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Ask HN: A Windows 7 system isn't updating automatically. How can I force it to?
I've had to revert to an older laptop (yay, SV vehicle break-ins) running Windows 7.

I had expected it to download a lot of updates (the big recent security updates triggered multiple gigabyte updates on a recent-manufacture Windows 10 laptop), but ... nothing.

My Installed Updates page shows NO updates in the past 16 months. I've used this machine on the Internet at least a few times a month in that span.

I've tried triggering updates manually using Control Panel-> Windows Update -> Check for Updates, but all I get is a moving "Checking for updates" progress bar... with no visible progress and no indication of downloads.

The final indignity is that clicking on "Updates: Frequently Asked Questions" gives me only the "Windows Media Player DRM: frequently asked questions" popup. Urgh.

What next to try?
I only did TOPS-10. It was interesting to read about it, in the context of a world view which went (considerably) further.

36 bit was my dawn. I'm still slightly freaked we had such variances in word and byte size. things you can do in sixbit chars.. why DEC went there. And the whole UUO thing. Mind. Blown.
I think that's a case of chronic pain seeming less bad than acute pain. Cleaning dishes one by one is probably the least time efficient method. It's just never enough at one time for you to notice.

With a relatively new dishwasher you can put your dishes in completely dirty with no rinsing. They're a solid time savings for sure.
Allegro, SDL2, SFML, et al. do more things (audio, joystick support, keyboard/mouse events) across platforms. Skia does one thing really well, 2D graphics.

There is a ticket open for building an abstraction layer @ https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/139

In terms of Aseprite:

> > But what made it the choice over Allegro 5, SFML, and SDL2?

> through all these years I reached to the conclusion that you need full control of mouse and keyboard messages (and all window messages in particular, e.g. to give proper support to pen/stylus). [1]

[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/139#issuecomment...
Could genetic engineering take us back to living cars?
Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]
Because we're talking about how end-of-line is marked in a file, not in a terminal. DOS specifies the end-of-line in a file as CR/LF.
>"Thus, in America today, there are no broad, genuine, or accessible civilizing mechanisms left. As a simple example, America’s best universities churn out…hedge-fund traders. It’s economy is largely composed of…paper gains to the .01%. It’s media debates…climate change. And so on."

At least we know how to distinguish "it's" from "its"...

But seriously, the whole piece is silly. Our society embraces diversity of thought, that's part of its design. Yet this guy interprets that diversity as a failing. I guess he fails to grasp one aspect of the American experiment; to construct a nation where people can live in freedom even when that freedom inevitably makes things uncomfortable from time to time.

He points to the disagreements and extremists and claims these are somehow the harbingers of America's end.

He clearly hasn't studied American history. We've been arguing since our founding. We've debated everything there is to debate. We suffered a civil war and have nearly torn ourselves apart many times throughout our history.

America is a tremendously diverse nation so we are bound to argue with each other since we bring so many different perspectives to the table. Just because we are more aware of these debates now, just because they are most visible and visceral, doesn't mean they are a new development.

Our companies are some of the most powerful and innovative in the world, and our universities are the best in the world. We have produced and continue to produce fundamental breakthroughs in science and technology.

The American experiment is not over, regardless of how much this guy wishes it was.
You're correct, mammals have systems to convert energy in to heat without movement and regulate this very effectively.

This isn't a distinguishing characteristic of mammals though - all birds and a few fish can regulate their body temperature. The distinguishing feature of mammals is the mammary gland - the production of milk for young.
You said you "had" c. diff. How did you get rid of it?
Intel AMT flaw allows credential bypass
Expected a bunch of nmap commands, got `echo 8.8.8.8`.
Just wait until you start interviewing at even crazier companies than FB/Google that would like you to tell them 20 ML algorithms, 20 computer vision algorithms, compare expected results of non-linear optimizations applied to some weird Deep Learning problem and analytically justify it (why is it worse/better than SGD on this loss function?), then off to some deep domain knowledge, conjure graph algorithms on the spot on problems you've never seen before, all in 1.5h, expecting Stanford/MIT PhD-level answers.
https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw...

I've heard that's how these are used, never tried it myself.
https://stackexchange.com/
Pu 238 doesn’t undergo spontaneous fission. It’s an alpha emitter.
Where are you getting 12% appreciation from? Paragon (https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/san-francisco-home-prices-m...) shows it at 7% for houses and 5% for condos. That's ~6% after property taxes (assuming recently set cost basis) or $90k/year. Maintenance, HOA fees (if any) further drop this return. (Besides future appreciation isn't something you can bank on..)

A $1.5M home should rent for at least $4.2k (P/R ratio of 30). That's $50k a year, smaller than the appreciation of $90k but still very significant. The only reason I see to not at least hire a rental management company to do the renting for you is if you are subject to rent control and fear not being able to evict the tenant/raise their rents.
The equivalent word for mare is kobyła in Polish. It's unrelated to kobieta.
Don’t care! It’s the golden age of tvs! Oleds are a technology that’s actually living up to the hype. I have an lg wallpaper tv and you can roll it up! The new ones look even more flexible. One even rolls up into a box.

Robots will catch up. The future of TVs is now!
> Nor does any med school offer "How to ace the USMLE".

Some medical schools will use NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) subject exams as final exams for various third year clinical rotations. Through a combination of experience on the rotation and studying material from textbooks and review books, the exams serve as good preparation for the USMLE step 2 exam since the test style is largely similar.
My experience with Airbnb is that they overlook some nasty, inappropriate behavior that hosts exhibit in favor of profit. Companies like Airbnb and Uber aren't self-regulating at all.
What credentialing mechanisms? As we’re told over and over a CS degree is not a trade qualification. Having a CS degree is no guarantee of being able to program either. The example of Microsoft and Cisco qualifications is not stellar either. They’re often seen as a negative signal. And most working programmers don’t have a relevant credential unless you count a Bachelor’s degree which is more a certificate of middle class membership than necessary to work as a programmer.
The packet explosion in multicast had me thinking some upper layer call is being made, which the stack interprets to mean "keep going" in ways which then bomb the link layer out of existence. Its not TCP/IP I agree. I mis-characterized that. But I think the essential quality is the same: this heads to a single, or small number of people. Google chooses modes of operation which isolates those people from the feedback channels. I have had experience of this: go into a room, present on observed behaviour of a google service, zero outcome. Go into another room, repeat, the guy who can fix it walks to the microphone and says "thanks, I fixed that"

There is no strong git, or feedback-driven path which determines success or failure notifying google about code problems. Some work, some which used to work don't work now, some which didn't work then work now. Its unstable. Its unpredictable.

(for example, feedback inside bug reporting channels for Android, where the most common response from google staff is "this is the wrong channel to provide that feedback" including things which are bugs)
Of course your anecdotes are true, individual Mormons can be the nicest, most well-meaning people ever, and Mormonism does indeed have a reputation for being a wacky but harmless religion.

However, Utah has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the nation, and one of the highest rates of anti-depressant medication use in the nation. This is in large part due to the unrealistic expectations and pressure its members are subject to.

Sure, they're not as overtly harmful as similar high-demand cults like FLDS or Scientology, but try joining and then not paying 10% of your gross income to the church and see how that works out.

Look... If you want a different perspective, just start reading people's stories here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/
Low cost of living (reducing required salaries). Good airport, which was one of the requirements. Address to Canada if you wanted to have an extra office with employees America won't let in. Michigan has high quality stem grads.

It's definitely a worthwhile city that meets most of Amazon's needs.
It's a fitness test. Are you going to bring me value, or are you on the verge of burnout with outdated skills, trying to live off your past? "What did you do for me today?" is what matters for company to stay afloat and brutal competition is the way to achieve it. What kind of society it creates is another question.
> So your claim that binary software is untrustable falls short in the practical world.

Where the hell do you think I made that claim?

> So file an issue.

Are you just trying to ignore everything I say? I responded to a claim that shell installers would be written correctly, with evidence that a fairly sizeable company doesn't get it right.

Your response to that is that it doesn't matter.

> You think it's more likely they will notice the missing 's' in the click-to-download-the-installer scenario than in the paste-a-command-into-the-shell scenario? I find that hard to believe.

A giant green bar is a little bit more than a single letter.

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You really don't seem interested in a conversation about the shortcomings that exist. You seem interested only picking holes and saying that you are correct.

I have no interest in responding to that kind of conversation.
How do you emit alpha particles without a nuclear process?
Is this that common of an issue? I find it hard to believe that someone buying a property to maximize their returns (an investor) fails to increase their returns by renting.

(Though I could see people buying vacation homes, status homes, etc. doing this)
3) Make food for me in my kitchen.
What does the number of publications have to do with anything? One paper can change an entire field, while another hundred could be just filler non-sense to get a PhD with.
Our industry also has quite a lot of self-taught professionals, who can perform as well as their college educated counterparts, which is something you won't really get in professions like Law or Medicine. I think that's a good thing, when it comes to software.
I'd be interested to understand two things:

1) How has the average price for similar priced airbnb offerings changed pre and post regulations

2) How do vacancy rates for airbnb offerings in SF change following the purge?

I can see trends in both directions. Would be an interesting empirical analysis of how supply changes outcomes.
It’s a nuclear reaction. It just isn’t fission.
Has anyone found a good way to troubleshoot and confirm these suspicions? This aligns with our experiences as well since adding more Chromecast devices and Google Home devices.
Indeed. If it was illegal to work as a programmer without a Master’s degree in Computer Science with a GPA above 3.0 the interview process would not look like the current one.
Titanium is nicely biocompatible. Tungsten can be poisonous. https://patient.info/doctor/tungsten-poisoning
For anyone with any kind of reasonable background suggesting they can do the job, the alternative is simple: just give them the job on a probationary basis. Give 5 people the job, tell them one will keep it after a 3 month contract period. Choose the ones you want to keep.
Also you don't need peak power all the time, you just need more than your average power draw combined with a battery big enough to smooth out the gaps. I'd think the biggest problem would be your phone being dangerously hot all the time.
it's not IOT.
Well that sucks. Guess I'm behind in the news. Wow, that's a lot of nukes... 60??
On the other hand, according to the US census, as of 2016 the number of households with 7 or more family members is 1.27% while the number of households with 1 family member is 28.13%. If we take into account the households with 3 or fewer family members we are talking over 75% of the US.

I think it is completely reasonable not to consider your circumstance when giving general advice. The vast majority of people can choose a much simpler solution because they have much simpler problems. It's interesting to hear what people in your situation need to do, but I wouldn't expect many people to relate because they have no such experience.
Which means it's also used in most Fuchsia projects.
Tragically "the US" now means "Donald Trump" specifically regarding their propensity/ability to retaliate to a nuclear strike. Yeah, I think he'd do it. He's a maniac.
Actually, 51% of miners can't cause a hard fork (which TheDAO was).
Indeed, I'm looking at my copy of "The C Program Language", second edition (ANSI C). Page 241: A text stream is a sequence of lines; each line has zero or more characters and is terminated by a \n. [\n was defined earlier as ASCII 10 and designated either as NL or LF.] An environment may need to convert a text stream to or from some other representation (such as mapping '\n' to a carriage return and linefeed)"
In a tub you might get to see some Cherenkov radiation up close. Would be a nice silver lining to radiation exposure. :)
Not sure why this has been downvoted. It may have been lyrically written but the point is sound. The guy with his finger on your button is a fucking madman.
I shudder to think what the next crash is gonna look like.
http://tuneofthetimes.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-dream-of-jetson...

Wrote about this exactly several years ago, nothing has changed really
The drying cabinet is actually a Finnish invention [1] (although apparently preceded by a US patent that never took off). It was popular in Scandinavia for a while, and you still come across homes from the 50-60s that have them, but they're no longer popular now that most people have automatic dishwashers. My family has a mountain cabin in Norway, built in the 1950s with no dishwasher, that have these, and they're very handy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_drying_cabinet
Can someone ELI5 what the flaw was and what is possible using this flaw?
Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
I’d be grateful to see some sort of build log from a successful run with this frankenbuilder and try making a traditional BSD Makefile.
You know some people have to wear uniforms, right?

You know some people have occupations where you get really dirty, right?

You know some people have to "dress to impress" for work, right?

Not everyone can move to "simple" clothes so easily, including most people who are employed.
They declared the practice “over” twice. Once in 1890, and again in 1904.

Many Mormons entered into polygamous marriages after 1890. Over 200 polygamous marriages were performed between 1890 and 1904.
Not quite in the way it is in this industry.

What is unusual is that we essentially ask people to set aside and forget everything they know about how to do their jobs, and instead perform a separate set of skills which, since they are't used on the job, must be carefully re-acquired whenever it's time to go interview.

No other industry I'm aware of does that.
1.33/.51/.292 is about 8.9km. You're spreading the ocean over the surface of the entire earth instead of just the continents. Average ocean depth is 12,000 feet, and there's less land than ocean, so the answer must be greater than 12,000 feet.
With a family of 7 you're likely to have at least 1 or 2 kids old enough to be your robot for pocket money.
Big Data Analysis Using PySpark
Chicago has hard a hard time enforcing its ordinance: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20171218/CRED03/17...

Hopefully SF's measure has more teeth.
Not an appliance, but there are a bunch of "valet storage" services like this. In NYC there's MakeSpace, which takes photos of your stuff that you can use to request delivery, should you need a particular item. They photograph and deliver the whole box, though, as far as I remember, not individual items.
> a state level actor cannot just stop the contract from being executed simply by putting pressure on a third party.

They just haven't gotten around to it yet. The decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies increases the number of entities that need to be pressured, but doesn't make state-level actors completely powerless.
I just paid program with people on the actual work we have that day. The only way to game that is to become great at what you'd do once you got the job.
Looks like a nice project. For my own (web development) kind of projects I love to diagram infrastructure, Classes, etc.

But, I do nearly all my work on Linux -- which is a pity because I'd love to try out a tool like Vexlio.

For now I guess I'll continue to stick with yEd, because it actually works everywhere (java works).
Best practices and tips on Jupyter Notebooks
Recent HN thread on display flickering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16087871
I think the miner can cheat in step 3. After you submit your private key as a transaction, the miner can delay it to be included in the blockchain for arbitrary time. During which, the miner can use your private key to decrypt your answer submit in step 2. And resubmit their version of the answer.
I no longer read the NYT, Washington Post, Fox, CNN, etc.

Reuters is my main source of financial and world news, and it's mostly for productive reasons. On Twitter I try to follow people who are knowledgeable in their domain, and I frequently get exposure to current events through them. Bonus points to follow two experts in the same domain who think differently, and see what they say about the same thing. For random political stuff, I like Snopes and factcheck.org.

Overall, I care much less about the news than I used to. There are many societal issues that interest me but I have learned that keeping up with minute to minute noise is a waste of time. I can read in-depth things that describe broad trends and useful facts, and prefer that to my old addiction to the news. It's not just to avoid getting influenced by biased stuff, but to avoid wasting time.
I am also having issues with chromecast and WiFi, weird slowdowns that never happened in the past. Casting pandora to the audio’s and mini’s always has problems. The phone will eventually start playing different songs than the cast, and at this point you are unable to control or reconnect to the cast. Like others I assumed this was a app issue.
And yet every hiring manager on here can tell you stories of hiring someone who passed all the screens, but on the job could not write a single line of competent code. The industry provides too much cover to fake it with a title that sounds technical but isn't. You might hire a musician based on hours of discussion of their deep knowlege of violin theory, but it would still be a mistake without hearing them play.
The zoning and building regulations usually restrict supply side of the equation.
Buying property as a foreign investor is mostly an attempt to store your money in a pretty stable product.

If you were to let renters use that property and they don't take care of it properly, you'd have lost a lot of money. It's often just not worth the effort for these people.
My point is that synthetic versus natural is not a particularly useful line to draw here. If someone had figured out how to get tons of this stuff from bacteria, we’d be in the exact same situation.
None of my devices have guest mode turned on so I'm unsure. But, I definitely feel like these symptoms have been on our network.
I agree with your comment.

But the reason why people are discussing the subject, and for that article to be published now in 2018, is not the past. The reason is Russians have recreated much of that past. KGB rule, human rights issues, military aggression towards neighbor countries, cold war rhetorics and propaganda, state sponsored terrorism, it’s all right now in the present.

And it looks like the world either doesn’t care, or doesn’t know what to do about that. Both options are kinda scary.
Java 9 / Jigsaw should make small self-contained executables possible. Startup time could be an issue, though.
This comment reeks of elitism. In my experience, new grads from top American universities are incredibly intelligent, but their community college and trade school counterparts score much higher on job preparedness, an incredibly marketable and bankable skill. As someone with a top American university degree, I’d have loved a course in job preparedness, and have learned a ton from coworkers who have succeeded as Software Engineers and also attended community colleges and trade schools.
California’s last nuclear plant to close after unanimous vote by regulators
Credentialing isn't even the beginning: no one trusts other software companies, either, apparently. An engineer at Google will face a battery of asinine CS trivia when he interviews at FAAN, just the same as he faced interviewing at G. Hell, he might even face similar interviews if he applied at non-FAANG companies.
so it's safe to say there won't be an updated edition due for release any time soon =)
How does that work in practice? Is it basically just asking everyone to run a distcc node, or there something more to it?
OK, I agree with the sentiment. SDL2 is probably the closest to doing the right things, but even then you're on your own with the stylus APIs mostly.

So far, the only library I've used that can properly abstract graphics tablets across platforms is Qt, and in the past it has been sometimes rough around the edges with support for it. I think on Windows it is still using the Wintab32 API and not the newer Windows 8 Ink APIs, for example.
Holy shit, supply and demand is still a thing!

Last year I was in Seattle and all I heard was complaints about all of the highrises going up as if that was what was causing the high rents. headdesk
Oh me either, but then I just have Apple TV and iPhone.
Well, they wouldn't have been literally impossible. Anything that can be done with swap can be done by writing the data to disk and then reading it back. That's all swap is doing.
I think you'll find this relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTRxRO5SRA
I recently bought an apartment after having rented a place with these drawer dishwashers.

I considered it a non-negotiable to never live with them again if given the choice. The small ones just aren't practical if you cook. Put on some rice, boil some veggies, fry up some meat, and suddenly you're already out of room. You've not done cutlery, breakfast, lunch or desert. And god help you if you cook anything more complicated than that...