skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you've described was indeed the case Vista would have taken off eventually, but it didn't and it barely touch a 20% of the market in almost 3 years of being exclusively sold by OEM on new machines. In the Enterprise market, it probably never reached a 1% of all installs.

The reason for this phenomenon is in my experience that most computers are actually managed by a vast public of "techies", i.e. people that are computer literate enough to reinstall an OS and to provide support to their computer illiterate relatives and friends. These people tend to be vastly over assess their IT knowledge, and are very vulnerable to "rumors" spread on forums and blogs. This makes them very prone to becoming zealot about random topics they hear on the internet (like "Windows 8 sucks", or "Linux is bad").

When a non-techie gets a new computer with a new Windows version, they often can't figure out how to accomplish even the most basic things - or rather, they don't care and don't want to invest the time to tinker with the new system, generally. They then rely on their own "trusted" person for that, and one frequent answer they get is that the new Windows version is crap and they offer to downgrade their computer. I've seen this happen a lot with both Vista and 8, EVERYONE was downgrading PCs back then without a good reason for doing so. I even saw PC shops recommending to downgrade before selling a computer, with leaflets advertising for the service on the front desk.

I saw a high school buy Core 2 Quad machines in 2008 and wipe away Vista in favour of XP, even though they only needed the machines for Office and Autocad, and there was thus absolutely no reason whatsoever for doing so, given how beefy the machines were back then and that Vista SP1 had basically fixed the OS. The main motivation behind this was the stigma around Vista, and the fact the IT department was full of low-skilled technicians that got their training from pinned threads in PC forums. It was rare to find anyone using Vista back then, even on new computers, unless they were basically grandparents whose grandchildren lived far away.

For what I've learned in these years, the first month or so a new Windows version comes out is crucial and it foreshadows how well it's going to fare with users. If there's even a slight hint of doubt it could be bad the users immediately reject it, it gets stigmatized and it is basically dead in the water.
heck, my collegue has been doing that since the 90's. (an IRCbot which shows snmp traps)
Doesn’t the LSAT have a significant logic portion which IIRC was fairly challenging? I guess you could figure out a way to do well on the LSAT with a distaste for math.
Well I do know all the keys position and I can write without looking at the keyboard, typing with just 2 fingers. (I just switched keyboard last week from a 70% to a 100% so I'm getting used to it)
"say something, you have to stand by it." is great when it's against people you don't like.

Just don't complain when it comes after you.
Hahaha! Another gangsta-style shakedown! This is getting more and more fun!

Red states should secede and tell them to go fxxx themselves!
Since I live in the US I don’t have to wonder how effective flu shots are, I can look it up: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/2019-2020.html

Roughly 25-50% based on the strain. Hardly “waste of time” territory.

There seems to be some evidence that regular exercise (5ish days per week) reduces the impact of upper respiratory infections (I.e. the common cold) by about that amount, but much less evidence that influenza is similarly affected or affected at all.

So for now, if you are choosing between the flu shot and exercise to reduce influenza, the choice is clear. Of course exercise is awesome for other reasons, just maybe not as awesome as a vaccine for influenza.
Scala.js 1.7.0 released with “zero known bugs”
I’ve longed for a remote access approach for MacOS more akin to RDP.

Using RDP on remote Windows machines is a fantastic experience compared to VNC-based remote access on Mac (which for most of my use-cases is almost unusable).

Not sure how this will compare…

EDIT: Oh great, minimum purchase of 5x licences. Guess this is not aimed at me then.
Ah, prescription only. Nevermind then.
FYI, you're already supposed to pay all your taxes, and not doing so is already a crime.
Employers and social police be aware that TameAntelope has stated in previous comments: "I'm actually pretty terrible at learning new things." Don't expect him to learn new social rules or new skills very easily. Low social credit points here.
I do care about my users. That's pretty much all I think of all day. Send me a support request? You will have my undivided attention, for free!

But please tell me, how else can I push back on Apple's bad behavior? In war, there are collateral victims. And I, a dude who's almost a nobody, is willing to take on Apple by any means necessary when they do this kind of stuff

Respect is earned, and it is high time Apple learns to respect developers. We should all be doing this kind of thing. I'd go as far as supporting a general app strike where services become unavailable. That's pretty much how workers have gained any rights and we desperately need rights
Why is no one asking to make these companies liable for potential vaccine injuries?
Overall this is a great article, but it has quite a few historical misconceptions. One blatant example:

> In the present context, the names of the Roman months have been adopted by all
> Western languages, while the names of days of the week have more recent and
> diverse names, probably because weeks are a fairly recent concept.

The seven-day week had been a concept for least a millennia before the current Roman-derived names of the months.
More efficiency just means more consumption. Every year our technology has grown more efficient, and every year we use more energy.
The problem there is that there is no standardization across all the Swiss German variations, for foreigners, this is an interesting comparison of 5 of these dialects:

https://youtu.be/nEAcepckl5U
This is very useful. Thank you for making this.

I was going to suggest a dark theme, then I thought why not making one for you (not perfect, but a good place to start): https://pastebin.com/vzA11EG3

Cheers!
Yes, developers need to respect users too. But that should be between the developers and the user. If a user asks me to add Apple Id as an option in an app I make, that is something that I would seriously consider as I care about my users. Why should a developer care about something no user has requested but Apple is forcing them to use?

Apple could be considered a genuine neutral arbitrator if it didn't take money from both the developers and its users. What it has done instead is to force itself between the user and the developer, and exploiting both in the name of the users (developers lose money to Apple's extortion, and the money it extorts from the developers is ultimately passed to the user, and thus they end up exploited too).
One reason to have tests like that, is to cover regressions. Say somebody changes that method in the future and it doesn’t raise an exception anymore when passed a null (but it is still supposed to, the change introduced a bug).

If you have that “pointless” test, you’ll find out about it. If not, you’ll probably only encounter it at runtime with a program that is subtly wrong.
It’s funny but the high cost of both are of those things you mention are the result of artificial regulatory restrictions on supply.

Entrepreneur property developers are ready, able and willing to build a tidal wave of housing, but are shackled by NIMBY zoning laws, building codes, and land use restrictions designed to restrict the supply of housing and push up prices for existing home owners.

The high cost of dentistry is entirely a result of extreme restrictions on new dentists put in place by the ADA. Entrepreneurs are ready, able, and willing to train or import from overseas an army of new, cheap dentists. By they can’t because the ADA hasn’t approved opening any new dental schools since 1980 and won’t let Turkish, Thai and Costa Rican dentists practice in the US.
I don’t think they are as bimodal like lawyer salaries. I have no quantitative data to back that assertion though.
I’m not exactly sure either but that is around the time I got started with css and I can still recall a lot of these 16px conversion ratios[1], they must have hade some significance.

Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, I (used to) use Spotlight for the conversions which was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4, released in 2005.

[1] 62.5% for 10px, 87.5% for 14px, etc.
Obligation under multi-lateral treaties of cooperation? ;)
Exit and voice in open source software
> And we're talking about the UK with no right of free speech

Come on now, no need to exaggerate. The UK has limits on free speech, as do most countries ( even the holier than thou US, if I'm not mistaken). You might consider them to be too much, but that doesn't mean there's no right of free speech.

In the example you're quoting, you're aware that the restrictions were on the political wing of what was basically a terrorist organisation ( IRA) with which the UK was in what was basically a (civil) war?
Ask HN: Where can I find a shareholder agreement template for a startup?
People who speak German regularly dont understand Swiss German as it is different.
I believe Virgina has already passed legislation so broad and abstract as to make photoshop and other image editing tools illegal. Like most laws of this type it's not about stopping an immoral or illegal activity. It's about control of people in power's public image. It will only be enforced if you piss off someone rich or powerful.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/secti...
Where in the article do you read that?

https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...
Waiting for IPFS to shake this all up.
I stopped reading here, at "who cares!” That was where I started to agree. Most of the language and tone is so negative I lost interest during the first paragraph. I’ve probably already read a constructive version elsewhere, but if I haven’t so be it.
There is basically no benefit to app developer in including it. It is more work, and you may get only an anonymised address. However, there is massive benefit to actual users.

Apple decided to prioritise users over developers here.
You all keep calling things being cancelled when they're just plain old social ostracism of the past. Why can't you all just admit you don't like it when someone else does the social ostracizing instead of giving it a new fancy word to distance yourselves from the same behavior you all do?
Looks like Shoreditch is returning to normal
Post Graduate Diploma in AI and Machine Learning
You don't need a book, just know that every class and module should be split up into a separate microservice. To communicate with your microservice, a brittle approach is recommended.
…until the woke mob shifts in a direction you didn’t anticipate and people are calling for your head, asking you to be “accountable” for something you said 10 years ago.
> Chickenpox is another example of early exposure/vaccine or very bad things happen.

Side note, even early exposure may not help. I got it twice and the second was rough. It also carries a higher risk of shingles later in life and could impact the nervous system. Please consider vaccinating your kids against chickenpox.
This.
I was wondering if it's because I'm a web dev that I rarely care/think/debug typing issues or what. I hear the stories I'm just not sure what everyone is talking about. I did have that in js a bit (the good old == vs ===) but not with Ruby.
NASA Study Shows Importance of Surface Shadows in Moon Water Puzzle
Well, in part because the your comment is questioning news practices. The point of scare quotes is to signal irony, uncertainty, or skepticism. Your very next sentence implicitly questions the "news popularization" of swatting as something that leads to the target's death on the basis of its greater "newsworthiness" vs. incidents leading to psychological trauma.

That, and because you were not actually quoting anyone or anything specific.

When quotation marks are used in a questioning context and the text being quoted is not an actual quote, the assumption is scare quotes. The writer is trying to draw attention to the language rather than actually quote someone's words.
What if you sell something back and forth billions of times?
Critique of this study https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1422800835562647554
"Essential" is always relative to requirements. If the requirements include interacting with a poorly-designed, buggy, complicated piece of other software, then yeah, you have essential complexity. Enlightenment is when you realize that you can keep zooming out and dumping what seem like essential requirements but are really just BS that follows from interacting with constantly-changing crapball software stacks.
American ideology resulted in million dead in Iraq alone. You don’t have a moral right to call other countries and ideologies evil.
Same thing in France, probably to an even worse degree. Most tech companies fall either in that category or in the overgrown defense contractor one. Little in-between and no funding.
The downfall of Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: An insider's view
I don't think this applies. Cameras are general tools that have many useful purposes. So are computers.

This is specifically an AI tool that creates fake nudes. Whatever useful, appropriate purposes for this tool (if any) exist - they pale in comparison to your examples.
I Think About React (A Mental Model for Beginners) – Part 2: Component Hierarchy
Mind supporting that with evidence?
Someone fake flexing on HN? No way!
Good! 5G is soooo much more resource efficient than 4G and 3G. Everything from spectrum resource allocation, smarter and more directional beam-forming, virtual networking, and edge computing will bring the aggregate cost of telecom down for all.
I'd assume the main difference would be room service.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
Thanks. Maybe an admin can change the URL from reddit to this?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-01-14

"Economic growth" as measured by numbers moving around is just a proxy for what we really care about, which is increased availability of goods and services. Goods and services necessarily entail resource expenditure. If you're just moving numbers without any actual physical effect, you don't really have an "economy" to speak of.
OP is the problem. When your “revolt” is to actually hurt your users as a petty act of aggression towards Apple, then you are the problem.
The article mainly focuses on the south-eastern cities near the coast. There are many more choices in the western and northern China.

And nowadays, you can find all of them in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai.
Netflix is running a show about deLorean and the chap who ran the whole thing. Ended up in jail for drugs smuggling.
Yes, but that can certainly be overdone.

That's how you end up intending to say "Than you very much" in French, but actually saying "Thanks, nice ass!"

Not that I know from personal experience or anything.

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The one that sticks in my head the most (and which I did not think I would enjoy based on the book jacket blurb) is "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I highly recommend to anyone who listens. I also recently encountered "The Fifth Science" by someone named 'Exurb1a' and enjoyed it so much that I am now reading another of his books named "Geometry for Ocelots"
Andy Weir's "Hail Mary" is an imaginative and fun read, as is "The Startup Wife" by Tahmima Anam. Oh! And "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet' (or almost anything else) by Becky Chambers.
The irony is so thick, it is palpable. Rightist politics suggest that criminals should be locked away and have their right to reintegrate into society stripped when they are let out. But if there are social consequences to my actions, it's because of cancel culture.
Exactly, they are totally cool with a Facebook login, but decry an Apple login. Incredible. Literally.
I'm also not a Luddite, so if it seems I'm making a vast anti-tech argument, I'm truly not. It's easy to get drawn into a futurism vs tradition argument, but I don't want to take either side in that debate. I love tools and I love inventions that amplify a human being's power and effectiveness. But there are tools that are miserable to use, produce horrible results, but are just enough to be acceptable and offer The Business enormous cost savings (or sometimes just the illusion of it). I don't have the energy to try and write a manifesto right now for which tools fall into either camp, but maybe some day.

I like writing code, and I think a lot of other people do too. But it's not just that I like writing the code and want it to be as low-level and arcane as possible. Give me a language that lets me be more expressive and accomplish more and I'll be all the more happy to adopt this tool and incorporate it into my craft.

But, imagine The Business decides that coders writing code is just too expensive, so we've purchased an AI that dials into all the conference calls stakeholders have regarding a project, and subsequently it can generate all the code necessary to meet the requirements. Well, kind of. After sitting in on the meetings, it can instantly generate the code that would have taken a dev team a whole quarter, and then send it over to QA. The only catch is that code is spaghetti and the defect rate is really high. Still, The Business only needs 25% of the coders that it used to have. But their job is a little different now. They don't write code per se. They just QA and fix bugs. The code is horrible, there's no design or architecture to speak of, it's hard to debug, and fixing defects is mind-numbing. But, at the end of the day, the low quality product is still good enough to sell, everyone else in the industry is doing it too, and besides, the cost savings is too huge to ignore.

No one has to "write" code anymore. Did our lives get easier and better? What is the ultimate end of easiest and best? No one has to do a thing and minimally acceptable food shows up when we're hungry while we continually slurp down personalized, proceduraly generated sitcoms?
Sure, but this was not Swiss German.
Because they got sucked in at the development stage, rather than waiting until it existed to see if it worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
As an audiophile who is picky about chargers, no. Also, Apple isn’t the only company making decent chargers, but many of the comparable chargers I’ve gotten from other companies—e.g., some of the older Pixel chargers—have died over time, while their Apple counterparts are still kicking. I keep meaning to open one of the dead chargers to determine the cause of failure, but I have a tinkering backlog at the moment.
First, if what you are doing is not illegal in Switzerland, the Swiss govt would never approve the request in the first place. In general, the Swiss govt does not typically accept requests from countries with dubious legal and human rights records.

Second, even if the request were approved, under Swiss law, it is not permissible to break end-to-end encryption. Swiss law enforcement is not allowed to make such a request.

Third, all requests eventually have to be disclosed, although the disclosure may come from Swiss authorities. This also a requirement of Swiss law.

Fourth, if a request were somehow approved, as the origin is China, our legal team would also scrutinize it closely, and if found to be suspect, would also fight the request.
I have high hopes that the apparent future popularity of the Steam Deck will make a serious dent into this shortcoming within the next year.
Well, I don't think anyone would openly tell what they prefer shiny X to boring Y because X would look good on CV. It's just an impression I'm getting sometimes.

But what I've seen multiple times: someone is enthusiastic about a new technology and advocates for using it in a project at $job even when a simple, but equally or better suitable for the task option is available.

It may sound offensive, but my impression is that many developers are like children - they like to play with new toys and quickly bored by old. And in software industry they have an opportunity to choose new toys and be paid for playing with them.

Also I've seen many discussions on social networks where people talk that nowadays it is hard to find a good job if you don't have X, Y, Z on your CV so they may feel pressured to try these new tools even if they don't enthusiastic about them.
“I feel that the developers are not really getting what is required so today we will start dogfooding! There is a personalised can on everyone’s desk.”
People don’t always agree on what simplicity is. To some, older proven technology is simpler, even if it requires more time, hustle and code to use. To the other, the same problem solved with a newer intricate tech, but solved quicker and leaner, is a simpler solved problem.
This is misrepresenting the article quite a bit. The newspaper also sides with him after having reviewed all accounts.

He did not "burn" bridges, the relationship was very positive up until the complaint. And he "left" the Uni only temporarily because of an administrative technicality. This is a common thing in German-speaking countries. Some universities have hard limits on the total terms of study. You can avoid racking up total terms by temporarily ex-matriculating yourself.

He also only retweeted the "racist" cartoon and did not think much of it. He was not even aware it was considered to be problematic. Something like this can easily happen to anyone. Especially, in the heated debate climate of the last year.

They university did not expel him, the advisor just cut off all contact. This is more a Kafkaesque situation where the university is exploiting a technicality to comply with Chinese pressure.
Still possible. You'd need to extract and operate multiple Face ID detectors to get the right signals and probably scan thousands of faces to learn signatures and what's needed to fake the inputs. Harder than photos/video, but still doable.
I second the book by Pinter -- the bulk of the book is a series of well-curated exercises meant to guide you through discovering the basic principles of abstract algebra for yourself. Excellent for self-study in the absence of a good professor.
Yup! My first experience was really bad. I would never do it again.
I hate to disappoint you, comrade, but the "lost cosmonauts" have been pretty thoroughly debunked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts
> Emails could be masked before Apple ID came along. Namely, gmail addresses let you do this.

How? I've used gmail for over a decade now, and I have no idea how to do that with my address.

> I don't trust FB or Google either

And yet you have no qualms providing a login through either of them both in the app and on the web.

So much for "I care about security and privacy".
Facebook cannot ban a browser extension