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>Over the last couple of years I've been coming round to the fact that microsoft aren't necessarily a major problem now, compared to google and amazon at least.

Yet, a large majority of computers are running an operating system that spies on you and serves ads to you. Not just personal computers, but most businesses too. Buying a computer that doesn't come with windows on it is difficult for the average person who isn't trying, I don't mean Chromebooks or those system76 type computers, I mean walking through best buy or something the way a lot of non tech people end up buying computers. I mean i've had windows restore itself on my hardrive after a boot issue despite formatting it away years ago. Or at least try to, I was really confused when the windows recovery prompt popped up. As far as I.knew it had been gone since the day I got my laptop.

Not to mention, thanks to Microsoft, I now essentially need their permission to install anything other than windows on modern hardware(I know it's not quite that simple and kernel modules can be self signed etc.), but effectively, at least from the issues i've dealt with...and continue to deal with, the most recent being with virtual box and having to self sign kernel.modules to make it work, uefi really feels like Microsoft trying to keep whatever bit of control they can over every computer whatever you decide to do with it.

I'm not trying to start a uefi debate, I know there's work arounds and other things ways to deal with it, but since it's existed, it's been nothing but hassles for me and it's something I never asked for or wanted in my computer.
Everything can be written using shell scripts. Even cron can be written using shell scripts if you want to. But you still use cron because it provides some facility for you and you can focus more on what you want to do. It's the same for systemctl timers: for the most common cases it will give you good enough customization, because that's what you want, along with proper logging.
I’m totally out of my element here but I’d wager that because the flu is much more pervasive we’re able to extract more reliable statistics, even if it’s from a relatively small sample set.
I guess that depends on what your threshold is for being "a contender".

All of this is a bit subjective, but if I asked 10 friends and 10 relatives whether they thought Windows Phone was a failure, I'd expect close to 10 friends to say "yes", most of the relatives to say "What is Windows Phone?", and the rest of the relatives (if there were any left) to likely say "yes".

Personally, I'd call that a failure.

Yeah, I know I haven't actually asked the questions (and probably won't), but I think I know my friends and relatives well enough to guess what they would say (mostly based on prior technical discussions).
It's not as simple as you'd like, but the little known Bosch-Haber process, which produces ammonia for farming, staved off mass famines and may be why many readers of HN are alive today.
General anaesthesia.
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Yeah, only reason I'm staying with Windows for the foreseeable future is because of the much superior app and games support compared to other platforms. Would have no problem going for Linux if it supported all my apps, steam catalog etc. I know things been improving in this area. For games, what must happen is the advent of a full cross platform graphics abstraction. WebGPU is a promising one. Vulkan too. But it's a very hard problem.
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The grocery store employment market is pretty different from the sw engineer market. I'd be far more comfortable judging someone's choices when they.. have a realistic alternative.
The assumption is that using another color space (like proposed CIE) would unlock mathematical manipulation of color palettes in design. I don't think this is true.

Our eyes are very sensitive to color shades and we'll easily notice if something is off. Colors are carefully picked by designers to fit together in quite subjective and non-mathematical manner. From observing some well constructed palettes, I derived the basic process used to create them. Pick the approximate colors you want, arrange them so they are all visible, and then tweak color shades so that all of them could exist under same lightning conditions in physical world. If some color seems jarring or wrong, that's because it could only exist under different lightning from rest of palette.

The text seems to neglect the vast amount of information lost when we use just a single point in color space to represent the whole light spectrum. For example, magenta signifies presence of both bluish and reddish wavelengths. If your math is not based on spectrum components, how do you hope to arrive to correct color when mixing two spectrums? Linear interpolation between two points in color space?

I think HSL is huge improvement over RGB model for designers, but other color spaces aren't really worth the effort. If you need light and dark theme for your UI, both will need to be hand crafted. Shifting hues by 5% or calculating complementary color won't be good enough.
It’s just bad code instead of tech debt.
I worked at Microsoft at the time the iPhone was announced (2007) and the reaction internally was this this thing would never take off because it couldn't access Exchange server emails. The logic was -

Smartphones are for enterprise users.

Enterprise users want Exchange on their phones (see Blackberry).

This doesn't have Exchange but has some nice UI.

Windows Mobile 6.X has Exchange.

We will improve 6.X UI in the next iteration and it will all work out.

iPhones, of course, got ActiveSync / Exchange support in ~2009.
Yes, the big benefit, to me at least, is being able to access bash or zsh history on multiple machines. I'll spin up a server for testing or to add workers to some job and it's really quick and convenient to install bashhub the new machine. I just wasn't comfortable using the open-source client to send all my shell history to a closed-source backend and wanted better command querying so I wrote the bashhub-server.
If you're primarily working on one machine I'm not sure how beneficial it is if at all, but if you find yourself using ssh somewhat frequently it's really nice.
Machine Learning is only as good as the underlying data
I recently upgraded a Windows 7 installation to Windows 10. There was both Thunderbird and Firefox installed, of each one version.

After the upgrade, Firefox asked to be the default browser (first idiotic change by the Windows team) and then didn't identify the existing Firefox installation and only listed Edge and IE as a selection (second mishap).

Time for another round of regulations.
Look at companies like Monsanto (their sins probably don't need mentioning). Or Volkswagen (cheating on environmental tests) or Goldman Sachs or... anyone. Every major company will ALWAYS throw ethics under the bus, it just depends on their situation which ethics they feel great about tossing away. Trying to figure out who the "good guy" is doesn't matter, none of them are.

I'm not a communist, but Microsoft is literally doing the (amoral) thing that is in their best interest. Hate the game not the player I guess?
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This is one area I have to give a huge tip of the hat to Flutter and Provider, BLoC pattern using streams (and transform streams!) and RX generally.

It's been a lot easier to comprehend coming from C than the React options.
open64 had link-time optimization in the early 2000s. (although they called it IPA for interprocedural analysis).
According to the indictment, the defendants exploited a vulnerability in the Apache Struts Web Framework software used by Equifax’s online dispute portal. They used this access to conduct reconnaissance of Equifax’s online dispute portal and to obtain login credentials that could be used to further navigate Equifax’s network. The defendants spent several weeks running queries to identify Equifax’s database structure and searching for sensitive, personally identifiable information within Equifax’s system. Once they accessed files of interest, the conspirators then stored the stolen information in temporary output files, compressed and divided the files, and ultimately were able to download and exfiltrate the data from Equifax’s network to computers outside the United States. In total, the attackers ran approximately 9,000 queries on Equifax’s system, obtaining names, birth dates and social security numbers for nearly half of all American citizens.
I guess there was some question as to whether government hackers could be treated just as badly as proper spies. If you're a gov't hacker, you should probably assume the worst is waiting for you if you are good at your job and avoid summer Beijing trips.
Does swift have macros?

Looks like there's some work in bolting type checking on to Julia (small surprise, as we've seen that with eg: python and ruby as well).

I'd hazard it's easier to bolt on typechecking than a proper macro system.
No, there doesn’t have to be an app for that
Hi. Author ot lit-html here.

While for things like full apps, complex components, or any project leaning heavily on type-checking, I obviously mostly agree with you... I'm very intrigued by projects like this and Intercooler.js. I think there's a lot to like here.

JavaScript is a great place to merge data and DOM because data is so much easier to work with in JS than HTML, but if you're starting from HTML already and just want to incrementally add a bit of interactivity these approaches are really appealing. I think we should strive to make the complexity and learning curves as smooth as possible from static pages to full apps. These do that. lit-html and React do in some ways (you can almost copy and paste HTML into JS and have it work) so long as you're very comfortable in JS to begin with.

I've experimented with plain HTML dialects of lit-html and hope to get back to that so that we can have templates-in-HTML and templates-in-JS share semantics and implementation.
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Correct me if im wrong but Xerox wasn't an apple competitor. Wozinak tried very hard to convince Xerox to go in to the computer space but they didn't decide to. Also Apple became a trillion dollar company not because of the idea but by execution.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise, after all, the OPM hack was also perpetrated by the Chinese government.
I was in Nokia at the time. As soon as it was released onto the intranet news feed, a couple of thousand employees immediately stopped caring and were more focused on hanging around for their redundancy payment.

The Nokia London office had an emergency Town Hall session in The Oval cricket ground building where execs tried to convince us that Symbian was safe. Those claims were met with actual laughter from the crowd.
Bicycles may seem simple but took many decades to get it right.

Your comment also reminded me of this gallery of drawings from people attempting to create a bicycle from memory which is pretty funny https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw...
I never understood why redux was considered "hard" - it basically keeps track of a plain javascript object that you can read/write across a react app
Yahoo and Tumblr lost 33% of their web traffic in the past several years
or are completely unavailable on other OSs (many video games)

I get a chuckle whenever I realize how things have changed.

In the early to mid-80's, there was a popular mantra that the IBM PC ecosystem was for "serous work," and anything else was "just for games," which was a slap at Apple (then dominant for business, but rapidly slipping) and the other alternatives.

Today, it seems that for the majority of ordinary people, the only reason they stay in the Wintel ecosystem is for games.
>I’ve been learning React and have been avoiding Redux out of fear of complexity.

Redux seems to be very polarizing about whether it increases or reduces complexity. As a back-end weenie who finds virtually everything about the front end confusing, I found Redux to be a breath of fresh air. Finally something straightforward that made sense and where the complexity of the code never seemed to exceed the complexity of the problem it was solving. But I was working with people who could run rings around me in the big React codebase we were working on who said Redux was a total mindfuck for them and they would never use it again if they had a choice.
Hell, depending on where your camera is -- in my case on the left -- you only need one quarter.
Standardized shipping containers massively decreased the cost of global commerce which is perhaps the most important force in the modern world.
It's very interesting when you also take into account the OPM breach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

If you have a list of federal employees + a list of people's credit histories you can do things like spot people who have security clearances but no credit history.

Jenna McLaughlin did a great piece on how breaches like this are making it almost impossible for intelligence agents to operate under traditional cover:

https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to...

The days of creating a SSN, issuing it a passport + an entry in OPM as a "cultural attaché" at some embassy are waning fast, if not gone already.
Why to attack, rather mention good things about the new product and off we go. we give power back to user hands for to decide. I guess some amount persuasion is required but with facts why to switch rather than blunt comment.
I was referring to the N1 and N2 values. But I realized I was wrong and that jet engines do operate at say 90% N1 during cruise.
Most used kitchen item by far in my house, almost used daily.
That would be great. A lot of the obscurity and bullshit in academia comes from big egos and fear of thinking out in the open the way people do on Twitter or blogs today.. that whole model of working is outdated when you can now publish to & consume from anyone in world for free.

Academic publishing is roughly where the music industry was shortly after Napster. There is no reason they should get away with charging crazy fees for putting a PDF up on the web and people are sick of it. Journals that don't accept the new reality of free information wont last long. Once the papers are freely published, peer review will follow suit and happen out in the open like comments on a blog today.
This post doesn't even mention python. Not even once.
Shouldn't be a huge problem right now since Apple is moving to 5nm.
As someone who has to edit GeoJSON ~monthly, these would be useful for me:

- edit polygons (ie: to add more points). It'd be useful to click one of the points to add a point after it (then click the next point to close it)

- import (fwiw: my geojson comes from postgres/postgis ST_AsGeoJSON)

- save to gist (or some other share feature). I use this one to show maps to non-tech colleagues for signoff.
1/ Cross-reference their Equifax data with the OPM database they stole, and use it to identify American NOC operatives entering China (or their sphere of influence, or countries who's border system they've pwned) and place them under surveillance from the start.

2/ Create a score of potential recruit-ability based on people's credit history, target them once they enter a field they're interested in.
>In mathematical proofs, you only need one counter-example to refute a proof or argument.

The things we're talking about here aren't mathematical axioms, they're general trends. One counter-example does not disprove a trend. Every real-life trend has exceptions, and it frequently is interesting to examine the exceptions to see why they bucked the trend.
> I think fixing the peer review process may be easier than the replication crisis.

I think fixing the two are almost one and the same. Peer review without replication is just a place for ivory tower intellectuals to review from an armchair.

Replication helps to demonstrate that other people have not only "reviewed" the work but have gone through the trouble of setting up the problem and re-identifying the (potentially undocumented) pain points.
I'm having trouble seeing how this even makes the top 100 list of "most important".
They're really in a different league. My favorite example is the ad-hoc stack analysis that Python lets you do -- and not just of the current stack, but of already-exited stack frames! This is free in CPython but prevents sizable performance gains from JITs (I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think it was multiple percent).
I’ve gotten used to LEDs but I recently picked up an incandescent night light bulb- 25 watts for a dim glow. It gets really warm! 25 watts is an absurd amount of power. And people light rooms with multiple 60s! That’s bonkers
> Spotify is directly mimicking Google and Facebook, and attempting to roll up power over digital audio markets the way Google and Facebook did over the internet.

There was always something about Spotify that made me very, very nervous. Although I could never put my finger on it, it did mean that I have never felt comfortable enough to use it.

This statement provided me with a moment of realization, though -- this is what made me nervous about Spotify. It's also why I will never begin to use their service -- even if they manage to deprive me of the podcasts that I currently value.
There was a python talk at the 2019 juliacon.
2020 is when they are due to refresh the Macbooks (based on the four years of the 2012->2016 cycle), but I'm afraid the improved keyboard on the 16" is all they will change. Might have to wait until 2023/2024 to get rid of the touchbar
Anyone have any breakdown of what this means for the laymen out here on HN? I get the gist this was a major (but not unpredicted) failure, but am I reading it wrong? Was this for one category of drugs, or a hypothesis about the cause of Alzheimer's in general, or both?
Got it, so the difference is that Apple makes physical hardware that other people can see, and your case is that you think people will spend significantly more money for something that looks nicer.
As someone who uses one of the minority desktops within a minority distro (Fedora w/ Cinnamon spin), I agree that all of the trash-talking within a community is to the detriment to its spread.

I almost wish we could get all Linux users to verbally agree to something like the following:

"I will not trash popular Linux desktop environments to outsiders. Ubuntu is fine. GNOME is fine. I understand that for the sake of the Linux Desktop's survival, it is more important that I be helpful and supportive of people's choice to use Default Ubuntu, rather than telling them that my Arch/Xfce/i3 setup is The One True Path."

Use whatever you want in private. Just shut the f--- up about trashing Ubuntu/Mint/Manjaro at every opportunity because you disagree with some decision of theirs. It makes us all look bad.
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It would also benefit whistleblowers, investigative journalists and other groups who routinely use Tor...
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> Why not use this power to secrete chemicals that help you gain more control over yourself?

If you haven't tried it yet, you might be a fan of Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain. Instead of adult use of nootropics, it deals with prenatal gene editing taken to the extreme: the first generation of the "Sleepless", children who don't need to sleep and can function 24/7 at peak of their (genetically enhanced) intellect and mood.

And so of course the questions become economic and social: what place will the world have for 'Sleepers'? What do the Sleepless, who didn't choose their condition, owe to those without their advantages? And what are the ethics of choosing to have a child with or without those benefits, since the choice can't ever be made with their consent?

(David Brin's Kiln People is perhaps less society-focused, but also fascinating. That one centers on the ability to create and recover memories from short-lived 'clones' - how do you build an economy when the world's best heart surgeon can operate on every patient?)
There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2009)
> What's wrong with good old inline event handlers like onclick? With them you can just click a called function name and see its source.

I haven't read the source of Alpine but I'm assuming the inline declarations are abstractions that are moved out of the DOM execution context and therefore can be cached. Real inline event handlers will actually be evaluated and executed in every page load, which will affect performance, especially with inside loops.
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It's even easier to incorporate standard web components, because using them is as simple as using an HTML tag. If you have separate teams of engineers and designers/content creators, web components are a really nice interface that let's the engineers hide all of the implementation complexity for interactive components.
What will AI teach our children? (YouTube)
>The US needs to treat this as an act of war

I'd be careful throwing around wishes like that. Are you sure the US doesn't do similar hacks? I'd much prefer people steal data than damage/penetrate critical infrastructure. (The latter is something that should be treated much more harshly, in my opinion)
Quote about George Washington University: "Our president is rumored to have forked over three to four million dollars to the Disney Institute to improve our culture (he refuses to reveal the cost)"
Russia did reveal at least one NSA TAO operative through their ShadowBrokers puppet account.
But in that model if the egg had come first then God would have incubated it, right?
> Look at the range of actions the AUMF's are applied to. The AUMF's, in effect, allow the executive to wage war pretty much anywhere on the planet for an indefinite amount of time.

Most declarations of war do not have temporal or geographic bounds. What was unusually expansive about the 9/11 AUMF (not AUMFs more generally, neither prior nor subsequent AUMFs have had this feature) is that it also delegates the decision of the actual primary opponent(s) to executive discretion, which, yes, is an abdication of Congressional responsibility. But that's the 9/11 AUMF, not AUMFs in general.
Aluminum beverage cans are an engineering marvel:

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