skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38014168 - Oct 2023 (139 comments)

Microsoft now demands to know why you won't use Edge when you download Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008100 - Oct 2023 (134 comments)

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461449 - Sept 2023 (449 comments)

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321002 - Aug 2023 (365 comments)

Microsoft is trying too hard with Edge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940597 - July 2023 (67 comments)

Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35787707 - May 2023 (315 comments)

Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34911233 - Feb 2023 (21 comments)

Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34886732 - Feb 2023 (364 comments)

Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29448175 - Dec 2021 (5 comments)

Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421464 - Dec 2021 (4 comments)

Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031 - Dec 2021 (422 comments)
We're still burning coal and gas for power - burning thrash is win/win in that regard. Problem with incinerators is nobody wants one in their backyard, despite safety claims.
Yes, the second amendment should apply even if you are a visitor. If a citizen just needs a license to own, then you just need a license.

I was just saying that that clause in the second amendment could be the only possible way a court could argue otherwise. Because the constitution states:

"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

So, only that clause "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," could modify that. But I don't think it does, but a lot of Supreme Court justices have a lot of ideas about the clause.

Only should voting (including running for office) and immigration should be tied to citizenship. I think we have the same ideas. A lot of people in the comments were arguing that non citizens should not have freedom of speech. That is pretty weird and unconstitutional.
There's also the Grand Shrine of Ise which has been deliberately rebuilt every twenty years for the last thousand plus years. Constantly rebuilding it was the only way to ensure that there is always a crew who knows how to rebuild it.
It basically intensified a lot more than 25% I mean.
I wrote BCMS in my original post because it saves me the most trouble. If I say "Serbo-Croatian", a lot of people bristle at that. As a foreigner, I can't say "naški". And if I name the specific variety that I learned years ago when I had to buy a textbook, people might accuse me of having political sympathies with that country. (I get a lot of grief from people about this when I am in the region: "as a foreigner, why did you choose to speak with vocabulary typical of that country and not our country?").
Having tried to write a large grant recently, can slightly comment. I attempted to work with a university, because like most grants, never available without an academic tie-in. In a pithy way, the only individual grants are mostly NEA/NEH grants about writing books about writing books (also applied for those).

The university I worked with had a 40+% overhead rate auto-included. This could not be negotiated. If you want to work with us, we add this amount to our Govt. request.

The university added a lot of extra work because of this. I basically brought them a proposal, I literally walked over to their partnership office and said "I've written a proposal I'd like to work with you on." It was mostly written, and said I think "some number" would be reasonable. They said, we don't apply without 40+% overhead, rewrite the whole grant so it works with our overhead and faculty tie-in requirements. I said that seems very large, and then none of the other numbers work. They said, write with 40+%.

The eventual result was that the university wanted me to work as a sub-contractor being paid less than a different contractor they were going to hire as a specialist, so I could have the pleasure of partnering with them.

Also, it needs to be completed a month before the deadline, because then all our internals need to churn over the money numbers (and predictably came back a check mark). I was glad it lost.
I'm gonna assume you mean appeal to authority. As someone who has had a leg inside academia, it is shocking how frequently peer review lets absolutely methodologically horrifying studies through the cracks. Peer review is little more than a rubber stamp that enables others to be less skeptical of the contents.

The true stamp of proof in science was always intended to be replicability, but that is extremely rare to find.
> ... but microsoft will let you have a 100GB mailbox with 'unlimited archive' on their service and you'll never lose anything or suffer a slowdown.

Seems unlikely that will actually be the case if even plain emails are being silently dropped without notice just by have a certain url in them.

Much better to have it on premises, and actually get notified when emails are mysteriously dropped.
My dad used to be a full time professor of aerospace engineering. He liked the research, and he didn't mind teaching, but he quit after a few years because he absolutely hated having to play "salesman" all the time. He found himself seeing everyone as "potential funding", and he personally found it kind of hard to turn that mentality off.

He went back to industry after that, which has its share of legitimate problems, but at least they don't typically expect their engineers to also be sales people.

Also universities pay shit.
Nah, boot time is irrelevant. If the boot time does matter one would use other measures. Like failover, redundancy, or k8s (though I don't have experience w/that as of yet).

I've had various consumer grade (but branded) USB sticks running Raspberry Pi OS, EdgeOS and Proxmox fail on me to the point where I use an USB to NVMe or USB to SATA. Why? I've tried industrial grade aMLC/MLC/SLC flash and performance is worse, and cost is high. For example, for Proxmox or EdgeOS you need at least 4 GB storage. They've never failed me but SATA or NVMe have high MTBF. On Raspberry Pis I've opted for log2ram on consumer grade (but branded) microSD with great effect. Another option is not log at all, or use e.g. rsyslog.
I am permanently banned from X while I did nothing wrong, so thats going to be a bit of a problem. Right, Elon?
When you hit the 'return' key in the app, it inserts a newline character. This design choice was implemented to facilitate the input of lengthy text.
All down except for Uruguay. I wrote a quick R script.

library(tidyverse)

CRAN_mirrors <- read.csv("~/R/R-4.3.1/doc/CRAN_mirrors.csv")

repos_up <- function(url_str) {
host_str <- urltools::url_parse(url_str)$domain
resp <- system(paste("host", host_str), wait = T , intern = T)[1]
!str_detect(resp, "NXDOMAIN")
}

# CRAN_mirrors <- CRAN_mirrors |>
# mutate(UP_10.27.23 = repos_up(URL))

for(e in nrow(CRAN_mirrors)) {
CRAN_mirrors$UP_10.27.23[e] <- repos_up(CRAN_mirrors$URL[e])
}

write.csv(CRAN_mirrors, "CRAN_mirror_status.csv")
You can also look at Romans 1:26-27 (see a modern translation, as we've discussed in parallel comments).
There is a patent, the formula is not secret. Someone needs to pay for the work to get it approved by the FDA.
Neko! Write, now edit later:

$ cat > file
You can't edit anything.
So you have to think.
Can you explain what "open-source Snowflake" means, since you don't explain it in this description, in the repo, or on the site?

Is your goal explicitly to replicate all Snowflake capabilities? https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/intro-supported-fea...
Similar problems with protein powder:

https://www.consumerreports.org/dietary-supplements/heavy-me...
Do you distill your own alcohol as well?

I wonder if those who say they're "honestly confused" why someone would let someone else do undifferentiated heavy lifting for them are not really confused.
Fish also have selenium which counters the mercury effect.

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FS437

Eat a lot of fish like the Japanese, you might even become less violent for some reason :)
You can explain it 1000 different ways, Boomers will never admit it
The Atlantic was A/B testing headlines back in 2015 when I worked there. I don't know why they would have stopped. It's SOP at larger sites.
That was GP's point - that things are much better for engineers than people in academia (and perhaps science).
Wagtail ModelAdmin is kind of a separate beast. It sits alongside the admin. It's not exactly a replacement, but is more of an end-user tool, whereas the Django admin is more of a developer tool. For managing more complicated models such as those with foreign keys, exporting a list of objects to Excel, etc. it can be a bit easier to use for the average office worker.
This varies greatly between writers. I've self published two scifi novels, and I found I wrote faster when I didn't edit as I went (even when subsequent editing was factored in), but fast isn't always what you're going for. And I don't personally need (or want) tools to push me not to edit.

But where editing really kills you are for those who get stuck in "endless" polishing of the smallest little details before they have anything, and as a result never get anywhere. Then having tools to push you past that can be useful.
Code dependency at mirror sites on r-project.org?
I don't know if it does. It's the original from here: https://googone.com/original

I imagine there are variations in other places, I think it's mostly concentated citrus oils from oranges.
Well at least this year was more exciting then last one
> lot of people there drive insanely big pickup trucks

Depends on the region. By just solely concentrating on drivers in urban areas like the Bay Area, LA-SD Metro, Mid-Atlantic, and Chicagoland you can make a large enough dent to impact emissions.

Most of these metropolitan areas are a good fit for electric cars, and in some of these (Bay Area and DMV) around 20-30% of the cars I'd see are Teslas alone.

In general, a road trip within the US won't be a representative slice of the US as most of the population is concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic (Boston, NYC, DC), California (LA, SD, Sacramento, Bay Area), Chicagoland, and Texas (Austin, DFW, Houston).
You can certainly span two or more machines with provisos that you must not enable WAL mode and there can be only one writer.

I have never really examined how this performs, and it would be best if all access was explicitly via SQLITE3_OPEN_READONLY.
The Dublin Declaration
Pākiki is a māori verb meaning to probe: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?keywords=pakiki

The macron (āēīōū) lengthens the vowel sound (Latin has this too) otherwise pronounce the vowels the same as Spanish. Lengthened vowels are harder for most American speakers to get right: https://youtu.be/tPi2jtU7Tl4?t=6m23 Vowel length matters in New Zealand (e.g. pronunciation of can't causes problems).

Perhaps could be added to the docs?
I built this Notion tool for myself, then turned it into SaaS. Honest Feedback?
One more: My employer (gigantic corporation) mandates Microsoft. Edge is the default browser. We cannot change it. The browser option is grayed out, we are not allowed extensions, nor do we have access to the Registry.

Firefox is still allowed for the moment. We have to manually copy and paste links into it from emails, etc.
Okay. Not sure if you're trolling. I did make some effort to get the details right, about as much as you did when you referred to a "2008 missile strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen while Bush was in office"; that's about as much research as I'd expect for an aside-comment on HN posted from mobile where the date and place of the attack are not really the point of the comment, but rather the point was that a wedding got blown up in a drone strike, leading to a lot of aggrieved civilians. This discussion is grounded in truth as much as it needs to be, and now I've followed up by providing citations for seven civilian wedding parties that were blown up by US missile strikes aiming for terrorists. In some cases, there were terrorists hiding in the area, in some cases, it was bad intel, in some cases, they just apparently mistook a convoy of vehicles in a remote area as being terrorists.

Obviously in no case were US military commanders evilly rubbing their hands together and looking for innocent brides and grooms to blow up. Perhaps it was a lack of due diligence, or blind faith in unreliable sources. Perhaps it was trigger-happiness. Perhaps it was the fog of war. Perhaps it was a sense of guilt by association. Perhaps a few false positives were deemed to meet somebody's threshold of acceptability. Perhaps it was an understanding that there would be little reporting and no major reputational consequences. Perhaps it was an understanding that principles like "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" do not apply to non-citizens in poor, far off lands.

If I were the bride or groom, I don't think any of this would matter greatly. I'd still be pretty mad at the people who launched the missile, and it's very likely that this would propagate the cycle of violence. As far as the civilian casualties go, every innocent human life is an apple, and they all count the same, regardless of how guilty their neighbors or cousins or government are. They all feel the same outrage, pain, and grievance when their 13-year-old kid is killed in an explosion, whether it's a car bombing or an air strike or a mass shooting or an improvised rocket. It takes near-superhuman levelheadedness to shrug and say "well I guess I'll forgive them for killing my children, since they meant well". That was my point. Nowhere did I say "Israel and Hamas have exactly the same moral standing" or "The USA is just as bad as the Taliban" or something like that. If you're developing a feeling that anyone disagreeing with you is a supporter of Hamas or an enemy of Israel, it's probably time to put down the keyboard and go for a walk.
Yes, exactly. Our natural environment is similar, but our monetary and economic policies support different priorities.
"Just causes issues" is discounting what humans are good at and discounts the idea that AI technology in cars could complement humans. Rather, that point of view I think is most useful if you are trying to get to 100% AI cars so that you can sell more roadways and more cars. Peak-hype sir, peak hype.

I'm reminded of the promises from those 1950s propaganda videos for building more highways. That reality turned into the gridlock of LA freeways. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrqUHF5bH8
- "1950s INTERSTATE HIGHWAY PROMO FILM BY AMERICAN ROAD BUILDINGS ASSOCIATION 78014 MD"
This is argument is at the center of much of the administrative bloat. It is the same if we consider the arguments around UBI, free public transport etc.

Essentially we have created huge administrative bodies to check that nobody is taking advantage of the system, without any cost benefit analysis. We often now spend similar amounts on checking as we are on running the system itself. Maybe we should just acknowledge that some people will always take advantage of the system, and that's just the cost of "doing business".
Is that true for Bing? Do most Windows users the default Edge and leave default search on Bing?
The Sincere Quest (Audio)
Two part to this,

Is sre a bubble thing.

I never got why SRE existed.(SRE has been my title...) The job responsibilities, care about monitoring, logging, performance, metrics of applications are all things a qualified developer should be doing. Offloading caring about operating the software someone writes to someone else just seems illogical to me. Put the swes on call. If swes think the best way to do something is manual, have them do it them selves, then fire them for being terrible engineers. All these tedious interviews and a SWE doesn't know how the computer they are programing works? Its insane. All that schooling and things like how does the OS work, which is part of an undergrad curriculum, gets offloaded to a career and title mostly made up of self taught sysadmin people? Every good swe Ive known, knew how the os, computer, network works.

> if SRE will be around 10 years from now,

Other tasks that SRE typically does now, generalized automation, provide dev tools and improve dev experience, is being moved to "platform" and teams with those names. I expect it to change significantly.
Hi there! Co-founder of Caido (https://caido.io) here.

Glad to see more competition in the space, we also went the route of using an API (built in Rust). We decided to focus only on a web UI in vue.js I will look how you are storing data and all, we went the sqlite way to save on RAM.

Looks like we are both going after Burp, it's not going to be an easy ride for sure. What we found is it is very hard to make people in enterprise switch and the 100$/y pricing really isn't enough to build a serious business without enterprise clients at a higher price point.

Anyway, best of luck!
Exactly.

A more charitable way of putting it is, you can make a pretty presentation when you know the data that you are trying to present and the story you are trying to tell. I can't imagine a 3 column pricing table that wasn't done in bootstrap (Venture Capital UI)

Traders look at screens searching for meaning across a bunch of different data. They are trying to construct a story and as much context as possible is important.

The problem comes when VC UI is applied to a Trader problem where you want to see as much information as possible to understand, but there is padding, rounded corners and other stuff forcing you to scroll.
Well, mostly-kinda-sorta. ;) It's the internal password vault, and there's only one of them, so it's more like "they broke it on purpose and then had to fix it before the company went off the rails." Among the things kept in that vault are credentials that if they age out or aren't regularly refreshed, key internal infrastructure starts grinding to a halt.

But still, "it broke while engineers were staring at it and trying to break it" is a better scenario than "it broke surprisingly while engineers were trying to do something else."
Dated doesn't mean bad. It's just an aesthetic. A dated 1970s kitchen cooks food just as well as a modern one, albeit with a few more fire hazards ;)
Zod
Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)
“ And yes, on the surface this incentivizes people to create better content. ”

What now? This is where the terms clickbait come from. Content gets more rage inducing to get more clicks thus more money while real journalism disappears behind paywalls.
I don't bill separately for the compute vs storage the way bigtable does. The pricing per GB of data is inclusive of compute. The goal is for pricing to be modeled similarly to DynamoDB - just pay for what you use. The other way I charge is by query wall time - so a 30s query will cost you more than a 500ms one.

I haven't used bigtable but it seems like the minimum charge is on the order of $300 before you have any data. With ScratchDB, the minimum charge is $10 for 30 GB.

Additionally, on average, data has a 25% compression ratio. So if your 1 TB of data only takes up 250GB, you only pay for that.

Bigtable isn't OLAP, so you would not use them for the same data. This competes more directly with GCP's BigQuery.

Finally, I'm interested in pricing feedback! The goal is to be able to sustain the development of this, so I want to do what makes sense.
For family and friends fine.

When you have 30,000 users worldwide is it daunting.
Regardless of your opinion on Musk, I can assure you owning your own hardware is worth it.

I still don't think the dot-com boom craze of owning your entire datacenter is a good investment, unless you rent out your excess space and fill it to the top.

Colocation is, however, dirt cheap compared to cloud bills.
At this point what Apple is ahead with is hype that M Macs are that fast, and the developers targeting them because things just work. Plenty of people should be able to run these models locally but there's close to no nice software that does that out of the box for Windows or Linux
oh my bad. I'll turn the spam filter off for your address. let me know if there's anything else I can do and be sure to rate this interaction 5 stars.

I actually do think this is an ATP issue. I've had a few premier cases for it and the guys manning the desk at microsoft dont know how to deal with it. We always have to get a japanese speaker to raise the case in that langauge because the JP support guys are way better than the english.
> Have you considered automating the rinsing with a small water pump and Arduino? Or you've considered and the tradeoffs aren't worth it?

This would rate high on the pointless-tech-o-meter.

Right now I happen to have some beans soaking. Overnight they'll absorb up to ~2x their dry weight in water. If I were to pour remaining water out & just rinse 1..3 times/day, they would sprout in a few days.

This is the nice thing about buying dry legumes & soaking vs. canned: if I change my mind & eat something else tomorrow, 'worst' case those beans would sprout rather than just soak, changing their nutritional profile somewhat. Possibly for the better.

No need to bring in water pumps or (ugh) electronics into any of this.
I wouldn't see it that way. When the telephone came out, there was a burst of, "Well, that's it for people visiting each other in person!"

I didn't read this as him saying, "We won't learn new languages," but rather, "We won't be forced to, and learning a new language is a wonderful thing. In our gain, let's not lose sight of what we're losing."
Of course it's evil. What I'm saying is if you are going to be evil, at least put some thought behind it.
Thank you.

You also reminded me that I never heard back from any of the misconduct investigations I started against the various officers. I will FOIA now and update. There was one incident where I was walking out of jail and two officers from another jurisdiction, operating outside of their legal authority, cuffed me up, without any arrest warrant and put me in jail and I was held for over three years on that one alone. I want to see what the reports on that one say. I also filed one against the sheriff as I found an old law which says it is a crime if the sheriff does not provide detainees with three hot meals a day, and yet we only got one a day. It is literally a crime. But how do you report a police officer committing a crime? It is practically impossible, especially when he is the guy in charge.

Edit: Law is here https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2004&C... "The Warden of the jail shall furnish each prisoner daily with as much clean water as may be necessary for drink and personal cleanliness, and serve him three times a day with wholesome food, well cooked and in sufficient quantity."
A bit of both ? it messes with lipids, either your own lipid layer on the skin where dirt/microbes will lie, or actual cell membranes (also lipids).

Covid news claimed loud that soap will disrupt virus membranes, killing it.
IMO there is nothing to wonder as it is part of everything in life. Brilliant candidates not getting job, brilliant students not getting thru school/college admissions, brilliant players not getting into school/college/professional teams of choice and so on.

Having always a suitable opportunity for someone's skillset is impossible.