skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The canonical way to say this inside Google would be closer to "I created the Flutter project and launched it externally" instead of "founded"
Bing Ads is big business. Digital marketing is enormous. Google and Facebook have larger portions of the pie, but a sliver of a huge pie is still a lot of pie.
I’m currently a civil servant of Norway. They seem to have it figured out. Haha. But yeah I get you.
Let me know your thoughts and how it could be improved.
There are a lot of services that just repackage and resell Bing! DuckDuckGo being probably the most successful example.

Which, to OP's point, is a testament to the particular style of business that Ballmer was good at - building enterprise and partner channels.
Microsoft says Google running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe
> Much like Gary Bernhardt's talk, which was panned because he made the problem statement and solution so obvious that people didn't realize they'd learned something non-trivial

I really want to see this video, but I cannot find it anywhere. I checked https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcGKfGEEONaDvuLDFFKRf... but I believe Gary asks that his videos not be shown (which I am fine with). I also checked https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks but I do not see it there either.

Should I be looking somewhere else?
You're very much describing the powershell -> .Net -> C# path so would be curious to hear your take there. There's also the mad lad support rust in .net https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr/
Recall Recall??
Not yet, I will work to add this soon.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975278
The only thing missing from the article was to say that Ballmer loved Linux and open source but that he was misunderstood lol. Ballmer was a fucking despot and a piece of shit. That article is an ode to the disgusting despotism that Microsoft had.
Multilingual keyboard input is such a mess haha. I need to type a lot of Chinese using pinyin and still haven't found a reasonably polished implementation on Wayland (Sway) that works on both Xwayland and true Wayland applications. So I reverted to i3 with ibus.
I don't think Ballmer was underrated as CEO personally (windows phone lol) but goddamn he's the platonic ideal of a hype guy. The amount of energy and enthusiasm emanating from him is always incredible. I'd at least say theres a good chance he was instrumental in Microsoft being as successful as it was.
The main Flutter GitHub repo does have infrastructure to run PR against all Google internal tests (which as you say, does find real bugs). https://imgur.com/a/Ih2oQIS

disclaimer: my team runs said infrastructure
This isn't due to "heavy regulation", it's due to the free market.

Insurance companies have an incentive to make medical care as awful and inefficient as possible. There's a tug-of-war here: doctors want to provide the highest quality care as fast as possible; insurance companies want to provide the least amount of care as rarely as possible.

Well... they're the ones paying.

These doctors are struggling to deal with "regulations" - they're struggling to deal with insurance. The sheer administrative overhead of medical insurance is staggering. You can go ask doctors, any of them will tell you.
Bottlenecking on logging is a common problem. Classically, Linux assumed it has a serial console device. It can still be enabled at kernel compile time.[1] Apparently, this mass of AWS instances, VMs, and Docker images works that way.

I liked the QNX approach, where the kernel sends log messages to another process, loaded on boot. When you build a boot image, you provide a logger process to read those messages. There's no expectation in embedded that there's a console available. If your system is a pump or an auto dashboard, you need to send the messages somewhere other than a "console". There might not even be a file system. In QNX, messaging is a primitive on top of which file systems and networking are built.

When I had to do logging in real time, each process used a library which did "logprintf" calls. Those went into a circular buffer which was written to a log file from another thread. If the circular buffer filled, "..." would appear in the log, and log messages would be lost, but the real-time thread would not block.

Interaction between real-time and non-real-time is always tough. It comes up a lot in networked game development.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/serial-co...
WaPo doesn't claim to be independent anyways. They've been endorsing candidates since 76.
Same culture at Azure: "Azure’s Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control" - https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures_vulnerabilities_ar...
Saying that there are only 2 candidates that matter is political advocacy!
Bill Gates: can jump over an office chair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI

Steve Ballmer: developers developers developers developers developers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

Two of my favorite videos haha
> €200 for 128GB as an aftermarket upgrade

I'd love that, seems like a fantastic deal. I assume it's DDR4, though? Which makes it an even more apples to oranges comparison.

However if we're being fair Dell seems to be charging about 50% less (and Lenovo 75% at least for some models) for soldered LPDDR5X upgrades than Apple and Lunar Lake seems to have comparable bandwidth
The problem with Ballmer is that he missed a lot of opportunities.

Satya is much better in that regard.
I remember, long time ago in 1990, when apple switched to brown boxes for environmental reasons.
This guy never left the US.
> One part of the plan to kill Google was to redirect users who typed google.com into their address bar to MSN search.

Crazy they were ever considering this.
It’s funny how all the comments here are falling in the trap described in the beginning of the article of disliking Ballmer because he comes from the sales side and they can’t fathom someone not coming from the tech side leading a tech company.

What’s undeniable in the article is that Ballmer literally built what remains Microsoft best asset even before being a CEO there: it’s incredibly good relationship with its corporate customers. Honestly, it’s really what sets Microsoft apart for me. When you do deal with them as a corporate customer, you really get the feeling that they understand the way things work in a big corp IT department and will be reliable and predictable.
Well, these ML compilers are pretty simple, actually :)
If one would like to subscribe to a national paper owned by a billionaire who supposedly only interferes with editorial and not reporting, the Wall Street Journal is cheaper.
> Maintainers reading this might say, "oh, great, not only are people going to open up spurious issues and feel entitled to my time, but you're asking them to be a peanut gallery trying to hold me accountable to democratic mechanisms. What a pain in the ass." This is a solid objection which I do not have a good response to.

As someone who's interested in community dynamics like these, I think pure drive-by democracy wouldn't work (I dislike bikeshedding [1]), but a system where people who've contributed either money or quantifiable effort over a recent period of time in exchange for voting rights to elect administrators might.

"A recent period of time" is important, as communities don't really appreciate some old founder-type who's not active in a project anymore trying to use their clout to feed their ego.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
He's underrated in the sense that a lot of CEOs of his era completely destroyed their companies, see Intel, GE, GM, Yahoo, etc and he didn't. So that's already a win, he set up the company in a decent position so that when someone with more vision takes over they'll have something to work with, even if he didn't have the talent to pull things off himself. He had a couple of wins (Azure, Office 365) along with many many losses, and they're good enough to secure him a 6/10 on my ratings.
Hagiography?
Shitty men have never had to contend with an alliance of empowered women and the ~30% of men who aren't susceptible to a cultish victim mentality.
Linux desktop is full of such jank. Fortunately, thanks to contributors like OP, the jank is gradually getting fixed. The whole point of Wayland is to eliminate a whole class of jank (screen tearing) that was essentially unfixable with X.
Twenty years buys you a lot of fresh tech. I thought the bunks looked particularly space-y (versus the ISS soft pods).

I was hoping they would show their toilet!
Gamepass and the lack of first party exclusives both seem like moves to kill the console in the long term, but as of now it's still a serious competitor to playstation and switch no?
Yeah the latest and greatest radars (Raytheon AN/SPY-6) is using GaN instead of GaAs (like the older AN/SPY-1 did) too

Really cool stuff
Still Bill Gates: "Bill Gates never left - Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft" - https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-still-pulling-str...
I'll first say that is a very pretty device that I would be glad to introduce to my workspace.

This might be outside the scope of your work, but I'm considering going more extreme with ergonomics. What if the keyboard was split and mounted on my chair arms? What possibilities are there with a keyboard on a free-floating arm, whether it's full-sized or several smaller ones? I like that you use the word "familiar", I'm not looking to reinvent how keyboards work, I just want to rethink where I hold my arms.

A concurrent project, I'm working on finding a chair that fits my specific dimensions. I'm too tall for the average chair and have been searching for solutions. Currently, I use a $40 Coleman camping chair that lets me sit at a 135-degree angle with my laptop on my lap and a portable monitor to the side. However, it offers very little support for my head and shoulders, so I'm looking for a chair that can adjust from 90 to 135 degrees and support my frame.
American Airlines lands its longest-ever nonstop flight 8,300 miles, 16 hours
http://www.gnumeric.org

I still use it, it seems a little stagnant in development nowadays. No ssl on the website etc.

The free software distros really lost something going all in on open/libre office which is just not nearly as good as a replacement for excel. I think if it was still the free software goto, installed by default first choice etc there would be more development. The feature list and quality is impressive and has been for many years.
That is a gem!
> I strongly suspect that most people moving to suburbs are doing so for their career

Doubtful. Moving somewhere for a career is fairly abnormal. There is good reason why job search places always lead with: "Location". The vast majority of the population choose where the want to live first – in fact, the majority of the population still live within a small radius of where they were born! – and then figure out what they want to do for work.

Yeah, there is a small segment of the population who will chase work at the cost of where they live. Let's say this is who ends up in the suburbs. Perhaps that's the problem? As in they end up being comprised of people focused on their career, and thus don't prioritize community? Perhaps want isolation is too strong, but how about doesn't care about isolation?

> We're proposing more ability to build denser suburbs (i.e. some multifamily housing in suburban areas), mixed-use zoning (so you can walk to stores), and better public transit in suburbs.

Does that actually appeal to the people of the suburbs, or are you projecting? Presumably these people are constituents of a democratic government, and therefore can already have anything their collective hearts desire. Why isn’t this already the reality?

> Anyone claiming this is bad is just being disingenuous IMO.

Are you unfamiliar with what a conspiracy theory is...? Regardless, it resonates precisely because a lot of people don't want to live in cities. If the listener was all "Hell, ya! Get me out of this hellhole into the dense city!" it wouldn't garner any attention at all, but that's not the reality.
Great news, thanks for the amazing turnaround time!
Discussion (1097 points, 3 days ago, 305 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949098

Related iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine (320 points, 1 year ago, 304 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239

.. this Vice article really seems to misunderstand what happened here (this wasn't for McDonald's benefit)
...how?

I get that it correlates with intelligence, but with math, specifically?
Is the implication that we need big, strong men to do big, strong man work? Because that era already has one foot out the door.
Mostly agree, but curious about the claim that Bing is profitable: how does that account for being the default search engine in the windows start menu and microsoft edge?
Odd, it opens for me. It's a PDF though.

It's a pie chart by the Oregon Department of Forestry. I'll give the top few causes here:

26% Lightning
22% Equipment Use
20% Debris Burning
12% Recreation
11% Miscellaneous
4% Smoking
3% Arson

As to your question, Oregon has just over half the population of Washington (4.2M vs 7.8M) but almost 50% more land area (96k sqmi vs 66.5k sqmi), leading to Washington having close to 3x the population density of Oregon (44 vs 118 people/sqmi). California has more than twice the population density of Oregon.

This feels sufficient to account for the discrepancy.
> but they don't fit in.

You seem to say this like it's a bad thing?
I’ve used Linux for the last twenty five years, both as my daily driver personal desktop and as an admin.

My point is that if you want to chase privacy absolutism, a shack in the woods is where you inevitably end up. If you accept that people want to use consumer-focused goods and services that come with some privacy cost—as basically fucking everyone but a minute rounding error does—there are alternatives that are better than others. And so it’s absolutely worth comparing those alternatives.

If you want to run Tails on RISC V, route all your traffic through Tor, and conduct all your transactions with Monero then more power to you.
Am I talking to a bot or are you just trolling? Ask for a better script.

Greater Romania wasn't an empire, this word would make any Romanian laugh. It was a just a bunch of regions inhabited by Romanians for hundreds (more like thousands) of years, that finally managed to unite under the same flag. WW1 destroyed the empires to which the regions belong, so they were free to unite. Sort of like the original United States of America if you wish.

If you're looking for an empire look at Russia which was and still is literally the GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME. No one's greater than Russia.
"To sum it up, for the past twenty years, people having been dunking on Ballmer for being a buffoon who doesn't understand tech and who was, at best, some kind of bean counter who knew how to keep the lights on but didn't know how to foster innovation and caused Microsoft to fall behind in every important market."

It's important to keep the lights on while waiting for the next new development to take off. I think it's an undervalued skill.
The creator said it is production ready, and that it will never be "officially" part of diesel as diesel only supports a sync interface. Nevertheless, diesel_async is fully fine to use, he mentions.
How to win Equalized/Worst positions?
So, what kind of foods are you farming?

> Every industry that can be converted from "everybody weighs in because it's sort of a social issue" to "mostly only people with a horse in the race weigh in" is a huge plus for humanity.

Not if that horse is just wanting to use money to make more money, consequences for humans be damned. Everything can be viewed as that, or as a "complex systems", and then the people who like abstract musings about complex systems can weigh in, and you're free to do that -- but to 99% of all living humans and 99.999% of all who historically lived that is both monstrous and uninteresting. At least that would be my "bet" -- so if your claim is that it would be "better for humanity" (not even "better for HN" where you might have a point) for only experts or capitalists or people who like machines more than vulgar, average people to weigh in, as I said, I'm very confident "humanity" would soundly disagree, and would be correct in doing so.
No it's not, but so far the Brazilians are still sticking with the incorrect ~1908 way of writing it.

Standard Japanese pronunciation for "jutsu" does not contain an i, and it's also judo not "jiu-do" that the old system would have called for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu#Etymology
There is no status code for captcha failures, so I don't think using 418 for that is "misuse".

By design, our API routes which utilize a challenge should not be consumed by others either, so even if using 418 somehow broke someone's attempted usage, that sounds like a feature not a bug.
It's more about explaining why something happened, not so useful at predicting
Needing to take a vehicle that’s not my feet wasn’t true when I lived in Berlin or Tokyo. It definitely wasn’t true in smaller cities I’ve lived in like Oslo, Brest, or Utrecht. Needing a car was only ever true when I lived in Austin and atlanta. And I’m talking about going out to bars, hanging out with friends, going places, like yeah maybe I needed the train occasionally but really the train is a room you hang out in for ten minutes while you magically transport somewhere else. It’s not like driving a car. You don’t have to think about it.

Edit: ok I take that back we always used a car to drive ten minutes to tryvann ski mountain in Oslo but that’s because we have jobs and the bus takes like 40 minutes.
Ahhh, so flying private is actually helping the environment. All of those celebs and billionaires are so selfless!

/s
Have they said there isn’t a mechanism for individually keying connectors? There might be something optional, even if it’s just blanking pins.
I don't want to pile on here, because Neil did do some good in popularizing science. He did not really manage to make it cool, but he did become a popular mainstream figure that the public was now allowed to associate with a mental image of a science nerd ( a big step given that previous media iterations were invariably a caricature straight from revenge of the nerds ).

The problem.. as it often tends to be in instances such as this.. is that he did become a faux celebrity with all the benefits and drawbacks it brings. Unlike another celebrity in that realm however ( Hawking ), he did not manage to get the same level of recognition.
Rosy retrospection?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
Agreed. He was the "put windows everywhere" guy because he forgot that Microsoft and Windows weren't the same thing and thus he failed Microsoft AND Windows.

Microsoft is a software company, they sell software (and now software services). Steve thought that because their main product was Windows, that Windows was the only product that mattered and everything else had to depend on being run on Windows. Office sells very well on Macs. Office in the browser is really improving every year. XBox 360 was a huge hit while not really running "Windows" at all, just a related kernel and DirectX APIs; it wasn't even x86!

Steve made MS a Windows First company, and the entire company stagnated for years. He may have been a great number two to BillG but that doesn't mean he was suited to being CEO. Being the XO is a very different job from being the Captain, and a lot of times they take two very different types of people.
GaN has been getting HUGE in the audio realm, less so in western companies but in Asia in the PA realm its been the go-to for a few years now.
Admarks AD442(4x4200w @8ohm) and AD60(2x6000w @ 8ohm) are a great example.

1U, Compact and more power than you can poke a stick at and fairly reliable. Also their pricing dumps on the offerings in the west (Both well under $2000 AUD). Just be warned you want MINIMUM 240v 15A or 32A single phase power circuits for these and probably run them at 1/4 or 1/8th rated output for ultra low THD.
I think she was bitten by the weird state of modern academia and I just generally angry. I suppose she is right though - no new physics in recent memory. Some experimental evidence for things like the Higgs, but nothing experimentally verified that replaces or extends the standard model
Agreed, I think a lot of people do not appreciate the complexity of software systems. If we could prove software, we wouldn't have bugs. https://wiki.c2.com/?ProofsCantProveTheAbsenceOfBugs
Cisco Launches 360 Partner Program with New Certifications and More
You're namedropping the hot new card, but every card before it was also the hot new card when it was released. It reminds me of the NEVER OBSOLETE sticker e-machines put on their unbelievably fast 500Mhz Pentium PCs.

These cards will inevitably become worse than worthless when the increased running costs of older-generation hardware exceed the cost of buying next-generation hardware. At some point it won't make sense to use more electricity, more cooling, more rack space to run a hospice for old cards, when the same workload can be done easier, quicker, and cheaper on newer hardware, even after adding the cost of buying the new hardware.

The Xeons that used to cost $4000 can now be found on eBay for 1% of their original sticker price, because they're so unprofitable to run.
Yah, it's not the distance of the houses that matter (well, it does, but it's not the whole story), it's the distance between amenities. Like I said, the actual town I grew up in was terrible. It's 30-45 minutes to get anywhere and most things are stand alone. There's a shopping mall kind of development (Walmart, chain restaurants, etc.) on one side of town, but to get to most of the housing you have to drive 30 minutes. The nearest coffee shop is in another development at least 45 minutes away from both of those places, etc.

Meanwhile, the other nearby town I mentioned has plenty of outlying farms that are pretty far away, but when they do go into town to go to the grocery or whatever they can also walk into the coffee shop, or the little stores or whatever and have chance encounters with their in-town neighbors. Even among the farm areas there's a coffee shop / pub that everyone goes to at the end of the day. There's even a dance hall that used to be a one room school house and now gets re-purposed for monthly dances. You don't get that in the suburb I live in now where having anything like that in a residential or agricultural area is forbidden by the zoning code.

Similarly, back before cars sure you didn't pop into town as regularly, but everyone knew when events were happening and when you did go into town for something everyone was there and things were relatively close together and easy to get to (once you were there already, I mean).
In which region? It's basically irrelevant outside the US.
You're gonna love it or hate it, no in between?
> The solution is a modern progressive movement for men

Do you have thoughts on what this should/could look like?
I think this is a facet of human memory - eg thinking childhood was better than it was because the bad/boring parts aren’t memorable. I also get this with anxious/stressful periods of time, which are overwhelmingly bad at the time but very quickly forgotten.
Is he? What did he start? Most of MS current successes were launched under Ballmer most notably Azure.

Satya has been good with acquisitions but what else?
That level of keying would be done at the harness/electrical engineer level. You shouldn't put two same plug ends at one termination site.

You really couldn't control it at plug or part level.
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