skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of Ctrl+Backspace not working inside Notepad until recently (Windows 10 I believe), I see no problem with that.
But the Hubble could be useful for another century.

Talk about inspirational.
Ouch, that's gotta hurt. One of the things I loved about those old-fashioned docks were how cheap they were, especially secondhand: I ended up buying 3 docks for my T460s, one for work and two for home (one in the office, one at the media center). Cost me less than $50 for the lot of them, and now I can plop down my laptop anywhere I please and it automagically assumes the form of my setup. Hopefully they make a comeback...
> > There are many criticisms you can make of the PRC, but “they are incapable of assuring that their official position is heard clearly and loudly” is...not among them.

> What an incredible claim. Americans think China is literally committing a Holocaust right now.

You have conflated "heard" with "believed". The CCP is heard, not believed. Everybody knows the CCP denies those claims; the CCP has been heard.
Reminds me of Glen Quaich which I regulary cycle. Single track road, with switch backs and 12% gradients. Often I'll cycle by besumed tourist off the main road wondering where they are. Its a public road but not cleared or gritted in the winter. A couple visiting a nearby village last week were rescued by a farmer after Google sent them along this scenic route in a snow storm.
I am in the same boat and I was just thinking about it after upgrading to a Mac M1 pro.
One plus point for Firefox is the dev tools, especially for grid and flex.
Does it run on Windows 95 though?
> Create more high density housing and the people with McMansions complain. Build some McMansions and the high density people cry "gentrification!"

I don't know if it is just where I live (Seattle) or if it is common in other big cities trying to densify as well, but the "gentrification!" chant seems to be prevalent across both sides, not just the McMansion side.

Here we get "gentrification!" yells even when high-density residential buildings are constructed. In fact, we have NIMBYs fighting against increasing density behind their chant of "gentrification!" and "we have to preserve the character of this neighborhood!" at the same time.
I don't see why not. They did the same exact thing in the movie Contact.
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I think this could have lots of side affects (even though i agree that copyrights have some negative aspects to them).

One big issue is that when things aren't bound by copyright, the originals can be adulterated and you won't know:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-...

> The New York Times reports that in some countries where "1984" is in the public domain opportunists are printing cheap versions of the novel and listing them on Amazon, avoiding paying royalties owed to Orwell's estate in the US.

> The New York Times found 11 of the 12 fake Orwell books it ordered were dispatched from an Amazon warehouse and were labelled "new." The books cost as little as $3.

This seems like an obvious net-negative for society.
One of the things I've been rolling around in my mind for a while now is what would a "what's old is new again" reversion to the non-flat/minimalist style look like if done now.

One of the things that strikes me with 4k displays is that there's a lot more pixels to throw around at elaborate designs, along with the skeuomorphic/physical representation of interactivity. I'm thinking back to the winxp era uxstyles skins that while they demonstrated Sturgeon's law, also had a wide range of art and ways to make it approachable for people.

In the case of windows, changing UI approach again would add another layer of strata with inconsistency, but right now MS's approach comes across as resume led design with a new version of windows to launch with their stamp on it
Ironic you mention the Switch given that, within that plastic cradle, it's still a USB-C dock.
I use Firefox. Honestly, some sites are broken, like my brokerage account and Zillow. Having uBlock work at blocking 100% of known-bad requests is worth it to me. Chrome only blocks something like 60% due to the asynchronous nature of the extension API.
Threat news: TeamTNT stealing credentials using EC2 Instance Metadata
Note that push login is vulnerable to one of the phishing attacks described. User goes to fakebank.example, attacker goes to realbank.example, user types in their username, it is pasted by attacker, the user gets a push login request, "Hey are you trying to log into Real Bank?". Yes, says the user, of course I am, and they let the attacker into their account.

WebAuthn fixes this, by having the web browser take responsibility for the thing humans are bad at. Is this, in fact, realbank.example? No, it's fakebank.example. Attack failed.
Well it hides website ads, which is fine, but has an option to then show its own ads instead, which is not.

It has a history of injecting its own affiliate codes into your URLs.

It has a history of accepting "donations" for people who cannot claim them, and pretending to represent those people.

Many of their more egregious issues have been "fixed", but the pattern is clear. Their CEO provided institutional support to the proposition 8 campaign (to ban same-sex marriage), and they get consistent placements on the far-right's pet hardware projects.

I'm not here to promote Firefox (indeed, I use Safari and, on Linux boxes, Falkon), but no-one should be supporting Brave.
By HN standards email is a scam because of phishing.
If you're talking from experience, would you mind sharing a bit more about the stack you used (or still use) where you didn't regularly Google/SO?

Even when using libraries I've written I frequently still find myself in situation where:

A) I have questions about the programming languages or frameworks I'm using. In my case Javascript, Typescript, Svelte, React, HTML, CSS, Express, Tailwind, Bash. Even having used Javascript, HTML, and CSS for 8+ years, the core language specs and capabilities keep changing as well as the execution environments (the browser or Node)

B) I run into limitations with the libraries I've written that require improvements, and google (A) as well as miscellaneous patterns while seeking to address those limitations in clean, maintainable, and intuitive ways.
> I’m surprised no one has mentioned TikTok

Probably because it's not so much about discovery, and more about rewarding conformity. I only used the app for a scant few hours, but all I saw were musicians from large labels being echo-chambered into every video I could find. The few "diverse" acts that I came across were already huge in another country or being pushed heavily as a result of massive advertising investments. Like the other comment suggests, TikTok is as much of a discovery service as radio is.
Wikipedia is probably in a strange problem where they have more than enough money (they do have a lot of staff though?) and really we would want them to keep going for hundreds of years, so I think it is good for them to keep an enormous runway. We can't trust governments to fund it, as it may not say nice things about those governments and they may want to change that. And by they I mean the USA which would probably end up being the biggest donor and thus get veto powers.
There's some fun projects that launch a notepad.exe and dump win32 messages into its wndProc to use it as a console logger
Did they end up hiring back QA or have they stuck to their strategy of customers and analytics being QA?
I've been using PopOS which is GNOME plus Pops Shell - their custom tiling WM.

I tried i3 before but it sometimes broke with certain apps and took way too much fiddling to configure.

The nice thing about Pop Shell is that there's no config, and when I'm confused or doing something simple, I can just turn it off and use a regular floating style WM. It lets me focus on doing stuff rather than learning hundreds of keybindings and the internals of a WM.
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Couldn't the hunter torpedo simply turn off its active sonar once the enemy was detected?

At that point, it already has enough information to get right up in the enemy's face.
Huh. Programming for 40 years and I'm still learning shit.
your goal seems not to understand but to defend, which is why you seem to avoid engaging in the substance of the argument, but rather resorting to an ad hominem. no one owes you feel-good esteem or deference for choosing google's hoards of cash over ethics.
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To be clear, I'm suggesting what disrupted the local media revenue wasn't all Google / FB.

And I do like local news. In fact I care more about city level issues close to home rather than following the bad soap opera that is the national politics.
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now amazon is giving more detailed updates of the problem to bigger customers *under NDA*.

WTF
I've also use Keepass[0] for what feels like nearly a decade at this point. I use google Drive or just very dumb shuffling of files to get the database where I need it.

I keep feeling like I should upgrade to something with better native support... but it's worked for me so long and still fits my workflow.

[0]https://keepass.info/
There's an even worse shortage of qualified interviewers out there.
When was this published? I can't tell if the last edit date at the bottom is for the entire site or this page.
It seems to me that the new OS arms race is about tooling, not just base UX, and Windows is starting to play catch up. The modern Mac OS and Linux desktop environments don't just match up to Windows, but surpass it in many respects.

I wouldn't be surprised to see many "new" functionalities being introduced to Windows tools in the near future, with the catch that you will lose out on performance for a multitude of reasons: like trying too hard on aesthetics, trying to emulate the tooling of entirely different systems, or maintaining backwards compatibility.
just Spotify for now ... do hope to widen support - to suggest labels -- email me or @ me https://avant.fm/about
Slack is very nasty in how they refused to support proper WebRTC.
> How many laptop vendors ship a custom fork of Ubuntu?

I would be really pissed if i got a "custom fork" of a novel and didn't also get the original, or at least a diff of changes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-...
I think this makes sense if you understand that people don't view youtube as an entity, but a portal to multiple sources.

They do understand that youtube contains misinformation, but are looking for a trustworthy source within the sea of misinformation.
I use them all for specific purposes.
Yea, that's definitely quite a bit of money. You could also try it out by wearing one of your older glasses for near work. If you still have a pair of older glasses that are around 1.5 diopters weaker that is.
Curious why you think L2 rollups and sharding are "kick-the-can". Both pieces of tech have enormous scaling potential.
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It's simple, do you want to contribute to the Webkit dominance or would you like to support the last remaining engine not in the hands of Google (or Apple if you happen to use their hardware)?

For me the answer will be Firefox as long as it's a thing and I have no intention of switching to any Chromium derivatives.
There's a list of UA overrides and other hardcoded website patches in about:compat.
Those applications are absolutely not suitable for text editing because they have a tendency to mangle the text encoding and other CR/LF characters.

(I generally don't think it's too odd for an OS to ship with a text editor of some kind. I don't use notepad much but there are a few times that it's been a life saver.)
I see this as nothing but a good thing. Especially since this seems like it can delegate to a system libc for necessary functions.
This doesn’t really seem to solve any of the issues raised in the blog post though?

The limit is 5MB, and the default cost per month would allow you to serve 3.5M images from CF.
So basically a big shakedown by the CCP. I guess it was after that that Apple started to shift its manufacturing to India.
The pitch drop 1930's science experiment is the longest running, and they hope their steel monolith lasts that long.

If it isn't a dwelling, likely leaks which corrode will happen quickly and be untreated.

If the atmosphere is unrecoverable then they are hoping for an alien to recover it which has a host of other problems.
If the earth does recover and people find this before it rots are we anticipating they will be able to retrieve the data?

It is more likely some chieftain will have a nice magnetic platter disc necklace, than it is for a civilization to have the right understanding and capability to get back the data. On the off chance it is recovered for its intended purpose, it will be a wealth of information.
>> the USN would be highly unlikely to risk any remaining fleet forces to seek the decisive battle that Japanese wanted

The USN risked their somewhat inferior (naval aviation and carrier) assets at Midway, and despite their intelligence advantage, knowing where the Japanese were going (as opposed to December 1941, when they expected an attack, but had no way of narrowing down the list of potential targets), won with the help of good fortune, which is usually a part of a victory.

If the Japanese fleet had not been so damaged at Midway, the evacuation of civilians from Hawaii had already been planned to commence post haste, ...
Troubadors (buskers) existed before the advent of paid church musicians, as far as I can tell.

Interestingly, at least for classical music nowadays in my limited experience, the most reliable way to get a regular gig for most ordinary musicians (who aren't going to be opera stars or something) is to work for a church still. But perhaps my instrument choices (voice and organ) have skewed this disproportionately.
What happened to UI customizablity since windows 7/8?

Windows XP use to have software to make shell look like anything. Only ever felt the need for skinning since windows 8 to go back to old UI which has clear borders and boundaries for everything including windows, buttons, menu bars, menus taskbar buttons...and lots of other things.

Is it harder to skin now? Why there aren't any software to give windows its classic look back?
I'm fairly sure the reason I've gotten many of the jobs I've had is that I smile a lot.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
+1 for Lemmy. The project still has quite a lot to improve on, but it is already really great!
I'd love to see the community/network grow and evolve :)

disclaimer: I run lemmy.pt and use the platform on a daily basis
"Evidence suggests that people who abstain from alcohol have a higher mortality rate than those who drink low to moderate amounts. However...."

A post alleging that current evidence is wrong because... So there is no advantage in alcohol consumption. And does not go as far to say it is damaging

Also alcohol doesn't mean anything, there is gin, beer, wine, etc... Good, cheap quality... And each one has different properties besides alcohol
Instead of buying out of date kit, just buy a second hand Ruckus AP and call it a day. No telemetry and you can set it up in 10 minutes. They're enterprise grade and will last 10 years or more.
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Sounds complicated, but the goal of a fuzzable/sanitizable/etc libc sounds nice.

Lack of ABI stability sounds terrifying as an application developer. My other immediate thought was "how will this interact with systems where the OS-provided libc is the only stable way to e.g. make syscalls", and "Layering Over Another libc" addresses this. I guess the idea is you'd link an application against llvm-libc and the system libc, and ship llvm-libc with your application?
I would be curious if it was asked about each individually or chat tools as a group. I am concerned that it may be the former. Neither lacking Teams or Slack is a deal breaker for me, but it is a big one if both are missing.
i would pay for some platform with a ton of auth material -- i actually love linkedin learning. i think you can get a free 7-day trial -- even that will be useful if that is all you can afford.

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/search?keywords=authentica...

i'm occasionally interested to re/learn something and will jump on there to do it.

e.g. i finally got introduced in a real way to spark/pyspark/jupyter/etc. over the past couple of days thanks to various courses on there.

if it's easy you can just slam thru the videos with the speed feature, or i use the 'video speed controller' chrome addon.

for your case, i would also start building a 'hello, world' app and walk thru various authorization scenarios -- build them out. you _can_ learn this stuff without building something, but will be much more difficult.

i would do courses or videos (one video from a course) on the following topics to start:

- http
- curl
- chrome developer tools
- postman/curl/wget/vscode rest client extension
- authentication and authorization
- api authentication
- spa authentication (single page app)

ps i think you left a word off the end of your second sentence.
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Plus Power Delivery capabilities... Had Asus Expertbook B1500CEAE (11th gen Core and tb3 controller) a few weeks ago that sadly don't support USB-C power delivery plugged on the USB-C port of a multiport AV replicator setup, but charge ok if directly connected to the TB3 USB-C port.

This same configuration (USB-C power supply plugged on the multiport's USB-C) works on an Apple Macbook Air M1 2020.
I disagree. I’ve personally been introduced to a lot of music through Tiktok.

I think the fact that you can click on a sound (a “sound” is the song that gets played in the background of a video) and see the top posts from other people using that sound is interesting and unlike anything else. It lets users get a profile of the type of person who typically likes a given song.

I also think that many people underestimate (or at least don’t talk about) how much of music is about cultural signaling. Tiktok serves this function well, especially for young people who want to appear ahead of the curve (god forbid someone accuses them of being “basic”), and so they want everyone to know that they’re listening to the next artist before everyone else.

Also if it even needed to be said, popularity as a sound on tiktok directly translates to plays on streaming services. Songs with very little attention will suddenly blow up to millions of plays after going big on tiktok. This, to me, clearly suggests that tiktok is more valuable to artists than just being “ad space.”
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commits/main/llvm/docs/...

Merged in 2019-08, and hasn't been edited since.

As linked elsewhere in the thread, https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/libc indicates it's alive and well.
The same way TSA verifies your face against your physical identity credential: a margin of error, with additional proofing performed if your face isn’t enough (you can fly without a government ID, for example, if you show up a bit earlier at the TSA checkpoint for additional screening/proofing).

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification (control-f Forgot Your ID?)
Probably expectations associated with threads in all other platforms, like email and message boards going back decades.
I think he's talking about the fact that they had to do that at all.
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"Integration software products ... are not products that directly solve a business problem. ... They are programming languages, bundled with a toolchain and a runtime to support the compilation process."

By this definition, Excel is a form of integration tool. A spreadsheet doesn't "directly solve a business problem". It's basically just a piece of paper with lines on it, along with some "programming formulas". A hammer would be an integration tool if it were digital.

The technology industry is wholeheartedly committed to selling you the idea that you need to write software. The industry knows that will guarantee new customers (and profits) for decades to come, for all the things you'll need to buy into to "solve" the software engineering problems you'll undoubtedly encounter. But do you need to write software to solve it? Most other industries do not make things themselves when they need to solve a problem. They don't buy anvils when they need nails, they don't buy sewing machines when they need to clothe their workers, and they don't build industrial machines when they need to produce factory goods. They don't build cars when they need to deliver pizzas, nor build ovens to bake them, nor knives to cut them. There are always exceptions, but for rare, exceptional cases.

I think the meat of this article is predicated on the idea that it's expected that you need to be somehow developing software to solve business problems. But really, none of the technologies in this article should be needed to solve most business problems. If there isn't an existing product for sale that's general enough to solve your problem, that's the problem we should be solving; not writing software for every single business case under the sun.
First fastly, then facebook, now AWS us east. Who's next? Global Google outage?
I love the phrasing in “… is now operating with all four active instruments collecting science.”

Reminds me of strategy games where feeding enough “science units” into opaque “research labs” unlocks branches of the technology tree.
Kind of interesting that they don't even mention talking to Slack about just removing the check ...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727100
How was that a mistake? What was the alternative?

For the near term it's always going to be cheaper to launch replacement satellites instead of servicing broken ones in orbit.
Back in the tail end of 2019 I tried to go full Thunderbolt 3 (T3 from now on). I wanted to swap between my desktop rig and MBP '19 with just a single wire. I bought a T3 dock and prepared. Problems:

1. Nvidia RTX 2070 does not support T3. I could not use a T3 dock at all. Regular USB C docks could connect to the card and run everything else though.

2. My MoBo did not support T3. Not only would I have to upgrade it, I would also have to buy a PCIe card and use short DisplayPort cables to connect the graphics card to it in order to have video out.

So I downgraded to a USB C dock. More problems:

1. My MBP '19 only allowed one monitor to connect. But I had a few year old ThinkPad that could drive two monitors!

2. The keyboard connection started to become unreliable. So I hard-wired it to the desktop.

3. Eventually the MBP stopped outputting video to the monitor. Apple said I had to update the firmware in the monitor. I declined.

Eventually I gave up on docks. The USB C dock now acts as the most overpriced dock imaginable for a ChromeCast '20. Maybe one day I'll try with Thunderbolt 4 with plenty of planning beforehand. Or maybe not.
I wish paste as unformatted was just the default.
General juniority of the HN crowd.