skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, all of these things would be great reasons to use Windows, and I agree that these are nice (though I'd hardly call "seamless GPU switching" unique to Windows; my Linux laptops can do that perfectly fine with FOSS drivers).

The problem is that the Microsoft-sanctioned Windows desktop experience seems to be actively hostile to user experience due to all the extra shit that Microsoft has tacked onto the "goodness" that's Windows 10:

- Cortana not only enabled by default and difficult to remove, but shouting at me at max volume as my very first experience with a new Windows installation

- Random apps being preinstalled, even on so-called "professional" versions (hell, even on enterprise versions by default - and yeah, it's trivial to disable these things with GPOs, but I shouldn't have to)

- Literally no option to create a user account in the "home" edition that doesn't entail connecting to an online account, which is dumb as hell

- Ads. On a product that I paid money for. What the fuck, Microsoft?

Each of these things in isolation is itself entirely unacceptable for any product that even remotely respects its users. In combination, these things make Windows 10 Home and Professional the two absolute worst versions of Windows money has ever been able to buy, and fundamentally undermine any trust I might have in Microsoft.

I would, however, change my tune in a heartbeat if LTSC was at least an option, if not the default, for desktops. Windows 10 LTSC is what Windows 10 should be, and probably would be if the Windows team didn't seem driven to make the default Windows UX as janky as possible. I still think Windows 2000 was peak Windows, but LTSC is almost there - all the neat things you mention, and none of the bullshit.

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EDIT: there are also a bunch of little papercuts that bug me every time I use Windows, like never knowing which tool is the "right" one to use for various things (screenshots come to mind; what was wrong with the Snipping Tool?), or the fact that "ClearType" is anything but. Not that Windows 2000 didn't have its own share of little papercuts, but when an OS has accumulated 20 more years of those papercuts, they start to really add up.

Also, maybe I'm just butthurt that Microsoft dropped Space Cadet Pinball ;)
If you're using Win7, it's not taking full advantage of your SSD to boot fast. Win8/10 will boot much faster.
"Was this page helpful to you? Yes/No"

Nice try.
> People swapped MIDI arrangements of popular songs

I recall downloading MOD files back in the day from various BBSs. This is probably pre-95 by a few years. MIDI files were good but you needed a good sound card to play them. I recall drooling over ads of the Gravis Ultrasound (I had a SB Pro).
Plenty of other democracies that do just fine without all the bells and whistles of technology. Maybe having society pin its hope on technology instead of focusing on the fundamentals of democracy and society is what got us into this situation in the first place.
Its not really that hard. Just mix the coins somehow after purchase.
Exactly. People aren't born a blank slate. We have brain structures for understanding objects in the world and also language. A baby can automatically detect speech from other sounds. Evolution is a learning process it turns out.
‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’
Knew I would get this type of response. The goalposts keep shifting
How is this possibly a freedom of the press issue?

It is about insiders exploiting their information for financial gain.

It is about crime.
A Dementia-Like Illness Has Sickened over 40 People in Canada
If you haven't read Judea Pearl's Book of Why, its a must read. I believe causality will be the next big thing in AI.
There are two problems:

In some parts of the US, voting is hard. Easier would be welcome, but tech is not a direct answer. Electronic voting is not trustworthy. Perhaps tech could be an enabler of sorts though, help people get registered, etc.

Easy is Vote By Mail. High turnout, and it is time tested, production proven.

The real problem is voter apathy. In recent national elections no votes were above 40 percent!

Those people want to vote for something and do not see it available.
I been barked at many times for water bottles standing in line—usually before the liquid dump station, which makes it even more grating.

On the other hand, I've accidentally left large bottles of contact solution in my bags more than once (when I expected to check a bag but ended up doing carryon, and forgot to repack the liquids), and never been stopped for it. 100% security theater
Because humor is accepted in every other forum (especially Reddit) and it ends up making every post nearly content-free with a barrage of attempts at humor in a game of one-upmanship.
NFTs are pretty useful for money laundering.
This is a fair question. After all, an increase in market cap means, as execs, you're paper wealth is that much greater.

The challenge is that market cap isn't durable. Specifically businesses that just provide net revenue, even if it is only a "small" amount relative to the overall company, are helpful in mitigating shocks to the market.

So it may be intoxicating that the stock going up 10% adds a few billion dollars to your net worth, but it can also go down 10 or 20% and that wealth goes poof![1]

[1] The reality is that paper wealth is not worth anything, only after it has been diversified can you really count it as part of your net worth. Again, this is my lived experience :-).
Nah there’s far far more to ECS than just allocating this way.

Put it this way: You can do ECS without this strategy, and you can do this strategy without doing ECS. Therefore: they are not conceptually related.

However, they go really well together.

(My cress: introduced/advocated-for ECS at two different game studios, with varying levels of success. One already used the handle strategy heavily, for all kinds of resources, but definitely wasn’t doing ECS.)
The NRC and DOE levy so much regulation, I really can’t imagine how anyone can make a profit with any changes.
> But can you agree that a pointer does not give you anything else than a direct reference to a memory area?

Depends what you mean. Not if I take it literally, given you can generally shove a few extra bits into pointers. But in a sense it's approximately true.

> Because of the indirection, a handle can do much more, depending on the implementation.

Not unless you're playing semantics with what "handle" means. I'm going on the assumption that we can assume it's an opaque reference of equal size as a pointer to data that is or will be in the machine's user-mode memory. If that's not what you mean, then this is a seriously pointless argument, given you can obviously define "handles" to anything (even data on another machine) where nobody in their right mind would be arguing you could just replace it with a pointer...

Again, this is why you really need to provide examples to make a convincing argument (and you really can't expect people to wait for you to publish an article if you're going to bring it up beforehand). So we don't end up arguing over something that turns out to be pointless.
Here's an interesting quirk in Windows: There are two APIs to execute external programs, CreateProcess and ShellExecute. CreateProcess is the older of the two and only runs executables. ShellExecute opens the target with whatever app is associated with the extension.

When they shoehorned the ShellExecute behavior into cmd.exe, they basically just said "if (!CreateProcess(foo)) {ShellExecute (foo)}"

As a result, if you take "foo.exe" and rename it "foo.txt" then try to run it like "C:\>foo.txt" from the command line, it will run as an executable instead of opening in Notepad like you would expect. Do the same with a real text file (that doesn't start with "MZ") and it opens in Notepad.
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Couple that with outages being so expensive. Each day offline is millions in lost revenue.
People suck at opsec (see: Silk Road), and the people making these mistakes would’ve used an exchange required to adhere to KYC/AML requirements to operate in the US (which connects chain information to PII).

Cash in an envelope leaves no trail. Large ATM withdrawals can be explained away.
"But they struggle to make simple causal inferences like the ones we just saw in the baseball video above."

Isn't this the difference between our sticks-and-stones machine learning and a true general AI?
> way to have an excuse to throw someone in jail

More like: "way to have another means to put a criminal in prison."
Because why would you be connected to the internet all the time? And how could you even afford those long distance calls?

That one East German guy in Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg found a creative answer for both of those.
Read up on your Pulp Fiction. It was obviously hid in their ass.
The Evolution of Programmable Logic Design Technology [pdf]
Snow is ice.
This is essentially a zone plate reflector which has two states, and thus switchable focal points.

The images shown lead me to suspect this is a binary zone plate, which has a much narrower bandwidth over which it would be effective.

However, this is all prototypes, if they can indeed make a zone plate that can be addressed as pixels, with finer control over phase shift at each pixel, there are quite a few places where it would be quite useful, in spite of the narrower bandwidth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_plate
Sure you forget but if you come into a fluid dynamic problem, you know that the universe didn't move to a new paradigm, I assume it's a different feeling to know that you can revisit the knowledge instead of navigating a totally new structure.
It’s built in nowadays.

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Can't afford Elsevier.
"also" lengthen
This helped me a lot in understanding the math behind gradient descent pretty well. The only problem I faced was when I tried to derive the equations for a vectorised implementation of a neural network. Certain derivatives, like the derivatives of matrix multiplication, are not obvious from the from the math presented in the paper. Had to dig through a bit to bridge that gap between non vectorised and vectorised implementations.

By vectorised implementation of gradient descent, I mean one where gradient descent looks at more that one training samplenat a time when updating weights
You do not need any matrix calculus for deep learning and micrograd (https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd), which implements backpropagation for neural nets in 100 lines of code, is a proof. Everything else is just vectorization.
I find it simpler than Heroku. No buildpacks or database addons.
I recall a friend having a pentium 1 at 100mhz and could only play 64-128 kbps mp3's if he did literally nothing else. The song would skip from time to time and would immediately start skipping if you moved the mouse. From what I remember this was with winamp.
Could have been planted by the person who found the cache. People do weird things like that.
I wrote the '95 Start Menu among other bits and pieces.
Mostly the team was just a bunch of regular devs but with a few crazy-smart types making the rest of us look good. RaymondC to name but one.

Several of that original team are still at Microsoft, I currently work on HoloLens
Tesla's FSD doesn't work and they basically admit it is a level 2 system and may never be more. It's been Elon with the football and Charlie Brown running for the kick over and over.
I have used Win10 as well, about the same boot time.
Isn’t this what viagra was originally being studied for, but abandoned due to the ‘side effect’?
He was lucky he had a legit pentium, I had one of those cyrix CPUS that claimed pentium speeds, except the floating point unit was rubbish.

The only way to play mp3s was in linux where I shutdown every possible daemon and ran the decoder at the highest priority.
false dichotomy. somehow every other medium tolerates a little humor and wit without devolving into reddit.
Why would the quality of an OS be determined by what apps come bundled with it? An OS is a different thing than applications, it's what the applications run on. I think you have an unusual viewpoint.
This doesn't really answer the question does it?

It's been a while since I used apt, but if I remember correctly you'd have the same problem the parent described, right?

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And regarding the 'name@version' criticism: If you want to stick to a version, how can you do it without specifying it?
The Strange Journey of ‘Cancel'
I mean, this already exists - there are tons of sites that slice and dice US spending with nice visuals etc. etc. Sure, I didn't see an itemized "bill" on page 1 of Google, but such a thing would be insanely incomprehensible for most people given that if you itemized the budget down to the level of the president's secret service protection, you'd end up with millions of line items.
Where are the social justice warriors on Kara swisher and her tweet itself?

She is making light of an underage girl and calling her a hooker...clearly when you are part of the SV elite rules and common decency don’t apply.

Simultaneously she is giving the old SV wink and nod to Bitcoin - which I’m sure she is heavily invested in - as part of her joke at the expense of this unfortunate underage girl.

As for the Congressman, he is a deplorable human being and didn’t use Cash App because he is dumb...he used cash app for the same reason Kara Swisher freely made a joke at the expense of an underage girl caught up in sex trafficking... because Kara and the Congressman are self-righteous, rich, nobles who believe they are above reproach and consequence. Unfortunately for society they are both correct. My guess is it will even come out the Congressman was behind the Text to his father demanding $25M to keep this quiet as a ploy to sidetrack and muddy the waters of the investigation itself.
The only thing I know about this is what I learned from the OP reporting the vulnerability. Maybe I was mistaken the request was HTTP? Anyway, rest applies, assuming the article is correct in describing the nature of the vulnerability.

Anyway, if this is how TextEdit got around macos access controls related to network activity, I wonder if this is a route for other apps, including malicious ones, to get around it too?

> After digging into OSX internals, I came across the AutoMount feature that lets file:/// urls make remote requests. AutoFS is a program on OSX that uses the kernel to make a mounting request to a drive. Automount can also make remote requests to an external drive. Doing 'ls /net/EXAMPLE.com' forces OSX send a remote request to EXAMPLE.com

> While they did a good job blocking TextEdit from making external requests, this was the one thing they forgot when they allowed file:/// scheme, on OSX file:///net/11.22.33.44/a.css connects to 11.22.33.44.
There was a famous story that indians finally saw the himalayan ridge, but only for two weeks: humans quickly figured the virus wasn't going to wipe them out and resumed driving.
Not sure what you are doing, my win 10 box boots to desktop in around 10 seconds if that
I distinctly remember an interview on Win95 launch day where the local news was interviewing a guy in a computer shop about his thoughts. He was unimpressed. He said something like, "Mac* already does this and much better".

When the iPhone launched, my reaction to it was essentially the same as the guy in the computer shop. Boy were we wrong about the impact both would have on the industry!

(* Edit: can't remember if he said Mac or OS/2)
I think we should throw commercial fusion in there for the trifecta.
That's not the post I'm talking about. And he was referring to an increase in slavery, not its origin.
There are a couple HTTP proxies that will translate HTTPS and Host: headers for very old browsers that don't support them: https://github.com/atauenis/webone or https://bitbucket.org/ValdikSS/oldssl-proxy/src/master/
> but it compiles each application as you install.

No it doesn’t. Hasn’t been that way for years.
With bitcoin how would law enforcement know the sender or reviever address? They would have to subopoena whatever service converts bitcoin to/from fiat currency. So at worst it's as bad.
Meh, neither airline policy nor executive policy is law, even if the CSR at the check-in desk confuses policy with law.
High-Level Interface for Truth
May as well blame the wheel. This is not a direct causal link.
The Hard Science of Reincarnation
I wouldn't call fraud for personal gain weird. It's quite common, actually.
You can check https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server
Sounds like you are describing Python, Go and whatever is the next programming language du jour. Folks "showing off minimal coding skill" proclaim "X in Y lines of code" for these "batteries included" languages all the time. Yet I never see any snarky comments pointing out the size, age or authors of the libraries they are using. All the parent comment did was demonstrate using the openssl binary, which is ubiquitous.

The GP referred to using nc. Assuming the original from 1995, that is not 10s of 1000s of LOC and was not written over three decades. It is the work of one person.

Yes, it is true. Everytime we use the OpenSSL library we are using 10s of 1000s of LOC written by a changing team of developers over several decades, a project with a long legacy of ad hoc development and mistakes. I doubt the parent is trying to take credit for any of that "heavy lifting".
It was sarcasm but do you use Amazon? I do think that it's hypocritical for people to actually be a customer while on the other hand participate in popular culture by throwing big words like oppression around.
The primary issue of WW2 was an ascending, hyper-aggressive super-power-to-be that was assisted by a secret pact with the USSR. Had Poland not been stabbed in the back, the war would have gone on an entirely different course.

All of the conflicts that you listed are just run of the mill civil wars/border skirmishes/empires with rather limited pan-ethnic ambitions.
100% agree, but I don't think the kind of people who read his essays, or even anybody who takes the time to read any essays of a similar length, will be swayed by the kind of logic displayed by OP("urbit=>moldbug=>bad")
IRC could only compete with slack if they added a sleep(1000ms) between each channel change...
No, it’s definitely not, that’s a separate problem!
Nardwuar – Do It Yourself! (2011)
I vouched for this comment as there's nothing offensive in this.

Some people don't like humor (I used to be of this opinion), but I think small doses don't hurt anyone.
> Do you have an example of something humans did that could kill them that was automated completely that still can kill them, but generally does not anymore?

My understanding from looking at research is that airplanes by experienced pilots rarely killed people... and they... still don't even when (partially) automated? There doesn't appear to be definitive evidence that autopilot is safer [2] as many of the innovations in safety have been conflated with procedural improvements.

In fact there are studies [1] that suggest autopilot is actually making flights unsafe as pilots are becoming complacent and airplanes do not flight themselves completely from point to point including taxiing.

In other words, no, plane automation is not an example as it does not satisfy the criteria of "generally does not" compared to the baseline of no automation.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001872088502700...

[2]https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/publication/...

Try not to be so condescending, sheesh.
Can you imaging being Oracle at the time and freaking out thinking Microsoft was coming to eat your lunch.
The worst is going back to mac versions of office after you have finally gotten used to everything being in the ribbon, half the stuff is in the ribbon, the other half is buried in menus, its incredibly frustrating.
Viagra leads to sex, sex is exercise, exercise leads to longer life.
And many people, myself including, come here mainly because it has meaningful discussion.
I haven't thought this through totally but you can write visualizers in VS[1]. I don't know if it'd work but there's a fair amount of power in natvis expressions.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/creat...)
Mine: https://feeds.pub/timqian
And what if the copyright holder lobbied for the inclusion by reference of the copyrighted work into the law?

Does this change the calculus at all?
The only thing missing is the application search feature where you can just type the app name to find it, that's about the only decent feature win7 onwards introduced.
But sex also leads to children, children leads to less sleep, less sleep leads to shorter life.
So why does money laundering exist? Is it just because the cost of laundering is lower than the tax rate? I though big criminals paid very high rated to launder money. Like 40% or so. Why not just avoid the additional fraud and pay the taxes on your millions in drug sales?
On the map they've got Quintana Roo in the wrong timezone. It's in -0500, not -0600.
Mostly agree. I will concede boot time is a bit slow on 10 for me, but still faster than 95 was, and yes, it doesn't matter much because of the incredible uptime. 95 would often crash multiple times PER DAY. Meanwhile I just had my Win 10 system do an honest to goodness hard blackscreen crash a few days ago, and it was probably the first in months.

For what it's worth, I'm sure you could get the "boot" of a Win 10 machine down to almost nothing if you really wanted to. Mostly it's just not worth it.
Oh, what do you know, Apple is using the same shitty playbook that Microsoft used and outgrew off from 90's. Remember when opening and interpreting everything by default was the source of all kind of malware because Microsoft thought usability/convenience must trump security? I remember. Nowadays they toned that down: - no more macros enabled by default, no more default autoplay, no more automatically opening mail attachments in Outlook, and definitely Notepad doesn't interpret HTML tags within anything you threw at, including .html files.
Blood flow is important for several things
My personal Window 10 box boots within 10 seconds. My corporate laptop takes an eternity despite being more powerful.

I suspect configuration (software and hardware) has a massive impact which is being glossed over.
Yes, but if you know exactly when everyone else find out you can time your trade more easily.
Do you have an image of this? I am having a hard time imaging it..
The article was a few months too early to mention Pyongyang Standard Time, introduced in August 2015 to break away from imperialism by setting all clocks back half an hour.

The move has since been reverted in the spirit of national unification and both Koreas now share the same time zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_North_Korea
I do write natvis but it seems to be based on the assumption that the object (+ globals) are sufficient for displaying the data. Which isn't the case if your handle is an index into some other object/array at a random place in memory (unless you make the array a global).