skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed 1000%! I think ‘do the busy work’ can even be applied more broadly:

Years ago I ran a small business in my mid-20s, and one of the critical mistakes I made was getting hopelessly behind in our bookkeeping (and by hopelessly behind I mean it - things were going well and the bank account kept going up, so I kinda just piled the sales receipts on top of each other for close to a year).

When the company started to grow up, we had to get properly reconciled financial statements in order for our bank loans to be renewed. I hired what felt like an endless stream of contract bookkeepers and financial consultants who all had their own way of “doing it more simply” to try and avoid what at that point was probably 100 hours of busywork to reconcile all the credit card transactions.

They all failed. We just kept falling more and more behind and lost resolution on how the business was doing.

In the end, the ONLY thing that worked was when I found someone who understood this and just rolled his sleeves up and did the work. There simply was no way around it. No shortcuts. No way to intuit how your business was doing without knowing exactly how much each customer spent. And no way to do that without matching up each credit card transaction.

Do the work. Don’t try to find ways around doing it because it’s hard or rote or mind numbing. Do the work.
The Plundervolt [1] paper is one study in what exactly goes haywire when a processor is undervolted. They found that the computation errors induced are quite consistent and reproducible. MUL and DIV are vulnerable, and AES-NI happened to be particularly badly broken in the face of undervolting.

[1] https://plundervolt.com/
Come on guys, let's keep the discussion polite and constructive :)
The Windows phone was loved because it had excellent Nokia hardware. The software was not loved and the app store was lacking.
Why do they even allow posting a pay walled content here?
It's because all of the budgeting has been shifted to Marketing and Sales departments.

Someone complained about a bill from IT and we told the vendor to suspend the account for 1 month... it took three days before that same person had to come to us and ask why it wasn't working.
It fell apart because it required cooperation between the church, police, and the local government. Any one of those is potentially disruptive. And two changed. The social services still exist as far as I know but aren't as well utilized.

I don't think it is illegal for the government to redirect people to faith based charities, any more than it would be illegal to redirect them to secular charities, however, I am not a lawyer.
If you didn't know what ants were already they probably would be interesting
Just anecdata, but I've been doing full WFH for my company for the past 2.5 years. If anything my productivity has gone down because of the stress of the pandemic, not up because of more hours (which I worked more hours WFH before the pandemic also).
>To me, the big story about the Cybertruck has always been that it's a Tesla that's being launched price competitive with equivalent ICE vehicles.

Where can a person go buy a Cybertruck for the advertised price? Tesla has a history of claiming their cars will be cheaper than they end up being. I'm extremely skeptical that they manage to build that truck for $40k.
That’s why the best thing any species can do for the other species is to leave signs that we were once here.
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If you have an Ad Blocker or Strict Tracking Prevention enabled on Firefox or Edge, this may not work.

Chrome of course, by default, leaks like a sieve."

That made me laugh, also like the idea although I do not relly use Twitter.
Thanks, her whole thing on private/public is something I'd like to read next, as I have a hypothesis that there is a thread of continuity between the collapse of the Private and the scale of cruelty in the 20th century. These conflicts about chans and censorship and conspiracy theories are artifacts of categories I think we've all seen before.

I'd agree that truth in public is as welcome as truth to power, perhaps because they are related. The point of a separate public is to keep the ball in the air so we can coexist under conventions and merciful pretenses, whereas when it becomes overpowering and breaches the private sphere, it's just Hobbes' war of all against all.

Feminist critiques I read at school back in the day about the Private sphere as the origin of patriarchy bring the division into a modern context. If we imagine the current trend in global internet culture as an extension of that revolt against the private sphere, it yields some uncomfortable questions about what the endgame looks like if that animus swings out of balance. Hence, I see a lot of the crazy online stuff as people expressing their instincts for what's going on and what they fear is going to happen to them, but they don't have the critical tools or the privacy to develop and articulate them.

HN provides the closest thing we have to an elevated semi-private discourse to raise this stuff.
The article headline is now "Penetration Testing and Low-Cost Freelancing"
As a long time user of one of their tools (Illustrator, which I have a strong suspicion is not a prestigious team to work on) I have always suspected something like this. Sigh.
Actually some places have started just giving the homeless housing. It turns out it’s much easier to get other services to someone with a stable living environment.
I live in a suburb where I can walk most places, utilize public transit, have access to stores and coffee shops without a drive, and live close to friends and work (4 mi). They do exist! (Although, they are admittedly few and far between.)
Would downvoters please explain why you're doing it? Is this statement untrue? Serious question- I have no idea.
I don't know why you are down voted but I agree here. PNP is so good it takes less time less storage. Yarn v2 is very superior than yarn v1/npm
You said to him:

> I'll ask it again and if you answer, I'll gladly answer yours as well.

You should hold up your end of the bargain.
Definite vs. Indefinite Thinking: Notes from Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Qanon believers are, by definition, people with mental health problems.
Ask HN: Which company would you miss the most if it would go out of business?
Is there a reason why "sa bibliothèque à elle et sa bibliothèque à lui" is a better translation of "his library and hers" than "sa bibliothèque et la sienne"? I know it's just a word-for-word translation, but the latter seems more natural, and the former unnecessarily verbose. Especially in context, where the original English deliberately interrupts the pattern of "his car and her car, his towels and her towels", as a matter of prosody.

Not that I'd expect the computer to "know" that. I'm just curious, as a French learner, about why DH's translation is better.
As a casual user, I actually like the "look" of W10, and do not pay much attention to the latency that others have pointed out.
What irks me most though is the constant request for updates and strong arm restarts to install them.
Fine, but that's not the interesting part of Hossenfelder's claim. Suppose we couldn't do it all and could only do one thing first. What is wrong with her claim that a bigger collider shouldn't be that thing? Is she wrong that that is not the most promising investment for discovery or is she wrong that "most promising investment" should be the main criterion for choosing what to do first?
I think Mozilla should be innovating, very preferably by focusing on Firefox. They should not get used to trading on their name via rebrands.

Mozilla VPN is rebranded Mullvad. Firefox Private Network is rebranded Cloudflare Warp.
Ballmer created an indescribably toxic culture around reviews with his David Welch inspired "up or out" and "fire the bottom five percent" policies. Stack rankings were more like knife fights than honest appraisals of people's abilities and contributions. Teams used to deliberately hire underperformers so they could fire them, thus shielding productive people they would otherwise have to get rid of.

I'm not going to get started on his miserable technical leadership. Things more or less just happened under him, he didn't seem that involved in the quality of what was being produced.

Microsoft is well rid of him.
So who is “innovating” more in electronics hardware?

As far as the Macs, outside of the keyboard fiasco which has been rectified, the recent Macs are getting good reviews from people who were rightfully critical a few years ago. The ARM Macs will soon be as far ahead of equivalent PCs as the iPhones are Androids when it comes to processing power.
Montreal? For Snowboarding? No offense, but snowboarding conditions in the western United States and western Canada is so much better than Montreal. For example Mont Treblant only gets 164 inches of snow on an average year[1], while Snowbird, Alta, Brighton and Solitude in Utah average 500 inches a year.

[1]: https://officialmonttremblant.com/the-mountain/snow-guns/

[2]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/lists/skiing/10...
IMO the only relevant milestone is when it stops doing all this godawful energy burning mining and switches to proof of stake. Then we can all legitimately applaud it.
Electoral College Decision Tree
I loved A Fire Upon the Deep on my first reading.

A Deepness in the Sky, took more than one reading to appreciate as much as the original.

Vinge's later work, Rainbows End, has some interesting ideas about AR integrated into everyday life.
I think it's a cold war situation.

In the early years, sure, no problem. But conceivably the pace of resource utilization will increase as well. Eventually they will conflict. Worse, greedy civilizations would probably be selected for.

And how long before random differences and exponential growth mean the other side gets an overwhelming power advantage? Historically in human societies, that is essentially never a good thing.
No kidding... WinCE should have been a stripped down NT. Instead it was this 'other' thing that they drug along that was 'windows' but not quite 'windows' and a pain to dev for. They were stuck in this weird spot where they had to create a build system that took into account of every BOM every crappy cell phone the ODMs could come up with. Then married to cell phones that would forget everything you setup on the drop of a hat. Apple did something different that changed the market. They put an unlimited plan on it, decent amount of NAND, a good touchscreen, and a straight forward GUI that worked in the small screen market.
Suburbs with public transit! Now that's something
Yes, aFutD is similar, but different enough for the preference to be a matter of taste. They're both among my favorite SF novels.

It works best to read them both, in publication order (aFutD first), because you only see the second book's layer of dramatic irony with that background. More on this in Jo Walton's review: https://www.tor.com/2008/07/19/deepnessreview/

Also the first book is shorter, and if you're like "meh" about it then I doubt you'd be into the second either.
Another non-Mormon, non-religious immigrant to Utah chiming in here:

"which should be illegal" - is exactly an example of the coastal attitudes that are disrupting a very well ordered, high trust society. Consider that this state basically solved the homeless problem by violating a sacred principle which, fully expressed in coastal cities, neither seems to actually help the homeless nor the residents around them. It's possible that the firewall between civic and religious institutions isn't a universal evil.
This particular model was designed and built to determine how practical such a system would and could be.

Furthermore, if the Soviets did manage to build a practical, mass-producible design it would have been hell for radar systems (at the time). It "flies" too low for air search radar to pick up due to algorithms and methods used to eliminate false targets from ground clutter. It moves too fast for a surface search radar to register, again because of false target mitigation techniques. It occupies the same blind spot that sea-skimming cruise missiles were designed to exploit, except with much longer range and the ability to spring a half-dozen supersonic Sunburn missiles at the last minute. In a hectic theater it could have been a very effective coastal defense platform and a good complement to the Tu-16/Tu-22 long range missile carriers.
This is great fun. The code may not be perfect, nor translated into 100 languages, nor built with microservices on an instantly scalable architecture, and not even leveraging AI, but that's why it's so awesome. Thank you for posting this today. After the week we had here in Colorado I needed it.
Some exec sees an email go out with an old signature, or a signature they don't like, or who knows...

"I want everyone's signature to look like mine"

It then costs $x/month so it gets approved. As a bonus they get link tracking etc.
100%. A lot of these things were set in motion under Ballmer and he tee'd it up for Satya. That doesn't excuse Ballmer's missteps and of course Satya deserves credit for a lot of the execution, but I think people like to latch on to the simple narrative of Satya Good, Ballmer Bad.
I can see both of your viewpoints, here. I wouldn't make the blanket statement that OP is incorrect. The fact that you have only seen this a handful of times in your career is not surprising. This sort of silly bullshit is far less common nowadays. However, as OP has stated, these things were somewhat more common a while back. Mind you, much of this very poorly written software is still being used in dusty corners by large companies. You should keep an open mind when testing and not dismiss these things are outright impossible or else you're going to miss a lot of bugs :P
I think the points you're making are accurate and fair, however I also think these issues are solvable only because of the strategic direction Satya has led, specifically referring to the evolution of MSFTs business models.
> Some of them claim to possess industry-accepted certificates

I'll trust them on that claim. But is my $100 getting me an industry-certified analysis?

I could hire a licensed MD Engineer Pharmacist Cosmetologist Veterinarian to walk my dog for me, but I don't expect them to perform heart surgery for $100
I'm not sure whether it meets your needs, but in architecture and MEP engineering we use Bluebeam Revu almost exclusively. Personally I find its UI very frustrating, though.
This is the way to go and so much more efficient. I don't understand or use the new Settings because I don't have to. The search is good enough, albeit barely. What really rustled my jimmies was when Bing was down (which I don't care for and don't use), but it caused your local search (from SUPER-key) to also be down, due to its tight integration with Bing. Silent failure with an all-black window, the worst of all.
Leetcode is becoming the status differentiator for software engineers.
Takeout doesn't allow you to take your email directly from one service to the other.
And we are seeing some employers adjust pay to location now too. In the end you are also subsidizing the office out of square footage in your home, and reaping none of the benefits such as socializing with people.
How OIDC Works
It should be illegal for the government to inform people of available services, even if some of them are provided by a church? No, separation of church and state is about each having their own, unique power structure and operating as independent organizations. Independent organizations should be perfectly capable of discussing services given by other organizations, especially if they don't offer any equivalents.

Now if they were busing them over and unloading them directly in the waiting hands of the church, without consent, then that sounds less like independent organizations.
Electric goods 'should have repairability rating'
You're right. I gave the original comment a very uncharitable reading that on reflection I don't think it deserved.
It doesn't have to be a sense of entitlement. Many human societies around the world and through time give more priority to the idea that people build homes and community across time. The fact that we allow free movement into cities, towns and villages doesn't have to mean that "newcomers get an equal say" (although it certainly could). Why shouldn't a multi-generational community be able to say "we like it the way it is, and don't want random/arbitrary migration here to change that" ?
Badly, because uneven distance between body and surface will make it more and more unstable. It can't even turn banking properly like a plane, because outside wing will be higher from surface than inner wing. It had to make turns of gigantic radius staying horizontal during the turn. Waves will make all even worse.
The only logical path is to download our brains onto computers, which will happen before that point. Once that technology exists, that's the only form of life that will dominate. Robots, nano-machines and hyper-intelligences will blow easily damaged flesh with finite lifespans. Habitable regions would be massively expanded.
I can recommend ImageGlass.
We've done something similar with Feeder Dashboard. You can mix RSS feeds and Twitter feeds, with unread/read states you get a glance of what you've missed, making it hard to fall into infinite scrolling. An example is our public dashboard for the us elections: https://feeder.co/dashboard/us-elections
I looked it up just now and actually you're partly right. What actually happened is Texas passed a bill that overrode Austin. I stand corrected.

With that said, I have also read that Uber did do significant changes to its platform for the UK market (another place where there was an existential crisis for Uber). So platform changes are not entirely outside the realm of possibility.
> it becomes transparent when the grain of the sand is half the wavelength of the light

That seemed to have intriguing potential as an educational story.

But it felt odd. Briefly googling suggests optical polishing compound grains are almost all 1+ um.[1] But maybe that <1 um tail is key? This[2] shows larger grains, with a tail growing over hours. But lens roughness is already at ~1 nm without the tail, and the growing tail only slightly improves that. On the other hand, perhaps sub-um fragments from the hydrated damaged surface are being entrained by the lap pitch or wax or slurry? Don't know. But it seems a half-lambda grain-size story has difficulties.

Oh well. :) Thank you for this. I wish I could find an online community interested in crafting improved stories for teaching science and engineering. My in-person ones... covided. :/

[1] eg, for plastic lenses, https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.144.200/i1r.357.myftpuploa... from http://www.gkci.com/opthalmic/ready-to-use-plastic-lens-poli... .
[2] page 7 of https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-16-14-1...
I find this interesting as someone who has been talking to real estate agents and property managers for several weeks now, albeit in a likely biased urban area. What I am hearing and seeing is an immense difficulty of leasing agents and private lessors finding tenants (far more move outs and record vacancy), which is leading to a persistent decline in lease rates and increase of ancillary financial benefits (e.g., free parking) … in the urban areas, while the farther away and cheaper less urban areas are seeing a slight uptick. I am also hearing real estate agents describe how people are taking up the opportunity of the low mortgage rates, but also that the distribution seems to be away from cities or urban populations.

If you start looking, you will find places like high end apartment complexes with many amenities that are close to public transportation offering deals and discounts with inventory that would have never existed in the past. You will also start noticing that the lease lengths are also clearly formed to align with some kind of forecasting or predictions being made in hopes that the next moving season will normalize thing; well beyond what is normally expected.
I'm in a corporation currently "upgrading" from Skype to Teams.

Let me put it this way: Since chatting with Teams, I no longer think quite as badly of Skype.
Echoing @Silhouette’s comment: having IP laws has not meant (to my knowledge) that companies could dictate what a customer did with tangible goods that they purchased legally. Not until the past couple decades.
One of the reasons I won't switch from macOS to Windows 10 for work is how bad search is and the lack of a proper launcher like Alfred.

It's absurd that Apple came up with Spotlight in 10.4 (15 years ago) and Microsoft still hasn't caught up with such a fundamental game changer.
> If it wasn't for GDPR in Europe, they would fight this tooth and nail. I would not be surprised if they enable this ONLY for Europe, because they absolutely-have-to and ignore in other locations.

They have to follow GDPR everywhere in the universe except possibly the United States, because they are in an EU country.

GDPR applies if either the user is in the EU or the processor or controller is in the EU.

According to their site, Spotify service in the USA is supplied by Spotify USA, Inc. and Spotify service everywhere else is provided by Spotify AB, so I can’t tell if GDPR applies to US users of their service.
You have a point, but you should really look for examples more interesting than a paper that has endorsed every D running for President since the 60s.
No employer is going to hand me another $400 a month because I need an apartment with another bedroom to serve as the office.
Using GPT-3 to turn voice commands into ready-to-send emails
Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense. The suggestions to add some more of the privacy filters is reasonable, but why are these settings any better than someone else's?

The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.
The idea that “most” people aren’t subscribing to Office365 doesn’t jibe with MS’s financial reporting.
Quite a presumptuous statement. I'm not a busy body nor a control freak. I would always prefer to work in the office. It is a preference, stop presenting it as right/wrong.

Here is why I prefer an office. It gives me a hard separation between work and home. It forces me to be on a schedule (which I prefer). I have a short 20 minute commute so it is a time to listen to podcasts I otherwise wouldn't make time for. I like the camaraderie of a team, wfh feels lonely to me. I enjoy grabbing lunch with co-workers and then we often play a game before going back to work. These things work for me and enrich my life.
501(C)(3) org recruiting 10k volunteer iOS devs, UI/UX designers, Beta Testers
I also don't see stuff like MDM software or Active Directory type licenses etc. Are they counting IT management as an outside service?
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It's getting increasingly more surreal to see Bongo Cat popping up everywhere when you know the person who did the original art for it. NEVER expected to see it here on Hacker News.

Now back to lurking.
Use irfannview. Lightning fast.
I use https://umbrellajs.com/ whenever I can get away with it. Lesser overhead than jQuery but much of the convenience I need for my prototypes.
My grandfather was also hired as a professor after the war. Not direct to endowed chair, but he retired as professor emeritus.

His highest degree was a bachelor's of engineering and he had been selling mattresses before he got the job.
Well, they probably won't care about the PhD. In the circles I move in, it's just a piece of paper some people have and some people don't, kind of like stars on sneeches.
Silvio Gesell's Freigeld