apple.com/?caller=erep&PRKEYS=PF2&categor...
time to find an alternative..

why do they want to buy everything that works? they love destroying things?
What Is BitClout? The Social Media Experiment Sparking Controversy on Twitter
Completely Static Torrent Magnet Search – Only Needs Web Server to Run
Don’t forget to calculate your egress network costs to download for restore. That could make the costs look a lot worse than other zfs backup services like rsync.net.
Teams is so much better than Slack and WebEx. Are you on Mac OS? Heard more complaints on that platform.
By the time they achieve their aim, if they do, many realise they have lost out on social skills, ability to communicate easily with others (an attribute now known as soft skills), and of course, some part of their youth.

Reminds me of movie https://yts.mx/movies/gifted-2017
God - skype went to hell - absolute garbage new interface etc. It's something maybe with their tech stack that does not handle realtime audio etc and then on design side it's all non-usable social network type stuff?

I honestly could not believe how badly they trashed skype - instead of it becoming WhatsApp it just imploded at least for my use case.

I use teams, while confusing it seems miles better than previous effort (zoom still by far the best for video).
Teams have the ugliest ux of any chat app
It's nuanced and different for everyone. The isolation has been brutal for a couple of my single friends in tech. Being able to mingle at the office was a big portion of their social interactions pre-covid.
Gas taxes pay for roadways.
I’ve never seen this. Thanks!
It's difficult to manage full stop. Not necessarily impossible.

There is a role for good leadership within a corporation. Part of that is to ensure that organisational system is working together towards the quality achievement of a common aim. This is difficult at the best of times but remote working adds additional challenges and if you thought leaders were struggling before how do you think they'll fair with the additional challenge.
HN also said China couldn't contain Covid through lockdowns, how did that turn out?
This is how the Keepass Helper extension has worked for years: putting the domain in the RHS of the titlebar. Then with autotype set to match that you can autotype from the global hotkey. Keepass 2 can even split the credentials between key presses and pasting.

There are other URL in title extensions for most browsers. And they're simple enough you can audit them or write your own.
There’s already an issue for this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/281947
GNU Readline has destroyed my ability to work on non-readline editors. It's worse when I am using a machine where caps lock means caps lock. I have it bound to control (on hold) and escape (on tap). When I typo on a different machine and reflexively type ^A^K to kill the line, it comes out as capital "AK" instead. Repeat multiple times.
Maybe an opportunity for TeamSpeak to do a big comeback?

https://new.teamspeak.com/
This is me.

Low end 1 bedroom apartment, moratorium on eviction = suddenly no rent paid. Here in Australia there was significant $ from Government for those in such a position, including rental assistance. We got nothing. And I am not about to hound a person financially at the bottom who likely lost their job and had enough shit already.

But no point messing around with the lowest end market now that we can afford not to. Sell it.
Here is how I think of the numbers:

So far the US has spent $5300B on Covid relief packages. That's around $15,000 per American.

If a vaccine dose can save $15,000, $30 is absurdly cheap. $3000 would be an incredible bargain!

This is also why the EU haggling over a few dollars per dose looks so insane to those who have done the math.
"Why are manhole covers round" is an infamous Microsoft interview question.

https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftsManholeCoverQuestion
Thriving in Uncertainty, Overcoming Adversity
source? I didn't find any pr0n.
I wonder how many of those devs use a password manager and just thought it was magic they didn't need to worry about when they were writing those kinds of forms.

I assumed that kind of markup had to exist, but its not my job to do web development at all, so time being finite, I'd never seen those. But I always assumed that they'd have to exist if I ever went looking. Why do people whose job it is to know these things not bother checking?