skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft pays quite a few people to work on Code. I assume the code is open because they gain some value from community submitting PRs and is good publicity to develop it in the open on Github.

But, make no mistake, this is not a OSS project in the true sense of the word. MS will ALWAYS be the decision maker here and will do whatever it benefits them. They pay people to work on this full time, they get to have the last word. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
how does this guy find time to support his business, sourcehut, and doing cool side projects like Hare and Helios? Does he have life? Does he code extremely fast? Has he automated everything in his life, including lawn mowing, so that he can dedicate 25h a day to coding? What's the secret?
Yeah these are topics entirely inappropriate in work place communications. This ceo isn't mature enough to understand that, therefore they are not fit to be residing over any sort of "debate".

It's also very good evidence for a Title IX violation, so, this CEO is an active liability for the company too.
Yeah, I can't say anything about Wickr, from the comments it doesn't seem like the best place indeed.

But In Brian Krebs' book he highlights the high quality of the drugs sold, and even the fact that big pharma investigated them expecting to bring people some scary stories, but they didn't find any. These pharmacies care about their customer's experience (of course they do, the want to sell you more).
Inspired by palm trees, scientists develop hurricane-resilient wind turbines
Do social networks stand a chance against infiltration? With the high turnover of moderators, it's easy to get somebody on the inside to get to know the inner workings of the moderation process.
Discovering the Potential of Probabilistic-Computers
I don't understand; are you claiming that anyone who ever takes antibiotics is putting themselves at risk of developing autoimmune conditions?
Yup:

https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276#is...
Why would you need cash on you? I can understand leaving some at home in case card networks fail, but day to day if I'm out and about I just pay with my phone.
It is not intended to harm Apple or Steinberg, the aim is to be less dependent of them by having a free and non-bloated common plugin api that has basically all the features of VST/AU/AAX/LV2 etc. All these proprietary apis can then be addressed with a bit of wrapping code when needed.

Right now, the de-facto most important standard is VST3, which is owned by Steinberg/Yamaha who can decide to revoke the license of any developer at their will. They have shown these last years that they can be really aggressive with their license. If clap takes over, then they won't have the same position of power on audio developers. This is good for the industry.

Even if there wasn't this licensing issue with VST3, none of the current plugin formats deserve to be the "default plugin format" , they are all terrible: very large codebases, bloated architectures, c++ api, unclear threading specifications... (exception: VST2 which is simple, with a c api, but Steinberg is not allowing it anymore for new developers).
That’s great to hear, I missed that update (still on 0.14).
Hopefully this means that GNOME will have the resources to finally implement image thumbnails in the file picker dialog.
It may as well be. It can do some legit hot reload, but the set of scenarios where it works is so small it’s effectively useless.
What platforms are you referring to that are broken by design?
Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe
What was the outcome of the hot reload stuff?
Traffic fatalities where up in 2020 (38,824) and 2021 (42,915) vs 2019(36,355) and 2018(36,835). Fatalities per 100 million VMT jumped more dramatically to 1.34 in 2020 vs 1.1 in 2019.

I don’t know why. It might just be random variance, but it’s possible fewer drivers on the roads meant higher speeds or something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
> IKEA has had an outsized positive impact

IKEA has been illegally logging forests in romania for decades.

The first public conpany was involved in slavery. Show me a large enough company and there will be a history of fraud, illegality and human rights abuses.
I guess he grew up in a different era and had other concerns.
If you don't have a couple of hundreds engineers who would write a custom file system for git (Microsoft), or who would take an existing source control system and nearly fully rewrite it (Facebook), or who would write a custom source control system from scratch (Google, Yandex, etc) DON'T USE MONOREPO.

Otherwise you are risking to end up in a situation when hundreds of your engineers have to spend tens of minutes every time they need to simply push their code changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

Operation will start next year.
Edge has IE mode, you can run java applets there and all the old stuff.
> every DE to behave the same where it matters.

Sure. Except the end user won't care. As end user I don't see it implements DS.

I see that KDE has bug A and Gnome has bug B. Or KDE has feature C that Gnome doesn't have, and vice versa.
All in all as user. No DE fits me because bugs and features are scattered around.

E.g. Haiku did it right. You don't get to choose. It's baked into the OS
Since you mentioned cars, Team-BHP is one place I frequent.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/

It's a car enthusiast forum from India.
> They're spending up the wazoo on Xbox

2002 - Rare - $375 million

2005 - Lionhead - ???

2014 - Mojang - $4 billion

2014 - Gears of War - ???

2018 - Compulsion - ???

2018 - inXile - ???

2018 - Obsidian - ???

2018 - Ninja Theory - ???

2018 - Playground - ???

2018 - Undead Labs - ???

Sept 2020 - Zenimax / Bethesda - $7.5 billion

January 2022 - Activision Blizzard - $69 billion

This is just acquisitions, so it isn't exhaustive as it doesn't include first party costs and development expenditure, or Halo expenses / 343, as it assumes they essentially paid nothing to Bungie (or their costs were negative) after that split happened.

Microsoft don't publish extensive separate numbers for the Xbox division, but their Q1 2022 filing nonetheless states $3.6 billion - which is up 8%. They've also been open that they still, 21 years later, make at most break-even on their hardware sales.

That's a lot of expenditure relative to income. To state the utterly obvious: they're not getting nothing for that money, so it's not like they are sunk costs, but I'm not sure what standard would meet "spending up the wazoo" if not 20 times revenue (at minimum, as it only includes spending on acquisitions for which the amount paid is made public).
Talk to the World
Maybe you'd like to talk to the world in a second. But How?

Actually, you cannot talk but you can send a message to all. With this below website address you can send a message (everything you like to send) to all users who are there. But the problem is this that your message will remove after 24 hours.

URL: http://www.noiys.com/
On that note, the Preview app on MacOS does it automatically. I recently screenshotted my terminal to show a colleague and then noticed I could also copy text from that screenshot. Really cool and really helpful.
It's so standard in web frameworks and CMSes that you must see it in action every single day without realizing it, as long as the sites are using the built-in i18n capabilities - which in almost all cases they are. And in Apache/Nginx configs that involve header-based redirections to a local language domain/subdomain, same deal.
Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
> It used to make me a good 2 - 3 weeks of near zero carbs to get into ketosis

AFAIK this is virtually impossible if done as required by keto (the carbohydrate limit is quite tight, it is violated very quickly without objective bookkeeping) and you also control protein intake. The liver's glycogen store lasts about a day, after which you need to burn fat (maybe some muscle glycogen).
As far as I know Emacs never used LSP for C# development, because OmniSharp doesn't use LSP.
I doubt we'll get better IntelliSense from this move, but OmniSharp stays available to Emacs and so does its IntelliSense.
Jack Dorsey’s new vision for a decentralized web where users own their data
I assume it would be something like, the door lock is tied to the current owner as defined by the blockchain. No need for intermediaries, and no physical key.
Yes, it is absolutely conceivable to be anon developer, except for officially publishing in the Apple/Google/MS walled gardens.

Then if you would want to accept donations or payments, anonymity is only possible with cryptocurrencies and cash-by-mail. The easiest one (anonymity wise) is Monero and the most popular one is Bitcoin.
> people who're "assembling" their own environments to work at speeds I can't ever imagine.

People who assemble cars from scratch can accomplish things from that are amazing too, but only 0 1% of the population will ever want to do that.
https://textio.com/

Informative for those seeking employment might be the list of employers listed at the bottom for one reason or another.

If words reveal your culture, why use a bot to give you suggestions? Any need to hide your culture?
The medical insurance racket has everyone hypnotized into following their financial interests.
Go to a new doctor and say the magic words "no insurance, im paying out of pocket" and suddenly a new, often times very affordable hidden cost menu appears, a menu doctors are contractually prohibited from showing you if you are insured. It's the reason the first question you're asked at the front desk is "do you have insurance."
Out-of-pocket, office visits are 150 to 300, follow ups are 40 to 75 procedures are a fraction they quote when youre insured and copaying costs, and most importantly, your doctor is free to treat you, without insurance cost restraints bending his medical judgement.
Its a whole new ballgame.
*Isaac Asimov

But alas, space fairing was much harder in practice than the sci-fi authors expected, so we surf on the web instead. On that aspect, William Gibson and Philip K Dick got it right.
Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems
Hi guys, creator of lockable here - the easiest way to think of lockable is as `flock` for when you don’t have a shared file system. You can use it to control concurrent access to resources or to ensure only a single instance of a process runs at any given time.

Your processes can acquire, refresh and release locks via simple HTTP requests, so it’s language/framework agnostic. E.g. with `curl`:

$ curl https://lockable.dev/api/acquire/my-lock-name
{
"response": true //or false, if the lock wasn’t available
}

$ curl https://lockable.dev/api/release/my-lock-name

There’s also a Python client[0], which makes using the service a more pleasant experience.

Feel free to play around, the free tier is fully functional. Happy to hear any feedback you might have.

[0]: https://docs.lockable.dev/en/latest/python-client/
This will open up cities that are further and bigger than Manchester NH (Wikipedia gives me a population of 115k).
I’m really confused how you use SQL as your query language if you are also schema-less.
This is clearly just an advertisement, and not even an informative one!
It's not that a new generation of coders don't know about the past. It's more that what Microsoft did in the 90s was a preview of how all giant tech corporations behave, and now they all do the same: build empires and ecosystems wherever possible. Pretty much everything ms did in the 90s is now standard practice. E.g defacto Browser lock in? (iOS, android...). Facebook wanting to be the whole internet, Amp, App Stores, launching os features that compete with popular third parties. Champion privacy if it gives you a market differentiator, otherwise harvest whatever info you can from everywhere etc etc

One trick MS never thought of was "use mountain of cash to buy up all the manufacturing capacity"
Anon LLC is US specific. Not available in other countries.
It is negative, but you have understand how niche the music and audio market really is to put some of my comments in context. I'm all for new and cool and all the rest of it, but the end users here--composers, musicians, producers, engineers--tend to not care so much about pioneering in what you might call the HN way.

To speak to your simple example, Native Instruments could do what you suggest, but they could have done what you suggest by adopting the cool and new VST3 standard back in 2006. This would have set them up for Cubase 5, which introduced VST Expression (3.5) to provide exactly that variance within orchestral samples on a per-note basis. So this has been possible for nearly a decade and a half, and, so far as I can tell, while most composers agree it's a neat idea, by Native Instruments controlling the sampler market (and Vienna to a degree) and not supporting VST3.5, the adoption never materialized.

Also, how many keyboards support polyphonic aftertouch? This would be the MIDI message that would need to be generated in order to perform polyphonic note-based expression. But almost no keyboards support it, and ROLI created the MPE standard to provide a workaround by splitting messages across multiple MIDI channels. Interestingly, MPE has received quite a bit of attention, but this doesn't require a new plug-in format to support it. And ROLI, the company, has been disastrous in the marketplace by adopting Silicon-Valley-esque approaches, raising capital, growing too fast with needless acquisitions, filing for bankruptcy, rising more money, and it even has a leader who thinks he can walk on water!

So if I sound old-fashioned and against new ideas, nothing could be further from the truth. But to pretend musicians would jump on disruptive innovation just isn't what has happened in the past. Maybe this time it'll work, but I don't see that industry has changed all that much. In fact, in many ways it's worse. More and more sample library creators have created their own sampler for playback, so whereas Kontakt used to power most libraries, now Spitfire, Cinesamples, 8dio, Orchestral Tools, and others, have their own engine. The phrase herding cats comes to mind.

Diversity and change is the one thing that just hasn't happened in the music and audio world. For example, Steinberg introduced Nuendo 22 years ago with the intention of it disrupting Pro Tools... However, go to Skywalker Sound, for example, or any other high-end audio facility, and they won't be running Nuendo -- at least in the US. And as for open source, listen to Paul Davis talk about Ardour... For some reason, open source music and audio software has just never become a thing. And sure, it would be cool for there to be a kind of Red Hat model adopted in the audio industry, where money could be made from supporting an open-source-based ecosystem, but I think CLAP has more chance of succeeding than this reality.
> OS X and Windows always had a hybrid architecture since the beginning

"Hybrid architecture" is a PR exercise. These are monolithic designs with a better marketing team.

Imagine if somebody tells you their new programming language has a "hybrid" numeric type. It has all the advantages of floating point numbers, yet none of the disadvantages of the integer types. Wow!

Wait, hang on, let's look a bit more closely, those are floats. They've just described floats, but used some semantic sleight of hand to claim they're a "hybrid" numeric type.
This reminds me of the Mythic Quest Season 2 episode 6 called "Backstory!"
I did that 10 years ago when they got hacked[1], later recruiters from two FAANG companies even found me without it (The first found me on Github, and another through a referral) and I worked for a couple of years at both companies.

Like you, I'd thought I had a good run without it.

More recently, I noticed that some of the people who were way junior to me earlier in my career, are way ahead of me because they were strategically switching jobs every 1-2 years. After speaking to some of them, the common factor turned out to be LinkedIn, and I begrudgingly rejoined it in January.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack
> But evolutionists rarely test these things.

> This entire idea of tail feathers (or necks) lengthening as it confers a slight reproductive advantage is nonsense.

Consider the possibility that they may test these things, but you aren't aware of all of the ongoing research supporting competing hypotheses?

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/5/1048.full

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.016

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/216/22/4310/1179...
I don't disagree, but you have to consider the fact that we seem to be ending a good two decades boom, and contractors/freelancers will be the first to go. Having a permanent contract here in the Netherlands makes it super expensive to fire someone so the lesser salaries come with a big expectation of continuity in hard times or a nice retroactive adjustment in form of a big severance payout.
You're right! I'll work on an homepage!
Months-long Covid infections could seed dangerous new variants
Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
From Severance to "sentient" AI...

What have you seen, heard or read recently that meant you had to have a lay down and contemplate existence?
I don't understand why there isn't a protocol like email, but for "social media". Something like that combined with decentralized moderation ie you pay x group to filter out trash from public feeds and use that as default. Not happy with that moderation? Pick another one.
> basically the only general purpose build systems out there that even attempt to do the basic tasks of a build system, namely actually figuring out what has changed and needs to be rebuilt.

Extraordinary claim. You will need to explain how Bazel does that and, say, CMake + Ninja don't.
Sorry to hear that you didn’t like the first sentence of my post. Do you have any opinions about the following sentences about spamming the mods of a big website?

(You can just respond “no”)
Groundbreaking treatment for HIV/AIDS developed by Israeli research team
Then you just become training data for their threat algo.
Indeed, REAPER is surprisingly prominent in video game audio.
From a user point of view, kind of like effects pedals[0], but inside your computer, and not necessarily guitar-oriented.

From the computer's point of view, a host program (probably a DAW) feeds an audio stream to a plugin, eg. 512 samples at a time, the plugin does whatever and sends back 512 samples, which the DAW may optionally route to another plugin and so on. Plugins are routed by software, instead of the 1/4" jack cables used by most hardware effects pedals.

Modern audio production often uses a lot of these effects / plugins, like dozens or hundreds across a multi-track project, then a bunch more once the tracks are mixed together. Each plugin can either affect the sound very subtly, or make it completely unrecognizable, or something in the middle.

Contains some omissions and half-truths, but that's kind of the gist of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7nj1d-P9-I
Npm didn't support lockfiles until version 5, released in 2017, Yarn had them at launch in 2016. Before that committing node_modules was often used as a form of vendoring, to get reproducible builds.

If a new project these days commits node_modules to git, it's likely a mistake, but for legacy projects started before 2017 it was the lesser of two evils.

Edit: spelling.
Scanning electron microscope, I assume.
And it's basically getting samples prepped and operating the microscope stage and image controls (focus, contrast, etc.).
Sounds like it quickly gets boring. I expect in less than one week.
And, it is fortunate that what will actually be built and operated will be dictated more by actual costs.

Any nukes built will be mothballed long before their design life is over as they utterly fail to compete; except where their much more expensive output is forced on users by politics.
> The best way to be anonymous to those agencies is to be irrelevant to them

And to make sure that everybody who has the same name as you also stays irrelevant to them... And that nobody ever uses your name as an alias and does anything "relevant" to them.

"“A senior administration official who spoke on condition he not be identified said Kennedy was stopped because the name ‘T. Kennedy’ has been used as an alias by someone on the list of terrorist suspects.” A number of media outlets carried the same version of the story.

Of course, “Ted” Kennedy’s real first name is Edward, and would appear as such on any ticket or identification documents, so why the senator’s name should set off alarms, even if a ‘T. Kennedy’ appeared on a “no fly” list, is a mystery that has not been explained.

The New York Times reports a different story: “The alias used by the suspected terrorist on the watch list was Edward Kennedy, said David Smith, a spokesman for the senator, who uses his full name, with a middle initial, of Edward M. Kennedy.”"

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/08/kenn-a21.html
Be more interesting. Ok, is it worth me writing a rebuttal to all this? Seems I struck a chord.

Edit: reading some of the comments and seeing venom and vitriol. They're the opposite of the feedback I've gotten from elsewhere.
I guess our instincts were right when we found LinkedIn features like "view who viewed your page" super weird and creepy.
Realistically it's probably also code reuse from their enterprise products(Visual Studio) which are very good at C# analysis.
Is there actually an independently confirmed useful hypersonic weapon?
It depends on what level of anonymity you want.

There are about 3 or 4 levels

1) anonymity to the public and search engines

2) anonymity to the app store platform and most of the private sector

3) anonymity to the state, banking and legal

4) anonymity to intelligence community

the business entity as I described satisfies 1) and 2).

its not really clear to me that a nominee director legally satisfies 3), AML has always required decision makers and ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) to be the ones that financial institutions have records of, and the IRS requires that the UBO report it on their tax. If your criteria for 3) does not require strict adherence to legal, then there are plenty of other things you can do as well.

and if you aren't needing to list on "App stores" or use financial institutions, then 3) isn't necessary at all
From the verdict:

Joyce has attempted it seems to me, with astonishing success to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in a penumbral zone residua of past impressions, some recent and some drawn up by association from the domain of the subconscious. He shows how each of these impressions affects the life and behavior of the character which he is describing.

I've tried, at least five times to read the book... and failed each time. Then I tried the audiobook. Gave it up. I have to face it, I'm just not up to the task.
Smashing one in a hundred babies to death with a frying pan wouldn't impair the functioning or productivity of society either. Seems like a pretty poor way to measure barbarism to me.
Written as native QT C++ Application instead of a browser based solution.

https://github.com/chatterino/chatterino2

disclaimer: I have contributed to Chatterino
> Solar historically declines in cost by 24% for each cumulative doubling of production

This only worked while panels were the lion's share of the cost of a solar installation. These days, costs of real estate, installation and grid connection far exceed the cost of panels -- and those costs go up every year with labour costs rather than coming down.