skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. For me, Windows 7 is consistent in design, efficient (in both performance and user experience) and pure.

* Inconsistent design: Starting from Windows 8, Microsoft switched to the Metro design. In Windows 10 Microsoft changed to Fluent design. However, even the Windows components themselves are not fully switched. In Windows 10 today you can find so many legacy designs that had not been removed. Windows 7, however, is pretty consistent from shell to explorer and control panels.

* Inefficient in user experience: Starting from Windows 8, MS started focusing on these so called touch devices, with the trade off of having larger margins, bigger buttons and slower animations, making user feel inefficient getting things done.

* Inefficient in performance: Windows 10 is slow as well, in a 2c 8g VBox VM, Windows 10 boot time is longer than Windows 7 and I have to wait for several seconds to open a UWP program, which is unbearable. Personally that is somehow related to the so called "modern" developing. For that I mean all the UWP / Web stuff. For instance, The Windows 10 start menu uses EdgeHTML inside (just press F7 and Caret Browsing dialog will show up).

* Anti-features: With the Microsoft's focus on "cloud" experience, Windows 10 added so many anti-features that I hate. Even though some are optional, I do not want an OS to contain any "cloud" based features and advertisements. Examples: Microsoft account, Telemetry, Consumer Experience (I mean all the pre-installed bullshit). I run several domains in my home and the first group policy I would apply to client computers is to turn off Telemetry (level 0 security), disable web search, disable spotlight and turn off the consumer experience.

I am not saying that Windows 10 is bad. It is, from a technical point of view, more advanced. However, because of all these bad designs I still think Windows 7 is the last Windows version I would feel satisfied.
Other nonsense? As in viewpoints that are disagreeable to the moderators in charge?

There’s a clear difference between male enhancement spam and a guy with a poorly thought out comment that most people find disagreeable. A middle schooler can spot the difference.

Back in my day we welcomed those poorly reasoned or flat out wrong comments: you would attack them with logic and use them as opportunities to find the truth of a matter. And the community reading it would revise their priors and the needle would move closer to the truth.

Today those comments get censored, leading to much of the awful discourse you see on FB and Reddit these days. You can’t discuss sacred cows without getting banned from a community or shadowbanned altogether.

The ridiculous rhetoric on the left these days is a direct result if this phenomenon.
Along similar lines, I once found a very simple class. It was an endpoint which executed a stored procedure. The name of the stored procedure was passed in as a query string parameter. There was no validation being done. It also ran system stored procedures; if you're not familiar with that, think admin and housekeeping type functions on the database.

We couldn't immediately disable or firewall it as it had embedded its roots deep, and a lot of things calling it didn't know they were calling it.
Tim Cook wants to oversee ‘one more major product category’ before stepping down
FYI:

We create 3D models of human genitals with the aim to:

break taboos

educate at a global level

improve body self-image for all users

We aim to enable educators to do the same by making the 3D models freely available for viewing online and for downloading and printing under the CC0 license.
How ripe is this space?

Recall Origami which stated to do same and then they got a qui-killed before they could even launch?

I haven't used any online photo storage place for years because I dont trust them, but that's also a lame excuse because I have yet to be able to extricate Google from my life, which is a smoldering desire in the back of my head..

But I feel like any of these photo upstarts are going to be short lived.

I'd be happy to pay $60 for the app, and then pay some fee/month for storage space, dedupe etc...

What might be cool for an organization option would be a shared library of assets such that dev's and artists can manage a library of digital assets across teams and projects and integrate with ssomethingnlike slack..
It's not.
I wrote a lot of PL/SQL at my first real software job and I miss it dearly. I treasure every opportunity I get to write a little PL/pgSQL, which is very similar.
Use it for the right purposes and it's a joy to write.

There are certainly things it can't do, and things it can do but only poorly, but that's true of anything.
I've been working my way through the old Robert Mitchum movies on TCM. I had no idea they were that good.
From the initial reporting it sounded like there was some kind of "just go" button that overrode the safeties, in which case I would have attributed it to poor self-driving design anyway. But "joystick control" sounds like the driver was much more actively engaged, which is the right thing to require in disengagement situation in my view.
Author said “no one gets rich working for someone else” - I would consider all of these people rich.
> Of course exactitude exists. For example, two electrons have exactly the same charge. A photon has exactly 0 charge.

Aren't claims like this unscientific according to your standard? You will never be able to measure that two electrons have the same charge to infinite decimal precision. You might have a theory that says they should have the same charge, but you won't be able to test that theory to infinite precision either.
> hmm I experience it every day, where I over hear something in the hallway that another team it working on, that impacts my team.

If this is how you are finding out about things that impact your team, then your company’s communication and planning is broken and work from office is a bandaid enabling that. Wfh forces good process as it’s not sustainable without it.
I find it particularly stupid compared to most other hyped technologies, as the pattern pervades the entire engineering superstructure and has to be entirely burned down in order to fix the core rot. The foundation of any microservice-based system is inherently shoddy in a way other poorly designed systems aren’t.
Yeah having a home is kind of important for dating. If you are homeless that’s a big problem
tldr: NPO (dutch BBC like) ditched GOOGLE AD services creating a proprietary solution (www.ster.nl) that racked a lot of more money (during 2020) only with contextual tracking
Maybe I haven’t found the right one yet. The last psychologist wanted to chat about the weather or something. I know I can set goals independently and execute on them. I lost 40 pounds during the pandemic after setting a weight loss goal. But you’re right it is multifaceted. It feels like a game of whacka mole where I put intentionality and care into one part of my life (career, or health) and the other parts languish.
I am not so sure about the advertising. Apple is already doing that with people who get saved by the watch and those don't then to make huge splashy headlines.
"Nearby Universe"?
I'm using the Fujitsu ScanSnap sheet fed scanner :-)
Does it not cause adverse impact on the day job?
None. I use the stdlib. Crystal stdlib is pretty good and just like in golang, you can create well written apps without having to use any framework.

Though if you do need a framework, Lucky and Athena right now are probably the best frameworks to use.
I wouldn’t use it maliciously, but I would honestly think twice about disclosing it. I think that’s especially true for anyone that doesn’t have a way to gain from the publicity.
I realize that the American justice system is adversarial. Whether or not you should take responsibility for your misdeeds is a philosophical question that doesn't mesh well with that system. If you are driving drunk and receive a citation for driving under the influence, it is common to try and fight the citation by finding a technicality to invalidate the arrest.

In the American system, you are innocent until proven guilty. You also have options to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences, diversion programs or lesser charges.

In the case of Holmes, her defense is cynical and I do blame her for sapping our justice system of resources that could be used elsewhere. I also believe that her cynical attempts to escape responsibility for her actions will lead to a more severe outcome than if she had admitted her wrongdoing early on. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
ECL is based on earlier compilers, which go back to KCL from 1984.

The idea of CLICC was to compile programs to small static C programs. Really small and with little or no dynamic features of Lisp (code loading, runtime compilation, eval, redefinition, ...). It did not have all the bells and whistles of ECL (virtual machine, runtime code loading, debugging, full dynamic Common Lisp, ...).
Not sure it gonna help, but some DLP 3D printers are very accurate, and most resins are non conductive. I know researchers were using one for micro-fluids applications. Not sure they can print sub-microns precisions, but 10μm is very real.
What about Google photos is evil? I don't get it.
Apple Photos seems to be using just Core ML[1] for on-device recognition and it does a pretty good job. As for Android, we plan to use tflite, but the accuracy is yet to be measured. And if customers do install our desktop app, we will be able to improve the indexes by re-indexing data with the extra bit of compute available.

We don't feel that the entire UX of a photo storage app will "suck" because of a reduced accuracy in search results, and we think that for some of us the reduced accuracy might not be a deal breaker.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml
> So vm86 mode is a special mode in 32-bit CPUs that lets you execute old 16-bit code in the context of a normal process.

It's in 64 bit processors as well. Windows didn't cut 16-bit execution due to the processors not supporting it from long mode. The issue was software constructs like an increase in max HANDLE table size increasing in the transition to 64bit.
In theory, yes, I'm vulnerable to reference cycles, but I haven't run into this in practice. The GNAT smart pointer types supports weak pointers if I need it.
Hi Geofft! Ada developer here. When I read and study the Ada reference manual for the 1995 standard I get the impression that the Ada language designers were not thinking of third-party garbage collection or reference counting as the primary way of achieving memory safety but they were thinking of arena pools/storage pools. When one defines an access-to-object type in the 1995 standard one can specify in which storage pool the allocated object ends up in. The Ada standard does not talk about Stack and heap but talks about Stack and Storage pools. I get the impression that the idea is for an Ada application to get a number of storage pools (with statically determined sizes?) and one can allocate objects inside of these and when one is finished with the objects in a pool one deallocates them all at once by emptying the pool and then one can reuse it again. More efficient and less-error-prone than deallocating each object separately. You are right in point number 2 that the door for garbage collection is open in the Ada standard. No Ada compiler vendor has implemented a GC but you are right about it being considered. The idea for arena pool/storage pool can also been seen in the Ada language (also 1995 standard) by being able to define an access-to-object type locally inside a function/subprogram and at the point of the access-to-object types existence some memory is heap allocated (the size of the allocated memory is specified by the access-to-object type definition) and when the access-to-object type goes out of scope the memory is deallocated (without the use of unchecked_deallocation)... so there should be a forth point on arena/storage pools on your list. And it may be more suited for "a (say) safe implementation of the DOM that can render real-world web pages while efficiently using memory on a general-purpose computer".

To use storage pools in Ada I would recommend Deepend (https://sourceforge.net/projects/deepend/). Deepend is a storage pool with subpool capabilities for Ada 2012, Ada 2005, and Ada 95. Memory allocations can be associated with subpools and subpools can be deallocated as a whole which provides a safer alternative than managing deletions of individual objects. It also is likely to be more deterministic and efficient than garbage collection.
Funny. I was searching hotel reviews today and Google doesn't even know that "wifi" and "wi-fi" are the same thing. (I'm sure the Google reviews use a different algorithm than the main Google site; but it was still funny to see with all the NLP stuff they are doing)
The author tells about it in this comment section
Fowler also wrote about "cookie-cutter" scaling of monolithic applications. Seems to me that the fault lies with the people who cargo cult approaches rather than reflecting on them and adopting them if and when they make sense.
Phishing campaign uses UPS.com XSS vuln to distribute malware
That's the sad thing though. While many people do spend their way to poverty, personal finance people almost never seem to address the question of how to negotiate/strategize to get more money in the first place. A lot of people semi-rationally conclude that the way to make money is to look successful by driving a new vehicle, wearing nice clothes, and 'fake it til you make it.'
There is kind of a 2-sided argument here:

1. Small time cheap skate business owners sometimes try to cheat professional artists by "paying with exposure", when they have no meaningful audience or influence and therefore no meaningful exposure to give.

2. Sources that do genuinely have very large audiences and influence can infact give an artist so much exposure that it's worth far more than any reasonable direct payment

This situation seems a lot more like 2 than 1. The company is in the business of helping companies secure their cloud environments, and these articles going around the tech press are being read by hundreds of thousands of people who are generally more interested in cloud security than a random person. They could spend many times the amounts discussed here on advertising and still not get their name in front of that many of the right people in a good context.
I'm sure that this regex wasn't manually created. Is there a service or tool to create such regex?
For a long time, it’s been true that the internet can help your career far more than whoever works in your office. Open source contributions, emailing people asking for advice, engaging people on social media… all the way up to raising money. The future was already here, it was just unevenly distributed. COVID forced some who were holding out to face reality of a global, distributed work force.
As the author of this article, this isn't true. some comes from the merchant fees, many comes from the fact people don't pay off their cards every month and that far more subsidizes those payouts.

Lastly have you tried paying with cash online? While Bitcoin is a neat idea we are far from yet mass acceptance of any digital currency yet.
Maybe you and them just did not understand that it’s an pattern that, as all pattern, makes only sense for certain applications.

Maybe you could also present some references that back up your claims?

It’s always easy to judge on people that tried to solve problems of the past. Mistakes will always be made but this way we do learn and make progress.

So what I try to say is maybe appreciate that he at least tried to solve problems. All this shitposts here at hn against ppl like him or uncle bob or so unreflected and immature… like really what the heck is going on with you people.

Edit: grammar. Non nativ here…
I can pay for a terabyte of Amazon Glacier for $50/year. Amazon Deep Glacier is $12 per month.

$300/year for 2TB isn't happening. I can buy a 12TB HDD for less, if I shop around.

I'd like a service like this to keep small, well-compressed 1080p or 4k photos available for instant access, and original files in archival storage of some kind.

I'm totally glad to pay the $10/year for the baseline service, and another $12 for deep glacier costs. I'm not glad to pay thousands of dollars for a service like this over the lifetime of my photos. I'm not quite sure where the line between that is.

I'll also mention: open-source, data export, and the option of self-hosting is helpful. I don't want to spin up an EC2 instance for this when I can buy $12, but if you go out-of-business, I'd like to have the option. Could also be an option you only guarantee if the service is discontinued or has substantially different costs/terms.
It's pretty ambiguous from that wording whether the "self driving" was at fault or not (if a vehicle had stopped and the manual operative was about to do something it could easily imply the vehicle's computer then behaved unpredictably in a way the joystick didn't cancel out). Possibly because Toyota themselves haven't analysed the telemetry enough to know what caused it yet
If you sort the numbers, then represent them as the amount you need to add to the prior number[1], it produces a very small file once compressed...about 4k[2].

So, even with the code to turn it back into a list, handle the leading zeros on many numbers, etc, it would be under 10k total, much smaller than the crazy regex.

Not general purpose, and a bit silly, but you can get the list pretty damn small.

[1] Like: "1234, 1235, 1435: becomes "1234, 1, 200"

[2] The < 4k gz file that you can reproduce most of the list from: https://github.com/tyingq/barclays/blob/main/out.c.gz?raw=tr... Gunzip, then read each line, then add the prior read line to it, prepend a leading zero and print. "Prior read line" is 0 for the first line. There's a small amount of the list you would have to hardcode or handle another way...the numbers without leading zeros, total of 63 numbers.
>Where is the evidence that her wearing a mask would have changed the outcomes?

There is multiple studies that show masks are effective at _slowing down_ the spread.

>It either works or it does not.

Huh? This is like saying, "chemotherapy works or it does not."

>Sorry, does not take much to see that, just simply look at everyday observations.

Yep. I'm looking. There's mass deaths a day. Funny the activity is in the anti-mask states, huh?

>yet NONE have exhibited anything close to the 91% infection rates

The CDC said 91% of kids live in high risk places... it has nothing to do with the infection rate. You need to _read_ sources and not just emotionally react.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/report-91percent-of-students-l...
Co-Founder Quest
1897: London's first electric taxis (with 3 minute battery swap time)
the point I was making is that the story, at least in my reading, is being presented primarily as scientific evidence on the effectiveness of masks in school.

Especially the WaPo article. If 50% of students in a classroom get infected after 2 days in school while wearing masks then, IMHO, masks can't be all that effective in the first place.

the whole article tries to suggest that the infections happened during that period she removed the mask ... there is no evidence for that whatsoever
> This operation involved encrypted communication devices sold via the black market to criminals who promoted these to each other – and which, unknown to them, the US’s FBI was lawfully bugging.

Security is still very much not/mis-understood by the general and not-so-general population. A side-loaded e2ee communication app on an off-the-shelf device seems a better bet. I wonder if these 'secure' devices did anything at all other than have known IEMI's.
Revenue.

Your capital needs are so small that if you truly have 70% of an MVP done it will take less time to get to revenue than secure capital.
The website allows them to check a number and then manually call it. How does spoofing interfere in that case?
"Inheritance" means very different things to programmers and normal people. You can't expect domain use to follow your sensibilities.
There's more you can do honestly. Search and and assign people so you can find picture with just them. This also works for pets. People, pets , objects, place, etc. Hell, I searched the car I use to drift and it showed up. It's really neat.
The Problem With Microservices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMLg3Ys5vI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348554
I love their products Im about to buy one, it would be great to see what other ones they come up with.
Are you sure it is completely banned? I thought you just need permission (in the form of a "no objection certificate") from the Home Ministry in India before you can own and operate a satellite phone?
...but then wouldn't it make sense to say something like "nearby region of the universe"?

Somehow the word "universe" in the phrase "nearby universe" seems redundant (e.g. where ELSE would it be?)
Question: Why XChaCha20? If you used aes256 I wouldn't even give it a thought and simply move on to the next question, but now I have stop and ask what's going on and wonder if you did it right. Just seems like unnecessary friction in my decision process.
For those of you in the UK, this flowchart has been particularly useful in terms of safely managing debt and growing wealth.

https://ukpersonal.finance/

The mods tend to update it regularly in line with changing economic conditions and laws etc.
As an outsider, I have always respected the Japanese tradition of leaders accepting blame and making apologies. It seems that this would short-circuit the outrage driven media cycles that thrive in America. Is this the case in Japan? Do these apologies have a postive affect?
I think that's a bit apocalyptic. Plenty of time to observe and adjust.
Write a DSL … and now you have two problems.
They were set up for accepting passports, but had to fill out a little paper card instead of using their drivers license scanner. I’d get it if they were busy and had a line out the door but they just didn’t want to be bothered.

Maybe they thought I was pulling out my passport to be a nuisance like the parent comment and would try again with my drivers license when they said no.
Without question, not everyone should start a business. That wasn't the point of the article. It's about the advice you get and how they themselves not follow that same advice.
Came here to say this. The author lost all credibility with me when including Ramit in the list as if he's actually paid any attention at all to what IWT says he'd realize that Ramit could have written the article he just published (and they would have been similarly condescending tones)
It has always been about money, don't fall for their marketing
https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e
This is good. It’ll drive EV uptake. It’s the next best thing to a carbon tax.
They are losing to Tesla and they know it. They would rather trash the whole industry than let someone else win
It's an easy mistake to make, to have incorrect pedagogy around the concept of temperature, and Feynman was fanatical about correct pedagogy. This is always good: https://youtu.be/Q1lL-hXO27Q
Do We Need Patents?
I haven’t, this sounds like a potential idea though. Thank you, I’ll look into it.
If you build your whole life around didactic speaking gigs where you tell everyone how to do it despite apparently not writing any software yourself, you need to be prepared to be open to some criticism when it turns out your ideas are shit.
Train Wheels Are Cones
I remember a similar thing with the original PS/3 vs follow-up revisions. The fan on that original was killer--so large, slow and quiet, dangerously sharp edges too (does that help with noise?).
There are some great productions of Satyagraha online. Check them out!
Followup on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327198