skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is usually not called "news".

"News" is a ghetto of crap that's designed to stoke fear and hate, control your mind, etc. It was always that way, it is just the phenomenon has intensified and the human face has melted away.

Here's the best quick heuristic I can think of.

Anything that you make an appointment for to gather events that have happened recently is itself a pseudo-event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...

That means cable news, evening news, also magazines and the newspaper.

If something special happens, and somebody takes time off from their rat-race to write a book about it, go read the book.

I think the most damning indictment of the idea of "news" is this classic book

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Machines-Ben-H-Bagdikian/...

where he points out that the editor of a newspaper in 1970 had 6 seconds to look at a newswire story and decide it is not fit to print.

In summary: if you have to crunch down the days events to a 30 minute programme that's like going from the LA. River to sucking through a straw. It's almost inconceivable that the relevant content would end up on the news and not on the cutting room floor -- the very act of editing does damage to the fabric of reality.
> It is unclear if the Windows user space could even be rebased from NT to the Linux kernel and maintain the compatibility that Windows is known for, specifically what enterprise clients with mission-critical applications are paying to get.

Given how buggy, and unreliable Windows is, wouldn't be this a straight improvement for their "mission-critical" stuff?
No, but we do have a Bot Management product that leverages all of Cloudflare’s traffic data and therefore has much lower false positives and higher true positives than the competition: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/bot-management/
Because a large portion of Windows' target market is people who are technically unsophisticated, and who will blame Microsoft if an application misbehaves after a Windows upgrade (regardless of whether the application vendor is actually at fault), Microsoft goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure backwards compatibility, even to the point of adding dummy code that allows [poorly-written programs that abuse features in Windows X] to still work in Windows X + 1, even when those features aren't there anymore.

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030828-00/?p=42...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050118-00/?p=36...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051026-44/?p=33...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060110-17/?p=32...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070723-00/?p=25...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200526-00/?p=10...
The answer is to renegotiate the deal peacefully, if the company refuses then nationalise the assets, which still does not give US the right to remove a democratically elected leader just because an oil company gets less profits.
maybe if you also count tests, that's not very unreasonable.
It sort of can; something I observed while I was still a student at a "top CS university" is that there were certain individuals (superstars) in the school that a lot of people looked up to, and whichever companies they chose to do internships at or work full-time at, everyone else would want to go there. This happened even if the company was a mostly no-name startup.

So purely from a recruiting standpoint; if this sort of phenomenon happens at an undergraduate level, I can believe that just having John Carmack on your team alone can bring more talent in, for potentially cheaper just because of increased supply.
> No. Microsoft is attempting to rebase Linux on to Windows.

Exactly https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/09/15/microsoft_submits...

It is not the first time it happens and people keep buying into it. But hey we have calculator source code, Microsoft loves open source, right? Right?
"Intel and AMD won’t like that, because not many users are ready to run code cut for Arm so they’re not yet a huge threat to sales of Xeon or EPYC CPUs."

The only service this applies to is EC2. Every other AWS service runs on Amazon's own code, and users won't care about the hardware as long as the API stays the same.
They were eaten. By us.
Is anyone actually saying "we can't take women seriously" because of this?

Maybe "I can't take this woman seriously", but then I didn't see any programming content on the first Instagram page linked, just an attractive woman.
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There is another alternative called gitgud if you want more of a gui interface.
https://github.com/GitGud-org/GitGud
That's not comparing like with like. There are 20 La Liga teams, all of which are say in the top 200 football teams in the world.

Adding Carmack to one of the "hundreds of thousands" of companies would be like adding Messi to your local pub team: it would make it better, you'd win your local league, but it wouldn't pay the $20 million a year that would make it "worth it".

The number of companies that could consider hiring Carmack is maybe 1-2 orders of magnitude above those who could consider hiring Messi.
I wonder if Samsung’s board rooms have any Samsung TVs where they forgot to turn off that feature? They’d be inadvertently leaking secrets to their advertising partners...
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I suspect a lot of these rules/recommendations are more around the fact that a phone can easily serve as both an audio and video recording device than that a hacker can gain control of someone's personal iPhone.

We've sort of normalized everyone having a camera on them most of the time and whipping it out to record a whiteboard after a meeting. But I can remember the days when bringing a camera into company facilities required a fair bit of security rigamarole. (I needed to shoot some pictures of old gear for a presentation.)
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I was being sarcastic but I do live in a rural area "near" the food that I eat.
yes, its still a lot more than I thought they are getting
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To dismiss all evidence of UAP's out of hand as "illogical" is just as unscientific as to accept them as being proof of ET visitation.

It may be that all these claimed observations are the product of some sort of collective psychosis, as this article appears to assume, but that's just one hypothesis among many others. Empirical questions require empirical investigation, not ignoring the question.
Hey, this is kind of like a deeper hyperpolyglot.com! I appreciate the nod to learnxinyminutes.com, intentional or otherwise.

Could be pretty neat, but it won’t let me proceed to login with Google.

I was curious how categories and languages were managed. How do you prevent the inevitable “How do I hack The Gibson with Visual Basic 3” if they’re all fully crowd sourced?

Edit: mobile typos
This is an attempt to direct the attention away from Epstein's deep connection to our own intelligence agencies. How did Epstein get his "billions" via his hedge fund front? Why no articles that go into detail about where his money actually came from, or how much money he actually had?
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Did you know lists have a .remove() ?

>>> my_array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> my_array.remove(1)
>>> my_array
[2, 3, 4, 5]
Democrats are left of center compared to Europe, and their most progressive base is solidly left of center.
This chart predates their significant shift further left after 2016: https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hazar...
The Intel i915 driver STILL crashes my system regularly even on the latest kernels... I have a skylake i5-2600k and the iGPU is absolute dogshit. Not sure if it's a hardware or driver issue but it still hasn't been sorted out after all these years.

Typically the entire system will freeze (speakers will continue to play whatever was in the short audio buffer - pretty awful) for 10-15s, then the driver will detect the hang and reboot the iGPU. Happens much more frequently (every ~15m) when using more graphically intense programs. I can't use blender because sometimes when it hangs it won't reset and requires a full reboot.

There are dozens of issues about it and related problems in Intel's drm fork of the kernel [0]. I (finally) posted a bug report about it months ago since it seemed to have gotten worse after 5.4 but never heard back from them.

All this to say - be wary of Intel graphics on linux.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues
This is quite interesting. I'm going to experiment with this in our code that returns query results from SQLite and Redis. If it works it could simplify a lot of code.

> Thus, auto i = to_string_t{"7"}; does not work as intended.

It's my opinion that AAA is an unwise goal; uninformed use of 'auto' can lead to unintended copies. Sure, there are places where it's needed, an helps, but 'almost always'... not in my code base.
Interesting how in Dutch it uses assertive "I think that no council of directors of a large organization more(?) must gather over [whatever this word means] with the smartphone or iPad on table", instead of negative "I don't think..." in English.
I'm pretty sure they do support 7 (and earlier), for an exorbitant fee, for their largest clients.
Because Office grabbed the vast majority of users, and that for decades. Open formats never got the same level of adoption as Office. You are free to move, it would mostly be compatible with Office when you have to send your work to some friend who only uses Windows and MS tools.
What it will take to move is growing adoption of open formats for office documents, many people have moved decades ago, but the tooling quality is in proportion to the user base size
Nobody is perceiving you to be lesser, nobody is perceiving you at all for the most part, that would be true even if you went to Harvard. From your comments you said you went to NC state, i remember that one of the founders of cockroachdb also went there, it certainly didn't stop him from doing great things. What i do know for a fact, is that your negative, self pitying approach to life will do you much much more harm than where you work or where u went to school, and i suggest you reflect hard on that or get professional help.
Hardware support was always an issue on every version of windows but on the software side the only time I had software compatibility issue was whenI moved to Windows 2000. Windows vista for me was just a bad PR management by Microsoft.
"What am I going to do in court as someone with a single copy of Windows 95 and Windows 98?"

Entertain the rest of us, of course!
A kernel is supposed to be a small set of necessary code to boot and manage some hardware. It's host to drivers, applications and UIs. Thus the name, 'kernel'.

To compare a driver with the kernel proper, seems very strange. There are other large codes in the world too.
This is great and fascinating. Thank you for both sharing and working on this. I only object to one line of your README:

> Like most everyone, I spend a lot of time thinking...

I think you have a higher opinion of “most everyone” than is merited ;)

I’ve starred your repo and am excited to see how it....evolves...(sorry sorry).
If you combine public key crypto with parent's suggestion, you get a claim of the kind: "I can prove the timestamp is correct, and you'll have to trust me that the content is what I claim it to be", which is stronger than just doing public-key crypto.
It's not a solution of the full problem, but it's something that should cover most common use cases, unless you have pretty weird requirements.
I bet it’s possible to listen to your conversations via the camera when closed. The vibrations will cause minor disturbance of the black picture which can be converted to audio.
I always ask teams that say that: "OK, so every release will be major, what's the problem?"

I don't think anyone is losing sleep that we're on Chrome 86.0.4240.75 and that communicates exactly the amount of information I need to know if that's older or newer than another version.

I agree it's not semantic versioning, per se, and maybe not nice to developers but it's at least communicating clearly IMO.
I think many folks forget that nobody wants to use your software. They want something that maybe your software can help them get maybe. But if the problem could be solved without your software, they'd try to remove your software ten times or more if they could.
Yeah, for sure. The 'One' craze started years ago, and for some reason keeps popping up. I roll my eyes everytime I see it now. It's lazy, and tells consumers absolutely nothing about the product.
Induction loop disadvantages:

* Poor frequency response

* Only one channel

* They pick up mains 50/60Hz hum and other disturbances from power electronics

* works best when whole room is inside the wire loop, which isn't always possible. Portable "wireless" systems exist but have range at most few meters.

Advantages:

* technically very simple, reliable, not encumbered by patents

* most hearing aids have the receiver coil

...and this is why hearing aid manufacturers hate it. They prefer to sell proprietary devices. There were attempts to move to FM radio but as everyone does it differently and both transmitters and receivers are expensive, it isn't widely used. Newest hearing aids come with bluetooth, I've no idea whether it can be reliably used this way (simultaneous streaming to multiple bluetooth devices).
Happy to help. We can use our network, specifically our Access product, to check for identity. When a user requests an application, our network can stop that request and ask the user to show ID.

The difference is that we don't issue that identity. We aren't an identity provider, like Okta or Azure AD. Instead, teams integrate our Access product with their identity provider which tells us which sources of identity to trust (in the same way a bouncer or border guard doesn't create your identity card for you, but they know what a valid one looks like).
I have been championing for the idea to flag and/or prohibit NYT articles from showing up on HN, because for quite some time now they do very little to advance the topics they discuss, and spend an awful amount of time baiting the individual into emotional outbursts through guile use of selective reporting on things.

Whatever NYT used to be hasn't really been relevant. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Nowadays, especially the articles from there posted on HN are very much in the territory of tabloid journalism.

Having said that, I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this thinking, although my introductory sentence to this might be seen as too harsh by some. I see no value in having their articles on HN what-so-ever.
He is right though, watermarked w10 has no time limit, and comes with what seems only a few limitations, like inability to customize the taskbar location, for example.
While this project is very young and is narrow in scope, I'm really excited by the somewhat parallel idea of building a good enough rosetta stone for practical computing such that one could power a programming platform with human language syntax. Imperative programming and natural writing have an overlap I think is under-appreciated -- the amount of people that could grok computer programming if programs became essays, functions became paragraphs and such is large I reckon.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? This submission seems like it could be a first step, but it's not the authors' goal.

Somewhat more on-topic, learnxinyminutes[0] is fantastic for jogging my memory on languages I use rarely.

[EDIT] - Oh also, I think that this kind of project could have some enterprise viability -- having private instances sharable by tech teams could make it much easier to on-board and share code snippets/best practices with team-members and keep tech-debt knowledge fresh.

[0]: https://learnxinyminutes.com
This was pretty much always true. I remember the old versions just needed a serial. A single serial number that could be used any number of times worked just fine. Here in Iran, retailers sold Windows CDs with the same serial number printed on the covers.

Even when Windows detected that the license was fake, it basically didn't do anything. Some occasional messaging and a black background was the worst of it. I figure Microsoft understood that pressure on not-rich home users would just beef up its competition.
Why would somebody be that motivated to carry a phone somewhere, even if that phone is completely disabled and useless? Maybe there's a market for phone-shaped pieces of plastic for people who need something to caress at all times.
I can see that the project is very early in development but honestly this is great. I hope you use all the feedback here to improve it. You have a winner of an app, in my opinion!
> Well, the original comparison was with Nvidia's driver and Nvidia has a much more optimized driver.

I wouldn't say that. In all common cases they don't. And as above, deprecated features is the last thing I'd start comparing that on. If you use something deprecated, worrying about performance shouldn't be the case, rather you should worry about rewriting your code.
Honestly I've done both on multi-platform engines and the huge advantage of the in-house engine is you can line up the releases and breaking api changes in a way that works with the internal teams vs throwing it over the fence.

Last in-house game I did we had to bring a while networking layer online for a platform that didn't previously have it and that part was a pretty painless process.
The thing you describe, a brief loss in power ‘about once a year’ almost never happens in my area of NYC and could actually damage sensitive equipment.

The most recent large blackout we had was IIRC specifically due to mismanaging the interconnected grid, which is part of where my concern comes from.
So many words, so much time, so many lives wasted on what is largely a massive, decades-long, ongoing psychological warfare operation conducted by several elements of the US government. Against their own population. Why would they do that? Beats me.

Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men
The borrow checker buys you exactly what proper C programming practice buys you. So if you're already doing it right, you never end up fighting it, since you're already obeying the "single writer XOR multiple readers" principle. It simply checks that you haven't broken what was already best practice.

As an embedded dev one of the things I love about Rust is the ability to use the type system to enforce the machine's invariants. Some register has a bunch of bit fields? Break it up using a struct, and unlike C's struct bitfield notation you don't have to shift the values around every time.

Rust forces you to check all enum variants, not just in switch statements like C (and that only with the -Wswitch-enum or equivalent warning) and disallows any unlisted value (there's no "default" for an enum).

Those things alone probably aren't enough to switch, but as a machine-focused embedded dev they're certainly nice to have.
Not till Apple vertically and horizontally integrates into every possible company and renames itself One. Then you can buy subscription to One One. One subscription, for all you'll ever need...
Something missing is how fast did the patient ramp up to that dosage. If you start at a very high dosage, you will mobilize all the stored calcium in the gut and vascular system. It has to go somewhere. As some who is currently at 52k UI's per day, I can say that if I started at that level I would have damaged myself in many ways, not just kidneys. I started at 2k per fatty meal/snack and worked my way up over a few years. The purpose has been to de-calcify my vascular system and gut. I can actually tell when I am near the limit as it induces pain. I back down a few thousand IU's for a couple weeks, then keep working back up. When I first started, I could not exceed 4k per meal without getting blurry vision. Now that happens around 54-56k. I probably will not go much higher. I do not suggest doing this unless you have a good reason to do so. If you must do this, then be sure to include K2 MK-7 and magnesium for each dosage to bind and transport some of the calcium to the bone. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advise, not to mention, only a small percentage of functional medicine doctors use this method of de-calcification. My BP has dropped over 20 points, so I am making some progress. For people just wanting enough 25-hydroxy to fuel their immune system, 2x the RDA is probably fine assuming normal renal health. BTW, measuring 25-hydroxy has little value unless you know your kidney health, as that is the not the final stage of the hormone.
She can just pull her gender or sexual orientation card and have the issue solved in a few minutes.
Sometimes I wonder where the world of computers would have been if it had not been for Microsoft doing all this stuff! This is seriously next level of customer support, which we hardly get to appreciate, let alone know about.
It broke a program that saved 1 to 2 hours of paperwork work per Engineer, per day.

Half my fault, used 32 bit libraries and apparently didn't make my program robust enough to work on both 7 and 10.

But that change to 10 was forced on us, cost me multiple days of paid Engineering time where I chatted up other paid Engineers.

And broke the program.

Then Trump Tariffs happened and 18000 contractors including myself were unemployed.
That's not going to help get a well paid job and small businesses are needy and don't want to pay for what's needed.
Here is mine, might help you out a bit:
https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/QaRmD/la...

I use it on Windows for .NET development mostly - I also tried to optimize it for the Slovenian language (to support čšžđć).
in this regard with can take it further and call ourselves slaves of our instincts and desires. (eating, breading etc) in which case word slave loses meaning.

I disagree. slavery is real absolutely immoral thing, while working for money is more about law of energy conservation, something transforms in something else, hence very reasonable and natural.
I've recently retired an aging 2009 iMac. The SSD upgrade done years ago was a life saver for it.

In its place I've purchased and upgraded a 2009 Mac Pro over the last few months. The ability to swap out a few parts will give another 6+ years of life to this machine.

And I've still got and use (every other week) a 13in 2010 MacBook Pro.

Incredibly well made machines.
Such a shame the newish ones are non serviceable.
Upvoting from my Nokia Lumia
3.11 to 95 was a big shift in terms of how the interface worked, but after that it was pretty damned consistent until 8 tried to turn everything into a tablet.

The introduction of WDDM along with the new sound and networking driver architectures caused some headache in Vista, but were ultimately significant improvements over the way things had been.

10, on the other hand, made automatic updates mandatory, and pushed itself on everybody through dark patterns. It puts ads in the start menu and on the lock screen. It started, but didn't finish, implementing new interfaces nobody asked for while deprecating the old ones they still hand't entirely replicated. Today, they're doing their damnedest to hide the fact that you don't need a Microsoft account to set up your computer.
There was also the trick where "nights and weekends" minutes would start later and later. Initially they were so you werent doing long business calls on them. "Free Night" minutes would start at 5:30pm, then crept to 6pm then to 6:30pm and eventually to 7pm
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