skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing has been MS's playbook since I was a kid, or earlier. It surprises me that people are still surprised when things like this happen. I especially think someone with Miguel de Icaza's experience should know better[0].

It's interesting to see the generational difference here. Many of my somewhat-younger (even only by 7-10 years) programmer/techie friends just don't remember the Microsoft of the 80s and 90s, and see all the "good" they've been doing with the open source community in more recent times, and think MS is a pretty good corporate citizen in the tech world.

But in reality, MS has just done a great job whitewashing their image[1] in the past 15 years, especially in the past 8 years since Ballmer stepped down and Nadella took the reins. I do believe they're a better, less anti-competitive company than they used to be. But they're still the same company in many ways. I think a big part of their "play nice" strategy was born out of necessity, since they heavily dropped the ball in the late 90s/early 00s when the internet/WWW was really coming into its own, and then again in the early/mid 10s when Windows Phone failed miserably. They just lost the clout to do the anti-competitive bullshit they used to pull. But the desire to do all this stuff is still there.

[0] It was clear to me that MS intended .NET to be a wholly-proprietary, Windows-only technology until de Icaza and co. built Mono, when MS grudgingly embraced it. This proprietary extension feels like their standard follow-on of "extend and extinguish", though it's coming a bit later than we'd expect.

[1] Bill Gates has also done an amazing job rehabilitating his image through philanthropy. A lot of people forget how his actions at MS probably held back progress in the computing industry for at least a decade (or two?), through forced lock-in and anti-competitive behavior.
Honestly, probably the business model itself.

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LCCs thrive on extremely efficient utilization; they basically match planes and crews to maximize as much time as possible in the air for everybody and as little rest as legally allowed. This is easy to do if you are a short haul carrier with lots of short flights that could reasonably slot around.

Transatlantic flights are 6+ hours. This makes things more difficult in terms of scheduling, particularly since these LCCs will probably only have a short-haul network to use up the rest of the time on one side of the pond. The longer a crew is in the air, the longer their required rest period is, and that decreases utilization.

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Most of the money on transoceanic journeys is also premium journeys (e.g. first and business.) It's how British Airways books $1B in revenue annually on JFK-LHR alone. But LCCs don't really target this group of people, and the budget-conscious are a fickle market for such long journeys. They also can't easily attract this more expensive customer unless they stump up the cash to provide equivalent amenities, but then that blurs the line between legacy and low cost carrier.
T-72's are 50 year old tanks. It's like fielding WW1 tanks in the Vietnam war.

A T-72 is both easy to detect and easy to kill for someone with a Javelin, while the Javelin-man is hard to detect and non-trival to kill (at range) with the T-72.

The arms race between protective equiment (armor, shields, etc) and anti-armor weapons has been going on for over a thousand years, arguably longer (like when Roman pila would get stuck in enemy sheilds, making the shields useless, even if the pilum didn't kill the enemy soldier).

In our current age, the previous generation of tanks has been made obsolete by ATGM, just like Cuirassiers were obsolete at the outbreak of WW1 and WW1 tanks were obsolete at the outbreak of WW2.

Modern tanks with state-of-the art sensors and APS are much better protected against ATGM's. While still not the ideal platform for use against anti-tank weapons, at least they don't get slaughtered on first contact. If the enemy has a high concentration of ATGM armed infantry in an area, it's probably better to take them out with infantry, artillery and/or aircraft. Given the cost of ATGM's, this is cost-efficient. And if the ATGM's are spread out, a tank formation with good protection systems can affort to smash through, even if it comes at the cost of a few casualties, to maintain momentum.
Good to know, makes me consider closing my account myself. Linkedin always had a bit of a scammy feeling to it. Especially when it comes to recruiters' spam messages.
The actual announcement is here:

https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276

It's not quite as dramatic as the OP is making it out to be.
I always set my LinkedIn at the max privacy. I deleted my LinkedIn account over 8 months ago. I still get spam from recruiters in my email that uses my LinkedIn name which is different than my real name. LinkedIn definitely does not follow privacy settings.
Haskell has many preludes also but people seem to embrace that flexibility there.

I don't know much about the intricacies of unicode but as usual there are some OCaml libraries available. Are they incomplete/insufficient in some way?
I think the point of an NFT would be that everybody else can also see that you control the token, which doesn't really seem relevant to starting a car. You could just ("just") have a privately controlled public/private key pair, and the previous owner could tell the car that your public key should now be the only one able to open the car; no need to announce that to the world.

(I also know nothing of the space, just engaging to build my own understanding.)
Because AU is non-existent on Windows, and Steinberg these days controls VST with only its own interests in mind, not those of the wider industry.
> Well, I don't really think this would be considered truly evil except by the likes of Stallman

Stallman would consider anything remotely closed source like Chrome unethical.

He is not that nuanced.
> investment into peace research and conflict prevention

What would this even mean?
Using LinkedIn is never a good deed.
>Do you think it's okay that the mega rich are incentivized to continue to get richer and richer while receiving the massively preferential loans and tax rates they get?

I don't think the loan and tax rates are particularly preferential.

Thanks to his twitter deal, he's had to publicize some info about how he gets his money. The interest rates on his loans range from SOFR+3% to SOFR+10%. Those rates aren't that low— even as a non-millionaire I could get similar ones from my bank (https://www.schwab.com/pledged-asset-line).

I pay 2.75% interest on my mortgage. So even Elon's best loan has an interest rate well above my mortgage. By the end of the year, his interest rate is on track to be around 3x higher than my mortgage! And like my mortgage, his loan has a large upfront payment and a minimum amount that must be repaid every year, it's not free money forever.

My effective federal tax rate is 20%. That's lower than the rate that a typical billionaire would pay on capital gains (23.8%).
Plenty of blog posts on the net talk about it, one of them is even linked to in the article, by the same author ;)
I wonder why these generated files are not part of a separate distributed, HA based, cloud managed document store. Seems like a perfect use case for it.
This looks like git abuse to me.
Probably not a bad idea to have a few weeks' worth of non-perishable food around just in case there's a big power outage/earthquake/whatever

If this whole societal house of cards comes tumbling down, though, I think most of the people posting on HackerNews are going to be screwed (relevant: https://ext.penny-arcade.com/comic/2019/03/15/deer-diary )
It's easier for infantry to carry one drone and ammunitions than a set of one-shot drones.
So they have lost a a bit of volume to a number of recent upstarts - well, who could have thought it?

[Curtesy of Barry Schwartz, a career copy/paster.]
Data caps are a scam and I'm surprised nobody calls them out on it. The primary reason for a data cap is to scare you into buying more "data" than you actually use due to increasing the cap afterwards being difficult/impossible (some carriers don't let you increase the cap until your contract runs out, even though as a company they should be delighted to take more of your money if it wasn't for these ulterior motives).
An analogy would be - what is next after Linux? Well, developers do not run infrastructure. They want to deploy and scale their apps fast and focus on their business. If something comes up as a compatible (eg. helm charts) option to kubernetes, yet simple for developers to enable planet-scale rollouts...why not. Most likely it will be built on kubernetes in the foreseeable future.
FWIW I liked the way the other articles were linked. I opened most of them as I was reading and then went back to them after the main article.
Thanks for additional info. I'm happy to hear that localization is on your priority.

> English source strings used in our frontend code live in Typescript files (.messages.ts). Source strings used in our backend code live in Java files (Message.java). Our internationalization (i18n) pipeline converts this into a series of XLIFF files (ending in .xlf), with one file for each locale. All these files live in the repository, but the translated .xlf files should never be modified by hand since they are updated automatically when strings get translated.

Isn't it cache?
I got surprising results sending canned messages back asking for basically a 50% salary bump over my current. Never followed through but at least one person said "I can do that."
Now that .NET is easy to run on non-Windows platforms, Microsoft is likely trying to figure out what's the business case.

By keeping the tools to them, Microsoft can try to offer the best developer experience. Hopefully (from Microsoft point of view) this pushes developers to use services from their ecosystem (Github, Azure).

It's likely that in the future more developers are actually doing the development remotely. Not checking out the code to local machine, but instead using IDE which communicates with the server component. Microsoft has Github Code Spaces [1], JetBrains has Fleet[2]

[1] https://github.com/features/codespaces
[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
In ancient tribes where the practice arose, circumcision may well have been an effective and irreversible marker of tribal identity. If it has since become sufficiently widespread that it is no longer effective in that goal, then perhaps we can add that to the list of reasons why the practice belongs in the past.

I mention gangs not to equate them with any particular religion, but to highlight by example the difficulty of leaving a group identity when that group has permanently changed you.

Groups control their members through various means, the most insidious being engrainment of group attributes as identity. Once a person adopts an idea not merely as something they believe but as a core part of who they are, the idea becomes far harder to challenge as it starts to feel like personal attack rather than debate.

Identity is what controls you, when you cannot choose it. So I partly agree with your example - being a US citizen is not easy to choose (though not impossible), and your status and identity as a US citizen shapes many aspects of your life. If you could freely choose citizenship, it would be a far lesser part of your identity and you would be far less controlled by it.

That is why agency to choose, or not, to be circumcised, and thus agency to adopt that into your identity, is important.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that way.
Even ~3s every git status is driving me insane now.
Then you might enjoy "Singularity" by Bill DeSmedt: https://isbn.nu/9781614756255
Are you concerned now that illegal enterprise now knows your details and can possibly retaliate?

Are you easily doxable ?
I don't think there is that much devs doing actual work in Apple ecosystem - they use Macbooks but not Swift or Objective-C and no one is using XCode for their day 2 day development.

Just check StackOverflow 2021 survey - Swift is like 5%
Yes, well known, same here on an mbp-16" i9.

For whatever reason the m1 mac's are crazy different. They feel like they have more ram (maybe a faster NVME for swap?), they run the fan crazy less, some don't even have fans (the mac book air). I've heard it speculated they use hardware assist for compression for swap. In any case don't assume that a 16GB M1 will feel like a 16GB x86-64.
Ah come on! It's more complicated than that.

Most of the heavy lifting in OmniSharp is done by Roslyn [0]. Roslyn is the open source C# compiler and code analysis library maintained by MS. You cannot overstate how much effort has gone into Roslyn, and how much money MS has invested to make it work. OmniSharp is essentially a wrapper[1] around Roslyn (before Roslyn it was Mono), and while the OmniSharp team did a nice job developing a nice intellisense UX around it all, it is not like MS is taking it all away from them. Incidentally, it is almost certain that new intellisense plugin by MS will also be built on top of Roslyn.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
[1] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode#the-c-extensio...
Or 5 parallel construction, which is just 2, but they blame 4 :)
Classic Korean MMORPG relaunches as a browser-based game
A placement agent called me recently about a job. At one point during the call she was obviously struggling to multitask and had to pause to say "I'm having trouble finding you on LinkedIn".

My response was "I'm not on LinkedIn."
Sorry a bit late, but as I’ll be running pretty common F/OSS projects I can say that for the most part the UI I’m going for is click to deploy and be done (get a URL for your redis instance/cluster, you have to slot that in).

Early on I won’t be supporting running custom code — so it will basically only be backing services!

If you wouldn’t mind emailing me I can give you access to the documentation early —- we will obviously live and die by documentation so probably best to stay there
Banned from what?

If somebody sets up a phishing website in the US with intent to steal funds, they are equally as liable whether their target is a crypto wallet or Apple Pay.
Still don't understand the value proposition. Mobile air support is pretty important but supersonic missiles and modern submarines could sink or severely damage an aircraft carrier. Perhaps a sub getting away again would be almost impossible but the damage of the carrier would be much more costly, worst case you also lose all the planes. So I would place them in shallow waters near ports too...
Just for balance, it works fine in the UK if you accept it's not going to find results that don't actually exist - like a '10 Best Bikes under $1,000' article written by someone who's gone out and bought 10 bikes with his own money so he can give an honest and impartial review of each for zero reward.
Little-known? My edition of The Hobbit is illustrated with these. In fact, quite a lot of editions are.

I guess what this means is that the book is little-known.
I came expecting horrendous kitsch, and left feeling pleasantly surprised..
Sort of. The breaking of MIDI is not, by any means, a good API. In a few other aspects it seems needlessly complex - feels like it was designed to serve one company's strategies and interests, not that of an industry.
Town that burned effigies of Kim Jong Un and Gaddafi burns straw trans woman
You pretend that electrolysis has not been known for centuries. But nobody is fooled.
I dunno, there's a lot of recruiters. They must need something to help them through the day.
Why didn't MS just contribute to the existing one, instead of writing its own from scratch?
It’s actually not a good idea at all. When you do the math ( or rather the physics) gravity batteries need so much mass and height to compete with other technologies that it’s just not worth it.

Except if water, pipes and pumps are used, as water is heavy, and pipes and pumps can transport a lot of it very efficiently and cheaply. That’s called pumped hydro storage and is currently the #1 grid scale storage in the world.

Trying to do the same with solid materials can sound like a genius idea but it’s really not.
What is annoying about all of those things is that they are all systems of control: IRS obvious- taxes, 401K - there shouldn't be taxes for investments at all, health insurance - again control - we can't have cheap health insurance because companies pay for it, at any price.
This is a great initiative. It will not only save customers money but save environment by preventing energy wastage.

All the best!
There is a libre version of VS Code but it is missing features like access to the official extension marketplace.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
This is really frustrating. I love the Heroku interface - perfect for quick small projects - but it's becoming increasingly unstable / insecure / unreliable.
There has to have been some child giraffe that went out into deep water where it didn't reach the bottom? You could maybe extrapolate from that.

Dog swimming surely ought to be unstable with that long of a neck and legs.
> Apple didn't take ownership and then start closing CUPS, but they have also never pretended to be a friend of OpenSouce. They haven't produced anything opensource since then.

Two counter-examples:

They open sourced Swift in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)#H...), and Swift-DocC in 2021 (https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-docc/)

Apple bought CUPS in 2007 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS#History)
Article doesn't really answer the question posed in the title. It is good question though. Entertaining as recent language models are, one of the few business models I see is improved search.

The semantic bible search we had here a few days ago is an excellent example
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31733673

I mean who would have expected this Bible hit for 'open source software'?

Proverbs 27:5 - Open rebuke is better than secret love.
ROFLing of my own brain - I first misread "comprehensive" as "superexpensive" because what else can a degree program in U.S. be :-]
Consumer reports identified Tesla's as the least reliable American car.
I've never flown an A380 so I can't really comment on that and yes, I much prefer the 747 on longer routes over 787, A350 vs 747 would be more or less a wash, noise is mostly a function of where you're sitting in the plane so you have a bit of control over that (and these days: very good noise cancelling headphones).
If you want to get things right, I suggest looking at Peter Donahue's Colordisk. He has several great explainers up on Tiktok (sic.), and he has several variants of his Colordisk freely available (his URL shortening, not mine):

https://bit.ly/3gczeBz
Not quite, the .messages.ts and Message.java files are only in English which are then converted into XLIFF files for other languages so they're the source of truth for what the string should be in different locales so they're not cache
Maybe? These are just implementations, right? Others will still be able to build tools? JetBrains isn't pushed out by this, is it?

Java flight recorder, for example, wasn't always open source. While it's not ideal, I'm not sure the idea of closed source tools in an open language is all that unheard of.
It’s actually not a good idea at all. When you do the math ( or rather the physics) gravity batteries need so much mass and height to compete with other technologies that it’s just not worth it.

Now if you use water, pipes and pumps, instead of solid materials, now we’re talking. It’s called pumped hydro storage and is the number one grid scale storage in the world.
The problem with MVPs is that they are effectively Microsoft sponsored marketing outlets. I know a few of them personally and they are great people but damn have they drunk the kool-aid.
"turtles all the way down" in other words.
Is it going to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel ?
Yeah, I have one of these on a bedside table. That said, I can’t claim I knew Tolkien himself painted it so clearly I do know little.
Been in Springfield for a year-plus now, and had my first tick bites up in Ozark and first infection from mites at my place at the edge of town. Good times.
Apologies for the hoard of links here, but I think they're necessary. There's so much disinformation and misinformation on this topic that I want to emphasize everything I'm stating is accurate and can be verified easily.

The motion you are mentioning was the Ukraine cabinet passing a resolution (in other words a statement of intent) to continue working towards an EU Association Agreement, the exact same sort they currently have with places such as Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Syria, and many other such nations. [1] That cabinet then chose to not pass any further acts that would have been necessary to move forward with said agreement. Instead it started moving towards the creation of a 3-way association agreement between Ukraine, the EU, and Russia that would help ensure trade could flow amongst all parties. [2]

That's when you started getting protests, which quickly escalated into riots and insurrection efforts. And you then also get completely bizarre scenes like this [3]. That is John McCain in the capital of Ukraine, telling protesters that America is with them and that their future is with America and Europe. Imagine if you had something comparable during January 6th from comparably high level Chinese/Russian officials. It's not only completely surreal, but also understates the issue. Because this was effectively a superpower declaring war on the current establishment of a much weaker country, which is going to endlessly embolden insurrection efforts.

As for merit, neither the protests nor insurrection were supported by the majority of the country [4], at least not until the government was overthrown at which point there were reasons for self censorship, and likely also disrupted polling as various regions began rejecting the new government and declaring their independence. And I don't believe you've considered the implications of your statement that so long as a "meaningful" percent of people participate in an insurrection, it has merit. US elections are regularly decided on near 50/50 scales. Obviously you don't support the idea of the losing party now just trying to violently overthrow the winning party. The only thing that large participation would show is the degree of radicalization among the losing party, which is certainly not a positive thing.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Association_Agr...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Ukraine...

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eyhO8VTdg

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan#Public_opinion_abou...
But all of this caution is negated by feeding cattle antibiotics as a matter of process on feedlots.
In the vast majority of fraud situations, the fraudster never sees the card because these attacks are often carried out online.
I haven't read Anna Karenina, but it really is!

Something about the relaxed and repetitive motion, doing things a little differently and without a noisy machine, and of course the imagery of Death personified, reaping Souls.

Nice username btw
Just to note that ScyllaDB Open Source sometimes is some months to a year ahead of the Enterprise release in terms of features. Though I am not sure what specific "high availability" feature poster above is referring to.

Otherwise, as you note, ScyllaDB Enterprise will be a superset of our Open Source offering.

Also to minimize lag between Open Source an feature availability, we just announced new Feature releases for Enterprise which will be coming later this year and into the future.

https://www.scylladb.com/2022/06/08/new-scylladb-enterprise-...
Particularly if you're Anish Kapoor.
I don't see what impact the aircraft being narrow-body has on travel comfort. It's all about seat pitch IMO, and that can be bad also in a wide-body.