skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally like Sophia Script a lot to initially configure Windows to my liking: https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

It also does a lot more than „debloat“ which is a loaded term on itself because tastes are different. Someone might like having certain things included in their installation, some don’t.
Which reminds me of a very old joke:

Two friends meet in a bar.

Says one: "I've bought a goat."

Says the other: "A goat? Where do you keep it?"

"In the bedroom."

"In the bedroom? What about the smell?"

"Well, the critter will have to get used to it."
Yeah so you compete against luck by leveraging your prior dominance in mobile OSes with a committed iMessage-like approach, instead of waiting for two former Yahoo! employees to eat your lunch then launching several competing apps that you kill off later.
> Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More

This is actually quite logical: if people pirated much less, these "anti-piracy" organizations would lose quite some funding from the movie and recording industries. So it is in their interest that the "piracy" problems never disappears or becomes even worse.

Incentives matter.
So sad that this is necessary. Same for Smartphones apps you cant uninstall and all these unwanted settings you have to opt out instead of opting in.
What really irks me that there are several useful operations that can be supported by proper regular expressions in linear time, but those franken-expressions never feature them.

I am mostly talking about set intersection and complement. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language#Closure_prope... has some more.
So I should start looking for used GPU prices dropping from the 16th onwards?
Do you mean Google luck or Microsoft Azure luck?
> I don't have as much hope for such a thing. To me, this trend is also a reflection of perhaps the societal devaluing of IRL social connections.

I see it instead as a recalibration of traditional social interaction. We didn't used to be obsessed with the lives of 500 loosely related people. We cared very narrowly about our immediate friends and families. Occasionally someone would mention a funny anecdote about a friend of a friend. Without social media we go back to our evolutionary default. I've already embraced this way of living again and it's wonderful.
Haven't you heard, Republicans are all about defunding or murdering the police all of the sudden. Or maybe just the FBI?
Just today, a newsletter told me about a "slow" social network called "Be real". Never heard of it.

My message, though, is not that BeReal or anything new is going to be the future of sharing info on the net.

I think the future is looking a lot like the best of the past, with improvement.

Which is why I got this info on a newsletter, that directed me to a blog.

The missing pieces are "personal newsletter made easy" (for producing content), "newsletter discovery made non spammy", and "making all those services sustainable without ads".
Old-school pencil-on-paper vector piloting is key to crossing the Gulf Stream
Serious question, is Ubuntu still including that Amazon spyware?
I always wondered how we feel being tired - whatever the underlying reason is. Where in the brain does it happen, what system does the perception of beeing tired - reporting it to consciousness? Also, it must exist to stop something harmful to happen to the brain or other parts of the body.
Something else: Abnormal fatigue happens after brain injuries but also in depression. In brain injury some basic mechanism - like transmitter metabolism my be damaged, and cause the fatigue, but may fatigue also protect the psyche in some way, or may it sometimes give "false readouts"?
I'm amazed how little we understand, but even more that nobody seem to ask the question about or investigate the question of the "tiredness-perception-brain-curcuit".
We should have something for Windows 11. Starting from the bizarre right click option menu fixes, task bar height, taskbar clock issues, freezing start menu, everything rounded back to squared edges, etc...
You can repackage stuff and move that to urban centers ... but that comes with cost again. Cost that will be high enough so that urban centers don't make sense to deliver to anymore.
WP7 was actually a near-perfect phone experience that did everything right as a communicator OS.
Title and subtitle are:

Seamanship: How To Plot Your Course Across the Gulf Stream

Old-school pencil-on-paper vector piloting is the key to crossing the Gulf Stream.

But I figured the subtitle would probably be of more immediate interest to the HN crowd.
Depends on your echo. Zsh's interpretes escape sequences by default unless the "BSD_ECHO" option is used, bash's doesn't unless "xpg_echo" is on.

And xpg_echo is on by default for bash on macOS, so for users on macOS it looks like echo interprets escapes by default.

This is one of the reasons why echo is hopelessly unportable.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/65819/55665
in terms of goat's ability to eat almost literally anything, even the things you don't want them to eat, they have a saying in afghanistan (translated from the dari):

if you don't have any problems, buy a goat
This is very region specific. Here is a similar news from Finland about a 81-year old man who shot a at a burglar who invaded their home and attacked him. The owner was then charged with attempted murder

https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/2df88e0a-8859-4a13-822d-9...
StackFuture: Store arbitrary futures into space allocated in the caller frame
Nobody is going to register a business to pay VAT in an MMO.
Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter, and GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. They’re supposed to keep each other in balance (to an extent), so increasing GABA should theoretically lower glutamate.

Perhaps that drink after work isn’t such a bad idea after all…
This Month in Rust GameDev #36 – July 2022
Would programming in DrRacket running on seL4 microkernel allow better debugability and control?
BeReal is buggy as hell, but it makes me happy and excited to see what friends and family are up to in a way I haven't for a decade or more
Third-party NFTs in games are the latest unethical twist from Web3
10 times faster than a virtual call is still ridiculously fast on any general purpose CPU made in this century. We often forget how insanely fast they are (and at the same time, I have no idea how we manage to add as much bloat to certain stacks that they make the processor struggle).

Like, I’m fairly sure you could have decent latency if your callback function for onMouseMove made a local network call to another process.

Also, how fast do you think download progress should update? Animating it to the next keyframe every second is much more than enough.
just check it. it is a great project. same design idea, more sophisticated for advanced usage.
I was actually also a fan of windows phone, though I never owned one. I thought the live tiles UI was more original than whatever android was doing.
Nothing cloud. Regular software like Office, Adobe stuff, accounting software, industrial related software, and many more.
Most things in society start out simple and grow more complex as we add more speed, security, applications, and so on. See also: medicine, science, flight, computers, the internet.

Bitcoin is a very simple system and very limited in its capabilities, but as far as modern blockchains go it is like the early room-size computers, Ford Model T, or Wright Flyer.
While I understand the intent of the freedom of expression campaigners statements and those by "content producers", they are missing important context and assuming they are without blame.

The "content producers" are not interested in the location itself, only what the location can give them, which is engagement numbers on their platform. The sanctity of the location itself is of little relevance.

It's that singular focus which is the problem here, not any kind of curtailment of freedom of expression. And even with such freedoms you shouldn't expect no consequences. These loose bans are the consequence, and I'm willing to bet that at no point would other tiktok users or expression campaigners have asked their fellows to behave themselves.

After all there are other people who visit these locations and aren't needed to be told to respect it.
> 2. Amongst other measures taken, fertiliser and pesticide imports were reduced. Because of financial necessity, not as some "degrowth is good" initiative.

In your reuters link seem to contradict your claim: "The dramatic fall in yields follows a decision last April by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chemical fertilisers in Sri Lanka". It was officially rolled back after protests, but "only a trickle of chemical fertilisers made it to farms" so it sounds like supply lines acted as if they were still in place.

> 1. Government which supported fertilizer imports through direct government spending and via reserve foreign currency holdings was unable to support either end of this policy: it had no capacity for funding imports and had rapidly diminishing foreign currency reserves.

That doesn't seem like a great excuse for banning fertilizer, or an explanation for why after rollback of ban only a "only a trickle" of fertilizer was available. The claims in my source and reuters seems to be that the supply was not there, not that fertilizer prices were high. Do you have any source saying fertilizer was available at much higher cost?

> https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/15/23218969/sri-la...

Regardless of competency in Sri Lankas governments execution they have been working with WEF on their sustainable farming goals for a while. This agenda seek to ban fertilizer, make us all eat bugs instead of meat and move to organic farming.

Getting a high ESG score due to meeting sustainability goals grants benefits when getting loans, Sri Lankas is 98, so I share your intuition that a huge contributing factor is that they really need those loans due to long term mismanagement.

As I've pointed out elsewhere other WEF sustainable farming aligned governments such as the Dutch have implemented very similar policies and as abruptly, triggering the same kind of large scale protests and dire outcomes:
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/07/ministry-figures-sugge...

I am at this point taking WEF seriously, as real-world negative outcomes does not seem to stop implementation of their catastrophic tyrannical policies.
We're already living in a post-truth world with broken incentives. Something like this will, at worst, add a transparency layer to it.
I think everyone should spend a few years digging ditches or perhaps long shifts at a restaurant if not so tough. If you don't slowly come to the realization that you're in one of the most fortunate cohorts in human history, I'll eat crow.

Step two, go skydiving. Will clear out the cobwebs.
If I read this right :

step 1 : create an actor ; let's say ACTOR1

step 2 : create multiple actors (bots etc) let's say ACTOR[A-Z] to raise the reputation of ACTOR1

step 3 : use all the Rating Token Balance (R) of ACTOR[A-Z] to give reputation (S) to ACTOR1

step4 : ACTOR1 now have a good reputation on the blockchain

step5 : ???

step6 : back to nickserv on irc with known nicknames to find someone with good reputation

EDIT : I missed the "Note they can only acquire reputation by being good Actors in the eyes of already-good Actors" but I am curious to see how this could not be rigged by a algorithm
Poor / no cellular coverage at national parks is such a nice thing to have, thanks to the “influencers”.
That’s literally how it works in much of the rural South. You pay fire dues, or they will only act to save human life. Otherwise they’ll watch your house burn to the ground with you.
The point is that today you are always online on your phone. Whatsapp, Viber or Messenger always work. No need to log onto a mainframe and type forum.

I feel that the point made is a good one. Given that we can share what we want directly via instant messengers that everyone has "turned on" all the time, value proposition of Facebook drops dramatically. Anything you want to share you can share directly and immediately get it to whoever you want to see it.
It exists in theory, since Snake (like all computer games) is a finite MDP.
> Is it anything that deviates from going to sleep when the sun sinks and sleeping through till you naturally wake up when the sun rises?

And how does it affect people living close to the poles, where the sun basically doesn't set for 3 months in the summer and doesn't rise for 3 months in the winter. (Scandinavia, Canada, etc)
Newer business software all runs on the web. Old business software may not even run on current windows machines.
Installing without internet connection also has the major benefit that it allows you to use a local user account rather than forcing you to signup for an online Microsoft/hotmail/.. account
This makes me wonder if these games could be designed to DDoS the tax collection agencies of specific countries and force them to adopt a simpler tax code once millions of players suddenly have intractable tax return forms.
In German, there’s an old phrase: “Appointing the goat as gardener”. You use it when somebody is being made responsible for task for which he is not just incompetent, but where he will actually cause damage - for instance because he has ulterior motives.
Reading this article makes me feel tired.
I never understood why incrementing a pointer while doing another operation, such as a comparison, is considered good style in C, TBQH.

I think the go example is much more readable.
> All contracts are a restraint of trade of some form.

I don't follow... how is this true? "I will give you X and you will give me Y" is a contract right? What is it restraining either party from doing?
Never update never upgrade, if everything works.

There is never-ever some groundbreaking performance improvement, like in 1994.
Thanks, I was thinking U-Boot was for embedded only... but I see that it has even a UEFI version!
Huh. A biochemical model of the Ballmer Peak.
I get your perspective, but most of Europe right north of Italy has decently functional public transport.

Italy is really not that bad in absolute, for crying out loud it's the 9th GDP in the world. It all comes down to looking at specific aspects and comparing to its neighbors.
The internal names of some apps are still keeping the "Zune" name in them...
The most “abstract” mathematics applied “usefully” in a real-word context
O&O Software GmbH, Berlin do a nice suite of 'free' tools to remove apps and limit telemetry in Windows 10 and 11; see:

O&O AppBuster | ShutUp 10

[1] https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster

[2] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

* Free of charge for private users, companies and educational institutions
>but most of the ecosystem went with the one that made the change

with the one they were told to by the de facto authority of the Ethereum world, FTFY
Just a tip - i use tinywall firewall to prevent windows from doing anything in the background. i used the built-in firewall as well but windows has multipel services that can act as proxy for other services to avoid blocking. tinywall is simpler. i only disable it for updates, WHEN I WANT TO UPDATE. it has been working for me flawlessly. also, install windows without internet connection.
Designing in the Open(Source)
> He was responding to what the manager actually said;

And that's what I was responding to. I'm not going to respond to the manager because he's not reading this.

> your advice was that he should have replied to one "correct" interpretation that was not explicit.

No that was not my advice. I gave an example of a response which acknowledges the question, provides an answer "no", and gives the opportunity for the manager to come back with something if they really did have some valid case it might help. All in fewer words flailing about with a bunch of questions that still didn't answer the original.

My example remains valid even if the interpretation of the question and whether it matched the manager's intention was wrong, it still works.

The correctness I'm talking about is not in the answer to the technical question, it is how to go about having a polite interaction with others, which is what the author's stated goal was and what they got wrong.

> In contrast, the manager just seems to be flailing around, unable to clarify. That is not correctable.

I don't know what you mean by "not correctable". Correcting the behavior corrects it.

> Only one of these people was ruining the interaction and thus needed advice.

No, both do, and the manager isn't here, hence my comment.
The report is titled as ‘Norovirus Infection Diagnostics Market: Opportunity Analysis and Future Assessment 2020-2028’. An overview of conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches of the Norovirus Infection Diagnostics market is the main objective of the report, which further consists the market opportunity and insights of the data involved in the making of the respective market.
My gf and I have a plot and are considering goats. There are trees there though, full grown conifers. Will they be at risk? No tree likes it to be stripped of its bark.
> So, around $100 per hour, effectively? Looks like Steve offered $250 per hour (assuming Bill's calculation is not widely off the mark). This was back in 1984. Thirty-eight years later, salaries have not increased by that much!

Don't confuse salaries with contract work.
It is a multi level marketing scheme with a useless product.
> How are "blocking rights" legal?

Probably aren't. Gamedev is the wild west of software.
It was flagged and dead almost immediately then zmgsabst made another post [1] linking to the dead post and someone vouched for the dead post you see here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32432791
That's an interesting point. A huge part of food is visual cues-- without those there are that many fewer triggers to eating processed and fast foods
Right. Joke.
To add to that, stating the fact that one of the tech titans of today, Bill Gates, was in cahoots with a convicted pedophile is either met with "this is just hearsay!" or "you're jumping to conclusions", when it's not ignored and down-voted altogether.

Even more important (not that many of us receiving our wages and dividends from probably pedophiles isn't important), the strong connection between Silicon Valley of days past, and, most importantly, from today, with the Military and Security Complex is also shunned.
Doesn't this produce a selection effect against cute rabbits? Parents are more likely to choose cute rabbits, those rabbits become pets, they either get returned and eaten or kept. So non-cute rabbits tend to live longer on the farm, and as such have more offspring and get selected for, and eventually the farm will be covered in ugly rabbits and your sister will not have any clients anymore.
TIL Michael Jordan nor Tom Brady are featured on hiregoats.com... which is a shame
You use all of these?
Maybe you can see rentry.co for inspiration.
Ignoring or de-facto shadow-banning is also a form of censorship.
perhaps one of the finest shows since streaming became a thing
N = 24 and the subheader is "Toxicity of excess glutamate may contribute to cognitive fatigue, but some experts are skeptical"

Color me skeptical.
1. Most people, when regretting about decisions they could have made, are unlikely to even make those decisions at the time of that realization, if those decisions involve lifestyle changes, because change is hard and modern life is full of addictive superstimuli.

2. Trying to hard-sell people into making changes, whether by scare tactics, shaming, and so on, might cause them to actively avoid making those changes. Simply telling people what they're doing is unhealthy and they should stop it is often not enough. Public health education is an incredibly difficult and lacking area.

3. There's only so much that could be done to encourage or deter people. At some point these half-measures of nudge economics are useless, and if you really want to improve public health, you might as well start banning harmful products and practices, and mandating healthy ones. That would be more helpful than being a nag.
It's all in there already, "requiring two boms" "not just possible to ONLY replace IP2315 by CH224D"
This is not goat content.
I've been using crowd-sourced tools like SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike, and I really like them. So far they've resisted attack using some kind of consensus algorithm. I've also been using the search engine Kagi, which lets me downrank and even eliminate certain domains and sites which I believe to be low quality. I wonder if it's possible to marry these. If the majority of users dislike a domain, it gets downranked. Of course bot detection and perhaps the use of logins might be required, but compromises must be made if the desire is a better search engine.
Giving X to someone else who offers me more for it.
"Sony's desire to impede such growth has prevented Microsoft from expanding Game Pass. To stop content creators from adding to Game Pass and other rival subscription services, Sony pays for 'blocking rights.'"

Or: Sony pays a part of the development-cost for the right to be involved on how/where the final product goes on sale.

Without further evidence from Microsoft to back this malicious framing of the matter, this sounds very reasonable to me.
As an electronics guy, sometimes it is really reasuring to look what happens on the wire, because it bisects your problem space.

E.g. I had a student once who was frantically trying everything on the raspberry pi to fix some motor control script he made. I suggested he should just write a minimum workable code first and then check if there is a signal on the wire. Turns out the wire was not connected.

Especially with hairy problems looking at the actual signals can be useful. Granted, doing so for UDP/Ethernet frames might be overkill, but it is nice to see it can be done.