skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we still doing this childish we hate Windows crap?

I get the baby idea in the early 2000, but hasn't the internet grow up past this yet?

Yes, unless it's your job or you enjoy early adoption (which many people do) then you should wait on the curve before upgrading, as you should all technology. Very true in corporate.

But tis Windows version, like all Windows updates will improve many things.

Windows Vista was pretty amazing. It was also hated. Some of the hate was unavoidable, like making security better. But some wasn't and that was a IT PR failure, which matters. But all previous evidence point to the fact Windows 11 will be good.

Was Windows Vista THAT bad? Linus Tech Tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgRryt2ZtE
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair!

I grew up on a Soviet clone of the ZX Spectrum 48, the Hobbit! Many hours spent. Many games written. Used to write BASIC on graph paper before entering it in.
I'm pretty excited about limiting side and rear setbacks to 4 feet.
Probably the saddest day in my IT career, this man started it all for me.
blogspam of: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-we-stand-ready-to-make...
I don't see anything obviously incorrect about all that, but it's irrelevant to the fact (if I'm not mistaken) that the investors didn't get a business and hire a CEO to run it, they found a business with a CEO.
Fair! It's a two-variable function though. How much is it worth to have? How much does it cost to keep? The Afghanis made the cost very, very high relative to what might be expected.
I don't think it's bad in general considering the size of the country and especially considering the fact that we have hundreds of millions of civilian owned guns (23 million sold last year, and even more sold this year already). When you compare guns to other stuff like drunk driving it shows how blown out of proportion the problem is.

- CDC stats (2018) -

US Firearm Homicides: 14,414

US deaths caused by drunk drivers: 10,511
"Gaslighting" is another one that seems quite a decent heuristic; I find that people using this to be less than reasonable in a well above-average number of cases.

Of course, as with any heuristic it's far from perfect, and the author may very well be in the right here. It's impossible to tell from this piece and there are a few eyebrow-raisers – so all I can give this story is a shrug.
I think the biggest and most important ingredient to have in his situation is his relationship with his boss or manager.

It would be best if these things are handled at the HR level. It is a cultural thing or issue in some companies.

If your boss supports you, you’ll be fine, else better start looking for a new job.
Ok, everyone, time to go back to Enlightenment and try this again.

https://www.enlightenment.org/ss/?page=2
Eh, I have had this issue in racing VR games (with a racing wheel setup) with shifters on the wheel. I was constantly confusing which was which as the wheel was spun around. I think it's something you just get used to.
Again

"Who govern the governors?"

But I am not surprised to see another Facebook censorship op.
The biggest threats are slow and mundane because the population is heavily armed. Anything fast and oppressive (ex.: Australia's Covid lockdown) would be seriously opposed. The "Waco" incident was a fast and oppressive move (violent SWAT-type raid on a group for a small paperwork/tax violation), those targeted fought back, gov't didn't do it again for decades.

Government isn't going to attack lots of individuals via tanks/artillery/etc scattered thru innumerable suburban neighborhoods.

Every year >20,000,000 US individuals partake in live-fire live-target drills, acting practically as lone wolves, as well- and self-equipped snipers in Operation "Deer Season". Just 0.001% of those, sufficiently motivated, would paralyze an oppressive government.

Yes, most "plinking" aren't practicing for serious combat. But they are practicing, and even with a high attrition rate they would, as a diffuse group, take down and/or demoralize violent oppressors. And that's not counting the small but far-from-trivial number taking CQB training seriously.

This year's legislative freak-out over thousands of unarmed & mostly-peaceful protesters occupying the Capitol wasn't so much what they did, but that they represented an enormous number who are well armed.
I don’t know about Google but I would say that the majority of Apple’s design refreshes are iterative in such a way that someone coming from the previous release is very unlikely to get “lost” when presented with the latest UI.

And this is the key. UI refreshes are fine as long as they don’t add unnecessary friction to the user experience.

Apple’s refreshes are also generally complete, cohesive and coherent. Yes they have the odd inconsistency here and there but largely the design system feels fully thought out at a high level. (I would perhaps put built-in apps like Podcasts and Music to one side here as I have far less charitable opinions around some of those UI updates - I’m mainly talking about the core OS experience).

I’m an experienced user of macOS and Windows and I cannot remember the last time I upgraded a macOS version and couldn’t just immediately carry on with my work without any major reorientation needed. Likewise with iOS. And Apple is iterating on their UI at a much faster pace than Microsoft.

And yet I have Windows VMs and Servers that I’ve used for years now and I still cannot fathom where they have moved setting X because it’s literally all over the place. Their UI updates are mostly incoherent, incomplete and just plain baffling.

The hash they’ve made of settings is just incredible. I have no idea how normal users navigate that crap. Even if you can stay in the top-level “dumbed down” layer of the settings UI it’s completely unintuitive in many places.

I’ve not seen an improvement to the start menu that has benefited my usability in any way since Windows 2000. I’m constantly confused with the various different start menus across servers running different Windows versions. Contrast that to the dock in macOS which has basically been the same simple and usable design paradigm for over 20 years with gentle refinement over that time. The only consistent thing Microsoft seem to keep doing to the start menu is they make more space for ads. FFS.

I’m not even going to get into the aggressive, seemingly-can’t-be-stopped forced updates…

I’m bullish on Microsoft’s .NET developer ecosystem and mainly positive about their Cloud strategy - the company has made some impressive changes over the last decade, but my god, Windows is a total car crash at the moment.
Those have been a relatively long time ago. Both of them stopped doing that. If it's a temporary stop or a definitive one, is an open question, but they did stop (at least for a while).
Ask HN: 9M in Dev Work for Salesforce E-Comm Software?
The CFO of an e-commerce software startup recently directed the total cost of ownership (TCO) of running Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) alongside Manhattan order management software.

He compares the TCO against his company's commerce platform (fabric) for a hypothetical business that generates $500 million of gross merchandise value (GMV) annually.

Can anyone confirm or deny these development costs? Columns 2-3 are for SFCC and 4-5 for the other platform.

Fee Type | % of GMV | Annual Costs | % of GMV | Annual Costs

Software ¹ | 2.95% | $14,755,000 | 0.72% | $3,616,000
Software Hosting & Maintenance ² | 0.62% | $3,100,000 | 0.00% | $0
Payment Processing ³ | 2.50% | $12,500,000 | 2.50% | $12,500,000
Software Development (People) ⁴ | 1.80% | $8,990,000 | 0.28% | $1,400,000
Site Operations (People) 5 | 0.68% | $3,420,000 | 0.22% | $1,090,000
Professional Services (implementation fee) ⁶ | 0.80% | $4,000,000 | 0.10% | $500,000
Total Costs | 9.35% | $46,765,000 | 3.82% | $19,106,000

1 Assumes salesforce Commerce Cloud & manhattan OMS
2 Hosting costs are included in fabric platform license
3 Assume 2.3% credit card transaction fees + sales tax software
4 Can reduce 50+ person IT team due to Fabric-enabled developer productivity
5 Can reduce 30+ person operations team due to Fabric-enabled merchant and marketer productivity
6 One time Implementation fee by Salesforce SI such as Lyons

Note: A clearer table is 3/4 way down this post: https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/ecommerce-tax
Only for some Awards.
Not unless the governments can control it.
That would be a lisp-1.
Yeah right, every damn thing is because of someone else. Start taking responsibility for your actions.
I think carefully designing the campaign from the start to avoid a PR backlash would be really important. Doable, too.
> I will not be using Clubhouse

Nobody uses Clubhouse on any platform. Being forced to listen to long-form narrations of bullshit LinkedIn wall posts is an excruciating form of torture.
> but anybody who's visited Mexico knows not to go random places alone

Canadian here... isn't that true in most of the highly-populated areas in the US as well? And, to be honest, some parts of Canada as well; I definitely know a neighbourhood not to far from where I live where I'm highly unlikely to walk in the dark.
You're probably right. They have different philosophies and threat models.
What's the base rate?
A "rectangular wheel" has a safety edge case that circular wheels don't: if the rectangular wheel is lowered too close to the driver's thighs, the bottom corners of the rectangle will collide with the driver's thighs when rotating the rectangle all the way left or right, and the driver might not realize this until already under way. Such rectangular wheels are standard in Formula 1 cars[1] but an F1 cockpit is tailor-made for each driver such that the driver can't mis-adjust the wheel height.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=formula+1+steering+wheel&iax=image...
All that gun control in Mexico is working just great with its low murder rate…oh wait.
Luc Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winner, is quite concerned about ADE and these vaccines creating mutations. He’s also unvaccinated.
Via https://wccftech.com/x86-champion-amd-is-ready-to-make-arm-c... no less. I link both sources.

The main additional point I raised was linking the timing of the announcement to nVidia's struggles with their Arm acquisition, which I felt was relevant and hadn't found mentioned elsewhere.
> I also think that the argument you’re putting forward here shows close to zero regard for the welfare of other people. Perhaps the lockdowns are inexpensive to you, but they are life-changingly devastating to others.

So let's minimise how devastating they are by doing them hard and early, so that they don't end up lasting for months.

Or is your proposed alternative not doing them at all? Because dying is a hell of a lot more devastating than a lockdown is.

> Perhaps you haven’t had to attend a parents funeral over FaceTime.

Letting thousands more parents die so that someone can attend a funeral seems rather counter-productive.

> Perhaps you haven’t been stuck at home with a domestic abuser.

Even the harshest lockdowns I'm aware of have explicitly allowed for accommodations in these types of situations, and I've never seen a single person arguing that they shouldn't.

> Perhaps you haven’t been driven to suicide by having your entire life taken away. But many people have.

Bullshit. Here's a direct quote from the AIHW:

"Since 2020, suicide registers in Victoria and New South Wales have regularly published data on suspected deaths by suicide in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2020 (Leske et al. 2020) included data on suspected deaths by suicide from January 2015 to July 2020. In all cases there is no evidence of any increase in 2020 or 2021 relative to previous years."

Source: https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/co...

This is an extremely common blatant lie perpetuated by the exact kind of disinformation merchants this thread is about. COVID-19 related restrictions and lockdowns have had no effect on suicide rates.

> Surely some laws are necessary, but surely we must be entitled to debate them to figure out which ones are reasonable.

You're absolutely entitled to debate them - you're doing that right here. No-one's getting banned for posting "I think this lockdown is unnecessary". They're getting banned for spreading false information and advocating for people to actively break said laws, creating major health risks in the process.
You don't "read" these type of information. You make them up to look good.
You are going to be downvoted because your comment will imply racism, but I think it's worth an honest discussion.

In the Bay Area in the last 20 years, I think I can count the number of non-hispanic gardeners I've seen, on one hand. The number of non-hispanic custodial workers, maybe on 2 hands. Restaurant workers, regardless of the cuisine and regardless of the restaurant price range, are also most often hispanic.

Some people scream that hispanic immigrants are "stealing our jobs." I think, they're doing the job that white America now refuses to do. Without them, business couldn't survive. But as businesses have thrived --especially tech-- they're the first to get fucked by rising prices.
Have there been attempts to introduce censorship in the US that have been defeated by armed activists?

No, because there _are_ armed activists.

Were there violent uprisings against censorship in the UK, Canada, or Australia that failed due to a lack of access to arms?

See Hong Kong of late. Many banners seen during free-speech protests there lamented their lack of a "2nd Amendment".
>Even though they mostly live in vastly, vastly safer zip codes.

While rural places are safer, there are threats like bears, wolves and other wild animals.
See my note: I think "ending" single family zoning is (slightly) misleading given how some municipalities enforce planning and zoning laws. It sounds more impactful than "optionally permits two buildings per site and splitting lots", but without additional change, people can still build single-family homes.
Big Sur came out in 2020 and Material You was announced in May of this year.
Thanks for the reply, very helpful!
In my 40 years, there was exactly one time I needed to defend myself, and a gun probably would have made the situation worse. I would have had too little time to draw it, and likely it would have been wrestled away from me and used against me. The people who attacked me had no weapons (or at least none they felt they needed to show me), so a gun would have escalated things.

I walked away from that with a black eye and stolen phone and laptop, but if a gun had been in play I might not have walked away at all.
That's a coordinated response. We don't want to invoke a coordinated response. Pick some prominent people to make examples of--people who will make many others happy by their embarassment.
I've been using GNOME 40 for the past few months, and I'm impressed with the level of quality: intuitiveness, polish, features.

This software works well on my Pinephone too.

I'm happy to trade my flexibility to allow the GNOME the flexibility to make improvements that benefit all.

I understand some want more flexibility, however.
If only Schicklgruber had Facebook. He could have stopped a certain Dutch blogger from embarrassing Germany.
Immigrant populations in both France and the United States are in the mid-teens, percentage-wise. [1]

Japan's immigrant population stands at 2.0%, and Guatamala's is 0.5%.

I'm aware that there are other measures of diversity, but many of the comments here were mentioning the United States's border with Mexico specifically as a reason for its high murder rate, which doesn't seem to hold up once you dig into the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
Facebook is caught between wanting to capture as many users as possible (many of whom have been converted to low-level political trolls thanks to recent political dogmatism), and wanting to create a family-friendly no-criticism zone for Brands to advertise in.
Thanks for the OpenAPI tip. Appreciate the reply.
“One person a few years ago did a cool approach where they precomputed every possible screen width”

I realize if you remembered a link or name you'd probably have mentioned it, but just in case, do you...?
I’m sure every woman in Kabul wished they had a handgun or two.
Really?

Here is what Lucid Motors tweeted today.

https://twitter.com/lucidmotors/status/1438615868183744519?s...

All they say is > 110kWh
Great thoughts all around. Thank you
You might be surprised to learn that the calculator chip cannot perform multiplication natively. There's no floating point unit to multiply two numbers. Instead, multiplication is performed through repeated addition, digit by digit.

I believe all the ultra-cheap 4-function calculator ASICs do this or something similar; the speed is not at all important, but die area and resulting price are.
This comment is so antithetical to the "spirit of the internet" and hacking in general that I'm in shock.

> 77% of the Youtube audience in the US are 17-25 years old, it's not some niche forum for engineers and the notion that they can read scientific papers and weed out legitimate science created at home from misinformation is absurd.

Only PhDs or engineers are allowed to be interested? You think only people with CS degrees should learn about programming/hacking? Only people with electric engineering degrees should learn about circuits?

Also 17-25 is mostly adults. Also, wouldn't the people who watch his videos be self-selecting? I'm guessing 99% of the demographic you mentioned wouldn't be searching for his video.

> The author has a company that sells genetic engineering kits to people and by banning him from Youtube that impacts him financially.

Probably. But so what?

> I personally think Biohacking and eccentric science is cool

But people in the 17-25 year old demographics are not allowed to find it cool and enjoy it?

Your argument is that it could be harmful and therefore everyone 17-25 should be barred from it. That's the argument I heard in the 90s to prevent young people from learning to code/hack/etc. I don't understand how the culture of censorship and patronizing paternalism snuck into the "hacking"/tech environment.
Extend Back End Application with WebAssembly
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> If anything this is just a reflection of word choices of Australian vs American cultures.

Correct - I can think of, for example, a national ASX listed ISP (Aussie Broadband) with the word bullshit in their core values - "No Bullshit": https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/forms/investors/statement...
Free REvil ransomware master decrypter released for past victims
Troll farms reached 140M Americans a month on Facebook before election
That is so classic Sinclair. Barely working enough to be useful ("three decimal places of accuracy at best", "sin 1 takes about 7.5 seconds", and constants like pi and e are written on the case instead of fitting in ROM), but useful nonetheless, and dirt cheap.

Sinclair products were almost comical in how ingeniously their engineers shaved off any pennies they could. In the ZX81, the video circuit is a bizarre and extremely interesting contraption that abuses the Z80's DRAM refresh circuitry, and on the mechanical side only two screws hold down the PCB to the case, despite there being many more intended screw holes in both PCB and case (someone must have figured out that hey, it still holds in place with two).

I have marveled a lot at what the engineers came up with, and cursed at it just as much.

For the ZX81's ingenious video circuit and sleek case, you get a device with chips that get dangerously (literally painfully) hot, and most CPU time used for drawing the screen--without the ability to set individual pixels in any way. The keyboard "cable" plugged into the PCB is just an extension of the paper-like foil that makes up the terrible, terrible keyboard, and that can easily self-destruct when disassembling your ZX81: The foil does not like any amount of bending, including the bending when you fold the case open.

I could go on an on about how clever Sinclair's engineering was to barely stay past the line of what makes a working product so brilliantly.
It could also just be that people don't like change or don't want additional density around them, regardless of effects on their home value.
The difference between biometric and password is extremely simple. A password requires your action to provide. A biometric can be taken from you without much force. I may need to torture you or hold you in a cell to get a password, but I can just put the phone to your finger or hold it to your face to get a biometric. (Who can forget Demolition Man?) So the dynamic with the threat actor is very different.

[https://www.universalhub.com/2021/facing-facts-police-say-th...]

Did I skip over this difference being discussed in the article?
>there has to be at least one person who caused the company to do illegal things.

People do get convicted of misconduct at a corporation. It's just that in some (most?) instances, the criminality is so diffuse that you can't convict anyone of anything, so you end up convicting the corporation instead.
What about Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
Curating Datasets Is the New Programming
It's common knowledge that a lot of early gun control legislation was passed to prevent ethnic groups like the black panthers from gaining equal footing with groups who would harass them. Much safer to lynch an unarmed man after all. Claiming to be motivated by the plight of poor minorities given that history seems in remarkably poor taste.
The standard of a defensive caliber is that it needs to be capable of immediately halting an attacker with the kinds of shots a scared defendant can pull off[0]. Not killing them immediately or eventually, but halting the attack. Plenty of gun shot wounds are capable of killing eventually even if they’re not immediately disabling, and it does you no good if your assailant eventually bleeds to death after they’ve finished stabbing you.

The issue is that halting an attack occurs because of hydrostatic shock, which is a product of a bullets velocity and expansion. 22lr is capable of causing blood loss, which can eventually lead to death, but it does not deliver enough energy to reliable render an attacker incapable of continuing the fight if they’re sufficiently motivated. Assuming that the assailant isn’t immediately scared off by the brandishing or noise of a firearm, which is often the case, 22lr requires extremely good shot placement and volume to reliably end a fight, which makes it a poor choice all around.

Generally for modern firearms the minimum is either 380acp or 9mm, depending on who you ask. The only advantage that 380 has is that some 380 guns are easier to manipulate for those with weak or small hands, otherwise 9mm is generally the winner here in terms of firearm choices, ammunition availability, and terminal ballistics.

For comparison, here are the levels of energy for 3 cartridges. Energy isn’t the be all end all of terminal ballistics, bullet construction[1] and expansion matters, but it’s illustrative. The ranges quoted are necessary due to different bullet weights and pressure loading.

22lr: 130-200fpe

380ACP: 210-330fpe

9mm: 355-500fpe

0 - Any caliber is capable of killing and/or disabling with luck or extremely good shot placement, this is why even 22lr cannot be treated as a toy. But people shooting defensively do not make record shots generally, and you have to accommodate for the fear and adrenaline of a defensive encounter.

1 - The availability of quality defensive ammunition is another big factor. Defensive ammunition has gotten really good over the past half century, and most of these improvements have completely bypassed 22lr.