skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two aspects of this:

- the ad part that is truly awful. If this indeed happens I can easy understand the rage of users (I have a corporate Windows 10 so I do not see that behaviour)

- the forced restart part: from the perspective of someone working in information security: good job. People do not give a shit about security and when begged to reboot quickly (= within, say, 3 days) they have all kind of important things to do instead for months.

I do not care if their machine is hacked and all their stuff stolen. What I care about is that this machine becomes a part of a bot that is either poses a risk to others (DDoS) or sends out crap (phishing, spam). Such machines should be actively hunted and taken down.

So MS forcing these users to have their PC rebooted even in the middle of their work (after several attempts to have it done by the user) is great.
It uses the Archive.org API for the actual cached websites, but I love all the other stuff added to the site, and the overall experience on the front page.

The creator’s page has a great little rant too which I agree with intensely:

http://theoldnet.com/~rich/

Bring back the old web.
> People and enterprises insist to use this OS calamity, despite the fact there are free and open source alternatives

I would like so much to replace Windows with Linux on my laptop. But every time I try (which I do every 5 years or so, despite knowing better) it ends in tears and frustration. I don't even have exotic hardware. Just some mainstream Thinkpads and Dell laptops. Usually, I give up after literally (!) weeks of trying to get sound / hardware accelerated graphics / hibernation / power management / etc. working properly. Ironically, I get the best Linux experience with WSL or when I run it in a VM on top of Windows.
The simple truth was that, no matter how
much energy I invested in my custom configuration, the
people who built and designed Vim knew it a lot
better than me.

That would make sense if the defaults we were talking about had been carefully selected five or ten years ago or shown any signs of evolution since they were first laid down in 1975. If I was editing code in the languages they used in environments like theirs using underlying tools that performed like their tools in a codebase the size of `ex`'s, I'd certainly trust the defaults. But I'm not doing any of those things.

Today, I work in a codebase whose human-readable source alone might be larger than any installed digital storage system that existed when vi's shortcuts were chosen. By necessity I navigate it with semantically-aware indexing and information-retrieval tools that would have been miraculous back then. My edits are guided by static analysis and effected with automated refactoring and code generation tools.

My configuration doesn't suit my environment as well as vi's defaults suited their environment. It does, however, suit my environment better than vi's defaults do.

And let's not even get into emacs configurations. :P
Here is a BAE camera system that can track all cars in a large area:

https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/airborne-widearea-p...
Usually people heavily invested in MSOffice (either through licenses or through personal experience).
https://safetywing.com/nomad-insurance/
Funny! I am from Norway too. My girlfriend just moved with me, and she has so many Moomin cups (and dinner plates, bowls, etc). My favorite is Hufsa (The Groke). Used to give me nightmares when I was a child, so now I am facing my fears
I believe the consequences of professional, expert misinformation -- half a million civilian casualties -- pales in comparison to the amateur hour on Twitter. I'm referring to New York Times reporting in the lead up to the Iraq war, which was later found to be purposeful fraud, and played a huge role in juicing the public for war.

You don't need to look very far to find other examples.
> It's hard for me to see how "Java" and "cloud" go together

AirBnb, LinkedIn, Netflix, Twitter, Foursquare, Sony, Shopify etc.

Most of the top tier websites use something on the JVM e.g. Java, Scala.
My MacBook needs to reboot to install updates. It never bothers me though because of nice little features like letting me choose when to do it. My Windows machine seems to reboot anytime I take my eyes of it for a few seconds.
Apart from the visual UI (which is a big deal, especially if you have lots of transforms):
-wider range of input and output file formats supported (xls/xlsx, fixed width, json, xml, csv, tsv, yaml, html, markdown, vcard)
-much faster
-45 transforms to choose from
-written from scratch for the purpose, rather than grafted on to an existing product
-doesn't mangle your data like Excel does!
> As far as I'm concerned, the problem is that the system is unable to update itself without rebooting.

You are absolutely correct! There was a brief period during XP, I think, where this was the case. Irrespective of that, reboots are a fact of life if you have Windows installed, and allowing and choosing the best time for Windows to reboot is a part of having Windows installed.

Don't use Windows if you can't deal with the reboots. Use Mac or Linux.
People who would do that can abuse the existing report buttons. I’m talking about the case where a normal person would think “well, it’s not obvious spam so I can’t report it as spam, but I think that if somebody looked at the data, they would see abuse”.
The chairman of the CFTC, Heath P. Tarbert, praised Ethereum this week, saying:

"Let me just say how impressed I am with Ethereum...If Bitcoin is email ––a one-trick pony, so to speak, but obviously revolutionary–– Ethereum goes far beyond that; it's more like the internet."
Just the natural progression from UI to UX (clueless) design. The latter works to dumb down mobile interfaces, but wreak havoc in any complex interface.
It's not a bubble because bubbles need a reason to pop. People who bought Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies have no misconceptions about what they bought. It's a scarcity-driven store of value just like gold or silver.

Crypto feeds on opportunity asymmetries and financial asymmetries in society. There are people in our society who can earn millions of dollars without lifting a finger, while others have to struggle the extreme just to make ends meet. Is a dollar worth the same to both of these people? No.

A dollar is worth much more to someone who has to struggle to earn it. If you get a passive fiat income for free, then your dollar is worth hardly anything because it didn't cost you anything to get it... If there was once a struggle, then it is likely far behind you.

If a human gets a lot of anything for free and they can't figure out a good use for it, then it's basically trash to them. They may as well put it into crypto, gold, silver or other scarce assets which are known to soak up other people's surplus fiat currency.

The fact that crypto is a store of surplus currency is what makes it much more valuable and resilient than stocks.
Exactly. I still find the „proof of work“ a total waste of computational energy. I mean I believe I understand why it’s required, but it just seems like such a waste. Someone please correct me if I talk jiberish.
Use Linux and virtualization for peace of mind.
I’m (slowly) working on an old-school manually-curated index of websites that I think have that “soul” of the old web. Many aren’t old, and lots are even using the latest in web technologies, but the common theme is “someone put time and effort into hand crafting this website for no other reason than because they were passionate about it”.

I really do think there’s a gap in the modern web for discovering stuff like this. Google only wants to show you what social networks and major entities have for your query, and SEO spam buries everything else.
Data driven model to identify likely election fraud.
Wow, I relate to this rant as well (and am one of those people with an eye for UX).
Thanks. So true. How a UI can damage a product is never as obvious as with ticket management systems.
It is exactly that, licensing, training, certificates and experience.
I suppose it makes sense, otherwise the smells from our breath and most recent meals digestion would mix with and confuse our sense of the smells surrounding us.

I'm definitely glad we have this feature first thing in the morning before brushing my teeth!
How does the world eventually come to realize that there are other reasonable choices for OS?

Do we have to get cool people to use Linux? Is it that once enough people say "oh I don't have that problem, my computer is X" (where X is either "a mac" or "a linux" or something else) that it starts to take hold that if people want to not have this kind of thing happen that they should switch their operating system?

Is it even possible for this to ever happen? It seems like there's a race between operating systems that give you ownership and those that don't, and if operating systems that don't give you true ownership of your machine get better/non-intrusive enough to be essentially invisible, there will never be a need/pain-point high enough for people to want operating systems that value this ownership/self-determination.

In my nightmare scenario, everyone uses chromebooks, writes code on remote IDEs, programs with rough edges developed by amateurs never see the light of day, and it all works beautifully for the WALL-E-esque end user.
One particular thing that has always deeply concerned me about Amazon is the cognitive dissonance: they aren't a store but a platform, and yet they can exert total control over the store in an anticompetitive way when it suits them.

They banned selling the Chromecast and Apple TV [1]. Isn't that curious? They don't have to exert quality control over the Amazon marketplace because they just Connect Sellers to Buyers. But if that seller happens to compete with an Amazon product, sorry! No-can-sell.

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-to-stop-selling-google-chro...
> Soltani says he rarely recommends steps such as using ad blockers or VPNs for most people. They require too much attention and persistence to deliver on privacy, and even then they are limited in their effectiveness.

Decent article, but a bit light on easy-to-use, practical details. They seem to make the case that ad-blockers are ineffective and too much of a hassle, but that's not my experience at all. I agree that tracking and privacy is a cat-and-mouse game, but I think ad-blocking currently is one of the easiest and most effective ways to block trackers. I installed uBlock Origin on my family's computers a couple of years back, and it has Just Worked™.

The next logical step would probably be PiHole or NextDNS for deeper blocking than some browser ad-blockers, as well as for blocking outside of a browser. I have DoT set up on my router and most off my portable devices, and there haven't been any hiccups yet.

All bets are off once tracking is implemented server-side though. The way GDPR currently has been enforced has led to a lot of bad practices by the tech industry, so we'll probably need new laws that regulate data gathering.
Fastener Design Manual (1990)
Julia has its specific niche and Nim does not collide with this niche. Nim is more of a general language by far.
Link is broken; the "t" at the end is missing
Here is a link to 1997 tucows for Windows 3.x that has gopher, archie, etc.

http://theoldnet.com/get?decode=false&noscripts=true&year=19...

Just the categories they show (which includes 'ping applications' and 'finger applications') captures the Internet of that era well.
> Bugs have been reported with IE 1.5

Not sure if that is a joke or not, but I do like it :D
Or the ability to have different user types paying differently every month.
from https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/jciyij/w...
Show HN : Auto-logger] Auto log for your Python code
A library to automatically add function call logs and method call logs for Python code.
I was really pissed off days ago, when Windows 10 keeps prompting me pop-ups for updating several times when I was playing online game. I had to choose remind me 1 hour later because there was no other better option to defer it.

I can only imagine how upset people would be when they have more serious jobs interrupted.
I've never seen someone here make the claim that they're being forced to use Bitcoin, but here you are arguing against that claim anyway.
insect.sh does the job for me
Rebooting during working hours, not great at all. Also rebooting without saving the state of the applications opened while the user is working away, not great either. There are reason why security is taking a back seat, business needs are greater than the risk incurred by user bad behaviour.

BTW how is it that Windows 10 still needs more reboot to update any parts of itself, than a regular Linux distro? The update cycle on my Windows 10 machine is maddening compared to my Linux workstation.
This kind of thing is exactly the reason I've gradually booted less and less into Windows on my media PC, to the point I'm using Linux 99% of the time. MS products always seem to prioritize corporate interests at the expense of user experience.

To give an example, I got a graphics card with ray tracing capabilities, and I wanted to try the Minecraft RTX beta to see what this ray tracing thing was all about. In order to install it, I needed to create an account in this special XBox program, and then I had to delete and re-install the Minecraft application several times in order for the windows store to install the correct version. I think I rebooted the entire computer at least 3 times in the process. And on reboot, after signing up for this "insider" program, I got a new prompt about sending my usage data back to MS.

Once I did get it installed, I found that the Minecraft home-screen is now a garish display designed to put micro-transactions in front of you, to the point I had to hunt a bit for how to start a new game. After all of this the RTX portion turned out to be a half-finished mess, and I had to read a tutorial online to figure out how to even access RTX content.

So basically the user experience I had, in trying to play a game for children, felt akin to being forced to walk down a dark alley and shaken down by MS in order to access the content I wanted.

Honestly it's part of the reason I'm not a big fan of VSCode. The "suggested" popup feature just seems like it follows this trend of MS finding ways to put content in front of the user without asking, and I'm just not confident it's not going to be abused in the future to up-sell me on Azure services or something.
My favorites are the stories of the hattifatteners and the story of the demon who lived on the moon and lost his jewel.
Or if you still want to pay, then there's MacOS. Never got an unwanted update.
This all feels like you’re getting a false sense of security.

Great, you are reducing your footprint but what remains is undeniably vast.
I trust my data with ZFS and have made minor contributions. The dev team is exceptional. Memtest your system.
Why do you need ballot drop-off locations for mail-in ballots? Can't they be, you know, mailed in?

We don't have separate drop off boxes for tax returns, why would this be different? And that's something that carries penalties for not submitting on time. Or am I missing something?

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/11/texas-ballot-drop-of...
I’ve been thinking about doing this as a weekend project.

Does the hardware limitations of the pi mess with download or upload speeds at all?

Any weird sites that don’t work with it running?

How much better is it than something like ublock origin?
People have invested in Microsoft and the ui choices of Microsoft products. They invested learning time & money.

Linux is to expensive in that regard. You need to study comp science and invest large amounts of time, because the user base is unwilling to share their expertise in a automatable, reuseable format.

What is needed is a step to abstract the :formulate Problem, search for problem, find code on Stack overflow, execute command process.

If sb clicks on a executable on Linux, he should not need to know. The system, should search for solutions by ofhers with similar systems, apply them and allow for bounties on non working software.but for that to workthe privacy of experts would have to suffer.
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If someone has been found guilty of 200 actual assualts, by all means, exponentially increasing punishment is fine with me.

However 200 (potentially false) accusations of assualt shouldn't matter. Otherwise a bad actor could just repeatedly accuse someone until the accusee hits the 200 (or whatever) limit.
Between ‘most vexing parse’, ‘static initialization order fiasco’ and ‘abominable function types’, C++ probably has more terms for miserable failures of design than any other language. That has to count for something.
Pi-Hole and WPD. These 2 tools are a must on any personal computer. Pi-Hole also is good overall even if you don't use Win computers.

As for ones at your work, that's not your problem if the company you work for has incompetents in IT department. Show your boss the problem and get him involved, that's his job to make sure you have the correct tools for your work.
It just sounds like you are working on a big messy project.
Can a publisher demand "user information" in exchange for reading an article, even if it lists 1500 trackers, even if it's part of the contract? No , GDPR forbids it.

That's the gist of the matter. Private information is not tradeable, therefore it's not really property, and certainly not owned by the users since they can't sell it for goods they readily want to acquire.

The clause you quote only applies if the private info is necessary for the service rendered. GDPR considers advertising optional, despite the fact that it's crucial for the survival of websites.
Agreed. To me the most disturbing part of the video is how the soldiers have become distended and desensitized from killing. They talk as if they are playing a video game.
For plenty of people if it doesn't support {QuickBooks, Excel, Photoshop, ...} it's not fit for purpose. Even people who are willing to use alternatives can't when all the people they collaborate with don't.
> but here you are arguing against that claim anyway.

where exactly?
So if the government is stepping in here and moving the liability from the platform to the content creator as a favor to the company, shouldn't the company be required to not be allowed to selectively allow posts (assuming it is legal content and related). I.e. why cant The New York Times call themselves a platform and just post whatever they want? Where would you draw the line?
I admire sites like http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/ and GOG for keeping some of these things alive, despite the hosting costs and conflicts with copyrights. Unfortunately analog things are going to be a lot harder to archive.
We run it on vms in our shop, windows behaves if frozen in time.
Honestly I think we need more hardware vendors shipping computers pre-installed with Linux for this to happen. 99% of casual users are just not going to go into their UEFI settings and boot from a USB drive to change their operating system.
> implementing the hard things on C or C++

This misses the point. I don't care how the language implements the functionality if it meets my performance requirements and it is convenient to use.
Both yes and no, they introduce actual change for large parts of the population, but the introduce changes that reconcile differences in dialects or reconcile inconsistencies. Importantly they back off when a change doesn't get traction, and are prepared to wait and try again later rather than try to force through drastic changes too quickly.
If changeable, are those values really part of who you are? Can being who you are can be an endless journey of discovery until you die?
We have an article in our constitution (ca. 1999?):

> "Every person has the right to privacy in their private and family life and in their home, and in relation to their mail and telecommunications."

> "Every person has the right to be protected against the misuse of their personal data."

If yours doesn't already have one, I'd recommend the addition.
Enterprise still does forced reboots.

The only way to completely prevent them is to completely incapacitate Windows Update and forego all updates.

It's not a good idea to discuss techniques to disable Windows Update in open fourms as Microsoft has a habit of sabotaging anti-update techniques that become too well known.
EEh good job? Forced restarts with long subsequent boot time, will just drive people to disable Windows Update completely.
If something's broken, upgrading is the Last thing I'm willing to try.
Last time I checked I could not modify the fields of an issue (e.g. introduce a random drop-down or a checkbox). Here Jira and TFS were always excellent.

I always go the impression that GitLab was doing excellent in code related workloads but sub-par in issue and test record tracking.
A new era of digital cults has began
I noticed MS force-installed Skype onto everyone’s computers halfway through the pandemic and added it to the started-up program list on boot. I really thought that they’d have learned their lesson with IE.
I read this as "demand padding in school" and thought - wow, now there is a term for that too. Demand padding - the act of adding more and more subjects and homework onto children until they get to the breaking point.
The article recommends basic security and privacy precautions, such as using strong passwords, being aware of phishing scams, and avoiding apps with excessive permissions. The article's slight against ad blockers is a mistake, since uBlock Origin on default settings is both effective and low-maintenance. Besides this, most of the recommendations seem like good suggestions for everyone, even if following them isn't enough to prevent all types of tracking.
So is requiring id in order to fly, "flight suppression"? Is requiring id to buy alcohol "drinking suppression"? And if so, do you think we should get rid of those policies?
An article doesn't have to be a summerization. This is more of a personal story, albeit on a technical issue.

And I'm pretty sure it's not just "noobs" that focus that much on customization, but of course their attempt will more likely be unproductive.
E. Kalliamvakou, C. Bird, T. Zimmermann, A. Begel, R. DeLine and D. M. German, "What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 87-106, 1 Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2017.2768368.

> We conducted a mixed methods empirical study of software engineering management at Microsoft to investigate what manager attributes developers and engineering managers perceive important and why.

Turns out that engineers want their managers more technical and less inspirational. This is different for sales or marketing managers, for example, so if these transfer it might turn out well.
It's just a self hosted DNS so there shouldn't be any speed reduction (goes straight to Google's DNS if it's not blocked). It very different from ublock origin that reads the html directly from the website. Since it's DNS based, it's not perfect hence why they recommend using pihole + ublock origin. The nice thing about it is that it blocks most ads pretty well (even on your phone) without breaking anything if you use the right host list, and blocks all the telemetry network wide (if you change the DNS on the router).
Depending on your requirements YouTrack by Jetbrains might fit the bill. Not opensource but available for local installation.