skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hosts of popular gaming channel Linus Tech Tips challenged one another to switch to Linux. Maybe Windows 11 is so power user hostile and Steam Deck is the push everyone needed that 2022 will finally be the year of Desktop Linux?
Far fetched, obviously, but.... Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry-type situation? Shut down the master systems to hide the theft (or in this case, destruction) of vital info.

No key-card access means even non-need-to-know internal employees wouldn't see the deed, and plausible deniability is spawned for everyone else.
I don't think you can do EME in mobile safari? That would probably be a dealbreaker for the movie studios (logical or not).
If there's a really serious criticism I have of Apple -- well, there's a fair number of varying degrees of seriousness. But I think their original sin is that while they want everyone to acknowledge how much they ostensibly do for developers, they generally act as if applications bring no value to their platform.

Many years ago, when BeOS was just getting going, Be CEO and former Apple exec Jean Louis-Gassee was asked what the difference between Be and Apple was. He answered, "We don't shit on our developers." It's disappointing, to say the least, that this is still a valid criticism criticism nearly a quarter-century later.
It's what keeps your car insurance premiums high and has a TTL of 7-10 years.

Alternatively: April 1 - New AAA records requires use of an approved, proprietary USB lava lamp for entropy. The similarly-new AA records are slightly larger, and fit in more powerful remotes. Rumors are there will be rechargeable AA and AAA records that delete themselves whenever their dial-home license expires or the CEO has to give testimony to Congress.
They state that [1] this only happens if you are using more than 3 Page Rules that the free plan allows, which is fair. The alternative would be to randomly delete some of your page rules, which is worse:

> If you do not want to be charged for the additional page rules, you should ensure you only have 3 active rules before you downgrade from Pro to Free.

[1] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/i-canceled-my-subscriptio...
Good to know to that Apple is investing in this recently, They also have the market share to counter to Google control of web market with Chrome and its derivatives to keep web developers in check.

Sadly while Apple is reasonable choice in the U.S. market, it is not affordable choice in most of the world. This effectively means only the rich get protection from ads.
Actually, no, the rest of the internet was pig-slow.
FB is running their own registrar. Supposedly they can sidestep the email procedure if it's even there to begin with.
I hear this "Google is worse" talking point so much in defense of Windows 10 mucking around with people's settings that I'm starting to assume it's astroturfing.

You consider your wife a passive computer user who doesn't know what a browser is. Say you switched her browser to Firefox so she could more effectively block ads, and then MS switched it back to Edge with this mechanism. They are being malicious in the same way you say Google is, except it's worse because it's malicious behavior running on her own machine instead of malicious behavior running on someone else's servers.

I have spent so much time disabling all these ads on my Windows 10 Pro machine. And it did actually leave me alone through the end of 2018 I think, maybe early 2019. Then they started coming up with new bizarre ways to try to fuck with my system. I paid for this laptop, it should do what I say and otherwise leave me alone.

Google being a bad actor is not an excuse for Microsoft to be a bad actor.
Anyone who believes Microsoft has reformed and is in any way different now is the most foolish of fools. I'm not sorry to say it, because they have been taken to court for antitrust violations for this before but $100 says that won't happen again.

Microsoft has simply learned how to avoid getting busted for their tactics. That is all.
PBS Spacetime did an episode on another method for measuring the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)[0] which is using milli-second pulsar array to create a massive "LIGO".

Would be super interesting to confirm via independent method that GWB doesn't exist. If the implication for this is inflation is no longer viable that would be crazy/amazing pointing to new understandings.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9L_gNogNes
I'd point to this thread from 10 days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/pugqvj/after_3_m...

> I don't even think Windows 11 is all that different from a regular feature update similar to the ones that Windows 10 has been receiving for years now. It has the Windows 11 name because some large and obvious UI changes have been made.

So it is just a regular feature update except all the big and breaking changes. I feel like this is a point that defeats itself.

> only thing about Windows 11 that resembles Windows Vista are the vague complaints

I was specifically referring to Microsoft shipping an OS that didn't have enough time in the public test phase and thus shipped with bugs/quirks/issues. That could refer to both Vista and 11.

> If everything else was the same and this was a Windows 10 feature update instead of "Windows 11"

I'd instead be lambasting it for both its bugs/quirks/incompleteness AND how inappropriate it is to ship major breaking changes in a feature update.

To be honest the argument that Microsoft ships feature updates this bad is inaccurate but also quite funny as a "defense."
and blog about what error codes they received and what they did to fix it

That is often more than useless to everyone not exactly in that one person's situation.

Besides, how can you look down on them when you’re googling for answers instead of, you know, RTFM / getting your engineering degree?

When trying to find TFM is itself a problem... I'm definitely not one to want to be "censoring misinformation" unlike a lot of others, but the blind leading the blind is certainly happening a lot and it doesn't help anyone.
I mean if you can make your employees work 80hr weeks for below market rates that’s a winning strategy.
Is the DWM memory leak fixed yet? I can't tell if it's an Intel or Microsoft issue, but it's been a disgrace how long it's been broken.
There's a local one which a lot of people already have installed even if they don't use it most of the time. A lot of people have Telegram installed too. WhatsApp / FB Messenger are the most popular but if they're down, between those two you would have most people covered.
For those that missed it there was a great article this morning that got smothered by the FB outage news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28745121

About "scambaiters"; people who make entertainment out of scamming the scammers.
The person you're replying to is insinuating that Facebook hires half-a-million dollar engineers based on diversity quotas instead of technical chops. No sense asking them to elaborate since they're obviously completely outside the company and have no worthwhile insight into their hiring practices.
For my part I happy to be dumb enough to not be sure what the outcome of an experiment is always going to be. Folks both empirically and supposedly smarter will claim to know the outcome before hand. They not only miss out on all the fun of doing the experiment but are lucky to be correct half the time never mind missing out on learning the incidental things (good & bad) that end up useful later.
This and other stories seem to assume that a BGP issue is the root cause. That may be, but there are other possibilities.

Some other internal issues could have broken many systems, including BGP.

They could have had some sort of internal systems failure, and intentionally withdrew BGB to cut off the flood of connection attempts (making recovery easier).

Many possibilities.
I agree it's not a significant problem if Hacker News goes down for a day. However, paginated threads really suck, and that's also a stop-gap pending performance improvements. And, it would generally be good if dang was freed up for e.g. moderating.
Every child is born wonderfully curious. Meeting walls instead of bridges sets the boundaries.

"science is a symphony of ongoing fractal rhizomatically-connected feedback loops. something happens and humans go "oh shit, what was that?". then we ask questions and then through making theories and testing them (designing feedback and sub-feedback loops) slowly we understand a new emerging pattern. 1.) the universe responds to something in a new way we hadn't seen before, 2.) we document it, we repeat it to make sure the universe ain't fucking with us, and 3.) that's a completed feedback loop we can pass on: knowledge. we rinse and repeat for more, to infinity, slowly reverse-engineering all the beautiful natural phenomena. this product, our new actionable knowledge, is technology: if i hit these rocks together i get a fire; if i put round tree trunks under some heavy thing i can then roll the thing on top of it very easily ("wow, we can move rocks and make pyramids, here we go!..." "oh fuck, the slavery/misery...") etc., a continuing evolution right into the modern world. billions and trillions of feedback loops. neverending feedback loops. feedback loops racing at us from the past, intertwined with the thousands of open feedback loops revealing themselves today.

but what has happened to science under capitalism?

since the 1970's especially, the propertied class [...] has been pushing for global systems for intellectual property 'protection'. what does this mean? they want to spread their mind virus to make you think they are your baby daddy. they want you to put them high on the pedestal. to have you think they are unique inventors who have survived their deathly privileged upbringings, not cheaters who stole feedback loops from the commons."

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/pvlc...
Well that’s a quick judgement to want them offline for a single story which btw I think it sounds like we both agreed with.
"I'm sorry Senator. We lost that data in the Oct 4 incident."
cognition junkie. i feel a similar way about how i'm "hardwired". i have a reserved, yet intense curiosity, something i discovered through my courses in uni. once i found something that peaked my curiosity, i finally found confidence in myself. previously, in other schooling settings, despite high-marks, i never felt intelligent or like i was even learning anything.

tangentially, i have a friend who is a musician that was never "traditionally" smart. i suppose he was just never interested in any of the material, so he never really gave much of an effort. once he found music and discovered that he could orchestrate things on his computer, he fell into a rabbithole that he'll never come out of. learning really is all about engagement, something which sounds so obviously trite but so rarely ever implemented in early american education, at least in my experience.
I live in SEA where everyone uses Whatsapp and the company I work for caters to SMEs. My own experience was that the impact was small. We saw some influx on Telegram, a lot more people called in, or reached out to us via Intercom. The end result of WA going down was people switching over to Telegram or Signal, including myself. I think if WA shut off permanently tomorrow there'd be a fair bit of disruption, but it wouldn't take too much time or impact for people to end up settling on another messaging app or platform. The SMEs we work with didn't seem concerned.
Another thing this doesn't touch upon is – what made these online "influencers" successful in the first place? Was it following all the advice that they love to dole out on Twitter and LinkedIn? Or the fact that they got lucky with a tech investment and/or were at the right place at the right time? The tech world is full of these personalities. Ultimately most of them (and the rest of us) are monkeys throwing darts. Some get lucky, others don't.
I always think of one scene in Cool Runnings: a gold medal is a wonderful thing, and if you're not enough without it, there's no way you'll be enough with it.

Facebook gives you what you want, and it's up to you what you make that.
Wait what exactly are you saying. In one paragraph you’re saying that these genes are unquestionably important. Then next paragraph you’re saying no gene can be told as important. Pick a side?

You seem to be a biologist, is it truly heresy that there are 500 other genes that are more important than the temperature receptors? I’m talking practical therapeutic use.
Angle grinder was not required to get access to the Facebook server cage
I haven't tried Windows 11 yet. Is the ability to use local, non-Microsoft accounts is even further marginalized?
The result of development driven by "group studies" and "user feedback". When you conform to the ideas of the most basic users, you get a system unfit for those that that are not browsing Facebook and playing Farmville.

Windows lost 10% market share to mac and Linux since 2019. Microsoft should be firing more people and having singular leadership in direction. Make something for the developers, the graphic artists, the people that need their operating system to be apart of their work, not hinder it.

This falls on deaf ears of course, Microsoft is far from saving unless something significant of top leadership gets the boot and somehow attracts a new visionary that isn't already working in greener pastures.
It was supposed to be your turn not to be a hated tech monopoly shoving unwanted dogshit down society's throat, and you're blowing it, Microsoft.
Types of Web Vulnerabilities That Are Often Missed
You realize that USA is already economically dependent on China, right? No one can easily replace half a trillion per year in exported goods.

Taiwan being an autonomous province of PRC would not significantly change the current economic relationship between USA and China. In fact, it would probably improve it by resolving unnecessary tension.
I recall from networking classes messing around with BGP can be bad. Very bad.
would you use Facebook if you could create custom feeds?
> I do wonder if, in general, there needs to be a legal principle that hiding evidence of something has to be punished as harshly as the worst plausible crime that the evidence could be hiding

There are various formulations of the adverse inference rule, but worse still is the false-exculpatory-statement / consciousness-of-guilt jury instruction. As a defense attorney, I have pled serious cases out based on a fear of that instruction.
> Would a soft core which is 10 times smaller than the original chip being emulated always lose on power?

If that were even possible (which it probably isn't--the fundamental "building block" of an FPGA is easily 10x the size of a similar fully custom gate), the soft core would still likely lose. Power in CMOS is proportional to C Vdd^2 f. Vdd hasn't moved in a while--so you've lost the biggest hammer in terms of power consumption. And C goes up when you change nodes--not down. And we're holding f constant according to your assumptions.

Furthermore, FPGAs are general purpose so they need things like clock spines that are optimized to work at their max frequency rather than at whatever frequency you chose. You burn a remarkable amount of power and area so that the chips can operate at say 400MHz even if you never run them faster than 8Mhz.

> In automotive, is power so ferociously tracked?

Not as such--automotive is generally more interested in whether your chip can survive power spikes. However, automotive is super sensitive to cost which is all about chip area.

> Most of the energy in a car is to get it moving

While true of ICE cars, that is less true than you might think with electric cars and regenerative braking. I can go for a very long time on 20mph roads between charges but the moment I get on a 65mph freeway, my battery gets sucked dry. I think atmospheric drag is something like to the third power of velocity--it's a really huge increase when you go even slightly faster.

However, as you point out, climate control is the real killer of energy--running AC or heating is power hungry.

In addition, the self-driving car folks discovered that running all that vision and radar and then processing it sucked down a remarkable amount of juice. Computes and sensors aren't exactly free.
it's not a blockchain without a consensus algorithm. it's a linked list of hashes.
There are two problems:

1) Someone defined "statistically significant" as 5%, and sometimes it's too high and it's too easy to get an interesting result caused by a fluke, specially if there are too many groups trying different things. (As an extreme case, in particle physics they use 5 sigmas to avoid fase discoveries.)I think we agree about this.

2) In this case, reading the paper linked by criticas below in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28745673 , the error bars in Figure 1 are unbelievable small. For example the second points looks like 12.0±.2 vs 13.0±.2 (I can't find he exact data, so I'm just looking at the graphic and guessing.) And they claim p<0.01 T get this level of concentration with only 20 persons, the raw data mus be very concentrated around 12 and 13, but I expect that the number of remembered word to be very noisy and have a wide distribution.
How many are in a default Ubuntu install? At least 2.
That's a lot of words to complain that I didn't explicitly say "and single-process".

My statement isn't "very wrong" at all. If you actually have one single thread, total, that's a harsh limit on how much you can do. And I never implied it wasn't concurrent within that thread.
Intelligence is a lot of different things. If you can't focus, or focus very intensely on the wrong things, that reduces you general problem solving ability. I would argue that being able to focus on the right things is part of "intelligence". We tend to be overly focused on things like mathematical skills, but there's way more to it.
Well the front desk security guard probably didn't have the authority but got bullied into using the emergency fire system (which everyone has access to for safety reasons) to open all the doors.

I don't remember what happened with the other customers. They were all in a single shared cage, so it's possible they just locked that cage back up. Or they just didn't know. Usually the datacenter was pretty empty -- even then you didn't really go all that often.
They risked it all for you and your family and all you did was get a vaccine and you think you are morally right to support their firing because them getting a covid vaccine would help reduce exposure to covid? They wear protect masks better than the ones you can buy. You realize your risk is higher in person work, socializing and having kids in school. I hope you have taken steps to stop those activities before you toss the first stone.
I think it’s a good time to go for it if you can be car independent for a bit.
So the Microsoft product managers got bored with the current iteration of the start menu, and decided to feed their fetish by redesigning it again, and calling it a "new era for the PC". It's like watching a mid life crisis unfold.
> especially after Gates and Ballmer stepped down and Nadella took the reins

Which is strange, because Nadella's Microsoft is no better than Gates' or Ballmer's.
Wow! Snarky much?

Do you have any experience living in a country outside a "first world" country? Do you have any understanding how these "novel" technologies can be the backbone of people's business, livelihoods or even emergency services?

Sounds like you are in a comfortable bubble.
Even better if you can do it while employing dozens of high-priced lawyers to gum up the works and slow down your competition while you try to catch up.
This comment reminds me of [makro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY)
I found some footage of the Heist competition described at the end:

https://youtu.be/3rFpXyNpfFQ?t=3m45s

And another video, just generally about Ashima:

https://youtu.be/kc2f1gGLdHM
11 feels like XP with a new skin. I think they are shell shocked from vista and will never make drastic changes again. I don’t blame them vista was complete disregard for existing apps.

Make a new OS without the windows debt.
I got 7 "final notice warnings" on my expiring warranty just yesterday.
The late billionaire publisher Fexis Dennis poked fun at cargo-culting in his ironically-named book "How To Get Rich." It does what it says on the tin: it offers-up wit, humor, the right attitude, and perspective.

Information overload is unhealthy in numerous, addiction-like ways. The related screen addiction is all too common. I make it a point to not use a phone in social situations because I feel that distracted attention is disrespectful. Strategies to help this include: a grayscale filter, minimal animation, removing apps, disable some notifications, and vibrate only.

PS: No need to apologize for any opinion. People can take, leave, or flame at perspectives, or learn the hard way. :)
It's a Pro feature only now.
I too have found myself basing my beliefs on example lives only to later reflect later with a forehead slap that it was fiction. Be careful.
"This will be my last drink. I can quit anytime I want."
As long as they got 15mins worth of internet fame, a lame retraction is well worth it.
Moneygrab happened.
You don't see what being connected as a whole (world) has to do with creating social calendar dates? Really?

These things are figments of marketing imagination. They spread through people, not TV or ads. Albeit they start that way. You can throw $$$ at making the 1st of September world Tie day, but it's up to the people to make it stick. Which is becoming increasingly easy as we become a whole connected people.

Sales (lower priced periods) are marketing. "National ___ day" is way more than that.
In some countries, you can run out of mobile minutes or data but be on a plan that provides free access to Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram.
Besides racks, you can rent a plastic-looking shed that covers about 6 racks for $250,000/year from Equinix, etc.

Those are used by bank and payment companies or divisions required to undergo physical security audits, since once a client has a rack they have fairly wide-ranging physical access (this is a known threat vector.)

Note that covering racks means sprinklers and fireman access need to be carefully rethought, etc.

I've also seen small banks just put fencing over the top of cage fences.
That's beautiful work. Do you have any resources you'd recommend to start learning how to make these?
What about blends? Pure wool is pretty itchy, pure cotton shrinks, pure silk is time-consuming to launder, and pure linen is very prone to wrinkles.
Ahhh, yeah; keen on the new term. The WSL window support looks great too. I develop in Linux VMs, but my host is Windows 10 pro. Been sticking with vbox this far.
A nice summary of the current understanding (from a lay perspective) on manifold "sameness".

From the article:
"But Freedman’s [1981] proof left open the “smooth” four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture, which says that any four-dimensional smooth manifold that is homotopy equivalent to the four-dimensional sphere is also diffeomorphic to the four-dimensional sphere. This is an even stronger statement than the one Freedman proved — since a diffeomorphism is a stronger form of equivalence than a homeomorphism — and one that mathematicians today have no idea how to settle.

This leaves them in the strange position of being unable to perform one of the most basic classification tasks of all: recognizing when a smooth four-dimensional manifold is really a sphere."