skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, I do not know any service page selling services that do not push you to use it, there is no popups, no ads, no cookies or trackers, I agree, a lot of things to improve, copywriting.., and yes I am just some dude, nobody, like the one you mention at his first post, not saying I am like him.., we all start with one step, here you can read some of my background, it is a public interview at the University I used to work, https://www.uoc.edu/portal/es/news/entrevistes/2009/roberto_... the link is in Spanish, you can use any translator to read about me, the dude.

I do understand how difficult it is to trust, I did not developed Zoldy if you mean that by telling about my experience about digital/network privacy, security, cryptography is zero, if it is important Zoldy has been developed in Spain, and even giving you 3rd parties names that tested the app you will be still in doubts, with reasons to, but no because of me or my knowledge.
Has been the challenge of Shadow IT since the glass house days.
Isn't it more likely to be incompetence than malice?
Perhaps the ticket said: "Implement Edge for Windows 11, make sure links will open in Edge." and not "screw some stuff up, then go play some golf".

It's very easy to just anthropomorphise everything and say "ha, that one is evil with evil intentions and sadistic joy", but it's far more likely that it either wasn't actually designed to work like that and it's simply some crappy default behaviour, or there is some marketing VP who went beyond his scope and forced an implementation detail 4 layers deep in the organisation. Then that one might be bad, (but still just incompetent - even just checking historical cases would have shown that to be a bad idea) but all engineers, all managers, all POs? Unlikely.
> Before anyone harshes me for this I met a chick with a smirnoff lanyard who was getting free shots without being from them too

How does that make anything better?
I wrote this on another thread a few months ago:

I think the basic reason why low-code / no-code works is down to software bugs and long-tail maintenance.

Bugs are a function of number of engineers, features, moving parts, and significant lines of code.

No-code takes out engineers, moving parts, and SLoC from the equation (as far as the enterprises buying these solutions are concerned), but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of feature set; low-code brings down number of engineers, and SLoC, whilst providing flexibility in terms of bespoke feature sets.

Also, in essence, No-code and Low-code are a natural extension of the cloud computing model in which capex is traded away for opex. And economies of scale, over time ensures Low-code / No-code will be cheaper yet more reliable than anything one (tech-enabled) enterprise can roll on their own. While at some level it is also an indication of 'software is eating the world' phenomena (both in terms of available capital given software economics, and rise in popularity of CS, in general).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074657
London-Berlin flying takes 1h50m. The train takes ~14h. (edit: replies say 9h can be done)

You tie up the machine and staff for 7X longer, and need safely maintained local infrastructure every meter of the journey. It's tough to make that cheaper.

And then the service is less valuable since it's so damn long. I love train rides, but 14 hours costs a whole day, and 2h costs an early-rise morning.
The right to pollute should never be granted in perpetuity. If anything, it should be a recurring cost that increases or decreases based on the how much polluting is occurring. That way the markets work in incentivizing less polluting.
> Isaac Benbenisti, a telecommunications executive who joined NSO in August and was named last week to succeed NSO founder and CEO Shalev Hulio, resigned abruptly following announcement of sanctions by the United States on NSO.

Yikes.
While ruminating on what to say about "OnlyFans Consulting" [0], I remembered this piece. Money is one way that we value other people's time. But we used to do things for barter, or just because they were the best use of our time.

> There is a much deeper crisis at work as well, a crisis in the creation of goods and services that underlies money to begin with, and it is this crisis that gave birth to the real estate bubble everyone blames for the current situation. To understand it, let’s get clear on what constitutes a “good” or a “service”. In economics, these terms refer to something that is exchanged for money. If I babysit your children for free, economists don’t count it as a service. It cannot be used to pay a financial debt: I cannot go to the supermarket and say, “I watched my neighbors kids this morning, so please give me food.” But if I open a day care center and charge you money, I have created a “service”. GDP rises and, according to economists, society has become wealthier.

The crisis of civilization is that there's nothing left to monetize.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190676
I asked this question to Nirav, one of the founders in a previous HN thread about the laptop.

He clarified that there is currently no matte option with no plans for display options.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948272

Perhaps if they realise there is a market that direction can be changed? (One can hope)
> obviously we want the student to know 10 * 10 by rote

Let's clear that up, make it: 1289 * 689

> they should be able to select a procedure they've used before and employ it.

And if they've already seen the question they know which procedure to use, and you're no longer testing "should be able to select".
Maybe I should clarify that I was referring to the field of software generally, which definitely includes Facebook and the software parts of cars.

Some days it feels like the whole field is premised on taking advantage of people, not trying to make the world better for them. I am values-driven, so it just really hurts to see so much bad behavior in my chosen field (software). I don’t like the irrational “tech bro” hate that’s popular these days, but I’m a little more empathetic when I realize that most consumers have probably faced technology that is actively taking advantage of them. Uncool.
Despite having owned two f-bodies, I never knew they were available in RHD.
Code is the OG 'No Code'. Or to give the movement its full title 'No Machine Code'.

I wonder if programmers of the day thought that compilers would put them out of a job?
We may just be talking past each other, but in the link you provided, sections "Simplified dependencies" and (to a lesser extent) "Cross-project changes" are pretty much exactly what I'm talking about.
I feel you.

I freelanced designing and building websites in the '00s before gradually migrating into in-house creative direction and product design. After getting burned out doing that, I've tried to start a little solo web and brand shop again, which sounds fun on paper, but I can't find a market for it. People just want inexpensive Squarespace editors. They look to Fiverr, Upwork, etc.

It reminds me of the Wordpress-only shops that drove me to in-house/product design in the first place, but with even less custom work being done.

It's a loss for web as a creative platform, and has left me unsure of how to proceed professionally.
Really gonna need a source on that claim.
Right, they should pay for it from a data broker like everyone else.
There may not be an easy answer, but could someone opine on how a Haskell/IHP based web application would compare with Elixir/Phoenix based solution.

I'm primarily interested in Haskell vs Erlang/Elixir comparison rather than IHP vs Phoenix, since I'm aware that Phoenix may be more featured at the moment.
It's not an isolated incident, either; they're playing a very similar game with Bing integration. Removing Bing results from the start menu search went from a supported UI toggle to a straightforward registry hack to a registry hack that also messes with local search.
I think many pro-capitalists agree that our current iteration of capitalism is unsustainable and degenerate.
Tower logs, sure. I'm definitely drifting toward no-GPS dumbphone territory, but there may also be reasons to give up.
consider quitting while you're ahead.
Gitlab remote only manifesto comment section (2018)
It would be one thing if it was making other comments difficult to read or causing browser issues, but I appreciated the demonstration that both would presumably be possible on certain browsers
how is OP dramatizing? It is making the world worse for users, and anyone intelligent enough to work on that team understands what they're doing, PR speak or not.

If you can work for FAANG you can work somewhere else and make a comfortable living, it's not like we're talking about someone doing shady work to put food on the table. Why do we not hold people accountable?

If someone shills for big oil or the tobacco industry we have no trouble pointing out how unethical it is.
We have to start doing like those Soccer Mom Facebook groups and put something like: "please use the magnifier glass[0] to search if your question hasn't been asked before"

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/

Edit: I'm getting heavily downvoted. Sorry guys, it was just a joke.
Completely agree, and it makes me wonder if we are at the edge of standardization for many types of applications. The desktop, tablet, and mobile form factors and use cases are well understood. Best practices amongst these major platforms are in place. The cloud is maturing (litmus test for this is the reinvent seems to be less exciting each year). New form factors, like AR/VR, don’t have the market share for broad changes to development practices yet.
Absolutely! I have started a project to encourage municipalities to use land use to protect their water and other sensitive spots from service stations.

The EPA has all sorts of silly guidelines like saying setback a gas station 500 feet from school or wetlands if they pump over 3.6MM gallons a year. Under that? 25 feet.

https://postpump.org is the project so far.

A crazy thing I learned recently is the cost of cleanups for underground storage tanks is not really tracked or published publicly. I started requesting information a few weeks ago. https://postpump.org/oregon
https://www.youtube.com/c/RuffTuffRecordings/videos

Sure friend, fair warning though, I'll probably delete this in a day or so to avoid an ID trail of people that might scan my posts later on... The Internet can be vengeful a times even if I am not so. :P
>Are there other fields so thoroughly invested in making the world a worse place to be a consumer?

Just last week I was reading about a court ruling proving a local bank overcharged interest on car loans, entire department knew, and they did this for years. Effectively stealing from people. The other day a retail store tried to get out of warranty obligation under the excuse that I don't have the receipt, even though I have the warranty card with serial number - a friend working in support said it was a common tactic to see if people would give up.

If you think this is an example of a morally questionable job I'd like to know what universe you live in.
At least they aren't submitting it to Bing via MS Edge instead of a direct url. <Instantly regrets saying this >
Well yes, but that's the issue when working on a project with 800 people - my job was to make the loading bar work, the art direction didn't care that it would get stuck, and I can't override an artist and just make it shimmer.
It's a perfect analogy. Don't sell yourself short. Look, the following things are true.

1) This industry absolutely has the capability create more tools like Excel that are both extremely empowering and orders of magnitude easier than what we think of as coding.

2) Unfortunately, there's a strong, likely frequently subconscious, incentive to definitely not do this, since it carries a strong danger of IT making itself "obsolete."

(Not judging here, just observing)
> Even 75 years ago in America, every small town had its own marching band and baseball team.

They still do, it's through the high school. Very, very few people have ever paid for a marching band's services.
Not referring to https://old.reddit.com I assume?
This did be the top comment. This being limited to explicitly calling Edge turns this from front-page-worthy to perfectly reasonable.
I'm pro-boner
And with a six-fold difference in carbon footprint of traveling between flying and taking a train, that's borderline criminal.
Here are some pertinent facts. Rep. Massie did not write this bill. No member of Rep. Massie's staff wrote this bill. The bag-man (lobbyist) who is compensating Rep. Massie for introducing this bill also did not write it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if neither Rep. Massie nor any of his staff have even read the actual bill, rather than the executive summary. So who did write the bill then? A reasonable assumption is that it is some party who stands to benefit greatly, probably to the tune of billions of dollars, that had their staff attorneys write up the proposed bill. Our entire legislative system has, over time, been warped to maximally obscure the identities and, to a lesser extent the motivations, of the parties that actually write the laws.

All that being said, your surmise that someone with an electrical and mechanical engineering background would see patents through that lens is plausible, but sadly probably irrelevant.

The above is true for all legislation in the modern day USA. Virtually no "legislator" has actually legislated in decades at the very least. Occasionally a member of congress will have their staff write up some bill for political purposes, but nobody takes them seriously, not even the members in question.
My opinion is that MS is again doing backroom deals with large companies, like they used to do in the 90s. Its the only explanation why companies are not treating MS products as toxic malware, which is what they actually are.
I would agree with you in principle - although I was in a jury a year ago and saw some very similar from the prosecution and thought 'nobody would ever buy this ridiculous attempt just to paint the defendant as the kind of guy that is guilty!'

And then as soon as I got in the jury room, I found that 3-4 people had fallen for this technique hook, line and sinker.

Prosecutions do this because, unfortunately, it works. Often jury trials unfortunately aren't about objective proof, they are about feelings and convincing the lay-public.
> the actions they're taking are right

They are right for their bank accounts.
I know it's not so easy here policy wise. The general debate is a discussion on how to shoot ourselves in the foot with the most elan. But then you look at other places. And there maybe they are still growing and people have the right priorities. But that might be because these places are mostly just dirty and poor and everywhere is filled with cheaply built appartment blocks. At least there's something to look at here on your lazy Sunday afternoon.
My perfect (hypothetical) editor doesn't try to keep you "in" but it interacts with other tools supremely well. I can use it to find text, to mark or select it and then apply a great variety of tools to it. I might select text in another application and then find myself live-editing it in my editor so that I can always use my favorite tool no matter what the application might be.

It also expects interoperability from other tools - so there's no file load dialog or project files view because all you do is load up your operating system's file manager and drag and drop.

It, with other components, build up into what one might call an IDE and it's up to me to construct my custom tool from all the bits including the editor.
Thanks for the feedback. I also received this request today to document a relevant workflow: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/issues/210. If you want to be notified when I write the documentation (hopefully today?), then you can watch that issue.

There's a decent discussion here on "stacked changes": https://docs.graphite.dev/getting-started/why-use-stacked-ch..., with references to other articles. This workflow is sometimes called development via "patch stack" or "stacked diffs". But that's just a part of the workflow which git-branchless enables.

The most similar tool would be Mercurial as used at large companies (and in fact, `git-branchless` is, for now, just trying to get to feature parity with it). But I don't know if the feature set which engineers rely on is documented anywhere publicly.

I use git-branchless 1) simply to scale to a monorepo, because `git move` is a lot faster than `git rebase`, and 2) to do highly speculative work and jump between many different approaches to the same problem (a kind of breadth-first search). I always had this problem with Git where I wanted to make many speculative changes, but branch and stash management got in the way. (For example, it's hard to update a commit which is a common ancestor of two or more branches. `git move` solves this.) The branchless workflow lets me be more nimble and update the commit graph more deftly, so that I can do experimental work much more easily.
Fuel and Maintenance costs, they're about 10-20% and 30% of total costs (flight/ground crew, landing/taxes, and amortization make up much of the rest) respectively. Combined they are a huge portion of potential cost reduction.
When I heard Windows was transitioning to rolling release, I was a little bummed about the "every other version is bad" advice becoming moot.

Luckily, Win11 is here. Maybe it's time to make a T-shirt?
There are also real common lisp gui frameworks. There's a tcl binding thing, this thing, mature qt and gtk bindings, a native common lisp solution (mcclim). Honestly I was a bit surprised when I was looking around how much there was, check awesome-cl.com
> I would like to see this explained, or the forethought on it.

Once we had this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397285
neat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Best_Products#More_Histor...

> … An order was written up and turned into one of the service desks and sent to the warehouse in a plastic tube "shot" through a pneumatic line. The tube was opened by an order picker who read the catalog numbers on the order slip which told the picker where the merchandise was located in the warehouse. It was picked, the slip was attached to the product, it was sent down a roller belt where a carbon copy of the order slip was given to a cashier who paiged the shopper to the register. The transaction was completed and the customer took the receipt to the pick up area and received their product when they were ready to leave the store. Seems like alot of work, but the entire process was done in less than five minutes time. …
> become

Don't forget their sabotage of DR-DOS before Windows even came onto the scene. They're old hands at playing dirty.
I want to add headset manufacturers that include predetermined breaking points on even mid class products.

Funny how these things give in shortly after the 2y warranty ends.

Disclaimer: repeat victim of headphone breakage. Looking at you, Sennheiser.
The category for 4-wheeled vehicles with reduced safety requirements is the "kit car". IOW, you have to put it together yourself for it to qualify.
Exactly. This isn’t some sort of weird environmental topic. This is a human rights violation. The foundation of a huge swath of our law is “no one has a right to encroach on a person or their property.” (Examples being murder and theft.) Pollution is a violation of that principle on a massive scale and it should be treated that way.
Those are both male. There are only two sexes in humans. Furthermore, the XYYYY is super rare; one doesn’t falsify general statements by bringing up conditions whose incidence is vanishingly rare, except in the most uselessly pedantic sense. Also, XYYYY is male.
> the monetization of services which have traditionally been performed for free: child care, meal preparation, etc.

The idea of paying for meal preparation outside the house goes back at least 5000 years. Bars, restaurants and food vendors have been around at least as long as written history.
Because the political coalition in power, supported by the voters in the county, says so.

It's really that simple.
It opens all internet hyperlinks anywhere in the operating system in Edge, from debug information to help forums to faqs, and also any Cortana responses that contain web links and web searches from the built-in non-user-configurable search bar.

On top of that, whenever Edge opens, it tries to set itself as your default browser, and excises all your other browsers from the desktop and dock.
He did not leave the market and on top of that now has financial safety so can work on the project 100%. That's a net gain.
> Try spinning a joke about burning Jewish babies as innocent form of humor that society doesn't look down on. I'll wait.

How do you stop a million Jewish babies from bleeding to death? Holocauterization.

(It's really hard to think of a joke about burning Jewish babies. This one took about 30 minutes, and it isn't even baby-specific.)

As a half-Jew, this seems like innocent wordplay. But if it's problematic or harmful, I'd like to understand why.
this is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing :)
> These “web experiences”, as Microsoft calls them, feature links to online news, weather, and other resources. Links sent to the device from a paired Samsung or Android devices are also affected.

So this is related to the garbage MS pushed earlier in the year (or was it last year?) where a news & weather widget suddenly appeared on your dock out of nowhere.

Now if you click on a link from that thing (and probably other locations, sibling comments mention web results from the search and cortana), it opens them in Edge instead of opening them in your actual web browser.

This is not "we're bundling a local web application developed specifically for edge so we're linking to that specifically to make sure it doesn't break", this is "we're wilfully and specifically bypassing the browser you configured to handle web pages when opening web pages".
Securing Microservices with JSON Web Tokens
A typo can go the other way, like "rn somefile" where it was meant to remove a file but instead it renames all files.
I'm "whitespace as syntax is stupid" years old
I'm tacking on to this thread, because otherwise, it'd get buried. But I've found that the Ethereum Research forums to be akin to what you're looking for.

https://ethresear.ch

And the Ethereum Magicians

https://ethereum-magicians.org/

What have you found?
Yep, it got published, but gained little traction in terms of public awareness in circles I usually frequent... e.g. it didn't make the front page of reddit/r/politics from what I recall...

I would have expected something like that to completely end an organization's validity or at least bankrupt it.
Maybe that would be true if they hadn't already been making it harder and harder to not use edge as the default in windows for the past few years.
Spaces don't make anything more descriptive, they just cause completely unnecessary quoting and escaping hassle.

The amount of time that has been wasted by Windows using "C:\Program Files" instead of "C:\Program_Files" far outweighs any highly questionable aesthetic benefit IMO.
I don't use Windows, but according to the article, this is a new update. Edge was already built-in a lot of shortcuts in Windows 11, but people used tools like EdgeDeflector to circumvent that. The new update prevented that from happening, resulting in an error message when trying to do it. Seems like a deliberate choice to me.
> Implement Edge for Windows 11, make sure links will open in Edge.

This was already done.

The new ticket would have said something like: "Stop users from being able to override the special links that only work in Edge. Make very sure that users have no way of working around this behavior even if they really want to."