skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about dark patterns, here are a couple I've noticed.

In Windows, I'm very careful about NOT signing in to anything Microsoft, unless I have to. I make sure I use a local administrator account instead of a Microsoft account.

Yesterday I had to open Microsoft Edge for something that would only work in Edge, and lo-and-behold, Microsoft had taken my Xbox Game Pass sign-in and applied to Edge, then informed me they are syncing all my browser history to their servers for my benefit..

It's even worse when you activate Office 365. There is a small checkbox at the end which if you don't uncheck, converts your local administrator into your Microsoft account.. Going back to a local administrator account is not an easy task.
If you have a programming itch...scratch it. Good job and keep going.
Highly recommend getting a dog to assist with this. I've never learned so much about my neighbourhood or explored as much as with my dog. Fido has to walk every day, and I get bored walking the same route.
Europe has cheap high quality colleges, I believe part of the difference is European colleges exist mainly to teach, while American colleges are a mini city with expensive sports teams and stadiums, large bureaucracy with many layers of admin, fancy facilities not directly related to education, etc, all to attract students to pay high fees.
This comment is also Peak HN.

OP is a great article but I regret upvoting it, because the discussion is full of stale political tropes and the blaming of The Other Side. If I have time later, I’ll go through and downvote every comment, including my own.
Australia trades with China, particularly in minerals, but the countries are not on good terms.

Australia has multiple WTO cases running against China, and the Australian government frequently calls out CCP misbehaviour. In turn, China has placed tarrifs on higher value Australia products like seafood and wine.

It's similar to the Germany / Russia relationship, economically necessary but with frequently conflicting social principles.
> Could you provide an example of that claim? Usually the SAT is considered discriminatory because the way the testing is done favors wealthy, well-educated people, and gives negative results for equally talented people who lack those advantages.

The alternatives, such as essays, are even more highly correlated with wealth: https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/essay-content-strongly-rel...

As to predicting outcomes, that’s largely due to score compression (the students at any given school are in a narrow score range). Folks across the score range aren’t being compared with each other in class performance. But look at the LSAT, where all students from different schools take the same bar exam. LSAT is highly predictive of bar exam performance. Students who score less than 150 (on a 120-180 scale) are virtually guaranteed to fail the bar.

> Colleges have found that the SAT is excluding a large part of the talent pool.

No, colleges have found that the SAT produces racial demographics they don’t like. Poor white kids have been excluded by the SAT for nearly a century and colleges never took action in response to that.
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>It is not a non-problem for people without your privilege. Gig workers, immigrants and others with no viable options are forced to do these jobs or starve.

Nothing I said precludes aid for these people, to ensure a minimum standard of living. I'm just pointing out the implied consequences of not making "non-STEM work to be a viable option", isn't we run out of farmers and we all starve because the market will correct it long before the number of farmers drop dangerously low.

>All the while people complain about immigrants crossing the border and "taking their jobs".

I don't get it. Just a few sentences ago you implied that the jobs are crap, and that people are "forced to do these jobs or starve", yet here you're implying that we should allow "immigrants crossing the border" to take those crap jobs?

>Graduating high school seniors aren't lining up to mow grass or pick fruit or work as a meat packer for $15/hour. They want to come out of college to a 6 figure job with no skills or training.

People don't want hard jobs and want easy money. Can you really blame them for that? Also, the solution to this, as mentioned in the previous comment is to raise wages.

>A lot of people coming out of school with out a tech or medical disposition would be best served by picking a trade. We have a shortage already and it is only going to get worse. Running a 3 person plumbing company could easily compete with most tech jobs.

In other words, the market is working as intended, by making jobs more lucrative because there's a shortage?
There are entire high schools in the New Orleans area whose average scores on standardized tests exceed all but 2-3 students at any public high school in the area. Having people with experience who know the answers because they can understand and teach the problem at a fundamental level is vastly better than any handout workbook.
> …Omicron (the dominant variant) is like a mild cold.

Omicron appears mild in the statistics because by the time it hit western countries like the US and UK, there was almost nobody left who hasn’t either been vaccinated or exposed to a prior variant, or both.

Countries with low vaccination rates and low prior exposure rates are seeing severity of outcome with Omicron that is comparable to prior variants.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1503420660869214213?...
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Outspoken Muslims form 9 out of 10 members of Congress despite representing 65% of the US population?

I'm genuinely uncertain what point you're trying to make.
That's fair - I would still be curious to know what percentage of office workers run Windows that don't actually need to.
I don't see any citations in this write-up. Colds and flu also cause direct cell damage. I haven't seen any concept of "long flu" anywhere.

The vaccines are not going to prevent contraction or transmission anymore. And per this article, you can apparently be asymptomatic but still get long COVID? So why is "get you vaccine and booster" in the first sentence?

It goes on to state that "10% to 30% of people might get long COVID." Not only is there no citation for that, what does that mean exactly? Isn't it 100% of people who get COVID may get long COVID?

This piece isn't real science or medicine.
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I have had Covid twice. Omicron was more like severe flu than a cold for me and my wife. In several ways it is quite unlike either a cold or flu. The brainfog, the feeling that one is ok one part of the day followed by a wave of fatigue were both quite dissimilar to cold and flu.
It's mind boggling how user-hostile one can make a piece of "premium" software.

You pay 145€ for the Home or 259€ for the Pro Edition and they treat it like it's freeware.

I want my computer to support me in achieving what I want to do, but Windows just keeps grabbing attention with intrusive ads and never-ending notifications.
Have you realised that recovery is often very likely? I had brain fog for three months, and it spontaneously vanished after that. I don't know why people act like all 'long covid' is a death sentence. It's just like the fatigue that can come after certain other infections (e.g. EPV) where the vast majority will recover fine, but it might take quite a while (6 months to a year). Very few end up with actual CFS.
Maybe that there was a stronger tie to college helping with being "well rounded" years ago, when most of the authority figures in your life up until college were politically conservative? So college might be your first experience where there were more politically liberal authority figures?
Your comment is false. Singh did an analysis and used the analysis to negotiate to a $2,500/year rate. He didn't "admit" anything about what it could be costing Vimeo.
The whole price stickiness thing is the free market not working. How can you say the market will sort it out and in the next post give the mechanism for why it doesn't do so?

What you're really arguing isn't that the market will sort things out to someone's satisfaction, you're just saying the market is a jungle and whatever survives survives.
Didn’t stop Soviet Union from going to space.
That is not at all what I am saying. I'm saying that the $/month "bandwidth" charge cloud entities charges is $0, which is true, they don't pay per volume, they pay for other things in their agreements for peering and so on.

> Vimeo is not running on a $100/mo server, and that you believe you understand their costs better than they do is ridiculous and shameful.

Who have said such a thing? Not me, so it's a bit ridiculous and shameful you're writing this in a reply to me.
For extra irony, observe that node-ipc was previously released under the "Don't Be A Dick" license¹, only switching to MIT in late 2020². The DBAD license includes this:

Being a dick includes - but is not limited to - the following instances:
(...)
1c. Modifying the original work to contain hidden harmful content. That would make you a PROPER dick.

By the terms of its original license, I think we can therefore assert that the author is, indeed, a proper dick.

[1] http://dbad-license.org/

[2] https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/commit/9a1ad86d17a...
I don’t quite understand where you are going with this. Have you hired US nationals, or US educated people? Either way, I haven’t seen many US educated people in Europe, and especially in Portugal.

> This is for developer positions I would expect it different if you are hiring line cooks.

I’m a lead engineer myself.

Again, I yet have to find anyone in Europe who would have primary and secondary education in the US in high consideration. In fact, after traveling in Asia, I had somewhat the same experience: top US universities were highly valued, but anything below that was mostly dismissed.
Windows does what Microsoft wants. Period. Public discussion is just noise. Even more so, Apple.

If you want a computing environment that is responsive to your needs, you need to step away from products of those autocratic organizations.
This menu is familiar to me because that’s what the Windows API allows you to create (as long as you are not creating it through Windows Forms.) There is no dark theme for this, but at least there are rounded corners.

That is just a huge WTF. Since the very earliest versions of Windows there has always been the option of a dark (or white, or rainbow, or ...) theme, where you could adjust the colours and sizes and fonts, and everything using Win32 would follow it. Here's Win95 example:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d3e8c64cd9a38e70d24c0b1b2c73cb5...

Yet if I'm understanding correctly, in Win11 that stopped working completely? It really sounds like the Windows team has no one left who knows what used to be possible but isn't anymore, being replaced with probably younger developers making constant excuses to "modernise" by rewriting and breaking stuff. To use an analogy, they're not just reinventing the wheel but making it square.
Which individuals faced any material consequences from the Church Committee? Or subsequent exposés?
> Countries with low vaccination rates and low prior exposure rates

How is that relevant when the complaint is specifically about how "masks aren't mandatory in public in the US"? Vaccines have been freely available in the US for a year, yet the US should mandate masks because other countries have low vaccination rates?
Probably because farm labor is skilled labor and seasonal. It sucks to live out of a vehicle traveling with the crop harvest. If you want them to work just within the area you need to make the month or two of work worth more than just a month or two of wages, because they will soon have zero work and will fuck over holding other non-seasonal jobs while every other seasonal industry also competes for that labor. Agriculture is also exempt from overtime pay. On top of all that, you can't just throw some rando in a field and expect them to get anywhere near the output of an experienced picker, especially with 12 hour days and a physical workload far higher than most people have ever experienced.

Their meager wage increase is not worth uprooting your entire life just for 2 months or less of work unless you are sending that money back to a country where a dollar goes much farther. They need far more than just add 2 bucks to an already way underpaid job to not only attract workers now but keep them around and available for following years.
Great advice from Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: simply saying “I would prefer not to…” has worked so many times for me.
Can I ask if you ever got vaccinated? (The claim was not about unvaccinated folks.)
The same task force you're quoting also recommended the SAT be revamped to reduce the inherent bias among the questions.
I have not used Windows software in decades, are they still using NTFS?
"College and university were never supposed to be about job training. They were supposed to teach one how to learn so you could become a lifelong learner"

I see little benefit in discussing how things should be instead of what they are. There are clearly forces that pivoted universities towards what they are today, telling people what university should be isn't gonna fix anything.

More importantly, who decided university is the only place you could learn this, or that you could not become a life long learner long before going to university?

It seems that institutional education is precisely what gives people the impression that there is such a thing as "stop learning" aka graduation.
Seems like a fun project. Browser extension?
The 10-30% is pure junk reporting and usually requires including people who have a cough that persists for a month after infection or non-specific symptoms like brain fog. I've had coughs that lasted two months after an infection from other diseases - it sucked, but in the long run I was fine. Now, a cough lasting a year would indeed be something else and far more terrible, but it sure as hell isn't 10-30% of people who have symptoms that last a year after covid.
I would almost always have to go with "no, I don't have time, sorry". But even so, there are a lot of jobs or contracts where unfortunately things are basically structured so you really can't just refuse requests and keep the contract. But for people who have good savings and backup plans in case they are fired, it could be really helpful.

Setting aside the exact content of the message, part of the idea at least is really critical. It is really hard to say no to a request. But oftentimes the success (or quality) of one or more projects can depend on it.

These types of interactions where scope is negotiated are probably the hardest part about software engineering and also possibly the most critical.

If I am truly honest with myself, probably almost all projects I have done have been stretched past their real budgets because I felt I had to fulfill some request that was not a real requirement.
This is how new ideas evolve.

What “market place”? How many editors are regularly sold?

Lucky for you, this project costs you nothing and takes up no space.
There was an interesting interview on the Windows Weekly podcast with Chris Capossela (CMO of consumer at Microsoft) a little ways back I believe where the hosts asked Chris why there is no ability to do just this - I believe the answer was that Microsoft views these features as valuable to the user, so why would they think that a user would want to turn them off?
I didn't sign up to be a lab rat, and it was a 3 day head cold when I caught Omicron on NYE. But I also paid close attention to the independent research and followed the advice of my doctors to improve my health (as measured by Vitamin D in this case).
I have tried to make bindings for GTK in Go way when its C interface didn't even support callbacks (so I used polling to capture events). Didn't go too far because there was a lot of repetitive work involved, but learned a lot in the process.

If you see yourself doing something 3+ times, automate it early!
Officious: Rise of the Busybody State

https://www.amazon.com/Officious-Busybody-State-Josie-Applet...

In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its insignias are the badge, the policy, the code and the procedure. The logic of the regulation is neither to represent an elite class interest, nor to serve the public, nor even to organise social relations with the greatest efficiency as with classic bureaucracy, but rather to represent regulation itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTBd_XxMMM
Going to disagree. I will agree once Apple allows you to ungroup windows of the same application in the dock. Until then, I will use Windows + WSL2 as my core development system.

Sure, Apple has a different workflow. Pro-Apple peeps insist I should 'learn it'. Why? I know the Apple workflow. In my eyes, it is inferior to the one offered by Windows, and KDE on Linux. Everyone has their opinions of course. I respect people who can get stuff done on a Mac, but I'm not one of those people. I grew up on MS-DOS, Linux, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, etc. I'm left-handed and use alternative inputs.

I also don't care about the UX design. It's a step above Windows 10, that is all that matters.

Both Apple AND Microsoft could learn a ton of stuff from each other. For Apple: Don't dictate user workflows. For Microsoft, consistency is key.

That is all.
this is awesome. so awesome that it's the first time i've hit the "bell" icon to get notified of new videos.
I believe the person you're replying to is referring to the vanced team claiming that their NFT offer was a joke, not the concept of NFTs.
“ BARDOT SMITH CALLS herself a “corporate finance escapee.” Petite and exuding intellect, she looks the part, but for the past 10 years she’s been involved in a different industry: the precarious world of sex work. She is also, alongside a growing community of sex workers, actively challenging Silicon Valley’s status quo through research and activism. I first encountered her work in the form of an essay she wrote for the critical Silicon Valley publication Model View Culture in 2014. In it, she argued that “[t]he increasing presence of women’s skill and success represents a challenge to tech culture” and that “[w]omen’s success and agency are in direct conflict with an industry culture that caters to the priorities—and egos—of males.” Her words resonated and stuck with me.”

Is this satire?
Having a foggy brain for 3 months would mess up my life more than wearing a mask.
> All of my programming classes have been helped tremendously by having access to a computer…

That's sort of like saying that writing is helped tremendously by access to pen and paper.

Usually the question of "does tech in the classroom help" is related to overall educational outcomes. And where it's not so clear is the fact that, well, overall educational outcomes in the US have been on a downward trend for decades despite access to tech in the classroom only increasing over time.
It signals wealth and an upbringing that meshs with the current c-level staff. this is not controversial to assert. I'm not saying these people are not smart, but they are also definitely rich.

My life is great, I am not trying to complain.

Elsewhere you asked for proof. There is plenty of proof that income is the best predictor for attending an ivy league school.

Here is an article from harvard: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/06/at-home-with-harvard...

Harvard has almost as many students from the nation’s top 0.1 percent highest-income families as from the bottom 20 percent.
The fact that people believe mandates are good public policy is honestly unbelievable to me. To be clear I not debating the effectiveness of mask but the effectiveness of mask mandates which have shown many many many times to be unenforceable and ineffective.

That said even if they were shown to be effective I would still oppose them on basis human rights ground. I do not believe it is the proper role of government in general, and certainly not the US Federal government to mandate what I wear when I leave my home. At most that should be a local matter, but even though I would advocate against it in my local government. However is certainly has no constitutional basis under our system of government for the federal government to impose such a mandate
I think it's all about constant factors. Propane (as of 2019, around here) crossed the point where it was the same cost as resistive heating, and natural gas (pre ukraine crisis) was something like half that price.

The coefficient of power of a decent heat pump is much higher than two, so the dollar cost of powering a heat pump is much lower than that of natural gas, down to some crazy temperature, like -15F.

Also air source heat pumps that out perform ground source pumps have recently become commonplace, and mini-splits make for easy retrofits in response to climate change.
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Windows 11 adds another layer of chrome on top of 10, 8, 7, XP, and 98/95. All the code is there. I also see Firefox having the same issue albeit at a much smaller extent -- lots of legacy screens and maybe even some XUL.
A good quick critique of the overuse of "fascism" is Antifascism Without Fascism by Stanley G. Payne. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30583319)

Payne has written several books on the history of fascism and Francoist Spain. I find his approach to analyzing fascism more systematic and thorough than Paxton's.
Yeah. My friends with PhDs in physics are working in software engineering departments at startups and FAANG, their educations almost completely irrelevant to the work they do. At our college reunion, a beloved physics professor was disappointed that not one of his former students at the reunion was still in physics. But I am not sure why he was surprised given how hard and unpleasant it is to stay in academia/research. I didn’t even work at a FAANG, but leaving grad school and getting a programming job immediately cut my workload in half and increased my income by almost 4x … roughly an order-of-magnitude better deal. There’s no real opportunity in physics or math without essentially switching to software eventually.
Yeah, they were illegally distributing Google's copyrighted source code this entire time. It's just easier to prove the trademark thing, so Google lead off with that.
It's complicated, but the short answer is that the Windows team messed up and there isn't really a good new native UI framework to migrate Regedit to.

UWP was burdened with sandboxing+packaging requirements that made it very difficult to use, even for first-party software. They eventually figured that out and have made some attempts to lift UI stuff out of UWP (XAML Islands and WinUI 3), but they're both train wrecks (and not staffed with nearly enough people to put up a fight against Chromium).
I am still confused. I have symptoms that may well be long Covid that are life limiting. However there is no test and no treatment.

This paper suggests I should visit a physician, but apart from eliminating other causes I start to wonder what the point is?