skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could fuse go func() that often call each other back to back, if someone was to model interpreter execution with go funcs.
Dear Microsoft,

As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, your horrifically misguided attempts to "improve" Windows since Windows 10 have so degraded the experience of using it that I am now only 2 reasons[0] away from switching anyway, so at least I don't have to pay for the privilege of using crappy software.

I would ask you kindly to cease your endeavors to kill off the Windows Desktop and personal computing in general, but having dealt with you I know that it is your policy to ignore user feedback.

[0] 1. I hate package managers as an application installation paradigm, and 2. GPU drivers still perform worse for my card, if you must know.
> and uninteresting facts about the appearance of the scientist, like: 'Meis is a big man, almost a foot taller than me, broad-shouldered and bullet-headed with an exuberant laugh. Eyeing the boxes, though, he looks solemn.'

I'd seriously like to know how many of today's journalists were at one point creative writing majors, as it seems like every year we get more articles with this kind of narrative fluff.

Just look at the first paragraph:

> The glass-walled landscaping center on the road south of Nijmegen looks like a gardener’s dream of heaven. My fingers tingle as I thread my way through stands of soaring bamboo, drifts of asters, and lanes of rhododendrons, tempted to grab a trowel and forget what I’m here for.

It was a dark and stormy night...

So much "in depth" journalism today starts out with this kind of storytelling, and I'm sure that this is rationalized as a way of "grabbing the reader's attention", but I'm not sure it's doing the actual content of the story a service. It might grab the attention of casual readers, but somehow I doubt that people actually curious about science really want to sift through a bunch of words that basically say nothing.
Well, I really should read the article you cite because it looks interesting, but take this example:
There are three candidates: Republican, Democrat, and Green. 60% of the population wants the Green candidate to win, but will settle for the Democrat reluctantly. They absolutely, positively do not want the Republican to win. 40% of the population wants the Republican to win but under no circumstance wants the Green candidate to win.

So with Instant Runoff elections, the majority gets their wish. The Green Candidate wins.

With Approval Voting, 60% of the people vote the Green Party Candidate, 40% of the people vote for the Republican Party Candidate, and 100% of the people vote for the Democratic Candidate. The Democratic candidate wins.

I don't see how this is a win for Approval Voting. The candidate that wins is a candidate that no one really wanted.

Well, clearly my example is rather contrived, but I suspect (perhaps out of ignorance) that any situation in which Instant Runoff would cause counter-intuitive results is also rather unlikely.

I'll definitely have to look at your reference, though. I do find such issues very interesting
I don't know about trade, but kilo standards were deviating by tens of micrograms from eachother, some things are sold at prices which warrant accounting for those micrograms, so a completely stable international definition seems helpful.

Certain types of scientific instrument will need to be recalibrated to meet the new definitions.
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Don’t be a juggins – why some words deserve to fall out of use
A huge part of this is the general perversion of science. It starts at the bottom with the abuse of p-hacking by lowly grad students. It goes all the way to the top with fraudulent for-profit science by Big Pharma to get drugs and medical devices approved that don't work. All of it is part of the academic-medical industrial complex that views science not as process for discovering truth, but as a tool that can be used to generate profit.

There are enormous breakthroughs that I know are very close, but simply inconceivable due to the academic-medical establishment that has stranglehold on science.
Great recommendation, going to buy it.

From what I’ve read on it, seems to take a Zen-like approach, which I appreciate.
An IMSI catcher is not a hacked femtocell. It basically just tracks nearby cell phones. A hacked femtocell, which is what you're thinking of, could do this.
Not that surprising considering it's a free icon https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/bookshelf_167708
If the data collection is “anom-user-123456789 launched the built in email-client 20 times and sent 30 mails”, I suspect that’s not exactly HIPPA or ITAR-regulated data.
Germany’s plan for AI might divide Europe
What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."
thanks, I think I can get a few pointers from this
> Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users

I feel like this sentence is phrased maliciously. The adjective "personal" is applied to the more generic term data, rather than the more specific term behavior.

By placing the adjective on data, it encourages the reader to imagine the worst possible scenario. By simply moving the adjective you can more accurately describe what Microsoft is doing and avoid allowing the reader's imagination to run wild.

> Microsoft collects and stores data about the personal behavior of individual users

You could also remove the adjective entirely because the term individual has the same implication. This makes it sound even more innocuous.

> Microsoft collects and stores data about the behavior of individual users
Ubuntu not only came (or still comes?) with an Amazon app right on the launcher, but also offered Amazon product suggestions when you were using the search function.
4-5 hours a night according to Donald Trump.
_Apple doesn't support either_

Huh? Apple's two-factor auth is weird, but I easily use TOTP everywhere I can using e.g. 1pw…
The 6502 is just such a chip.
That Reddit post was made after this HN submission hit the top.
The Doubleclicks write a song about the IPK, the international prototype kilogram, and how it must feel about this.

https://youtu.be/VHd4HPmz5aE
Sounds niche, but that could make it even more useful - will check it out!
Has a "metric" version of time ever been proposed? Seems odd to me that we're "ok" with divisions of 12 for time but not length.

I guess for science seconds are basically the only measure of time that usually matters?
I don’t think many people outside of the tech industry know that Ubuntu is a Debian-based operating system.

Edit: Changed Debian-based to Debian-derived
As others have noted, knowing the count of entities (note: not atoms, entities - i.e. it can also be molecules) in relation to actual mass is very useful for the physical sciences - at a molecular level the quantities of molecules and atoms interacting matter, not their masses - but mass is the unit I do experiments with.

EDIT: A simple example would be if you were trying to make water - H2O, from hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). The molar ratio is 2:1 - but in doing a practical synthesis, that doesn't tell me how much mass/volume of gases to actually mix up. Avogadro's number and molar mass is what I need to turn those into practical units to work with.
It's a weird thing, because JIRA can end up having so many fields and so much enforced process that it feels like there's a lot of overhead associated with creating and closing tickets, and you always know that those actions are potentially feeding into and messing up someone's reporting somewhere.

So you end up talking on Slack about an issue someone's noticed, and then trying to decide whether it's "worth" the bother of creating a ticket for, or if someone's aware of a ticket already for it, or or or.
Well, everyone thank Satya Nadella, it's a miracle we were able to draw the line somewhere! /s

I'm sorry, this snark is not really directed at you, but how exactly are they determining your interests if they're not reading your e-mails? Where does that data come from? I'd be happy to take back my /s if someone can tell me it was all voluntarily collected, but I suspect the answer is really "they just found a different way to spy on you other than reading your email."
I'm not sure I'd agree with that. For instance, I think the Nashville deal is fantastic for my city/state. we are getting 20% of the jobs (5k vs 25k) for "only" about 100 million compared to several billion from NY and VA. It will easily make that back in benefits to the local economy and increased tax revenues.
Patching Is Failing as a Security Paradigm
Before Suneung, there were equally, if not more, grueling college entrance exams. I think the point the commentor is trying to make is that this type of education has been the fuel for Korea's social and economic rise.
Is there any compelling reason why the US should switch to the metric system for daily use?

Metric is already used universally in science and engineering, which seem to be the main fields in which consistency across countries matters. I completely agree that in physics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, etc., it is important to use standard units. But what harm is it doing in practice if in everyday life, Americans say things like "I weigh 180 lbs" instead of 81 kg?

The argument that the metric system makes unit conversions easier (e.g., the fact that it's immediately obvious how many meters are in 20 km, but not how many feet are in 12 miles) is true, but not very compelling to me. I virtually never find myself wanting to do these conversions in a non-scientific or non-engineering context, and on the very rare occasions where I need to, I can always look them up on Google.

A good comparison is degrees Celsius, which are just as arbitrary/unscientific (the standard metric unit is the Kelvin). Somehow people around the world get along fine using Celsius.
Weird, either you need to get a better adblocker, or they don't show that in EU.
Simplistically: two moles of protons+two moles of neutrons do not weight the same as a mole of nuclei of He-4, as far as I know.
My parents live in rural America, and the internet connection is not good. It's manageable for email and browsing, but even the school has problems with chromebooks and their bad internet connection.

Plus... if you're fleeing Windows because of the advertising, you're gonna go to a google product? How on earth does that help?
Ask HN: How's the tech scene in San Diego?
Errr... that's not really what I'm looking for, my last paragraph was a bit inaccurate. But seems cool nonetheless.
Don’t get too excited.

> But while the new report may lift concerns about an early death, it still links insomnia with illnesses such as dementia and depression, reports The Times.
I am pleasantly surprised that communist atrocities are actually published in the New York Times. It is so important not to forget and whitewash history.
How would you determine the difference between anomalous data as a result of the simulation and anomalous data as an indication that your model of physics is simply incomplete?

After all, you don't have data from a real reality to compare to.
I read the uk address and was afraid they had voted to leave the metric system, as some sort of Brexit associated madness.
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I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings.

All this trouble so I can play modern PC games... Next system upgrade cycle I think I'll be moving to linux.
“But while the new report may lift concerns about an early death, it still links insomnia with illnesses such as dementia and depression...”
The Elementary linux desktop [1] tries to get its users to pay.

[1]: https://elementary.io
Fortunately they stopped doing that. It was definitely a problem with the first two-ish feature updates for Windows 10 however.
Thinking from the perspective of Joe Shmo, you're correct. However, biometrics are being pushed on enterprise security and other higher-value targets.
Old-school games (and they can be recent: Factorio is an "old-school" game despite being made somewhat recently) are about depth of gameplay as opposed to breadth of gameplay.

A game made by a huge team is certainly an accomplishment. Take Final Fantasy X, XIII, or XV for instance. There's a huge world to "explore" (linear, but its still a huge world) with many characters, well voiced lines and a huge variety of enemies to face. But its very "wide". There's so much to do, but all of it feels shallow.

Now compare it to recent "retro" games like Factorio, or Minecraft... or the truly early games like Missile Command, Centipede, Tetris.

These games have an incredibly small core. In the case of the earliest arcade games, you never stop doing the same loop (Ex: Tetris: its 7-types of falling blocks and nothing more).

Its harder to make these kinds of "deep but simple" games today. See the "Threes and 2048" controversy for example. 2048 became the more popular version, even if the primary game loop was invented by the Threes developer.

Breadth however, can only be replicated by AAA-studios. And don't get me wrong: breadth of gameplay is perfectly fine. I enjoy Final Fantasy XIII and other AAA-titles (Witcher 3, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption...). But major studios focus on breadth instead of depth: breadth is what their audience wants and only AAA-studios can deliver it.

Indies don't usually have huge hopes to hit it big: there are exceptions like Flappy Bird, Minecraft and Factorio. But for the most part, Indies aren't going to make much money. And in the case of Flappy Bird, the "designer" more or less took the concepts of the Flash Helicopter games, ported it to iOS and put a Mario-like pixel art skin on it. Flappy Bird, despite being a commercial success, is arguably everything wrong with the indie market today. Lets be frank: Flappy Bird is just that generic Newgrounds "Helicopter" game that has a billion clones, except Flappy Bird has Mario-look-a-like graphics.

I mean, its a good gameplay loop. But the core design was certainly not made by the Flappy Bird author.

Also: don't get me wrong. There's a lot of depth in AAA games sometimes. Rockstar games has the "deepest" crowd effects and ragdoll physics. The way NPCs in Grand Theft Auto run from gunfire, or grasp at their wounds, or limp after you've hit them... its actually fun to play with the ragdoll effects in GTA5. In my experience, most people play GTA5 as a glorified dollhouse game... trying to launch cars off of ramps into the city or something. There's something fun about what Rockstar Games has done with its crowd-AI and crowd-physics.

Nonetheless, GTA5's marketing primarily focuses on the story mode. The many hours of gameplay and such.
> GPU drivers still perform worse for my card

Which GPU?
> This is a pervasive logical fallacy, we call the "expressiveness fallacy"

I don't particularly like to argue over semantics, but this is not a "logical fallacy". It may be some sort of fallacy, but it's not a logical one.
fwiw, i think all of the amazon concessions are tied to the number of jobs specifically. at least that was true for the Nashville office which I've followed more closely. i.e. to get all the breaks they have to create all the jobs.
I remember that more than 15 years ago it was a pain to set up thunderbird to be closed in the systray and display a notification when new mail arrived. It wasn't a core feature and you had to mess around with extensions or binaries that would just check out your mail and launch thunderbird (but couldn't open the mail mentioned in the notificatin).

15 years later and 3 major windows iterations later and we still don't have it.
The real question is how many boxes will the fulfilment center place the kg in. If Amazon is anything to go by my money is on 3
> I don't think it's fair that you're getting down votes here without replies.

Why, thank you!

> Currently there are over 30,000 gun deaths in the US every year.

Interesting stat. I'll look into this more and see where the rabbit hole leads me. But as I gather so far, the data supports my claims more than yours. Case in point from Wikipedia:

In 2012, 64% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides.

This again points to mental health issues more than guns being the problem. These obviously unwell individuals would have found other ways to exit a world they no longer could bear being in. Sad affair but true. So unless the mental health is addressed, if your goal was to prevent deaths, you would not solve much by taking guns away.

> It is incredibly unlikely that the US government would morph into a murderously tyrannical regime.

Funny that you say that because these same words echo what I heard a holocaust survivor said in a WWII documentary I was watching less than a week ago. The Jews did not think that nazi Germans would ever do what they did to them. They kept saying that Hitler was a passing fad and that in no time (3-4 yrs), he'd be out of power and normalcy would resume. I'd like to think that at the rate with which polarization is happening today, it isn't unfathomable that a murderous regime COULD take power. Even if they weren't murderous, there are other ways to exercise tyranny making death seem a more befitting (or may be even noble) endeavor as opposed to living on one's knees, so to speak.

It never seems dangerous at first. I'd posit that that's why we get insured; we assume that things can be calamitous even when there's little evidence to suggest the same.

That's the difference between my view point and yours. I have a theory on how this ties in to why most preppers are right leaning as opposed to left leaning i.e. perception of risk but I won't get into that right now. The point is, even if there's a small chance of that occurring, because the downside of not being ready is so huge, we must pull all stops to remain safe.

> opposing any restrictions on ownership whatsoever seems an untenable position to me.

I'm glad you see it that way, but a non-trivial number of anti-gun proponents don't see it that way and instead want guns taken away from the bulk of current owners if not all(civilians that is).
Personally, I don't find any of your revised phrases to be less disconcerting at a gut level. "Personal data", "personal behavior", etc is all the same to me.
Metric had time from the start. However it was work 4 days, 1 day weekend. However the loss of personal time was very unpopular so it never caught on.

I'm not sure why a metric hour didn't catch on.
I wonder if they made this because they're struggling to get enough high quality AI startups coming their way. A decade ago you wouldn't really see VCs do this kind of stuff.
The situation with Italian futurism is not so simple.

Most of the futurist ideas on the positivity of the war are from before WWI. After the war, when fascism started to rise, the "second futurism" came to life, a new generation of futurists (although some "old" artists were still futurists, like Depero), much less involved in politics: https://h2g2.com/entry/A723764

They were still promoting technology and speed and the future, but the experience of WWI did change the overall attitude.
I didn't really argue about the engine being monolithic or not though, i argued that, in your own words:

> they won't invest properly in updating it for modern times

This is very different from "moving away" from their old engine and isn't just a matter of language precision: one requires rewriting everything from scratch in a multiyear project that is a big undertaking on its own (with results that are very likely to not be as stable and bug free as people would imagine) that practically no company with an existing codebase does anymore (especially at the stage and size of Bethesda), whereas the other requires fixing a few subsystems that are already there and a tiny fraction of their existing codebase that can be done as part of their updates between games. It is certainly a much smaller change than the renderer updates they've done so far.

About the Steam hardware survey, every PC gamer has Steam installed (there might be a few who do not, but they either only play one or two games, like Battlefield or somesuch, so they do not really matter as far as PC audience comes, or they are so few that they are statistically insignificant - for all intents and purposes Steam has a monopoly on the market and both developers and publishers use every single statistic it provides as pretty much The Truth). With that in mind, PC buyers for Fallout 76 - or any other AAA game - are inside this audience, either as a whole or as a subset, so this 2 million is actually the best case. In practice it is most likely lower because not every single one of those 2m gamers would be interested in Fallout 76 (it isn't like having an ultrawide monitor is some sort of requirement to like the game :-P).
Netflix is going down the same route. They are not interrupting continuous playback yet but they are already promoting their Originals with autoplay ads (sometimes even with sound) in some clients. Luckily their clients' range of functions is horribly inconsistent, so I can still chose different clients to avoid this.
Be careful with those scripts/software. Many of them essentially break Windows 10 by design.

If you stay within the Settings UI then you are working within Windows 10's supported design. When you run a script that disables a system service (e.g. Cortana) things start to get quirky/broken.

Several of those break Windows Update for example.
Seconds are the metric unit of time if I understand it correctly. It doesn’t make any sense to say “kiloseconds” or something like that because days are the time that the sun is up (ish), months are roughly based on moon cycles, and years are approximately the time it takes us to go around the sun.

It’s also historical and pretty hard to change the basic units of time.
This reminds me of Anthony Bourdain's visit to Venice and a local restaurant that only accepted being filmed if he didn't tell anyone the name or location of the place. It can definitely kill the business.

Off-topic question: how does a submission gets front page with just 3 points?
> Allow new businesses to be created without the city's red tape

Mostly
Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development
My insurance requires 3 at-home failures (as in bad data, etc) before they will even approve an in-lab. I'm sure you can request one if they don't; it's cheaper for them.
This is a real menace to millions of people who get Aspergillosis. The wide us of these compounds is going to manifest in resistance to many fungal infections of many kinds.
At the same time, how many cheap Windows laptops are only so cheap because they come with a lot of pre-installed bullshit?

Also, 5 year old Air for $1k? That's almost how much they cost new. I'm seeing half that on Ebay/Craigslist. My sister has a new $450 Toshiba and my 5 year old Air runs much better. I got a new battery for it and gave it to her.

Unfortunately you went way too far with your rant and buried your point about Windows' real competition being more expensive. But the low end of Windows laptops is pretty atrocious. Someone stuck buying those aren't doing it because Airs lost their SD card port. They're doing it because they can't afford anything other than a computer that serves them ads, has 3hrs battery life, and struggles to buffer 1080p video on Youtube like my sister's new Toshiba.
I am in EU, I got the adblocker pop-up
lots of biotech
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