skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like Microsoft used to pay more attention to GUI design and usability back in Windows 2000 days, which is the peak GUI for me too. Windows 2000 design is very similar to Windows 95, but changes from 95 to 2000 I see as improvements.

Starting with XP more attention was paid to aesthetics and less to other qualities. E. g. XP controls consumed more screen space, which was a visible regression at times when 15-inch displays were still common.

Up until Windows 7 there was a classic desktop theme which was quite close to 2000 and I used it. Unfortunately Windows 10 has no such option. I use mostly FreeBSD and MacOS nowadays, but still have an old notebook with Windows 7 which I occasionally use. If I disliked Windows 10 less I would have upgraded it to Windows 10.
It's even hard to imagine how this might have happened. Is the service a shared Jupyter server (or group thereof) that somehow has access to everything and it's within this service that the access/authorization is implemented? I wouldn't expect IAM to work this way in a cloud service

I don't know how these security boundaries are usually implemented, but I would expect this bug to be way less plausible. Isn't this an architectural smell?
Yeah, I read IWTYTBR back when it came out and even then he stressed how skipping the latte was not enough: you had to increase your income + assets
I wonder how they settled on the price point, what testing was done, etc.

It seems to me that it’s a beautiful product that’s got high margins and is priced so far above the “screw it, I’ll buy one!” threshold that I wonder if they’re leaving a lot of cashflow on the table. Alternatively, perhaps almost everyone who would have paid $99 will also pay $199 and I’m totally off.
Steven Seagal on Hook for SEC Crypto Fine Despite Move to Moscow
Okay. You know Svitavy?

I thought so, because it's a small city in the Czech republic. There are about 5 guys there which have bussineses in various sectors. They all know each other. If you screw up badly in one job, you are not gonna get hired anywere.

"But why won't you move to Prague?" you ask. Because in Svitavy you get about 13-15k CZK netto/month. Rent in Prague for a reasonable studio apartment is about 11-12k (for reference - 9k for rent + 2,5k for utilities - https://www.sreality.cz/detail/pronajem/byt/1+kk/praha-kobyl...). Realistically the apartment is gonna be higher than that, because there are already 50 people who are willing to pay more than the said 9k for the linked one. You need about 4k a month for food. 500 CZK for phone + internet if you are cheap etc.

So in my example scenario, let's say you are saving 1k while in Svitavy, which is about right. You can't just go to Prague for job interview during your day job at a sweat shop. After a year you are gonna have 3/4 of living costs in Prague. If you are anything else than a programmer or IT guy, you are not gonna find a job in 2-3 months, possibly 6.

So unless you inherit something or take a loan to risk it all, you are stuck in Svitavy. Have a bit more empathy, nextlevelpíčo.
Side note, I understand that's a minor mistranslation: "Death" is more like "Time" (which eventually destroys all things). In that line, I imagine a Hindu analogue of Chronos -- Time the Reaper, which mows men down at the end of their season, like so much grass. Ozymandias as well.

This, then, would have less to do with the explosive power of the Trinity test, and more to do with the decaying remnants of missile silos, which are already ruins.
That is a fair point. I was assuming a VTSAX-like return as the default low-effort path but many people don't even do that.
Reports Show 45% Surge in Stock and Cryptocurrency Sign-Ups Across RuraL India
It's private in the tenant. A SSL certificate encrypted web server also has the private key in the remote machine. Potentially hosting millions of other pages.
Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power
Emacs is so great out-of-the-box that, unless you're in a terminal, every time you launch it to edit a file, it will take up half its window with a welcome message, until you specifically create a configuration file to disable that. This is particularly frustrating if you just want to use it with its default settings, eg, as root to edit a file.

It's clearly not intended to be reasonable usable without user configuration.
> If I had to give 1 bit of general financial advice though: develop your talent stack.

This is crucial, but having a relatively high savings / investing rate is as important.

> And baring some health issue, nobody can ever take a skill away from you.

Time absolutely can. Even someone in a sedentary job in a field where their expertise won't necessarily become outdated will eventually have to hang up their cleats for one reason or another.
Sure. All of Apple's photo analysis is done on device.
The comments here seem to suggest an unjustified process of unvalidated 'expert' testimony. What I picked up on the article was:

> In the end, the match appeared strong. When presented with Black's report, Oketch changed his plea from not guilty to guilty; he got 15 years. That plea change was important, Black says. It meant money that would otherwise have been spent on trials was saved. It also meant the child was spared from having to give evidence in court.
There’s not enough nuance in medical reporting for sure but some of the best information for laymen has been available on YouTube, despite early censorship of those warning of the impending pandemic. I’m referring to MedCram and Dr John Campbell specifically. The racaniello podcast as well.

(Edit to correct racaniello’s spelling.
That's pretty helpful. Thank you very much.
Hey, can you please make your substantive points without crossing into the flamewar style on HN? We're trying for curious conversation here, which is more or less disjoint from ideological battle (and this particular ideological theme is of course a flamewar classic).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
Can you point me towards marketing from Apple that highlights the ability to run linux or BSD?

The reverse engineering effort has only been in full swing for 6-7 months, that's nothing. And yet it's already quite usable with the main thing not working being hardware acceleration.
> If I wanted to just store my photos I'd throw them in a S3 bucket or Dropbox or something.

Neither of those give you any privacy unless you do the encryption yourself in which case you have to build something to access them unencrypted. Have you checked out what the service actually does?
New article isn't yet in the database, pending Indian court is the last I heard.
> I remember some paper from the 80s suggesting in the future all we would need is Ada and Lisp. This is somewhat echoed with the GNU projects attempt at C for low level dev and Guile for higher level dev and scripting.

This is an even more true argument today (minus the concrete language names). We desperately need such a curated subset.

The problem is of course us the pesky humans with short-sighted feelings we cling to as if our life depends on it. Desired job security is a big offender as well.

The pertinent questions today with regards to a language are:

- Is the runtime fast (if it's interpreted)?

- If it's compiled ahead-of-time, does it produce efficient machine code? (Golang is one example of machine code that can be better, whereas OCaml and Rust are known to produce some seriously fast machine code.)

- Are the runtime's performance characteristics predictable, e.g. latency remains stable under load? (Especially if the runtime has a garbage collector.)

- Does it run on a reasonable amount of platforms? ARM, x86 (32/64 bit), AVR, and a few more? Can it run on embedded devices?

- Does the language/runtime/ecosystem give you good parallel/concurrent abilities? Preemptively scheduled actors and/or green threads is probably the best idea for servers (Erlang / Elixir are good example do due to the underlying BEAM VM). IMO this is hugely important nowadays. Stuff like parallel iterators and parallel map/reduce/join/various-transform operations are other important enablers.

- Does the language help you avoid various bugs? Examples are Rust's borrow checker or many languages' support for sum types.

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Additionally... why do we even use languages that don't get compiled by GCC or LLVM, at all? I am tired of listening to people's stories about their beautifully simple and genius compiler... which of course can't even do SIMD intrinsics or properly unroll loops. Yeah, "genius" and super simple indeed. /facepalms

Will we ever learn? Gods.

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I've been around and I can claim that many times people get attached to the language simply because it has good libraries and good community. I fully relate to that and it's the reason why I want to work with Elixir even after 5 years of mostly uninterrupted career with it but... at one point, after many other problems are solved, you inevitably start hitting brick walls and you question your career choices.

I can't claim any strong experience or authority even after almost 20 years in the industry but so far only Rust seems to be a very good all-around language with a dead-serious and dedicated community that's trying to penetrate basically everywhere. The good news is that they might just succeed because the language is that good -- although it too started showing some warts but so far they're bearable.

But I don't see the world putting their differences aside and starting to work on a common cause. It's sadly not how humanity works. :(
Google has created a competing rival to Apple in the mobile market called Android. Am I not understandng your question?
Most of the books suggested here are rather heavy for a holiday read. I suggest The Code Book by Simon Singh. A very readable introduction to Cryptography. Another one that I'd recommend is the Go Programming Language, a concise but excellent tutorial on Go. This is best used by writing programs alongside reading the book, but you can just read the excellent examples and still get a lot out of it.
I wonder if that's really the case: is there really any windows 3.1 16-bit code running in Windows 11 ?
Because it is unethical and in most countries illegal :)

But you are right. They should pay them more.
That sounds like paying artists with "exposure".
As well as not spreading it to others while you are infected. It is self-defeating if a single person survives it, yet spreads that infection and associated risks onward to many others.
Rethinking Climate Change: How Humanity Can Reduce Emissions 90% by 2035
How Humanity Can Choose to Reduce Emissions 90% by 2035 through the Disruption of Energy, Transportation, and Food with Existing Technologies
You really need to already know something about medicine to get medical info from YouTube. It’s 100:1 nonsense to good info about medicine over there.
The role of a chaplain is very different than a typical clergyman.

I think a better question might be why you, and the above poster, think you're making a better determination about where this person can serve his community then he himself can make?

Full disclosure - I'm not religious either, but I do have family members serving as chaplains at universities.
So far, everyone is focusing on the JSON vs regex thing, but that's not the worst of the criticisms leveled here. Not being able to use the +44 prefix, or format the number with dashes are stunningly obvious usability problems that honestly should not have made it out of QA.

You'll see the same thing on different sites with credit card numbers. See, every credit card issuer uses a scheme called an "issuer identification number" to tell you what type of card it is. And, there's a list of them [0]. So, for instance, I can tell that any valid credit card number that starts with 4 must be a Visa. So, why ask me what type of card it is, when you can figure it out yourself?

Those rare sites where you actually want to put your Social Security number in have these sorts of issues, too. Some of them require dashes, some of them don't. Some of them will only allow you to enter 9 characters, but won't tell you not to use dashes. It's infuriating, really. And, any site where you enter an account number can potentially have these types of issues.

It's not like being just a little more flexible with input formatting is a major feature with huge implementation costs and security risks, either. We're talking about failing to take a few minutes' thought in order to be a little more kind to the user, and that's just inexcusable, IMO.

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[0]: https://stevemorse.org/ssn/List_of_Bank_Identification_Numbe...
It would be a lot more than 15 if Android didn't exist
One approach that I find interesting is to use Wasm because it was designed as a portable execution format for lots of language types. It has an amazing amount of flexibility for byte working and execution.

It is fairly trivial to see all of main memory and single step execution of a wasm program. If one runs wasm3 in wasm3, you can then trace the inner interpreter as well. Check out the section on trace visualization.

https://github.com/vshymanskyy/awesome-wasm-tools
In addition to ensuring account security, we were collecting the user-agent to transform API responses depending on the client.

But your point is valid. Just the operating system and app version is enough to derive this information. We will make this change and update our privacy policy.

Thanks for bringing this up!
From a UX point of view, what would be the downsides of just rendering a plain text file of 1 number per line in alphanumeric order?

Does this really need any more UI than the browser’s chrome?

Not every web user knows “ctrl+f” or “find in page” on their phone, but those that don’t, do still know how to scroll 74,000 lines of ordered numbers (which is surprisingly easy and fast - i just tried scrolling 74k lines in excel on mobile).

The one use case i’m thinking might be confounded is a screen reader for the visually impaired or blind but even then, i’m thinking this use case is probably covered?
Uh, yeah, maybe, I'm not sure how much this changes things to be honest. I fully agree with grandparent this is $1MM reward territory. (Edit: sibling put it really elegantly, this is pay-with-exposure justification)

PR campaign or not, you don't spit on those kinds of rewards. And it's a bad look on MS to award 40k on one of the worst vulnerabilities to ever hit a cloud provider...
Things that are needed should be re-written frequently, to keep them up to date with the hardware and keep the human side of the institutional knowledge they encode alive and fresh. see all the "no one can touch the codebase that no one understands and the business depends on it" stories.

General advice can be derived from looking at things that have lived a long time: make your own interpreter/VM, build the application in that language, build the VM for every platform you want to support. Use an extensible "plugin" friendly architecture as far as possible. etc. Others have done real research on it.

It sounds like you dont have a specific purpose in mind, which means we get to speculate on all sorts of wild ideas for the fun of it. Best kind of project :)

Keeping hardware running in orbit is probably not as easy as you might assume. I dont know anything about it but theres a hell of a lot of ways things have gone wrong on satellites and I'm betting we haven't found them all yet.

also makes me think of "digital prayer wheel" email signatures... just how complex a piece of code do you want to run? Protective invocations against the darker corners of the mandelbrot set are often only a few instructions long.
There are a couple of other ways to mitigate the problem for web applications. If you're willing to install a browser extension, then it might make more sense to use the Signed Pages extension[0] which applies PGP signature checking to web pages. The other solution is to use Secure Bookmarks[1], which combine SRI integrity hashes with Data URIs to ensure that a fixed bundle of JavaScript is running in the page.

[0] https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages

[1] https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
serious answer, I have no idea how feasible: Live on the street in LA or SF! There are tents and campers parked all over the place with people living in them, and just because they are currently populated mostly by the aggrieved doesn't mean you need to be aggrieved.

The cost of a van/camper is not crazy, internet in LA and SF is easy to come by, cheap food is plentiful if you're willing to accomodate your diet...

and there's no lock-in or insane sunk cost. "What could go wrong" for you in a country like Georgia has a lot of unkowns, vs in LA you'd pretty much know how to figure it out. Visiting friends and family, deciding to bail, etc. all easier.
> The solution isn't "get a side hustle" it's "the full time minimum wage should support a reasonable life".

Ugh I saw you getting close and then miss it

Why would you think the solution to the savings problem is minimum wage?

When is the minimum ever good enough? Frustrating how not enough people talk about increasing income way beyond the minimum
> The law will require any organization or individual handling Chinese citizens’ personal data to minimize data collection and to obtain prior consent, according to the latest published draft. It covers government agencies, though lawyers and policy analysts say enforcement is likely to be tighter on the private sector.

I'm surprised that they even gave lip-service to including government within the scope of the law.
+1 for custom storage target
Would something like Nanoscribe [1] work for you? The resulting structures are non-conductive.
As part of our research we use it mostly for 3d-printing nanoscale optical elements, but we have also successfully used it for some mechanical support structures.

[1] https://www.nanoscribe.com
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, too.
The document discussed in the video can be accessed here:

https://www.rethinkx.com/s/Rethinking-Implications.pdf
Very interested in this. She questions:

How does one migrate to this from Google photos?

How does one share across the family?

Is it possible to have a local backup (e.g. on my desktop) in case something goes wrong?

What are plans for features beyond just storing photos (categorizing, tagging, labelling, albums, comments/notes, geotags, stories, etc.)?

What's the pricing?
> - Double standards about who is allowed to challenge vote certifications. Democrats challenged Trump's election and both of Bush 43's elections as is permitted in the Constitution. When Republicans did the same in 2021 they were threatened with impeachment and removed from committees

What are you referring to here?
I agree with your overall preference. I’m not as sure that the 17th stripped power from the states, so much as defined how that power was elected. (It’s clear that it could make some difference but not clear that it shifts overall power federally.)
Economically sustainable and ethical monetization of user-generated-content games.

The closest most known example of this kind of game nowadays is Roblox, but I'm thinking of things more like Mario Maker or the older-generation Atmosphir/GameGlobe-likes.

Unlike "modding platforms" or simulators/sandboxes/platforms such as Flight Simulator, VRChat or ARMA, these games' content are created by regular players with no technical skill, which means the game needs to provide both the raw assets from which to build the content, as well as the tool to build that content.

Previous titles tried the premium model (Mario Maker), user-created microtransactions (Roblox) and plain old freemium (Atmosphir and GameGlobe).

I suspect Mario Maker only works because of the immense weight and presence of the franchise.

Roblox's user-created microtransactions (in addition to first-party ones) seem to be working, but they generate strange incentives for creators, which I personally feel taints a lot of the games within it. (The user-generated content basically tends to become the equivalent of shovelware)

GameGlobe failed miserably by applying the microtransaction model to creator assets, which means that to make cool content, creators have to pay as well as spend lots of their time actually building the thing, which means most levels actually published end up being the same default bunch of free assets and limited mechanics.

Atmosphir is a bit closer to me so I find some more nuance in its demise, but long story short, essentially they restricted microtransactions only to player customization, however it didn't seem to be enough to cover the cost of developing the whole game/toolset. Eventually adding microtransactions to unlock some player mechanics, which meant that some levels were not functional without owning a specific item.

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In short, the only thing that can effectively monetize on is the game itself (premium model) or purely-cosmetic content for players. Therefore, to incentivize the cosmetics, the game needs to be primarily multiplayer, which implies lots more investment on the creator tooling UX, as well as the infrastructure itself. But this also restricts the possibilities for the base game somewhat.
Apparently not, from all the other articles I read.

Putting them on halt... Goddamn, never underestimate the power of the media.

If all these fuckers report it as "self driving car hits blind man", you're fucked, not them for misrepresenting the facts.
This is Japan and their culture. If this happened to Tesla, Elon would just tweet something
I am sorry, this story just does not add up. BTW here is the same story with more details:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/28/delta-varia...

We have a teacher that is positive, infectious and is spending hours in a classroom even after exhibiting symptoms. Now that needs to be avoided in the future. Fix that first and foremost.

Where is the evidence that her wearing a mask would have changed the outcomes? The students did wear a mask after all. It either works or it does not. Bringing masking into the picture has the opposite effect - it creates the illusion that it would be fine to show up with symptoms if you have a mask.

Then simulations are bullshit ... you can simulate to generate any and every outcome you want - it all depends on the parameters. Sorry, does not take much to see that, just simply look at everyday observations.

There are plenty of schools with no masking requirement - yet NONE have exhibited anything close to the 91% infection rates (within 30 days!) that the CDC simulations predict.
summary: We should massively overproduce renewable energy so that we store enough power for winter when solar underproduces.

Not sure there's any meaningful insight here.

The real solution that already exists and can solve climate change is nuclear power.
And for the scammer - a great list of phone numbers to spoof!
I've spent some time on this problem -- classic space vs. time tradeoff. Usually if you're spending a lot of time on PNG encoding, you're spending it compressing the image content. PNG compression uses the DEFLATE format, and many software stacks leverage zlib here. It sounds like you're not simply looking to adjust the compression level (space vs. time balance), so we'll skip that.

Now zlib specifically is focused on correctness and stability, to the point of ignoring some fairly obvious opportunities to improve performance. This has led to frustration, and this frustration has led performance-focused zlib forks. The guys at AWS published a performance-focused survey [1] of the zlib fork landscape fairly recently. If your stack uses zlib, you may be able to find a way to swap in a different (faster) fork. If your stack does not use zlib, you may at least be able to find a few ideas for next steps.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/improving-zlib-cloud...