skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The official Windows media creation tool is a bit of an abomination. Primarily because it is slow and has very quirky requirements that it doesn't advertise and only checks for at the very last second.

You download the tool and want to create a Windows 10 bootable USB, so you run the executable.

Then you find out that it won't let you choose where to save the temporary ISO file that it wants to download. It's hardcoded to the C:\ drive which can easily be a small SSD that is already almost full. You grumble a bit, proceed to delete/move some files off of C:\ so that it could download the ISO and then restart the tool.

This time the download finishes successfully, but after the download you get an error because it turns out it wants to extract what it downloaded - and of course hardcoded to the C:\ drive. You moan a bit, proceed to delete/move even more files off of C:\ and restart the tool.

Third time's the charm right? Well after waiting around forever, it has once again downloaded the ISO and this time also extracted it. Then it informs you that it can't actually create the bootable USB stick because it needs to be run as an administrator. You scratch your head in disbelief, wondering why instead of giving you an error message it doesn't just launch a privilege escalation prompt - or at least have the privilege requirement defined in its manifest.

The fourth time has to work. You manually run it as administrator, it re-downloads & re-extracts the ISO, and you still get the error message that it needs to run as an administrator. What is going on? You google for answers and realize that you've found the only Windows app in existence that is not satisfied with mere privilege escalation but instead demands you to be running directly as the administrator.

You log out of your regular user account, log in as the administrator, re-download & re-extract the ISO - and then finally the tool is willing to create the bootable USB.

...

On the other hand it is possible to create the Windows 10 bootable USB with just the command line [1] and this can be done without having the ISO on your C:\ drive, without having to extract the ISO files to a temporary location before being copied to the USB, or having to directly log in as administrator. A simple escalated privilege command prompt will do just fine.

Thus I'm left wondering what is going on at Microsoft. Did they assign some random intern to create the Windows 10 installation media tool? It is very incompetently made.

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[1] https://davidzych.com/install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-dr...
What you're saying is only Windows users will have telemetry... which isn't that bad, for those who want telemetry in their software
I had the same feeling when reading the post. Their remark that they "estimated the cost" to be that low is in my experience a bad signal. Estimating costs on the cloud is really hard, there are so many (hidden) costs you may miss making it a lot more expensive.
Why a Ryzen instead of an Epyc in a data center?
The Gulf War has nothing to do with Kuwait. We did not use overwhelming technological force on Kuwait. We used it on Iraq.

Once again, you demonstrate how warmongers cannot ever justify these abhorrent actions in the MENA region without invoking the highly dubious altruism of "we gotta punish the bad guys." The obvious need for the Gulf War from the 1990s warmonger point of view was the unprecedented post-Cold-War military buildup that was not only terribly unnecessary but has led to the loss of innumerable lives all over the globe thanks to our orgy of violence, ongoing to this day, called the War on Terrorism. But it did line the pockets of the shareholders of Raytheon and Boeing.

In a certain sense, this also helped line the pockets of Noam Chomsky, with whom I agree on very little beyond war. And even there, he's a complex thinker and I have many disagreements. Why would you try to pigeonhole and dismember my argument by placing me in the same category as Chomsky? You may think it's fine second-handing this issue and passing the buck to bigger names than yours, but instead of that, why don't you try arguing the merits of your ideas directly? Explain why millions of dead women & children were worth the "white lie" of the Gulf War being all about punishing the actions of Saddam in Kuwait?
Hands-On: Using Google Search Data to Build and Market Products Better
I'd love to see how much harder brain regeneration is
Tohil: Bidirectional integration between Python and Tcl
Investment Scammer John Davies Reinvents Himself?
Free market!= Freedom to invade peoples privacy without regulation
Is there a demo for a racket app on Android?
The Origin of Features
When I was getting started I would research local businesses who had shitty websites, or whom I had a good idea for their existing website/business.

I’d either send a short cold email (personalised) letting them know I’m local and I exist - briefly talk about what I do.

The other option if the organisation is small enough is to just walk in and talk to them in person.

It’s not comfortable, but if you’re being genuine, people tend to receive you well (or let you down easy).

I found a hit rate of about 5% using this method. Keep the email short and friendly.
No. It explains the "blueberries", but it does not explain them ON THE END OF STEMS. Please look at the photo I'm talking about before you downvote and ignore what I'm saying.
It's hard not to gloat over the misery of someone who, guaranteed, caused at least as much misery to multiple other people.
Like giving someone tulips as a present in 1637 and then finding out there is a tulip mania and had you grown new ones from the seeds you would be a millionaire. Some things never change.
Ironically, you are helping Facebook when you do this. Their algorithms get tuned by users saying they don't want certain ads.

This is why I stopped doing this on Instagram.
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb (Ep. 68)
Haha. I totally get that.

But… I don’t think that popup was designed to get the HN folk to opt in but rather those that use Facebook (and Instagram, which has the same language) to communicate actively.

It’s really the pre-prompt I’m referring to here, which, as one of its bullet points for why you should opt in, says it helps keep Facebook free.

That’s a big statement to drop in a tiny bullet point, which makes me feel like they thought about it a lot. Meaning, it’s very targeted.
We chose this path
Some people demand to be spoonfed their philosophy, do not appreciate being asked to dream it.

There was a similar reaction from Europeans confronted with east asian philosophies in previous centuries. The question is, whether to be Leo
or H.H., that’s all.
Of course, the images may not be deleted. Unless someone notices, such as with these 35,000 from Orlando:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/11/100_images_from_the_...

And an alleged insider discussion of how those "remote" viewers respect passenger privacy:

"Personally, in the I.O. room, I witnessed light sexual play among officers, a lot of e-cigarette vaping, and a whole lot of officers laughing and clowning in regard to some of your nude images, dear passengers."

https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/letter-from...
Emscripten used to use Java for Closure Compiler minification, but no longer does since there are (AOT compiled Java) binaries available for it, for all major platforms. It fetches them using npm. So that part of your post is a little out of date.

(As to why use Java at all, Closure is written in it, and its advanced optimizations make a huge difference!)

The use of both node and python in Emscripten is slightly redundant. When Emscripten started, node could not yet replace python for what we do with it. Today, if someone wants to refactor that code to node we'd definitely be interested in such a PR! But overall such a refactoring has been lower in priority compared to other work (new wasm features, performance, etc.).
The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did this intentionally. I think everyone had the best of intentions and either they found something deep in a bat cave or there was a lab mishap. I've gone down the rabbit hole on this issue. Here are some interesting links https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=R01AI110964&hl=en&as_sd... is the papers done by a NIH grant to Eco Health Alliance. This shows they were looking for new variants of Coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089274/pdf/114... This shows they were artificially synthesizing Coronaviruses and incubating them in monkey cells. Dr. Peter Daszak seems to be in the center of a lot of this and IMO had a conflict of interest being on the WHO COVID-19 origins report.
Thank you. Any chance of getting some insight into what you’re working on?
Taking control of my own data and only giving it/selling it when I choose is perfectly free market.
You can use any Racket lib, with the caveat that importing from an untyped lib requires the user to state the type.
It could have. There's irony in the tone of your response to a post that started with calling out a false dichotomy. There are many more possibilities and that was my point.

On your latter point, I'll just say that the virus likely needed some time to mutate into a human infectious form, and most of what we're talking about is, where and how did that happen?
I keep hearing great things about GRC's InitDisk.
Unfortunately it's windows-only, but it's able to format almost anything you throw at it:

https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm
Because we don't need any experience with any software to say that telemetry, any kind of
it, is wrong; it has already been abused and will be abused.

Long gone are the days of a program that bombed, so one would send the core dump containing a great deal of personal information and sensitive data to the developers who would investigate the bug and mail back an uuencoded solution. Sounds old? Yeah because it is.

This is now a connected world in which every hole can be exploited to make money or gain advantages over other people, software that phones home -no matter if in perfect good faith or not- can be exploited to do nasty things. Thumbs down.
By that logic, we should not be able to interpret anything we see at all.

Nevertheless, the image on picture 30 looks like something that grew out of the ground because it's on a stem.
Tech company regulation is popular with politicians on both sides of the aisle (with different motivations from each side), so there has to be more to it than this. I think at least some of it is because the politicians are afraid of their constituents (my parent 50% comment) and donors (affects both sides of the aisle).
These system do not work outside the justification where they are made.

Domestic Tx are fast and cheap because all parties involved have agreements and the same laws etc. etc.
Cheating between local banks is rather useless because there is some kind of overload (the sate/a judge) that can order stuff to be reversed.

Blockchains are for when no such trust/power based system is in place.

So if you send USD to Mexico for example. You exchange USD to crypto send crypto to Mexico and sell it there to get MXN. The crypto transaction is final there is no reversing, it can not be unfunded, frozen or anything. The receiver doesn't need any kind of trust relationship to the sender. Its either transacted or not and both sides can independently verify that. Its not just a real time transaction its also a instant settlement (clearing).
Other way to make settlement is if you move physical cash or gold but there goes the "instant" part.
In the pre-Internet world there would be someone at the store who would a) do a checkout of the product prior to listing and b) evaluate customer returns and act upon them, in order to protect the integrity of the store. Delivering crap would lead to consequences (in the worst case de-listing) for the vendor.

Amazon doesn't do either - sellers are allowed to put up basically everything that's legal to sell somewhere on the world (including propaganda materials for all kinds of questionable groups including right-wing terrorism), and they don't care at all about complaints from customers about fake products or shoddy quality.

They only seem to care when big media representatives short-circuit the system and raise a stink at the PR team.
taking short clips of people he doesn't like out of context and disparaging them

I'm sure Greenwald makes fair accusations at times. The problem I have is with the false accusations.

That said, I'll concede the point to you. For me to continue in an honorable fashion, I would have to listen to the Greenwald episode your comment references, which I was unaware existed. For all I know, in that podcast, he would convince me that both the problem claims are true.

The thing is, I do not want to spend the next half hour (probably longer) listening to a Glenn Greenwald podcast :)
Show HN: Expanding Single Page Apps into Multiple Browser Windows – Part 2
This is a beautiful example of FOSS culture at work.

In what world would corporate, closed-source software engage in this kind of earnest truth-telling without the propellers of mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers?
Streamline your operational reporting with the powerful solution
I have nothing against moving the entire college admission over to be anonymous test based. Progressive people doesn't like it though.
Another perspective; blogs and wikis are two use-cases of essentially the same interaction. The different designs guide and inspire people how to use them. Then, they discover that the use-cases are beneficial.

In some ways, all of social media consist of apps tailored to specific use-cases that haven't been new for decades, but they "invite" normal people to use them.
The Problem Is Facebook
Origins of agile in Japanese stone masonry
I have personally been responsible for about 20 HDDs in the last 20 years and had about four of them fail before being put out of service for some other reason (1 in 5) but out of about 7 SSDs I have had zero failures. The pool of zero failure drives is much larger if I lump together SD cards with SSDs.

This is in line with what they observe.
So you agree: there was a coup attempt. My bad.
I drew a synthesizer with HTML and CSS
Another thing to keep in mind is how often these will be seen. Right now ~10K apps ask (or, try to ask).

So the odds of seeing the prompt in the wild aren’t too high unless you’re a Facebook user.

But as more apps show the prompt and it’ll become very common all you need is to agree once and you’ll then be more likely to opt in more than opt out, in my opinion.

I expect that 10k to 10x before the end of the year. Even then, 100k apps out of ~2M isn’t all that many, so it might take a long time for advertisers to regain the kind of access they had pre ATT.
Disney Imagineering Crammed a Humanoid Robot into a Groot Suit
That'd be a pretty rare position even amongst the most conservative economists, since markets are generally acknowledged to have 1. failure modes, like monopoly, and 2. externalities, which the economic actor should get forced to internalize.
Not with any reliability, as it is a subjective matter (different users will want to make the utility/performance compromises in different places) and even if you manage to smooth the subjectivity out of the equation there are other variables over time (if you test performance now and decide to use the full-fat function as the current device seems fast, heat or battery concerns might cause the device to slow right down in a few minutes time). Same for network related limits - your application could start while the device is on a wireless AP connected to a decent fibre link so have significant bandwidth and relatively low latency, then the user immediately walks next door out of range of that AP and the device resorts to whatever 4G (or worse) link is available in the area.

A better approach might be to simply let the user choose. At the start either default to one version (full fat or basic), or give the user a choice up-front, and make it easy to switch later. Perhaps do a quick test and warn the user if they pick the setup intended for high performance on a device upon which it might be slow, or recommend switching down if things get problematical later.
The VFX Forth compiler is about 3 to 3.5 times faster on most benchmarks. GForth-fast does some clever "JIT" type tricks to make it faster than a naive Forth system but there is still some overhead inherent in reading the lists of addresses in threaded code.
> These aren't to be confused with the indiscriminate idiots who can't be bothered to use their brains, who leave mindless reviews such as "This is junk but it was cheap and kinda works... 5 stars!" Right.

I wouldn't say that they were indiscriminate nor not bothered to use their brains. One of the all too often seen things is a card for "leave a 5 star review and get a $10 amazon gift card" in the package.

Yes, its part of an effort to get 5 star reviews since the sorting of the product on amazon is more important than the text in the reviews below the fold. Yes, that's unscrupulous on both the buyer's and the seller's part.

But it is not indiscriminate or brainless on the part of the reviewer. It's selfish.
A lot of these architecture have some drawbacks in modern times.

Alpha’s loosey-goosey memory model makes multithreaded code on SMP systems more challenging. Linux utilizes its Alpha port as a worst-case testbed for data race conditions in its kernel.

SPARC’s register windows are anachronistic and complicate the implementation of CPUs, and I’d guess also make it more difficult to build OoOE cores (so many SPARC chips are in-order, why?)

POWER isn’t so bad though. It’s open enough where you could build your own lower-cost core if you wanted. There’s nothing intrinsic to the ISA that would mandate an expensive chip other than volume constraints.

PA-RISC put up some great numbers back in the day but between the Compaq acquisition (bringing with it Alpha) and Itanium it was chronically under-resourced. They had a great core in the early 90s and basically just incrementally tweaked it until its death.
Zig supports WebAssembly out of the box, doesn't require GC and has first-class support for WASI.
Ask HN: Which ANC earbuds / headphones would you recommend and why?
I get the impression you want me to name a specific publication so you can argue that it is just as biased as The Guardian. ...which isn't the point of this conversation.

Can we simply agree that being less biased is better than being more biased, as a fundamental principle?

Or are you honestly making the argument that you prefer more bias in news you read?
What a Crossword AI Reveals About Humans' Way with Words
Maybe this URL makes it seem more legit than it is, but the linked article below has a "2.5" version of events that proposed that samples taken from a group with who'd been infected by a coronavirus from bats may have been released accidentally. In other words that the lab was the point of release, but that they didn't construct or alter the virus as it already had adapted to humans in an earlier time.

I've done some separate reading that this is a legitimate way that viruses can adapt to a new species, but I don't have any background to evaluate the argument much beyond face value.

Some of the adjacent comments shed some doubt there as it sounds like bats aren't a plausible source because of the spike protein genetics.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-propos...
> GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use.

Choose your dependencies wisely. Sometimes only a crystal ball would have helped but often, a little bit of due dilligence would have prevented lots of upgrade pain down the line.
I am really starting to feel that co-location will make a big comeback. It seems cloud costs are just becoming too high for the convenience they once offered. For small projects and scale probably makes a ton of sense, but at some point the costs to scale aren't worth the up front developer cost savings.
85% of those surveyed believed their content amplification could be better
They also applied it to music in the public domain or under CC0.
Get your Dad Jokes delivered via SMS with this IoT project
As far as I know direct to consumer drug advertising is allowed only in New Zealand and the US. In most countries it’s illegal.
I've been using Alacritty in Garuda Linux and having a blast with it! It is really awesome!

Latte bugs are not though :(
It's how the US government operates, so it can't be that rare. Looking at the past 40 years, the answer to those "failure modes" is nearly always "less regulation". Economic actors are almost never forced to be responsible for their externalities. It's un-American to regulate any market: "Government is not the solution to any problem. Government is the problem."
If you can tolerate/ignore some of the crazies on the news group, the author is routinely on comp.lang.forth.

You could ask.
Not really. But Apple doesn’t use its data to sell you ads.

Wait! They actually do. Apple allows targeting ads in the App Store by things that require data collection.

So, a better answer might be “not right now” because no one is forcing it to play by its own rules.
> obsessive hunting for displays of anger and ruining people's lives over it

The man ruined his own life by being an absolute maniac. He has nobody to blame but himself, and to make it out to be a witch hunt is at minimum obtuse and at worst acting as an apologist for dangerous behavior. If throwing a printer at someone who's pleasantly introducing themself seems reasonable to you, please, I beg of you, never work anywhere. It's for everyone else's safety.
that just sounds all the more reason for a drag and drop thing to be implemented as a standard form element, that way browsers/screen readers can provide an accessibility fallback. whereas with javascript widgets, that's unlikely to happen quite often. and people are going to do drag and drop interfaces no matter what
Setting the actual tragic pandemic to one side.

It is not true that there are never going to be reasonable motivations to deploy a virus:-

It could be viewed as a tool to alter population demographics in an ageing society.

It might be deployed against an adversary.

It might be used to reduce the human population to avoid a predicted ecological disaster.

There are probably dozens of very reasonable motivations.
I'd say that's quite strong.

If that policy were delivered and administered by a democratic government, it'd also not be an example of 'dictatorship'.

The US has a democracy and executes people for murder. The government can kill you? What a dictatorship.
Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster (2012)
Perhaps. It is possible that a community just cannot handle an extremely high level of social and communication skills. It becomes too much for them.

The same thing can happen to politicians too; some of them are just so gifted, well-informed and good with people that everyone starts disliking them.

It's an interesting phenomenon.
The fundamentals of this cryptocurrency says otherwise. If you were the early people who threw their stimulus checks on this meme currency then congratulations and well played to you.

If it were me, I would take some of those profits off the table right now and secure that bag. Immediately.

But 'investing' right now for a new comer? You may get some short term unrealised gains right now, but nothing like in January. Tread carefully for the dump.

> That sounds like an investment to me!

I guess the short sellers are readying up for a sea of red in the crypto markets soon.