skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not easy to get a large company, fat off the proceeds of boxed software to actually reinvent their business model to shift to what lots of companies actually want

I'm not so sure. The biggest problem Windows has long had in this respect is that its application installation and update model is awful. Installation is haphazard and every program does its own thing. Updates even more so. Data security and application access control are barely existent, which wasn't so bad 30 years ago when the worst you were going to suffer was a virus wiping your disk and having to restore from backups, but has become a (perhaps the) critical problem for software management in today's connected world.

Microsoft could have fixed almost all of that relatively quickly at any time, by providing the kind of robust installation/update/permissions models we see on numerous other platforms today, implementing an online store for vetted software from credible sources, and then perhaps extending that idea from selling the single licences that facilities like the mobile app stores offer up to selling and managing organisation-wide licensing for serious professional software. It would have made life easier for developers at all scales, it would have made life easier for users, it would have given them an extremely lucrative store model to use as a revenue generator, and they wouldn't even have had to shut down installing software from other sources and try to lock their systems down, just provide the option to limit installation on centrally managed systems for organisational users. But instead all we've seen is variations on poor imitation app stores, which have mostly offered toy applications using half-baked runtimes instead of the full power of Windows, as Microsoft tried to dumb the big desktop OS down to mobile OS levels instead of realising that it could still dominate professional and power user desktops.
With VSCode and Typescript, Microsoft owned the web developer space - a feat that I would not have predicted them doing 10 years ago. How did Google/Facebook get beaten here?
Those logical assignment operators look pretty neat. I wish they went into detail about how they work and how to use them, though.
Cheaper is at least debatable[0].

[0]: https://felixleger.com/posts/20201018-misterfpga/
The fermi paradox does convey this.
And San Francisco also legally limits the square footage of office space that can be built. Prop M passed in 1986 by the voters. Thank Sue Hestor for this.
no, just by installing candy crush and telemetry and phoning home doesn't mean he turned around microsoft .
It's just like going to a doctor to find if you have a disease. If they make a mistake, we have no way to find out.
Deadmau5 Livestream Kicks Off Audius Launch Event
2020 on course to be warmest year on record
ProtonVPN uses OpenVPN, right? That's been blocked in Egypt for some time. I had good success with Wireguard, which they didn't block (as of a year ago).
I'm ok with grad students not having a shot at an academic position, and not getting paid much, since it's an internship really. The problem is that postdocs also don't get paid much (last I checked the mandated maximum salary for postdocs in biosciences was ~45k/year), and they're being strung along with the hope of professorship. Even worse, a lot of professors will take as few grad students as they can get away with, and mostly use postdocs, since they're only about 50% more expensive, but they're much more productive from a research standpoint. Also, a lot of professors will string grad students along for a while towards the end, since that's when they're the most productive, but they're still cheap.

We need to have fewer postdocs, and pay them more. We also need to make grad school follow a more regimented timeline, with raises over time, to protect the students' interests.

There's a reason miserable grad students are such a meme, it's a terrible system.
Sometimes things rise on HN because of the conversation rather than the linked content itself.
Google has had takeout for many, many years.
The second point is not about whitespace, but rather about how you can write your document out of order.

specifically TOML supports a syntax that allows to write documents like: (not actual syntax)

a.b=1
a.c=2
d=3
a.e =4

that would translate to {a:{b:1,c:2,e:4},d:3}.

So the criticism is that (in various cases) you need to read the entire document to be sure to have fully parsed one subtree of the document.
Apple Lobbied U.S. Congress on Uighur Slave Labor Bills
I've worked remotely now for years, across multiple teams. This reads to me like someone saying "we'll never go faster than sound" because you can't imagine it.

Just because you can't see how it could work doesn't mean it can't. I know from experience it can. That doesn't mean that it will work in every situation for every person, but there is literally nothing in the world that fits those requirements. Some things work for some people, and not for others. EVERYTHING in life is like that.

Remote working is no different.
I suspect these would be realistic vulnerabilities introduced by freelance or inexperienced devs hired by a startup, for example.

They might have hardcoded admin-level passwords for debugging, then forgotten about it.

They might have mis-typed HTTP headers like 'set-cookie', after having written manually a lot of auth & session management that should really be done using well-vetted libraries instead.
If someone has got a better source, especially one with links to official statements or such, let us know.
Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code
Windows 7 definitely beats Windows 10 from a privacy, simplicity, and UX consistency perspective. I wish MS had backported the kernel improvements and relegated UWP to to third-party apps instead of integrating it everywhere.

I must disagree with you on Office 365 though. It is a marvel. Microsoft has re-engineered compatibility with document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats with a 30 year legacy from scratch, enabled multi-user editing on these formats, and crafted a web experience almost equivalent to desktop. They've really had to innovate to keep up with the advantages of Google Docs, and while they have not matched it from a speed perspective, they're no longer out of the running with consumers. Word and Excel Online are now free with a Microsoft account, and I found them just last week to have a rich selection of templates and had compatibility with Office documents I was sent. Office 365 is also very reasonably priced for it's Family license.
This library is badly abandoned. I've been looking for a better alternative, but ended up writing my own relatively simple and somewhat inefficient code.

There's some serious potential in combining Pandas and DuckDB[1], which has an ability to efficiently transfer query results into DataFrames.

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/api/python
> Corporate clients just have no right to complain that Microsoft's sales model isn't structured in the way they'd prefer.

How do you figure? If I'm a business and I want things a certain way, and you won't provide that way to me, then I have every right to complain. Complaining is how I tell you I'm not satisfied and therefore might not buy or continue with your product.
That's not even remotely true. Node's core library stability is exemplary - it is near-impossible to make breaking changes to it, even across many major versions.

You can set up most IDEs to get excellent auto completion - VS Code does a good job of that kind of thing.
going to cost a tiny fraction of your house...

Wellington, CO is discussing increasing the tap fee for building a new home to $67k, in a place where homes typically cost $380k.
I've seen it claimed now several times in this thread that in the post-war period it was typical for mathematicians to get hired into tenure-track, or even tenured, positions directly after graduating. I don't see any evidence that this was true. Checking the cvs of three randomly chosen very famous mathematicians who graduated in this period (Stein, Atiyah, Mumford), it looks like they all did postdocs.
> the proper words are "I'm not sure", not "I have my truth, you have yours".

In this I agree. Looking back on it now, if I some other school had already put in any sort of turbine, I would have looked for another headline.

At the time, our group wasn't aware of this other school's efforts. It felt like we were all over cleantech in New England, so the dispute was a genuine surprise.

I pay close attention to the misuse of facts or lack of context around facts now. I try to look for the truth even if it isn't the way I might want it to be.

When I find out the truth is counter to the editor's headline on news, I get upset enough to try and pinpoint where the spin is coming from.
Yes, in my Latam country they taught us there were 5 continents: America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. However, we call ourselves latinos or something else, really.
My impression, and indeed my personal issue with inheritance, is financial inheritance. I have far less issues with other forms of inheritance. Sure I'm occasionally jealous of the opportunities or skills others learnt from a young age but overall I'm just glad there are more talented, thoughtful, considerate people out there. The only part that ticks me off is arrogant people who claim to have gotten far only on their own backs and who refuse to acknowledge any good fortune (what you could call non-financial inheritance) on their part. Admittedly that pisses me off more because I used to do it a lot myself.
Ants are preparing to stop a potential highway construction.

They even organized an #antforce

Jokes aside, I would say we would be lucky if we were consider as a factor in decision making when a nearby alien fleet needed say 'some' water.

Collectively 'we' are laughing at the conservationists when they try to protect a beetle habitat when a new road/housing project is being built. Who cares about beetles, I want to get from A to B quicker!
Lets hope aliens have slightly stronger conservationist lobby that might lobby to preserve us when a this new proverbial alien road goes through our planet.
Thanks for posting this. I thought it was just me or my laptop or my hardward config. Or the thousands of photos. YES the lag after hitting the windows icon... or searching or trying to open a folder with more than 100 items... it is very real and annoying.
Just use a pirated copy of the software you own. There are plenty of versions out there that don't require any activation, and for the most part, just work. As long as you own a legal copy, I can't see owning a cracked one as being illegal. Definitely not unethical.
Yeah it has this millenarian aspect too from what I can gather where Donald trump is a savior figure who will purge the cabal and issue in a new golden age of some kind. The basic structure is that everything about the world that q followers don’t like us the fault of this cabal of Bad People and once they are removed then everything will be great. Very fascistic. Q made predictions of certain people being arrested, such as Hillary Clinton; when this didn’t happen the explanation became that they had been replaced with clones.

Google can probably find you better summaries of you dig more but heres one:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22646546/q-anon-trump...
Very interesting. The best part is I didn't know about the swag shop. Heading over there now...

I'm a huge fan of GitLab. Their managed service in particular is worth every penny. The sales people I've interacted with were mediocre and left a bad taste in my mouth though. Sadly typical for enterprise sales. Luckily the product sells itself.
Show HN: Project Conncept – Multiplex Over TCP/UDP with Composable Handlers
Most of us already bought office before in a perpetual license.

I’m not sure but I assume companies also had perpetual licenses of Office, so for them to fork over a consistent stream to Microsoft for O365 just to ensure they have the latest version with all the updates is quite expensive over the long run. But most people think in terms of the sticker cost of 1 year and Office 365 and other subscription apps look cheap in that light.
Signs of a Failing Relationship
Security researcher claims to have hacked Trump’s Twitter account
No, it is pretty horrible of a browsing experience with adblock turned off, a video pops up in the lower right, a gigantic banner pops up - for me it was Oculus Quest 2 purchasable at Best Buy - there was no question presented to me about Cookies as I am in California so that was strange, and now the data brokers have my whole profile yet again.
What's PFE?
> What is surprising is the number of people purchasing these security services as well as the number of positive reviews.

Because for most people its not about security, its about liability and having a proven attempt at trying to "security" implies in their minds that they are not liable.

Sadly security is a mindset and a process like healthy eating but we socially model it as a eating a single apple which translates to hiring one person for less than $100 and taking what they say as authority.
no this kills all the birds
So at what point do we hit the Uncertainty Principle of disturbing atoms so strongly that we're no longer sure of their velocity or position?
Or search for a term like "System" and get results like this, all with the same icon:

1. Bing web search results for "system"

2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your computer

3. Settings, the modern control panel app, which has a panel called System

4. The old "System" control panel

5. "Change Your System Sleep Settings", or some other randomly-chosen specific setting from inside the modern System control panel.
To claim that the standard model has nothing to do with the quantization of gravity is very strange, part of the motivation for a GUT is that it would be a huge help towards making a theory of everything. And a TOE is precisely a unified treatment of the standard model forces and gravity.

The measurement problem isn't a physics thing, just like naturalness that's more of a life-style choice. In fact, the only reason to have problems with wave-function collapse is precisely a naturalness reasoning, technically it makes very accurate predictions just fine.
There's a cat-and-mouse joke in there somewhere...
While the website has barely any text, consider adding a translated option in Catalan. .cat domain is used to highlight the Catalan language[1]. nyan.cat offers a Catalan version because of this.

I think this is checked regularly, but I'm not sure.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat
I should know better than to reply to you but sometimes I can't help myself.

>people complaining about the demand curves moving

>There is a little bit of pain, initially

Demand curves move in decades!

Nobody wants life to suck for a couple decades because a bunch of people showed up and turned the local economy upside down. That's a huge fraction of a lifetime. If you're unlucky your kids might even be born at the start of it.

>economically declining place

You call it declining and I call it stable and sustainable.

The world will always need soybeans, dairy products, corn and timber. The machinery to produce these things will always need to be fixed. Yes the people employed in that capacity will decline over time. With current birth rates and options for geographic mobility I don't think this is a real problem. It just means more kids will grow up to move to the cities than stick around.

>You’re on the up or down, volatility is higher, and you need to stay on the right side of it.

This seems like a world view minted where the primary industry is a volatile money fire. Not everywhere is like this, yet.
Pretty simple neither Hossfelder, nor politicians, nor you get to tell people what they would like to do. At this point it becomes a power struggle and so far mainstream physics has won that power struggle, because we have good arguments on our side. Investment in particle physics has had large net positive effects on society at large. Why kill the golden goose just because you aren't interested in whatever these people are interested in. Science doesn't enter this argument at all, purely from a technology and human capital level this is close to optimal use of their talents. You have a bunch of high y motivated, talented people working towards a common goal. Even if you don't perfectly understand why they would do that, their results alone are convincing enough to let them continue.
In 100 years from now, you will have software that is nominally in the public domain, but cannot legally be used, because all practically available copies will have DRM on it. The prohibitions of the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions do not merely prohibit you from breaking DRM on a copyrighted work. If that was the case, then this wouldn't be a problem: once the work falls into the public domain the DRM wrapping would have no legal force. However, the DMCA also prohibits making or distributing tools capable of breaking DRM. That means that as long as there's even a single copyrighted work protected by some DRM scheme, then you can't break DRM on otherwise uncopyrighted works.

This is sort of like living in a world where burgling old homes is perfectly legal, but lockpicks are also illegal, and so people who always locked their homes have basically opted out of the intent of the law.
Facebook Has No Sense of Humor
> Yes, hence the widespread criticism of capitalism.

Social classes and social immobility are millenia-old phenomena and are completely independent of capitalism.
Activate Godmode ;-)

Create a Folder with the Name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
will it survive budget review though?
Sure the base is covered, but I'm calling for "20 arguments for quantum gravity experiments" and #18 is "we've tried bigger and bigger particle colliders and the results are disappointing"

Everything's disappointing, I am (ironically given my tone here) only interested in hearing from those leading with solutions.
"I'm saying a vote for Trump, a vote for a third-party candidate, or simply not voting at all — they're all the same, and they all mean: 'I care more about my favorite issue than democracy. I believe Trump winning is more important than democracy. I am comfortable standing aside and allowing democracy to be methodically dismantled, in plain sight,'"

We're witnessing the term "Democracy" take on a new meaning in US politics. I predict the term will retain its dictionary definition to those on the right (about the process) while those on the left will adopt the term as a catch-all for progressive policies and ideas.
Something like this?

https://repl.it/repls/CyberFluidRoute#main.py
I'd hope that stance would shift if they didn't see it as a temporary thing. My experience has only been with remote positions where there is no office to attend.
Interesting that no anti-virus type software is mentioned.
I see this solution becoming more common as remote work increases in prevalence.
In the article it references a Gallup poll and says, "Nearly two-thirds of employees who have been working remotely would like to continue to do so"

So the Majority of people want to continue to work remote, I would put out there that the only people that want to go back into the office are are busy bodies and control freaks. (Lookin' at you Satya)

IMHO Working from home solves the problem of, "Stop the chitty chatty and get back to work", and it partially solves the problem of "Hey man, stop riding me like a rented mule".

So spending less time polluting the planet travelling in shiny metal boxes to go to giant concrete boxes to sit in tiny metal and fabric cubes is a bad thing?

I'm going next level on remote. Got a sail boat and I'm going full water world. I'll say hi to Kevin Costner for ya.
It is about putting off rewards. If you are fine with living low status for a while you will probably do better than someone who refuses to do it. For example a senior software engineer who refuses to do whiteboard coding since it is "beneath him" only hurts himself, he cares more about his current status than future earnings and status.
Open source low tech has a good Youtube chan.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SolarflowerOrg

You can get inspired a lot, if anyone is in to Warhammer 40k it looks like watching an Ork Mekboy.
It's more like saying that the police shouldn't protect your house if you didn't pay your property tax bill.

The only legal basis for copyright existing in the US is to provide incentives for creators to enrich the public domain. Any other basis is unconstitutional.

With DRM, creators are failing to live up to their end of the bargain.
Windows 2000 was peak Windows UX. XP was tolerable, but already started the decline with gimmicky UI stuff that made things actually worse.

I'll die on this hill.
Plenty of countries have been more lenient granting extensions but that will fade out.

Language schools are not operating, or not in person, so depending on the government rules they might reject an application based on that.

I returned to my 'home country' in August, got scared after meeting several people who got COVID while abroad and had to deal with it alone.
This is a common problem when hiring supposed experts. Unless the one doing the hiring is reasonably skilled in the area being hired for, it is very difficult to judge the skill and quality of the candidate.
capitalism? you mean socialism?
When I think busywork, I think work given to me to occupy my time by someone (probably a teacher or a manager) that has no actual use other than timewasting. Theres this thread of being an externally administered task to my understanding of the word which helps me distinguish the two - im curious if similar connotations exist for others
You can run nvm as part of your prompt so you pick it up when you cd into a directory with an nvmrc. In your bash_profile:

UPDATE_NVM='[ -e .nvmrc ] && [ v$(<.nvmrc) != $(node --version) ] && nvm use'
PROMPT_COMMAND="$UPDATE_NVM; ...other prompt commands..."
Several of the examples I listed are frameworks or the equivalent.
You get large amount of storage and an always updated product. I am gladly paying for subscription.
One challenge with this is that people do not seem to respond to nuance and potential indications so much as definite conclusions pointing toward specific actions.

I wonder if part of the problem is people do not have time or cultural persuasion to enjoy philosophical consideration of matters as they do tawdry headlines.
My kid is in day care, so I get that separation by dropping her off and picking her up. (Fortunately day care is close to my home, not to my office!)
Chinese 5G Not Living Up to Its Hype
They mention AWS, Azure, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean so I don't think that's strictly true.
Microsoft seems like one of the few companies that can actually succeed with cloud. They have a massive inbuilt market of customers using microsoft server products that they can transition into their cloud, I don't know that there's any other company other than AWS better positioned to do well in that market?
I think a relevant question is whether California should be legislating these things at all.

Look for example at prop 23 (a doctor must be present for dialysis). There's a clear interest group here (dialysis clinics are in existential crisis) but if you look at a bigger picture, you may see why it might not be economically feasible for clinics in less densely populated areas to hire full time doctors, considering the associated costs and even just the general supply of doctors.

In that light, does it make sense to try to pass blanket regulation that can have wildly different outcomes depending on hyperlocal factors such as population density? I recently watched a debate between a couple of right leaning folks and they talked about how the left tends to lean towards trying to generalize universally, and this seems like a pathological example where such an approach might not make sense, compared to hyperlocal municipality-driven regulation, or even no regulation at all.