skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but also - a controversial opinion - I am pretty sure Microsoft collects the kind of telemetry to learn about user behavior and improve the IDE, and not to collect private information for some kind of other gain. I am sure that whoever develops Codium will eventually get into a dead-end at some point because they won't have any telemetry connected to the product usage. Other piece is that Codium might inherently actually thrive because of some product decisions based on the telemetry Microsoft has so so it's not a fair fight.

Disclaimer: I am a Microsoft employee and this is my opinion only but I say this because I know what it's like to work on apps used by tens of millions of people and I can tell you that you're dead in the water when you have no idea how people use your product. And no, at this scale, controlled user testing is not sufficient. I've worked on countless Microsoft products over the years from Office through Skype to Teams. I've also been personally adding some telemetry into these but ALWAYS to be data driven when making product decisions such as "which button should we display here", "did we improve latency/stability/discoverability/.." and "which new feature will be actually useful".

Now.. I don't know VS Code 100% but I did see some internal talks, have access to some telemetry (didn't browse it much) and I can say that the team is full of good intentions. They just deal with difficult UX problems. I've also worked at Google and I think it's much different when your product/business is using/selling data about customers as compared to creating tools for developers. You are after a very different type of data in essence and I think the actual privacy is not contended here.

I am sure people will spin this the usual way "big company big bad" and "you never know what they will try to collect next" but in that case, I can only suggest you get a job in one of these companies and see how you will develop anything without real data to back your decisions and assumptions about the real world.
Yep, doesn't seem to be an arcane knowledge:
https://archive.org/details/windowsgraphicsp00juli/page/658/...

It would be more interesting to find out why the order of monitors changes “randomly” (computers can't really do anything randomly unless asked specifically). It could be something simple, like background driver updates that reset options they shouldn't reset, or the powered down state of monitors on boot, or video card enumerating connected devices differently, etc.
Sorry, to me it's pretty obvious that most of these people don't really believe they were silenced when they're on TV shouting about it. But I can't prove that, so, fine, maybe they believe this, we should treat both the false belief and the lying about it the same way.
I think that you are looking at it from the wrong perspective.

1. IDEs that are made primarily for your host operating system by who writes the operating system is basically a loss leader and is there to tie you to the host os

2. Emacs / vi / vim (full disclosure I am an Emacs user) are generally usable out of the box with no modification. Tinkering with your configuration for Emacs is for people who are experienced with Emacs and I primarily do it to make the text editor I want.

3. The actual paid solutions seem to be profitable enough for people to use but for reasons 1 and 2 will have a disadvantage to compete with them.
Do you use VSC extensions?

People extend the web-based editor to make it easier to build web applications and share those tools on the web. Using a web-based editor to build web applications is a self-reinforcing, positive loop.

I can see why people who aren't building web apps or aren't using extensions are confused why so many people prefer VSCode.
I must be an entirely different person with how much coffee I consume.
I have been using GitLens for years, and didn't even know they had a paid version. Where have they been "Nagging" that I've just never seen?
> Maybe computers are "inherently oppressive" but this is about the weakest and most inneffective argument for that I can imagine.

The whole thing was an incoherent mess.

The author didn't even realise that every point he made concerning the "ruthlessness" of the machine, applies to all external natural forces as well.

A storm doesn't ask for permission to destroy a house, a flood cannot be bargained with and indiscriminately drowns people, gravity itself pulls you down and causes your body to be smashed into bits if you fall from too great a height.

Machines are no different from nature in that regard, except that we can take measures to protect ourselves from the perceived "ruthlessness" of the devices we create.
And principle is spelled principal in one place.

I wonder if

principle/principal
border/boarder
could have/could of
their/they're
its/it's

will just become accepted alternative English spellings in time?
> Bitter or acid are univerally recognized as objectionable

That isn't remotely true. If it were no one would eat dark chocolate or sour candy.

> But that's not how they work in coffee?

Also not true. While you might not personally appreciate it, coffee is far more complex than just "sour" and "bitter".
As we may die (2020)
If Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio, then a precedent will be set that anyone who receives binaries based on GPL code will be able to sue for compliance, based on the third party beneficiary doctrine within contract law. This potentially depends on if the jurisdiction allows for specific performance as a remedy for contract violation.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_beneficiary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance
It seems to me that reasonably priced software is quite rare. To me and IDE is basically a fancy text editor and I've never really found one that really spoke to me (coding is not my primary job though), so $100/year seems steep for what looks like mostly a text editor to me. (Side note for all the vim/emacs wars, I'm quite satisfied with gedit). It also seems like the era of buying software is over; now it is a rent that you pay and all the other rents I must pay are going up so I'm not looking for any other.

So I see the appeal of free software (as in liberty and as in beer) - I recently switched a work machine over to pure Debian and it's a breath of fresh air. No proprietary container based installs, no advertising/telemetry built in, and I can choose a desktop environment that I like with some idea that it won't randomly move GUI elements around and change things for the sake of change because some product manager or UX engineer or other needs to make said change to justify their over-inflated salary. LXDE still looked like the LXDE I remember and the same goes for Cinnamon and MATE.
A PR is most emphatically *not* a paper trail.

It's recording a software change, who made it, and when.

That isn't even close to the bare minimum for some of the regulatory requirements.

You're coming to this with the perspective of a typical software developer. I can sympathise greatly. But the regulations aren't about software development. They are about risk management and product quality, and putting in place processes to ensure projects deliver solutions which are safe and robust, due to having the appropriate controls in place. This isn't just about the software implementation. It goes all the way up to the specifications, designs and requirements and it requires testing and validation work at every level.

I have only in the last few years been working in such an environment. It was eye-opening. Compared with the free-for-all which is most software development, this is actually about engineering robust systems, in a very systematic and rigorous way. That does include some overhead in the processes surrounding the development work, but it's there for a very good reason.
I've read that the amount of natural light is important, and that the light inside buildings and houses is not sufficient. Children should spend more hours outside.
No one is trying to prove that nothing happened before the big bang. What may or may not have happened before (or even whether there was a before) is unknown. The big bang is as far as we can extrapolate cosmology backwards in time.
Panic or Prosper
I wouldn't be comfortable putting the kind of strong radiation source that can increase events by some orders of magnitude close to me or my computers. Large detectors or multiple detectors to catch more natural radiation are safer.
Except it's also a professional forum, so it's more like you showed up at the office one day and it's full of kids and the project managers are spending their time handing out Disney badges and replacing the Kanban wall with memes instead of, y'know, managing the projects.
I didn't understand this OC's thesis, so can't criticize.

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FWIW, Seeing Like a State has connected a lot of dots for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

My take:

Administration (tax, trade, war, public health, etc) requires control.

Control requires centralization.

Centralization requires bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy requires standardization and information technology.

Computers are tool for digitizing information technology (replacing paper with bytes).

So are computers inherently oppressive? Sure. To the extent that participating in collective action reduces or impinges on individual actions.

--

A more interesting question for me is how innovation accelerates inequity.

Winner takes all (preferential attachment) is something like a natural law.

Reducing transaction costs (innovation, competitive advantage) merely accelerates the inevitable outcome.
Ventilation levels around Colorado, USA
Yeah, let Google pretend Groovy didn't do it first.

https://groovy-lang.org/swing.html
WFH demand a home office, to be done seriously, a thing most people do not like to accept. A home office means a room, well equipped, closed with a door, with enough noise comfort to been able to speak at normal or even just a bit above normal tones and no one else will hear nor you hear other noises except of a normal quiet background etc.

Not only: since we are social animals we need a social life, in most modern society due to the number of worked hours work life is ALSO social life, in a WFH setup we need a local social life apart of the work life.

IOW for a proper, real, scalable, effective WFH model we need to work less, like OR the morning or the afternoon, even for 6 days a week, or just 4 days a week maximum, to been able to have the work life and the local social life. We need homes with an office per human living there etc. With all that and a bit of habit well I'm pretty confident 80% of people with eligible jobs (around 30% of all jobs I imaging) would like to WFH. It's not a thing that can be done quickly simply because we can't reshape the society quickly. Here is the fault.

With enough time we can (re)build a distributed enough society with distributed enough services that cover people needs AND desire, so we can have local schools for children (as before) because for them being physically together is needed, with enough services for elders, for "middle ages" etc. few industrial districts, because certain productions can't be much distributed, and so on. Such cultural shift can probably happen in 25 years minimum, I doubt the society can be quicker than that...
That image is already 300MB of uncompressed pixel data. That's a hard floor on the memory usage unless you do something crazy like build a streaming image processing pipeline.
Apple Wants to End Passwords for Everything. Here’s How It Would Work
Is this talking about visual snow when eyes are closed or open. The image suggests when open but points to things like floaters and such which I have, and also suffer from migraine and tinnitus.
https://archive.ph/ATXps
The idea for this extension is really cool! However I use a proxy switcher extension to connect to my vpn client on a per website basis (tldr split tunneling). Is there any way to make your extension work with this setup?
You're right that it's a totally different mindset. I was going to post a comment along the lines of "anytime I need to hack my editor, it's a waste of my time". That's where IntelliJ shines. It's so mature and functional out of the box, that I don't need to hack it. I came from Emacs where, once the initial fun of hacking it wore off, it was just a drag.
Anyone interested in this must watch the two LGR videos on a huge warehouse called "computer reset" that has been clearing out. Here's the first: https://youtu.be/rvM82T3C2Ik
Yes, but modern computers tend to use CR2032 batteries that are less prone to leaking.

Or they're laptops which have their own battery issues (swelling and fire)
To be honest I am not really sure what age is useful for. I only know what it is not useful for and that includes anything to do with identity.
It's rather inappropriate that we don't change names of victims when they are no longer relevant to active investigation. I would rather die in a slip and fall accident than become famous and have details of my life explored by becoming notable for being the victim of an asshat, thank you very much.
1. There are some IPv6 only users in the wild, that needs connectivity.

2. All other competitors provide it.
I've noticed that some motherboards power the clock through mains power even when turned off.
> It also makes the spoofing completely undetectable.

It's my understanding that the usage of the debugger is detectable by scripts running on the page. I've actually come across content websites that will refuse to activate their features (play video) if the debugger is active.

Similarly on Android some video streaming apps will refuse to load and play their content catalog if USB debugging is enabled.
Can a person put purchased gold as collateral for other investments elsewhere? For example to buy bonds, options, stocks, etc.?
> giving women more autonomy _reduces_ the likelihood they'll pursue STEM

Not true. This data is 1) changing rapidly, 2) not cross-cultural, not to mention 3) cherry-picked time frame. There isn’t great evidence for this if you start from the year 1800, since all the numbers now are still higher. Numbers went up for a long time, and then started going down in the 80s. Numbers in India are dramatically different than the US. These things prove the changes are cultural and cannot be genetic, to the top comment’s point. Genetics isn’t changing this fast. You stated a recently observed correlation as though it was causation, an as though it was true for all people for all time. Causation has not been shown (the authors of the study you’re citing stated they do not have an explanation.) and the recent trend represents a recent change in the direction of trends, and didn’t happen in all countries, nor at the same time. So if you think STEM rates today are due to only nature, then you’re full of belief that isn’t backed by science.

BTW the one single study you’re referring to is not accepted by everyone (replication attempts have failed), and had enough problems it had to issue a correction. Other researchers believe many aspect of the study were cherry picked, not just the time frame. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/women-ste...
... No... this has been happening for decades.

In East Asia, the vast majority of people are now nearsighted, which has been a fun fact long before anyone even heard of COVID.
So do you only work for companies who have 100% open source and whose business model or product is a public benefit? Eg, "I value my freedom" is a perfectly acceptable position, until Mark Zuckerberg starts signing your checks, you know?
I thing clang 13 has the best automatic vectorizer so far, yet it failed to do the job: https://godbolt.org/z/Y9796r1T1

This is despite unlike Java’s runtime, C++ compilers work offline, they don’t care too much about compilation speed, a JIT compiler simply doesn’t have time for expensive optimizations.
I agree that current technical systems must not assume trust, for as long as we have malicious agents. IMO we should not let this be baked into the fabric of human society though.

And for the record, I believe it is possible to achieve what I am talking about in conditions and general spirit of market and capitalism. Suppressing personal choice (USSR- and China-style) is not the way to get there, it is in fact the opposite—making people feel psychologically secure enough to not feel compelled to be malicious is one thing; forcing them into constraints that prevent them from being malicious does not solve the issue and only obscures it (and besides, party elites will always be free to be whatever they want).

In fact, it is the parallels between blockchain-based social system and some emerging Chinese realities (social karma, etc.) that worry me.
The Secret Pentagon Photos of the First Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
Yep but the main point that i was trying to make is that to get a faster generator you need a faster clock and a bigger timer, not a bigger detector nor more events, if you cannot back them up with the faster clock and bigger timer
"LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology":
https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

Still not ready for the Turing prize, and easy to out the million monkeys furiosyly typing behind the screen. How do I know? Because it suggested to move to a new house just because the wash machine is broken...
The other caveat is that time spent configuring, troubleshooting and later maintaining them would be worth much more than 10 dollars. Their use is discouraged by many SIP providers (https://teamhelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/204210961-C...) and they have multiple issues not obvious at first glance, like limited character set for Display Name. This might be worth though for 100+ phones in a single location.
I also like that Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to create an extension for VS Code. Most of the functionality usually doesn't even require code, just modifying the package.json file to add UI elements and such.
At least if wikipedia's summary is to be believed, that's one of the less supported of many potential theories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia#Environmental_factors

Their summary seems to suggest that the biggest factor is exposure to daylight. So then even reading outside ought theoretically protect against nearsightedness.
Why can't you compile C on a raspberry pi 3?? Thats a supercomputer compared to anything that existed throughout the 80s 90s. Especially since your progs seem to be pretty small with kind of vintage retro graphics id imagine they compile basically instantly? I never programmed a videogame but isn't the common pattern to make a game engine plus embedded scripting language intreprter so you dont have to recompile for all the little tweaks?
I mean dont get me wrong no reason not to do what you did but i'm not seeing the unique challenges solved, like in what direction r u trying to move the needle here?
Makes me want to listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Murder Ballads" again... but i find it hard to work with good lyrics in my music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads
Not eating beef isn't something factually incorrect though, that's just a matter of personal preference.
It's a poor lens through which view the world.

In the same way there are no criminals or good or bad people.

Sure, I don't believe in free will either, but from a practical point of view, you should probably give some credit to millionaires who made it without getting money from anyone. And you should give even more credit to millionaires who made it starting with a poor family. Similarly I won't trust criminals as much as non criminals, even if I'm sure they could have been different if their lives had different circumstances.

Of course we're lucky to live in the richest society ever created in history which gives us opportunities our ancestors didn't have. You can thank capitalism for that.

I feel good about my economic success (almost 1M with just contracting and a failed startup behind). Sure, I'm thankful that my family could afford a computer when I was a kid but nobody really encouraged me to follow this route or gave me any money.
My teenage years were all fighting with my parents to stay more on the computer and work while they wanted me to study.
And everyone kept telling me there was no money in software development.
Standardization of boot process, driver availability, ease of install.

While at it, erradication of shovelware.
The browser is just an iframe, so tail call optimization isn’t relevant.

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/blob/b1681546a2ce990...
The more neutral/academic term (instead of techno-fascism) is "algorithmic control"

Plenty of great reading: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=alg...
> Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way. For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.

They just aren't, I would not switch to Jetbrains from VSCode even if it was free. It's not a question of pricing and Jetbrains themselves started to realise it since they are building some VSC clone (forgot the name right now)
There's an added value to being felt as necessary to one's society that a hobby may not capture. To the point of the commenter above, something like volunteer work would probably fulfill that need better than a hobby.
> I had some fights with kids at that age, but it definitely was not every single time we walked. You are exaggerating how bad it is.

Every child is unique. Some are more stubborn than others. This is a challenge with any parenting advice because there is so much variance. My experience is my kids do fight or linger every time despite the routine and nudges.
Science is the adaptive theoretical system digesting anomalies.
All this rumination on the evils of train and vending machine doors, and yet environment-burning ransomware-funding Bitcoin is held up as a counterexample for good?

This all seems pretty wooly.
>Once you remove the requirement that employees work from the office, building a software engineer is a pure software problem

Hey, that's a good point!
I’m not so pessimistic, all this means is that freedoms must be actively fought for and maintained. That they cannot be taken for granted. However we have many times fought against supposedly more efficient autocratic systems and won. Napoleonic imperialism, and that of the great Central European powers of WW2, Fascism, Stalinism, South American military dictatorships. We’ve beaten them all. A successor to Maoism is still in power in China, but Mao would have been horrified by the reforms under Deng. We’ll see how Xi’s reversion works out.

I know there’s a strong current of left sentiment here that thinks billionaires are somehow taking everything for themselves, but the fact is the freedom of movement and association that enabled globalisation has raised hundreds of millions out of poverty. Those billionaires employ millions of people. I’d rather they ran these companies than government functionaries. For the first time more than half of humanity now live comfortable middle class lives. Progress in my lifetime has been breathtaking, and it’s been so fast a lot of people’s ideological assumptions about how the world is and works have been left far behind.

There’s still a lot more to do of course, 10% of people in severe poverty is still far too many. China under Xi shows how a technologically competent authoritarianism can achieve a stable steady state that will be very hard to break down. We must do it though, the future of humanity depends on it. If such a regime was to gain broad sway over humanity there’s a real possibility Orwell’s vision of a boot stamping on a human face forever could come to be. I don’t think it’s inevitable though. The fact is free and open societies are actually far more efficient and productive.
He was discussing "Google Code". Claiming he won't handing the "master copy" of source code to third party like Google.