skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a power user does not make you infaillible or unable to press the wrong keys. A subtle animation is a trivial visual cue that they keys I pressed did something, the wrong keys resulting in the wrong cue. I am not looking at my keyboard when I switch desktops.

Look at tools, for example. Tools for power users do not have fewer cues and affordances than tools for neophytes. They have more, because they have more features, more power, and using them can be more dangerous. You can also see it that way: a newbie using a feature once a day will be wrong (and needing to be nudged to the right direction) once a day. A power user who is wrong 1 times every 100 they use a feature will still be wrong more often than the newbie if they use it more than 100 times a day.

Also, this:

> We’ve turned off the animation when switching Desktops using the keyboard shortcuts as it was leading to flashes and hangs

is fucking ridiculous. If your compositor is so bad you can’t animate desktop switching without “flashes and hangs”, it means you have some serious work to do on your display subsystem. Fix your OS already!

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/08/05/announc...
Well thank you, I am flattered that you tracked me down. Yes, I kept bouncing back and forth between contract work and FTE over the years. It wasn't a grand plan to do one or the other.

Since you're asking, I may as well tell more of this story. After Steve and I exchanged phone numbers, I thought the 6502 disassembler sounded like a fun project. So I went home and got to work on it. I didn't have a chip to test with, so I wrote out the code with pencil and paper and "tested" it by stepping through it mentally and writing the register and memory values at each step on a second sheet of paper. Kind of like what you would today call a "debugger".

Then Steve called me: "Mike, I've thought about this. Your experience is all with mainframes. We're using a microcomputer, and it works on completely principles. It is nothing like those mainframes you've used. So I've decided that you couldn't possibly do this job."

(It wasn't exactly a "job" at that point, like I said we were just a couple of scruffy hippies who ran into each other at the produce aisle, discovered we were both into computers and electronics, and got to talking.)

I tried to explain that I'd coded in assembly and machine language on two or three different architectures already, and the 6502 looked like just another one to me, with a simpler instruction set.

He said, "No, I've made up my mind. You couldn't possibly do this, so forget it."

So I thought "Who is this Steve guy telling me I can't program? I will go visit this Apple Computer and show him my code!"

I found their address at 770 Welch Road near the Stanford Barn, walked in and looked around. It didn't look like a computer company, all I saw was a row of switchboards and telephone operators. I asked one of them, "Where's Apple Computer?"

She said, "Uh, this is their answering service."

I thanked her and walked back out, shaking my head and telling myself, "These guys are flakes. They're never going to make it."
My advice is to put your head shot on it. I have on mine. Going to events and getting 100 business cards and not remembering what people look like - but they all know what I look like.
> I had the impression it was the other way around. Women judged on appearence and men judged on financial success.

Women judge harshly on appearance as much as men. It's just that women tend to not be as forward with it. But women's behavior on dating apps clearly shows that women are actually far more picky than men when it comes to physical appearance.

Financial success is important too - but you gotta start somewhere and looks are an easy way to start.

For most men - this is unsolvable as the height standards are deeply ingrained in our culture and only 15% of men will ever meet that criterion.
It was first used by Paul Anderson in Trouble Twisters (1967) and Anderson's spouse Karen claims to have coined it. (Though I still have never heard 'sophontic', and I've never heard 'sophont' used outside sci-fi/fantasy. I was wondering in the GP if it's used elsewhere.)

* https://sfdictionary.com/view/298/sophont

If anyone wants an excellent dictionary of sci-fi / fantasy terms, look at the (free, online) Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer who has had a career with the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and others. It started as an OED project to record sci-fi words and IIRC still has access to their internal databases.

* https://sfdictionary.com/

They have other interesting features, like a list of words coined by author:

* https://sfdictionary.com/most_first_cites_authors

And they want help, if anyone on HN happens to be familiar with sci-fi or related literature: "It is hoped that the site will grow to include subfields or related areas, such as gaming, comics, or anime/manga."

* https://sfdictionary.com/how_to_help
... because they're at home without their work machine and need to check something at work?

Because their colleague wants to let them drive?

Because my sister wants some help installing a program?

There are so many situations where using a computer doesn't involve strict security protocols and heirarchies. Sometimes MS gets a little too caught up in their corporate environments.
There wasn't anything foundational.

The author himself said he wanted to replicate the package managers available on Linux.
That and the constant Exynos vs Snapdragon articles with industry benchmarks that showed the Snapdragon ahead.
Teaching children does not attract the best and brightest, to be blunt.

Some teachers are fantastic despite the lack of incentive, many are not, and the situation seems to be getting worse.

>they should come to their own conclusions

And if the problem with schooling is a decreasing ability to generate exactly this, what then?

Children, people in general should be presented with a diverse set of views and morals (and not just the loudest A vs. B near, but at a small distance from extremists).

I took a philosophy class with undergraduates and a few of them were vocally rather upset when confronted with the fact that there wasn't just a "truth" that could be learned and for each topic there were several opposing views. Those students had experienced so little of that in their 20-odd years of life that being presented with it really bothered them.
"Every app since 2012 has been building these shadow social graphs."

No, not every app. There are still open source apps who usually do not do this and there are probably also some proprietary ones with ethics who have not given into it. But that this is the default and there is no big outcry is probably because allmost no one outside tech circles understands anything of it, or just throw their hands in the air.
Because they had a problem and they wanted a solution. It's basically "blackwashing" and BLMGNF (good night funds?) was there to "sell" them the solution to a problem they were facing.

There's basically zero desire to actually really work on any problem that isn't related to their stock portfolio, so they jump at it and post some PR and then they're done.

Happens time and time again, more or less legit depending. Look up donations to environmental groups whilst the business doesn't change much if anything about what they do.
They probably do have these too. Given time everything moves.
>We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded.

Wealth redistribution is fun and games, until they take everything you have and also kill you and your family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_famil...
It's completely unviewable to me no matter how I try and get at it.

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I don't understand why Japan, India, most of latin america and Brazil are using ivermectin to treat covid then. Are they just hoping for the best?
Hard to predict the future, especially given that Putin is both known to be completely unpredictable and, as a former KGB agent, a master of deception and trolling.

> do you think this will actually happen? On what scale?

Personally, given the suspicious non-participation of Russia in the Munich Security Conference starting tomorrow, the evacuation of people from the occupied territories, the suspected pipeline explosion in Luhansk and the car bomb in Donezk earlier this day, it is not unreasonable to believe there will be either a major incident or an outright invasion rather sooner than later.

> And if it does, what might the impact be?

Immediately? Rising oil and gas prices. European gas storages are on record lows, and the winter is not over yet. It's not clear yet if the pipeline that has been hit today is oil or gas - if it's gas and it's one of the pipelines supplying western Europe, us Germans are fucked because there is no real short-term alternative to Russian gas and 16 years of Conservative and 8 years of a bought-off Social Democrat government (1998-2006 chancellor Schröder has been a high profile lobbyist for Gazprom) have not done anything to reduce our dependence on gas for heating.

>Will I actually care a few years from now?

That depends on how far this mess escalates. If it's a full blown war or a world war, we will all care for the next decades. If it's just another skirmish, the situation might not change that much from a global perspective.
I think you've missed the point. Employers have a valid reason to want to disallow those with criminal backgrounds from a large swath of jobs.

This is an area where I think regulation would be helpful/necessary, in that when doing a background check that the employer needs to enter business and job scope, and then the law would define which types of criminal background would be relevant and potentially disqualifying by job type.
> Lets Critical thinking, and less open questioning, more authority, follow the rules, do not question "The Experts", do as your told (but only what those in Authority tell you not your parents) etc.

People have been saying this about schools since forever.

FWIW your anecdotes don't match mine. My public school stories are all about learning critical thinking, being allowed to think way outside the box, and being rewarded for questioning authority.

One time we got new math books in that were horrible. Obvious errors everywhere. The teacher gave us extra credit for spending the day finding math errors in the book.

9th grade European History started off with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

In 10th grade sex ed students got to vote on a movie. Nerds and Goths teamed up, we watched Rocky Horror Picture Show.

In 3rd grade, a group of students opted stayed inside during recess and construct hot wheels courses (tracks and ramps) out of whatever classroom supplies we could find laying around.

10th grade parents day, my genetics teacher tricked parents into extracting frog sperm from a solution and playing with it. The students were nonplussed, we'd been working with DNA for quite a while by that time.

12th grade final report, I wrote a paper on the future of LED lighting, where I rewrired some incandescent flashlights into LED flashlights (obviously back before LED flashlights where a big thing).

8th grade final report, 30 page history of video games starting in 1970 and up until the mid 90s.

7th grade debate class, Rome VS Greece, on the side of Rome we argued that "Greece doesn't get to take credit for philosophers it had put to death."

8th grade math class, we just went and full on learned college level stats.

6th grade, I read the book Druids. For those not aware, it has sex in it. Quite as bit of sex in fact. Good bit of historical fiction though, I learned about the Romans invading England!
Their homepage does just get straight to the release notes, but if you select documentation on the sidebar you get a nice synopsis.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/
Why can't Google find answers though they are right under it's nose?
Children have also been bullied by other children for millennia.
> self governance.

This is democracy. You cannot have self-governance without democracy. If not everyone is enfranchised, not everyone has self-governance. You can quibble about representative democracy, but it's still democracy at its core.

Now yes, as the other poster mentions, many of the tenets of the founders' approach to representative democracy were intended to limit political participation by people who were not white, male, and landowners. Thankfully, many of those policies [edit: have since been changed].

> The house of Representatives was the only democratically elected part of the government for a reason. We ignored them at our own peril..

Keep in mind that by the definition you're using here, there's a solid argument to make that neither the US senate nor the US presidential elections are "democratic" today due to the inherent undemocratic nature of the electoral college and differing vote values of residents of different states. So this is still the case, and perhaps you've misidentified the problem.

(I always wonder why we deify a bunch of mostly 30 year olds from 270 years ago as though they had the perfect ideas about government and we haven't learned anything in the intervening centuries)
I think that ferry was the first one I'd been on with train tracks. One of the times I crossed it we had to get out, walk onto the ferry, then get on the train.
Cocoa is much, much better than anything I have seen on Windows.

Finder is just an application, but the toolkit is pervasive.
Yes, which is exactly why you should be fighting against those two as well. I'm doing my bit by not putting much valuable data besides YouTube playlists into my very ancient Google account, and using Linux on the desktop.
Microsoft Brings eBPF to Windows
If a company has your personal information, it is your data, no matter who uploaded it.
The whole striving for viewers and subscribers skews things.

You see a lot of channels mimicking each other and so on.

When the channel is “you” and you’re young I wonder what that means.
I used it at work twice and it was mostly ok with power failures, thing is you have to be careful if you are mounting it very early on boot if your embedded OS can bootloop fast after LFS is already mounted, because if you nuke it with a flurry of power fails it will break. For example if you have a battery you probably want to be sure you have a reliable measurement for SoC and enough juice to stay up before you mount LFS.
Luckily, real life seems to work out better than fiction:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...
No, I think you're missing their point. They weren't proposing a solution. They were simply offering an explanation as to why the situation exists. A good explanation at that, too.
Anyone banning legos in the name of equity values creativity and intuitive understanding of the interactions between physical objects less than their ability to brainwash their students, and thus has no business teaching children.

The problem here isn’t challenging your beliefs, it’s blatant stupidity.

My guess is the reality here is the legos were a source of conflict and so they got taken away. Just like many has occurred for probably since toys and children existed. Justifying it with an equity argument is just rage bait attention seeking.
how is this not what happened here? children were playing with legos, adults step in and mandate how play should occur based on their observations and the values they think the kids should develop. the way they describe how the kids play with legos—looking for the "cool pieces", feeling ownership over things they built—is the default way that all kids end up playing with legos in a group setting. somehow we all turned out okay without anyone dictating morals and values into lego play of all things.
I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it's analogous to physical abuse.

A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it's a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don't know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and/or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).

The teachers aren't physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won't really understand what's happening or what they can and should do about it.
I'll take your word that I'm misusing the terms.

Key difference - as a user - is in Ocaml I'd write a module with a bunch of functions. In rust I'd write a struct with a bunch of methods. It feels very different even if it solves the same things.
How to write better scientific code in Python?
Do it. No job is forever, and it's not going to sink overnight. Having this on your resume will work very well in your favor.
Every now and then, on HN people complain about how the EU is boring with its stupid regulations (GDPR, mainly). But see, this is exactly the kind of things GDPR is made to prevent, and without it that's what you end up with.
They're not using it. Those are Ivermectin conspiracy talking points that are spreading around the internet, but they're either not true or heavily distorted.

Japan is not using Ivermectin. It's a myth that is spreading in the Ivermectin conspiracy circles, but it's not true: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-japan-ivermectinan...

India stopped recommending Ivermectin a long time ago, after not seeing positive results: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/icmr-stops-use-of-ive...

Brazil's relationship with Ivermectin is mixed at best, but the famed "COVID Kit" that included Ivermectin (among other things) wasn't as official as some try to make it sound: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...

I'm still stunned by how these rumors continue to circulate as facts despite being so easily disproven. On the other hand, some of the top Google results I found while looking those up quickly were obvious conspiracy websites with false information. I suppose the misinformation is just flooding the internet so fast that the truth is getting diluted away.
> Maybe someone makes a killer OS or product that has ad-blocking built-in from the ground up and is also so amazing that everyone switches to it, and so suddenly ad revenue drops to near zero? I guess we can dream.

I'm not even sure that's the dream I want. There has to be a middle ground with free services paid for by privacy-respecting ads, right?
You can make goroutine == OS thread with a single function call, where it matters: https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#LockOSThread
>The last sentence is the most important part, but the whole thing is relevant. Torture implies:

- That a public official is consenting to the infliction of pain and suffering
- The act is done to obtain information or a confession
- The act is done outside of lawful sanction

The US code you quote doesn't support your 2nd bullet. Obtaining information or a confession is only one of several reasons listed where the infliction of severe pain or suffering would be torture under US code.

Excessive force during the flights is performed by persons acting in an official capacity, excessive force is not inherent or incidental to lawful sanctions, is very likely based upon discrimination and intended to be punishment by the person inflicting the excessive force. This all makes it to be likely classifiable as torture under US code.

The biggest problem I have with your comment is the believe that the only acceptable definition of words seems to be the US legal code. Let's see how the Cambridge Dictionary defines torture: "the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to a person or animal". Hmmm, that doesn't exactly match your 3 bullet points either and certainly seems to likely apply to the actions as documented in the report.
I've only read the first of the Dune books, and I do (somehat vaugely) recall the Freemen project to green Arrakis. My comment was intended less as a comment on the greening project in the context of Dune and more as a challenge to the idea that turning a desert green is a 'naturalist tale'. To me it sounds more like the tale of a property developer or industrial agriculturalist.
I remember reading this when it was first posted and sensing that there was some disconnect between the author and Microsoft.

The reframing of the hiring as not part of a wider career at Microsoft seems exactly as it sounds - "ok, you don't have to do the stuff we've suggested ... But we still want AppGet".

And then this:

> We talked about some of our options, but in general, I thought everything went well.

It's quite clear that it didn't go that well, isn't it?

I'm not defending Microsoft here or suggesting that this was the exact outcome the author was seeking, but I sense a bit of naivety in interpreting what Microsoft were driving towards.

Ultimately they clearly decided the effort of a grounds up redesign / rewrite was more valuable than bring him along for the ride.
They're also perfectly capable of not enjoying it. It's not altogether uncommon for women to experience a complete lack of sex drive and even active aversion to it, of a sort that most men (asexuals aside, ofc.) would only personally associate to some flu-like sickness or malaise. It's hardly fair to only point to those who are talking about wanting more, when just as many are saying the very opposite!
I've read that ivermectin is fantastic for treating parasite infections. And that these infections co-occuring with covid can make it much harder for your body to deal with covid. And thus in places where parasitic infections are common it can be a very effective treatment. But in places where they are not it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Absolutely not. “Negotiation of relationships” practically means bullying and all sorts of antisocial and abusive behavior. There must be boundaries set by adults.
BLMF was a single person running a small scam.

BLMGN was a small group running a big scam. It was mostly a sink for corporate "blackwashing" PR spend, as megacorps rushed to fake "doing something woke" in 2020.

Both hijacked the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter for profit.
I think you can ask them directly on linkedin. Maybe it's not that difficult to find the persons who develop a certain product.
Where is a pound of meat cheaper than a pound of bread?

Either way, no offense, but your economics grad needs to re-take some basic classes. To simplify, input costs only establish a floor on prices. Otherwise, prices are set by dynamic market supply/demand curves.
agree, flag the article.
Not a lawyer, and I know nothing about CCPA, but under GDPR at least, this is unambiguously your personal data.
Not quite 100% compatibility, since some games intentionally detect if they're running in a VM, and refuse to launch, for anti-cheat purposes.