skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cool part, which nobody seem to talk about, is if you do a fresh install off an USB drive burned with the official ISO from Microsoft, rather than an upgrade, then it automatically bypasses any CPU and TPM restrictions that normally pop-up and prevent you from upgrading if you try to upgrade and your system doesn't meet those HW limitations. So I successfully installed Win11 on a system running an ~7 year old intel CPU with no issues, which is officially not supported. So I feel the HW restrictions are just a theater for the users whoa are less tech savvy.

I whish this "workaround" would be better known.

Another funny thing was, I managed to activate the Professional version successfully with some old, tried and tested, pirate CD-key from the Windows 7 days, originally meant for the MSDNAA program, that's everywhere on the internet if you Google/Bing for it. Makes me think that Microsoft no longer cares if you pirate Windows, and the whole license thing is just a theater, as they probably monetize you either way through telemetry and the ads they show you plus, the more windows users there are, legitimate or not, the stronger their ecosystem lock-in becomes so they win either way.

So the way I see it, if you're willing to ignore the legality of breaching the EULA, then Windows 11 is basically "free" for private use, with some huge asterixis.

I still wish to switch to Linux in the long run, since I hate the UX of Windows 11 and the privacy implications, but unlike desktops, on the laptop Linux is just not at the same level of polish and feature parity as Windows for me yet, with many things I care about and work out of the box in Windows 11, being a bunch of hack/addons built by the community on Linux, that are still work in progress and and need to apply manually and update yourself. No bueno. I don't have time for this.
> What good is it for a company if the only products people end up using are the ones given for free?

I think Facebook helps answer that question a bit: just because someone is a user doesn't mean they're not the product.

Giving out one product if it helps other ulterior motives is still profit. Vertical integration also plays a part in this. Especially if the paid product re-invents something in a non-standard way, and then the free product only supports than.
> There is probably also a law specifying how to unsubscribe, but I can't tell how it works in the Netherlands.

The law here in the Netherlands is that you must be able to unsubscribe by the same method you subscribed in the first place.
The Control Panel is finally not a tire fire, but this seems like bait.
Would you ask a devout Christian if Jesus is real? Maybe, if you were taking the piss. Don't bother with these extremists unless you're taking the piss. This is way past the point of discussion. These people either see you as part of them or against them.
I'd give it year and let the dust settle first.
During my teens (1990's) the anti-single-payer propaganda was strong, both at home and in talk radio. Once we met some young Canadians during a skiing trip when the topic came up. My relatives said it's easy to support universal care as a young person who doesn't need much care, or who can afford to wait a while for a procedure to be done.

While I appreciate the availability of care in much of the US, the surprise and ever increasing bills are a heavy price to pay. Other family have delayed retirement and had to plan major life choices around health care costs.
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What I have noticed is an increasing number of orders going unfulfilled or being delayed for a very long time before shipping.

I believe what is happening is the people that made a business of selling readily available items at their local brick and mortar stores for an profit on Amazon have been caught in the inflation trap and are now unable to find the items they had advertised on Amazon or if they do find them they are forced to take a loss due to the increased price.
Good point I'd love to have that discussion. Advertising to children should be illegal. Does anyone know of existing bills or proposals in this direction?
One of the first thing to pick up that it's likely agreed upon by everyone is to give meaningful names to variables:

// GOOD

let fullname = 'John Smith'

// BAD

let f = 'John Smith'
They went draconian because the media pushed for it and the public seemed to support it.
That’s because you’re seeing web apps built on it.

Kind of like MacPaint is an App but MacOS is an OS
People can be coerced to do things if they are being blackmailed or extorted. I wonder if some people are being told, the only way to get that part in a movie or TV show is by joining.
...or Monty Python.
This comment gets to the crux of the issue which the author isn't touching on either. The author points out that we need more downtown area and density because that pays for more than the cost of maintaining infrastructure it consumes. From a city budget perspective it makes sense to then want more density.

However, why do we have one lifestyle finance another one? Why should people who live in a downtown apartment pay for maintaining infrastructure for people who base their choices on getting away from others? This is even more crazy given that the environmental impact per capita is also much lower in denser areas. I'm not even saying that we should have a taxation system encourages density, but let's at least have one that doesn't exploit density to subsidize the suburbs!
As a child, I loved when we visited our family there: fruit as an appetizer and cheese for dessert was much more natural to me... "put a piece of cheese in the ground and you'll find out"
Is there a name for a process like this? Very interesting approach I want to take with future software.
Apple is no longer letting users stay on iOS 14 with security updates
Even before the iOS 15 announcement, 9to5Mac found out that Apple was working on a new way to deliver alternate security updates to iPhone and iPad users. The company later confirmed that it would offer security patches for iOS 14 to users who weren’t ready to upgrade to iOS 15, but it seems that this is no longer the case.

For some unknown reason, the company has backtracked and is no longer letting users stay on iOS 14 with security updates. Instead, it has reverted to the traditional method of updates where users are forced to install the latest version of the operating system (which is iOS 15) to get the security improvements.
Galesburg is a declining city in the middle of nowhere. People who live there probably drive to work ~50 miles away to Peoria or Davenport/Moline every day if they don't have a (probably) low paying job in town.

And if that's the case, they'd probably be better off moving closer to those cities, there's probably even cheaper homes within a shorter commute.

Also it's in Illinois, which is #2 in the country for highest overall property taxes[1].

Keep in mind he said a reasonable house value just north of their downtown is $75k, where the national average price for a home is $374k (as of Q2 2021), which is 5x the price. $1600 * 5 = $8000, which brings it up to what's near you.

And considering Illinois' property tax is higher than every other state other than New Jersey, I'm guessing the homes appraised value near you is likely a lot higher than $374k, even.

That being said, I don't understand why the government wouldn't be able to up just the city's percentage (as opposed to all line items on the property tax bill) by about $100-200/yr per person and use that to help close the gap. The percent going to the city of Galesburg is currently a tiny percentage of the overall tax.

[1]: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-again-ranks-no-2-in-...
The theorem is whether there exists an "isolated" state, one that is unreachable from every other state.
Those bots drive me insane; it punishes the most helpful the most. I would much rather they leave it open. I often find myself digging around closed issues to find people with similar problems.
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Yeah, the author's video shows a hustling bustling main street with children running around. Today, the children are half as numerous, and they're all inside to be sheltered from the lethal traffic that they could run into.

I have many acquaintances who won't procreate for economic or climate reasons. I totally get that, however if everyone chose that path, there'd be no more human race, other than the occasional accidental child. That would lead to demographic collapse, the aging populace wouldn't have anyone to support their wants and needs. Not a good outcome.
This is likely a difference between claimed performance on unstabilized lenses and stabilized ones. One additional stop on an already-stabilized lens is quite impressive!
I have to jump around quite a bit. Largely ML workloads where I default to Windows for training / developing around, and deploying out to Linux. Mac is an option, but doesn’t make since to do those tasks there.

What op said is true for me, I just pop open task manager and I get all the insight I need. No issues there. I don’t ever need to run htop locally, but is key factor in deployments where there are many more cores, accelerator config, etc

I use Mac for some UI projects or systems dev.

I’m usually in a bad mood when I have to open activity monitor.
Good point, or it would be, if only the world had not shoehorned misogyny into almost every little bit of our history.
I relate to David more than I'd admit on an account with my real name.
Agree, but forever open issues doesn’t give any value too. Because you don’t know if this issue still applicable for latest version of app/library.
I think stalled issue should be closed, especially minor one.
I wouldn't suppose that's meant to be taken personal.

It would be highly pretentious, I think you agree, if it were a normative standard. That's not the case, so it seems they got carried away in trying to be witty
The fallacy here is fixed costs. A capital project to repair just 584 ft. of road is insane. The author then projects these outsized fixed costs as the variable cost of fixing all roads in the town.

This kind of small job is either something you petition the state dept. of transit to do in a special division they have for these things, or you find some temporary workaround until a more comprehensive road repair plan is warranted. Yes, even in big well funded cities sometimes roads are just detoured for months if not longer.

The budgetary breakdown of the towns I've lived in simply do not support this thesis. The major cost is always schools and to a lesser but noticeable extent the police, specifically the labor and pensions. Not roads.
Closest I can think of is Safe Mode, at least based on the definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode - but running on reduced resources isn't exactly the same, so I'm sure there's a better answer.

Inviting correction by people with more extensive engineering experience; most of mine is in breaking rather than building.
"Yoda" seems a little out of place lol
> https://endthefud.org/PoW

Hardly an unbiased source (has "The best links to articles debunking Bitcoin FUD
" as the subtitle). I read through some of the links and they are all high on big words and philosophy.

We will know soon enough whether there's merit to any of these. Ethereum plans to move to PoS early this year so we'll have a real world data point.
How should I setup a test to find out why?
I'm pretty sure once you cost out everything from taxes, health insurance, housing, etc.. whether business or personal costs an equivalent developer in say Paris will have much less disposable income and overall assets than one in SF.
Doesn't Illinois have pretty high taxes to begin with? I'm not a tax expert but I've heard this repeatedly stated while living in Chicago.
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Any insights as to why the big players are implementing E2E while ignoring P2P? Is this a control issue or purely related to technical challenges?
Clearly extremist rhetoric. It needs to be called out before we all drown in it. Luckily and thankfully the community is identifying it as such.
Of I forgot my middle-schooler's cheepo Win10 laptop. There there may also be questions of minimum specs. Does anything change with Microsoft family account features?
I switched to using a cellular apple watch.

It's been great. However, I still need to use a phone during work hours
Why? Because they have not had enough time to try to change it yet. But it is happening: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-mash-report-axed-bbc-...
it is mainly the web that has been commercialized.

Getting acces to the internet (AKA, getting an IP block and routes to connect to others) has always been sort of centralized, mainly because ip blocks need to be handed out from a single source of truth to prevent ip address collisions.

Still, the peer to peer nature of interconnecting still exists, there is no hierachical information source which defines routes across the internet. This is all decentralized and done by doing peering between parties with BGP (And other routing protocols).

Doing this yourself is possible, although rather hard and niche for a consumer. But getting an AS number is doable, and getting an IPV6 block is even easier. IPv4 is hard to come by though..
My second point also includes that people are willing to spend all of this energy for mining because of the Bitcoin value. I'm suggesting that people are in because they distrust the current currency system: The more they distrust other currency, the more Bitcoin they buy, the higher the energy costs as more participate, the more irrefutable the ledger, the more energy is spent...

So the more demand there is for irrefutability, the higher the energy costs.
I’m in my 50’s and not getting paid or having account get frozen has never happened to me during my entire life, and is not something I’m concerned about. If would be cool if defi was solving an actual problem most people have, but I’m still not seeing it.
That isn’t exactly reliable. You still need to get massive traction
Because the state was never about making things easier for people.
Any details? I am interested in WSL.
Let me fix that for you: If only it weren't so easy to find mysogyny in every little bit of our history?
I am not an expert at all, but such compatibility layers exist.
For example Captive [0] was able to reuse Windows XP binary NTFS drivers on Linux.
At that time there was no Linux NTFS driver with writing capability.

As Linux's driver model is incompatible with Windows XP's driver model, Jan Kratochvil has to code a Linux driver implementing a Corba interface [1] to dialog with a remote piece of code implementing the other end of Corba.

This remote code itself was in two parts, one was a driver sub-system borrowed from Reactos 2.3 (its kernel was similar to Windows 3.51 kernel at the time) that piloted a binary Microsoft native NTFS driver.

[0] https://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.pm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...
Did they include the costs of all of the corruption and downstream impacts, like when Wells Fargo opened all of those savings accounts fraudulently? The damage caused to various populations by sanctions from foreign governments?
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

It's about 180 km (110 miles) to merely get into a light blue spot for me, and it's actually a quite short distance compared to country's average.
i doubt firewalls even existed in any capacity at this time.
routing packets in and of itself was already quite an CPU intensive task, analysing and blocking packets would be a whole other ballgame during the early days.
Also "Graceful Degradation".
The reason I won't upgrade is there doesn't seem to be much benefit. I don't use the gaming stuff and while the UI seems nice, Windows 10 works fine as well. I'd also be forced into logging in with an MS account which I'm not hot on.
If it's French (as people have suggested elsewhere), the VAT rate is 20%.

$143.14 x 1.2 = $172

Assuming it applies, some of those numbers more or less work out.
Classic HN.
A very interesting thing I learned once is that road damage occurs at the 4th power of the weight. Every doubling of weight is 16 times more road damage. This drove home how much the road damage is probably almost all large trucks.

> The math works out that an empty 18-wheeler causes 80,000 times more damage than my plug-in. When it’s fully loaded, it causes 208,000 time more damage. Both reports conclude that heavy trucks cause over 99 percent of the road and bridge damage, yet the trucking industry contributes only 35 percent of the road taxes.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/Wear-and-tear-on-the-roads-23...
People will fight against any tax raises regardless of the amount.
These curves are still somewhat fragile. I remember reading that the air polution is difficult to predict, so there are big error margins and further updates keep being worked on.
You didn't mention what might be the most important things successful people have to get them there: a good support network of other successful people, and a good safety net to catch them if they fail (sometimes the same network). I think you can scratch away everything on that list and the network (family, friends, colleagues, etc.) could still help you be successful.

It's like a game where some people get a copy with infinite save/load and helper bots, while others get the raw version where their subscription ends after the first failure. So if I told you "being a successful gamer is about having the patience to load again and again until you manage to hit your target" you'd think I'm crazy, your copy already deactivated after the first missed shot.

The starting conditions are so varied that choosing to define successful people just by looking at the person and nothing else is more of a personality cult exercise than an objectively useful one [0]. And it's no surprise, most successful people love to make that success only about themselves.

[0] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
Really? Can't speak for France, but it's definity low, specially for a senior dev. USD 56 470,69 equals EUR 49 465,78 as of today. You still need to pay taxes and (compulsory) social insurance from that. IMHO this is low, in some (western) european countries that amount may is junior dev entry salary IMHO. But someone responsible for a project that big could easily start at EUR 90 000,- or more (~USD 100 000,-). At least this is my experience.
Experienced senior devs in German speaking countries I know, which know what they are talking about, don't consider to work for less than EUR 80 000,- gross per year, for some this is the lowest base line. Just recently talked to a friend about that who works for a middle sized (~200 people), not very well known software company in Germany.
One big problem with P2P is that it reveals the IP address of the other party.
> Citation required.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697780

I am not aware of any debunking yet.

> myocarditis isn't the only thing a male under 40 can get as a negative effect from Covid.

This is true, and the vaccine has some potential to mitigate that, but there are other factors that need to be considered too, such as trying to keep laws undraconian.
Buttigieg was pushing a vehicle mileage tax (VMT) based on how much you drive.

Eliminate the gas tax, just charge directly based on the amount of road use.
Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in community with emphasis on the elderly [pdf]
repeat offenders or repeat offendings?
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Exactly what I first thought of. For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m17HK97M8.
I've never understood the mentality of staying on an old release of Windows. If you use Windows, you should stay current. If you are not willing to stay current, you should move to something else that is responsibly maintained. To stay still is to accept ever increasing vulnerability. That is bad for you and bad for everyone you touch (which probably means everyone, period).
Refined statistical work from Ioannidis.

Results: Twenty-five seroprevalence surveys representing 14 countries were included. Across all countries, the median IFR in community-dwelling elderly and elderly overall was 2.9% (range 0.2%- 6.9%) and 4.9% (range 0.2%-16.8%) without accounting for seroreversion (2.4% and 4.0%, respectively, accounting for 5% monthly seroreversion). Multiple sensitivity analyses yielded similar results. IFR was higher with larger proportions of people >85 years. Younger age strata had low IFR values (median 0.0013%, 0.0088%, 0.021%, 0.042%, 0.14%, and 0.65%, at 0-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40- 49, 50-59, and 60-69 years even without accounting for seroreversion).

All studies were pre-therapeutics.
I love visual languages. I previously made something similar that imports JavaScript functions and supports importing TypeScript declaration files: https://devev.com/

I'm currently working at Rec Room on an in-game visual-scripting language already used by millions. Here is an example from a creator on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yvvoWdpWA

If anyone here is interested in working on tech like this as their day job we are hiring: https://recroom.com/careers#openings

If you are interested, but you don't see a role that fits your desires, send me an email at tyler@recroom.com.
I don't know if its protective or not, but I do believe its worth finding out.

Wouldn't it be strange if, indeed, weed was the answer to everything.
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You're absolutely correct about RF noise. In the US, the FCC limits the power of all spurious emissions to be at least 43dB below the power of the fundamental frequency. Typically transmitters use a low pass filter (e.g. Buttersworth or Chebyshev) to reduce harmonic content.

Some micro transmitters (at the very low mW level) omit the LPF entirely. Looking at the datasheet for the ATtiny85, the maximum output current is 40mA and maximum output voltage is 5.5v which means this transmitter could theoretically produce an output of 220mW. PWM will reduce this obviously. The harmonics should be below this value, but they should probably add a filter. I've transmitting across the Atlantic Ocean at those power levels using a sub-optimal antenna and WSPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)) encoding.
Imagine you are trying to get businesses to invest in your town, build a factory, whatever. Much of that is about image, right? If you only have gravel roads it gives off the impression that you are failing/backwards.
Love this idea. How the royalties are split is completely up to the involved artists. When Leo from Camel Power Club created an edit for Pedro Blue's track Get Down, Leo asked Pedro to join his label, who took care of distribution including the royalty split. In most other cases the artists discuss the split in the chat, often before they start the work.

I'm hoping to simplify this process, or at least educate users about common practices. Still talking with a lot of users before I feel confident enough to build a tool or a FAQ for it.
Image intensifiers are really awesome. Microchannel plate CRTs use the same technology and allowed capturing single high speed events on film before digital oscilloscopes.

They are difficult to beat with modern technology (CMOS sensor) because they are much lower power than equivalent digital system, and have no latency. Think night vision goggles using 9V alkaline battery..
And how many times have you heard someone say "drank the flavoraid"?
Hard to estimate how much coal is burning per year but the answer seems to be a significant amount. Up to 1% if global CO2 from China (second largest coal reserves at time of writing). This would potentially put the figure at a reasonable level.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3084/pdf/fs2009-3084.pdf