skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised that they are doubling down on the hot mess that is MS accounts, requiring it for windows 11 home edition. I have never seen a more fragmented identity ecosystem than the one provided by Microsoft, its truly infuriating.
You must be a Chrome user.

It's basically unusable in Firefox or Safari.
> I understand the guy referring to his car as his "girlfriend" and give it a women's name. I just can't feel the same about tech.

Why do you assume programming langauges with female coded names are because the creator is viewing it as a girlfriend?

Not all creators are heterosexual males (or otherwise oriented toward females as preferred or even acceptable romantic partners), and even those that are don’t necessarily view women exclusively through the lens of romantic involvement such that that would be the implication of a female name. Also, not all female-coded names are actually female in reference (Janet is named after a character that is expressly not a woman.)

> A programming language doesn't feel much anthropomorphizable to me, let alone lady-like.

Why “let alone lady-like”? Why are female-coded names a particular issue, if the problem is that programming languages aren't “anthropomorphizable”? (I don't actually think naming things after people is inherently about anthropomorphization; we do it to freeways and bridges and other things as an honor, not as anthropomorphization.)
But do you pull kernel updates automatically, unattended? Because Windows feature updates are like that - every now and then they may market them up, including popping up some notification in the system, but otherwise they just get installed automatically over time. If they started dropping compatibility with older CPUs and software with subsequent updates, they could find themselves in the middle of a huge PR mess when one of their automated updates suddenly breaks a chunk of some industry. Makes more sense to create a version boundary if the changes are really as extreme as GP described, preventing large amounts of users from sleep-walking into a disaster.
What I've noticed is many retailers only carry one or two name brands and flank them with their store brands of which they usually have three tiers.

So for example you only find Ryobi tools at the Home Depot but Craftsman and Black+Decker are exclusive to Lowes. Grocery stores do similar exclusivity with certain brands, Sargento's cheese comes to mind.
Does the average American really care that they are constantly being bombarded with ads and sales calls? It seems to me they can live with it.
Retailer specific models are one more fun aspect of this. So many slightly different version, just goes to show why there is so many letters in some model numbers.
I once heard AI described as (paraphrasing), "Imagine you have an army of seven-year-olds that you can instruct to do a simple task for 24 hours a day"
The differences between then and now are very important too:

Now we have continental monetary unions, with transcontinental coordinated monetary policy, spearheaded by diplomatic relations as well as alumni from the same institutions implementing the monetary policy in every union.

Every major currency is increasing in supply similar proportions, masking imbalances and largely preventing the possibility of capital flight as there is no alternative for the size of capital that would need to find a new home. So all thats left are just assets, at any price.
William Shatner Completes Trip to Space Aboard Blue Origin Rocket
> The hard facts state that historically, in China, the biggest problems occurred when central government was weak and when the country was divided. The hard facts also state that the past 30 years are the best in 3000 years.

I heard the same from people living in other countries, sometimes ironically and sometimes (sadly) not. Things are going well; the same president is still around; those two circumstances must be connected—how can those dissidents even dare to think that maybe their well-being improved despite their government rather than thanks to it?

> Yet COVID-19 has proven that this is wrong: the relatively untransparent Chinese government did better at fighting COVID-19 than the supposedly transparent western governments.

Isn’t it paradoxical to state that the lack of transparency is what helped Chinese government contain COVID? Accepting that it lies (including through omission) undermines any official statistics coming from it, since it can be assumed to not report inconvenient facts and data like it did in the past.

(Perhaps you can see why I believe that transparency is a fundamental requirement necessary to take anything else the government does or says seriously.)

In addition, saying that “the lack of transparency is what helped China contain COVID” seems to imply that people in China can only be manipulated into doing the right thing by not being given the true facts. I hold a higher opinion of them.

> China does not force their model on other countries; why should we force China to adopt ours?

And thus we’ve circled back back to the possibility of China’s invasion of Taiwan, a country that appears to not want China’s model to be forced onto itself.

Addendum: I don’t think any country should be forced into changing its model of government, unless it somehow becomes an existential threat to objectively transparent, democratic governments elsewhere; but I do hope such a country evolves in that direction as its citizens become tired of being lied to.
This was created by Casey Reas, who also is one of the original creators of the programming language & IDE called Processing (https://processing.org/).

I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous.

I met Casey at a festival once and he was a remarkably kind and interested person. I think his playful approach to technology shines through in projects like the sketch machine.
HTMX (and HTML over the wire) is giving me some hope for frontend development. React / SPAs have their place and are great technologies, but 98% of the time they are not needed.
There is no longer bidding for spot prices on AWS. They moved to model where pay the fixed spot price which isn't based on capacity.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri...
I used to work for Google. Google generally is full of smart, well-meaning people who believe the work they are doing benefits the internet and humanity in general.

But holy F is the business model, when scaled to $130+ billion yearly revenue, an absolute disaster. Google has taken upon itself to turn the entire internet into an ad-laden funhouse designed to trap you and suck all of your time.

Google is not solely to blame, but they are uniquely delusional and uniquely successful at monetizing other people's contributions, knowledge, talent, and businesses to their own benefit. Google set the standard model for monetization at every stage of the internet's development. Google set up everything to be the central clearing house for information and normalized the expectation that everything you do would come with some kind of advertising interruption.

As far as I am concerned, Facebook and social media and all the other bad things on the internet just followed in the wagon ruts, then paved highways that Google created.

We've accepted the internet and the web as they are because Google wanted to be big.

Now, if Google had wanted to stay small, maybe grow at 5% per year, instead of 23% per year--that's doubling every 4 years btw--, then the internet would not be so full of ads. The internet would not be so much in your face. Datacenters would be smaller, tracking would be less, webpages would be lighter, faster, with more long-form content, etc.

The internet is the way it is because it has been a giant pie-eating contest where the winners have to eat 23% more pie than they did last year. No wonder it's so fucked up.
I have seen some oddly flagged posts which I tend to assume are people going through someone's history in reaction to a different thread.

Re: the Facebook effect, some subjects are definitely heated but I tend to see that tracking how genuine someone sounds — it seems like people do okay if they, for example, are talking about how Facebook is helpful for communities they're part of and don't sound like they're doing pro bono PR. One challenge I think certain topics get is that they've been rehashed enough that a lot of people are quick with the downvotes if a comment opens with something which sounds predictable so there is definitely something be said for making sure that the initial opening doesn't sound cliched.
Ah.

https://redditfavorites.com/

Came up in a random DDG search for something.
White Label store brands are anticompetitive. They are a form of the pricing discrimination games that retailers and manufacturers play to allow one set of companies to capture multiple segments of business with the same product. It should be illegal for the same retailer to sell both a name brand product and the equivalent product as a white label.
TO be fair may be it is Microsoft's subtle way of telling that Office or School colleagues are just that and not family or friends.
HN certainly does a better job than reddit or facebook. Is it just because HN is smaller or more niche? Some subreddits are tiny and operate well.

I compare r/netsec to r/sysadmin. Netsec is about 426k members with 375 online. Sysadmin is 641k and 2.9k online. The difference tends to be moderation; r/sysadmin does moderation significantly better than r/netsec. Hence the much better community.

The challenge that HN has over r/sysadmin however is rigid topic. You're never going to see climate change or religion in r/sysadmin. That makes their job much easier.

Which makes HN so much more interesting because it tends to allow the challenging subjects like climate change. In fact you tend to get climate change as a subject almost every day. How does it work? Those challenging subjects simply don't have conversation. No risk for flame if everyone agrees with each other.
That's already how it works. If you can fix the vehicles without a shop visit that's fine. You still have to tell NHTSA about the problem and the fix.
Agreed. Should be “deficiency findings” that document and track mitigations and status of deployment to the fleet (vehicles where deployed, remaining vehicles impacted, etc).
Seems like Joe Liemandt is killing American jobs. I wonder how many other people like him are out there destroying the american economy
For those interested, there's a nice exposition that treats real numbers as infinite decimals in Hubbard and Hubbard's Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach [1]

[1] http://matrixeditions.com/5thUnifiedApproach.html
No, that is not the brick and mortar equivalent at all.

Amazon does not purchase most of the inventory listed in its search results.

Retail stores actually buy (almost) everything they sell (albeit at lower "wholesale" prices), and "resell" to end customers. So when a retail store stops carrying a product, they stop buying the product from the supplier, and that is always because the item was not profitable to sell.

(In rare cases, they sell on consignment, but such arrangements would apply to less than .001% of products sold at retail. Selling on consignment has a whole host of separate issues, which is why it is so rare even though it would seem most profitable to retail stores.)
It's all the odder when you consider the Apple II.

It came out before any of those other home machines, and yet had the cheapest floppy disk storage from 1978 onward. That was largely due to Steve Woz's brilliant disk controller design, which did away with everything but some simple glue logic and a couple ROM chips, lifting everything else in software.

Of course, the Apple II had real expansion slots, obviating the need for using a serial connection, too.

From what I can tell, while the Apple II family had a much higher up-front cost, the more serious you were about computing, the more the low-priced home machines with expensive peripherals worked against you in the long run.
The vendor is the party you form a contract with. They get liability for product problems. In a store that's the store. On Amazon it might be dropshipper748.

This gives stores an incentive not to stock, say, dangerous electronics from untraceable vendors in China. And it gives you someone to sue if the phone charger burns your house down.
Awesome, so much fun! My wife's curious about animation but busy, I'll send this to her.
The printing is part of it, but not all of it. The commercial credit that amplifies the money in circulation is a major factor. This is itself driven by the amount of money available to leverage against with fractional lending.
You don't need elite Stanford CS PhDs to maintain a 20 year old enterprise payroll processor or network monitoring service. Polish and Ukrainian devs can do that work perfectly well.

Have a small sales team that does just enough work to cover whatever your churn rate is, and your business will print a stable amount of money for a long time. Combine this with acquiring at low multiples, and it's a decent strategy.

Sure, you might not grow your platform at 80% a year, with massive series A, B, C, D, E, and a unicorn IPO, but you don't need to for the strategy to work over the long term.
It is the same for iPhone. They even sell brand new phones that originally came out 5 years ago (SE).
Yeah, I think you misunderstood. In Europe, "vacation" pretty much universally means "paid vacation". Otherwise, we'd call it "unpaid leave" or something.

I've only recently -- in threads here on HN in the last few weeks, in fact -- encountered the acronym "PTO", and concluded from context that it must mean "personal time off". (Right?) I also didn't quite grok what the GP meant by including those "two weeks of PTO"; WTF are those, in a European context? Can't be sick days, because AFAIK at least in most of Europe there's no quantitive limit on those: When you're sick, you're sick. Have I understood correctly that Americans who happen not to be ill for more than the "sickday limit" in a given year usually take the opportunity to "use up their sick days" even if they're healthy? (To repeat what is rapidly becoming my refrain on here: God, America is weird.)
There's nothing to stop enterprises from asking users to install their provisioning profiles on personal devices (technically the employee could say "no" but employment is "at will" in almost all of the US, so....)

And yes - I can set up an MDM system, but that doesn't provide the same utility as a store.

Nor does it work around the profile limitations built into iOS (again, I'm out of date, but previously you could only have a single provisioning profile installed on the device - this was actually the recommended way to prevent this type of attack: pre-install your own profile).
Telling average people to "trust the science" in practice means telling them to trust the guy who says "I am speaking in the name of science". Often, he is just lying. The average people are not going to "trust the science" by reading peer-reviewed studies.

Then there is the fact that someone can be a respected scientist in e.g. linguistics and simultaneously a crackpot in e.g. quantum physics, or vice versa. So you need to be careful even with trusting the actual scientists. (Similarly, the doctor talking about covid... is he an epidemiologist, or does he just fix broken legs?)

Trying to think about best solution to make the actual science accessible to average people... the "ask science" subreddit is probably the best currently existing option.
Metaphors/analogies aren't an argument, and if you find them persuasive that's your problem
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812243
If you think of them as roughly interchangeable apparatuses then it starts to make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.
Nazino Tragedy
It's interesting that this got flagged off the homepage, in a way that is testimony to how many people are here just to wreck things.
Do you have any proof of stealing unique designs? I'd expect those to be protected by patents.
Functional doesn't really have a consistent definition, and you end up always with "yeah but"s in any discussion e.g. haskell isn't functional because C ffi and unsafePerformIO.

Point being, its very hard to say "X is or is not functional", as there isn't an objective consideration.

(FYI, I love Haskell and use it daily and write it professionally)
This change floored me. I have so much horizontal space and much more limited vertical space. Let me move it to the side!
Yes, the 1541 used a 6502.

They're compatible enough you can drop a 6510 into it with no problems (I tested that, to my parents great despair). You can also swap the IO chips I think, with various effects (you at least can drop the Amiga CIA chips into a C64 - you lose the realtime clock nobody uses, but gain timers).

Putting a 6502 into a C64 may or may not work for some values of work or not at all - I don't recall what the default for the bank switching would be, but the tape drive certainly wouldn't work (the gpio lines on the 6510 is used for bank switching the ROM, and for the tape). But it should be quite easy to make it work except for the tape drive. You just need to ensure the right voltage on 3 pins for the ROM bank switching (various software that expect to be able to change it will fail though)
Source? I see lots of people using older iPhones, and even amongst the rich demographic I hang around, no one cares about new iPhones since at least a few years ago.

They simply do not change in a way that affects most people’s lives.
The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space
> Most businesses operate close to break-even (in efficient markets), and many will immediately go under.

Then they are not managing risk properly and actually need to go under.
That is correct, I also don't own Tesla for that same reason.
Crowdfunding for startups: Where to begin and how to go about it – e27
They tried to find another angle on the dude. "It wasnt a bomb, but we found (trace amounts of) drugs on him, we thank our vigilante crew members for watching over plane safety!!1"
Agreed, but I don't think this is relevant.

The death sentence part is indeed the potentially scandalous part, and the biggest ethical and moral dilemma, either in general or because if the offense that carries it depending on people's opinions. The (lesser, IMHO) ethical issue here arises after that although one aspect is the incentive this creates, as already mentioned.
Premortems will keep your code alive
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AFAIK this only happens on Linux if your package manager updates Firefox in the background, which of course Firefox has no control over. On other OSes, it will only update when restarting Firefox (if auto-updating is enabled) or by explicitly prompting you to update.
From what I remember from Human Subjects training in my grad school days, the prison environment is considered to be so coercive that it pretty much makes "informed consent" unobtainable. While some studies are still done on prisoners, the bar to getting such a study approved is very high (or at least, is supposed to be very high).

There have been indeed cases where organs were harvested without permission (not just from prisoners, either). The difference is that in the United States (and almost all other countries) this is considered to be a crime, and you go to jail if you get caught doing it.
I think the crux of this issue is that social engineering will always be a problem on a truly free platform. No matter what mitigations Apple puts in place, nothing stops me from just sending an iMessage to a few hundred people pretending to be the government, asking them to send me their SSN. Nothing stops me from emailing them a Google Form where they punch in their credit card info, and nothing stops me from making memes about how you can charge your iPhone in the microwave. That last echelon can never be conquered, so why play for table scraps in the first place? Simply put: control.

The incredibly public lawsuits Apple has found themselves in have only demonstrated how they fight tooth-and-nail to hide the most nascent of details. They fully intend to control their narrative from top to bottom, and it blows me away when I see politicians entertain this security theater.
What about if they have a 7th gen Intel chip or first-gen Ryzen, and aren't eligible for that upgrade?

Instead of getting Windows 10 support on that hardware indefinitely now they're done in 2025.
That sounds nice but doesn't help me when deciding things like "should I get the COVID vaccine?" or "should I support action against climate change?". I do not have the time, knowledge and tools to answer such questions by doing experiments.
Yeah, fair point. But what's stopping you from simply asking for some face-to-face time and scheduling it?

Sometimes the best solution is to have a discussion and it's a lot easier to do compared to writing. On those cases I just ask "can we have a meeting to discuss X?" and we schedule something.

This gets you the help you the same results, without any interruption.

Sure they could just pretend to not see your message and ignore it leaving you in a tough spot, but that's a problem with the person, not remote work IMO.

Generally speaking, even if you're focused, you'll stop to have lunch, grab a snack, etc. And you then answer questions, setup a time to meet, etc.
Or perhaps you were more depressed that week because your mind was going through withdraws from not having your medication.

When it comes to your weight, it's not about pushing the thought of your weight gain out of your head. It's about combating the lies that you are telling yourself about your weight gain: that it means you are lazy, unlovable, disgusting, etc. The way you be happy in spite of your weight gain is not to either commit to the work or choose to ignore it (although for peoples health it's definitely good to commit to the work) but is rather to not view your weight gain as a statement of your self. You are not your problems, you are not your weight.
I said 'Not a criticism, just interesting' in the hopes of emphasizing that I was making an observation, not an argument.

Sorry I failed to communicate that more clearly!

That said, there is something to be said for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy
Oh, I ran into almost similar problem you described, tried all kind of debugging tools and such to fix problem. In the end I remember some link took me to Windows download website. From there it just downloaded this new H2 release and installed without problem.
I think I see where you're going, and it seems completely reasonable to me. :) I like the distinction you've drawn between implementation and interface in your dictionary and abstract-array examples. I don't think that abstract interfaces make algebraic reasoning completely impossible, e.g., you could represent unknown implementation details as variables (or even functions). But it's good to be clear re: what questions you're asking, the level of abstraction you're thinking at, and whether any analogy to ADTs is useful or simply a distraction.

I think a nice corollary to your second point is that the existence of an isomorphism between two collections doesn't mean they are the same thing. This is easy to see when you discuss integer reasoning. E.g., if we have a infinitely countable data type, so we have an isomorphism to Z. But that doesn't automatically make our data type a ring (not in any meaningful sense).
How do we monetize a website full of bot accounts? Well I guess let's check and see if they can predict the stock market or sporting events we can bet on.