skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Southern US that has been the practice for a long time (also a hot & humid environment!). The rice grains are too large to pass through the holes in the shaker but will sometimes clog them, so you have to shake a bit harder.
The markets are huge (I dare to say endless). Nobody is getting killed.
Companies aren't people. Microsoft (and most any other corporation) will do whatever is in its interest currently. And their behavior isn't consistent, it changes as the makeup of the leaders and their priorities change.

IMO the right way to deal with that is to reject the instinct of considering a corporation to be a person, just rationally look at whether their recent actions, look for potential conflicts of interest, and make sure any deals are guaranteed to be in in your interest.

For instance, Microsoft has been known in the past for screwing people over in creative ways. Famously they screwed over Spyglass by buying the code that became IE with a royalty deal, and then giving it out for free, ensuring that Spyglass got percentages of $0, which it seems they definitely didn't expect. So there it would make perfect sense to take a look at any deals that could be subverted creatively with a very critical eye.

On the other hand if they just give you a donation because they want PR or some such with no strings attached, then there's unlikely to be a problem.
I would definitely prefer swift's 'var' or JavaScript's 'const' here.

The solution in the link adds to cognitive complexity. Imagine you had bad code (Worst case scenario; which always happens). A function with 400+ lines of code. You would have to scan the entire function just to figure out if a variable is mutable then you would have to force yourself to remember _all_ the variables that are mutable when evaluating behavior.
> It’s the other way around—white people and their values are the target, not the proxy.

Quite, the gay or trans people are not the target, just collateral damage, but never mind them, who cares about them anyway? I don't think that you have a solid argument here.
Is there demand for running Windows programs on an ad-free, telemetry-free, and wallet-free platform? I daresay.
https://archive.ph/91Edg
It could probably be a successful add-on to an already existing "world" store of some sort, the kind you find in Little Italy or Chinatown. It might take some time to grow but it would eventually be known to those who wanted it.

As a note - if you're ever looking for a foreign product, you can write the US distributor (or the main headquarters if there doesn't seem to be one) asking if there are any retailers in your area; there often are but they can be small and hard to find (no web inventory, etc).
I don't think it makes sense to talk about "entities". People deserve a chance to redeem themselves. But corporations are not people even they have lobbied some governments to pretend they are. Why should a coroporation that, unlike a person, is the sum of its past deeds be given the benefit of the doubt that they have actually changed. I don't think it is wrong of people to be highly suspicious of these image-washing PR stunts.
Fair point, maybe I formulated that a bit drastically, though I have seen this kind of reconnaissance increase quite a bit recently, so maybe I'm just fed up with it.
Thousands of different items that I import from China. I've got a lot of money invested in inventory so I can't risk having my business shutdown by eBay's algorithm or $2/h "service" team again. eBay stealth OPSEC is the only way to have any sort of job security in this game.
I honestly don’t understand why Microsoft gets so much love on here. They built a ton of tracking into almost every pc on earth, and they are now pursuing a locked down AppStore model with windows S. Edge, as a browser, is just a way to collect more of your data. They added ads to your OS, cortana is invasive, and the search bar is a pain and is possibly sending all my queries over the web, I can’t tell.

Why should we think they have turned over a new leaf? They have gotten worse, not better
My email provider has a way to deal with that with very few clicks ("mark all email from this domain as SPAM")
GNOME? Don't even think about it. The next version of the file manager will probably remove icons all together in favour of a single, big button that opens a random file in your home directory.

GNOME is that user interface where out of the box everything is super eye-candy and cool, and yet you can't really do anything unless you install a billion extensions and swap out a few builtin programs for some other that look like shite but at least have the basic features everyone expects.

GNOME has been putting the entirety of its efforts and focus on UI only for the last 11 years, and that has cause the whole UX to become a total nightmare. GNOME 2 was incredible, it was a pinnacle in UX and it's a shame the GNOME devs got carried away and destroyed basically everything in their attempt at beating Apple at its own game.
The Imperial Sensorium
That's too bad, in this case I had a particularly good experience. I handed in a tarball, not a repo, so they didn't track time. No idea what other candidates did, but I got specific and positive feedback on the code submitted. The task was pretty carefully thought out and presented to not lean too heavily on specific patterns or techniques. All of your experiences do sound particularly frustrating, I wouldn't be too excited with them either!
How’s that Microsoft’s fault?
If intel in your company will kill your business you don’t have a defensible business.
> 2. There's always what I'll call "pendulum effects". If science journalism took the "skeptic" POV to try to increase scientific literacy, by showing the many cases where the scientific consensus was wrong historically (with the hopes of improving people's critical thinking), you'd just end up giving fodder to people to arbitrarily distrust any consensus they don't like (for political reasons). So it becomes "socially useful" for people to believe that consensus means truth. If you taught people all the ways in which science can get it wrong, even highly cited studies in top journals, they'd burn Harvard down.

It's such a bizarre argument to simultaneously acknowledge that The Science is often wrong yet double down on manipulating the public with this idea that scientific consensus equals Truth. In my view, this practice adulterates science into a technical sophistry that serves as a fifth column for a political agenda. But the root cause here is that science itself is corrupted by the desire to effect change. That is the realm of politics and if scientists want to stop losing trust, they will get out of the business of "ought".
I've read claims/benchmarks that TimescaleDB handles inserts faster than plain PostgreSQL, but how? From what I read this is because of the performance effects of using partitions to reduce index updates, but plain PostgreSQL tables can use partitions too.
'Incel' dates back to 1997 which is only technically later than the earliest internet dating sites.
The topic was about loans. How often do you need a loan for under 1k dollars?
For what it's worth to the timescale team: Whenever I see "time-series", I think "cool, but a lot of my data is not time-series, so I guess this isn't for me". What I really want is a "fast open source SQL analytics database".
Maybe her actions prevented even greater catastrophe.
There is more to communication than the words said. Context matters - including place and time.

What isn’t said is also important, and “editing” is arguably the hardest part of writing. “Negative space” in art is a powerful tool that one can wield, and I think it’s just as applicable to writing as it is to visual media.
> I think the main risk of the HN architecture is that (I believe) it's a single datacentre in a single location.

Exactly, Amazon US EAST makes the same point several times a year! :)
No, it means I have a ready-made excuse to take a day off. =^.^=
happy solstice everyone
Well sorry if I'm not buying the good Samaritan act.

There are still many bad things they do, like pressure schools into teaching only about MS products in "computer" classes.
Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism – Lex Fridman Podcast
Anyone knows what happened to the 10-part documentary that was supposed to be released in 2020?

I'm really interested in the whole history of the Blue Brain project.
What a shame it doesn’t list the latest scandal by MS.

https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276
Mostly because they compete in areas and as a corporation we don't expect them to help their competition.

At best they get praised for doing things in a way where they benefit or are forced to face a worse alternative without control or a hook.
Whenever they seem to do something selfless the control, hook or incentive to taking in some patent comes along with it.

I don't expect to put .net stuff and the like in the same category as GNU tools anytime soon.

Is it something of CEO's past? I remember the ODF debacle, the MAUI naming
, the numerous anticompetitive business practices, etc all not being far off. Hell even OEM bundling court cases are not a thing of the past
> JS _will_ evaluate these kinds of expressions, but the results are well-defined and predictable

Well-defined maybe, but predictable? Not really. Intuitive? Absolutely not.

> There's a double standard here, in which people who don't do any operations on wacky combinations of disjoint types in their preferred language will gleefully jump into JS and start doing those things seemingly just so they can declare that JS is broken.

On the contrary, I don't believe that this is really the case. People can and often do run into these bugs in the wild because they take some input from either a user who does something unexpected, an API that returns something unexpected or a library that acts in an unexpected way and, rather than failing a logical assertion, the program continues with effectively junk data. Sanitising inputs can be surprisingly complicated too, especially when you don't know or understand the conditions you are supposed to guard against.

> Take any of these cases of "unexpected type coercions" and show me some production code from a program in your preferred language where you're actually doing something similar with disjoint types and describe its superior behavior instead.

My point is not that the alternative is superior, for whatever definition of "superior" you are choosing, but instead that many statically typed languages will force you to think about that behaviour rather than proceed in ignorance.

> If you want static type checking when writing your program, then use a static type checker.

If you have to rely on what is effectively a linter to type-check for you to make sure your program won't do surprising things, that's not an incredibly positive indictment of dynamic languages as a whole.
No the OP, last time I tried GPU pass through I needed some specific settings on the mother board (beyond the normal virtualization stuff) that I didn't have. So I didn't get very far.

On the other hand, I was able to very easily get GPU pass through working on Emby inside and LXC container.
It of course does not apply, because you're getting risk-mitigation value every month. (If you don't think so, feel free to drop the insurance.)

That said, those are prime opportunities for parasitism and exploitation, because it's hard to measure risk reduction until actual harm comes along. That's why those sectors need heavy regulation.
How you react to knowing the date of your death influences the date of your death in the universe where you learn the date.
-- how much you willing to pay for said system? --
> If you find the page "over the top", it is not because the page is over the top, but because you don't have anything to secure that is in the cost range of the attacks being outlined.

The page states that *all users* should disable all dynamic clock states and that all OS creators should do the same by default. That's very different than the very obvious info you just shared and in my opinion extremely over the top. What attack scenario do you think *users* would be targeted with?

Edit:

Just to be clear, if you store state secrets, are a cloud provider or otherwise hosts services that could be targeted by hertzbleed, by all means gimp your CPU if your research tells you that it is important.

There's just no reason to do so for the normal user and I think if you are in the class of people that need to secure something like that, it's narcissistic to believe they need to read the rant-ish site the OP posted to realize it.
P2P is notionally interesting and I can see some edge cases for it but consistency of edge delivery are considerable and out of the publisher’s control, while the latency problems (which, you-don’t-need-that dismissals aside, are actually what people building stuff in this space care about) seem nearly irreparable by design.

A browser isn’t an option using current technologies; WebRTC doesn’t really scale like this. RTMP/SRT/WebRTC for ingest, HLS or equivalent for consumption. That’s what it’s all built around and expecting other people to donate transit to you isn’t a reliable model for folks who have other options, I think. And most people do have other options.
I'm going to be real with you, this sounds similar to the "the job market isn't that bad, yes it's bad but I got a job right out of college" spiel bypassing evidence that many people send hundreds of job applications before they ever get a job.

Studies show most people meet online. Studies show most people struggle in dating markets. These are not mutually exclusive. But unlike jobs, one doesn't need to date to live, even if having a partner is a major point of fulfillment to most.
@shadowgovt I agree that many communities labled as such engage in self-destructive behavior. It may even be psychologically similar to the mentality of a suicide bomber.
Is it bad that the first metric the author shares is a borderline vanity metric (Github stars)?
> What will it take for you to actually believe that they may genuinely be changing?

Aligned incentives.
With the Linux virtual machines that are integrated into windows, known as WSL2 I can see how Extend will be the next step. The proprietary binary blobs for graphics and compute acceleration are already there.

Hopefully the GPL and AGPL can protect us somewhat against the Extend.
> No it doesn’t.

This statement verbatim is regularly repeated on HN - users pointing to Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Apple, whatever as being better solutions than the proposed crypto/web3 ideas.

> “Centralised” isn’t a problem.

Not for you, maybe.

Some users will be happy to manage the additional complexity and risks of handling non-custodial assets on Ethereum L2s in order to achieve lower fees and take-rates, privacy preservation, censorship resistance, and programmable composability.

A very simple example is a domain name. Outside of blockchain networks, we have no mechanism for non-custodial ownership and peer-to-peer transfer of a domain name asset - like you would exchange cash where two parties simply swap the bills directly without the need for a third-party to oversee the exchange and potentially extract rent.
setTimeout doesn't guarantee that it will execute exactly after 3000.

(() => {
const targ = $(".setGo");
const targ2 = $(".theSport > div:nth-child(2)");
const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations, observer) => {
if (mutations[0]?.target?.classList.contains('going')) {
targ2.childNodes.forEach(c => c.click());
}
});

observer.observe(targ, {
subtree: false,
attributes: true
});

$('.readyButton').click()
})();

This gives me consistent Time: 0.001 in FF. "Time: not yet set" in Edge/Chrome.
From the very last line - "The only motive here is indignation."

Brilliant.
We currently don't support Windows as a client. The main reason is that the builtin Windows NFS client is v3, while EFS is v4+. Some people have reported success mounting EFS on Windows using a third party NFS client, but I cannot comment on how well this works.
I'm going to hazard a guess that the OP agress here but I'll at least chime in with my own take on that which is our building habits of desertification of the planet (grass and a few trees is a biological desert) based on a mistaken belief of cheap, infinite oil to power cars happily down roads unimpeded by traffic, building cheap houses that won't last at out of plastic, composite materials which are needed because of poor architecture and a negative heating feedback loop were a bit unsustainable.

We're both under-building (in terms of volume, and quality) and over-building in terms of spreading things out too much.

This does not mean pack everyone into skyscrapers like Hong Kong. It means building medium density neighborhoods like we used to (ya know all of the most expensive places in America? Wonder why they're so expensive...) where most of your daily activity would involve walking or biking somewhere, you have some yard in the back of your home and you probably own a single car but can certainly own more than one if needed. But transit isn't 99% (literally) car-based infrastructure.

EVs won't solve these problems. The root problem is car-based infrastructure so more efficient cars just puts more people on the road and uses more resources. The only solution is changing architecture and neighborhood design.
This is one of the worst responses to a major disclosure I've ever read. I know that non-tech companies that slap on IoT junk tend to be terrible at security but this is easily a top 10 finish.
I don’t understand GNOME. I try it but I feel like I’m fighting it to use my computer. Then I start looking for extensions.

KDE Plasma on the other hand I can just install. Visually be annoyed. But it just works. And I don’t need to install a bunch of extensions.
Looking at things like anaesthetics, psychedilic drugs, delerium, sleep, etc, there seems to be plenty of evidence that the phenomena of consciousness is related to the mechanics of the brain.

There's also the interesting medical condition of "blindsight", caused by a specific type of brain damage, where the patient reports no conscious awareness of being able to see (they think they are blind), yet are able to competently complete tasks requiring vision (such as navigating a cluttered corridor). In other words. It's hard to imagine more direct proof of consciousness being related to brain connectivity.

I didn't say anything about ability to communicate about awareness, just the need for the brain to sense it (and therefore have introspective awareness of it). As the blindsight example shows, you can't have visual consciousness if you damage the feedback paths that make that possible.
> You end up having to go to events and things you don’t normally do just to gain exposure to women.

That's how it was for a long time. And, IMHO, it was not a bad setup.

I certainly would not call it a miserable reason to participate in those events. For example as a youth I went to dances (which, not knowing how to dance felt very uncomfortable), "intellectual" movies and classical concerts (which, for a small-city oaf who only thought about science, were way out of depth), but looking back I think I got a very good return on the time I spent on those.
I wonder if the reason they don't make sense is the lack of common appliances and 'plastic dry cleaning covers' around the globe. Every iron has a dot-based temperature setting (alongside others, generally), but not everyone knows what a mercury thermometer looks like or if that means 'temperature setting'.
Platform-independent drivers is also clever.
> What will it take for you to actually believe that they may genuinely be changing?

They can't change, as nearly every other (successful) company can't. They're built for profit, but human related values such as morals, honesty, sincerity, and generally being good to others etc. have no place in business: those are obstacles that soon or later must be removed to maximize profits. I expect pretty much every company to act in a benevolent way when they're young and still in need to establish a good public image, but as soon as their business allows them, they become evil, I mean not in a superhero comic baddie way ("muhaha! I'll conquer the world"), but rather in a very cold "we don't need to be nice anymore" way.
It's just how they're created, and the environment they "live" in that shapes them: if you dwell in a sea full of sharks, you better learn to behave as a shark, especially if being a shark guarantees more rights and less obligations than most humans.
What have people's experiences been like buying software from vendors?
The Unreasonable Confusion Hiding Under Data
Minor nitpick, but give this is a FB project where they should have hired very smart thinkers at the intersection of economics and CS:

> Move makes resources a first class primitive in the language, and enforces many invariants useful for scarce values

The key attribute of Cryptocurrency token (and money, in general) isn't that they are scarce, they are rivalrous. Arbitrary groups of people can't "use" them at the same time.
This is a silly take. They're not going to start a nuclear war, and especially for something as small as NATO pilots over Ukraine.

I swear, everyone's wits leave them when the Russians make nuclear threats. This is standard bully behavior, stop caving to it every time.
Apollo was rejected by a mortal after giving her powers. As a god of prophecy, he should have seen that coming.
After living through a few iterations of "they're horrible"->"maybe they're not so bad"->"oh wait, they're actually still horrible", nothing is going to convince me they're genuinely changing. In fact, I can't think of any instance where a shitty company became genuinely not shitty.
> Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
Tough to consider Microsoft's shift a permanent one until it survives a CEO change or two.

For me, real commitment from MS means Office for Linux. Instead we have Windows Subsystem Linux.
It doesn't have to be a mental burden.. Just write all your variables as mutable then let the ide automatically correct them to immutable. Ex: "Warning: This variable is never mutated. Would like to make it a const? <Fix>"

Let's say it is a mental burden. I'd rather have the burden when writing the code over when reading the code. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31823991)
Machine Sentience Is Overrated
This is a hard one. Back in the day, I though that the following things should be removed from all resumes / CVS

- Gender

- Date of birth

- Photos

- Religion

- Dates of schools and employment

etc.

But as it turned out (https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-h...) - this did not at all stop discrimination against marginalized groups etc. IIRC, it actually made them worse off - because fundamentally strong candidates stood out in the resumes anyway, while weaker candidates still looked weak - and instead if giving the benefit of doubt to marginalized candidates, they now just looked like regular weak candidates.
Note that the keys uses by Microsoft for signing Windows are different from the ones they use to sign anything else, and some motherboards and laptops only come with the former. Early x86 Surface Pros, for example (even though you could disable secure boot entirely, and be forced to go through Scary Boot Prompts).
> I wonder how much those posts are calculated and how much organic/culture related.

Don't companies have a fiduciary duty to calculate things; the reason for doing something actually cannot just be that it's a nice thing to do? Not down to the word, but at least the general decision to be this way?
GPL FUD is still with us. A lot of corporations have "no GPL software" policies. They make exceptions for Linux but resist any new GPLed software over the concern that the license is "viral" in ways it really isn't.

It's dumb. I'm convinced that if you simply renamed the license it would go away. The text could be unchanged. It all goes back to Microsoft pushing FUD against the GPL years ago.