skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought a new system recently, "upgraded" from win7 to win10. It's a straight up downgrade in almost every single way, including performance/responsiveness... on a new system with a CPU which has double single threaded performance (if we take multithreaded perf, it's way more)

And that's after some rather serious debloating...

The only reason for the upgrade is that some software doesn't support win7.

As expected the only thing which works better/faster on the new PC is games.

It's a downgrade in UX/UI too, it looks way worse than win95 classic theme (no point comparing it to aero)
I am part of a small team that maintains a legacy point of sale system that is still used by thousands of stores around the world. It started life as a DOS application written in C with some ASM bits, and has since accumulated some C++ and C#. There are functions over 5000 lines long. Files over 50000. Global all over the place. It can be a challenge sometimes, but after almost 30 years, it still brings in millions of dollars a year in maintenance and enhancements, and still processes millions of transactions for those retailers.
I'd almost forgotten about Artifact.
> I said that C exposes hardware characteristics.

Nonsense isn't a characteristic of the hardware. The hardware has very clearly defined behaviour, but C chooses not to expose that.
My $DAYJOB task this week is beginning the process of splitting up a 14554 line C++ file. It's basically the implementation of a single class, but by way of comparison, the header file is only 743 lines, so there's a lot of code in some of those methods.

It'd be pretty unmanageable without Visual Assist (a plugin for Visual Studio that does fairly fast searching for symbols and files).
>Yet none of us tested positive for COVID.

It sounds mostly like you all got a nasty flu.
Yeah back then if an expert in the field said it was worth publishing, even if it was their paper, the editor usually complied.

I think the more formal peer review became a thing as editors couldn't keep up with the pace of new publications [1].

1. https://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/commkit/peer-review-a-histo...
Last week, a windows update wiped out the boot loader for my Linux install right before I needed the Linux laptop for an event. I had to cancel since I didn’t have time to repair things

It does this every 6 months or so. Windows is malware
That is what it does, and we've seen a number of concrete examples of that over the years. ProPublica has done some excellent reporting[1] on it.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/police-say-seizing-proper...
A printout of a one-file spaghetti code with gotos is the only case where I can imagine that trope of the wall of connected strings actually being a useful tool.
Yep that's similar to how I got my current job. Strong referral from someone else inside the company, we had worked together for about 4 years. I had one phone screen which was a combination "culture fit" and general talking about my experience programming. One technical interview which was way less abstract than the FB ones. And a final meet-the-team interview which was more of a hangout.

The pay isn't Facebook-tier but is still pretty darn good, and I'm enjoying it a lot, which I'm not sure I would have at Facebook. It was probably the better path for me overall.
Similar accelerator for the Commodore 64

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9clez2fxxw
> You cannot say this for certain

There are dozens of countries that held off the pandemic for over a year. They mostly had the advantage of being islands.

> Claiming these lockdowns and restrictions didn't have a significant impact on children is being willfully ignorant.

Im not disputing this because I do think they had a serious impact. I do dispute the argument that the CDC mandated lockdowns and then were surprised when it wrecked mental health. They weren’t, and they would have examined mental health anyway.
Exactly.

This is the best discussion I can offer in response to your likely-rhetorical question: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crim...
The answers to such questions may indicate something, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say they ”evaluate” development maturity and craftsmanship objectively. The questions you listed are more specific than the original Joel Test from 22 years ago. TDD and CI/CD are neither universal practices nor demonstrable best practices in every case, whereas the more general “Do you use source control?” says something about the development practices.
Has there ever been a incident of civil asset forfeiture for a white collar crime? Say the coast guard seizing the yacht of someone suspected of obtaining it via insider trading?
You can still book and have appointments without a membership, but you have to call the office instead of being able to use the app. It's totally undocumented but I'm guessing it's some legal continuing-care thing as to why they have to offer it
Choose one:

Perfect code you never shipped.

Single 11,000 file code you shipped.
Intel's new GPUs shows promise, but Nvidia still has the advantage
There exist mail providers other than Gmail (allegedly).
I've been shouting into the void about this forever: get rid of qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture laws. Last I heard, police have seized more property than was reported stolen for a long while now, and nobody can fight it because of QI. Also, insider trading by elected officials and their family should result in hard-ass prison time for everyone involved.

Edit: acting like a goat, finding the highest moral ground: every dollar seized by police without a criminal conviction gets taken by an angry mob from the representative officials.
> When I first was an interviewer, I liked everybody! I would have hired them all

Probably would have worked out just as well as the current system if not better.
The prior poster's point wasn't that the government couldn't get it, it was that they couldn't get it without due process: They'd have to use their ability to imprison the target to get his securely stored Bitcoin, and in doing to they'd implicate his constitutional rights.

To the sibling comment, -- sure Bitcoin exchanges are sadly a security crapshow but that its a brief exposure (and one can obtain Bitcoin without an exchange, though the alternatives have their own costs). Once you've obtained and securely stored your Bitcoins they should be safe from both hackers and government due process violations.

It's not always easy to correctly store Bitcoin, but it's possible which is something you can't say about other equivalently liquid assets when your threat model includes things like the abuses described in this article.
At least StackOverflow could have put something there and not just a 404. A link to the article I found, for example.
The point (which many people missed) is that there should be a process or tooling in place to make it hard or ideally impossible for a mistake like that to completely disable the system.

And that it is normal for humans to make mistakes every once and awhile. If the system can't deal with that, then it's not a robust system.
Whatever happened, I actually kinda like the wording in this notice in that it did not have the word "glitch".
Ah, right, Apple's past behavior, like when they forced OEMs to pay for MacOS licenses on all computers, even when they didn't have it installed—oh, wait; that was Microsoft.

No, you must mean Apple's past behavior when they turned a popular and well-made browser into a tool for stealing everyone's data so they could profit off it—no, sorry, that was Google.

Then it must be Apple's past behavior when they chose to stoke millions of people's worst political divisions in order to increase their own profits—dammit, no, that was Facebook!

Let me check my notes.

Right, Apple's behavior. Like when they....reads notes...Made phones and computers that...were more expensive than some people wanted? Made them hard for users to repair?

Um.

Yeah, I don't think that's alienating enough non-geeks to have the effect you describe.

And I can tell you, as a Mac user for over 30 years now, that the primary reason Apple provides such a large ecosystem themselves is because from roughly 20 minutes after the first Macintosh was announced through well after the iPhone went on sale, the majority of the tech world considered them "doomed" because they didn't act like Microsoft. And after the iPhone came out (and yes, overlapping with the "doomed" narrative), they instead declared roundly that Apple had lost its spark every time they held an event that did not introduce a product as groundbreaking as the iPhone (which is to say, always). Apple provides the ecosystem themselves because decades of experience shows them that no one else is going to do it for them, and when they depend on outside companies for important parts of their experience (Motorola, IBM, Intel, Qualcomm), those companies eventually let them down.
To an outside observer, the US is a place of wild contradictions. On the one hand, you have a (perceived) high aversion to "government overreach". On the other hand, you have....this. I know that it's an enormous country with an extremely heterogenous political landscape, but it boggles the mind that this situation could be allowed there.
This. A 4 bedroom SFH in East Bay (like San Leandro / Hayward) is like $700/mth for a room. Even starting wage jobs (In N Out / coffee shops all paying $18+/hr) full time here will pay $36k/yr ($30k after tax) and that's $8.4k/yr. Not great, but doable.
IMHO it doesn't help that the middle class in California especially are health obsessed. Couple that with a kind of contrarian or rationalist/conspiratorial mindset in the public intellectuals(think Phil Dick or even Musk/Thiel -- I wanted to say not medically knowledgeable but you have got various Stanford profs too) -- you get healthcare very ripe.. eg cancer warnings on pretty much every consumable? "Science" is like a means to what an end!
This gets trotted out whenever civil asset forfeiture comes up on HN, so I'll trot the standard response out: any financial scheme that requires you to do a crime to avoid corrupt institutions is a bad scheme. Hiding your money from the government muddies the water in exactly the way that a prosecutor or overzealous cop loves to see: it's direct evidence that you know your assets won't stand up to scrutiny.

The solution, as it's always been, is to criminalize asset seizure and go after agencies that use it to maintain their slush funds. Cryptocurrency isn't in the picture.
Oh no. $47k
The fact is that the government, like a common thief, says to a person: Your money, or your life... In the past government would not waylay a person in a lonely place, spring upon them from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets, no they would hide their theft under noble terms like taxes, fines and fees but having gotten way with this plunder for years the government is now emboldened to spring upon you from the road side directly taking your property just exactly like a common thief, but this theft is far more dastardly and shameful than common theft.

The thief takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber.

Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you.”

― Updated / modernized quote partially taken from Lysander Spooner
Because it's being directly tied to funding. Do well, more funds. Tests are low, less funds. It's completely ass backwards. Teachers aren't afraid of being graded, the issue is what's being done with that information.
If you are not in tech, its not too common. Fuck even in tech, I make the same nominal amount as my father did when he was 5 years younger than I am now, working in the mid 90s with no degree.
Not that I agree with civil forfeiture, in fact I'm highly against it, but I don't think of it as drug dealing even if the money comes from drugs. They police did not manufacture or sell the drugs, so it's a pretty big leap to call seizing cash drug dealing in any form.

Maybe "theft with extra steps" because they do in fact essentially steal the money and add the extra steps to legally inoculate themselves against the consequences if they were to go and just steal the money.
Isn’t way too late if the conflict is detected at signal level ?

The worst will have been avoided, but at least one of the train will have to back down to the nearest junction, and depending on how packed it is they might have to back down a few more train as well. I’d assume in reality it would deadlock from there.
>For some law enforcement agencies, forfeiture funds have accounted for as much as 20% of their budgets, and are sometimes used for seemingly nonessential purchases.

Jesus, this is depressing.
> In California, it was absolutely forbidden for anyone to be indoors without a mask for more than 15 minutes

False. There was no such directive.

We were one of the first schools in California to reopen, too.

I think you may be referring to what was initially considered a close contact under the CDPH guidance: unmasked and close for more than 15 minutes.

> Some schools solved this by moving lunch outside. No matter the temperature.

This is our normal procedure at our school on non-rainy days, COVID or not.

There were 2 or 3 rainy days (yay drought!). Kids ate indoors, spread out, with the doors open. It was a stricter lunch environment than they're used to for those few days.

Our biggest change was cohorting for those in elementary. You really only could play with your own class.
One tool that I think might be adjacent to what the author is trying to do is Sourcetrail. Unfortunately, the project is no longer maintained (and the repo is archived...), and they never got Go support.
If men and women have equal pay, does that mean all fathers should get same amount of paternity leave as women get with maternity leave?
What is your point? I said that children making sacrifices for adults is pretty craptastic. Especially given Covid isn’t some Super Ebola or something… it’s a respiratory virus in line with the 1956 pandemic flu. They had Woodstock in the middle of that…
> That just sounds like drug dealing with extra steps.

It comes as no particular surprise that American law enforcement, below the Federal level, is not actually all that interested in stopping illegal drug trafficking. Illegal drugs mean more crime, and that's good business for them!
Look up "class browser", in particular "smalltalk class browser" to see examples, current and historic, of editors supporting that kind of approach to navigating codebases.
Why do I need a web component for a button?

Also, if I have web components, why do I need React?
To the contrary, I know a lot of people who are financially secure and don't need to work, but nonetheless want to work because they're bored and/or working gives them as sense of purpose. Some of them fill their lives with volunteerism, but some people find that traditional volunteer activities aren't good matches for their skills -- if you retire from a career as a prison guard, it's hard to find a position as a volunteer prison guard six months later when you're bored, for example. (But you might find a contract job training prison guards -- indeed, someone with decades of experience as a prison guard is an ideal candidate for such a job.)
What state was that? I don't think we had that in NSW, or at least I never took notice of it and always just went out by myself for a walk even during the hard lock down days.
Yeah it's weird that a place that has 1000s of people in it at once has different rules than a place with 50.

We may never know why that is. Truly, a mystery. An enigma for the ages. Scholars will be working on this for 1000s of years. Who could know the answer to such a question?

Puzzling indeed.
There is a pretty big difference between washing your hands and having the government shut down your means of earning a living, or not being able to take your kid to a playground for more than a year…
They can also teach you how to cheat without getting caught. They will teach you how to double down on the lie when you get caught.

I have played against chess hustlers 5 times in Washington Square Park, caught 4 of them cheating on the spot, and figured out the last one at the end of the game. I'm not an amazing chess player (~1500), but fairly comfortable playing blitz (a bad hobby from when I used to play chess in school). I walked away in disgust each time, and one of them had the guts to threaten me and insist that I was the cheater.

Chess hustlers are phenomenal at cheating, but only okay at chess. These are not admirable people dedicated to a skill. These are grifters.
The way the Russian war against Ukraine (which was run by older generals/tactics/tanks/helicopters etc) has failed against a somewhat more modern with 2022 generalling, coupled with assorted ant-tank drone missiles and other drones from allies as well as modern NATO anti tank and ant air weapons has revealed the truth that a WW1 army can not fight a WW2 war - fast forwarded - a cold war army lagging in tech can not fight a Ukraine of 2022.
We know Russia has weapons in far greater depth and can outlast and wear Ukraine down - unless saner minds prevail.
In like manner, US forces need to be brought to 2022 and beyond and the old war horses need to retire - in part. I feel a hybrid approach is needed - selectively keep some of the old ways and retire the rest.
There is no doubt that modern AI flown by wire planes with no pilot, capable of higher G loads - 25-35G, higher weapon loads which replace the life support systems former pilots needed can be made in larger number, be cheaper and be smaller that the current top guns.
No need for WW2 thoughts any more.
Might not be your point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if having people stuck in wagons in the middle of a section for half an hour because of conflicting schedules would be seen as safety risks for the travellers.
When I had young children the answer was: wherever they want (with some obvious limits, of course), and outside as much as possible. Limiting screen time has all kinds of solutions.
In my opinion if we're going to have a stable and a consistent API, I'm totally ok if it's going to be significantly harder. I think we should not need a middle-tier library for creating 3d graphics. Most of the time We needed threejs or twgl for mapping the shader inputs (uniforms etc) with javascript. The rest of it is just pure matrix math, that we do in 2d graphics as well.

It's worth to mention that they're also going to create another shading language. https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/
Really the experience supporting users across lots of organisations is at odds to that.

Coming from a place where changing the Windows background from the default XP theme resulted in people stating they literally weren't able to work and actually refusing to work for several days, having to hack up the Chrome deployment so the shortcut uses the IE icon and calls it "Internet Explorer", Brenda in accounting absolutely cares that she's on a Windows machine running Office unfortunately.
> which has taught us that having children is the worst thing you can do in your life

I think you're from a different society than me! Most of the world doesn't think this way.
Outside. Don't give their devices the wifi pass. Also consider limiting your own internet usage.
It seems like you maybe took their personal preference as an attack or command?
Not to take anything away from rich/textual which are awesome, but you can produce a SVG directly if you're using xterm¹. It doesn't produce the cleanest SVG output, but it is quite workable.

The dump-html function also exists in xterm, should you want to remember what XHTML looks like ;)

It would be amazing if either could be used to make quick animated and automated session logs for demos or to attach to bug reports.

¹ https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#Main-O...
Lock-downs didn't just have effect on social life.

Young people's education during lockdown have been pretty much written off as a casualty of pandemic. Suspending state testing or admission requirements was just a band-aid solution. Now young people are left to fend for themselves, to try to plug holes in education they received. No wonder their stress levels are high.
Military activity is not the only kind of violence.

I think evidence of military activity would involve obvious weapons and armor, which have generally been easy to recognize and easy to distinguish from e.g. hunting or ranching equipment. The paper linked notes a prevalence of head trauma, presumably with clubs. It doesn't suggest to me any pattern like religious sacrifice or criminal execution. So, the nature of the violence is hard to discern.
Yes, on Reddit, boomers and landlords have turned into huge Boogeymen.
Good luck finding one that doesn't do this.
> How do we, as the people building the platforms these perpetrators ride on, stop them?

Every now and then, I get mad while I'm bored and have a bit of free time, and I'll write a script to make requests with randomised tracking codes. I've got about 30 available VPN end points easily available, and I'll cycle through them all sending requests with random ID in whatever the format looks like. It _probably_ makes no difference, but _maybe_ it'll make their data less useful (and if nothing else, I get a bit of satisfaction from doing it.)
Some cops carry a device that drains debit cards[0], there’s no reason to expect they won't soon have a device that automates draining all accounts available on your phone or anything that looks like a private key.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/02/48...
It is Kissinger’s favorite game.

The people I do play with tend to enjoy the departure from normality. One guy I play with is very loyal in real life but will betray as soon as possible in game - too soon so it is actually sub optimal play but for a different reason (newbies are too trusting and think they can hold alliances into late game). Compartmentalization is needed to keep playing - or be a sociopath.

I have ADHD and I feel that my emotional responses are learned rather than entirely natural. I think it makes me an effective lier - but I still don’t like doing it. I do enjoy introducing realpolitik to friends, helping them understand the palpable paranoia of eminent betrayal and how essential it is to maintain strength (the weakest get ganged up in). It’s one thing to read about the mechanics of realpolitik it’s another to emotionally feel them. For a deceptively simple game I’ve had friends stop playing because they found it too intense and damaging to their faith in humanity.
What's truly remarkable is the homogenous attitude towards these issues despite the enormity and diversity of the country. During the 1980's and 1990's, there was a near-universal agreement that civil rights could be violated in pursuit of drug crimes and that penalties for those crimes would be harsher than even violent and sexual crimes. Many of the most aggressive laws were passed by liberals in Congress and in liberal states.

If people ever wonder why there is such a backlash against "Boomers", the drug war and the completely insane laws that came with it are a huge part of the reason.
That argument holds true only for the first month or so. Once governors started closing unused field hospitals and then extending their stay at home order instead of celebrating Covid not being nearly as bad as predicted… once that happened your argument no longer remains valid.

The day those field hospitals closed was the day data left the building entirely… we should have opened everything back up when those field hospitals shut down… we should have celebrated that Covid was not the threat it was originally believed to be.