skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A scientific breakthrough is intrinsically more meaningful and valuable, in every important way, than a business monopoly. The monopoly necessarily exploited a momentary, conditional weakness in the business and regulatory environment and then defended itself against what should have been competition.

We are all much poorer for as long as any monopoly holds onto its market power.
I believe the point was that both a pump for heating in winter as well as a fridge/freezer try to move energy from the colder to the warmer side. Seeing as freezers can successfully extract energy from the side that is below freezing, it stands to reason that the same should be possible for a "keep your home warm, even in winter" heat pump.

Now, the original claim of "heat pumps don't work below freezing" is trivially wrong (and so the question by lasson was justified), but the overall point is that heat pump efficiency gets worse the more you need it in the case of keeping your home warm.
It's the other way around, you have services like Box86 and Box64 to translate x86 and x86_64 binaries to run on ARM architecture.
Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares.

Acknowledging this is the first step. The second is figuring out what would make them care or how to remove them so someone who does care can take over. That's a much harder thing to do.

Realistically Microsoft is in a similar position to the likes of Google and Facebook. They have such an entrenched monopoly, bought through years of ignored warnings and developing monoculture, that they can continue to be successful in a financial sense in spite of their actions rather than because of them.

Until there is a credible challenger for the desktop OS market, a market that is itself evolving as other types of device now appeal to users who might have primarily used a desktop/laptop a few years ago, it is difficult to see how that changes. And the market is probably shrinking for desktop users who aren't in large organisations running "enterprise" software, with casual home users often preferring mobile devices and games consoles to a full PC now (though perhaps less so in light of recent world events and wanting to do more from home). So where is the serious competitor going to come from? I can think of a few at least slightly plausible scenarios but whether most of them would lead to anything less user-hostile than modern Windows is a different question.
You're not wrong, but office users should be locked to a browser in 2022 anyway. What do they need Windows for? They can all use a web browser.

Microsoft has done an amazing job convincing the office world they need Windows, when they don't need a single feature that it provides in 99% of cases.
I totally agree with you on the writers room issue! It's a bit less easy to see, but it's definitely important for representation to go beyond shallow stereotype, and actually touch on real experiences. For an example from my background, the "gay best friend" is a pretty tired trope, and while it technically counts as gay representation, I don't feel connected to the character since it doesn't reflect my reality. So for me feeling seen extends beyond to just visibility, but to accurate representation of someone like me.

Another reason why this "feeling seen" thing can matter to people is that stories can give people a template to imagine their own life. If I see a gay couple I can connect to, it becomes easier to imagine my own future - what my family may be like in the future, and what kind of person I might be in that relationship. And while it's absolutely possible to think of those sorts of things via straight representation, or just brainstorm separately, for me there's something extra to seeing it in action.
> It's not "races", it's culture.

This is not much better, and is often used (without implicating the parent commenter) by racists as codeword cover. Again, I'm not implicating you, but consider for what reasons they use it.

Think about it: What do you know about these 'cultures'? Have you lived in one? How do you even define the word - is there a definition outside pop politics? Is it a static thing? Over time or space? Do you have any data correlating this thing with educational outcomes? Notice we have lots of people talking about black 'culture', etc., but WTF do they know? Where are the black people who actually know something? Would you ask someone from Mumbai about the culture of Rio?

One thing that does correlate with educational outcomes, more than anything iirc, is parental wealth. We are discriminating openly against poor kids. And you only have to see the condition of schools in poor communities to make that immediately clear.

Our society provides few educational opportunities or career opportunities, is often openly discimrinatory toward them, uses a legal system that abuses them, and mocks and attacks anyone who tries to do anything about it. I've been around these 'cultures' - I know hard-working people, like you and me, but struggling to get by every day, struggling to help their kids, and absolutely despairing against the impossible odds and the growing mountain of hate and disregard. You can't imagine it until you see it day after day after day.

One thing I've been told, when I've made an effort, is that it's useless, it's pointless, the white wealthy majority will never, ever allow it. And I've come to see that they are right, to a degree - that is how it plays out every time. One way or another, there is always a reason to shoot down anything that will give black people a way up, and it's been true for generations. 'Culture' is just another one. Forget what you believe, just watch and see if that hypothesis is matched by the data. I used to think like many on HN; the data showed my theory was wrong, and the data always wins out (or it's not scientific reasoning).

And then I come to HN and see people doing the exact same thing, repeating the same arguments that inevitably lead to the same place. And my God, imagine being black and reading this stuff about yourself, your family, your kids, on HN.
Even stuff like WSL is loosing it's shine now for me. I've personally hit a bug on multiple computers that I can reliably repo a blue screen if I attempt to update a specific package.

The github bug for this issue last had activity from MS 4 months ago.

Kinda makes it hard to take it seriously if such a major blocker is treated with such low priority.
As a former professor I agree.

Universities have been around for a long time. They're some of the oldest institutions in contemporary civilization, and they're increasing in importance. They've survived upheavals that overshadow anything in our lifetimes. So I've been skeptical of prediction of its demise.

Still, there are serious problems with modern academics and higher education, and the doomsayers have some valid points. So I've thought it's possible.

After the pandemic though I wasn't sure so much about their imminent demise anymore. Students really wanted to return due to the social value it provided. It's not like institutions started collapsing.

I think it would require holders of wealth to shift in the status markers they value. So far it's still one of the primary ones.
Where in Europe? I’ve hired in both Portugal and Germany and have seen a ton of US education. This is for developer positions I would expect it different if you are hiring line cooks.
> College prepares people to be adults in every way, not to be a resource for corporations.

Most people think college prepares them to be resource for corporation, or some other things. Your college education coincides with your formative years, but from my exp, college has nothing to do with growing as an adult. It's mainly moving out of your hometown and work your part time job and start planning your life.
The lower specs you allow, the more likely you’re to hit poor user experiences that piss users off.
Windows 8 came out just about a decade ago. Nearly a decade of Windows pain is still quite unfortunate.
Maybe the personal desktop idea has done its time and they can't find ways to motivate hard work for the reducing profits.
>The UI inconsistencies are one thing (that you would hope get ironed out over time)

Windows 8 was released ten years ago. All the old-style control panel dialogs are still with us. Regedit will never get ported to the new UI toolkit.
Only the body and attachments need be encrypted and the decision to encrypt can be applied on a case by case basis with little mental overhead --- is the data sensitive or not?

Revealing my email as a potential target is a minor trade off I would accept for ease of use. It should not be a big deal if the encryption is solid. The cost to try and break the encryption is enough to discourage most attackers.

How many email "man-in-the-middle" privacy breeches are you aware of? The ones I am aware of usually happen at a service provider endpoint --- like Google data mining your email. I doubt even Google is motivated enough to absorb the cost of breaking email encryption. There would also be legal ramifications if they (or any other provider) did.
The current best option for a native editor on macOS is still Sublime Text (now 4). It's not purely native as not using all the core Apple frameworks, but it still does the job and finally has support for LSP which is the major feature you would expect from a code editor today.

Congrats for providing another option: If well done and providing a user experience which is close enough (including visually) to vscode, that could be a compelling option. Don't forget LSP and just provide a native implementation of something that looks like vscode (which was designed after Sublime), not a different UI altogether.
N95 masks work. Well designed, well fitted, correctly worn, hygienically cleaned cloth masks probably work okay, though good evidence of this is still limited and based largely upon assumptions. From my own observations, the overwhelming majority of people are wearing a mask of poor quality and/or in a manner which the scientific consensus couldn't possibly agree was effective. And I doubt most people are washing them with soap and water every single day.

If we're not going to mandate an effective mask, I honestly don't see what the point of mandates are. It makes as much sense to me as mandating seatbelts and accepting a knitted scarf as an acceptable form of seatbelt.
"There's a dreadful smell in here" says the man who has broken into your house and is currently shitting on your carpet.
The most significant aspect of “government” surveillance is that whoever controls the surveillance also controls the government. It was clear that Trump was not in control of the surveillance state: it was working against him. Biden does not seem to have this problem, but he seems deeply compromised, https://www.foxnews.com/media/hunter-biden-scandal-cnn-msnbc..., and, because of his mental condition, it’s clear he’s not the real executive who’s running the country.
I think taking most illnesses seriously is wise, particularly so today as Covid has been around a shorter period of time and the long term effects are less known.

What I’m curious about is how does the frequency of “long-Covid” compare to other post-viral syndromes? Having various forms of malaise, lethargy, and other health problems after an illness is not a new phenomenon. Does this affect 1 in 100 or 1 in 100,000 people severely? How does this compare with say past flus? It’s hard to compare long Covid to anything without a basis for comparison.

I’ve had the flu before and was a physical wreck for about 6 months after until my body finally snapped back. Because it was pre-Covid times, I just sucked it up and focused on struggling through my day and then resting. I can easily imagine people going through something similar today, and because everybody is scared because of the media, we’re looking for a problem and labeling it rather than just generally sucking it up. (This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t work to understand and treat this problem, just that it might not be anything significantly different than all prior human experience)

How much of the concern over “long-Covid” is simply a byproduct of psychology? We may be fixated on a problem and looking for it and therefore finding it more even though it’s not necessarily any more common of a problem. Maybe a direct comparison with other viruses shows different, but this is the comparison I’d like to see to better understand the risk-management here.
> Without a well-informed populace, democracy cannot function. Contrary to what you have argued, becoming cultured (in other words, understanding the philosophy, ethics, history, and fundamental assumptions about how and why society functions)

Look at the marvels modern democracy has created with a population that mostly wasn’t college educated. Does democracy work better today, with vastly higher college graduation rates, than it did 30 years ago?

Also, I have two step siblings in college and they aren’t learning any of those things. They’re learning fantasies that make them less well-equipped to deal with reality than their parents and grandparents who didn’t go to college.
Before it gets that far, they build a hierarchy of underlings that oppress the labor force. (See CGP Grey's "the rules for rulers" on YouTube.)

Either that or everyone else gets fed up and violently overthrows them. It could, perhaps, be avoided with higher taxes on the rich, but the rich have the most influence over the tax code.
Alternatives to Google Products (Complete List for 2021)
15 day old account, comments so far: races are just have different academic aptitudes, the US needs fewer immigrants, crypto is cool, the US needs fewer immigrants again, and the main agenda: the US needs to stop sending weapons to Ukraine.
The energy vault is a dumb idea, here's why

https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM
Bytecode inspection works both ways in this case.

Vanced itself is based on decompiled bytecode of original Youtube app.
Another team can build on top of Vanced app just like Vanced devs built on top of Youtube app. So we wouldn't necessarily say whether it is using a hypothetical "source code" leaked by Vanced team or not by bytecode inspection (nor would it matter much).
Why do I get redirected to https://den.dev/ukraine? This isn't a good idea.

edit: https://archive.ph/q8ayE
As an officer worker, there are many many things I do that cannot be done in a web browser. File comparison tools, macros and complex excel queries, hard applications for both new and legacy critical programs...

Can this be done on Linux? Frequently. Can it be done in a web browser? Rarely effectively and often not at all.
I hear it at every code review
That's what high school is for, you should already know a fair bit about government when you leave there. Likewise about lifelong learning.
You and the dozens of people like you, but the Chromebook consumer market is huge.

Right now Steam is only targeting higher end Chromebooks that make up a small fraction of its market share, but I’m sure they’ll improve that over time.
Why’s it piss you off?
It's possible the HR person that composed the automated response maybe didn't do very well in high school. This raises the question of how they themselves were able to pass Canonical's essay admissions process though.
> I know multiple people who are PCR tested at least twice a week, who have never had covid, who had extensive exposure to omicron (multiple hours in a single room or car) who never tested positive afterward.

Do PCR tests indicate if you've ever been infected? I thought they only indicate if you're currently infected. In fact I'm curious if there is any test that can tell whether you've been infected by any variant of SARS-CoV-2 more than a few months ago; is there?
Does anyone have any insight into how much benefit MSFT actually gets from these decisions? I understand that the intent is to 'make line go up', but as a simpler user I can't really imagine how telemetry and shilling OneDrive actually leads to meaningful revenue growth. On the other hand, people have been loudly complaining about this since the Windows 7 days, and I imagine that there must be some reason they're doubling down on such an unpopular strategy.
America’s greatest success used to be the rule of law, stable republican government, and the protection of private property.

Now, the US has the greatest degree of high-level corruption in the world, second perhaps only to China. In China, corruption is technically still illegal, but permitted to the Party faithful. In the US, it has all been made explicitly legal.
> Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste" -- Steve Jobs
SponsorBlock would be one where it automagically skip ad segments that are a part of the videos.
It also adds back the dislike counter.

The article mentions custom swipe controls, swipe controls, and "codec features" which I'm not familiar with.
First paper was published March 2020, and only discusses B3 in the context of lung damage.
Last paper doesn't seem to address cognitive function either.
> One thing that does correlate with educational outcomes, more than anything iirc, is parental wealth.

Really? I'd love to see a study on how kids of lottery winners fare wrt. educational outcomes. That would be the real way to isolate that "wealth" factor from differences in cultural norms (and yes, generational effects of previous achievement, such as your grandparents being literate and passing on a basic awareness of education to their descendants) that merely happen to correlate in the long run with wealth. Want to take bets?

> ... One way or another, there is always a reason to shoot down anything that will give black people a way up, and it's been true for generations. ...

I really, really don't understand this claim. "Culture" is actually a very malleable thing even in the short-to-medium term, so if it happens to be a big causal factor on bad outcomes this means that efforts to help Black people achieve are more, not less likely to succeed! Compare "racism and discrimination" which basically nobody knows how to tackle in anything like an effective way. If anything it may well be that once broad outcomes improve, this will help obviate much of the previously existing motive for harmful prejudice and discrimination against Blacks.
most of the people I know, who do this kind of "study abroad" in highschool (which to my understanding is on average well below Abitur/A-levels) have their parents paying (quite a bit) for the privilege^. From what I've seen around, most of this activity is centered also around private "pay-to-your-A-levels"-schools. Notably these people might think of + on their CV (while being stupid).

^And then our public school had some funded, hidden exchange with Geelong Grammar school :)
I'm a Linux gamer, and when I see an indie game with native Linux build I avoid it. In my experience they always have problems, and I can't work out how to get Steam to give me the windows version with proton instead of the Linux version.
I don't like how the word STEM gets thrown around because I feel it whitewashes the fact that most of the opportunity is in ad-supported web apps. Anyone trying to work in chemistry or physics finds this out the hard way.
IMO Nietzsche was proto-Pomo and Heidegger was definitely even closer, the latter being coterminous with classical fascism (and an initially enthusiastic card carrying member of that German party) in addition to being somewhat rehabilitated by Satre after the war.
Accuracy and Speed, there are plans to release the API to the public as we build out more feature sets.

We will be adding ping and trace route options in the future as well.
WHY, though? It's genuinely infuriating
I understand and agree from an all things being equal perspective.
But thing are not all equal.
I have worked with folks who could talk circles around a flock of Toastmaster clubs and weaponizing words in meetings relaying on social norms of "civil" as cover happens.
The expected 10x effort to counter a falsehood can be inflated to 100x if it is dressed up real pretty.

A Volumocracy, where the more verbose or apparently civil sounding party
(not your stereotypical programmer) wins every argument might be a viable strategy when it is rhetoric, opinions, semi-solid-science (quagmire?)
but there is absolutely a place for; "No."

And though I agree more should be stated, I do strive to remain civil.
Lack of SEO? A meta description would be a good start. Currently the generated description is:

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit: login: 1. IRCv3 spec round-up 2021 (ircv3.net) 64 points by buovjaga 1 hour ago | hide | 15 comments: 2. Various ways to include comments on your static site (darekkay.com) 26 points by darekkay 47 minutes ago | hide | 13 comments: 3.
Yep, the New York marathon has way more applicants than slots, so they in fact use a mix of some of the mechanisms you mention. I think Nepal should do the same for Everest climbers - auction off half the slots and randomly award the other half.
There are some people going around selling a year worth of YT Premium for $20, it works pretty well.

You can find them on Reddit.
Here's a link to the post in the official Telegram channel it was posted in:
https://t.me/Vanced/207
What a ridiculous headline and post title.

Amazon alone does 200B+ in product sales each year (with another 200B+ in services). The idea that google is going to be competitive with that with this "last mile fleet solutions" offering is ridiculous.

Google should be worried that that amazon trucks will be delivering google products more than amazon worrying about being taken out by google in this space.

Google pay has been a hot mess. Google shopping has been a hotter mess (I stopped using the variants of this). The idea that layering on last mile fleet solutions to this mess is going to "take on" Amazon. Sorry, but no.
What are the best social engineering books you have read?
Windows 7 is the last version made by Microsoft as a software company. Starting from Windows 8, Microsoft became a cloud company, pushing users all these craps.
In fact Uğur Şahin CEO of BioNTech and co-inventor of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was recommended by his teacher to attend a hauptschule. If his German neighbor hadn't intervened and stood up for him he may have never attended university let alone get a doctorate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uğur_Şahin
The app lock-in doesn't make me lose access to my content. Many proprietary formats are supported by import/export in major apps. There are converter tools. Also, I do not need to switch apps.

The problem with corruption is solved by backups. It's a solved problem.
The Google SRE (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) book is available to read online here, along with 2 other Google books:

https://sre.google/books/
It's available in volume licensing, with a 5 license as minimal order.
I think 2 years of schooling and 2 years of working an becoming financially self-sufficient would better prepare people for adulthood than 4 years of schooling. Software development, electrical engineering, and plenty of other tech jobs could be taught in 2 years. Perhaps not to the level where people are contributing to cutting edge research - graduate and PhD programs still have their place. But I think many people are interested in an education that primarily serves to develop employment opportunities.