skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the non-technical people I know would look at this and say "why is Microsoft trying to feed me some weird payday loan scam?"
Neat! I love products that come out of a personal need.

Is it possible for you to do a live, personal demo? No logins or anything. I'm thinking something where you tell people to start up their audio and then give them a quick prompt like "Describe your breakfast yesterday." Record for 30 seconds, and then let them play back the original and cleaned versions. You could limit them to, say, 5 goes, with a different prompt each time.

I suggest it because a) a little personal investment makes it more likely they'll give you their email address for signing up, and b) many potential customers underestimate how much they need something like this.
Maybe “expert” is no longer a useful term. Instead we could differentiate between creators and power users.
Greed/impatience.

Their major competitors have the smart strategy: Skim a small amount off the top quietly and forever (Apple, Google, and Facebook). The perfect rent-seekers. Microsoft doesn't want to put in the hard work/time/cost to create a comparable skimming operation, so they take ugly shortcuts like this.

For one specific example, the Windows Store is trash. It has been trash for years. The visual refresh in Windows 11 hasn't fixed what is wrong with it (e.g. majority scam apps, difficult to locate stuff, difficult to evaluate the legitimacy/low trust). Microsoft needs to work hard/spend resources/put in the time to improve the experience, and then it will be a revenue generator, but why do that when you can do lazy stuff like this?

Microsoft could be selling paid upgrades that add legitimately value to Windows that sell themselves, but again that requires actual hard work.
Films. That's the main selling point of this device. You can watch films without any black bars, sad I'm not a movie person.

Oh, and better of all: it has absolutely no notch! All the screen for video!
This is one of the benefits of capitalism. It provides a relatively harmless occupation for the monsters.
Apples market share is further increasing. The mismanagement of Microsoft is detrimental to the computing market. Someone needs to be grabbing control of Microsoft and giving it a singular vision. Fire those that undermine it. Less employees, Less marketing, more engineering. Heart disease will kill this company in the long term.
So I guess I'm just a bad person, but after reading this article my thoughts were:

1) the book seems funny, I wish it were available in English

2) the author of this article seems to have not much of a sense of humor
ADL Support will come around Q2, so you can import it in lot of audio and video editors. For now, we have these export files which you mentioned.

Regarding Pricing, that's a good point. I will definitely consider it, thank you!
looks like techcrunch is going paywall
Reminds me of the times when you could install Ubuntu via an .exe file using WUBI. This is how I started with Linux on my grandparents' computer without breaking it when I was 11.
Growing up in a communist country, the further removed from the standardized college entrance exam you are, the more connections matter. Standardized college entrance exam will get you into a good university, but connections decide your first job after graduation. It only gets worse from there.
I understand the points being made, it's just not what I choose to focus on in the very limited time I'm going to spend engaging with this material. The purpose of my comment was to let any other tech-focused visitors to this site know that I did find some value on the periphery of this book, in case they are equally uninterested in hearing everyone's hot takes on a 98 year old who's already had books written about his life's negative impacts.
But how much money can they possibly be making from a deal like this? It surely is a blip on MS’ radar. That’s what so confusing about dumb moves like this while Edge is still trying to gain market share.
Ubuntu used to ship their CDs with an installer that wrote to a virtual disk file and let you boot from it.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

They've since dropped the idea but you can still cobble together something similar.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/309900/deploy-linux...
“We are instituting a policy in which the government employs people to hit travelers in the face with a board as they enter the airport”

“If you would prefer not to be hit with a board as part of your travel experience, please apply for our new program and pay up.”
My partner and I strive to at least be aware of it, so we sometimes have exchanges like

“Ok, stop getting on my case about it.”

“What? I didn’t say anything at all!”

“Oh… well, the you in my head was getting on my case about it.”

Awareness helps a lot.
I think there is a grain of truth in the idea of not using Windows. However, as you point out, it is not just Windows. All of our IT systems have evolved in fits and spurts with insufficient investment in security from the ground up. It is entirely plausible that most businesses are doing IT the "wrong way" given the current requirements of interconnectivity and global commerce.

While there are numerous ideas on what the "right way" to do IT might look like, no one has reconciled that with the economics of current business practices.
I work in mostly "hardware" development. Long ago I made peace with the fact that there would always professions that pay more than mine, for doing things that I can't comprehend.
> this hypothesis proposes that gay men respond to societal homophobia by overcompensating in achievement-related domains. Reflecting on this possibility, Mittleman suggests that "academic performance offers an accessible domain of competitive self-mastery. Whereas the rules of masculinity may feel obscure or unattainable, the rules of school can feel discrete and manageable. Whereas the approval of a parent may be uncertain, the praise of a teacher can be regularly earned [...]

This seems like a lot of fun freud-esque-imaginative conjecture, but did the study not consider the more simple possibility that it failed to control for the population of gay males who do not identify or express as such: i.e. it over-selected for people who are 'out'.

I'd say it's more plausible that gay males who are burdened with more shame (and historic trauma) around their sexuality are less likely to self-identify and self-report as gay and so the remaining 'out' population of gay males are those who are sufficiently comfortable or free of fear to be 'out'. Things contributing to this outness may include: a high level of family support, exposure to validating media, exposure to more educated and enlightened peers and friends, etc. I.e. extremely unsurprising factors in academic achievement.

EDIT: FWIW, reflecting on my own experiences, I _do_ believe there are _some_ performative compensations that occur in response to lack of acceptance or conformity. But there are many axes of difference and non-acceptance that would have to be unpacked there. This study and its commentary seems to do so little service to a highly complex and highly interactional set of factors. It's a wasp's nest of confounding variables that would be almost impossible to navigate scientifically IMO.
synesthesia?
I don’t get the link
I had a fucking awful job for three months this summer

I advise others to give something two full months before bouncing

I usually don't follow my advice but this time I did

It was a big mistake -- it just burned me out -- big-time zapped my emotional energy and I took a couple months off afterwards before I really starting to look again

I told my new manager that I felt bad felt like things were off everything was wrong yes I'm actually trying hard to figure out WTF you guys are doing but it's a literal disaster and I've been in plenty of disasters even helped create them but this is a whole new level of fucketty

Mgr blew it off

Which makes sense because they created it

At one point I took it as a challenge let me see if I can make it work here life is fun and not that serious for a relatively privileged dude like me I'm prob not going to starve

Had a couple of goodish days

But ultimately felt like the company was a loser and I usually like to be in psychopath startups actually trying to do something "make a dent in the universe" hopefully not an evil dent

So I gave it the bezos test

Will I regret having bounced from this shit hole in five years?

No

And there were some nice and smart people there but that was mostly irrelevant to my day to day

So part of my equation the biggest part was

What is my purpose of this life?

It was not I decided to stick it out at some shit job

I wanted to do bigger and much much better impactful things and felt like there was zero chance of that happening there

All stuff I should have known before I joined but eh

So my advice

Tell someone

Give it the old college try

Think about making that two month mark

Start looking for your next gig

If it still sucks at two months you have to go

If you want to do something in this life

Lot of people with choices are happy to live a 1x life

I've usually chased and have sometimes found that 10x life

And it's gd amazing

I haven't had conventional success (yet?)

But at least I've tried to live

Some people are afraid to die

Some people are afraid to live

That kind of thing
Please don't post like this. It's unsubstantive and against the site guidelines, and worst of all it leads to low-value flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279858.
Price transparency is shifting deck chairs on the titanic. I actually do think the new chair arrangement is a notable improvement on the old one -- but in an industry with unaddressed tectonic issues, it's not going to right the ship.

I might be wrong. Maybe price transparency will lead to a 50% reduction in prices in the next few years. I doubt it, though.
Yeah maybe instead of big nation, we could divide into like 50 sovereign states. Those could be divided up into smaller counties, and those into cities.

Then each could democratically decide what is best for themselves.

Nah that’s crazy. It’s better to have 49% of a nation be unhappy with things, even in cities where 80% think one way, they must do what the 20% want because at the national level that 20% is the 51%.
go on welfare because the people telling you what applications to use as part of your day to day work want Microsoft!
Consistent application of principles doesn't make a "cult". Its just so rare you may be unfamiliar with the difference.

Make a fork of their code with your preferred changes. The world will be improved and people who agree with you will be happy.
And there are 2 strains for it as well!

Bitcoin is for those who blame and antagonize the government and the Fed, as well as the IRS.

Ethereum is for those who blame and antagonize big platforms such as Facebook, Google, Youtube, but also JPMorgan, RobinHood, Bank of America.
obviously, they are not distracted by beautiful women.
It's not productive to call it "arbitrary religious dogma". The FSF chose a criteria for what binary blobs are acceptable. Your and my opinions are that they set this criteria wrong, but if we hope to change their policy, then we have to discuss it rationally.

I personally think the correct criteria is that of security boundaries and change control. If I've got a graphics card with proprietary code (regardless of whether its in ROM or loaded into RAM), with a proper IOMMU, the attacks it can perform on me are limited (eg TEMPEST). The video card itself is not Free or secure, but it's unfortunately something I have to use to interface with my Free/secure computer, just like my keyboard with its proprietary firmware. And as long as I can load any version of firmware onto that video card, then I retain administrative control where the manufacturer can't revoke functionality after I've purchased it.

Disk drives with proprietary software (which is all of them) are not an attack vector, because a drive should only ever be seeing encrypted data to begin with (eg LUKS).

A network card is a bit more worrisome with its direct network access (ie backhaul), but a Free/secure design shouldn't be trusting the network either (unless you have Free/secure switches), so this does not meaningfully change your security properties.

Obviously the above assumes Free/secure drivers, because drivers are running inside the security boundary of the OS.

CPU masks and microcode run afoul of my strict criteria, but are practically inescapable. Proprietary masks/microcode are required for every amd64 system (correct me if I am wrong), so it makes sense to say you have a Free/secure amd64 modulo those proprietary bits (as say Libreboot already does). And with so few versions of CPU microcode, the question of whether to trust a given microcode update is equivalent to whether to trust a given newly released CPU, and shouldn't be viewed as a software Freedom issue.
Classically professionals learnt their discourses by heart. That stands out when you see it.

I remember fondly a student of mine who seemed unable to express himself properly. I told him to memorize his final project dissertation because otherwise it would be a wreck (OK, I did not say this last part, it was more of a suggestion).

BOY: did he memorize it. He got an honors and I did think “this guy has really done it, and it sounds like music!”

When you do it well, it tells.
But they don't, especially on the local and state level. They may fund their favorites but outright socialists and communists can and do run in the Democratic primaries, to say nothing of progressives and Greens. And if I was in a district that had closed primaries where one party routinely wins, I would definitely register for that party. It doesn't mean anything.
Meanwhile, there are no browsers you can pay for.
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How can you compare these absolute numbers? In 2015 BMW had 25 times more revenue than Tesla, and only spend 4 times as much as Tesla on marketing. So in relative terms Tesla is spending way more
The gnu utilities are really something special. I love anytime I get to use them in concert to solve a problem.
For me personally, I'm involved in academia and research so I live and breathe it. It's difficult for me to evaluate papers outside of my domain, and takes a huge amount of background research to do so.

A good first filter is usually (not always) seeing the journal its published in. The primary thing here though, is not looking for good journals but rather avoiding the known predatory ones.

My concern is for the people who don't live and breathe research. There is a massive amount of depth and detail that is easily overlooked when you're unfamiliar with the subject.

Things like poor method can invalidate results, and people unfamiliar with the particular methodology can miss that. Even the statistical analysis could be flawed, or they use a statistical method which is not appropriate for their data or study design.
While we're noting, they are pretty good about telling you/charging you less if it's something that's available off prescription (and was prescribed just to record the advice, or particularly because non-standard dosage advised, etc.) so £12 too much.

Like paracetamol say, you'd need a pretty hefty prescription to be able to buy enough all at once that £12 was a good deal. (A standard box is I think 24x500mg, good for three days (4h spacing, but 4x1g max is advised, not 6x) at max standard dosage, can buy two off the shelf for about £1, so you'd need a prescription for almost three months' worth, or a correspondingly higher dose...)

Also, £12 is the one-off price, there are better subscription type rates for people with medium/long-term recurring prescriptions.
Does anyone here use the enterprise Stack Overflow? Thoughts?
I do agree, it's hard to break the cycle. I've been a little better in the last couple of months, but I can work harder to allow myself to step away. I know I can't will myself into an epiphany, so why try?
Tesla accused of ‘rampant sexual harassment’ in new worker lawsuit
Oh man, as a programmer who fancies themself a systems thinker I do find this argument a little seductive. I'm not going to argue that software development doesn't promote strong systems thinking skills but I don't know how much of that is because I truly believe that it's sharpened my abilities and how much of it is because I want to flatter myself.

My discomfort with this line of thinking is that I've seen a lot of systems thinking hampered by bad abstractions. In fact, I'm currently working on one now. Given the extraordinary complexity of human society, we're much more likely to make bad abstractions and to ignore or even completely fail to observe critical feedback.

I also disagree that I shouldn't criticize him for his method of thinking. Criticism is our best path forward to refining our thought.

Lastly, I'd like to note that I think this comment was the kind of thoughtful and nuanced thinking I'd like to see more of. Even if we don't agree, you're asking better questions and attempting to synthesize different positions and processes. I appreciate that.
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again, we'd be grateful.
Huttenlocher is guilty of waging many faculty battles but I didn't realize they were indictable. Well, I guess that makes him unindicted.
Video yet of Ingenuity flying across Mars
I don't know, these long devices are less common, or so I think, although it's true that usually phones are slightly taller than 16:9. I still prefer a 16:9 phone though, but as I said those phones are basically tablets nowadays.

(And yes, I enabled the gestures to try and I must say that swiping from the right edge to go back and from the bottom to go home is comfortable and you get used to it pretty quickly)
Freecell has ads in it now, and tries to push a subscription service. Microsoft is really doing themselves a dirty by trying to nickel-and-dime its customers with stuff like this.
buying stocks at all seemed like nothing but speculation in the 1920s because corporate disclosures were so opaque. By the 1970s that had changed, and you could begin to make rational, calculated long-term decisions that put the odds in your favor.

Thriving growth follows sunshine.

Meanwhile, Govs/Corps compulsively fight transparency. Their only greater priority is revenge on people who drag them into the light.
The social media person at the Economist is bad at their jobs. The article goes into the nuances of the claim.

The specific claims are

Higher than expected inflation

> new data showed that America’s consumer price inflation rose to 5.4% in June, well above economists’ expectations. On July 14th it was revealed that British inflation rose to 2.5% in June, which was also higher than forecast.

The specific reason high inflation was not expected was because expected long term slump, which didn't happen

> Not long ago economists tended to the view that the covid-19 pandemic would lead to a prolonged slump in the rich world. That view has not worn well

> With unexpected growth has come an unexpected spurt of inflation
Maybe "seek funding" (like jiggawatts wrote) is a good idea? Maybe MS and other companies would want to pay for a namespaced and identity verified Crates.io -- it's in their self interest?
I think gay men have a closer attention to detail and diligence, and this has to extend in to the rigors of studies.

An interesting stat to put context on this stat would be what percentage of gay men go in to third level education.
>We have been testing LibreOffice in our IT department
>for two years, and our experience is clear: it works

Of course, the IT department made it work.

What is needed is employee acceptance and blessing.

Hopefully, they will have workshops and focus groups to
ensure that the staff of 26.000 (*) likes the change
and welcomes it.

Ideally the employees would be allowed to vote on the change.
after being given a chance to get familiar with it.

I am 90% sure that vote would be against the change.

This is a major inconvenience for nearly all of them.

You get together a gang of 65 year old civil servants who have
learned how to do their job one way and have done it one way,
to suddenly figure out.

Then the migration the 100s or more templates that they have
carefully formatted and laid out to ensure consistent communication
with the public and everyone else.

And for them to be as productive as they are today, after the change.

I help my grandpa and some of his friends with "computers".
For most of them if an icon on the desktop, or a button in an
application moves they give up.
I remember when I heard people saying a better gut flora could treat autism alarm bells started ringing about microbiome stuff being way overhyped for me.

This causal direction makes sense though.
Scientists as a group have so much humility that if they're not literally excited to be proven wrong, on their most deeply held understanding of the fundamentals of their field, then they're not considered to be scientists.
nah Digital lic. on my phone.

but tbh that rule is rarely strongly enforced in Australia.
At which point, we'll discover that selling such indemnity guarantees as part of software is ludicrously unprofitable and unsustainable, just like the insurance industry has.

There is not a software tool which on its own can defend against ransomware. The most robust defense requires a total system design of "Continuous Restoration", with everything backed up, with backups stored in such a way that they cannot be destroyed, with backups constantly being restored to production, and with periodic human monitoring and manual confirmation that the system is working.
Penpot is now Beta (Open Source design and prototyping platform)
> Moreover, that wouldn't explain the gap between straight and lesbian women, either.

I don't think the homophobia against lesbian women and the homophobia against gay men is the same.
This isn't new, in SOMA and other neighborhoods they have had different associations you pay into for years for someone to go around and clean the sidewalks and ask some of the homeless people to move at 7-9am.
Some podcasts I listen to are over-edited. I'd always assumed that a) it was done manually and b) it was done to keep the length below some threshold. Now I'm curious if they are using software to automate the editing.

I find the cadence very unnatural when all the spaces between phonemes are removed.
Keep in mind that in the Netherlands, where this business is located, the government will pay to install a stairwell elevator in your home when you are no longer able to use them yourself. This product seems very niche in comparison.
Well this is not true. There has been debate about an emerging inflation threat for many years now even long before the pandemic due to the rapid rate central banks are printing money to keep the economy floating since 2008. However in the financial market there are many people whose lives depend on constant growth creating a strong sentiment to either willfully mislead the market or just lie to themselves for comfort and self-preservation.
Some concrete exemples might help your case. Science wants to be humble. The people we hold as examples of very careful, meticulous scientists (like Cochrane) have very weak beliefs and a lot of quantified doubt about everything.

Science shouldn't be trusted blindly, because it's an incremental process not an Oracle of Truth.

But random people with opinions, in my experience, are even more likely to have strong beliefs and overconfidence in them.
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