skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a lifelong Windows user (since 3.11), Microsoft has always sucked at Windows. It started as a single user, non-networked OS with an OK UI, followed by 25 years of duct tape.

They've never had "taste". Even their attempts at modern flat design are a total disaster.

Security for the longest of time was an afterthought, an entire industry was created to fill this fundamental gap. Even "internet" was an afterthought.

Another issue is that Microsoft does not see things through. They start various seemingly random initiatives and then just give up halfway through. They suck at execution. It's been 10 years since Windows 8, and the UI is messier than ever. Same for their various attempts at a "light" or mobile version of Windows.

I could go on, but the way I see it, Windows is the "people's OS". The use case for it is...all of them. It runs the combined use cases of billions of people, every niche you can think of. Most of these users do not see Windows as particularly enjoyable, nor do they enjoy Microsoft's mismanagement, they suffer in silence because it still somewhat works, and there's no realistic alternative.

Windows is not cool and not high growth, which is why I think Microsoft is doing an "Adobe". It's a platform to sell cloud products and soon will be a cloud platform/subscription in itself. Windows as a service. The writing is on the wall.
Check out AWS AppRunner or Google Cloud Run. Not sure if Ruby is supported or not
Those that don't require opt-out according to the law. Too lazy to look up the legal definition right now.

Edit: by law I mean the GDPR.

Edit2: Get rid of the "cookie banner law" entirely, actually make it illegal, but require easily found links to privacy statement
TikTok feeds Ukraine war disinfo to new users within minutes without searching
I hope facebook's decision to allow calls for violence against the russian military makes it clear how ridiculous it is to try to define hate speech. Further, it should also be clear that what is censored on facebook will always change with the whims of facebook executives and will never be properly defined.
Mate it seems like most of the bag of apples is rotten, thought I appreciate you are saying not all.
Unless something changed Wayland does not support native fractional scaling and instead renders at nearest higher integer scale then does bitmap scaling down giving blurry output (compared to native fractional scaling as in Windows).
Starlink is a money cow ?
Free-range eggs no longer available in UK due to bird flu
Are you genuinely incapable of understanding the difference between "commuting with a car" and "working with a professional vehicle" or just pretending because you don't want to admit that you grossly misread the comment that started this thread?
Well yeah, and americans trained osama bin laden to fight them. Oh how the turntables...

So we basically agree, that both countries are bad, but we somehow act as if somehow americans are the "good guys" for bombing weddings in pakistan and killing afghanis, and bunch of other people, and that russians deserve the sanctions, while other countries currently occupying eg. syria don't.
It’s a conference submission. It’s not like the authors are responsible for or affiliated with the usenix.org website. It wouldn’t be ironic if I published a GitHub UI dark patterns study on github.com.
Is that any different than a human? They can be pwnded by new idioms.
Necessary site functionality, without the spyware. Unfortunately, most websites sites are funded by spyware, so the minimum cookies to keep the internet economy running would have to include the spyware.
I will admit that this action is less ugly than much of the anti-Russian hate I’ve seen lately. It still makes my stomach churn that they chose to ‘cancel’ the first human in space post-humously because the leader of a country that didn’t even exist when Gagarin was alive, chose to invade another country.

I believe wars of aggression are always wrong and are always war crimes per the Geneva Conventions, whether it is by the US (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya etc.) or Russia (Ukraine) or the Soviet Union (Afghanistan also).

I don’t believe it is right to foment or tolerate hate against an entire people or culture simply because their totalitarian leader decided to invade.

For the record, I absolutely support the right of Ukrainians to defend themselves against a foreign invader and believe other countries should help, but I stop at supporting hate towards civilians of any nations.

If anything, we who live in western democracies have more to atone for than our neighbors living in totalitarian regimes.

I am still waiting for anyone to strip George Bush Jr. and Tony Blair among others of their awards and recognition since we all now know that WMDs and spreading democracy were lies used to justify the killing of 1 million Iraqi civilians.
From that link:

> Nothing has been done here to avoid potential wayland event queue overflows, as IIUC this is being worked on separately. Although I should probably also mention that this hasn't been seen in the wild during this work.
Exactly, everyone’s still breaking the law, but it’s not a binary thing. They’re breaking the law much less now, and they’re being much better about documenting the ways in which they’re breaking it than they were previously.
We try not to be overly bespoke, and I would like to believe that writing down the answers to the questions we ask can be helpful in one's own search, wherever it may take them. I'm sorry that you found the experience to be unhelpful; one of the biggest challenges for me personally at Oxide is that we are oversubscribed as a company -- we have had to turn away people who I think would very likely be successful at Oxide.

For others, the portfolio-based questions we ask:

- Work sample

- Analysis sample

- Writing sample

The questionnaire:

- What work have you found most technically challenging in your career and why?

- What work have you done that you were particularly proud of and why?

- When have you been happiest in your professional career and why?

- When have you been unhappiest in your professional career and why?

- For one of Oxide's values, describe an example of how it was reflected in a particular body of your work.

- For one of Oxide's values, describe an example of how it was violated in your organization or work.

- For a pair of Oxide's values, describe a time in which the two values came into tension for you or your work, and how you resolved it.

- Why do you want to work for Oxide?

We know this is a lot to ask, but other than the final question (which is a very important one!) they are not really specific to Oxide -- they are asking people who want to work with us to reflect on their own career. Again, speaking personally: processing when I was happiest in my career was really important to figure out how we wanted to build Oxide.
I tried it in a VM before, definitely enjoyed it.

I always worry about bundled distributions like this. You're subject to the whims of the maintainer in terms of implementation choices, packaging, and whether or not long term support exists.
It was criticized. Jokes on late night TV, opinion columns, water cooler. If Twitter was a thing back then, it would have been memed hard.

I think you answered your own question. If it’s a fairly meaningless protest, why should the counterprotest be meaningful at all?
The name was changed even though it was a crazy thing for many people. I assume that a new type of political correctness emerged in at least some places, that prevented people from saying "Hey, this sucks, it's ridiculous".
Would prefer a cross-platform option. That one appears to be Android only.
One interesting consequence of the varying offset between mean noon and solar noon is that the when the days get longer / shorter around the shortest / longest day, the change in the morning isn't always the same as the change in the evening. In the southern UK, where I live, sunrise might continue to get later for a couple of weeks while sunset gets earlier. It took me ages to understand why.
Wordpress is pretty great.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress
As close to none as possible.
That's horrible! It is not like regular Russian citizens are responsible for the war or deserve to be punished for what their country is doing.
I might have misinterpreted the comment, now is flagged, would be a good idea if OP learns to be more clear and what he means and maybe link to the event he is refering rather then assume everyone will understand his allusions. Someone linked something so I am reading that now.
See also BBC coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30754868
Hum. Being able to produce oxygen at very large is one thing, but creating an atmosphere is another.

There are reasons why Mars can't retain its atmosphere, even if those reasons are still a matter of scientific research. A search on the web will give you numerous papers on the issue, many from NASA.

There is no point sending humans into space, except to get the hundreds of billions of budget it requires.

NASA and SpaceX are manipulating the public opinion to fuel the dream of humans in space - despite no scientific gain.

We already know that humans are really not doing well in space.

Of course, the space industry will give the tautological argument that this is exactly why we must going on, to find solutions in the long term.

If the point is to understand the universe and make progress in all fields of Physics, robots are 10 times less expensive and more reliable.

See the rovers and the helicopter on Mars, the James Webb telescope and so many other examples.

The International Space Station has cost an gargantuan amount of money for the scientific results it produced - except about humans in space.

And precisely, these results say humans do poorly, and much more so than advertised. There is no conspiracy here, just the lack of interest of journalists to make that clear to the public. And the space industry is clever enough to fuel the dream of the public so that elected officials give them the dollars.

Source: I personally know one of the MD in charge of the medical conditions of astronauts in Europe. And my father is a space engineer and my aunt an astronomer, so I can say that this is common knowledge in the space industry and academia.
Don't. Source: class of '01. Was miserable there. Took years to mentally recover. It's a very high stress undergrad environment. Grad students mostly seem to do OK.
Sure, but you have to also accept that there are aspects that have made the internet a worse experience without actually improving the situation from a privacy point of view.
It is odd, and yet it surprisingly makes sense too. But it's certainly weird to see German conservatives oppose military spending, while social democrats and greens embrace it. But that's also because just now, the threat of Russian aggression has become undeniable. Germany has for a long time pretended that Russia was just another peaceful country that they could trade with. And they were very reluctant to abandon that illusion because they depend so much on Russian gas.

I will say, as a Green opponent of nuclear power myself, I think Germany in general, and the Greens in particular, are wrong about banning nuclear power before they've banned coal power. Coal is by far the bigger evil. Ban coal first, then oil, and after that, we can worry about nuclear. I'm not a fan, but in the age of global warming, it's probably the lesser evil.
People try to do it with tech because it's easier, it's much harder to work politically to cause change. But ultimately that's what's required to enact real change, as we have seen the technical tools will be coopted by the political powers.
>When in recent history did the UK surround a city of another country and starve it to death whilst deliberately shelling civilians?

Is this a joke? I can think of three examples in the past 30 years.
If SpaceX were to deny OneWeb the launch space, or charge an excessive fee as compared to other commercial launches, would that have run afoul of anti-trust laws? Seems to me that SpaceX should not be able to be picky about what they launch as long as the cost is paid (within technical limitations, of course).
The law is fine. Great even.

It is just that most websites don’t comply and developers misunderstand it.

You can freely use cookies like we used to do, for session id’s, shopping carts etc. Once you add stuff to your shopping cart, you have a business relationship with the site, and they can store cookies necessary basic functionality.

You can not use them to track users on third party sites, or store personally identifiable info without explicit consent, and in that case, denying consent should be as easy, and not affect other functionality, such as blocking content.
I use UMatrix for this (and NoScript) for the granularity
But you would not be destroying data. It's an UI interaction which you're applying (i.e. closing the modal view, and thus navigating back to the previous state of your UI).

I agree with you that modals are abused. Modals should - in my opinion - be used for immediate actions such as your example.

Side panels however are fine in my book. In the end, we're talking about the same thing: example.com/fruits/new - Navigating (there you have it) to this URL should provide the user with an interface to fill out a form to create a new fruit.

In practice this could just as easily be a side panel triggered from the fruits list page, by clicking on the "new fruit" link. The URL should reflect that UI state change.
- "As well as being a mathematical oddity, it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.[5][6]"

It's not even close:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tr -dc 'z\n' | sort | uniq -c

628483
24913 z
1485 zz
37 zzz
18 zzzz

Next closest I could find, in any language, is 5 'z's for "zbezczeszczać", or 6 'z's for its inflected form "zbezczeszczasz".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zbezczeszczać#Polish
I don't know if this is a reference to the recent South Park episode, but do teenagers really say "bruh" so much? I thought that was something people said a decade ago, although they used to ironically spell it "bra" sometimes.
I think you should rather do

.setPrice(priceInCents=100, massInKg=2, timeoutInMs=300)
I'm looking at https://ten.algorave.com/ and it looks like a web page for a live stream (so, just like you said :) ).

Obviously, the live stream for last week is no longer live.

Is there a recording of it somewhere?
> Coral - Build beneficial and privacy preserving AI. A local AI platform to strengthen society, improve the environment, and enrich lives

Er... Sure you can use it for robots, but that device seems pretty well suited to to do covert face/voice recognition...
>He doesn't "exist", he just is

This is meaningless, the verb 'is' literally means 'to be', i.e. to exist. How can someone/something/God not exist and yet 'be'?

This is a very widespread problem with the Abrahamic family of religions (and maybe other religions, but I'm most familiar with this family). When pressed, philosophers and proponents are very adamant about the fact that 'God' is not an entity comprehensible to a human, it's useless to apply plain old physical or commonsense logic to 'him' or try to derive any useful facts about 'him' or just reason about 'him' in any way other than 'he exists and he wants me to say and do things'. But doesn't this, like, invalidate the whole enterprise of worship ?

If God is so incomprehensible that you can't even explain why evil exists when he is supposedly all-good and all-capable of enforcing that good, what makes you think he wants or needs worshipping, you just said he doesn't obey any comprehensible rules. You might object that he himself told us to worship him in the $Book, this doesn't work. Even assuming $Book is true and uncorrupted, what makes you think God really means what he says, you just assumed he works by a rule that even humans don't always obey. Maybe God just made himself known to us and requested that we worship him as a joke, you might object that this makes God unacceptably 'Juvenile' for a cosmic entity, but again, this just assumes human standards and social protocols. Etc etc etc.
There's visual corroboration.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YpIYBtEi6iE

Final telemetry indicated ~31,000 fpm descent, about 350 mph / 570 kph.
Fine them all! Europe will collect billions.
You might want to join the https://codereading.club/
It's actually cutting edge GNOME 41 on Arch Linux and I hear Ubuntu folks run an older version. But you are right in that I haven't used this for long at all. However, I have run every application and use case I do every day and so far, no issues at all.
I run a website with a few hundred thousand monthly active users. I get tons of mails from users telling me how much they love it. One unintrusive, smallish Adsense banner pays for everything. For years now, everyone was happy.

Now Google sent me an email that they want me to gather user consent before showing Adsense. They offer an automatic consent modal. But the problem with that one is that it not only displays the consent modal but also injects a smaller widget into the site. It looks like the widget only pops up when the user scrolls down to the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, that also makes it pop up when the page is not longer than the screen. So pages where the content fits on the screen behave really really shitty. Maybe that is the reason why I have never seen it used anywhere.

And of course loading the consent script from Google before getting consent is not in line with GDPR in the first place.

Other consent solutions I see around the web are heavy third party widgets that do a lot of complicated stuff. And because they are third party scripts, they are also not in line with the GDPR.

I have not found any indie developers who have implemented their own consent solution. And as far as I understand it, Google has no communication channel. They just threaten to kick you off Adsense. So all I can do is implement my own solution and wait if it happens or not.

I started to implement my own consent banner now. Not sure if I will get it right so that it pleases Google.

I fear that this whole GDPR thing might be the end of my website.
The entire "no side effect" aspect of functional programming is just a huge misunderstanding at best. It's unfortunate so many pushed that narrative. Many FP languages do not even restrict side effects. But those who do, like Haskell, do so in order to communicate where those side effects are taking place.

In Haskell for example you can put all of your code in the IO monad and just have side effects anywhere. This works fine. But you quickly realize that there are benefits to separating out code with side effects from code without. The types make this clear. Haskell provides powerful mechanisms to weave functions that both have side effects and those that don't with ease while maintaining that clear separation.

If anything FP in this manner is an extremely powerful version of side effects. It's not about "no side effects at all" but rather taking control of them and using them to our advantage.
> Get 10 random senior programmers in a room, and see if they agree on matters of design, code structure, testing, frameworks, system architecture

Programming consist of different schools of thought, similar to philosophy or economics, thus conflicting view points are not necessarily wrong per se, but they collide with your school of thought. Therefore there will always be some disagreement even between the most experienced programmers.

Now there are of course still things that a right or wrong on a factual level within programming, but because different schools also labels things as right or wrong it can be hard to distinguish what is grounded philosophical reasons and what is based on factual reasons.
Ah, right - I remember that now. Their thinking is everybody who gets offers are top-tier and all worthy of scholarships. Now it's a matter of the disconnect between what MIT thinks you can afford and what you actually can afford.

$180K for an undergraduate education, for someone wanting to be an entrepreneur? They're going to have to do a full analysis of how MIT can further them along with that goal and whether it's worth it.
Voluntarily handing over lists didn't seem to change much. And I don't believe one part of the story aligning with Trotsky quite erases that this story much more closely aligns with the treatment of Orwell at the hands of british authorities rather than Stalin's communism.

For the "democratic socialist" part I would point out that Orwell sympathized with Anarchists in the Spanish revolution at minimum.
No, "state" doesn't mean "keeping things around while I compute other things". That's just intermediate results. State is defined by its ability to change as the computation runs; and the changes can affect how the computation unfolds. That's why it's "evil": uncontrolled state changes are difficult to reason about and are great cover for bugs.
Given the amount of confusion and conflicting interpretations of GDPR we get on HN, I'm not really surprised. Then there's always the vocal minority that is fully convinced that GDPR is very simple and clear.
I was in high school in the US at the time. I encountered plenty of irrationality and rationality, pro-war and anti-war, but never encountered or even heard of anybody who had a negative reaction to criticism of the concept of "freedom fries". It was nigh universally mocked in my circle and my extended circle and all media I saw.

Edit: Not to imply support for it didn't exist - plainly it did. This was just my experience on the East coast. However, earnest public support for it seemed so rare, it honestly was almost like even the people who proposed it understood it was kind of more something funny/irreverent, rather than a serious protest. I'm not sure how valid that interpretation is.
> I have never understood how some drugs are absolutely illegal, but alcohol gets a pass.

Because the overwhelming majority of alcohol drinkers are able to limit themselves to an acceptable use?
> This is really an issue with Python in general (specifically, mutable types).

Unit-aware values as a type where assignment as mutation is an odd choice though (normal mutable types do not exhibit this behavior, it’s a whole separate behavior which has to be deliberately implemented.) It may make sense in the expected use case (and as you note reflects the behavior of the underlying type), but more generally it's not what someone wanting unit-aware values would probably expect.
I remember there being a few news stories about them being called "Freedom Fries" but nobody outside of the TV called them anything other than French Fries.
Seems a very patronising response. Personally, I have found the GDPR clear and well thought-out. Of course, there are some things that are annoying that you have to comply with like "IP addresses are personal data" but that is a problem with the web, not with the intention and implementation of GDPR.
On Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nortel routers, all configuration is exposed as SNMP variables. Very common to find weak/trivial authentication on them, exposing complete configs as well as all tables (arp, irp/igp, etc) needed to construct a detailed picture of a network, as well as being able to change things to suit the attacker.
And if OneWeb fails, SpaceX still made good money launching them. And if OneWeb is kind of successful and a duopoly between StarLink and OneWeb develops, SpaceX makes money from both companies.

Selling shovels is a great strategy, even if you own a gold mine.
Paul Graham recently posted a bit of relevant Russian Propaganda on this controversial topic of supporting or fighting hatred and intolerance towards Russian people.

I’ll leave it here without comment:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1505857667545321473?s=21