skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Referring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389595 for a list of undesirable features:

* forced Windows updates when you don't need them

* shitload of failed updates: bricked OS, deleted user data etc

* stupid non-uninstallable game icons in start menu, a lot of vendor-forever-locked garbage like cortana & one drive

* bad fs performance in general

I'll add a couple of my own (and be a more restrained in my opinions)

* Windows + WSL is a hybrid environment. Files are on different places depending on from where you are looking. It feels like developing within Docker containers, without the power and flexibility.

* Low observability: very few programs log things and, while there is excellent system wide plumbing for that, very few programs are using it.

* PowerShell makes some questionable choices. For instance, "curl" is a built-in command that has different switches from its Unix homonym. It'd cost absolutely nothing to have a different name for that.
so how would you approach learning ai in terms of coding, not the math behind it?
Well, I think these particular protests are raising the following questions:

1. Should there be police at all?

2. If so, can an institution staffed by these particular people ever function correctly?

The more effectively the protesters self-police, the more powerful an argument they make that you could improve society by disbanding urban police departments and letting the protest organizers assume de facto responsibility for maintaining the social order.

Of course, the other end of the violence spectrum is an effective argument, as well.
I strongly doubt Putin has any effect.

This: https://twitter.com/search?q=bricks%20no%20construction

Seems quite unlikely to be Putin. Do you think it's a conspiracty theory to wonder aloud if the J. Edgar Hoover Building had any hand in this at all. Mere idle speculation... Because J. Edgar Hoover. after whom the FBI continue to name their building tried to get Dr King to commit suicide using surviellance and blackmail. That we know of. But keep the name on the building. No need to lie about it. Putin probably told them to keep the name because he wants the USA to look bad, right? See how silly all this Putin garbage is? Laugh at it, hard. It's what it deserves and what it has always deserved.
There's a lot of great smells out there...and some not so great. Good luck!
That's still a lot. The longest pages on my website download around 200kb of data. 1.5MB is a lot of data for text-based information.

Of course, some space should be left for enhancing the text with images, but the Wired front page doesn't have that many of those.
ironically, or maybe not, antifa tactics are those most likely to induce a truly facist regime, e.g. how hitler took control
I had a (US) 2015 model that did that, but only in France when I used an adapter that didn't use the third prong.

My family had a faulty refrigerator as a kid with a conductive shell; if you ran your finger down the front if it really quickly (or maybe and/or wet/damp), you'd get more than the "tickle" level of electricity. Scared me. Still does. When my MB did it, I got pretty nervous.
Actually works quite well in Firefox for me (sometimes notes don't quite trigger right, but if it plays the sound it sounds ok)
Some benchmarks (posted in the AnandTech comments).

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EntityFX/anybench/master/d...

https://github.com/EntityFX/anybench/tree/master/results
Another point: Persona A goes and kill my neighboor, Can I (or is it good to) go out and do whatever a I want? Like rioting, beating people and destroying other people property?
Office space is both cheap and shockingly expensive. It’s cheap because it’s usually a few dollars a square foot, often as low as $1-2. It’s expensive because you need a lot of square feet, plus room for expansion. Your average employee needs 100-150ft in order to not feel cramped, including personal and communal space.

Here’s an article from 5 years ago that showed a $10k per employee per year cost difference between NYC and Dallas. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-your-compan...

Keep in mind that office prices are going to vary wildly based on location. High rises in the downtown with good access to public transit are going to cost a lot more than an office park that’s just barely within city limits. So these averages per city are going to hide huge standards of deviation.
Death of George Floyd is on the looter's hands, according to LA's police chief
The dictionary !=== truth. At best it's truthy. Wikipedia probably even less so when it comes to political stuff.

I know a number of people in various countries who participate in Antifa action and who, while definitely left of center, are by no means anarchists or communists, and not even close to Marxists-Leninists or whatever other hard-left groups there are.
Firefox 77
Google also considers page and domain authority, which your website likely doesn't have.
Antifascist action wants to push the country towards fascism?

E.g. push Trump to declare martial law and cancel elections?

Somehow it sounds unlikely.
So x86/64 support via BT, cool. But I couldn't readily find any (English language) docs describing the native instruction set, have you folks seen any?
It's always hard to know how much to generalize from the general HN sentiment, but...

For a company that seems to be trying really hard to win back the hearts of devs, it seems like a no-brainer to have a policy in situations such as this to give $$$ to the dev. Take it out of the marketing budget.
So this is written in Haskell - very impressive demo of the languages capabilities.
Thanks for the appreciation
Maybe. I saw a live stream video of 50 people in my city smashing open the door to a Sephora and then running in to grab makeup off the shelves. I saw many videos like this where the looter filmed the action directly.

It’s possible they were groomed and stoked by foreign powers, but seems more likely to me that people just got involved in the looting and took advantage of a situation.
"We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later."
That's what sanctions are for.

It is always more convenient to use existing capacity at existing vendor (A), than develop a new capacity (B). This has also the effect, that the vendor A gets a bigger part of the pie and there's no money left for the development of the capacity for B.

So once you get the Huawei treatment, you have no choice and do B.
I've tried both ways there too; at least a few years ago (may be different now) running windows as a HOST worked way better for me since Linux in a VM was way more well behaved than Windows would be.
One of the better accounts of the “unofficial” anti-semitism in the Soviet Union of the late 80s can be found in Frenkel’s Love and Math.
Isn't that what building for the Windows API is in general, though? You're enriching a platform that ultimately benefits someone who isn't you.

Nobody owns POSIX.
Quick note: according to the owner, it was a 17 y/o employee that called the cops, and the store's policy is to only call the cops in response to violence. The employee was fired, and the other employees received additional training.
Thanks for sharing this. I created a simple, relatively complete example of a project https://nuxx.io/2kdWM69Tjk to get a better view.

My original idea was to let users define their application stack visually, and then actually deploy it to my cluster or into their own cloud provider like DO or AWS. Then with application code changes they would just run a CLI command like "nuxx push" git style to roll out app updates. But I had problems connecting this technically in my head, between the visual UI and the CLI. Like, which comes first. Or does this become a completely different product.
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From own experience this is 99% corporate shenanigans.

You should have a serious talk with your IT department. Sometimes they are not aware how much garbage they are throwing at people through Active Directory.

In my experience, the best way around such issues is to force IT to dogfood their own system instead of having special laptops for IT employees.
I've used two of the disaster-era 15" MBPs (one I'm still using). The trackpad makes it impossible for me to use it for any serious writing, even ignoring the terrible keyboard itself. I just can't write for more than a paragraph until it decides to hit something with the trackpad and in the worst case my keystrokes are now interpreted as shortcuts. I have no such issues with my 2014 model that has a smaller trackpad.

Maybe it's my hand positioning, but it just doesn't work for me.
You’re not just helping MS, you’re helping millions (billions?) of their users - people who cannot afford the time (Linux) or luxury (Apple) of alternatives.

Think of a world without Firefox for Windows.
If I take a note, then I shd cross reference it. But how do I find the cross reference? Do I have to remember it?
Anybody help?
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377992
>But for such pressure to do any useful work, the message must be, "give us justice and the looting will end."

Consider for a moment what the optimal strategy would be to handle this vandalism and looting from the perspective of "Rich people."
A) Capitulate to the demands of people using terror / destruction of property as leverage
B) Utilize the vast resources available to you to end the source of the problem

I think your heart is in the right place in a very Robin Hood-esque kind of way but you're not grappling with reality if you think "give us justice and the looting will end" is going to play out favorably for the looters
Just so you know, these were the people in pol meet-up.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpx9rb...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7DOx5...
"Bring awareness" to the internal functioning of their private corporation?

Don't work there. Quit.
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Vacasa Grabs $108M in Series D Funding
Consider a hypothetical flavour of the Deathstation 9000 architecture in which the ABI uses call-by-reference for return values, and for void functions there is no return value argument. If you get the declaration wrong, the arguments will be placed in the wrong registers.

These kinds of problems might not happen with common ABIs, but if you try to write C on the assumption that it will be compiled in a reasonable way based on your knowledge of how the plaform works, then modern compilers will punish you for your presumption.
There are some American cities where prices are similar. The data is old, but Dallas was about $10k cheaper per head than NYC was in 2015.

Of course, in America rents in NYC and SF are going to drive up the averages by a lot, with companies like FB and Google willing to pay huge amounts for prime real estate and luxury build outs.

So the interesting question for you is: how much are rents in Paris, and how does that affect the averages of France as a whole?
i wonder if the rioters realize that violence in the streets is exactly how dictators gain power
This doesn’t seem to be a question in good faith, but in the event you genuinely don’t understand: the protests are about police brutality and violence.

Protestors don’t have the authority to police themselves, but you seem to want to trivialize their cause because you disagree with the actions of some.

Wanting an accountable police force that does not brutalize those they are sworn to protect is a reasonable request.

End qualified immunity.

The fact that there has been a large amount of violence committed by the police against peaceful protestors and press serves to generally support the cause of the protestors. There is a large amount of video evidence you can see for yourself as well as many protestors have been interviewed repeatedly.

Perhaps listening and reading instead of asserting or injecting your own uninformed opinion would lead to more answers.
Actually Stitchfix is an interesting example of “human in the loop” AI. The AI makes recommendations to the stylist, who assembles outfits. Presumably the stylist is still adding value or they wouldn’t have them.
Write something down. Link it to other things. This reminds me of something...
With laptops, you need to buy hardware designed for Linux if you want a good experience with it. System76 and Purism make great machines. With Proton, Windows games run effortlessly from Steam on Linux.
Stupidly simple (but surprisingly helpful) tool for developers using Bootstrap
Cappuccinos are not the upper limit.

It's just a good start.
Quite possibly because the stock market is no longer reflective of the health of the US economy. It appears that the majority of stocks (80% or more?) are held by large entities and institutions, not individual investors, so it may reflect large troughs of money, very large businesses, not small businesses, which are not on the markets. Also, private equity investing has increased over the decades, as those with a lot of wealth want to find somewhere to put that money while avoiding the regulated public investment arena. Individual investors don't get any view or ability to invest in private equity opportunities, as they aren't listed, and there is no avenue for them to invest in. I suspect private equity will continue to grow as a whole, and public equity decrease, and as that continues, the public markets will no longer (and don't now) really reflect most of the US. So what may be keeping the markets at highs now is that they are disconnected from small businesses, so they may not at all see any real damage from COVID-19 in the short term. In the long term, these large businesses rely on individuals to purchase, and at some point I expect the inability of individuals to buy products and services to have an impact on those larger companies. No idea if that will come to pass, but without customers, it's hard to see how these companies can sustain earnings in the future. It could also be that a lot of people are jumping in expecting a V shaped recovery, and the markets are looking like I 'V' now, but I don't think that applies to everything outside of the markets, which are not likely to make a 'V' shaped recovery -- how and if the two interact -- "Main Street" and "The Markets" is anyone's guess at this point.

Again, no idea what happens next, as the behavior of markets is changed by the changes in who owns stocks, in that we have large institutional investors rather than small individual investors, and it's very difficult to forecast the behaviors of complex adaptive systems.

This article goes into some of the potential reasons for market behavior today:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/26/magazine/stoc...

I will close by saying that there will be much less public ownership of equity within companies in general, as less companies will be listed in the markets, so over time, large companies/businesses will be privately owned. Whether this is good or bad, I don't know, but it cuts out regular individual investors who can't even invest via indexed style funds, because that to my knowledge doesn't exist w/r to private equity funds.
It appears toxicology reports can take a long time, as long as several weeks.
Yes, and I’d like to add a system that has racism baked in is much like a deep learning model with racism baked in. For the model you’d obviously want to compensate those prejudicial factors because they imply an incorrect bias with the model. It’s like if you trained your hot dog detector with only pictures of hot dogs with buns. It’s not going to recognize hot dogs for what they truly are so you’d have to correct the input bias to fix it.
Thank you, I learned something new today!
Financial Times shares its Coronavirus excess mortality data
Twitter is like a homeowner removing graffiti.

Your right not to be forced to publish someone else's words is a more important application of the first amendment than someone else's right to force you to publish their words.
Cities aren't being burned down
Exploiting Twitter – Hide secrets in tweets
> This is the last thing we wanted

It's hard to believe the unironic use of that phrase in response to something they had complete control over. If they didn't want it to happen, then they had ample opportunity to do things differently to the way they actually did.
There's a recording of the WTC by Richard Egarr that uses the tuning system derived by Bradley Lehman from the squiggles on the cover-page of the WTC manuscript. (See http://www.larips.com/ for more about that.) It sounds pretty good to me, though I'm far from being an expert. (Caveat: Some but not all listeners, of whom I am one, hear an annoying mains-hum-like sound on the Egarr CDs. I don't know whether it's a thing that affects some CDs but not others, or whether it's filtered out by some reproduction equipment but not all, or what.)
Is tech like that virus that lives in cat poop, then, that infects the brains of mice and alters their behavior so the mice actually put the survival of the virus before their own?

Because tech is also wonderful but clearly humanity struggles with limits, and seems sometimes to build tech even when its detrimental to humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
> Infection with T. gondii has been shown to alter the behavior of mice and rats in ways thought to increase the rodents' chances of being preyed upon by cats.[
Ummm, it as Sylex, not Slim, that got discontinued
literally the reason to drop $3k on a mac is to never have to debug
It all comes down to who you trust to get the "correct" information from. Elected officials or corporations?

This isn't about Trump. We have a robust mechanism to remove elected officials - not corporations.
I'm with you. Ultimately it's not about the program, it's about the user.

Or as Tron put it, "I fight for the user" :).
>> same time we have made significant progress on racial issues?

Have we? the current riots / protest seem to indicate not.

>Further much of that progress was driven by government mandate: The Civil Rights acts, anti-discrimination laws for employment, affirmative action, etc.

There is / was a double edge sword to many of those issues. For example more than 50% of the civil rights act was rolling back and repealing racist government laws and regulations. People seem to have this perception that the population was racist and the government saved the day when in reality the government was racist and then rolled back some (not all) of their racist policies.

So the 60's you have the Civil Rights acts, then what do we see in the 70's and 80's? The War on Drugs, and "Tough on Crime" laws that were disproportionately enforced and impacted poor and minority communities. This trend continues to today with continues sentencing disparity, mandatory minimums, and various other things that at a minimum are Class based enforcement if not outright racist enforcement of law

So I can easily reconcile my position that government is the problem because that is a factually accurate analysis of the history of law in this nation
The phrase “the straw that broke the camel’s back” comes to mind.

Yes, outrageous police conduct has happened before. But for some ineffable reason, this one time was one time to many.
“Sometimes, after resuming from sleep, the laptop doesn't detect its own keyboard. I can assure you, the keyboard was there indeed, and note how the dock is still the default one. This happened to me minutes after setting up the computer for the first time, before I had any chance to install software or change any settings.”

Glad to hear it’s not just me. I think I solved this by re-enabling Bluetooth (2020 MBA). The OP says he hadn’t changed any settings yet though.
I would fully expect the numbers of people killed by police to be higher than officers killed.

I don't disagree that there is a likely (especially in some places) a systemic police brutality or at least heavy-handed approach. I don't know how widespread. Probably a small minority of cops create a large majority of the problems.

And that needs to be rectified at the local level. Just like Mr. Obama said in his article.

I also believe that there a small minority of police officers who either already are prejudiced or have developed an unhealthy prejudice as a result of doing their jobs.

Because let's face it, if you get a job policing an inner city predominantly African-American community and you are not African-American, you are going to have many opportunities to develop prejudice. The obvious reason is that you are going to deal with the worst people from the community on a regular basis. It would work the same if a black police officer was assigned to work a rural, low-income white neighborhood. It's natural to start building a stereotype in your mind. In fact, it might be a self-preservation tactic.

I think one path to a solution (which once again has to be developed at the local level) is that the police need to do more in the communities than just enforce the law. If there was some community involvement it would create a trust between the police and the community. This would cause the interactions between officers and law breakers to maybe not start out with such animosity. If you knew the officer's first name and he knew yours because you had been in the community you'd be a lot less likely to have negative interaction during a traffic stop.
Cannot recommend WSL 1 for serious programming, it's just too buggy and unstable. Haven't tried WSL 2 yet.
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If I stood guard so my buddy can strangle someone on video, I’d be in jail for accessory.

So, why are they still free men?
> Linux on any other hardware that core kernel devs don't use day to day is almost unusable due to these thousands of rough edges.

Running on 2 old Dells and an Asus with no problems (Ubuntu 18.04, upgraded in place from 16.04). Your statement is absurd on its face just based on its generality.

Of the things you've listed, I can't say anything about external HDMI audio because I don't have one, and the default hibernate thing I can confirm. Every other one I've never had, much less daily.
How much Data Analysts make?
Wow, quite pathetic results.
Yes, it sure is, took me a while to get it.
I don't have any paradoxes but here are my two favourite surprising facts.

1: NY city on the East coast of N. America lies further west than Santiago the capital of Chile on the West coast of S. America

2: The Atlantic opening of the Panama canal lies further west than the Pacific opening.
Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg
Quantum Country
In my opinion, "Credited in Readme" is what somebody should get when they committed an important, saver level patch for a free and open source software.

Microsoft Windows however, is not that, at all.

Microsoft should hire that guy which could be a better ending, but they did not. MS played this game really un-well I must say.
Does ASML being EU based affects this?
Half of UK rice breaches limits on arsenic for children, warn scientists
Video Conference Underwear Detector
Safe Meeting keeps an eye on you during your video conferences, and if it sees your underwear, the video is immediately muted.

Many of us are working from home during these unusual times, and as such, are spending lots of time on video calls. While we may be all business up top during the workday, working from home affords some with additional...comfort...with the rest of their clothing.

Safe Meeting prevents embarrassing and unprofessional situations by stopping your video stream if certain attire that's inappropriate for business is detected.

https://github.com/nickbild/safe_meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeiassI3EQg
Code Like Legos
Having never owned a Mac, and only rarely used them, I had no frame of reference for many of the claims. The pictures were incontrovertible though. The camera is horrible. What really is the marginal cost of upgrading to whatever camera they use in a modern iPhone?