skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this was the original plan — the “other language” was ...

In short? mis-designed. JS was fora use case, and have become more and more for other uses case (even backend!). This is also the problem with html, css, dom.

Plus, some WATs are part of rushing it, and others for mismatch in the uses cases.
My Primary concern with Windows 11 can be described as follows:

98

- ME

XP

- Vista

7

- 8

10

- 11

Has Microsoft broken the cycle? Time will tell.
You are talking about a particular type of warrant. I don't think the average local police force is getting FISA warrants for their day-to-day police work (maybe I'm wrong? I would like to see numbers on that before I change my mind though), and OP did not limit their statment to FISA warrants.
What a grossly unnuanced view of tech workers. We're not all in the 1%. Tech salaries cover a very wide range. Some of us have to do 80+ hours weeks during months long crunches.
Do not put down people's efforts to improve their working conditions just because you're fine with yours.
Regulators aren’t concerned with Google blocking third party cookies, they’re concerned about it in conjunction with FLoC providing Google an anti-competitive moat in the adtech space where it also holds a dominant position.

If Google blocked third party cookies absent FLoC, regulators wouldn’t care.
Good news is you can still anchor the taskbar to the left. At least you can within the leaked ISO. Bad news is that the smallest taskbar size is bigger than the current smallest size.
> App developers can still use our commerce with competitive revenue share of 85/15

But there isn't a perpetual Agreement guaranteeing MS won't ever increase its cut in the future when its store becomes more popular. The Store hasn't yet been terribly successful. Most of my Windows apps are installed outside the MS store: Notepad++, VSCodium, Steam, and so on. So MS will try to get more apps in the Store and then lock down Windows like iOS once it has enough apps, then increase its own cut so that it can transfer wealth from the middle class to billionaire MSFT shareholders, just like AAPL does.
Can you elaborate on what legislation and regulation would yield positive effects with no negative externalities/regulatory capture that prevents any new companies from competing with Facebook?
Depending on your perspective, the claim is not entirely incorrect.

The most neutral reading of the presented data is that police are equally likely to be shot, have a moving-vehicle accident, and have a job related illness.

The remainder of job related hazards are extremely marginal in comparison to those three.

Guns, vehicles, and illness compose the near totality of incidents and those incidents are distributed nearly equally between the three hazards.
The Impact of Coronavirus on US Job Postings
I have no idea if it would be more or less exciting than a tech company warroom.
I really doubt that. If we focus in particular on bike theft (one of the examples above), some webpage says that Norway had 60k bike thefts in 2004, 20k of which was reported to the police[1]. This is out of a population of 4.5 million. Some other page says that in New York City, there are 75k bikes stolen per year with 15k reported to the police[2]. This is out of a population of 8.4 million.

So all of Norway (rural and urban areas together) had a higher per-capita rate of bike theft than New York City (which is all urban).

[1] http://www.sykkeltyveri.no/bicycle_theft.html
[2] https://www.bicyclehabitat.com/articles/security-pg80.htm
Guessing they’re confusing 8 and Vista? I have no other explanation.
What form did you take your supplements in? If the goal is to spread out the dose, sounds like powdered would be better than pills?
> The solution is this: Ban anyone without a minimum teaching experience of x years from participating on boards, bring all teacher salaries up to comfortable middle-class in every district and give them back their authority in the classroom. Otherwise this downward slide into illiteracy will continue until North America is dominated by an idiot majority.

The problem with this solution is that there is barely enough interest in most places to fill a board when almost everybody is eligible. I've been married to a school board-er. It's a thankless job, far more thankless than being a teacher, which is a job with an actual salary and very good job safety.
I'm not a fan. A centered dock does look pretty, but to me it's not as intuitive as a left-aligned screen. Especially since you would be navigating to the "Start" menu a lot. Getting my mouse bottom left is more natural than "some random offset of dead bottom center".

I can't tell if the icons get larger as you hover. That sort of magnifies this problem, as the start button would shift left as other icons are highlighted.
Ask HN: Is Prime Day special anymore?
Hi HN,

I'm just curious if people get excited about Prime Day anymore? Year 1 and maybe year 2 I did, but now I don't even bother looking, though I know if I want something made by Amazon like an Alexa then that's a good time to buy it.

If so, what kinds of things do you look for, it seems like such a mess to find anything?
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”

Steve Jobs
Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
IMO hardware driver support is the key to performance at every level, embedded to bigiron. OS architectures are important, though most supporting smaller devices are good enough for most media needs up to ~2K and 60fps.
>Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 'the last version of Windows'
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

There you see again what Microsoft's statements are worth.
Was this the scenario where there was a false positive warning light but they had no way to test if it was truly a false alarm? I remember attending a talk by an Apollo engineer who convinced the control room that the switch design had a propensity to a short and it really came down to a probability-based judgement call
Windows has an admirable amount of API hooks, so there's presumably an app for everything.

That's not an excuse not to improve base Explorer, though.
I think what bothers me a lot more than recommended political groups is censoring them selectively
Heavy http://zim-wiki.org user here, but I do recall trying this out at some point and I can see a few use cases. Before I go digging, I seem to be seeing different opinions on how good of a "spreadsheet" type tool it is.

Specifically (right now), I'm curious as to what kind of math it's capable of? Right now I'm playing around with some cryptocurrency and I'm looking to play around with some custom views of prices and such, and I'm not quite sure how I want it to look; does this seem like a possible place to check it out?
What Windows 11 Means for Developers
Canonical Gives RISC-V a HiFive
‘Course this is hampered by Windows 2000, which came concurrent to ME and was better than XP.
These are Windows 11's official minimum system requirements
3 days is the rule I've heard.
I personally don't know what to do about it. But it seems like it's worth establishing what at least the truth is before we do something (either by deciding to, or by deciding not to do anything).

I wish it were so that everyone knew that "Communism is a tortuous system," but it unfortunately does not seem to be the case anymore. People who were born and never lived in a world with the Soviet Union or the Berlin Wall are now voting age, and they don't have an aversion to communism. Even before the Soviet Union fell, a lot of people in the west were sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Fortunately we had people like Solzhenitsyn who documented how bad it was. Atajurt and the Uigher witnesses are giving us what may become our generation's equivalent of "In the First Circle."
"It's really not their problem though, is it. Because there are 2 fixes"

That party is not gonna continue for long, we clearly have laws coming down the pipe
This is probably a stupid question, but how do you create the "trees" like you see in the screenshots? I can easily create hierarchical grids, which is great, but I can't figure out how to make a mind-map type graph.
GP listed a range. 2 days probably won't kill most people if they're starting at a healthy point and aren't too active or in an arid environment, but it will probably kill a lot of people if they start off somewhat dehydrated or are too active (by necessity or stupidity) during that period. The usual number tossed out is 3 days, but it's not like people will magically all drop dead after 72 hours from their last drop of water. It's an average or expected value.
There's nothing wrong about aligning with the CCP's calls for investigation - however the irony and hypocrisy shouldn't be ignored; the genocide in Canada is also in the past, which doesn't reduce its significance nor the tragedy, however genocide is actively happening in China - the pot calling the kettle black; a form of whataboutism among other tactics.
I was specifically addressing OP's statement that the warrant requirement does not offer much protection - I'm not talking about situations where a warrant is not required. I think I probably agree with you that over-compliance by phone companies is a problem, but that's not what I was asking about.
Disclosure: I used to be a developer on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft. I'm no longer at Microsoft, but for better or worse, Windows is still my primary platform, at least for now.
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Are Dangerous for User Sessions–Here’s a Solution
I don't think so, the studies I've seen actually show the number of touchscreen devices is growing, and desktop PCs are shrinking.
I think that might be `git symbolic-ref` which doesn't work in detached HEAD state (e.g. when checking out a commit) whereas `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref` will print "HEAD". On the other hand, `git name-rev` will try to find the nearest named ref (including tags) and how far HEAD is from that named ref (e.g. master~1).

Internally, symbolic-ref resolve the ref in the same way as git branch, just without handling detached HEAD. __git_ps1 use a combination of rev-parse, symbolic-ref and git describe to provide a more interesting output for displaying state of the working directory.

To have the similar output for detached HEAD as git-status (e.g. "HEAD detached at fa0c4e1") then probably `git rev-parse --abbrev-rev` and `git rev-parse --short` should be used together. Unfortunately, while rev-parse can print multiple output in a single command, abbrev-rev and short cannot be used together. In such case, parsing `git status` might indeed be more suitable as it spawn only one executable instead of two.

Some porcelain commands do have --porcelain flag to ensure the stability of the interface, though (e.g. `git status --porcelain=v1`).
Hi, yes this is the end goal and for it to be entirely self service. For now we're working directly with those third parties and doing the integration ourselves but ideally we want to let people do it themselves, display their own logos and price the APIs however they see fit. Happy to chat further about it and get ideas too on how we could speed this up.
The commercial use aspect also came into play- if you were hired to use the drone to do something (like take pictures), or were a company using a drone as part of a product/service, it would arguably fall under a different set of rules. Which is another reason clarification was needed.
> unsolicited advertising

Advertising doesn't show up on site without the OWNER of the site wanting it to be there.
Developer & User-Transparent Compiler Optimization for Interactive Applications
> This is an absolute tragedy, but there is a bit of a lie happening in the presentation of it, with each "discovery" being treated like it is unveiling some dark secret. No, it is a dark, but very well known, truth that has been in the open for the entirety of the program. And the truth is that mortality across the entire demographics of Canada was bad in that time period (3 out of 10 children under 5 died across the country), so it isn't entirely atypical.

I understand and am partially sympathetic with what you are saying, but I don't think this is the time to bring up those concerns.

At the moment, Canadians have to reckon with yet another impact of the residential school system: many children died under the government's custody (even if it was indirect, through various churches). It doesn't matter if the mortality rate was similar to other demographics, since the decisions of the government placed aboriginal children in those schools which was the precondition to the specific cause of death. The "abolition" of the residential school system doesn't really mean anything, since many youth are still forced to leave their communities and are frequently placed in the care of complete strangers if they aspire to accomplish something that most Canadians take for granted: earning a high school diploma.

While the willful ignorance of these "very well known" deaths is difficult to excuse, the willful ignorance of the continuance of some of the hallmarks of the residential school system is difficult to forgive.

EDIT: for clarity.
Yeah W2K was an oddity that way. I wasn't sure how to fit it in this. But TBH, it wasn't as well adopted as ME or XP and I didn't feel the need to wedge it in there. The point stands, with or without W2K in the mix.
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I don't quite understand why the authorities can't hit these guys in the supply line. Make it impossible to shift a bare catalytic converter by cracking down on scrap merchants who would be buying them.

For the same reason that they don't shut down the pawn shops buying stolen goods right across the street from the payday loan place.

Because it requires actual police work, and because the people running them are 'local businessmen' with pull.
‘This is a food bank now’: Workers seized a McDonald’s in France
> Starting later this year, people will be able to discover Android apps in the Microsoft Store and download them through the Amazon Appstore

I probably shouldn't expect different, but it's a bummer that you apparently won't be able to to load paid Google Playstore apps. I have several reference apps that are paid and would love to run those on my desktop since no web or native app exists.
> Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8 again?

Transparent windows and widgets make it more like Vista.
Windows 11 Seems to Give Intel Hybrid CPU Architectures a Performance Boost
Exactly , there is nothing wrong with Moderation. The problem comes there’s inconsistent enforcement and the inability to appeal and reform moderation rules in light of mistakes. Transparent moderation is probably the best.
So much for Windows 10 being the last version of windows...[1]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-10-the-last-version-of-wi...
How is the “market deciding” when men with guns will show up to your server room and shut you down?
C’mon. Ability to read the cache is obviously a much much lower threat than the ability to read the browser processes’ memory – the browser doesn’t cache your GMail password.

Also let’s stop here and admire just how far you’ve shifted the goal posts: we’ve gone from “memory isolation isn’t a security measure it’s actually just for reliability” to “ok sure it’s obviously a security critical measure, but check out this boneheaded RMS rant and also what about the lower threat value data that gets cached, what about that. And do we even need security or can we just go back to the 1980s with our Amigas when everything was cool and advanced persistent threats didn’t exist, man”.

Pick a coherent point you’re trying to argue and some kind of intelligible threat model, at least. If we’re concerned about leaking filesystem data, there’s more aggressive sandboxing measures which several OSes employ, but they even more strongly rely on memory isolation, not less.

The point, which you seem to have conceded several posts ago, remains: Memory isolation is a security measure, not just or even primarily a reliability issue.

Also you don’t seem to understand what you’re trying to talk about, because:

> and even read the memory of any of your processes through /proc/$PID/maps

This requires root permissions (or for you to have explicitly changed /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope to a non-default value to allow processes to PTRACE_ATTACH to arbitrary non-child processes, which you shouldn’t do on a general purpose internet-facing machine unless you are a clinically insane person) for the obvious reason that this would be incredibly dangerous otherwise. Proving once again my entire point:

Memory isolation is a security measure.
95% effective in preventing Covid but 100% effective at preventing severe Covid. If you shoot coronavirus up your nose, there's a 5% chance your body develops Covid-19. But even then, there's a 0% chance that you will die or require hospitalization because of it.
I'm sure they're refering to the undying love every single web developer had for Internet Explorer.
Scheduled for Halliween this year, but could slip.
You're on 3rd order assumptions at this point
"The free upgrade will begin to roll out to eligible Windows 10 PCs this holiday and continuing into 2022."
Yes that's about right. It depends on where you are. On a very hot day in a desert you can die in less than a day. I can't find any exact numbers for this though.
As a long time Linux-only-user (since 1996...) who is now forced by management to work on a MacBook: macOS just feels snappy. Things are where I would expect them to be. Files in the finder are actually what I searched for, and finding stuff is fast. UI animations give a clear indication on what is happening.

I still prefer i3 ... but I can understand why a nontechnical user might prefer a mac device to a windows(10) device. Someone at Apple clearly knows about UI/UX.
Malware detection uses it as a heuristic to peg specific “variants” to each other. Basically LSH is great for comparing corpuses of data that are slightly different.

If you hash the data using something like SHA256 and even one byte is different, it’ll produce a radically different hash (which is by design). With LSH you can have a measurement to say “corpus A has a 90% overlap with corpus B”, or in a single bit flip case, a very high correlation.
"Guys guys. Last second change from the top. We're gonna need to bundle Among Us. It needs to be front and center of our new start menu. We need it by EOD!"
And, every program works
yeah im at the first screenshot and it just looks awful

Have Microsoft forgotten the lessons they learned so hard since 1995? The start button being in the corner has real usability benefits.

They ruined the taskbar a long time ago, the button grouping thing is absolutely horrible and can only be partially turned off... hopefully they at a minimum kept the full button option somewhere.

And the centering... if new stuff is added and it recenters, it means things are moving all the time. eeek.
Umm. What?

Insulted? Abused? What are you talking about?
Hey there. We've got you covered. Here's our user service that includes user management and authentication https://m3o.com/user
>" Where have alternatives been tried? Why aren't those alternatives in general use if they are so good?"

Did you live under a rock for the past hundred years? We have actual regulation of newspapers, radio and television. They dont need to be owned by the government, but we have media regulators thay set standards, and where you can complain
Or much more likely the same component was used as a back up, and is failing in a similar fashion. It's obvious the thing is still there.
I'm like 99% sure the first www server was on an NeXT machine.
Enterprise OS built for enterprise needs is > home OS?

quelle surprise.

That's same now as it was, 10 pro/workstation are better than home.
probably just something like this:

[total year range] Name of Company

-> indent [year range of last position] position title

duties, interesting projects

-> indent [year range of 2nd to last] position title

duties, interesting projects

Maybe include months for the individual roles depending on how short the year ranges are
The only real question is, will I still be able to get to the Network card configuration page that's been the same for the last 15-20 years? I use it daily. They've just put it behind more and more "nicce looking, but non-functional" network management UIs,.
Yeah that line, along with others, is almost offensive. Microsoft tried really hard to stop the open web during the time they were building early Windows. They're trying to take credit for something that popular that they tried really hard to stop.
> highly educated graduates of top institutes

Sorry, have you seen the educational record of the guy at the top right now?
I don’t know what kind of animation teams you’ve been working with, but animators do not write algorithms xD
It probably just means that you can't upgrade if you have a very old computer that recent feature upgrades of Win10 have already dropped support for.

Edit: actually some people are saying it may require TPM 2.0
True. I guess what I'm trying to get across is subjectively it felt like there was nothing but gains.

To me quibbling over if 5% or 25% of overall mass lost was muscle is immaterial and completely outweighed by the benefits regardless of what that number is.
Teaching open-source software in North Korea
Left aligned makes a ton of sense until you exceed a horizontal resolution of 2k or so. The web realized this ages ago - a left aligned page doesn't work at large screen sizes. With the web it isn't as critical (often times we have a browser window smaller than our full screen), but for a taskbar that spans the full horizontal resolution, left aligned doesn't make sense when you have a 5k ultrawide. Screen sizes will continue to slowly increase, centering the taskbar is futureproofing for that.
> https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/index.php/LEGO_Island#Histor...

> Infamously, Mindscape fired the developers of LEGO Island the day before release to avoid paying bonuses and continued salaries.

Holy crap that is disgusting.
Yup: they don't like Facebook. (There's a reason for that… Facebook isn't exactly likeable.)
> Getting my mouse bottom left is more natural

There's a name for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

and the fact that their UI people somehow have forgotten about it speaks volumes.
Yeah, that's an odd statement. Windows 3 didn't exist in 1989, and nobody really used Windows 2. The web wasn't "born" there for sure.
What is the cost?

Free upgrades if you already have a properly licensed Windows 10 I assume?
> Tech workers get paid salaries that literally put them in the 1% income bracket.

Don't be silly. Well earning tech workers in SV make it into the top 15% (at the lower end its difficult to purchase a home where they work). Top 1% would be >$500k/a for a household, which is exceptionally rare for a techie. Not everyone is a rock-star developer working for Uber.
> ...with no upgrade path.

The manufacturer of the MRI machine doesn't care. In their mind the "upgrade path" is to buy a new one. That might support the current iteration of Windows + their drivers until the next Windows is released. Sure it's nonsense but the hospital can't just not have an MRI machine. They need one and someone will capitalize on that need.
It doesn't even matter, unless microsoft stops allowing programs outside the app store. But that will never happen given their ecosystem.
You can change the alignment to the "classic" left.
That's completely the way I remember it!
The people 'reviewing' the leak last week mentioned that you can move the Start button back to the corner rather than having it centered.