skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought a Windows laptop for gaming (the only reason to still get one imo). The first thing I installed was a network inspection tool and proceeded to spend the next 3 hours trying to get back some control of my computer by:

* Uninstalling tons of crap (Xbox Live, Edge, McAfee, Cortana etc)

* Blocking network access for many processes (Windows Defender Smart Screen, GamingServices, Search etc). The latter sends all your search queries to bing

* Fiddling with telemetry & privacy settings

After uninstalling Edge I still find places where functionality is broken because the OS doesn't respect the default browser setting.
We're cheering and/or allowing stepping stones moving us in those directions, without realizing the long-term implications for the web. (Controversial list incoming) Things like: HTTPS everywhere, SSL, DOH, certificate pinning, trusted-computing, DRM, CDNs, proxies have disappeared, single HTML rendering engine, subscription (SAAS) models, moving all desktop programs into the browser, extinction of caching, etc.
They lacked completely the sophisticated design tools of today’s engineering workstations, but they had one readily available design tool found almost nowhere else in the home-computer industry: a chip-fabrication line on the premises. With this, Winterble explained, a circuit buried deep inside the chips could be lifted out and run as a test chip, allowing thorough debugging without concern for other parts of the circuitry. David A. Ziembicki, then a production engineer at Commodore, recalls that typical fabrication times were a few weeks and that in an emergency the captive fabrication facility could turn designs around in as little as four days.
It usually ends up happening when the Dropbox thread comes up, it’s really interesting seeing both sides rehash the same points.
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The OP is mostly about visually-enhanced reverse engineering of high-level software design, as opposed to the "visual programming" of something like LabVIEW. In a way, it seems to miss the point of why not just use UML diagrammatic notation, that was literally designed for doing these things.
The end result here is great - reminds me of hollywood "hacking scenes" where the techie person is flying through 3d space to find the critical piece of code.

But... it's actually useful! This is a big step forward for visualizing source code, in my opinion.
> Can you prove it? Show us how your statement is true, in what way everyone treats gays, lesbians and bisexuals badly. Just saying this does not make it true, not even repeating it ad nauseam,

As I said in the original comment, not literally everyone treats LGBT people badly. But are you seriously suggesting there is zero bad treatment of LGBT people? Do you think historically there was, but now there isn't? Based on the language in your comment, it seems you have a certain point of view about this topic which makes you think there isn't any bias against LGBT people, and you're not just randomly asking for proof.

So as proof, I can easily show historical mistreatment of LGBT groups. Example: having homosexual sex, at least for men, was illegal in some places (including some states in the US). Until fairly recently, getting married to a same-sex partner was illegal in the US. Those are two easy examples, the latter change happening what, less than a decade ago?

For existing mistreatment, homosexuality is still illegal in many countries. There are new laws being passed in the US which some LGBT groups consider to be against their interest. In my own country, it's only within the last year that gay couples could have a baby through surrogacy within the country. Etc.

If you think that none of this counts as mistreatment, I'd urge you to say what * would* count in your opinion.
I had the same problem earlier. Definitely a bug they recently introduced. It was easier sifting through sorting by year descending.
The price of housing is irrelevant. It's a debt market. The debt service of housing (and property tax and insurance) is what matters.
Google Trends: interest on visual programming dramatically declines in time
I was not aware of this comic.

Everytime I read something new about this subject I realize things are always worst than I though.

I really don't see why people keep using this thing...

It's really amazing!!!

Still the comic misses to mention the funny "I've got nothing to hide" argument
A guess: The jam sucks water out of the air, lowering its volume, producing vacuum, which is sufficient power to run the lid down the threads.

There would likely be a correlation between level of jam in the jar and speed of closing / ability to do it at all; a larger volume of air will take longer to shrink and have more elasticity so it might only work for almost full jars.
I do a minimal thing too. A css, a bit of php, a markdown-to-html converter. Content in markdown files. Directories for structure.

Pig-ignorant and unbreakable.
Do you have sources for the statement that TVs will auto-connect to open Wi-Fi, even if you don't tell it to? Which brands do this?
What I mean is just the general statement that can be applied to any company or server.
Even if they release all of their code as free and open source (not entirely true, as I understand it - their public servers that handle connecting your devices is not), there is no gaurantee that they are actually using that specific, unmodified code on their servers.
They could add or remove whatever they like to the software before deploying it on their servers without you knowing.
You have to trust whatever they may write on their blogs. Some people may not care, but the winds these days are shifting away from trusting companies with their private data.
Someone somewhere must have their device connected to the internet right? Is this just to benefit the one in a thousand with no wifi?
I've been using i3 daily for about 8 years. I've been using regolith for the last 2 or 3 years because they've integrated everything so nicely with the Ubuntu ecosystem.
Unfortunately it's just an abstract and I can't seem to download the PDF, so not much to go on. Apologizing is more complex than we think. I apologize less than I used to while still taking ownership of my actions because past experience has taught me some people decide that if you apologized, you are now their bitch.
But now you have to know which bucket the file is in, have the AWS CLI tools installed, use Terminal, copy the URL to messages / email, etc.

How is this easier than "right-click, pick a menu option"?

(If I want an expiring Dropbox link, it's there under 'link settings' in the pop-up. Admittedly only has date granularity but still there as an option.)
I won't say it's perfect, but non-tech people can use it no problem. I suppose it's not technically a "What You See Is What You Get" because there is custom styling applied, but whatever content they put into notion is stylized the same as the rest of the blog so it stays consistent.
I can open it now.
yup — I’m a bit old school and keep trying to do this. It’s very “hard,” you can face rejection, but it’s way more interesting than living in a bubble of your work place.
Hi, sounds interesting- is it available outside of Spotify?
Pittsburgh lost half it's population from 1950 to 1990
My suggestion here is to use either a game console or set top box (Roku, Shield, AppleTV) as the primary interface. My TV likes to show ads and all, but I never see them because as soon as I boot the TV i immediately go to my Xbox and do everything else from there.

Pretty soon though I feel like even this "loophole" will be closed and TV manufacturers will start placing ads even on HDMI outputs.
The aim is not for everyone to quit these companies, but for enough people to refuse to build and maintain the harmful components of their systems so that these companies are forced to change. Regarding my projects, they'd be just as useful if Google and Meta would cease to exist tomorrow, but again, that isn't the point.

> Perhaps by working there, people believe they can be that change?

We're talking about highly intelligent people, at least some of them understand that the code they maintain sometimes performs actions that are illegal. They could lift their fingers from the keyboard when they recognize that something is not right. They could choose to not be complicit.
Silicon Valley has a huge problem with user consent and respecting “no” from users. The whole industry feels like a guy at a club asking people “Hey, you should date me. Allow? [Yes | Ask Again in 5 Minutes]”
The Self-Driving Car Is an Idea That Badly Needs a Tune-Up
Are node-based VPLs like Houdini Turing-complete? I've only used Grasshopper, but the sense I got was that it was not Turing-complete. If they're not Turing-complete, then I don't think "programming" is the right word. Computer-aided design would be more appropriate.
Off-topic, but love to see a galician surname. Greetings from an asturian neighbour.
It sounds like you’re frustrated that the environment is becoming inhospitable for small colleges without a lot of money. That’s understandable, but are you perhaps saying that you all need to be looking at cutting down and getting lean, rather than hiring up?

From those NIMBYs’ points of view, as frustrating as I find them, they probably feel like they scrimped and sacrificed to get their little piece, so now they’re desperate to not let anyone mess it up, because they want to be able to get out the massive amount they put in. I’m guessing it’s more often loss aversion than trying to profit by cornering the market.
> I went around far too long with this "don't apologize for anything" power move mindset, but truth be told - you turn into a colossal douchebag

My first exposure to that mentality was watching Jersey Shore

It was so amusing how a simple apology was the line that couldn't be crossed

I didn't understand it at all, and, yes, they were the laughing stock of the country. Douchebag mascots.

I occasionally see that mentality, but from people in that same region in the US. I wonder if there is something cultural and if that extends to a culture from “the motherland” (often times people in the US just believe a cultural pattern they practice is from a place in Europe they share some heritage with, but its all made up)
I noticed in tech in particular people apologize for the stupidest thing, almost apologizing for their own existence. This is particularly worrisome when you see your manager apologizing for his own gender, whiteness or using the "wrong" word du jour. It's worrisome because I imagine him making a case for my for promotion, or shielding the team from some bullshit decision coming from top (or sideways). It radiates meekness, weakness and unreliability, it's worse when it's from your leader.

I'm not saying people shouldn't apologize, but they should do so with care and only when they mean it. Some people prey on your weakness (even if they also come off as harmless victims!) and once you show signs of it, you're done.
EU parliament members who can afford Brioni suits and haute couture for their families can’t be in charge of making rules like these.
right — it’s certainly not FAANG specific but seems to arise from these styles of interviews. maybe it’s lack of interviewing training or standards? i think the standard now is, “pick your favorite hard problem and have a candidate do it on the whiteboard.” which presents this opportunity for an interview lacking compassion.
Isn't the case that brother ended up washing/putting away also mom's and dad's dishes along with common dishes (pots, salads).

If you always do only strictly own dishes and someone else does the rest, that someone is in fact doing more dishes - except at different time.
Yeah I fully agree... incidentally I started a new job april 1st, my employer provided me with a windows laptop. That's why I had this knowledge ready.

First windows experience in many years, it's been equally gross and amusing.
Most likely, they want to make more money, and they no longer care how many free users they lose as long as some of them convert to paid customers.

Free users aren't generating revenue for them. In the past, it seemed like businesses had this idea that infinite free users would somehow lead to infinite revenue, but they seem to be moving away from this philosophy.

Storage has been getting cheaper every year. If a business is skimping on their free plan, it's not because of rising storage costs.
> it’s vastly more wasteful and energy intensive to run them for 20 years than to replace them at ten

I am very skeptical: Washing machine has two functions: Spinning and heating water. heating is 99% efficient, and electric motors are like 95% efficient - where is the improvement coming from? Is is smart features? What do they do, instead of spinning left it spins right?

What about an oven or a kettle, there is no possible improvement, and I bet the shoddily made ones are actualyl less efficient and worse insulated.
That's a good solution for Greek speakers, but a terrible solution for non-Greek speakers, who _can_ learn a "canonical" transliteration but can't write Greek
It's about the journey, not the destination. The inspirational thing with this story is the combination of insight, skill, and hard work. The degree is the reward for that.
Rust is probably a bazillion times safer, but there's always a way to sneak in bugs if you try, and programmers are good at that.

It's definitely possible for an individual do this stuff, if it can be mathematically proven(My math level is a bit below grade school algebra so I can't really evaluate it there), proofs don't lie, regardless of who proved them, they are in themselves a way better authority than any human.

But anyone who truly does learn all that IS one of those rare crypto experts, and there aren't that many. Who can code review? If someone leaves the team, does anyone else have that level of skill to be able to maintain it?

It might be worth learning crypto for the same reason as any of the other random things they say coders should know, like Haskell and LISP or the dreaded FORTH though.
I consider write.as another good minimalist blogging option. It provides some features above its free tier
haha — my email is in my profile page if you really want to talk about it. i have interjected at previous companies where it was possible to influence the process a little bit. my biggest question would be “how could you do it differently than triplebyte when they first start?” they started by interviewing people themselves which is hard to scale.
In both cases, we have quite a lot of historical evidence. There aren't many prominent examples of housing at all income levels being created without government intervention. And when there's an affordable housing crunch in a desirable city with a wide spectrum of jobs, people commute and live further away, which is bad for everyone involved.
Enjoying this but the navigation in the “file browser” behaves very strangely on mobile. Seems like I have to tap twice to open anything; first tap marks it with a checkbox and second tap actually activates it.
Reading code from top to bottom (1999)
What's OPs view of helium network? It basically solved the issue of network deployment for LoRaWAN. It covers the vast majority of American population centers, Western Europe, and soon south america and APAC.
Looks great! Thank you!
> Modern smart TVs will aggressively connect to the internet themselves without you needing to do it for them.

Mine went a step further where you couldn't use it before downloading the app and setting it up with the app. I put up with it because I just go straight into my console as soon as I boot up but man was that the most infuriating experience.
Useless platitudes. It's a bit of victim blaming. Yes, I believe any Windows user is a victim. However, do you really think this person on HN would not switch to Linux if they did not have compelling reasons for having to use Windows?
I'd expect publishers of classical music to know the difference between a composer, a conductor, a soloist, and an orchestra, but no, apparently not. They freely mash them up across fields. The difference between a symphony and an album is often mangled too, especially on releases containing multiple works. And for fuck's sake, no, a movement is not a song. I don't play, "like", flag, list, cross-fade, or reshuffle them independently.

Music metadata has been optimized to suit the marketing preferences of contemporary record labels. But more general classes of music won't shift units on Spotify so the message is loud and clear, a resounding "get fucked" from the assholes that run this industry.

(One side of my family is in the recording business. I can confirm the whole thing is run by assholes.)
It’s also a form of psychological experimentation.
Can you update Gnome to 42 with regolith ?
I mostly agree, but it would have been a less painful move if existing blogs could have been grandfathered into the old plan.
Homepage says it's based on Ubuntu and...
This annoys me in Spotify so much, that we often only get one version of the album, and usually a new one instead of the original.

And maybe I should feel like it's a luxury to have extra bonus tracks with more takes at the end - but I lean over to the album purity side more - the album is one artwork by itself, I want the original track listing and nothing more, as "the album".
We could abolish face masks. Every person uses couple every day. Most masks are not recycled. And it is micro fiber that accumulates in animal tissues!
If the field is just general programming then you could say calculus is a 10x career boost, because you can take on calculus related projects as opposed to being limited to mathless stuff.
"It was illegal to sell hard-to-repair products (no glue breaking the device when you tear it apart)."

To please the 'mah free market' types, we shouldn't make it illegal - we should ship broken good back to the manufacturer and have them disasemble the device into pristine materials for perfect recylcing. Breach of recycling laws shiould be a criminal offence - if I litter on the streets, I can literally go to jail, so why is a company above the law in this regard? (and so many others)

It will be so expensive to do, the effect will be the same
What edition do you have, Home/Pro?
“How Do People Get New Ideas?” – Isaac Asimov
Yes, that’s what asymmetry is.
> Would it be possible to build an apartment building that simply will be affordable, without the government giving the developer a pile of other people's money?

Sure it’s possible. How often, statistically, will it happen when there is a complete lack of financial incentive to do so? Basically never. My question is, what evidence and metrics show that it is always a net negative when the government creates incentives for affordable housing?
I think the research is still incomplete on human to human transmission looking at some of the commenter's research article links.
It looks like it CAN spread via sex.
I'm not proposing a specific remedy at this time. My point is that representation matters. Which I don't imagine we'll ever agree about.
I agree with a lot of this, but I think the effect has more complex roots.

I think there's an economic component to this as well. Housing prices are rising, meaning a lot of people are pushed out of their existing community, or that they perceive their community is temporary (until they all get pushed out). It starts to feel pointless to build a community of renters when you don't think it will exist in 5 years.

A lot of local shops have been overtaken by corporations, who exist in the community but aren't really part of it. Walmart/Target/Dick's/etc isn't sponsoring the local little league, or throwing a potluck, or creating any kind of space or events to build a community around.

Religious service attendance is also down, which is another way people used to build communities, and I haven't seen a lot of secular replacements (not a criticism of anyone, I don't attend myself). I think a lot of people replaced religion with politics, which has created communities more focused on things outside themselves (laws and public opinion) than within themselves.

I don't even know that social media is the cause of loss of community. It seems to me that social media was the market responding to the loss of in-person communities; it was responding to an already-established need. It might have accelerated the decline, but I think healthy communities could have withstood social media. We just didn't have many healthy communities left.
Just noting that apparently you're assuming that another company, who had been there instead of MS, would have acted in better ways

Looking at Apple, Oracle, Google etc -- how likely does that seem
Wow, that's impressive. The tones are remarkably clear, I wouldn't have guessed it was a Sid (apart from the 3 voices)

Edit: on second listen, it sounds like it has a bit of reverb applied? I wonder if it was recorded from real hardware.
Why does Turing completeness discriminate an activity between CAD and programming? So when one writes CSS or Makefiles they are programming; but if they write systems in e.g Datalog they are doing CAD?
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It's a choose your own adventure blog platform where you can go headless and customize everything or choose battery included and get a yourblog.polyblog.io out of the box

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Return them.
...and that's without considering its always-on telemetry.
Replit's Community Round
Replit is having a community round for users and small investors to buy shares (future equity).
looks like about 22% over their Dec 2021 price.
Also ; https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1510360126867222531

Looks exciting!
i foresee this as the main problem with a distributed, hybrid workforce.

in my experience, you need to be all the way into one camp (remote) or the other (on-site) to reap the full benefits, otherwise you are just getting the downsides of both.

any best practices that others have found for dealing with a distributed, hybrid team? (assuming you don’t have the authority to make everyone onsite/remote)
Maybe they do that once? They definitely don’t do it every time you open Chrome. That would be ridiculous.
> Data centers in the EU, operated by a German company

so?
> it is sort of nice I can drop in the fact I have a PhD

A saying in my circles is that the less likely someone credentialed can operate on a human heart, the more likely they’ll tell you they’re a doctor
I haven't taken the chance to dig into Win11 to know, but before Edge? Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows' Widget Kit. Uninstalling IE would break how applications would present to the user.

Microsoft makes very weird, deeply hurtful decisions, at a depth very few people understand.
Been live with Zulip at work for just over a year now. Works great for our use model and love the fact that we are able to self host - which also helps greatly with our compliance requirements. The code is rock solid as far as server stability is concerned and are maybe 1 defect and 1 enhancement away from it being perfect. Nice work Team Zulip.
The aversion to emojis is strange. I've come around to thinking of them as a net positive. Just text is sterile and the tone often comes off wrong! Smiles lighten up conversation, we need that to not lose track of each other's humanity when arguing in comment threads. :)