skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among user interfaces that I use daily, that of MS Windows Explorer has become, since many years, much worse than the user interface of most file managers available for Linux. The numerous extra mouse clicks that I need to do in Windows Explorer to navigate the file system or to perform any other task, compared to a non-stupid file manager, are extremely annoying.

The same can be said about MS Word, which has become much worse than LibreOffice, also since many years.

I have been using MS Word for 30 years, but recent versions frequently surprise me because when I have to search some command through its menus it never is where I would expect it.

With older versions of MS Word, I had no need for a manual or for a help command, because I could easily discover how to do anything that I had not done before.

With the newer versions of MS Word it is hard for me to discover how to do anything that I have done many times before, but not recently enough.

Even if I have used LibreOffice for much fewer years than MS Word, with it, like with the old MS Word versions, I never had difficulties to discover how to do something.

These days, I will never use willingly MS Windows Explorer or MS Word, instead of their open-source equivalents.

These are just some of the most obvious examples of commercial programs with a bad user interface, but there are many more.
DIY handwriting recognition is actually really easy using Microsofts SaaS offerings. The results are astonishingly good too - it makes mincemeat of my awful handwriting.
Same. No need for the Microsoft account, although it is tricky to find.
I really want to understand this. Let's say my focus is on retrieving the input, not the secret.

I do not want the people who are running the program to know my input. I do not want the program to know my input. Does indistinguishability obfuscation help with that?
Same: I suspect a good omega 3 ratio greatly reduces skin damage with sun. Anecdotally it's worked for me and my wife when we started eating a lot more eggs/red meat and less O-6 products. We haven't used sunscreen in a few years now because of it.

There are some studies that suggest this is true, such as: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7561154/ (note: N = 13)

And Oregon State "Essential Fatty Acids and Skin Health" primer, which goes over what's going on in healthy skin. https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/health-disease/skin-health/e...

Their conclusion:

> Supplementation with n-3 fatty acids in particular exerts protection from photodamage and photoaging.
QAnon wouldn't made it out because it was so stupid that at pre-internet pace the whole thing would have blown over before it got exported to other countries.

Even BLM might not have a chance. In that case you don't even have to guess. You can see to what degree previous black protest were important because BLM is just latest occurrence of something that happened in USA multiple times already.
Covid: US death toll passes 600k as vaccination rate slows
Microsoft doing in 2021, what Apple did in 1999.

(Microsoft PowerToys for XP had a graphing calculator but it doesn't support inequalities.)

I coincidentally had to fire up Sheepshaver recently so I've got it on hand. I put that inequality in the MacOS 8 Graphing Calculator and it gave me a nice looking checkerboard. Except I had to write it as "sin(x)sin(y)<0" or else it would think I meant "sin(xsin(y))<0", which is pretty itself.
Imagine loading this page in the 90s though! One new HTTP connection at a time, a full TCP handshake. Maybe if you were lucky you were using Netscape which would load up to 4 resources at once!
It's analogous to the robots.txt file, which one must host to opt-out of crawling (and everyone's basically fine with). Public network, publicly-accessible data. Public airwaves, publicly-accessible SSID.

Google is assuming (much as it assumed with crawling the Internet) that information broadcast in the clear into the world is fine to aggregate.

(Personally, the only part I'm sad about is that since there's no hidden metadata channel to take advantage of in the 802.11 protocols, they can't squirrel away the "nomap" in a hidden state and instead have to gum up the human-visible SSIDs to transmit the intent to not be indexed).
Not to diminish your complaint, but try typing "Code". Works for me.
This happened in South Korea, there were 3 brands that needed to pull their products because of this. https://www.nssgclub.com/en/pills/25875/solari-coreani-contr...
We teach high schoolers that F=ma. That’s not true either, but it’s approximately true. So it’s in no way unique that history is taught as approximation and simplification.
As an example, I had a doctor prescribe me anti-psychosis medication in small doses for a really bad bout of migraines, medication which had known mood changing side-effects.

I needed glasses.
Shelf-stacking more useful in pandemic than master’s degree – survey
Same here. Worth it.
> People were against this emotionally since Trump suggested it first and no one wanted to be seen agreeing with him on something, even though a broken clock can be right twice a day

Trump wanted to use some inappropriate names for the disease and wanted to ban travel for people holding PRC passports. Neither of those things make sense to do from a disease control standpoint. If you wanted to ban travel for people who had been in the area of exposure, that might make sense, but nation of passport isn't the way; and after not a whole lot of time, the disease had spread widely enough that there weren't really many places that should have been whitelisted.
I don't understand. The idea is to switch the bank account from US-Dollars to Tethers? To SV-Dollars? To SV-Tethers?

Hi from Argentina! Been there, done that. Note that at the end of the convertibility, the Peso was devaluated from 1<->1 to 1<->1.4, and most of the US-Dollars accounts were frozen and later converted to Pesos (IIRC the small banks account at a 1.4 ratio, but it was not possible to buy the equivalent amount of Dollars, and the large account were exchanged for long term bond.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
He should accept on condition that the song must be Pigs or Welcome to the machine
And yet, if they or a family member have to visit the emergency room, they will likely be financially ruined.

I recently visited the ER for some chest pain which amounted to nothing and was charged $4,000 for it. Imagine what that would do to the 60% (!!) of Americans who can't come up with $500 for an emergency (see my top comment about stagnant wages, rising rent, and astronomical health care costs).

Comments like yours are easily and frequently used to distract from very real systemic problems that working class people still face. Access to cheaper smartphones doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, but food and housing security and the ability to get medical treatment without fear of going bankrupt sure do.
If someone mirrors a company's free download page, you can't legally download from the mirror, unless they have redistribution rights, which they don't. A free download from a company means that you are permitted to download from the company, not from anyone else who has a copy, not even a mirror.

Again, probably nobody will arrest you for this, but nobody's likely to arrest you for conventional piracy either.
I suspect another breakthrough will be of a completely different nature: having the computer reverse engineer voxel or polygon models back into a tree of features (something like solidworks). The user gains much easier editing an object as a series of understandable steps instead of a blob of polygons.

This is a pretty crazy difficult CS problem! There's a bunch of research papers using deep learning to solve this, and it is starting to work, although in very limited domain. (Relatively prismatic objects.)
I've been using various Linux and BSD flavours as my main desktop OS and also at work for over 15 years now and never had any major issue such as the one you describe. So now what are we going to do? How do we decide who is right and who is wrong? I don't understand these types of comments, if an alternative doesn't work for you then you keep using what you were in the first place. There's no problem here. What exactly are you suggesting, that you experienced a problem so it won't work for anyone else?
Even better: the only result is a stackoverflow post that your coworker made, asking about the exact issue you're investigating, with zero answers
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There are plentiful anecdotes (including this very comment section) of people with similar stories just assuming they had caught covid early. Yours is the only one I've seen where the people involved took a rational/science minded approach and bothered to get tested for antibodies. Your story should be viewed as a teaching moment about making assumptions for others.

>So maybe we just all caught a bad flu bug?

I think we in the general public have a tendency to underestimate just how bad the flu is. Tens of thousands of people die from it every year in the US alone. This in spite of easy access to vaccines. It's nothing to mess around with.
Networks, Prestige, and the Spread of Scientific Ideas
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I agree, it seems like fine-tuning the massive open source models is better than buying small niche models. Curating the dataset is also a non-trivial amount of work that has to be customised per client. However with further adoption of AI into new markets new clients may emerge.
I don't believe that's the case.
Why do all new OS versions look like deepin Linux? These screenshots look like someone mixed up DDE and Solis Budgie.
Yes, it's just key-value data and basically every mobile OS has APIs that will hand it to a developer on a silver platter. I'm sure that this data is already available from various data brokers, just as address data is.

But it's not a competition anyway. Address data being freely available doesn't make other privacy abuses any less bad.
Joe Biden Tries to Read Notes, Gets Lost and Confused in the Process
At this point, it would be a story if he got through speaking without gaffes.

Joe Biden confused himself while speaking at the US-EU summit.

Biden goes off script and then struggles to read his notes.
There are a few problems with making new CAD, especially open source:

- CAD math is hard and severely limits contributors. Unlike many open source projects, you need a pretty big core team to make something worth using. FreeCAD/OpenCASCADE, etc. have remained hobbyist CAD, where we've seen the success of open source in software.

- Another core problem is that MechE's can't easily edit the tool they're using when they run into a bug/feature they want to work on, unlike open source software where the users can more easily be contributors.

- High switching costs: there are four big CAD companies: Dassault, Autodesk, Siemens, PTC, and once a company commits to one ecosystem, it's very hard to change. Ex: Boeing isn't putting the CAD for the 787 in OnShape - ever. There also aren't that many new huge hardware companies, meaning that folks like OnShape get SMEs, but virtually all enterprise is taken. This has essentially led to an oligopoly in mechanical CAD, and slow pace of innovation in the space. I believe CAD tools have 50x less $ investment (including big companies) than software dev tools.

- InterOp is also hard, file formats are complex/proprietary/inconsistently implemented. There are kernels like ParaSolid with import/export/conversion systems, but they're not trustworthy enough to really put the 787 into new CAD without so many bugs that you'd lose a year fixing them and likely be paranoid forever wondering if you got them all.

- Folks like nTopology have done a good job side stepping these concerns as they built a CAD tool that does a specific function (generative design) that can't be done in traditional CAD kernels and can be sold for very high value-add situations - ie designs that need very high performance from the uniquely optimized geometries that they're able to generate, and export files that play nice with regular CAD. This means Boeing can have some fancy nTopology-created parts in their planes without having to blow up their CAD/PLM systems.
I'm not mad, I just have been taught that retcon'ing evidence to fit a narrative is not the same thing as science. It doesn't matter how well it fits or evidence, it should be rejected because the base structure of the argument fails.

These people aren't 'right' in the sense that they figured something out, they screamed about something without evidence.

Whatever happens next cannot change that fact. Its notable that what is happening is the evidence is getting constantly substituted to fit an explanation not the explanation emerging from the available evidence.

It's the boy who cried wolf...
They should have built the site in Tailwind...
How do they know where my SSID is? Is my phone sharing that info with them? Did they grab it with Street View cars?

Is their advertising now using the SSIDs I pass by to track me even when I explicitly turn off GPS?

If I turn off location history in Google, does this prevent that information being shared with others in the ad industry chain?

Do I need to track all them down and find how to opt out of them having a database of my frequent locations?
If you just want the value of an integral, maybe not. If you want to understand the integral, or manipulate it in different ways, yeah there's value. Frequently, a computational solver will spit out some giant expression, while if you did it manually, you'd end up with something more compact, perhaps making new intuitive definitions along the way (generally manual common subexpression elimination and factoring).
> for 300 procedures [...] CMS designated 73 of these, and hospitals choose the other 217.

217 + 73 = 290. Somewhere, there’s a mistake in these numbers.
It's unfortunate that the link to the actual survey:

https://www.fourth.com/resource/truth-about-dining-out-infog...

is now dead. All this is is a news site quoting it, second-hand, and I have seen enough news sites get original reporting wrong not to place a great deal of stock in them getting it right.
Interceptors in general were made obsolete by the time the A-12 and F-108 programs were being considered and ultimately canceled.

The first reason was ICBMs becoming the dominant form of nuclear deterrent. The A-12 was never going to be built into an interceptor that could shoot down an ICBM.

The second was the Nike Hercules program. They took the Nike surface to air missiles, enlarged them, and put a nuke on top of them. This did a reasonable job of solving the ICBM problem, and also solved any problem that would have been solved with interceptors. There were 200-300 Nike Hercules sites in the continental US, plus a non-nuclear export version that had a 1,000lb conventional payload which was deployed in many other NATO/US allied countries.

The end result is that even though there's still a need and a market for air superiority and multirole fighters, the high speed interceptor is not a role that exists in a modern military anymore. Much like the battleship for instance.

(edit: note that the fastest strategic bomber built by the Soviet Union was the mach 2.05 Tu-160, which is slow enough to be intercepted by the mach 2.5 F-15 or the mach 2.4 F-14.)
Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-645/19 Facebook Ireland and Others
Best exemplified by x^x. Differentiation is tricky but doable. Integration is impossible.
Google doesn't want "Fred Bloggs's iPhone" in their data set anyway. A mobile access point is no use for geolocation.
Hey Google if you don't agree to hire me please redirect google.com to google-nohire.com. Otherwise I consider my imaginary contract binding.
What would an example of that be?
I have an RM1 and it's pretty good, it's a one trick pony and does that trick (paper notebook replacement) well. The only issue I have is discovery/searching of old notes. If ReMarkable would add wiki or roam style linking, it could readily become a second brain. I really think they are missing a trick there...
>How WOULD we know?

Antibody tests after the fact would reveal whether or not these were Covid cases. You'd have to be tested before the antibodies disappeared, though.
They likely were aware of this leak [1], but didn't want to name it specifically (or had their own sources).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-window...
>Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works -- the communists are defeated.

You're welcome Italy
I _hate_ sunscreen. It's unpleasant to wear. I always do, but it's not my favorite part of summer by far.

This year i am experimenting with rashguards and big stupid floppy hats.
I live in south Florida (tropical weather climate) and my shoulders are covered in freckles from sunburns growing up. Basically following the sunburn the skin would begin to peel, which started off as little circles (which I always assumed became the freckles).

I don’t know much about the process but always classified it myself as damage/scars. Though I could see calling non-sunburn induced freckles scars or damaged skin (or undesirable) as being inaccurate and just insensitive to people born with freckles.
It should be illegal to render medical services without first declaring the precise amount of money it will cost the end user.

If I go to a doctor and they recommend a procedure, it should be on them (the service provider) to tell me the cost and I should pay it right then and there. Billing later should be strictly outlawed.
There's also Blackbird

https://www.getblackbird.net/

Been using this since release
boo.com used to be one of the gold standards for this but they burnt a mere $135M (~$220M in 2021) in 18 months for a DBB of $245k/day (~$400k in 2021).
I'll bite. I actually figured out I had narcolepsy through a pharmaceutical company's big campaign to push a couple newer drugs they have the patents for. "Are you more than tired?". Well, yes. I'm tired all the time and a couple times a week have bouts where I'm staring at a concrete floor thinking I could just lay down and go to sleep. But I don't have narcolepsy. I'm not that tired. I don't pass out randomly. I can still work long hours at a physical job. I just occasionally have to muster all my willpower not to lay down and sleep in the middle of the store. And I haven't been able to watch an entire movie without falling asleep in the first hour in a very long time.

Took the chintzy little quiz and I figured I might as well ask my doctor. A couple sleep studies and an MSLT test and what do you know?
But I'm not shouting it out, I'm only saying it loud enough to hear in my house unless you're using a really sensitive receiver pointed at my windows.
It’s growing the pie versus fighting over it. Most large firms have economies of scale that allow the managers to fight over the surplus. Hard to restrain this without moral authority of founders.
A Springer article that you can read for free?? But we can probably still rely on Elsevier.
Fortunately Vitamin D supplements are a safe and effective way to get the recommended amount. UV exposure is the most preventable cause of skin cancer[1] and not worth the risk.

EDIT Forgot my link:
1. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/call-to-action-preve...
You’d have to legislate what you can do with the data. Saying that you’re not allowed to receive random broadcasts would make it so you basically couldn’t connect to wifi APs.
Spot on!

Even with EU making travel easier, the language barriers, etc are really strong reasons why people prefer not to move far away.

When I lived in SF, people were from all over the US / world. There were very few native SF'ers to be found anywhere in tech.
No you won't. What BSSID you're connected to isn't sent by any browser. Browsers (as in all of them, including Firefox, see https://location.services.mozilla.com/ ) will use the visible BSSIDs if the website asks for your location & you approve it, but it's not just silently done automatically. It's part of all the existing location permission & request flows (indeed it's how those work on laptops at all in the first place).
My anecdata here is that people go all-in on conspiracy theories when they have a hole in their lives that they are trying to fill. You can't argue them out of it any more than you can argue a person of faith out of their religion. These things are rooted in emotion, not reason.

But I do believe you can mitigate conspiracy thinking by helping the theorist with their underlying problems, whatever those might be. Distract them from their obsession and increase their real-world engagement. Give them back a sense of control over their lives and they can start to rebuild their sense of reasonableness.
I see

So its likely heavily factoring in stock price appreciation as the RSUs vest and have a portion withheld for taxes based on current value.
I suspect -march=native is the only thing doing any work here. The other optimizations are as likely to find compiler bugs as they are to improve things, once you get off well-tested paths.
hiding SSID isnt invisible, it just doesnt show a name in a wifi scan. you have to connect to it by name; meaning you have to know the name, odds are that 600gle has somehow kluged out that name.

[also] "How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?"

>>To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."<<
> then you can get away with some midday sun

No you can't. Or rather, you shouldn't. If you have more melanin you obviously have more protection. But your skin will still get damaged by a midday sun, and it will age faster than normal.

This misconception that darker skin does not need protection is really harmful. Maybe that allows you to skip sunscreen for short periods of time, or in early morning, late evening. Not midday, unless "some sun" means just a few minutes.
I had a coworker who got really sick around the same time. He had the PCR test done and it came back negative. There was definitely a bad flu going around at the same time as covid was popping up in the US.
Apple says you can build apps on iPad now, but reality is trickier
The majority of Americans engage in lifestyle inflation. That's a major issue generally.
I would argue, philosophically, the broken clock isn't right twice a day. That clock is simply saying the same thing as people who are right. It's claim about what time it is has no credibility.

I have a friend who's Toddler knows that things have colors but only knows one color - Blue. If the child calls everything Blue it isn't showing understanding of the concept, even if the kid responds 'Blue' when asked what color the sky is. To claim that is 'right' is projecting my beliefs and knowledge onto the childs.
Ubuntu is not all of Linux
Show HN: DashedView – Android library to create dashed or striped backgrounds
Surprised to see no mention of Operation Condor (other than actions in Chile under Pinochet) which displaced my family in Argentina and destabilized a handful of counties in South America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
> outlook always cost money

outlook express was free on xp
Yep, fixed, it's 70 shoppable services and 230 they choose.