skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Granted that stupidity doesn't work outside of Russia. Unfortunately inside Russia it is a hit (together with "Ukraine making biological and chemical weapons to attack Russia")"

I know a few right wingers in the US who believe this too. They think Putin is a good guy who is cleaning up Ukraine.
> Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
He's responding to an anecdote - one that sounds absurd, by the way - so I would say that responding with an anecdote is fine, especially one that actually sounds realistic. Let's hear some anecdotes about being pushed hard in schools based in poor areas before dismissing it.
Yikes. Just use Java or like C#. They perform just as good, if not better than C++ since with C++, you gotta do some things a very specific way to make it work. If anything, use the QT framework. That seems to be the biggest one for C++.
I love all of the activity around this, but I just moved to Newpipe after Youtube Vanced went down. You know what I would love is a set top box for PeerTube/Odysee/Bitchute/Whatever with a simple remote control. And a way to "cast" from my privacy ROM. Sorry if off topic.
> Most people think college prepares them to be resource for corporation, or some other things.

They do? And if they do, is it true? Who are we talking about? High school students? People who read HN?

> 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.

That's too bad. There is so much more going on. What about all the knowledge and critical thinking skills, from science and stats, to addressing the bigger questions in the humanities and social sciences?
To your point, the Programs and Features section of the Windows 11 Control Panel no longer lists Microsoft Teams as a product that can be uninstalled.
In Germany no way would have i have been allowed to go to college. As it was I went to a California State University. Student fees and books cost me about $12k total. Given that there isn't any reason US colleges can't be free other than Wall Street demanding a cut.
> masks aren't mandatory in public

Masks clearly have a measurable impact on mental health. Given what he know about aerosolization and cloth masks, masks are near useless in public spaces.

If we are talking about reducing the populations' micromorts[1] by reducing common freedom, then there are far better things to do. Enforcing helmets for drivers, breathalyzers ($70) as default in cars, banning right-turns on red are all significantly more effective at reducing total deaths than mask enforcement, with much lower costs to a civilization. Similarly, banning certain foods and mandating exercise would massively improve American health outcomes.

I find that 'masks for everyone and everything' have become more of a political rallying call driven by hysteria, than a principled outcome focused measure. It reeks of the same blind faith as those who shout 'trust science' while healthy discourse makes up a fundamental pillar of the process of science.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#:~:text=A%20micromor....
March 1998 and paywalled. You can't see the 5 stages because only the first page is viewable without authentication.
I was on track to go to a prestigious university in high school when my fundamentalist christian parents kicked me out of the house at the age of 16. I ended up jumping around to live with different friends then eventually my grandparents. I had no money and thought I had no future. The stress was killing me, my grades and SAT score suffered. I ended up at a small state school in rural Georgia because of this. Today I work at one of the FANG companies but it was a long and challenging struggle to get here. A single test in high school shouldn’t define your long term success. It didn’t in my case but there are many folks who are living through difficulty at that age.
Because college is also a social filter. While some have said that there are highly motivated smart software engineers out there without a college degree, I have never actually seen one. If I did, I would absolutely hire them.
Are you looking for a maintainer for seeking-maintainers.net?

Sorry, just kidding, couldn't help myself...
You seem to be excessively agitated by this thread.

As per another sibling comment, I also tried to find the actual extension file that was the cause of this problem -- and could not. It may well be a third party author, rather than direct from the infallible 'multi-trillion dollar company' (as if acquired wealth is any indication of quality). Having said that, I don't know why a) you're misinterpreting this as an attack on Microsoft Corp, and b) you're then being so personally affronted by it.

To your initial snarky question:

Everyone should have backups of all their important files, and this is never (solely) to protect them from the dangers of 'opening in a text editor', but to protect them from accidental corruption or loss from any cause.

For a c++ developer, with at least one source file > 3k loc, who'd gone out of their way to install a c++ extension, and then enabled a pre-release flag for that extension, I'm supremely surprised they weren't ahead of the curve on this.
Neither is the farm/food market. It is heavily subsidized and regulated by the government to incentivize very specific outcomes.
> Meld is extremely performant too

I've ben using Meld daily for more than 10 years now. I am not so sure it can be defined "performant". Maybe your box is really powerful, but on small and mid-sized systems its performance is more on the clunky side.

I remember its performance worsened when it migrated to GTK3. It has stayed semi-slow for me since then.
Now do the Fortune 500. Narrative crumble. It was a joke with sole truth to it, nothing personal. Just having fun here.
>File comparison, hard applications, legacy code, can be compiled to WASM and run quite well in the browser.

Not when you're working on proprietary/confidential/classified information.

>But many/most Spreadsheets can be done in Libreoffice, or code or no/low code alternatives.

Not when you're working on spreadsheets that you need to send to organizations that heavily rely on MS Office.
> As If you have to go to college to become an adult.

It's sad that so many comments like this are dismissive, and therefore not much reason or argument is put behind them, making them very thin.

You can be an adult with no education or training at all, and for most of human history, that's what happened. Is that our standard? Just 'be' an adult? Why have any schooling?
These are interesting points.

Regarding farm labor having fewer protections. In general, labour protections can be distortion-creating (e.g. a minimum wage) or distortion-busting (e.g. rules that ensure people are paid on time).

Regarding the captive labor force: this might be bad for non citizens (and humanity overall), but it seems like it's good for US citizens, who benefit from increased (unlimited?) supply of farm labor, reducing upward pressure on food prices.

If I've understood the above correctly, it seems that 'we need farm workers' isn't an actual problem that needs a solution (from the perspective of US citizens or, by extension, the US government).

What have I missed?
> 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.

Well it's only year 3 of the pandemic and we are on our 4th variant.
Is it even possible to get reliable, steady long term data?
That's the dream.
>> Once he achieves his goal of building a fully autonomous driving system, one
sophisticated enough that the human “driver” can take a nap as the car navigates
to its destination, Hotz says his ultimate ambition, which he settled on at age
fifteen, is to “solve AI” That is, to “build something that can do everything a
human can do.”

This has been the ambition of many people in AI research for a long time but I
really have to wonder: isn't this ambition a little too ambitious? More than
sixty years after Dartmouth, we still can't build "something" (a machine) that
can do everything a _cockroach_ can do. We can't even build something that can
do _anything_ a cockroach can do.

Aren't we putting the cart before the horses then? Surely, someone who can
create autonomous vehicles and machines that "can do everything a human can do"
should be able to create a machine with the autonomy and intelligence of a
cockroach, or some other insect (not a eusocial one! Oh gods, no). So let's see
anyone with the same great ambitions as George Hotz do that first. Then we can
talk about autonomous vehicles and artificial humans.
Higher education in the US is trying to fulfill so many roles it's unsustainable.

- teaching marketable skills so people can get jobs
- teaching "how to think" and learning about art and culture
- Performing cutting edge research
- minor league sports teams

The large state schools are trying to fulfill all these conflicting roles. We should probably break them out to separate entities.

If you have a physicist who's at the leading edge of research in their field, you want them doing that research, not teaching 18 year old's Newton's laws of motion. And they're mostly not doing that teaching, that gets farmed out to an adjunct paid starvation wages. So the kid who's paying through the nose to attend a top university with the best researchers doesn't get to interact with them much and gets an inferior education compared to one where they hired and properly compensated someone to actually focus on teaching.

If we want to train people for specific jobs - create institutions that do that. If the upper class want someplace to send their kids to read poetry and binge drink for 4 years before they get a jr. associate position at their Dad's investment bank, create a separate institution for that. Major league sports should create and manage their own feeder leagues to develop players, no reason to cram that into a university. We should create dedicated research institutions so researchers don't have to pretend to care about teaching.
It's not (just) college. Even if you do make it past college, hitting what older generations would consider typical markers of adulthood (having your own place, a good job, a stable relationship, a family, etc.) are all delayed and/or more difficult to achieve.

Meanwhile many jobs are trying to sell themselves not through a TC that would let one hit these markers, but through football tables, pizza parties, drinks and other social outings. Not to hate on fun activities, but it sure does feel like trying to keep young adults in a perpetual student lifestyle when you keep the booze but not give them the wage to advance in life.

There are plenty of young adults who want to grow up, meeting a ridiculous amount of resistance.
Youtube has it, as long as you're willing to pay. They go out of their way to disable background playback on their mobile website as well.

It's not a missing feature, it's a paywalled feature...
Imagine having tons of debt but enjoying a high standard of living as if you were making more money. so what, if the end result is the same anyway, that being a high standard of living, but one one funded by debt and the other funded by earning more money. It's not like your children will inherit your debt. Debtors prisons do not exist either. I think debt is a problem though if you already have a lot of money, because then you're just being wasteful.
For both places I was simply filling roles. I think maybe 80% local and 20% us nationals? Maybe 90/10? Probably 50% had US educations listed. Maybe 40%? But it’s not like I didn’t see any. I’m not sure what you think is surprising. US people study abroad too. It’s very common and tech people tend to pick US because it’s heavy in tech.
Paywall is the first step
“College prepares people to be adults”

no
I teach at a top 40 university in the South and I promise you, the coaching for the math SAT shows, especially with COVID, there is a huge amount of overfitting going on.
Step Zero: An inability to admit that you and your ideological fellows are capable of doing such things.
thanks, it appears that a few do... not sure what drove that decision though.
> Unfortunately not. From my first infection I have fatigue, sleep apneoa, shortness of breath, brain fog and palpitations still. My wife had not had Covid previously is a keen runner and has just cancelled a race 3 months after 'recovery' because she can no longer run those distances.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you end up finding a way to recover.

> Yet because 'some guy we know' had it easy

I have no idea where you're pulling this from. I wasn't citing you an anecdote I gathered from "some guy I know". I was citing facts that have been circulating all over the news for a while now, along with the relevant hospitalization statistics. And I hadn't heard anything to the contrary. Here's [1] one link:

> In fully vaccinated and/or boosted people, omicron symptoms tend to be mild. In unvaccinated people, symptoms may be quite severe, possibly leading to hospitalization or even death.

[1] https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/...
> So buying a heat pump without asking someone to do the math is very risky and stupid.

It's a f*cking window unit emblazoned with "heat pump" marketing exploiting this ambiguous terminology. All air conditioners are heat pumps, this whole situation is stupid.
I mean, they looked more adult. If you look at a high school year book from decades ago the seniors look like they're in their 30s. Maybe this means time is speeding up, or that life was harder then which aged them, like how outdoor cats often look all haggard. Then again was life really that much harder in the 1960s?
Sure. I’m on Long Island.

My HN profile has ways to get to me.
Because they are unhygienic, they trigger allergies and fears, they carry a certain risk to attack humans, and above all, they are very unreliable.
Not working in MS but I would guess everyone knows about how bad it is. The problem is so colossal (technically and organisationally) thus no one person has the political capital to push for change.

It’s a kind of thing where the usual growth metrics “looks fine”, so it’s hard to justify big initiatives to fix it, yet everyone knows it’s broken. One day, those metrics will start looking bad and then they will try to fix it, but by then it would be too late.
My point is that you claim that college prepares people to be adults “in every way”, so I wonder in what way today’s college graduates are more prepared to be adults than, say, overwhelming majority of adults were in 1930s, who didn’t have any college experience.
Hm yeah, just cut the cables carrying the electricity out
All of these gripes are valid. And none of them aside from the new actively-evil stuff in 10 and 11 like telemetry can ever be fixed, because all of this poorly-matched stuff is exactly why almost all old Windows software (apart from games, that's just a lie thanks to DRM and GPU vendors) still run.
I am! Though I've been using Stadia + Chromebook when traveling. As for runnig games locally: I'm not sure if most Chromebooks have adequate GPUs to run recent AAA games, but I'm guessing that's a small portion of most people's Steam catalog.
Because it's like telling a poor person "just don't be poor", or a depressed person "just lighten up". Coding simply does not come easy to large swaths of the population, one has to respect that fact and don't assume we're all neurologically wired to talk to machines all day.

Also, people might well be better suited to very different activities. Would we be richer, as a society, if Van Gogh had decided to drop this "paintings" business and start a boring but profitable civil-servant career instead?

Last but not least, the value of each individual programmer, in a capitalistic society, inevitably decreases as the labor pool increases, with obvious consequences in the long run for the profitability of the profession. Car mechanics used to be respected and expensive professionals too.
I’m a bit disappointed that an article which isn’t even publicly accessible is rising this quickly. It’s a dead giveaway for people voting without clicking…
> personal essays

I've always seen that done in movies, but didn't actually think that was real. In Australia, AFAIK it's all computer ranked based on the performance of your last 2 years of high school - that's it.

> personal essay are surely more correlated and more hackable.

Exactly.
> Don't mandate it.

How far do we take this? Should we stop forcing people to get the MMR vaccine? Polio vaccine? Hep A?
Wine provides such long term support, but not Windows. I.e. many games from early 2000s don't run on recent Windows, but work in Wine.

Example: https://www.gog.com/game/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption

GOG doesn't list recent Windows as supported. But it works in Wine.

In this sense, the long term way to run old Windows games is Wine on Linux because Wine translates old Windows ABIs into modern Linux ones.

But there is no comparable translation of old ABIs for native Linux ones.
One small step towards Fortran
The US and UK nuclear programs - commercial and military - are littered with incidents, many of them fatal or releasing significant quantities of radioactive waste. In one case, someone was likely murdered as part of a coverup (google Karen Silkwood.) The attitude during much of the US nuclear program was "you're either with us or you're for those commie bastards."

In Japan, TEPCO demonstrated a long-running, stunning disregard for safety that led to the Fukashima disaster (and it was not Japan's first nuclear power plant disaster, either): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster#Pri...

And as a reminder, Chernobyl happened because a bunch of engineers were basically engaged in a dick-measuring contest, likely to satisfy some apparatchik.

I'd say the world's nuclear power programs have demonstrated extensively that humans as a whole can't handle the responsibilities, and now we have numerous, much safer alternatives.

It's an absolute miracle we haven't had an accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon near a population center given bombs have even been released from planes, in some cases with multiple safety systems satisfied - and that the permissive action link system was almost completely bypassed by petulant air force commanders who had weapons set to (I wish I were making this up) codes of all zeros.
I miss the iPod touch - it's a nice iOS app/gaming handheld that also does most of the things that an iPhone does except for cellular calls and data.

I guess you can get something similar by pulling the SIM card out of an iPhone, but I like the idea of a cheaper device that doesn't bother with cellular for people who don't need or want it.
> 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.

What makes you say they are that, and for everyone, and from everyone's perception? Because lots of people say it on HN? Because lots of people say it anywhere? Does that make it true?

And if it is true, it changed once, why can't it change again? Through these discussions is how society changes - and it will change, one way or another.

> 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 like universities are the best place to learn, given the obvious resources? If I want to learn about history, it would be good to have experts in history, books about history, other people studying history, etc.?
Yes, screens aren't inherently anything, but I think they're using "screens" as shorthand for the phone/social media/apps ecosystem that does have addictive qualities and is fairly well studied. Tons of good references in here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240116/

OTOH I think it's fair to say that something like an e-reader or a dumb watch has low-addictive qualities, and have screens.
In part because this. Nobody wants to deal with this people if avoidable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair

If you keep a dog in a lab you became a target for cruelty animal groups that will see your demise as an opportunity to spread their stance.

And in part because dogs made difficult to keep the clean space that is expected in this places.
Fascinating but my kid discovered this when he was 3
They've always been able to run Linux things through dev mode, or installing a different distro, etc...
Thanks! That’s interesting.
Hmm… those first four seem to be small asks of the citizen for a common good (whether or not you agree that fighting climate change or wearing masks is a common good is a bit irrelevant, the framers of such asks would believe so), where as the last one seems to be a rather large surveillance apparatus.

It just does not follow to me that asking people to wear masks during a pandemic or to raise taxes to pay for something (done literally all the time) lead to a dystopian surveillance hellscape.
There's a lot of software not on Linux or that doesn't run well on Linux.

People pick their OS based on what software they want to run, not the other way around. And they pick from what they can buy. Go into a BestBuy and you can choose between Windows machines, Apple machines, and a few Chromebooks.

If you did manage to buy a Linux machine somewhere, you are going to be disappointed when you go back into that BestBuy to get a printer or webcam or some other accessory and the box says "compatible with macOS and Windows".
I live in an area with sane public transport, and if my kids need to get somewhere I can also drive them.

The amount of children with cars in my area would be a singular percentage.

As to phones, why would your child require a phone? I'm sure there are some useful scenarios - obsessive tracking, easy contact, etc - but these aren't necessary. For hundreds of generations kids didn't have phones (and billions around the world still don't), and it's rarely an issue.
Exactly my point. From my experience hiring in tech Europeans are very quick to mention US education believing it’s a big advantage.

Personally at that role it was an English role so I only took from their US education that they can function in an English environment. I didn’t give two shits about their Carnegie Mellon masters.
btw the regular YouTube app has picture in picture. Without premium you can't use it on "music videos."
That whole thing with Edge has got to be the biggest information heist in the history of the software industry. Everyone on Windows basically woke up one morning and Microsoft was like, greetings, we've backed up your hard drive to our cloud. Always do your work in a terminal folks!