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Microsoft used to be great at documentation. Then the MSDN->docs.microsoft.com "migration" (what for?) destroyed a lot of old links, and mysteriously introduced errors that weren't there before, like this page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/n...

(Hint: what does the function return? Countless pages of function references got their return types set to "void" for some inexplicable reason. If that isn't incompetence or malice, I don't know what.)

The best thing for me is that when I click the "Edit" button on Microsoft's documentation, it takes me directly to the latest markdown source file on GitHub and I can immediately submit a PR for corrections or enhancements.

I actually asked about that error before on their GitHub, but they basically said they'll handle each case as it gets raised. No, I'm not going to fix docs that you broke. It looks like MS basically got rid of all their actual documentation writers and are now trying to rely free labour from the "community".
I don’t think it’s whataboutism if every country in the set does it. It’s just a part of being in the business of war. If you sell arms to resolve geopolitical conflict, you’ve eventually got blood on your hands no matter how much due diligence you do.
> Thankfully, not enough to be politically relevant. Because the alternative is letting the world degrade to the point that we’re shipping that child out to a war.

I think this is exactly what politicians would like you to believe. You should take a look at how the foreign aid budget gets spent in reality.
Youtube Alternatives :

Centralized : Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Vidlii

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
Yes, a shitty cycle in a shitty world. If not for the threat of China, I don't think the U.S. military industrial complex would have as much merit, but, under that (growing) threat, I think anyone who values freedom, democracy, and progressive ideals should see merit in the U.S. maintaining and growing capability.

To do that, it seems like the defense industry needs "stuff to do". Like a muscle, that sector atrophies if left unused. It's counterintuitive, though -- why spend so much money on a glorified Skunk Works project like the F35? Why double down and start producing hundreds of them despite their issues? Because it generates/maintains experience and lessons and keeps the metabolic pathways that turn material into materiel active. If you skipped the extra steps and had the government just sustain the defense industry on welfare while it does nothing right up until we have a massive conflict, things are going to go much more poorly for you.
In China, censorship is state-run. In America, it's been privatized.
Not to mention, if Modi struggled to gain a coalition for a year, got caught up in corruption scandals, and was in active conflict with Pakistan, the news would be covering India even more.
Frankly, I read into your comment as much as I did because it came across as not-so-subtle preaching.
That’s a weird binary - maybe it’s okay to give aid to some countries (that are poor, don’t have half their population espousing racist AF views, that haven’t undermined the US itself)?
It still is the case, and the documentation itself has improved greatly over time. PHP is one of the few programming languages that I feel can be used using only the official documentation (with the comments, of course)
Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue.
It is a bit sad to see the place where I had a lot of memory destroy itself. But then again, I'm glad that they are showing their intention to monetize so bluntly, which may give the audience enough reasons to avoid the service.
The Finnish word for walrus, mursu, was borrowed into Finnish from Sámi, as mentioned in the WordSense article. The Northern Sámi word morša is likely a loanword from some Palaeo-Laplandic language, borrowed when the Proto-Sámi language spread to Lapland during the Iron Age.[1]

As there are no walruses in Finland, it was nearly as mysterious a creature as an elephant to Finns, who mostly encountered only walrus tusks and walrus hides through trading.[2]

Russian borrowed the word for walrus морж from some Sámi or some Finnic language, as the Russian expansion to the Arctic Ocean is historically much later than the Sámi and Finnic settlement in the area. [2] From Russian, the word got borrowed into French as morse.

Btw, you had a typo in the name of the animal. marsu means "a guinea pig" in Finnish, borrowed from Swedish marsvin (literally "a sea pig"), which in turn comes from German.

[1](https://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust266/sust266_aikio.pdf)
[2](https://journal.fi/virittaja/article/view/40611)
Eric Weinstein is a clown, like, literally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Physics
The funny thing is that, like you, I used to have very strong opinions about the desktop designs I wanted to use. For instance, when Ubuntu's Unity first came out I was appalled.

But as I'm getting older, and after being forced to use (begrudgingly, at first) alternative desktop metaphors at work, I've noticed that it does not really matter as much (to me) as I always thought.

Sure, there are things that you've learned to love and now think you cannot live without. And there are features that other approaches had that I though were completely pointless and a step backwards rather than forwards. Or at least just useless.

But now, I think it's all not so bad, actually. I'm writing this on Ubuntu 18.04, and I remember how much I used to despise the vertical icon bar on the left, that shows both currently running apps and also allows you to start often used programs with a single click. Now I just don't see it anymore. Except when I need to use it, and then I suddenly don't see anything wrong with it, anymore.

Mind you, I still have a list of must-have features for desktops. For instance, having virtual desktops that I can quickly change between using keyboard shortcuts. But my list of "must haves" has definitely changed over time (maybe even gotten smaller) -- which shows that the word "must" was apparently never right in the first place.
What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?

Bret (Eric's brother, biology PhD) had a 2h long conversation with Pierre Kory (MD) and it was taken down by YT. One of the things they talked was the recommendations of WHO and other organisations to focus on supportive care only (supporting the patient while their organism fights the disease by itself). They insist on not using other treatments outside clinical trials. The argument that running experiments would cost lives doesn't seem coherent. It's not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols. What if we're clinging to a suboptimal strategy?
I think the new GNOME is pretty comparable to the Windows and MacOSX interfaces. Is there something I'm overlooking?
It's not a simple address check (lookup) it's a pattern-match - like loops around a bunch of regex. Those 1000+ stale patterns slow it down.
No, he is kicking down the sand castle because the other kids did not want to play with him.
Backwards Dude shows neuro-diverse talents at Aspie Con
Thats maybe part of it but the obsession is with jews not with muslins. We don't read that much about political struggles in Iran (which are happening right now btw). I will be extremely surprised if the next Iranian election will make it to #1 on HN.
“It’s complicated” tells me absolutely nothing about the nature of the complication.

“It’s like a puzzle” at least tells me there are a bunch of pieces to assemble, and gives me some insight and a basic mental model to start with.
This! Cryptonomicon turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read. I had to wait a bit though. In my early 20s I wasn't ready. Now 20 years later I enjoyed every page.
YouTube's position is that this is medical misinformation about Ivermectin.

One of the comments on this Twitter thread argues the video "isn’t just advocating for more complete Ivermectin trials, he’s recommending its use based on a collection of low quality studies. That’s dangerous, and I don’t see how you can blame YouTube for deferring to the advice of the major health bodies on this matter."

Personally I'd never heard of Ivermectin, so I Googled it, and for what it's worth the top result that came up was an official page at FDA.gov headlined "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19"

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
I watch a lot of Forensic Files, and one of the tropes is "the spouse had a $30k life insurance policy, therefore he/she had motive".

I've always wondered who is motivated to murder by as little as $30k. Sure you can murder for NON financial reasons, but if money is top of mind - $30k, really?
That's what I am always. People can't manage libraries so they think services will solve this problem. It seems to me that a lot of microservices are creating technical debt that will come due when the requirements change in a way that requires a big overhaul of the system.
That only works until someone writes a "boss" app that pretends to click keys and move the mouse.

Back in the 80's, many computer games had a "boss" key which would pause the game and throw up a screen that looked like a spreadsheet.
This. Capitalism is pretty good at making a lot of what can be monetized at industrial scales, but without some form of complementing security, it also places distorting incentives to search every activity for ROI possibilities in one form or another.
An advanced level of this game should have you implement your logic with mechanical relays. Those relay banks are always fascinating
While this is satire, it does raise the question:...

Is it time to consider what benefits more advanced file formats for source code could offer?

Like in this case for example, the image format could allow doodles, notes, and diagrams to be in the margins of the code...
Who owes his entire career to platforms like Youtube
Many people here mentioned it's notalgia. I dont think its the case. The internet was actually very different. It was WAAAAY more social than today. It revolved alot more around small communities. Even in gaming, we had dedicated servers in pretty much any game. Now, everything is automatic and you almost never meet the same people twice. It's just sad.

We have reddit, but it's just a pool of people caring a tiny bit about everything instead of caring alot about 1 thing.

The entire internet is over run by ads. It's all about bussinesses now, while back then, it was about communities and information.

Im happy with the current internet, it's great. But we have lost alot of amazing things from the past. The old internet had things the new internet could only dream of.

That's life.
For me, it's Reddit which has killed the internet. It (along with Facebook Groups) has sucked the oxygen out of internet communities. It favours recency, but only at the thread level, so new comments in old threads will never be seen but new threads with the same conversation will always pop up.

This causes one of two effects: old timers leave communities because it's just the same repetitive threads over and over, and communities become dominated by newbies; or, worse, old timers develop lexicons of inside jokes and memes, and the community becomes impenetrable to newcomers who might otherwise have a lot to offer.
The Economist was founded in 01843 to oppose the Corn Laws, a Liberalism agenda that would count as "center-right" today, and I recall it as being fairly consistently liberal at least since I started reading it in the 01990s.
And the best jobs go to personal referrals from those who are trusted. Which is easier if the VP you used to work with is vouching for you than if they don't know you.
"Important to note here is that a single microservice can actually be quite large with anywhere from 3-12 people working on just one or a few services. A single service could be larger than a startups monolith.".

This seems quite reasonable In some companies it seems it's more like 1 developer managing 3-12 services :-(
Doppler solves this problem by storing your secrets in the cloud *hand wave*.

In actuality, the Doppler CLI (a Go binary) fetches your secrets from Doppler's API and injects them as environment variables into your specified process. That looks something like `doppler run -- printenv`. This prevents your secrets from being written to the filesystem in plain text, and prevents the environment variables from being available more broadly. In the case of docker, you would bake the Doppler CLI into your image, thereby sidestepping the documented `docker inspect` pitfall.

Of course, the CLI still needs a way of authenticating to Doppler's API. You authenticate and authorize the CLI by running `doppler login`. This initiates a login flow that you complete in your browser. Once completed, your newly generated auth token is sent back to the CLI. The CLI then saves the auth token to your system keyring for later use. The identifier needed to access that keyring entry is then stored in plain text in the CLI's config file (~/.doppler/.doppler.yaml), which is only readable by the user.

We're exploring other means of injecting your secrets into your application, as some users are wary of using environment variables. This is a challenging problem though as there are few means of injecting secrets that don't require substantially changing your application's logic.
Preaching posts like yours are more dangerous than whatever excess porn consumption may do to people's brains.
I'm not the OP, but he is correct even if he expressed himself poorly. Israel has since its inception had every transgression, every poor decision, and every flaw magnified in international press far more than any nation, even before accounting for Israel's small landmass and population.

Every country has issues, but none have them paraded about as blatantly as Israel does. When was the last time a country of less than 100,000 km^2, or less than 100M population, had a change of head of state as front-page news on HN? Why is this such an important event that every international news organization has it on the front page, when changes to other non-G8 nations' heads of state are not?
I up voted but there is place for super technical people who are not good at explaining.

There is also a lot of place for people who understand stuff technically but are not exploiting boxes days in days out, that can talk and explain in more general terms lots of those things.
Israel has a unique place in the Anglo-American conscience for several reasons:

1. It was established by Britain out of the Palestinian mandate

2. Judaism is central to the history and thought of Western civilization

3. There is a large Jewish diaspora in the West, especially the United States

4. Israel is the sole Western society in the Middle East

5. Israel was geopolitically important to the US in the Cold War as part of its strategic containment of the USSR, and today in counteracting Iran's regional influence

6. The US has provided more aid to Israel than any other country

7. There is a powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States

8. Given all these ties, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza rightly attracts a lot of criticism in the West
Ironically, the topic of #freenode on Freenode is currently: End of an era - “In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” -- Octavia Butler
Bug: Disney+ App on Amazon Fire Tablet Does Not Stay Logged In
I'd be surprised if the average American or European knows who Modi is. Netanyahu though? 50% chance they will at least recognize his face in a picture.
meh. weinstien's an MD, not a scientist.
But emphasis on the "comic", because at least as an outsider this is hilarious.
You ask a lot of questions for someone who does nothing but quote fallacies in response to the answers. Have any factual contributions?
Both the video from the article and the one I posted above are from this longer talk of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFLlgrzn2E

I think this the most important problem in software development to be given the least amount of attention, or even awareness. Another new MVC framework, build tool, or even programming language, isn't going to solve this problem. First we need to acknowledge the problem.
Nah, it’s okay, GP will serve in the fifth column of the Console Wars.
People who own cars aren't guaranteed to own smartphones, and McDonald's wants their business too.

In addition, the McDonald's drive-thru is iconic, and the stickiness of that part of the brand means it won't go away soon.
This is a controversial issue surrounding the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin, a prescription drug, as an COVID-19 treatment.

Edit: the issue surrounds efficacy too.
> Why employ people you don’t trust?

Sometimes the unions/courts require a company to document incompetence for a certain number of months before being able to let a person go.

I don't agree with these requirements, but can see how they could incentivize surveillance apps.
There's not too much of a difference between what Keith Ferrazzi is saying and "Nice Guy". He's saying the more you help people, the more you'll get back. The only difference is that he's not saying that each person you help will help you back, and that you shouldn't expect they will. But the overall message in the book is that the more you help people, the more they'll help you in the long run.

With that pointed out, the top comment in the parent cannot be dismissed by a mere labeling of "Nice Guy". His experience is a valid criticism of Keith's message, and it is a reality that the message is not universally applicable. You definitely will get people who'll take advantage of you. They'll see that you're willing to help them, and they'll keep coming to you for more and more help. There will even be folks who'll get upset when you don't help them. That you have to put barriers between yourself and such folk is not something the book handles well (read it years ago so I may be wrong).
somewhat related to your second point https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI (egg theory)
And how exactly do they determine whether something is "dangerous medical misinformation"?

I'm guessing it's probably based on WHO guidelines, which means a very large number of things are off limits.
Do you think not talking about problems will make the world better?

What do you suggest I do instead?

We should talk about problems when we encounter them. The more specific the better.
While ridiculous, Eric Weinstein is a bit over the top with his accusations from time to time. For example Blaming the physics community for not looking in to his personal “unity” theories more.
I think all of this conflict will just cause most users to abandon IRC altogether for Slack or Discord. Points of prolonged disruption are where people start to seriously evaluate jumping to different platforms, even if they were previously interested in mission or tech of IRC.
Bitcoin is actually inherently shrinking in supply. Once the 21 million are created there can only be coin loss (via lost or destroyed wallets). And a deflationary currency is far from desirable.
Er, what US troll factories? I have never heard of this, and I can’t find any news articles about them. Sounds dubious.
The makers of Ivermectin are against the use of Ivermectin for Covid.

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use...

The dissenters are advocating things even the company that stands to profit from those things opposes.

That’s how off the deep end this is.
His book was really interesting, although there is at least one decent online summary that should suffice to get the idea.

Another one - I don't know if it's in that book - is that people generally feel the need to reciprocate nice gestures. Unwanted help can feel a lot like unwanted debt.
Consider that you're remarking on his takeaway here. The "insights". The conceptual end-product of all that strange-seeing.

But it's the strange-seeing that's the real feast.
LOL. The whole freenode drama should be taught a few years later on "how to shoot a service in the head in a month".

Dictating what clients can connect to your protocol based system is plain, dead wrong.

EDIT: I realized @rasengan renamed himself to @root. May I suggest @Nero for burning it all down instead?
Thats my point, who cares? Why is it so important for you to know about 4 elections in 2 years? Obviously people care but who decided this country is on par with China in the amount of attention it gets?
> Anyone disingenuously complaining that their "freedom of speech" is under attack

"Freedom of speech" is a philosophical concept, not a legal principle. You seem to have it confused with the US-specific "First Amendment", which is the one that only applies to the government.

I personally see a big problem with social media banning trans-people (Facebook), or declaring that the whole LGBT crowd is inappropriate (Livejournal, Tumblr). I think it's a problem when scientists sharing Covid-19 information get banned for being ahead of the official CDC/FDA guidance (Twitter)

Maybe the solution isn't legal, but I still think it's bad that we have a massive media apparatus that can wipe out any voices it disagrees with, and which is fairly eager to use that against people like me.
The idea is to arrive at a rule you can use for any given picture, to decide if it goes on the left or right:

> In a Bongard problem, you have to figure out what the rule is. You are given twelve specific images, and the result of applying the rule to each. (The rule assigns an image to either the left or right group.) Once you have discovered the rule, applying it to new images would be trivial.

Your rules don't do that. Most of the pictures have neither "triangle in circle" nor "circle in triangle", so your rules don't apply to... Ten out of the twelve pictures.
Speak for yourself bud. We only have one life, and it is not for you to decide what other person should eat based on your moralist principles.
I don't expect everyone to get it but if my insight helps a few people then it's worth sharing.
and none of the alternatives are even 1/100 as good or have nearly the same reach as youtube, which is how youtube is able to get away with what they do.

VCs are much more interested these days in payment processing, which is where the money is, than video, which is expensive and hard to monetize..
Or that the "BNC" service they are launching is also by definition a MITM
The best part about the CISSP is that it’s a management certification, which deflects so much of the boot camp people that instead become junior developers.
The phrase "people like ice cream" does not mean "all people like ice cream".
Japan to start antitrust probe on Apple, Google, Nikkei says
Seems like you missed the point entirely.

Who determines what "dangerous medical misinformation" is?

As shown, today's "debunked conspiracy theory" can be deemed credible next year.

big tech colluding with gov entities to punish dissenting views seems like a very bad idea.
The issue is that you have to install extensions, and that configurability has been deliberately removed, creating an inflexible and opinionated DE.

The problem is not that the extension API is too wide in scope, it's that you need to use an extension API at all to change even simple things.
It seriously seems like he bought an office and as soon as tenants had concerns, he set the building on fire.
I would say it has opened a door to different way of seeing reality, and I can open that door
whenever I want, but I don't think it has changed any of the practical decisions I've made.

It was a bad trip because the fractal nature of time implies that your life repeats itself infinitely many times (probably with the exact same details). You can never rest, it's all an infinite loop, and that idea made me extremely distressed, like this fractal nature was some sort of punishment or permanent purgatory.