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> This broke development environments. I really hope no one is using Docker Desktop running on Mac in production.

If it breaks even just my desktop working environment, and that impairs my ability to remediate a production problem, it's causing production downtime. Dev environments aren't decorative.
They both did. Trump did it for medical supplies a year earlier:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/understanding-bidens-invocation-...
I find teams to be buggy, confusing, and unresponsive. It also enables fairly undiscoverable and frustrating experiences like those sites within tabs. Then there's the notification overload and strange threading/discussions. I've gotten used to slack, hip chat, and old skype for business, but I have not yet got used to teams even after years is usage.
While I'm sure this is just their way of validating their current market value after their last cash raise. Assuming its real this might actually be a good thing, at least on the technical front. For all the talent at Discord and their impressive efforts as far as core product... their basically non-existent privacy between users is a disturbing joke, and while I want to be polite, i'm just going to quote myself from a comment on the github issue here. https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/1393

> I’ll be brutally honest, I am quite disappointed to discover that a service so popular that goes out of its encourage developers to integrate, embed, and build on top of their api, lacks any machine readable API specification for developers. Really, really disappointed

> Edit: This shouldn't be funny. How is the discord public api developers lack of respect for the developers who use their api funny? Standards based api specifications makes it easier for everyone to work with their API. Their API documentation isn’t translated, they have no machine readable API specification to make up for the lack of translated documentation for people who speak languages other than English.

> I am disappointed because this is at odds with their professed goals of being for everyone. Apparently they are only for everyone if you’re a user/customer. Developers better read English and have enough spare time to implement their api from scratch... And before someone mentions their community libraries, I’d argue that being required to use those to get anything practical done, because the official API isn’t specified well enough to just use directly with standard tools, is just a further disappointment.
You have to keep in mind laowhy86 isn't exactly know to be impartial
After learning about how every app in your PC has unfettered un monitored access to the clipboard why in gods name would you do that? I explicitly make a point to never copy any password to the clipboard!
Even if you work from home you still go out sometimes to stores and places like that. That's why living in rural areas didn't actually make people safer than in cities - they still gathered inside places like stores and church.

Or maybe you don't go out, I dunno. I do get too much delivery.
Some one has been watching too much Star Trek
Was going to say the same thing. Plus the Vietnam war had just ended.
it's very possible that mental health is dropping due to the rest of society being closed down as well. if everything other than "office life" opened up, i imagine mental health would go up too.
Just watched TNG episode with a tribute to Gene Rodenberry after his death (Unification):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_(Star_Trek:_The_...

Been slowly rewatching OTS and TNG and the storylines and characters are so great.
Nice little video from 2018 of various tests at China Lake

https://youtu.be/mWiSTeYUFt8

From the comments on the article
No idea?? You know the domain, which is usually enough by itself. And 99% of the time you can quickly search the domain to find what links to you.
The problem is that discussing this hypothesis in any form is often labeled as "offensive" and "racist". The generally accepted theory even in the West is the lab leak was somehow disproved. It's always baffled me, because the only way you could really disprove the lab leak theory would be by finding the original source of the virus.

Instead, the media often attempts to disprove the lab leak by pointing out that COVID-19 differs from the viruses that were being worked on in the Wuhan Lab. But that in itself implies that China is being transparent. To the contrary, we know that China would take every measure to obfuscate the lab leak if they believed it was the origin of the virus.
What's interesting about acquisitions like this is that the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data, along with the inability for either of those to easily move elsewhere.

No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own. But users are locked into platforms so heavily and for such long time periods that they themselves give the platform almost the entirety of its value (not to single out Discord, since we all know this is how a lot of acquisitions work in practice). [As an additional caveat, I will add that Discord has definitely built something that its users love, and I don't want to undermine the absurd amount of UI, feature refinement, and scaling work they've done successfully. It isn't negligible, but it is also not >$10B of software engineering.]

I've read many discussions where someone says something of the form "I wish I didn't have to use X, but my friends and family all use it, so I'm forced to", and I think upon consideration of this statement that there is something deeply wrong with the way network effects and protocols function on our Internet such that this can even be a common scenario. We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability that generalizes towards a complete lack of user control, be it software, hardware, data, or anything in between.

With that said, if Microsoft does purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell. While we can point to something like Skype as a failure, we can also point to something like Github, which has been doing very well post-acquisition, and in my opinion hasn't gotten worse at all. It's quite possible they wouldn't want to profit off of Discord individually, but rather use it as another tool to expand their general ecosystem horizontally. On the other hand, they could also do the exact opposite and start harvesting data and maximizing advertisements en masse, lest my post become too optimistic in tone, since this is still HN. Lastly, remember that this is still just a rumor that various news outlets have picked up on and is nowhere near guaranteed.

For those looking for alternatives due to this, or just because they'd like to own their own data for once, I think Matrix is likely to be the best general solution in this product space, both with respect to similar app functionality as well as quality constraints (real encryption, decentralization, FOSS, etc).
> employee mental health has plunged

Just an anecdote of this one guy, but I really would love to go back to office right now. WFH has killed my enthusiasm and I really don't think my overall productivity has gone up.
Needs to happen whether they buy them or not.
If I were to build a bat virus research center... i'd put it close to where bats are. So these aren't independent.

But your point is still a good one
If you pull out investor money, prices drop, and new landlords will be able to charge lower rent at current returns.

I’m not convinced higher prices means more supply for housing. Building a house is labor intensive, and labor costs increase with housing costs. As stupid high as Bay Area housing prices are, new construction costs are even worse. It’s literally cheaper to build houses elsewhere and ship them in. However, in SF, at least, the construction worker unions are trying their best to block such projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26526455
I don't think I've ever been in one and couldn't have told you what states they were in. Nevertheless I heard of them somewhere, so I don't think they're the most obscure chain.
I mean, it's not dividend-paying, nor is it doing stock buybacks. Aren't they doing equity raises? That's literally reducing the value of your stock.

They are doing a good job paying back their bonds and their hype field is certainly repaying investors for now.
Time for another Geneva Convention.
Surprisingly references is missing http://caps0ff.blogspot.com <- guys recovering data from Arcade and old computer chips.
I'm a ventrilo man myself
Can you explain this joke?
Sovereign writers, particularly those focused on analysis and opinion, depend on journalists actually reporting the news

this is not true anymore since long time. the news is increasingly broken by the source itself on social media
Are you saying Crystal has fast compile times or that it doesn't? You seem to be saying that it does, that that is one of the things you love about it but others below are saying it is slow.
This whole topic is about how the EU screwed up the whole thing.

It would be hard for individual countries to do any worse.

Tiny Israel did vastly better that the EU, so the size of the EU clearly didn't help.
Oregon Health Officials Propose Making Mask Mandates Permanent
Mask nazis can literally go fuck themselves.
The good part is that they are.
Israel approved the Pfizer vaccine 5 days before the US. The data sharing agreement/ability to deploy the vaccine were the additional factors, not an outlier stance on the risks.
If you ask a liar a question, and they lie, then the strongest conclusion isn't that you asked the right question -- it's that they're a liar.

China stonewalls pretty much every attempt by the international community to interfere with their internal control.

So this is more "business as usual" than "Clouseau found the smoking gun."
To me, the fact that there are concepts such as generic containers (slices, maps) but that you aren't allowed to design your own is a concession that generics are useful, necessary, and not too complicated for the language. It confuses me that people then defend the decision to exclude other forms of generics. I was very interested in learning and applying the language at one point, but the inability to make very basic abstractions and the horrific proliferation of either manual or generated boilerplate code made me decide to shelve it permanently, or at least until go 2.0 comes out with generics.
Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to prevent states from addressing COVID outbreaks in the meat packing industry.

Some people might say that deliberately accelerating the pandemic wasn't the best use of the DPA, but he certainly did use it.
People were quite certain wars were a thing of the past before World War 1: "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
I fail to see any point in the Shuffle. Way too much money for something without a screen. The 7 otoh could have had better specs, but as far as the screen, casing, buttons etc are concerned, it is perfection itself. When i hold it i am aware that it is the most complete product in it's class. For all time. Period. And also, the Shuffle has a clip i think. That pointless, dumb thing that ruined the 6. I doubt ive had much to say about that clip.
Be honest, you were trying to imply that people who watch "comic book movies" somehow don't have sophisticated tastes (for lack of a better term). You chose "comic book movie" specifically instead of just movie. Or book. Or Netflix subscription. Or opera. It's like you've tiered entertainment in your head and as long as you aren't at the bottom, you're good. Even if you want to say you just picked "at random", it's not "at random". Your biases get reflected in what "randomly" came to your head.

And where did I express ageism? I didn't say "old man yells at cloud", just "man yells at cloud". I deliberately left off the "old" part.

For someone who is accusing others of projection, I think you should take a look at the log in your own eye.

> I stated no such thing. Again, I merely stated how it affects me.

This argument is of the form "I didn't explicitly state it, so even if the description of my thoughts and actions are a description of the phenomenon, you can't call me out on it".

If you're paying to pretend, you can pretend that you paid. Even better, you can even delude yourself into thinking that you would have chosen the winning numbers.

> I have no idea. I'm just stating facts.

Except the fact that you are stating is that you engage in an irrational behavior.

And you're not willing to step back and reflect on why you choose to engage in it. Or why you have to disparage people who chose other forms of entertainment.

People who play the lottery are bad at statistics. People who claim to know the statistics and still play the lottery apparently don't believe the statistics.
> Teams for work and it's just abysmal

Teams is a 7 star resort with free beer and wine, when compared to google chat.
Not GP, but Teams on Windows 10 is a great example of how Electron apps can be terrible. It is sluggish, uses a lot of RAM and causes other Chromium based apps to run out of memory, crashes every so often, has serious issues with logging in after a password change, is not really feature rich, its User Voice forum for voting on issues and feature requests has many that have been asked for years by a lot of people but not prioritized and so on.

I have reinstalled MS Teams many times, cleared all its cache folders many times, removed all Office and other credentials from Credential Manager many times, made registry changes, logged out explicitly and logged in many times. These are routine activities I have to do just to use it because my organization has a subscription and won’t use any other tool (Skype for Business was abandoned after it reached some amount of stability over several years).

In summary, MS Teams is a dysfunctional tool that reflects the dysfunctional organization behind it. I can’t think of any other reason why it should be so badly maintained.

Every time I think of Windows and other MS applications like Teams, I can’t help but wonder what big productivity and time suckers these are. They seem to be the lowest common denominator in the IT world.
The discussion on reddit said it actually was another vendor's ERP, but they "went out of business".

Honestly there is so much WTF-ness to the whole stack I'm starting to suspect this is a fabrication.
Just wanted to add some detail on how the 1Password extension operates here, since the term "autofill" can be ambiguous:

1. The "autofill" function only fills in the credit number when the user specifically tells it to; it does not proactively fill forms with no user intervention.

2. "autofill" does not automatically submit the form after filling (although certain forms may be implemented to submit automatically once complete); in this particular case, the user still has a chance to review the completed form before manually clicking the subscribe button.
... yes, it could, because the excess energy could be used to capture carbon. All combustion is an exchange of electrons; providing electromotive force can reverse the reaction.
Yes, indeed! Thanks
Any password of sufficient strength would be slow and error-prone to copy manually. What’s the middle ground?
Yeah, six months ago I thought Canada would do best because they ordered the most choices. In hindsight I now know they should have ordered less and instead invested in a supply chain for what they ordered. It would have been more of a gamble though. I wonder if they could have built a MRNA plant that could flex to moderna or Pfizer, and similar for the other 4 vaccine technologies (that I can't spell), even though only two are significant so far. (With promising futures for the others )
I think you want to divide by 360 instead of multiplying by 360 - when you divide by 360, you should get the linear distance represented by one degree of latitude or longitude.
Isn't it a well known narrative about how Wal-Mart expanded, at least initially, by opening stores in less populated areas where they could offer dramatically more than any other business in the area?

I know someone who lives out near the nature coast of Florida and Wal-Mart is a lot more important to their daily life than I'm used to.
Reminder: Mumble is fantastic and free.

https://www.mumble.info/
To be fair, he voiced most of his opinions on his personal blog, and not on the mailing list.

His personal blog is presumably a place which you would peruse, if you wanted to know what his personal views on things are, and it was so obscure that seemingly no one knew of it until someone really went digging.

Not only that, but he didn't even make these views with any particular frequency. One was made in 2006. Another six years later. So, a couple of comments he casually tossed out over decades, in a place where he would have expected few to ever see it.

To be clear, I don't agree with many of his opinions (some suggest he might have worded his opinions really, really badly, and might mean something else), although I agree with one original blog post he referenced, where child porn laws have become so stretched they're being applied in places they were never originally intended to be.

Like someone recording evidence to provide to the police of their children behaving in an overtly sexual manner which could be an indicator of abuse, arresting someone for a drawing which is a serious waste of police resources, the risk that someone can't reference historical images like the one from Vietnam, and so on.

On the mailing list, he responded in a literal fashion taking the premise that Minsky had been misled. Unfortunately, it was poorly worded. If he had simply said that, rather than going on about her "presenting herself", or the other utterances, then it wouldn't even be a story.
AppleTV Airplay kind of fits this for me. Maybe it's secure, but, and MacOS Big Sur surfaced this for me. I click the screen sharing icon on my Mac and my 2 shares show up. I go to select the one I always select, asynchronously MacOS scans for more Airplay receivers. It finds my neighbors and adds them sorted alphabetically to the menu in real time. Result, 50-70% of the time I click the AirPlay device for another apartment since by sorting the list the positions change under my mouse. I've learned to click the screen share menu, then wait about 3 seconds for my neighbors' devices to appear, since the position of the device I want to click will move.

But, here's the thing. AFAIK a display pops up on my neighbor's TV showing a code I'm supposed to type into my Mac. Further, AFAIK, if the TV was off the device (usually an AppleTV) will turn on the TV on via HDMI. So, I've possibly interrupted my neighbors viewing. Or if it's late at night I just turned on their TV (no idea if it shuts it self off).

I know Apple has this feature to make it zero configuration but I'm not convinced it's the best feature. I've thought about figuring out how to send the same packets and building a small device/app that tries to connect to every Airplay device constantly. Then I could drive around the Apple campus and interrupt meetings.

Or, I could just put the app on my phone and walk around and hope that Apple will get enough complaints from users about "why does this code keep popping up on my TV" until Apple fixes the issue.

I think the issue is that the AppleTV uses Bluetooth as an extra communication channel to setup a session and you can turn it off but I suspect most users have not.

Is that a security issue that I can turn on my neighbors TVs and AppleTVs remotely?
> Once they have been established in their careers for a decade or more, they 1) feel secure in their job 2) have accumulated some money and 3) feel compelled to start spending. And once everyone in your peer group is spending more money — well, then everyone is looking over their shoulder at everyone else’s spending and this is really how the whole Keeping Up game begins. This tendency overtook even people I would not have suspected to be vulnerable to the treadmill — one of my old friends from college for example, who grew up poor and didn’t spend much back in the day, now has a summer home in New Hampshire and a 4000 sq foot McMansion and all the trimmings.

With that condescending attitude to have toward other people's personal tastes and preferences. It's great that this person doesn't care about material goods. But the fact that he so clearly thinks that his choices are "better" than the ones others have made makes it no mystery to me why those "friendships" suffered.
That means that mink, and particularly the practice of mink farming is likely to lead to another outbreak (or whatever the actual species is determined to be). That animal would have sufficiently similar biology to humans, including the ACE2 receptor so that zoonotic transmission could happen. Those farms would definitely need to be closed.
> What sort of rich person rents a house, except whilst between selling old and new?

The kind that reads Robert Schiller and says “why would I want to concentrate my assets in a non productive asset class with high transactional costs?”
You’re right; I meant to say that they can be expected by current investors to be dividends-paying at any time in the future because their economics are fundamentally GAAP profitable at this point (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/tesla-earnings.h...). This is no longer an unsustainable business we’re talking about here, hype notwithstanding.

Now, Uber on the other hand...
America,the Urban/Rural Divide and Girard
The MS gaming division is pretty good. GamePass and Minecraft certainly aren't destroyed.
Um, your soldiers don't die (as much). Probably the immediate overriding concern, since the military industrial complex is fundamentally restricted in America by a resistance to risk and lose American Soldiers.

No soldiers to lose, no resistance to wars and use of weapons. Because we don't care about the rest of the world that we drop bombs on, that's for sure.
Discord would be crazy to not take this deal. They could go public, but they have no clear monetization path to ever reach that valuation.

For Microsoft, however, it holds incredible strategic importance to their Xbox division. If suddenly the #1 gaming voice and text chat on PC is fully cross-compatible with Xbox and Xbox services it puts Sony at a huge ecosystem disadvantage. When added to the context of Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda and their shift in strategy to Xbox as a service it makes perfect sense.
The uncomfortable truth is that any sufficiently dense energy source is a weapon.
It's okay to be annoyed by patterns you don't like!
A month? It’s been over a year. How much time is appropriate?
You look at a multi-day Slack discussion with big architects and PMs without any progress... In the old days it would be a series of important meetings where those important people would be making important face and saying important sounding words. There would still be no progress, yet there would be the feeling like the progress is being made. Slack makes it so obvious. We're definitely going back to offices :)
That is like saying a crack den is better than living in an open grave. I mean yes, but why compare them even?