skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like switching to linux when win 7 support ended was the right move.

All my games may randomly freeze for no discernible reason, but at least I don't have to deal with that BS.
Your understanding is correct. PCR tests can only tell if you are currently infected. (Or at least have been so recently infected that enough remnant mRNA is still lingering in your body to be detectable.)

Antibody tests can determine whether someone was infected previously, and I have heard that there are some that look for antibodies that are associated with infection but not vaccination. I don't know anything more about them than that, but maybe that could provide a thread to help start searching if you are interested in finding out more about them.
It's interesting that boys utterly dominated in all the sprints, but women fared better in the 5k. Something to do with endurance, or experience?
> Snowden then went to China and then Russia. These are hardly the bastion of human rights, privacy and freedom that he supposedly fought for.

I can't fault him for that. What would you suggest that he should have done instead?
> Just getting bug reports is depressing…

I’ve always found people are reasonably happy when I send them big reports — though I always either send a fix or, if I can’t figure it out on my own, a test program that demonstrates the problem.

The last time was for some random library I was writing a python wrapper for and the author seemed way too happy to be getting a bug report for the code he based his master’s thesis on. Pretty amusing to be perfectly honest.
Shouldn't it save money in the winter (assuming it gets cold in the winter moving forward)?
One hopes it never will, because everything post-Win32 seems to be much worse. UWP (what is used for the new Control Panel/"Settings") is particularly frustrating.

...which is very strange that MS seems to be continuing to rewrite stuff in it, when it's already started saying things like this a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873198
> The solution is to - like your maxim implies - reverse the paradigm, by treating technology like it was initially designed: a tool for us to use with intent.

I agree strongly on logical, emotional, & spiritual levels with this assessment. Ursala Franklin's lectures on Holistic enabling technologies versus Prescriptive directing technologies[1], or her Work versus Control technologies distinctions, is a good perspective to assess by, to view tech by. They define this struggle for what lets us work with intent, versus what molds it's intent upon us very strongly, very sharply, & very smartly, & are essential readings for socio-technology today in my view.

It is all very complicated right now. Technologies like Instagram or Tiktok are both highly creative & enabling, presenting a rich ability to craft, but extremely limiting & process/control oriented in terms of distribution/viewing/engagement, as fixed as can be. Understanding how walled & limited we are on some fronts while enabled on other fronts presents a serious challenge of understanding, and this challenge is far heightened by the severely limited alternatives and options we have in the world today. Even if someone can set up or gain access to a good PeerTube instance, they'll have less creative tools available & face a myriad of other distribution/engagement challenges. The tech may be less limiting, especially if they run their own instance, but at other great costs.

Genuinely trying to create a technology which can be engaged in & learned of requires not just good teaching intent, but a software ecosystem which is learnable & explorable. We need technology which is capable of being engaged in. The web, here, is remarkably strong & powerful, with userscripts being a powerful demonstration of how some small tidbits of common knowledge can give us wideranging power over most every corporate/institutional property on the planet. There's nothing like it! It's purely incidental though- few web sites are specifically implemented to enhance understanding of how the site itself functions. There's a big-ball-of-mud/complexity under the covers, in a variety of different programming languages/libraries as we travel about, & almost none of it is designed for external use. I like to imagine a web where components could more clearly state their intent, be poked & prodded & understood by outsiders using common devtools. To me, this is one of the latent & most inspiring hopes of could-be web platform systems like WebComponents, that they could help make the web more broadly understandable & explorable for everyone, that it could make the hypermedium itself rich not just in what it expresses, but internally as well. This idea of making the technology open & exposed & engageable is a precondition for a society capable of growing a healthy, non-poisonous, non-treacherous, resillient relationship with technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p...
I've become a heavy user of OneNote recently as well, but I'm always in search of ways to improve my workflow. I have yet to fall into a consistent pattern of usage.
It was a bit odd to have a section criticizing UI inconsistencies followed by a section criticizing Microsoft for fixing those UI inconsistencies in Notepad and Task Manager.
Except, from what I’ve heard, RMS is full of shit about that and was actually caught copy-and-pasting Symbolics code. Kind of like how he originally based GNU emacs on gosmacs and early versions had to be removed from distribution as a result.
No. This system would only work for material that is illegal to possess. If we want to go paranoid, we could see a similar system deployed to prevent computers from having unauthorized copyrighted materials (DRM-free ebooks, academic papers, movies, etc), that’d be a horrible reality.
I agree with your point, even though emacs is still my favorite editor
I think last part is the important part of this post... Selling decade old bitcoins
> How reliable are those "unmetered old world hostings", because "old world" hostings for me mean they can go down any time and I can call them as much as I want and no one will pick up.

Yeah, that's not what that means at all. When you're on a dedicated instance, your greatest enemy is no longer the data center or the company you rent from, but it is yourself, and you'll probably be the biggest cause for any downtime as the hoster will leave your instance alone for as long as they possibly can. If someone goes wrong, you usually have access to support that can physically reset it for you and they'll do it quickly. Dedicated instance also doesn't mean with redundancy, so you'll survive with one or more instances down for some period of time.

But you don't have to trust me for it. Check what kind of uptime famous companies like Hurricane Electric Vultr or Hetzner typically have so you could update your outdated view on dedicated hosting.
For many, it was a "free upgrade".
You can do it as easily with a bunch of cloudflare boxes hosted at strategic points around the globe.
> Volumocracy

Nice.

edit: Sorry to come back in edit but you just made me think of
something. Britain still has an insidious class system. A top engineer
I know, absolutely formidable in mind and manner, said that during a
C-level meeting he'd been "outposhed" by some Rupert (apologies to any
actual Ruperts).

The tactic is: talk very loudly in a plumby offensively over-confident
RP accent, with a slight snorting sneer. Boris Johnson is the
paradigmatic example - all the more because he's actually a not-posh
kid who got beasted at boarding school into some serious
over-compensation.
> The free market might as well be a religion for some people. Nothing (not even historical facts) is enough evidence for it to not be the answers to all economic issues.

Aside from their lack of empathy and the ignoring of the distortion of the supply of labour happening that makes the "non-problem" an actual problem, what is incorrect about pointing out that supply and demand are, if not the most fundamental factor then close to it, in a market?
> KDE on Linux

Have you tried other desktop environments on linux?
Agreed. Windows 11 and macOS 12 finally gave me the kick necessary to switch to Linux full-time (Lenovo Carbon X1).

macOS 12 cannot maintain a USB 2.0 connection. Not by dongle. Not by dock. Not by monitor. Not with 3rd party. Not with Apple-approved hardware. No way, no how. This is known, reported and totally Apple's fault (some of the earlier macOS 11 builds work fine). And this is the standard problem with Apple, "It just works--until it doesn't. If it doesn't, sucks to be you." I'm done with that.

Windows 10 was already bad enough with "Please, sir, can I have some compute?" with "I say thee NAY! I will now upgrade for the next 40 minutes. Hah!" Add in even more telemetry and inconsistency and I just gave up.

The whole point of Windows and macOS was to NOT have to dork with my OS and just get my work done. If I have to dork with my OS to make it not suck, I should be on Linux! At least then, when I figure out how to make my OS not suck, I'm helping instead of contributing to Microsoft or Apple profits.

So, yeah, I'll maintain a Windows desktop for the few times I need it (Fusion 360 and some videoconferencing stuff), but otherwise it's been Linux full-time for me. And Apple can just go pound sand.
Yeah I've looked that up before, and from what I recall reading, the antibody tests only work for "recent" infections in the last few months, not something that may have happened (say) a year or more ago. I don't remember reading that any test works for non-recent infections.
Complaining about Windows UX inconsistency sort of misses the point that the OS and the windowing system should be separate. The function of an OS is not to manage windows, it is to provide an abstraction layer between the applications and the hardware.
My ideal machine would be something that has Chrome OS Fireware and security features, a <insert favorite Linux distro> OS and a Apple Silicon.

The great thing about Chromebook is the firmware. Ron Minnich be praised.
(on a first date?) "men are afraid to be rejected, women are afraid of being killed" or "it's like dating a bear" given the disproportion in strength
I understand my view is different, but I want to build what half of these people built.

Traps, noise, abusive environments.

Then the clock. I'll keep saying it unfortunately :(.
The quote I believe corresponds to "the expected civic responsibilities that an individual has in that society."

There are many ways to prepare an individual for that responsibility. In western nations, that is often done more through a formal educational program than through the community and family.

This also isn't a "you must have X amount of civic responsibility" as different societies are looking for adults to have different amounts of responsibility within that society.

While American college is to an extent the deferment of responsibility, in many cases it is also the exposure to a wider range of cultures than one experienced up through high school. It is that exposure to other people and culture - learning to get along with a roommate or doing your own laundry in a gradual process that college presents.

In that respect, it is not a deferment of dealing with the real world, but rather a gradual introduction to the broader world. While the 18 year old American may be able to do unskilled labor and get along (tolerably) with siblings, being able to work in an office or understand that the upbringing of the driver of the carpool isn't the same as yours - that comes from that exposure to other people and cultures.
> "The fact that masks aren't mandatory in public in the US is honestly unbelievable to me"

I'm glad you don't run things here. We have a constitutional republic that makes it impossible for the federal government to unilaterally mandate such things as masks and vaccines. Biden tried to mandate vaccines through OSHA but the Supreme Court determined that was an overreach.

What kind of masks? Cloth masks are proven to be worthless and only well fitting N95 masks may help prevent infection.

I think what's going to happen is COVID will be less and less damaging as time goes on (like all novel diseases) and we will go on to live our lives as free people.
It's been in the news over the last month. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30747665
> Let me tell you clearly. “No” is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation or defense.

Why would it matter if it's a complete sentence? If the response was "The fish is yellow at midnight", it would be a complete sentence but an absolutely useless answer, and the response was just nodding their head, that would be reasonable even without any words, let alone a sentence. To put it n programming terms, arguing that a response needs no explanation because it happens to be a grammatically compete sentence (which honestly is a bit questionable in this case) is like saying that the `reverse` method on a list is a valid sorting algorithm because it compiles. It's totally reasonable to express a sorting algorithm in pseudocode that doesn't compile in any real language, and there are obviously a vast number of methods that compile that don't do anything resembling sorting.
I was double vaccinated. My wife was triple vaccinated.
Is that WSL 1 or 2?
1) One reason I feel it is so "obvious" is that trademark law (which I am going to isolate, as this has nothing to do with copyright law: the two are often lumped together but they are extremely different and serve a very different purpose) is more reasonably structured than people give it credit for and most of it really is designed to prevent impersonation, which by and large helps consumers and end users; and like, frankly, in most of these cases, if you ask people why they insisted on using the other person's product's name in their product it actually isn't benign: they actively want their users to confused the two products a bit.

2) Even if you don't agree with the concepts behind trademark law and you really believe that it is somehow a "trap" laid out by corporations, if you are going out of your way to go to war with a multi-billion dollar company your mental model shouldn't be "in for a penny, in for a pound" but more "choose your battles wisely": even ignoring the "you should have a lawyer" aspects of this, you should analyze each decision you make from the perspective of "can I foresee this making them extra-angry" and then decide "is this a core part of my crusade, or is this the kind of thing that is just going to make me more likely to end up failing?".
Is it getting raised at meetings?
I feel like it might be more that we weren’t concerned I’m about post-viral symptoms enough in the past than that we are overly concerned with them now. ME and Chronic Fatigue and similar can be life changing (in a bad way), but are not at all well understood, often dismissed as being in peoples heads, and do not have effective treatments.

Long-covid is an increase in prevalence, and also does seem to present some unique symptoms.
One of our contractors actually said, "Yeah, I looked your house up on Redfin."
Have you been to a shopping mall or McDonalds, even in expensive areas like the Bay Area? Poor , low-income families with the latest gadgets, nice clothes. The money is coming from somewhere. Also, tons of subsidized programs like education, housing, and healthcare. Sure, they are not wealthy in the sense of making a lot of money, but enjoy a good standard of living nevertheless.
Two intelligent people--one due to his circumstances end up going to UC Merced, another ends up graduating from Harvard. Both excel in excel sheets, financial modeling, the UCMerced graduate would be working as a financial analyst at Cisco, whereas the Harvard one will be doing a similar thing at Goldman Sachs.

So, the issue is not one of smartness, as Harvard itself says in its reports, since majority of their applicants are smart anyway. That's how the filtering works for the super elite, and the 'servants' of this super elite--and this 'servant' class also also elite as well. Here, I am not using 'servant' in pejorative sense, but in the sense that one who works for super elite end up making millions a year.
I was trying to say the amount of bandwidth does not correctly relate to the other components. Someone uploading things at that plan will very quickly hit 2TB in bandwidth.

The plan itself may still be reasonable.
I've been escorted through restricted areas before for accessibility reasons. it's pretty normal. assuming more than one person is working in the bar, all he needed to do is get someone to accompany me. he could also have checked with his boss to make sure it's okay. also, complying with the ADA isn't optional. I could have sued them, and I bet management would have liked that even less.

also, how is it a reasonable expectation for me to crawl on my hands and knees up a flight of grimy stairs in public? why don't you try it sometime? it'd give you a taste of what it's like for me to live.
I use a screen all day as an adult, and am very glad I rarely watched TV as a kid, and of course had no computers. Lack of that didn't impair me in the least as an adult.

I remember wanting badly to watch "Green Acres", but my parents put their foot down and said it was garbage and I couldn't watch it.

When Netflix rolled around, I finally had an opportunity to watch it. About 10 minutes in, I concluded my parents were right and that was the end of that.
Nobody has figured out how to get the old windows ink back, unfortunately.

I basically lost the reason for having a windows touch+pen input screen:/ and nobody has found out how to get the killer app back.

I suspect that only pre-windows 8 good features will be retained over time
Wow, interesting. That's the first time I'm hearing about this; it's great to know. Thanks! Hopefully you've been able to recover to normal by now?
ReFS is a poor man's version of btrfs much in the same way btrfs is a poor man's version of ZFS. It's also apparent that ReFS is basically abandoned.
Ok, but that doesn’t remotely address the rather obvious question of why so many self-described followers of Christ voted for and advocated for a man who is so deeply and obviously un-Christlike.
Dislikes are a pretty big feature.

Also sponsorblock which is a must for some people.

And picture-in-picture mode was great. I could watch the news while seeing how close an uber was to me without having to switch apps.
When I first heard about this, everything that's ever bothered me about the Windows 8-10-11 evolution makes so much more sense. They're turning it into MacOS.
>Supply and demand for employment works backwards at both the top and the bottom of the salary range. At the top, beyond a certain point supply decreases because people save enough to give up working.

Is this really applicable to this context? In other words, are farming jobs really going to get to a point where the pay is $10M a year, and people only take the job for a year and then never work another day? Considering that being a farmer has basically no barrier to entry, I doubt it will get to that point. Not to mention, if farm labor was really that expensive, so would the cost of living, so those would be FIRE farm workers would have to come back to pay the increased food bill.
You get negative points for answering incorrectly, to disincentivize blind guessing.
Sadly true but Clojure doesn't change much so it still works.
It is awful, but so is office on windows. I get so many weird lockups, crashes, and file desynchronizations. Office is one of the worst pieces of software I have to run in windows.
who have grown up with Windows and can never be trained to use anything else.

When Windows itself is changing so much that it hardly resembles what it used to be, there's going to be a lot of relearning anyway.

On the other hand, you can make Linux look like any version of Windows if you really wanted to.
I mean, his ideas for replacing universities seem oriented at the elite institutions:
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1505599701864701954

TBH I don't think it's clear what he's suggesting.
> But AFAIK the main market distortion in the farming industry is the opposite: subsidies that make farming more attractive than it would be, which would tend to increase farm workers' equilibrium wages.

That might be true for markets in the abstract but the market for farm labor is distorted in several ways. One is due to historical reasons farm labor is treated differently from other labor categories and the end result is many of those workers have fewer protections. The second is, as others mentioned, many cannot seek other work due to lack of documentation. In effect becoming a captive labor force with limited ability to advocate for itself.

As an aside, whenever markets display aberrant behavior in the real world, it pays to look for the distortions. They're usually not hard to spot.
WSL 1, my attempt to install WSL 2 after this BSOD failed miserably, put a machine in a boot loop, I haven't dug into what was going on there.
I mean, it’s not as big of a deal as it was in the beginning. We have vaccines now which we didn’t have back then and these have dramatically reduced the severity.
I'd have to say that, today, all of those can be done in the browser except Excel.

File comparison, hard applications, legacy code, can be compiled to WASM and run quite well in the browser. The pieces are in place to do it, they just need polishing and tuning to make it ubiquitous. Even Excel could be compiled like this but again MS wants to own you and pin you over a barrel while extracting everything they can from you, so Excel won't be available. But many/most Spreadsheets can be done in Libreoffice, or code or no/low code alternatives.
What a great story. Also a reminder at the end, in case you want to contribute:

"The GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign [1] to raise money for developing and digitizing Daniels’s photos has raised over $34,000 of its $40,000 goal at the time of this writing. Assuming the effort does get funded, the world may soon be treated to tens of thousands of new never-before-seen photos that add to the history of rock ‘n’ roll’s most famous figures."

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/2500-rolls-Charles-Daniels
> The whole price stickiness thing is the free market not working

Wouldn't the standard response to that be that it's not really a free market, and if it were made more free then such inefficiencies would be less likely to occur?
windows is great (/s) for having multiple areas with the same settings like regular "Control Panel Mouse" and "Mouse and Keyboard" and "Gaming"

as a user it makes getting help when something is not working (which is often) very difficult and borderline impossible

not to mention completely infuriating

if i could boot directly into a launcher for my games i would do it in a heartbeat. get the OS out of my way please
I'm more concerned with the fact that framing someone for real CSAM is nearly the perfect crime.

Contract killers have to be up close and personal in meatspace and leave an actual homicide investigation in their wake.

Someone half way around the world could be contracted to spearfish you, take over your phone/laptop then cause it to download actual CSAM.

The first thing you'd know about it is when you were arrested, and then I don't think there's any kind of defense. If the hackers were very sloppy you might be able to hire a very talent forensics team to find traces of the attack. But beyond that you're pretty screwed and nobody will ever believe you.

It is a button that someone (without any morals and willing to take a certain degree of risk) can push to ruin your life remotely, leaving virtually no trace, and allowing virtually no defense. Nobody is ever going to believe a pedophile claiming that they got hacked.

And the intersection of this with politics and national intelligence agencies (who certainly have the skill and lack the morals) is probably a bit disconcerting in the larger stage.
you have answered yourself with the phrase "material consequences" ?