skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't know what a plutocracy is. Anyone who holds a token can vote they don't need to be wealthy. Poor voters can pool their votes to get a majority bigger than wealthy voters if wanted, this type of governance is called a democracy.

How do you receive tokens? One person, one token? No? Then it's not a democracy. Give me a break.

> By this logic paper contracts are also worthless because they also require a government to uphold and a lawyer to know whether what you are getting into is legit.

> Obviously having these paper contracts in a standardised way thats public is a gain to society, when we do that we call them smart contracts.

Oh god - smart contracts are not the same thing as "standardised paper contracts." Existing contracts are not worthless because it's the intent that matters, not what the actual contract says, unlike a smart contract.

> This is not true, early investors will have more crypto, this is the reward for investing early, the risk is that your millions of doge are worthless. This is just standard economics and investing.

There's no risk because you can simply mint more coins for free. The people who created the currency took no risk in holding.

> I am sorry if you thought crypto currency was going to bring about the communist utopia but its just a better form of capitalism, which is a good thing if you live in a capitalist country.

lol, ok.
Not if it puts you in 20-150k of debt you can't drop in even in bankruptcy. Those with the means move on with an education and connections while others may not even be able to afford the maintenance on a car.
It is unreasonable to demand office presence in 2021 after 1.5 years of remote work being tried and tested at scale. It serves no real purpose. All those meetings about the common vision, etc, can be done via video chat.

Some managers just want to power trip by walking around the office to see who is in their chair. That’s not how we do things anymore.
I claimed that almost everyone working for these organizations (or to be more pedantic but more accurate, almost everyone involved in content for these organizations) is well-described by the latter, not that almost every article will reflect that perspective in an obvious way or even at all. For someone who tends to see the world differently from the average journalist or editor, the question then becomes: why take even the articles that aren't obviously biased at face value when you have a good idea of how the individuals involved feel about your culture and your priorities?
"It must turn on the JavaScript, or it gets the blank page again" - The Silence of the LAMPs

--

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insist#Verb

Wiktionary is a website that has improved functionality after turning on JavaScript, but works just fine without it. It does not insist on using JavaScript.

I guess what you actually mean is "no one is insisting on me looking at their website"? That would be true, but I don't recall making any contrary claims.

If I do want to look at a website, the site insists on using JavaScript, but does not use HTTPS, that can be a security issue. That's what my original comment tries to point out.
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They have to load it before first unlock by definition, and at this point I don't believe that it would be possible to establish persistence. Restart your phone when it's handed back to you by people you don't trust.
There's no way that's true... maybe 70% of bugs that crash your computer though.
Eh, I do have misgivings about Teams and such tight Teams integration since my company chose it as its default communication platform.

My biggest beef is how limited I am as user with configuration ( the notifications are too big for my taste -- and I can either choose that they show or don't) and that UI somehow feels worse than webex.
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Some answers here - https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22546801/microsoft-window...
I remember fondly opening a whole slew of video’s by mistake. I expected BeOS to crash, but instead, it played them all at once.

I recently bought an Apple MacBook air with a M1 chip and only now has my system a similar performance as my Pentium 4 with BeOS used to have almost 20 years ago!
"Thiel placed into the account 1.7 million shares of then-private PayPal, which were valued at just $0.001 per share."

His share of PayPal was worth $1700? What nonsense. As as the limit was $2000 and the value of stock in a private company is just made up, not based on what a buyer will pay since you can't buy, it's nonsense. Putting stock of a private company into a Roth IRA never should have been allowed.
Glad we're asking PMs to chase resume trends from random blogs instead of just interviewing well and being the right fit for the job.
I believe they have said, or hinted, that it will be a free upgrade. Microsoft has an incentive itself to get as many people on one build itself to lower legacy costs.
Desktop OSes have been basically stagnant for almost 20 years. There's plenty of software innovation out there, but not in this space.
https://plasmic.app is a web design tool that was designed to export to React continuously, and it imports from Figma. Would that help? (I work on this)
https://recallgavin2020.com/
I wish MS stopped doing redesign of their interfaces every couple of years and just fixed the broken stuff the introduced somewhere along the way.

- Settings / control panel inconsistency and the other dozen places you can change configs for a single thing
- Telemetry, ads and system crap
- Package management and sandboxing

And the list goes on.
Then I assume there will be a corresponding increase in telemetry. Microsoft are not interested in making less money.
"memory issue" seems overly broad or vague.
Does that mean it's finally becoming a native app? By far the worst part of MS Teams is that it's slow and can't really help when it can't connect to its servers because it's just a web page.
FYI the official announcement is here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/06/24/intro...
Absolutely a quality of life tool. Very few excuses left to put up with zsh + Oh-My-Zash.
Has you heard about *"Datsville RPG" project — a free 3D game based on LDraw?

[0] https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsi...
What a wonderful visual representation of the notion that, "a battle is won before it begins."
Right, that was my assumption too. Sideloading would be my way around, but I'm guessing there may be some runtime signing or containerizing involved as well, else every Android vulnerability just became a Windows vulnerability.
Thats fantastic, but how does this work with purchases made on the Play store. If I bought an app on the Play Store does it carry across to Amazon ?
Google exists.
I think amazon's appstore is free of google play services which could be a big reason
I have seen Indian posters allude to this before, but I'm not familiar with what the connection is. Could you please elaborate?
The knock on backwards compatibility isn't a complaint about backwards compatibility, per se. It's about how so much of the OS is held back due to that support for old software.

The trash menus I'm referring to, while the language is a bit strong, are how there is no unified design throughout the OS. It reeks of implementing new features halfway and rushing it out, since most of what the user sees is now "new".
Because it suggests that the only course of action against these kinds of practices requires individual choices to not use Facebook.
Many years out of date (but from experience working with animation teams), Blender and other modeling tools were used by "creative" teams. They would build assets like the canonical version of the eponymous character for the production.

_Animators_ would then write the algorithms to animate said models within the studios chosen engine. For smaller studios this looks vaguely like integration on a service bus. At larger studios this would look more like "team X who writes a particle effects library which is then used to create snow" or "team Y who is making a kinematics extension and to inject the hundreds of slight nuances when a character jumps" (then a poser has tools to say "take Dinkey Donkey, move him from (x y,z) to (x',y',z') and have him jump".

Animation in video and gaming often looks like software development at this point (library management, shared objects, compiling frames, linking them into a video, etc).
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Responding to this comment while debugging a CI/CD pipeline failure for the last hour. I'll toast to the NASA engineers with my cup of coffee.
Do you really think Google would allow that?
So to summerize what they have announced (so far) -

* A new look task bar. Centred similar to the macOS dock by default but lacking the ability to position on any other screen edge?

* A new start menu design

* Windows have rounded corners

* Some built in apps such as the Xbox app and Microsoft Store have been redesigned (Xbox Game Pass and xCloud built into the Xbox app)

* New touch keyboard (SwiftKey?) with improved speech recognition

* New haptics when a stylus is used

* Teams integrated into Windows

* Support for Android apps built into the OS (using Intel Bridge technology whatever that is?). Apparently this works via the Amazon App Store although I am not sure what this actually means in a practical sense?

* A new widgets fly out for weather, news, etc. (appears this will require you login with a Microsoft Account)

* Improved windows snapping with a dynamic (based on your screen(s) size and layout) UI built into the maximize button

* DirectX 12 improvements (unsure if limited to Windows 11 only?)

* Auto HDR for games

* Improved experience when switching between tablet and desktop modes

* Apparently there will be "Windows 11 ready" PCs for sale "today"?

* Microsoft say they have been working with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to optimise the silicon for Windows 11

* 40% smaller Windows Updates

* TPM 2.0 and UEFI are hardware requirements. No legacy BIOS compatibility at all?

* A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup

* 64-bit processor required (no 32-bit build at all?)

* There is a universal mute button in the system tray so you can mute yourself system wide rather than in the app

Probably some other things I have missed
This is really nice. Typescript / JS / v8 is really the language/runtime of the future.

I think there really is a convergence where every app will be run in JS with performance critical in WASM coded in other languages
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How to downvote?
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Is there anything stopping a click in the lower left corner from bringing up the start menu, even with nothing visible there? The other corners do magic surprise things in Windows (like charms bar, app switching) with no UI visible as a precedent.
That's too broad, they fully committed to Direct3D, and they're more committed to backward-compatibility than anyone else I could name.

They have real trouble committing to a UI toolkit or design language, though.
My guess is they are just making a macOS style application taskbar default. I actually already use it that way on Windows 10, but there are occasions when I miss having minimized application instances in little rectangles. But these days I can run so many applications at a time that it quickly becomes too crowded to be of any use.
Ah yeah, AD is another reason it stays around, however, like DirectX, it can be replaced. It's a ripe market opportunity.
Thankfully, neodymium still costs less than metals inside catalytic converters.
I was happy with Windows 95 UI, really.

Congratulations on incrementing a number and changing things so I'll be annoyed by a marginally different set of things? I can't raise to caring about something which should be done at this point. To some people it is important I'm sure but a lot of us just want the OS to keep doing the basics and get out of the way.
"Teams" sound great in a work environment. But, at home - I'm not sure.
Who says we have to listen to ARIN, APNIC, and the others?
I always am asked when I say we should reduce policing budgets, "have you ever needed police?" In my experience, they've always been either so late that myself and neighbours have had to get involved in breaking up a rape / other violent situations, or just completely useless when I've needed them for paperwork related stuff, i.e. credit card fraud

Right. I don't like how the article conflates a rise of crime with cops retiring/resigning. Cops generally don't prevent crime, but respond after the fact to sort things out.

There's also no reason a cop, as understood today, needs to show up for some paperwork stuff, like credit card fraud. Any type of civilian government representative should be trusted by the credit card company to file that away.
It is a shame that all of the “Culture and Diversity” is so prone to stealing catalytic converters in the middle of the night. That is really cool that you can get Ethiopian food at 2AM, but I don’t like all of the things that come with it.
You can move it back to the corner in the settings.
> Windows updates are 40 percent smaller, and more efficient as they now happen in the background. Hopefully that will mean that Windows 11 doesn’t disturb you in the middle of work.

I wonder why this was never done sooner considering Windows is basically synonymous with “enterprise.”
It's an app that has been worked on on/off for 13 years, so certainly not intended be "proof of concept".. but yeah, it's a 1 person OSS side project, not a commercial app with UX designers on staff.

If you have specific ideas about what is so limiting, please file a github issue.
Windows 11 will be a free upgrade: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22546801/microsoft-window...
Windows works well enough for me it's just a tool
From my work experience its like this:
1. Assemble commands to run
2. Run the commands and see results in the 15 minute window
3. See if you can do more commanding in the minutes you have left
4. Make a new plan, wait for next pass, and goto 1

For LEO satellites, that usually means you have 2 blocks of 3 13 minute passes, when the groundstation is in The Netherlands. For a Svalbard groundstation, you get a lot more, but still 13 minute or less passess.
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I was debating whether I wanted to add unnecessary holes to the bottom chassis. I wish I had done so.
And a big bank account for deposits. When you want to hire someone that can show off their $100k+ proof-of-burn, you probably need to pay them well. They’ve demonstrated that being paid in peanuts won’t cut it. They mean business.
Yeah, Windows 10 was really supposed to be the last Windows, but you can tell the bean counters at Microsoft freaked out at not having a launch, so here we are.
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Never thought of that, sounds like a good idea if you live in San Francisco.
Shocking

Curated social media that is funded by manipulating people (ads) is manipulating people.
Full GUI support is available now in preview, so by the time Windows 11 launches, it should be ready for mainstream support. It uses Wayland and RDP natively. I haven't seen any announcement of if this will be used for the Android support layer, but it will likely be using something similar.

Edit: It looks like this will be using Intel Bridge Technology to cross compile into x86. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
Could computer issue be related to increased solar activity/ solar storms ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGY8foAiHc&t=636s
Most likely easy to disable. Pretty sure I have Cortana and Microsoft Store but I disabled the services, removed the Taskbar icons and never think about it heh.
For me, nowadays, cross-platform should be runs-in-the-browser, use anywhere. Hence the success of Google Workspace.
Texan's thinking themselves Texan's is bad because it might be a hurdle to further illegitimate concentration of state power to the federal gov't.

Looking at your bio, I'd guess your party to the democratic/republican conspiracy to localize government power in Washington, DC via courts and unconstitutional laws (FISA, all drug laws, PATRIOT ACT). You're all ABA (prosecutors, judges, legislators, politicians) and have set yourselves up in places beyond legal accountability. Y'all then selectively enforce your laws against those that seem to impede your ability to concentrate power (last couple presidents ordered the execution of American's without trial, where you boys at on that?).

Hilarious a lawyer cites the 14th Amendment which IIRC mostly references equal protections while ensuring their ilk are beyond that legal accountability.
said by someone who probably has a #9999 most dangerous job.
_Hero_'s always been one of my favorites. A lot of kung fu movies try to strike a balance between aesthetics and realism - I really enjoy a movie that picks one (in this case the former) and goes all in on it. It's got a fight that takes place entirely on the surface of a lake, and another that takes places in a forest of falling leaves that change color several times throughout the scene. It's an incredibly beautiful movie.
I found this application back in 2010. I was searching for a mind mapper at the time.

It allows pretty high complexity but is so simple to use. It has a very short learning curve. You can be doing meaningful work with it in a matter of minutes. It has features of a spreadsheet that allow you to store related info and do math on fields but is so much more useful because you can do the math at one level and use layers below to completely document why and how you did it that way, where the values come from etc. even linking to local references for inputs, outputs, logs, etc.

I have used it in data processing to thoroughly document data input and output creation; for detailed vacation itineraries; as a password manager; for genealogy research; address and contact management for personal and business contacts, etc. There are so many things that can be managed using Treesheets.
I got the Pfizer vaccine but it isn't available everywhere. Right now I'm in Thailand. The vaccines here (Sinovac and Astra) are closer to 50% effective from my understanding.

Also I just want to point out 95% is not 100% either. Even at 95% I don't mind wearing a mask indoors if I'm next to other people.
I just do not understand why basic, public education has to be such a mess.

My own primary education was more inclusive of skills, knowledge, critical thinking, learning how to learn, civics, and all that a young adult might need or want to start that phase of life.

My own kids got less, and I had to make significant contributions as a parent in civics, skills, critical thinking. Thankfully, literacy was there, as was math.

My own kids are now facing schooling their kids and have already expressed their take on all this being similar to my own in that they do not see the robust, quality education they received! -->Which was very considerably diluted in many ways from my own, despite an order greater tech and information resource availability! We had some 8 bit computers and literary books, but we also had a metal shop, car shop, wood, gardening, farming, and all sorts of real skills to be educated on too. My kids had much less.

Building quality people, teasing their strengths out, empowering them to be who they are, understanding they will eventually be the future and our caretakers in our old age is simple, human work.

Why, why, why do we seem to consistently avoid and or shortcut this work and or limit resources so damn much?

There are plenty of us willing and able to do the work! They want to do it and should be honored and respected and well compensated as well as enabled to do it.

I just do not get it.

Do we, and by "we" I mean those of us making decisions right now, really not want that possible future? Sandbagging? Or, somehow are ill equipped to see the basic way forward?

WTF?

Seriously.
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We are absolutely done with Agile. It’s always been a failure.

Alternatives to hallway conversations in increasing depth:

* slack message

* email

* README.md

* RFC

* Business plan

Plus there’s always zoom or the phone if you really want to shoot the shit.
The first time I went to the Rijks Museum I almost missed it.

I saw on the left side of the main gallery (this is from memory, 30 years back) a small painting (say, 40x20 cm) which had a name similar (or the same) as The Night Watch and I thought that it is a great deal for such a nice but average painting.

Then I saw some people standing in the middle of the gallery watching something and I discovered the painting :)
New execs need to make their mark.
I mean, you can also do that on Android; in fact Epic was doing that for quite a while with fortnite.
I did something like that when trying to boot my brand new root server in Finland a few weeks ago (tried ~50 times while having UEFI enabled plus mdadm raid1 on GPT partitions, never worked, asked support to disable UEFI, worked).

Confirming that not being able to ping/connect to it during the failed attempts was absolutely not exciting :)
"Private subnet" is just one way to accomplish it - what you want is a firewall that drops inbound traffic by default, and private subnet/NAT is one common way to do it that does have some downsides (extra complexity - you need a NAT gateway now).
Society has benefitted a net zero from software. Arguably a net negative.
No.

It normalizes OS vendor maintained AppStores which is a huge deal for Apple. The only way to avoid them now is to install Linux.
Please lmk if you have any questions or feedback! This has been a personal project for me for the last 1.5 years (quarantine pastime).

Also made the underlying data for carbon footprint estimating open source: https://decarbonapp.com/data
I figure the reason Amazon and Microsoft a ganging up in this way is precisely to address this issue: They want vendors to support a more portable mechanism for purchases that isn't tied to the Google silo.
McAfee antivirus software creator John McAfee was found dead
As sibling mentioned, table and dataset level security.

Another workaround I’ve seen used a lot is to create a view that filters out the rows and columns you’re not sharing with the entire organization.

It’s slow and pricey and in most cases I would advocate to duplicate the filtered table, rather than doing a view.
I think you make a good point, but your numbers seem way off. What countries are you aware of that even get close to 60-80% of completed college education? The list below shows the highest at 61% for Canada (between the ages of 35-44) [1]. But that list is also including things like community college, trade schools, and other forms of professional development. It seems to me that a much more accurate range is something like 25-40% for most developed countries.

I think what is really going on with degrees being a poor investment, is that most degrees don't actually teach valuable skills or they do and the students just don't actually put in the necessary work to achieve those skills. Instead treating it as a game of how to pass while putting in as little work as possible. That was at least my experience TAing computer science courses. Most students were just not mature enough to value the education that was being offered.

EDIT: A more generous interpretation to the students would be that they were simply jaded after a lack luster and uninspiring high school education plus a similar experience in probably many of the college classes they were taking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...
Wasn't all of that already known though, or is my sense of time quite badly distorted?

The movie certainly helped, I would put that as the biggest reason the general public heard of him more.
> And majority does not equate to power.

Fair.