skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a windows bigcorp, you will use Azure. It would be very painful if you don't because you will not use Azure AD and O365 will be hard to use (is it even possible without azure?) plus your AD stuff can be synced with Azure AD so you can easily manage cloud resource permissions. If most companies use aws or gcp that will be in addition to Azure.

In the long term, MS would have to try very hard to lose more money in Azure than GCP in my opinion. It's like edge being a default browser except with millions of dollars od corporate spending per company.
When I was young, we didn't have StackOverflow or Google. We had to hike through snow to access the internet at all, uphill both ways!

In those days, we would usually read the manual when we needed to dig past a surface-level understanding of how things work. The manuals are dry and dense, but they're much easier to read with modern niceties like "Ctrl+F".

IMO, this is one of the reasons that people recommend using software with a long track record. If you have a question about some parameter in a systemd service script, and the internet doesn't have a ready made answer, the details are all written down in the manual.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.service.5....

Plenty of modern tools have comprehensive detailed docs like this. Python, Go, even most widely-used JS frameworks. The primary sources are often downranked in search engines because they don't sell ads, but it's a good idea to find and bookmark them when you start working with a new technology. RTFM!
Yeah, it's still there, but they're obviously struggling. They finally replaced their horrific "partners program" (paying people to generate endless streams of meaningless question) with a bot, which actually does a much better job. (Some of its questions are gibberish, but it doesn't generate vast quantities of template questions, and some of the questions are [accidentally] quite insightful.)

They've largely given up on containing spam and harassment. Despite that there are still some interesting things, if you curate your feed vigorously.
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>> The normal way I use machines these days is that anyone with login access has some ability to become root.

> I'll bet you don't

I'll... bet they do? You realize that description most trivially matches "I give people sudo access", right?

So they say they do something
and you promptly say that you don't think they do that, because "nobody" does a more extreme version of the same idea that they never suggested? That's a classic straw man.
Elon Trump is single-handedly destroying tesla
People who are heavily pro-crypto see any reporting of bad things as bad for adoption, and since adoption is the goal, the reporting is bad.

They're willfully blind, and just like Elon, there's always somebody willing to parrot whatever they think Master wants them to say
Just to say: thank you for these games. I loved them when I was in my 20s.
Build Your Own Forth
You should look into roblox. I think a lot of the kids who want to create are doing it there or in minecraft. There are really some pretty expansive games created there.
There are very different incentives for different regulators who operate with different bodies of law and degrees of compliance.
They might be the same future though.
The problem is these "designers" bring those touch-optimised UIs to desktop. And so you end up with hamburger menus on 4k-screens, tall narrow alert dialogs on MacOS etc.
I believe the answer is that a brushing mechanism would scrape the glass, and some of the dust gets adhered due to static electricity. I've also heard speculation that diminishing returns are a significant concern when it comes to a dust removal mechanism because of the reasons above.
"Is it bad to force people to pay for a service the owner calls a 'public square' in order to be allowed to have one's voice heard about how the public square is run?"

That's your question, correct? We're still talking about Elon's Public Square Bastion of Free Speech Twitter, correct? Would you like to rephrase your question, or will, "Yes, that's actually bad" suffice?
It could also run in its own standalone environment you could redistribute. IIRC you could even export something like an EXE and bundle the flash player with the installer.
I still play games on Flashpoint. Hell, I speedrun and showcase games in Flashpoint during some regular events with my other friends playing ""real"" games. It's not the best UI, but you do have an easy search function to find content you might like.

Gotta be careful to avoid the porn games though. Flashpoint archived some.
If it's correct, then it's a wonderful approach.

If it's not correct, then HN is the place to find where's the error.

By elimination of disjunction, upvote ;)
Apple’s self-service repairs expand to desktops like iMac, Mac Studio
Yep. The answer under democracy is either to "vote harder" or to try to persuade government agents to wield the coercive powers that they have granted to themselves to your advantage.
>In public, Zhao said the new U.S. exchange – called Binance.US – was a “fully independent entity.”

While definitions can have nuance, the "fully" prefix is worthy of consideration here. That doesn't seem to lend itself to being an accurate description of a shell exchange.

If you're concerned the "fully" part didn't come from CZ:

>For instance, Binance.com is not available to US users, while there is a brand partnership with Binance.US, which is a fully independent entity that is a compliant and regulated exchange in the US, to provide US users with a safe, secure, and compliant trading platform. [1]

This is pretty clearly saying one thing then doing another.

[1]: https://www.binance.com/en/blog/from-cz/a-letter-from-our-ce...
Just wait til GPT-3 bots produce the information
The ultimate British queue...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xHwUycV6wSY
> but you will be homeless if your landlord continually loses money.

Or you will find yourself continually cycling through landlords as each one eventually gives up and sells to the next sucker. Assuming the next sucker comes along. The landlord might be stuck with the property. Real estate has been an easy sell of late, but that hasn’t been true historically.

> and increase your rent

To which you can say, "no thanks". Sure, they can kick you out[1], but with no rental income their losses will be even higher. What landlord worried about profitability wants to reduce profitability even further? The landlord is beholden to what the renter is willing to pay. The renter couldn't care less about the expenses involved in running a rental property. That doesn't factor into how much they are willing to pay at all.

[1] If your jurisdiction has liberal enough laws. Where I live it is essentially impossible to evict tenants. Even in egregious cases, like the tenant who stopped paying rent, there is currently a year+ backlog in the government signing off on the eviction.
North Korea I believe.. then all the little Pacific islands.
I think the fundamental message is very relevant to software development: question everything. It’s really easy to get so caught up in the layers of abstraction, that we forget that we’re making software for people.

A chef who painstakingly concerned himself with where he sourced his ingredients may or may not be a good chef. But the chef who concerned herself deeply with the taste of the meal would probably be a good one.

Yet, when we talk about software development, 90% of what we talk about is stack, and 10% is what we built. I’m not super successful or anything, but I imagine the founders who focus on the 10% are the better ones.
> dumping oil into the dirt

This is still illegal most places regardless of where you do your service. All auto parts stores (in California at least) let you drop off as much oil as you want for free and they dispose of it. Some Autozones will give you an empty container to transport the oil back to them (if you ask).

> releasing freon into the atmosphere

A/C systems are closed, so unless you have a leak, it shouldn’t ever make contact with the outside. Even DIY tools to “recharge” it have special one-way connector valves that connect directly to the one-way connection valve on the A/C system. We’ve come a long away in this tech.
I really don't see Clear, TSA precheck, etc. as any different from a computer security company that also is responsible for releasing viruses and exploits into the world.

The long lines at airports don't need to exist. It's security theater. They are selling a solution to a problem of their own making.

The fact that that problem is a gateway to a necessity (for many) like air travel, puts it clearly in the category of extortion. If I were in charge, Clear's business would be outright illegal.
Because humans compare themselves to others, not to an absolute standard of wealth[1]. If you work as hard as others, and they get rich and you don't, it's hard not to feel devalued - personally devalued, not just that your work isn't valued.

And then, if enough people feel devalued by society, they have a tendency to decide that the existing order is their enemy, and to act to try to bring an end to the existing order. That tends to work out very badly - especially for the dead, but also for the wealthy and for the existing order.

So the existing order had better care about wealth disparity. Even if it doesn't care for the sake less-well-off, it had better care for the sake of preserving the existing order.

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[1] But we also have far too many people that fall below any reasonable minimum absolute standard.
Ok ok. What you call cynism was supposed to be dry humour. Anyway...

To be more serious, i really wonder what the Obsidian hackers will do with Canvas, in the (semi-)open environement of Obsidian plugins, vs what mainstream pieces of software from commercial companies will offer, version after version.
I think you're raising a good point. FWIW, I don't think working on your car should be an actual crime. That's messed up.

I see this (the Sac law) as a sort of county-wide HOA rule. Sacramento is the seat of the state government, I bet there's some pressure to keep it looking nice, eh? Presumably folks voted for this law, yeah?

As I grow older I find my attitude towards HOA-type rules is changing. When I was young I could put up with a lot of chaos around me, but now that I'm pushing fifty I feel like the advantages of the stricter rules are becoming more obvious and the disadvantages less onerous.
I'm not looking at developing any solution. Rather, I am ready to choose a system that will optimize at least this basic part of the work with invoices, their formation and sending.
How to choose is another question.
For example here (https://inai.io/) in general no-code, and it turns out to be possible, but I suppose such system will be much less enable to customization)
In addition, a system must allow you easily migrate off with all the data.
Darktable 4.2 Released with JPEG-XL Support
Residential Zones are government inflicted tyranny. A basic car repair garage, a machine shop, coffee shop, barber, etc. basically cause 0 noise. The idea of zoning towns into different districts infringes on people's rights, and is also economically disastrous causing trillions in lost gdp in the US alone. Zoning needs to be abolished, or at minimum drastically relaxed to a more sane system like Japans. I have no issue with my neighbor fixing his car, or charging for it. Why would I?
once you start using that kind of app with literally anybody, you start building a mass of users that's gonna end up dragging others into that walled garden or exclude others from using it. hell, even when you just start using it alone, you begin to accumulate stuff that's gonna weigh you down, and make it harder to switch, to pick something else, and make it more likely that you're just gonna continue using this thing. and then perhaps use it for collaboration. which is gonna work just fine at first, if you happen to have apple users around. but then, whoops, somebody doesn't have an apple device. depending on value of that content and value of collaboration, it could be very, very awkward, to force someone to use it, or to bargain with someone about using it, which will probably end up at 'well, you could buy a used apple device? or something? idk'. that's...not great.

ability to let people collaborate freely and conveniently is one of the aspects of collaboration. if there's no way for someone to collaborate (such as, no app on other platforms,
so no way to collab without owning/buying an apple device), there's just no collaboration. it's anti-collaboration, even. others are specifically prohibited from collaborating, unless they clear some kind of requirement.

with closed stuff like this, you always open yourself up to a future scenario where somebody will either not be able to use it and get excluded, or get forced to use it. it's not even on the web. it's a proprietary format. it's a dead end for content. i'd be very interested to hear what kind of export this thing does, if it even can do that.

honestly, these kinds of apps and walled garden things should get shot at much sooner, without even getting the benefit of 'well it's just for personal use/for apple users - it's fine' (no it's not. soon usage spreads to other things, and sooner people become entrenched in proprietary stuff and drag others in with them), before they end up becoming a bigger problem, like imessage bubbles have, or whatever interoperability thing has. the choice that you're making by choosing things like this is 'am I comfortable with selling a $429 iPhone SE or a $329 iPad to my friend/my colleague/my family/my kid/some random person, just so they would be able to get on a thing with me'. in walled gardens, you end up not just operating as a 'user/customer', but also as a salesman for that company.
Binance and tether have long been the dirtiest players in crypto, and there have been warning signs for years.

Kindleberger likened financial frauds to underwater obstacles. When money is plentiful, the metaphorical tide is high, and the obstacles are hidden by the water so nobody sees them. But they're always there. Then, when the tide recedes (cheap money ends), the obstacles are exposed for all to see.

Binance is just going to be the last domino to fall as a result of cheap money ending.
I've read of instances of him being blunt and didn't mind it. I'm sure if I was as successful as him I'd be a bit of a prick too. The fact that he can show such humility from time to time is admirable to me. He might also just be holding himself and everyone else to an extremely high standard. I've met people like that who were just as harsh to themselves as they were to others. I like to give people the benefit of doubt.
I never said it was. But with regulation and increased focus on blatant market manipulation/fraud/speculation, the demand for it will likely decline from current levels in my opinion.

Just wait for a full government mandated audit of Tether and other "stable coins" then get back to me on this. "Stable coins" are the support mechanism for Bitcoin and the crypto market in general. And they are on less than firm ground --- again, in my opinion.

It's difficult to say anything truly definitive about the current crypto market because transparency is the exception rather than the rule. This will likely change with government regulation.
Back when the First Amendment was concieved, I imagine that they didn't have nor forsee the centralization and size of institutions and companies that we have today.

You only have to see recent occurences with well-known online personas that saying the wrong thing can get your bank account frozen, internet access restricted, and use of a multitude of services denied.

When institutions and companies get so centralized, large, and act homogenously, a "pseudo-government" capable of restricting your freedom emerges.

This idea of "First Amendment doesn't apply because not government" is IMHO an incredibly poisonous one. An idea that, by way of disclosures like the Twitter Files, we have found out the US government has exploited by using a complex web of companies and agencies to police speech on platforms like Twitter.

Institutions like Stanford policing language is effectively indistinguishable from the government doing it in a multitude of ways. Yes you don't get charged with a crime, but you will end up unable to get higher education there. What if Harvard does the same?

If you allow this seed to take, then you quickly slip down the "First They Came..." slope. First they came for schools. Then for tech platforms. Where do you think it ends? Just there?

This is essentially a long definition of the (quite polarizing and controversial) term "woke mind virus", since it spreads from company to company and institution to institution until there is nobody left, and through no "technical" violation of the First Amendment, you have effectly not got it any more.
I don't believe at all that Ukraine fought off the initial invasion alone.

In fact I think that's been categorically disproven with green berets admitting to providing on ground training extensively before the invasion and admissions of extensive intelligence support from those AWACS weren't circling the black sea for training purposes.

Even an admission that the base near Poland which was struck was the primary place western troops trained Ukrainian troops.

Likely a cohort of Ukrainian troops which were trained and equipt were already present in Ukraine likely at the instance of the US when intelligence predicted invasion within a year.

Why would Ukraine turn it down?

I'm sorry but the miracle of the Ukrainian farmers defense is a laughable fairy tale it was achieved through careful preparation and huge military losses. All driven by savvy NATO advisors.

Whether or not the Ukrainian government really believed Russia would invade is another question. Biden suggests not.
Mechanical keyboard has a dazzling, distracting display under its keys
> I don't know if there is anything as good for SVG/HTML.

There's not because the DOM isn't suited for complex animations. People manage to animate SVGs (see Greensock etc.), but it's a pain in the nether regions
Apple is years late to everything, so the marketing narrative around that is "Apple would rather do it right than do it early".

No thanks. Happy to be 'early' to mouse, kb, pen and external monitor support on Android. Just got a foldable phone that's perfectly combined my phone + tab use cases, so I can do it all on one device.
> the domain displayed in the url bar is your server, then you're fine. if you're viewing a post or user on their own server

Wait! You do know you can see the users and posts of any server (even if it is not the server you are on) on the server you have account with, right?

Like https://mastodon.social/@fosstodon@fosstodon.org shows you a fosstodon.org user on your mastodon.social instance and all you need to do is hit the follow button!

Here is the opposite. https://fosstodon.org/@Gargron@mastodon.social where you see a Mastodon.social user on fosstodon.org instance. Again you need to just hit the follow button to follow that user from fosstodon.org. As simple as that! You don't really need to find a way to log into the other server. You don't have to do any rigmarole or ugly stuff. That's how federation works!
> five years […] That ought to be more than enough for most

Why? You have not established this. The only example you gave is not valid for most content. Books and art and music frequently make the bulk of their return more than 5 or 10 years later. Why “most” and not all? Have you researched how many people make money on creative output? Personally I’m not very convinced by armchair opinions, this needs more careful reasoning.

What if draconian copyright is today right now having the intended effect of encouraging people to make new work and not remix existing content? What you’re complaining about is the inability to legally copy current work, while there is no restriction on making new things (and you get legal protection if you do!)

Maybe we should talk about what specific things you want to copy that you feel should be legal?
Yes, and something finally happened. A hell of a lot happened, actually, starting with AlphaGo and progressing to a credible Turing-test contestant only a couple of years later.

But yes, your deeper point is hard to dispute; this business has always run on punctuated equilibrium. We may be in for another 50+ years of "AI winter." I doubt it, though. It feels different this time.
Madoff Securities was an American company whose shady shenanigans were all contained within the US.

So the fact that Coinbase is entirely US based is also not a guarantee that it's not doing shady things.

And the implication DonHopkins was making is that every major actor in the crypto space is run by scam artists trying to defraud people of their money. There are no good actors.

It's not about the level of risk with regards to the structure of the company. It's about the people running it. And no manner of corporate structure is going to prevent people from simply lying. Which is what every fraud has to do at some point. By their very nature.

DonHopkins is saying since we can't trust the people running these companies, we can't trust these companies.

And the fact that they've been around for a while or are based solely in the US mean nothing when one of the largest financial scams ticked both of those boxes.
Divestment without regulations doesn't work. You dumping your polluting investments is just someone else's opportunity to pick them up for cheap and make a profit.

Voting with your wallet is noble, but pointless. Vote with your actual vote.
parent seems to have fixed it: by following the link, I got an article titled A Cardinal That's Half Male, Half Female.
I say don't regulate it and let it eat itself.
Would love to see a straw poll of what these lawmakers consider "tools not normally found in a residence". Oscilloscope? Not "normally" found in a residence (I would say <10% of households have one). Can be used to study engine timing (exactly what I'm doing at the moment to fix my ride-on). In my humble garage shop, I also have, lets see... OBD2 reader, specialty 12-point driver bits, a precision lab scale, a bunch of old Starrett metrology tools, oxymap torch, HHO gas generator, etc., are those normally found in a residence?

These "I know it when I see it" kinds of laws are terrible.
I always confuse Ted William with Tad William. The Otherland novel had a great path to immortality
...sorry, just recounting something from memory I had read a long time ago, with the original source unavailable to me right now. Maybe the original had some bias, or I misremembered or something.

Thanks for the correction.
Using Pulsar Parameter Drifts to Detect Sub-Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.09751.pdf