skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did. Windows 7 came out 11 years ago in October 2009. Mainstream support ended January 2015, which is fine, but those who paid could get support up through January 2020. That’s just over ten years of support - same as Ubuntu LTS (10 versus the regular 5).

Not to mention Windows 8 came out in October 2012 (with 8.1 the next year) and Windows 10 came out July 2015. I think it’s reasonable for Microsoft to want people to upgrade within 11 years at least once. Especially since Windows 10’s been out for over five years.
But the two things you mentioned are so... innocent compared to their actual tracking infrastructure. For QUIC if you want a connection to seamlessly move when the device's address changes then you're going to either need to tell the server what your new address is (which wouldn't really work in practice) or have a non-ip identifier.

But this really doesn't matter all that much to Google since regardless of how your browser session resumes you're probably still logged and/or are loaded with tracking cookies.

And IPv6 is... well IPv6. Nothing is really stopping you from NATing at your firewall if you want -- in fact, I highly recommend it for your private networks so you can use your ISP public-allocation as a pool of public addresses while having the whole IPv6 private address space to yourself.
> Brave Browser is disabling QUIC because they suspect Google is tracking users at the protocol level.

Note at the top of Brave's "QUIC in the wild" post[1] in 2017:

"Update: This post has been edited to correct errors of fact about developer tools and APIs with respect to QUIC. Also, the original post implied that Google might be using QUIC in an anti-competitive manner. We regret the errors, and we apologize for the implication."

Do you have a link to a more recent post from Brave about this?

1: https://brave.com/quic-in-the-wild/
1. The open source office suites actually having a good user interface.
2. There being a company that you can pay for support. Corporations/governments can be absolutely paranoid about needing support (even when it is often unused for years).
3. Lots of marketing.
4. 100% compatibility with Microsoft Office.
Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’
Correct me if I'm wrong, my read is that this is a competitor to Google's external BeyondCorp solution[0]? (They reference the BeyondCorp papers in the post.)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
Yes! Also, while we're at it. Abolish the entire US policing and prison system. And don't rebuild it.
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-make...
Pointless code snippet to replace every image on a webpage by a kitten (it fails for very small images, because of dumb randomization)

function randInt() {
return Math.round (Math.random() * 20 - 10)
}
for (const img of document.getElementsByTagName('img')) {
img.src = `https://placekitten.com/g/${randInt() + img.width}/${randInt() + img.height}`
}
Show HN: A user account management dashboard for userbase
I remember filippo.io from the days of the heartbleed vulnerability! Had a great heartbleed checker that I used several times.
It's not a single player game I'm pretty sure - there are leaderboards and achievements that allow you to compete with your friends. Obviously these features are moot if the top 10,000 players have a score of MAX_INT. It would have been nice to "disconnect" your city from the leaderboards if you wanted to go crazy, but unfortunately this mode was not added.

For the record I am against always on DRM so I did not buy this game nor any other game that uses it. I don't believe we need to codify laws banning the practice or any such thing that requires software developers to build things they don't want to build (with the exception of critical fields such as healthcare and aviation).

It's desirable in that a one time purchase does not entitle a customer to a lifetime of server resources; they paid for the game and they can certainly keep the game, but they don't have a right to the services required by the game (those are recurring costs). This makes sense since the alternative is forcing EA to pay to host servers for people that violated their terms of service.

You are correct that it got an offline mode eventually, I overlooked this. But this demonstrates that the market corrected this problem: Enough consumers complained to force a change. Therefore, is there need for external intervention? The simple solution to always-on DRM seems to be to just avoid buying any products that use it.
HN for one does not support that. :/
I was Nvidia user for a long time due to the above, but today they aren't worth bothering with. AMD can be slower to fix bugs or have more of them on release day due to having smaller teams, but they are gradually ramping that up, and their current level of support already doesn't bother me, while they are providing a proper open source driver. Nvidia don't and have no plans to. I'd take AMD over Nvidia today any time.

Regarding slowing down progress, I was talking about modern desktop like Wayland compositors and so on. Nvidia was hindering it for years. And their attitude towards Nouveau is disgusting.
I think this is one of those "technically right but wrong in all aspects that matter" type of facts.

True, there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. That said, the Nobel Prize website has a page dedicated to it, it is listed right under the Peace Prize in their main navigation, and the winners are included in the "597 Nobel prizes" in their "Quick facts" section.

If the Nobel Committee doesn't care about making a difference, and is for all practical purposes a Nobel Prize with the clear endorsement of the Nobel Committee, what else is there to say?

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2020/sum...
Mainstream support ended almost six years ago. But extended support (meaning those who pay the big bucks) (officially) ended in January this year after 10 years of support. Whether they still unofficially support those who pay even bigger amounts? I don’t know.
I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage
Why is the python one unsafe? Lack of with-block?
Your age is showing!! Look up on the history of those characters before you comment. There's a lot more there than superficial inconveniences.
What ghost theme is this?
I prefer to see how real people are thinking rather than someone who has an amplified mouthpiece via some big name publication.
Unfortunately my state doesn't have a rep on the committee.
>You say that, but the connection seems likely which is my point. The indirect symptoms of heart disease such as loss of athleticism and cognitive function would be important.

Only if as you say the meaningful symptoms show up during common reproductive years.

So far I see no evidence that that is the case.

>Heredity is one of the stronger predictors of heart disease so it’s got a strong genetic component beyond diet and lifestyle.

Again there is no evidence that it is common that hereditary heart disease that generally affects people 50+ has meaningful symptoms during reproductive years.

And there is even less evidence that these symptoms are meaningful enough to impact fertility to such an extent that it creates significant short term evolutionary pressure.

You're taking 1 condition which is common in later life and saying: well maybe some people with that condition actually develop it earlier in life, and just maybe some people that develop it earlier have some externally significant symptoms, and maybe some of those people have specific symptoms that would make them less likely to reproduce all else being equal.

Each step of that funnel is a complete unknown, and each step diminishes the overall impact that genes that control the most common forms of hereditary heart disease have on reproductive fitness.
Originalism Isn't the Judicial Version of Biblical Fundamentalism
Well, they say UTF-16, but they still allow unpaired surrogates in some places, so it is really more like UCS-2.
Yes, except half a cent per share not per trade.
Depends on country 25$ an hour is only a day rate of £160 in the UK.

£400 is a good day rate for a average contract programmer outside London.
Why not?

It wouldn't be the first time that Microsoft ditched it's technology. (DOS - OS/2, Sliverlight - JavaScript, EdgeHTML - Blink, etc.)

I'd guess that the OS market is done, they want to get rid of most of their Windows legacy stuff, and focus on making real money with the cloud.
Notice that only one of those articles is set later than 2007, and that the one later article is about telling the customer to buck up and deal with the broken backwards compatibility.

They had an incredible focus on backwards compatibility. That no longer seems to be the case.
Windows is a legacy operating system with an elderly demographic. They just need to keep Windows as Windows for its business and consumer customers without trying to make it something that it isn't.
What's misleading? You get the functionality you pay for. The fact that software controls that is an implementation detail.
A massive improvement would be if saving didn't open the save dialog and instead just saved the file. I understand why it doesn't work this way but it is a must for a decent editor. Autosave being almost as important, of course (hitting ctrl-s at every keystroke is deep in my psyche, though).
bedrijfsgeheimen are trade secrets
What you describe is legalese. The precision of programming with the syntax of natural language.

Programmers of legalese are ... special. Even fewer people get into that field than get into programming. Because expressing your thoughts and modeling reality precisely is the hard part. Not the syntax.
Blog post from Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/10/12/trickbo...
I'd say you're probably right, but.... :)
Yeah, I'm a fan of some sort of "{branding}v{major}.{minor}". That way there's a "branding" version (or "era" as you call it) that signals larger level but arbitrary changes, and you still can communicate lower level semver stuff.
I feel that's generally how it goes at Cloudflare. They build amazing products and give them terrible names.

Name Ideas:

Cloudflare Zero

Cloudflare Connect

Cloudflare Trust

Cloudflare Assist

You can have those for free, just maybe consider opening a fullstack role in SF :)
Windows is light years ahead in this department compared to any alternative. It's a hard problem.
New Relic One!
> Otherwise any other manufacturer of defective products can argue that someone else (potentially unintentionally) is damaging their brand by triggering a flaw in the product instead of fixing their product. Imagine a car manufacturer whose cars fall apart due to minor irregularities in the road suing the city for not making the roads smooth enough instead of producing better cars that are immune to this problem.

I think you're hitting the dead end you get to when you only conceive of the law as considering physical actions, but that's not how it actually works. IANAL, but there's a legal concept called mens rea that's very applicable here. Basically, what's going on in someone's mind is legally relevant, so cases where someone performed an identical physical action for different reasons can be treated differently. So there'd be a difference between:

1. Triggering a bug maliciously for personal gain.

2. Triggering a bug accidentally.

3. Triggering a bug benevolently as part of an effort to fix it.
Branch Agnostic Git Aliases
Microsoft started it after they got sued and renamed skydrive to onedrive.

Then sinofsky started chanting "one windows."

Then xbox one happened. The rest followed suit
Are you a GPT3 bot?
Isn't this a little like saying Firefox re-basing on Chromium would still be a healthy balance of ideas/innovation? Because that's what it sounds like.
The program is called "Extended Security Updates for Windows 7", and the fee isn't exorbitant, but it's not necessarily cheap either. For 2020 it's $25 / PC, rising to $50 / PC for 2021, and $100 / PC for 2022. There's background here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu...

Background: I have a Customer who needed to maintain Windows 7 support for a legacy application on a single computer. For $175 to get 3 more years out of a paid-for critical application it was a "no-brainer" (and 3 more years to figure out a replacement strategy). Obviously, not all situations will be as simple.
"Sir, all we have is a black picture, the camera was blocked by a piece of plastic"

"Wait a minute, go back a bit. Just there, enhance! Now convert to audio waves"

Another crime solved by NCIS.
Fair, but what do you think of the discussion above. I lived thru all that. The discussion shows how bad things were. Then competition came in with amazing products. Now were' vilifying the competition for being too good.
I live within the boundaries of this map. I'd love it if there was a way to input an address (or zip code) and get a report of the findings for that area. Right now I'm trying to guesstimate where my house might be on the map and it's not easy to tell.
I don't think I follow your logic. Open source software has a long history of being monetized via support. Many popular open source projects have a major financial backer responsible for most development.

At any rate, I fail to see how MS getting open source tech working smoothly on Windows will somehow

> EE is the MS DNA.

I don't mean to be rude, but this comment is repeated ad nauseum here on hacker news. It's not an insightful, nuanced nor fresh take.

> Don't say you weren't told.

Believe me. We were told. Thousands of times. You all won't let up.

Just to be clear, I am also concerned about these issues but this argument just isn't convincing. It takes an ethically misguided company strategy from decades ago and extrapolates that to some vague sense of "evil" lurking inside the company. How about some _recent_ evidence? Sources?

Because as far as I can tell, MS is being _forced_ to embrace and extend Linux on their OS. They've been historically reluctant to do so until the cloud made Linux impossible to ignore. I struggle to see how they could even pull off an "extinguish". The very nature of open source makes that difficult. I guess they could buy Canonical and then just fire everyone, but the damage is still just limited to Ubuntu which would be promptly forked if needed.
Traditionally field geologists (with the notable exception of the oil exploration kind) have been paid in scenery instead of in scrip.

IOW: excellent idea, when do you start?
They do continue to support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2 for a fee. The fees aren't hateful, and any size organization can enroll in the program.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu...
The moon is the perfect spot for SETI
Who the heck doesn't clean their phone everyday
Well, if it’s a trait that the type must implement (even if by the compiler), is it really overloaded? Because isn’t it technically

fn Default<T>::default() -> T

? Which is polymorphism, not overloading? Idk. Maybe I’m just being pedantic?
I'm more of a https://www.placecage.com/ fan myself, though this placekitten site [0] apparently uses CC-licensed images, something that most of the novelty placeholder sites skirt.

[0] https://placekitten.com/attribution.html
Even more interesting (to me anyway), wouldn't the same reasoning also apply to jailbreaking and reverse-engineering devices ?

In those cases as well the behavior of the system is being altered while retaining the original branding.
Building XNU for macOS Catalina
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A state machine is a much more general concept and has many different uses.
Strictly speaking, that applies transitively to the many AWS services layered on EC2 that allow/depend on BYO binaries, such as Lambda, EMR, ECS, EKS, Erratic Beanstalk and more besides.
I don't know, I think WARP is pretty awesome.
Sorry, I misunderstood your post then. So you are in favor of tracking...

The OP question was about banning all tracking.
Fwiw, this was a relatively minor point of cooperation compared to the concessions Apple has extracted from carriers.
Just to add some context, Windows remains a significant part of MS's revenue stream, but in recent years has been overtaken by cloud services (Azure). From their most recent SEC-10K (July 2020, pg 92, Part II Item 8) [1]: (revenue, in billion $)

* Server products and cloud services: 41 (in 2020), 26 (in 2018)

* Office products and cloud services: 35 (in 2020), 28 (in 2018)

* Windows: 22 (in 2020), 19 (in 2018)

* Gaming: 12 (in 2020), 10 (in 2018)

Windows continues to be important (probably a defensive revenue stream), but strategically I wonder what the advantage is of switching to a Linux kernel. So many things would break (the 3rd party driver ecosystem for one would have to turn over several times to catch up), plus MS would lose full control over the direction of kernel development. It also doesn't really help or hinder their Azure strategy -- a large percentage of VMs on Azure are Linux VMs. But I'll stop pontificating without real knowledge and just leave it at that.

[1] https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/static-files/4e7064ed-bbf7-414...
> I'm more referring to what the shareholders will do if the company is clearly not acting in the interests of actually making them money

That's fine, but "fiduciary duty" is a specific legal concept and you are misusing it. Making shareholders angry enough to vote you off the board is not the same thing.

Also, it's worth noting that institutional investors often rubber-stamp the board's recommendations in shareholder votes. One side effect of the rise of passive funds is that there is less shareholder opposition to board moves nowadays.
> In Georgia alone, police departments and sheriff’s offices have received more than 2,700 military rifles, night vision goggles and laser gun sights, and literally hundreds of armored vehicles, including more than two dozen mine-resistant vehicles built to fight the war on terror abroad.

How else will they protect themselves in the dangerous minefields of Atlanta? /s

I’m glad someone has put together the data on this, but it’s entirely unsurprising that police cosplaying as the military murder more people. It’s dystopian as hell, and it baffles me that it’s a contentious issue rather than being universally condemned.

Edit: added /s to relevant paragraph. I know, Poe's law, my bad.
This has been in the wild for 6 years now https://fstoppers.com/video/scientists-can-recover-audio-sil...
Tell HN: HN now displays the GitHub or Twitter username in the truncated URL
Examples I've noticed so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/foone

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/simonw

I find this a great feature for keeping track of individual sources.

---

You can still use the domain without the username to see all submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com
The chart linked below [1] shows a relationship between bias and level of synthesis is the reporting. Reality is more complex, but the idea is that information services that are just presenting facts can have less bias than investigative news or outlets that do more analysis and synthesis of a story, and necessarily need to take positions on the way they present it.

Of course even for pure factual reporting, there are still decisions made of what to report on and what to leave out.

[1] https://www.adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Med...
This reflects my belief as an engineer and now manager: That every 10x developer has an entire team of people who are supporting that person. It's very likely they would not maintain nearly the same pace if you reduced or removed that supporting staff. Additionally, there's a lot more skills than "be a feature factory" necessary to successfully deliver. The team all covers for each other within their skillsets, and sometimes that means that someone who's great at coding gets to focus heavily on that and bang out lots of features.
Clickable links

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/foone

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/simonw

I find this a great feature for keeping track of individual sources.

---

You can still use the domain without the username to see all submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com
I just learned this issue is on the CA State 2020 ballot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_25 (h/t SSC.)

Seems noteworthy?

Advocating a Yes vote is a simple, concrete call to action.

Seems reasonable?
For context, Windows 7 came out when OS X Snow Leopard did.
Yeah, this is something that might have made sense before auto, and in fact IIRC there were some Boost libraries that used this trick (Boost.Assign?), but it's just unnecessary complication at this point.
It's pretty much the same as with other pop-sci stuff that is being shoveled down the throat of people who still watch regular TV; sensationalized bullshit in most cases.

We know there's something out there; it's occasionally seen by people who report it, and who who often somehow fail to bring proper cameras with them. It could be aliens, foreign governments, or more mundane explanations like weather phenomena. We just don't know what it is yet.
>having a professional business negotiator working for you is life & career changing.

What are the things you did or the things you had that made that opportunity available to you?
That’s cheaper per year than Office 365.
A common plant virus is an unlikely ally in the war on cancer
When I started using Apple Music (I tried them before Tidal) the music sounded really tinny and sharp - sonic equivalent of an over sharpened image. At first I thought my headphones were broken.

I listen with WH-1000XM3 and ATH-M50x and the Apple Music encoding sounded really, really bad to my ear. It’s not the bitrate, which should be fine, it’s the sound of the audio which is totally different from other services.

I suspect they have optimized for low quality devices like AirPods and earbuds; I expect the oversharpening might be rated as better on those devices.

FWIW Tidal and Spotify sound the same at their standard premium tier. I can’t hear the difference between Spotify and Tidal HiFi on my Bluetooth (AptX) Sony headphones, but I can hear the difference with my wired ATH-M50x.

I recommend listening to the services side by side, preferably with desktop client to compare. In Spotify you may want to adjust the streaming quality to high from auto, as I always do, to be sure it’s a fair comparison. Sadly Apple doesn’t seem to give a choice in quality, but based on reading my understanding is they always default to high - I could be wrong.
They were open until a few weeks ago. Now closed for rainy season like every year around this time. Guys bar has been mostly off since march. Eden full on past couple of months.

They did switch to day time party from 11 am - 2 am-ish, as night time party is (was) not allowed

Ps: 7 years and counting Koh Phangan resident here.
Podcast Episode – Xcodegen, what it does and why it matters
"Our apologies, unfortunately our website is currently unavailable in most European countries due to GDPR rules." :(
iOS/macOS users can set their own default search engine. Google just know that most people won't change what's set by default.
Can we also add the fact that Cloudfare already has its 1.1.1.1 service, which is what I assumed this post was going to be about? They're competing with themselves here!
Good, host them on your own server. It's one point of
failure fewer, anyways!