skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the conspiracy take: Mozilla only survives because Google wants to make sure that an alternative exists so they cannot be considered a monopoly.

That would also explain Mozilla behavior for the last few years... But motivations from big corporations are rarely as singular and neatly defined as I just made it sound, so while that might factor into their actions, it probably cannot be considered to be THE reason for action.
If you were actually curious, you’d have clicked the link and read the article. The very first sentence states:

> A European study has found that Covid-19 can affect blood vessels in the human brain

Next paragraph:

> Research by French, Spanish and German scientists published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience reveals that, in addition to attacking the lungs, the virus can also can kill certain brain cells.
Not sure, I'm quoting directly from the article.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/recovery/regi...
Recorded in February 1969, typed in February-April, 1970, so not that much of a gap.

"Sent to Turkey in 1997" seems more like a publication date in Turkey than anything, given the site itself.
> if they don't obsolete themselves before somebody else can then they will fall into obscurity and ultimately lose what they've built, just like other companies before it who didn't

And if they do fall into obscurity and ultimately lose what they've built?

- The companies who take their place service the customers/clients they used to have

- The workforce either coast along or move to the (presumably growing) new big boys

- The investors should spot the decline and trade away

The only downside is the company - the brand - slowly dies off. For most of us that is fine; the only parties to all this who will actually lose out are the ultimate beneficiaries/owners, and I can live with that. And presumably they've extracted masses from the company by then anyway.

Its both cultural and economics, but the economics only affect the masters and not the minions (who find alternatives) and the cultural aspect is misguided - individual companies/brands are ephemeral and irrelevant so we the minions should not be invested in protecting them at the destructive (to society) costs of scale.
Guy/gal who can actually fix a car is a techie. And I agree, often people are discouraged from things for no reason other than supposed cultural fit.
Actually you can turn off enforcement if you want to. Requires a reboot and going into safe mode if I remember correctly. I have done it before when loading hacked drivers for old hardware, etc.
>Her decisions might be great for Microsoft's profit margins

On long term such decisions will hurt profit margins. I wouldn't hire managers that only think about short term, in an attempt to enlarge their bonuses.
Sony Imagines We’ll Live at Sea with Self-Sustaining Floating Habitats in 2050
Could you expound on "bare minimum level of fact checking "? It seems to me that one tribe was proportionately de-platformed for their violations of ToS and is unhappy with not having the power to do something about it.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions then maybe the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions?
>Google deal produces 90% of Mozilla's revenue.

>Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) makes $3 million a year

Google is paying her $2,700,000 (90%).

If someone was actually paying YOU $3 million per year, would you skew your decisions towards the organization that is actually putting $3 million in your pocket?
What is happening is that after the last years nonsense, plus covid19 thing, is not so appealing to tourism than it was before, specially to inner tourism. So they need to clean their image with more positive news, pretend that it never happened, that all is happy-happy, and move on.

Positive news that are heartwarming and nice but will be irrelevant for the grand scheme of things. Call me cynical if you want, but this is not a real change, is just another PR stunt stuff.
The neutrality in my comment was intentional.
Let me add something about a tangent subject: What about tech workers with a disability? I hope you find this interesting, even if this answers your question only indirectly.

People with disabilities experience the pandemic the same as everybody else. Of course. However they don't have the same opportunities.

yadaeno wrote that he took some time off and when he returned he got a raise [0].

This would be riskier for me.

Sometimes people tell me to have positive thoughts. I will find a good position if I only try hard enough.

I understand that because people don't like to think about depressing things.

However indulge me and conduct a thought experiment. Try to estimate the percentage of tech workers with disabilities and their average salary.

What do you think: Is the percentage the same as elsewhere? Is the salary the same, higher or lower? Why?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974320
This is great. I've found "find file" to be the most useful tool. It's usually one of the first things I point out during live-coding as soon as I see someone click through the source tree.
Yeah, now we know that nothing in the article happens in the movie! Who wants a Bond movie without sex and deadly airborne diseases? Not me.
> We lost a junior employee to a company paying

Competition - simply beautiful!
I think you're both right. AGPL is worse for any SaaS business if you plan to build it around your modifications of that software, period. That's very simple and I think nobody disagrees with it.

However, there are many cases where AGPL is the best solution. That is, when you plan to release an original piece of software, not just modify someone elses's project, and you specifically want to prevent companies like Amazon or Google to profit from it without giving you anything back. In this case, dual AGPL + commercial licensing is a good way to go.

People need to know this instead of blindly copying "Google says AGPL is bad so we must avoid it at all costs."
During an infection disease emergency you don't want random people at a hospital.
The law can mandate that ProtonMail is forbidden to use such technologies - if the court ruling would have went in the other direction and asserted that the data retention requirements apply, then it would be illegal for Protonmail to offer their service without explicitly collecting and holding the records, even if they technically could do without them.
It's nice to see the hypocrisy of the people who run these companies, who on the one hand virtue signal with all the woke nonsense externally, and yet behave immorally internally.
Consider me having missed the joke then.
Understanding Containers and Containerization
So much software is too slow today. I don't think developers remember that users will not perceive your software as instant if you don't get the result in 100ms.

I cancelled my evernote subscription because it is too slow to start up. If I need to access a note on my phone, I don't want it to take perceived time, because then I have to go through the effort of remembering what I am trying to write.

I have switched to Apple notes, which seem to get this.
Pretty much 95% of this list is why Kotlin is my primary programming language now. It's more productive because it accomplishes almost everything on this list out of the box on IntelliJ IDEA. The only bits I generally need to add on are some Gradle plugins to handle linting (spotless or kolinter) no-friction Docker images (jib) and overtime amassing a list of very high quality libraries for specific tasks (Clikt for CLIs, Jackson for serialisation, etc).

Couple all this together you get incredibly productive out of the box experience that is very easy to onboard new team-members onto. Pairing with this setup is also great, Code With Me is constantly getting better (pairing tool built into IDEA), being able to teach newbies keyboard shortcuts in IDEA to make them more productive etc.

I think the latter stuff is probably more important to me now as I mostly take on lead roles, my own productivity has always been high but being able to make that more scalable has been immensely more valuable.
Serum is such a wonderful and visual, intuitive synthesizer. There is also a free one, Vital, which is comparable, but Serum still is one of the most popular and versatile ones around for a reason. Visualizing the waveforms was such a breakthrough moment for me when really trying to understand how everything actually is working under the hood.
No one does that reliably. It's 5-7% after inflation on average, where a five-year average is expected to get you within 2 percentage units or so of that number.

Commonly large deviations over shorter timeframes and rare deviations over longer timeframes. The last 15 years have been one such deviation, maybe GP figures that's the normal now.
Actually Miguel Icaza would be very good as a head of .NET development. He's not only managed to build a large open source code base but he also managed to win money from it. He's also a good developer, so he knows how to please developers.
I've never understood the criticism of Firefox on HN. I've been a happy user since 2004.

I viewed chrome the same as IE. Owned by a big US tech company that only cares about one thing, and that one thing isn't you or me, only what your and my data/views are worth.

As far as I'm concerned all criticism leveled at Firefox is neatly mitigated by the reality of what chrome is, spyware.
I don't think so. If I were an extremist, I would write on all possible channels to have the biggest possible audience.
Sticking to one platform would minimize my reach.
But it will help to monitor such movements even better for news coverage, and or legislative orderings.. whatever.. and also it will help to radicalize of somes even faster.

And it will attract anonymous and hopefully distract anonymous from other planned projects :)
3/9/17 Day 667. . . . "My thoughts nearly ran out in those deserts. I had no more mundane problems to work through, no more bad memories to rehash. My mind was a blank slate and when I stared at the stars I questioned my very existence. “What is man to build his life on?” I would think. He can work until his fingers bleed, construct great statues, and rage against the Gods, but in the end he is still dissolved to nothingness—a grain of salt in the universal ocean. He wants success. He wants fame. He wants to be handsome or beautiful. He wants to live in a penthouse and wants everyone to know it. All those things are means to an end. Man wants them because he believes they will make him happy, but in and of themselves they mean little. Secure enough wealth to live, then direct your efforts towards helping others. To be happy and to make others happy is the end"
SSH FS, a third-party extension seems to work well with VSCodium: https://github.com/SchoofsKelvin/vscode-sshfs
Oracle would love to welcome her to the team. :)
That’s an arms length business arrangement though, rather than some undue influence
Don't be taken in by the idea that balance for the sake of balance is some kind of absolute good. If I say that the earth is flat, and you say that the earth is round, the newspaper headline probably shouldn't be that nobody can agree on what shape the earth is.

One tribe, as it happens, says rather a lot more daft and dangerous things than the other. It's not possible to _hope and good cheer_ someone into doing something, but it is possible to _terrify_ them with angry rhetoric and falsehoods. I think people who are making a bunch of shit up should probably not be given a megaphone, whether they're speaking for my tribe or yours.
Have to realize he is criticizing his own industry and clients for playing dirty when he known China is going to beat them easily when it enters the market. He doesn't care about Tesla. They don't pay him. It's Ford and Chrysler and his clients that he wants to wake up
EAP is free, and the subscriptions also work as a one-time payment by giving you permanent access to the latest-at-subscription-start version when accruing a year's worth. So you can pay 1 year and not renew, and it's the same as just buying the thing.
Didn't Process Explorer start as a third party tool which Microsoft acquired?
She didn't make any concessions to Valls at all, as Valls supported her purely out of spite for the alternative. I don't see what the problem with that is.

Also you make it sound like Valls was a fringe far-right nutjob, when C's has two major parties to its right in the political spectrum, and Valls himself left because the party was steering rightwards too much to his liking.

I'm a left-wing voter but honestly these ultra-partisan, polarizing views are a scourge that poisons politics.
They've always been acting as a strong monopolistic corporation with a "fuck you" attitude. Here's a summary of Microsoft attitude these part 5 years:

- rebrand as open-source friendly, only open-source whatever narrow side-projects they barely care about but could be run on other systems (VSCode, Powershell); distribute official packages with spyware

- monopolize the education system by offering bribes including gratis hardware devices to whoever in State education will work with them to pretend Microsoft loves kids and kids need computers (with Microsoft software, obviously) to learn anything in the 21st century

- force manufacturers to deploy "TPM v2.0" on their new machines so they can run Windows 11, continuing the push so that people have 0 understanding and control over the machines they own (instead are controlled by the machines), and don't have a choice of system because "SecureBoot" [0]

- love Linux! let them integrate all your POSIX/Linux APIs in a VM on their system, so that you never have to use anything else than Windows ever again (embrace...) ; it's just like reverse-Wine (execute Windows program on free systems) except they have an army of developers with $$$$ and don't have to waste time reverse-engineering anything because they have the source code to both systems... how convenient!

- viruses are such a huge problem, if only we had some sort of digital signatures for software, and trustworthy places to get it from?! sure let's have a Microsoft market where you can buy adware/spyware signed by Microsoft, with two key advantages: 1) it's super faster because signed software is not inspected real-time by Windows defender 2) noone else can make their own "appstore" repository with their own signature keys (like we do with Flatpak/APT/nix/guix) ; very soon they can start to hide how to run programs unapproved by Microsoft like Android or MacOS [1] have been doing... and it's all for security, right? because app-store monopoly has definitely stopped malware (oooh that's a nice flashlight app you got there Google Play) without harming FLOSS/hobbyist devs (yeah sure)

It's just *washing (openwashing here) straight out of marketing textbooks. If you know/learn anything about capitalism and public relations, you won't be tricked next time!

[0] Briefly touched upon in this bigger article about how Microsoft is still evil, why Secure Boot has nothing to do with security, and why hardware manufacturers happily play along: https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2021-10-04_ok_lenovo_w...

[1] There was even this worrying story at some point that MacOS would refuse to open applications (whether signed or not) because their centralized server could not be reached: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959 <-- Soon coming to your Windows setup
I’ve read Dune about once a year for the last two decades, the first time I did so was a formative experience for my thinking about religion in my teens. The film does remove a few bits but none of them were of any real consequence, and the changes that were made didn’t have any impact on the story.

There were even a couple of scenes where I found myself reciting the lines as they were said, the whole scene was just lifting the dialogue straight out of the novel and putting it on film.
Indeed. IDEA has find by filename, find by class and find in files. Couple this with it's quick file switcher which keeps recent files in a stack allows you to quickly move between files you have recently edited (and jump back from something like "go to definition") really increases speed of code exploration.
> help your parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors, uncles and aunts to do the same.

One sec let me try to explain how to do this to my grandma who is currently x thousand miles away. Oh yea and if something breaks good thing I'm there for tech support amirite.
There is a bias against technology in the red tribe, as they generally lean left (or are perceived to do so).

Not that it matters, we need a new generation of anti-trust over this. Google must be prohibited from engaging in selling or buying ads.
I wish these type of articles referenced a benchmark or baseline, such as "Corona virus damages XX percent more/less braun cells than recent strains of influenza virus".
But the ads are how google exists. They keep the lights on and the campus hedges trimmed. If you spin off a google without ads then would it even succeed or would the google with ads just take its old monopolistic position as soon as society allowed (forgot) it?
Have you added copilot to your workflow?
There is so much data involved with even the smallest thing in this world we're barely even scratching the surface with science.

An expert may have a PhD and know 5000% more than you about a subject but compared to the amount of knowledge required to understand how the universe or any scientific subject works...their knowledge is smaller than a rounding error..and our current knowledge as a human race is too.

Experts are poking at the world just as much as the rest of us, they just have bigger sticks, and are wrong ALL the time. But being wrong is the first step to being right. Elon had the worlds most highly trained and advanced rocket scientists working for him at SpaceX and they still crashed a bunch of rockets. You get a second opinion even though medial doctors have many years of education, don't you?

The problem is not science or education, it's how humans understand truth.

I could be wearing a red and black flannel shirt and one expert would say the shirt is red and another expert say the shirt is black and both would be telling the truth, but neither is correct.

Now pretend that flannel shirt has trillions to infinite numbers of colors and you have science.

Scientific consensus is data with strong statistical significance that all scientists agree on. The shirt is clearly red! But it's only a small subset of data among infinite amounts of data in this world much of which we don't even know about and the human race probably never will. So while a scientific theory may be true, it may not be correct. And highly informed scientists can see just one part of the whole and claim it's the truth.

And it's hubris to claim otherwise, especially looking at how often scientific consensus has been on the wrong side of human history, with Mengele, Galileo, Labotomies, etc.

Thalidomide, the drug, would calm morning sickness and the scientific consensus was that it was a good drug from the limited amount of data they knew about at the time...until more data came in....and the scientific consensus changed on a dime.

The problem is humans have a desperate need to provide some sort of order to this absolute chaos we live in because the world is scary and we're going to die and people want immediate answers they can rely on to make sense of it all.

So they create narratives like religion, or scientific consensus, or political party and claim those are the one true answers and justify their success with the rain dance working or scientific data curing an illness or how cheap they made gas prices..ad infinitum.

Scientific consensus, religion, politics, are all merely single narratives to explain this insanely complex world.

And while all are important to listen to and can be very informative, they should only be SINGLE data points in your own critical thinking. There is no single source of truth. And there is no shortcut to the truth.

Anyone who claims to have the objective 'truth' in a world as infinitely complex as ours is a religion person, and if you follow them unskeptically you are an acolyte, and if you censor people who are questioning you, you fall into an inquisition type situation.
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If Apple was seriously concerned about hackintoshes they'd develop their own custom CPU that they owned and no one else had access to.
For breaking their ToS literally hundreds of times? If anything it showed incredible bias they kept him on the platform just because of his job ( and the fear of retaliation). If he were a random person, he would have been banned much earlier.
I'll try to defend the argument of "first hand anecdotal data vs statistics". At least i'll provide some arguments.

Imagine going to any place of work for a week. Let's say a trading center. How much will you learn from first hand but short-term experience? People tend to say you need 10,000 hours of practice to be good at a given skill. In a week you are barely starting to get familiar and it's already over. You haven't experienced any depth or any breadth of the domain.

Another example would be: how much of a country can you learn by visiting 1 city? At some point to fit the huge problem space into 1 mind you need to generalize and use statistics. In addition to practical experience so you're not lost in abstract concepts.

Personally i think that both first hand experience and stats/theoretical knowledge are necessary to be effective at a domain. So I'm glad to see a politician getting personally involved.

To the defense of the other side, I would say first-hand experience tend to be more engaging than theory/stats, especially to politicians (usually non STEM profiles who got where they are through developing EQ, not critical thinking). This results in politicians only engaging with that type of approach, and typically having a limited/personal understanding of the problems they are in charge of.

I wish for instance that a politician in charge of a topic would have to go through a mandatory 1 week intense course from domain experts to broaden their perspective and understanding. Instead it tends to be all emotion, all urgency, and leaning the way most people are pulling, whatever the rational merits of that position.
I mean, that's _literally_ the model of Vistage, which is a peer-based group, but lead by a Chair that is that exact "retired business leader whose credibility based on past success justifies your making material changes."

Leaving the Chair out of things, you have organizations like EO, wherein you simply have a peer group of others, but EO is big on talking through a "gestalt" (rather than prescriptive) model, so that the material changes you make are what you take away, rather than an edict you have to follow.

And while there are obviously tons of lemons and charlatans, I think you'd be stunned by just how many ultra-high-performing CEOs and C-suite execs have coaches themselves, sometimes sourced from their companies (or their boards), and sometimes as personal endeavors.