skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is doing its absolute best to move everyone to the Windows store by packaging the new apps everyone should be making into weird formats such as appx and msix which can't or previously couldn't be easily installed without command line funkiness. Luckily, Microsofts own incompetence is preventing this plan from working.

There's another part to the exclusion of old hardware, which is that modern chips are a lot more reselient against crashes according to the telemetry Microsoft collects. The same is true for secure boot and other security lockdowns every Linux user disables. You could make the argument that this means that Microsoft is failing to provide stability for this older hardware, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it makes business sense for MS to put money and resources towards resolving the issue. Not making Windows 11 available on old chips doesn't hurt sales, helps them boast with great stability and security statistics and barely makes a dent in their reputation. Most people with a negative opinion of the company here were hating on Microsoft long before Windows 11 was even announced.

The TPM story makes sense from a Windows Hello standpoint. I don't think there's any doubt that the hardware trust system is more secure than the previous system. However, that trust is completely useless because Microsoft STILL doesn't enable Bitlocker unless you pay extra. It's current_year and Microsoft still hasn't brought data security to the masses. This is an area where proper use of the TPM can be benefit users massively.

Linux is having the exact opposite problem, I want to use my TPM and secure boot to leverage the hardware security built into my devices but it's as if every part of the Linux boot chain has implemented some kind of limitation to make the process difficult. Bitlocker works great, and I want it on Linux too, but nobody writing code for the Linux ecosystem seems to share my preferences here.
I am not a lawyer, but i don't think anything would prevent you from waiting to update that source code. You could for example say "The source code provided here dates from XX/XX/XXXX and may be slightly out-of-date in regards to the latest security patches. Updates to this repository are pushed no later than 2 months after being applied on the server, and such delay is only incurred when dealing with security patches as part of a coordinated disclosure strategy with upstream project Y".
Although it's not a format, the closest thing I have found is Postgres. You get well defined types that make life easier. They are stored efficiently in binary. And have a sensible text representation that means you can still read and write them by hand. I can store a PostGIS geometry with millions of verticies and still use text to create a point or read an envelope. Text formatting is hugely useful and benefits from standardisation. But that does not need to be built into the format.
If prison is the instrument through which we remove freedom and deliver rehabilitation to citizens, then what would be the equivalent instrument of justice for corporations?

People who had done bad things are sent to prison; you can't apply the same process to corporations - even though corporations are considered legal "entities" you can't really jail a corporation; the few people who take the fall are usually designated fallguys and serve laughable sentence, anyways.a

So, how can we truly "rehabilitate" a corporation? How do we decide which ones to send to "death row"?
If you believe the public information regarding _NSAKEY to be evidence of a backdoor, I’m sorry, but you are an idiot.
It's not about effectiveness of ads but if it's more effective as previous methods and are the huge data collections necessary for the effect.
An Application of Cluster Analysis to the Voynich Manuscript [pdf]
our time -> their money. our identity -> their money. our whereabouts -> their money.

our society ?->?
Types of Shirt Dresses That’ll Transform You into a Style Icon
1. Ongoing investment -- for all that HN harps on Google being an "ads company", they still employ XX's of engineers to work on search continually. For every thousand engineers, you're looking at nearly a billion dollars of continual spend to continue employing them.

2. SEO -- for every engineer working to make Google better, there are probably ten engineers outside working to make the web worse. Sorting wheat from chaff is actually easy -- you just drop it and let the chaff blow away -- so I'm not actually sure what the appropriate analogy is here, but it gets harder and harder is the point.
NSA's Key Role in Major Developments in Computer Science [pdf]
NCH PhotoPad Image Editor Pro v7.65 Crack AndSerial Key 2022 [Latest]
Target ... , and reduced hours on their other stores for the same reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrnhaLzCqA
The Strength of the Bayes Score [pdf]
Competitive gamers aren't constantly switching between navigation mode and typing mode, and they use only a small fraction of all the keys on the keyboard.

Also, if their experience is supposed to be indicative, HJKL should be replaced by WASD which is apparently much more efficient.
Antispam and fraud detection definitely benefit from security by obscurity. It is essentially an arms race between you and the spammers, with the goal of making spam and fraud too expensive to bother. Any extra work that your opponents have to do directly makes your work easier.
Not the person you asked but I, too, still use Chrome[1] for personal stuff on desktop. Why do I get a black-and-white vibe in this question? Like, either I support an open internet (by not using Chrome) or I am a horrible person for being a BIGCORP shill and I'm no true hacker, shame, shame!

Can't I be simply tired of switching browsers, making even minor adjustments to my workflow, every damn time my current browser manufacturer does something the internet adjudges to be morally corrupt?

I don't disagree with the collective in this case either. For me it's just easier to reconfigure Chrome to not do auto login on every fresh install. Maybe the day Google removes this option is the day I finally switch to Firefox for good. Or maybe I'd wait for a fork/plugin that restores the ability to opt out.

[1] For work purposes I use Firefox but it's not for any hacktivist idealism. It just fits my workflow. In Android I use Firefox full time too because I got fed up of AMP but it's still all about the experience.
> but they don't impede or force users to use Mac App Store.

They briefly pulled Epic's desktop signing keys, which they promised were for security only, over an unrelated iOS business dispute.
Can we finally get rid of AMP as part of all of this?
Security Fuzzing Podcast Episode
why, past technology was best but present technology is bad.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-biden-corrup...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/magaz...
> Companies like to control those things

I mean, this is probably true, but in enterprise software, companies are paid by their customers to control those things and enforce various compliance standards like SOC-II. The difference between a piece of workflow SaaS charging $1K/month and $25K/month is fulfilling those compliance standards, so there are clear economic incentives in play.
I genuinely miss the days of playing with DOS, Windows 9x and then all the excitement of Windows XP. All on my own hardware, which was whatever I could scrape from parents, savings, neighbours. I could do what I wanted with these old PCs.

There was an openness that existed in the world of computing. Despite all that was said of Microsoft back then, and much of the complaints about proprietary software were true then also, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as this. Back then, new releases actually did improve my experience of computing.

Every time I use Windows 10 I feel like I'm constantly in battle with the PC. Every new piece of news I read, every new feature in software and now hardware I read and shudder, thinking, how much more of my privacy will it cost? What other aspect of my life is being invaded?

And because of the network effect, I'm trapped in their clutches. I have to use these services or I can't work, can't talk to friends. All well and good saying 'use Matrix' but a chat program with no friends is just a note taker.

Such a seismic shift and it was only two decades. I just want this hostility to end. A computer is a machine, which is an elaborate tool, for Pete's sake. I don't feel the same way towards my garden hose or washing machine.

(And I increasingly wonder, were we freer back then because there was still some empathy towards customer needs at Microsoft, or because they were simply stifled from their real intentions by technological limitations?)
BlackMatter Ransomware – Joint Cyber Advisory [pdf]
I'm about to quit this coming Friday, for most of the same reasons stated by everyone else in the last few months, so not going repeat them. I do not live in America but have similar issues where I live.
It assumes exactly the opposite of that. The underlying economic principle at work is that the social aspects of a job do have an equivalent monetary value, and now that they're gone, employers have to make up the shortfall by paying more in plain money.
That's a complicated topic. Because man things stop working if you block whole Google from your network. Just imagine webfonts or embedded Google maps like in apps Uber or Yelp.
Spain Will Reimburse Those Fined for Violating Covid-19 Lockdown Rules
People who say this won't scale don't understand history. The things that scale, fail, often spectacularly. Systems like this reboot humanity. I'm into Permaculture [0] and I build and document systems which make this type of living work for the majority.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1eySW_9TiI5wnvTnIIw2Nw

We will rebuild together, stronger.
Yep, jail sentences.

Fines are good but don't work that well, even if they're large, because of agency conflict of interest. It's mostly the shareholders who are paying the price. The execs already saw their call option paid off with their 10 years of comp while they were running this scam (among others).
This. Thousand time this. I will never understand the entitlement of some people. The only explanation at hand is that they probably just don't understand the way the world works?
I just want everything to be a TV show now. After so many years of quality TV shows, going back to movies feels very underwhelming. Like, I'm only going to spend the next 1-2 hours with this character - why do I care about them? I've spent dozens of hours and sometimes several years with other characters, so I just can't feel the same connection anymore.

I can't wait for studios to come up with the idea of releasing TV shows on the big screen, because I do love the theater experience.
This was almost my EXACT experience ad well. differences are I took 6 months off, wasnt working on an ad-like product, and my pay boost getting back into the market was 48% instead of 50%.
Thing is WASM is just trading one VM (JVM) for another. You could argue this is good because of baggage/support in JVM for more "dynamic" languages is out-dated but I think what will likely happen is your initially clean and fast WASM JIT will eventually succumb to a similar fate on the back of needing to support a wider range of guest languages than just Rust/C.
The unique value Google has is the mass of users who provide them with data, by clicking (or not clicking) their search results. It's the same way with most of the big websites - they wouldn't get to where they are if they started out today. But having all this pre-existing traffic is a huge part of why they're more useful than their competitors.
>I though most/all countries in the west have an equivalent.

Well there is no direct gag-thing (because it would undermine free speech) BUT it could be interpreted ~sometimes and in "theory" as "obstruction of a police investigation", so it's a case to case thing and not direct law.
This is good to know and precisely the reason I use AGPLv3 whenever I can.

IMO open source developers writing code on their free time for the common good or just for fun should make sure with a licence like AGPLv3 that their work isn't appropriated by fundamentally immoral corps to increase profits.

It isn't a badge of honor that a FAANG uses your library, it's just exploitation.
I remember reading a few months back about the revealed toxicity of the spike proteins, how they pass the blood brain barrier. It lines up with Covid "brain fog" symptoms being reported and it draws strong concerns over the mRna mass manufacturing of the spike protein within the body.

We are in for many long term side effects popping up like this, when you rush new treatments to market this is expected.
Internet Object – A JSON alternative data serialization format
I think "managerette" is just rubbing it in that the person is mostly there to wave their hands, with little real vision for the things that matter - I guess "paper-pusher" would be similar in tone but more gender-neutral.

> Personally I feel like the patronizing/infantilizing language wouldn't be used for "a guy".

Patronizing, maybe not. They'd just get straight hate. Both would still be digging at the incompetent parasitism. Men and women are different, idk why people get their knickers in a twist about insults being gendered. I definitely get insulted in ways women don't for completely understandable reasons, and society doesn't give a fuck.

I'd mostly care if they're deserved or appropriate at all in the first place, not whether they're up to some linguistic standards.
My biggest criticism is that Mozilla removed the open-web RSS reader functionality and added a proprietary walled-garden Pocket read-it-later service. Are the two connected? I need to know.
If you look at the history of encryption, thats preceisely what happened, and right up to the 90s they did contain it.
Alright then, what unpopular end-user software cannot be installed and run with a mouse in e.g. Ubuntu?
But old Kirk is the one who gets to decide if new Kirk even exists.
Kwisatz Haderach of the moon
They are a bit like lenovo from the ivy bridge era. That's not too bad and good as a first step. It would be more compelling if they were to offer coreboot, larger batteries, ecc memory either with xeon or amd, multiple ssds, etc. (i.e., features that are hard to find elsewhere).
> However, there are many cases where AGPL is the best solution. That is, when you plan to release an original piece of software, not just modify someone elses's project, and you specifically want to prevent companies like Amazon or Google to profit from it without giving you anything back. In this case, dual AGPL + commercial licensing is a good way to go.

That might work if all you care about is making sure Amazon publishes their modifications to your software. The most common complaint though is Amazon offering support for the software, thereby removing the need for those who use the software on Amazon to purchase support from the original developer. Making your software AGPL doesn't help at all with that.

If Amazon offers support for your software on their platform, they can kill your support revenue even if they make no modifications whatsoever to your software.
The buildings look like condos to me, everything is in the building code specs and it looks like they have systems the building code should adopt like positioning the building for maximum solar photon gain and winter solar heat gain.
Sounds like management needs to reduce friction in order to improve efficiency. There is no argument that it is more efficient to lose a successful employee who already knows your business and hire a new one who does not.

A good system would be to always grant the retention raise when presented with a competing offer (without all this work you described), with a short window of time to allow for someone up the chain to veto.
Firing Dr. Fauci Now May Help Joe Biden Manage His Poll Numbers
> The court documents stated that on July 13 Levison sent an open letter to the assistant US attorney, offering to give email metadata (without email content, usernames or passwords) to the FBI if it paid him $2,000 "to cover the cost of the development time and equipment necessary to implement my solution" and $1,500 to give data "intermittently during the collection period".

So what Protonmail did wrong was to not ask for payment while handing out the metadata?

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
How ironic...

If you browse HN from 10 years ago, you'll see exactly the same advice, except instead of "replace Chrome with Firefox" it was "replace IE with Chrome".
Toronto students told not to talk at lunch to reduce the spread of Covid-19
No, Scotty decides! Also, Old Kirk was New Kirk in the previous teleport, so for him doing it is not a big deal, he was OK the last time. So why should he even worry?
Not a tech worker per se, but I do teach computer science at a higher education institution.

Pre-covid, my professional satisfaction came mostly from interacting with students. The academic freedom to explore essentially whatever you are interested in is also good compared to any tech job, so the job is not that bad (even if pay is not great compared to industry).

Currently however, with everything online, I essentially have to teach a blank screen, which sucks.

I am exploring alternatives, although I am reluctant to quit my job.
I can’t say which countries have been MOST conservative and which haven’t for confidential reasons. However some countries, like France, have recently come around and said “yeah we need an eu cloud but for right now just use an American cloud.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2021/05/17/fran...

Another country we deal with doesn’t agree and has no legal path, despite customer controlled keys and SGX, to use a US cloud.
Well fixing the "it sucks to drive a truck for a living" seems to be a potentially solvable problem, with better pay and conditions.

The increase in e-commerce is correlated with COVID, but the supply chains have kept up for the most part.

So there's not enough truck drivers? Pay them better and offer better driving conditions.

Get more chassis made. I'm assuming this is a solvable industrial problem? Perhaps the use of the Defence Production Act might be called for.

Call in National Guard vehicles to transport empty containers back to port to fill ships?
That's a fair criticism, but indulge this hypothetical, if you will:

- assume the sliding window transducer existed in the standard library (there's an open jira for it)

- assume the programmer is not an expert, but is familiar with stuff like boxed maths in Clojure, which isn't hard to work around, well documented [1], and has a known performance impact

- assume the programmer will avoid using `last`

- assume the programmer is comfortable using transducers

In short, that the transducer exists and the programmer has at least 6 months of experience programming in Clojure full time.

Will you consider the resulting implementation complicated, in depth or non idiomatic? There's always the possibility I'm just used to it so it comes naturally to me, but as the title suggests, I consider the result, before dropping down to arrays, way more idiomatic than the initial implementation.

I don't begrudge CL's speed and implementation, it's the readiness with which Clojure is dismissed as being slow with only surface familiarity with it.

[1] - https://insideclojure.org/2014/12/15/warn-on-boxed/
Caveat: Shameless plug.

M.CSS is a nice JavaScript-free template for me that works in portrait/landscape in both mobile and desktop.

Used a Penguin static website generator.

- https://mcss.mosra.cz/
- https://blog.getpelican.com/
> Microsoft's ARM hardware _is_ locked down with no such options

That was for 32-bit Windows on Arm hardware. 64-bit Windows on Arm laptops/tablets have unlockable Secure Boot, with a regular SETUP interface and all.
Presumably, the tax amount is 0 if you're taking a year off from work and not earning any income, regardless of what the rate is.
Indeed:

2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.

Loan them sounds like they want them for free.

What's the plan for the military to move containers during the 180 days if all their kit is loaned out?
I'll chime in since I also worked in consulting for a long time (still do). It depends a lot on what vertical you get pulled into, but I'd say it's 50% luck and 50% you putting in the effort to develop and prove you have skills (including social ones) to get staffed on interesting projects. Many consultants never see more than conference rooms and the home office, but the parent commenter's experience also happens quite a bit. It's worth noting that in my experience the more advanced you get in your career the more likely you are to work only in a specific industry.
> You can install uBlock Origin on Brave and Chrome too.

...for now.

Be aware that Chrome is going to stop supporting Manifest v2. This will make uBlock Origin stop working - not because the author doesn't want to support v3, but because it is not possible for uBlock Origin to work under the new extension API.

If you like uBlock Origin, now would be a good time to get out of the habit of using Chrome.
There doesn't seem to be one listed on the site, unfortunately: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hg8dq
Before covid and normalization of remote work, I couldn’t afford a quality on-site programmer. With covid I was able to hire a better quality remote programmer for a lower cost. Work is now getting done that was not happening before.

There are two ways to reduce prices:

1. Reduce need:
air travel, commute, commercial real estate, sears, middle management, highway speed traps, paper, wars, suits, gold, diamonds, brokers, theatre, stadiums, crowds

2. Increase productivity:
software, internet bandwidth, gpu, nvme ssd’s, solar, batteries, youtube, hacker news, wikipedia, wsb, zoom, twitter, linkedin, Robinhood, tiktok
Let's not blame a whole company for what some small part of it did.

Google does a lot of good in this world. They were the first "ethical" tech company, the first tech company with "hacker values" at heart. "do no evil" is still a core value there.
RE time standards, I always thought it was interesting how WHATWG took a subset of ISO 8601 since ISO went off the rails wrt poorly defined complexity.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/common-microsyntaxes....
That’s correct. Conservative interpretation of SchremsII is that US privacy Shield is dead and no US-owned asset may hold sensitive EU data. We have found in practice since this ruling that each country has different interpretations as to what “countermeasures” are allowed. From “yeah just make sure to use data locality” to “use sgx enclaves but you’re ok after that.” To “if you cannot resist fisa, we cannot trust you.”
Yes, exactly. Many websites already don't work if they use any of google-based frameworks or services, while my ad blocker blocks non-1st party domains by default. If a website or app doesn't work then, well then c'est la vie.
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that ethics should matter when choosing where you work and on what you work more than laws.

I'm saying anyone willing to work on an obvious unethical or illegal project is either an accomplice or a coward.
It's kind of a chicken-egg problem there too: Windows is the most ubiquitous OS when it comes to "computers" as the society knows, and more software gets written for it, and because of it, OEMs would prefer it even if MS doesn't push them anymore.

Not sure about the solution.
I used this feature enough that I forgot/never even knew that it wasn't built in to git-stash.