skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Microsoft used to be all about Windows

This feels like a Citation Needed assumption both in this comment and in the article. Again, there's too much of a straight line here: Microsoft has always been one of (if not the) largest software development companies for the Macintosh. That has never changed.

We all know Ballmer was a huge Windows cheerleader and "home team supporter" and wanted to make sure that the best experiences were always on Windows. But he never killed Macintosh support. He championed the iPad versions of Office that Nadella is credited for (which the article even points out!). The closest Microsoft ever came to being "Windows only" was maybe the brief glimmer of optimism under Nadella where the Windows 10 team briefly imagined that every device could run Windows (and then felt the crushing disappointment to realize that most wouldn't).

Again, it doesn't look like a full circle to me but a mostly straight line with a few zigs and zags if you zoom in micro-enough. I understand where some of this is coming from that Microsoft did have years, especially under Ballmer, where they seemed to care too much about Windows, but Microsoft was never "just" The Windows Company in any era.
These threads seem to invite lots of comments of the form "[I|someone I know of|both] [am|is|are] smarter than PG for xyz reasons". These can be interesting to read if you want to get into the nitty gritty.

But they don't often seem to engage with the overall point. In this case, I think that point is that there are probably local truths and universal truths, and wouldn't it be neat to focus on the universal ones, or figure out which ones are only locally true, and why? But who knows, that's just my interpretation.
Tested: Where Does the Tone Come from in a Guitar Amplifier? [video]
The KMT have an awful track record as being horrifically authoritarian.

OP isn’t wrong though contemporary Taiwan is a model democracy in a region where there are few.
What do you mean the hardware is locked once Apple cuts support? Did the iPad stop working? Are you referring to Apple services no longer working?
Hmm, on Windows 10 Chrome/Firefox the demos with the movable ears don't work very well when the position changes. Both browsers output horrible audio in those sections.

edit: If I limit Firefox to 60fps (down from my display's 280hz) then it seems to work fine.
One area that's illuminating is the effort to annotate the results of whole-genome sequencing projects. Tagging stretches of the genome which represent coherent units of some sort, and then relating them to some functional capability of the organism, is not at all a solved problem.

Here's an overview from 2011 where they're struggling to even get a good tagging system up for single-celled microorganisms (a much easier problem than multicellar genomes like humans):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22180819/

> "Highlights include the development of annotation assessment tools, community acceptance of protein naming standards, comparison of annotation resources to provide consistent annotation, and improved tracking of the evidence used to generate a particular annotation. The development of a set of minimal standards, including the requirement for annotated complete prokaryotic genomes to contain a full set of ribosomal RNAs, transfer RNAs, and proteins encoding core conserved functions, is an historic milestone."
code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server works fairly well and can be saved to the home screen as a web applet to get rid of the browser URL bar. Their are a few UI issues related to touch but it has served well enough for some light work.

You can also use a remote apps like Rainway/TeamViewer/RDP/VNC somewhat successfully to get a more full desktop experience. Unfortunately they all seem to have their own input caveats that take some getting used to.

I am personally waiting for Parsec to release native iPadOS and tvOS clients as it provides the best experience I have found.

It seems like the gaming oriented remote desktop apps (Rainway https://rainway.com/, Parsec https://parsec.app/) are the best though as the latency on the more traditional ones is somewhat of a hindrance.

USB/Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support tends to work okay, but the simulated touch mouse makes getting used to things tough. If you have not tried using iPad OS with a mouse I suggest you look into before making a purchase as it is a fairly limiting experience.
There seemed to be pretty good indications that Russia has blown up things in the EU in the last decade. For example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/28/bulgarian-pros...
Funny, I find that PIP makes me work my ass off and not the other way around.
I grew up in the Sedgwick projects in the Bronx, and my grandma still lives there. She's been in the same rent-controlled apartment for 40+ years, which was affordable to her as a small business owner (hair/beauty salon).

She's now living independently at age 86, thanks to a social security check and a community where she's everyone's abuela. Rent-controlled housing made it easier to divorce her abusive husband and start a business back in the 60s.

How is that dystopian?
Not as customizable as what I'm sure you're planning, but Withings makes watches with that design direction

https://www.withings.com/us/en/watches
It didn't always have a generic Chrome UA, if you go here[0] it had 'Brave' somewhere in the string, which you could fix by turning on fingerprinting prevention. Glad they fixed that. I don't want people to know I use Brave, although I'm sure there's ways to detect Brave with JS.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+useragent&ia=answer
That's awsome! sounds are chill af.
Indeed. Given the starting point, and the major shift in world-view required to do this kind of thing, I think of that library as a "phase 2" kind of thing. First get a few successful projects under our belt, then think about how we can add more leverage.

But I strongly agree that the end point to envision is the center acting as a library/facilitator to share knowledge between different groups, rather than The Source of Truth in itself.

Local farmers that succeed in these sort of programs would likely be happy to go share ideas and experiences with other farmers, and the government can certainly provide funding and logistical support to facilitate these small-scale collaborations.

And it's certainly the case that there are some scientific advances that farmers aren't aware of, that "the center" can help to introduce; things like sensors, democratized GM technology, and so on, could all be developed centrally and made available to the periphery. Farmers tend to be quick to adopt new tools and practices that actually help them.
unix has tags, they are known as hardlinks.
Sharing here because I could not stop laughing with each discovery revealed. An excellent example of an average person using the scientific method to great effect.
"On entire other sides of the globe" is a pretty strong statement. Japan is a vassal state of the US and Taiwan's independence from China relies wholly on US support. Chinese citizens (at least the ones I questioned) have no love for Japanese. There are even talks of a Pacific NATO between Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and the Phillipines, with Taiwan being the clear Ukraine parallel. South Korea is probably politically like Germany (primarily self interested), Japan is probably politically like the UK (sees the bigger picture).
* Note: These were taken after the completion of the official investigation, so it’s possible samples were taken and what is seen does not reflect what was originally found.

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Original source:

- https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forsta-bilderna-fran-sprang...

Company that filmed it:

- https://www.blueyerobotics.com

- https://twitter.com/blueyerobotics
You may be interested in things like Strand and the work on parallel Prologs which have a similar "let the computer system sort out the proper execution order". This wouldn't satisfy your syntax desire (Algol family) but may help develop your understanding of the problem domain.

A discussion last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26948351 (wow, 18 months since that discussion, seemed more recent in my memory)
Any technical field is going to have its jargon. Do you have an example of something that sounds overly fancy?
Maybe it's my bias as a musician, but as long as Apple doesn't put Logic on the iPad, it's just not a system that works as a piece of professional kit.
Yes, this is fair.
Pretty much all Ryzen 3000 and 5000 CPUs support ECC. The 4000 G series only with the pro models.

Here's the link: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045186/
>China can't build its own fab for these types of procs.

China can't build fabs for very small lithography processes yet. But 40 years ago they couldn't build almost anything. That changed. The fab situation will change, too.
Can computers and AI crack the code of sepsis?
Suburbs would die without cities!

Also the cities are dying because the suburbians aren't commuting in!

Maybe it's not as simple as people want to make it out to be, and cities are more dependent on suburbs that simple YouTube videos want to admit.
> What is the exact reason for such a big backlog ?

The two political parties can't agree on reforms for legal immigration. The current rules were written for a generation when the quantity and nature of immigration was very different.
This is not always true either. If you have limited control over the timestamp fed to a TOTP app you can capture codes that will be valid at any time of your choosing in the future. TOTP codes are just a magic hash of a secret and a timestamp.

Also the TOTP seeds are not stored in secure enclaves on phones but rather in plain text. Secure enclaves on phones do not have native TOTP support. Any application sandbox vulnerability on the TOTP seed containing device can give an attacker the ability to generate unlimited codes. Google Authenticator stores the secrets in an SQLite file.

It gets even worse when you consider TOTP secrets must /also/ be stored in plain text server side, normally sitting in a SQL database to be silently dumped through a pile of backend vulnerabilities most companies do not patch allowing bulk 2FA bypass.

TOTP is a fundamentally broken design that is negligent for any organization to support at this point alongside SMS. Everyone has one or more WebAuthn capable devices now regardless of if they realize it or not.

Today the right call for 2FA is to implement WebAuthn with the verification happening in a Confidential VM, HSM, Nitro Enclave or similar. Support only this.
I take your point, but I've used freebsd on a laptop before and never had 3rd party software (like firefox) break after an update. FreeBSD really is stable. For desktops/laptops I would probably lean towards a linux distro first due to hw support, but FreeBSD being stale/solid is no joke.
These are seedling trees, less than a foot high. They're expected to fail at a pretty high rate. In the future I'll be updating to 2nd year trees which seem to have a better cost/survival rate.
Oracle GoldenGate Free – full featured
Agreed! I think there was maybe some real escalation around the time of Pelosi's visit (where Morris Chang was in attendance in her photo-op with Tsai), though, and it's hard not to see the moves in HK as threatening.
What a neat switch from metric to imperial units! I wish more web pages had this.
> Citizenship should be performance based as opposed to based upon place of birth

Wait, what? I thought you were going to suggest that people should be free to live/work wherever, which I agree with in principle, but also think it's not a change that can be made overnight. You seem to be suggesting that everybody has to earn the right to live in a particular country, even if they were born there. If that was universal, where would the people who fail the test go?
Seems like a good thing as a consumer. As a producer it’s what you try to avoid. They’re not charities
What I have noticed even in top engineering companies is an interesting dichotomy. Product determines the "innovation", engineering determines how to build it. I wonder if thats because, if you let engineers do both, you end up with a mess and accomplish nothing. Programming is hard enough, programming within well defined barriers and goals is much easier. You have a low risk cycle of design -> code -> test.

The issue is that often product is not technical enough to bake in technical possibilities to how they think about innovation. Not always, but I have seen this happening even on recommendation and ML marketing systems for some of the large most sophisticated companies.
Paul Graham needs to read this and get back to us.

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being by George Lakoff

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53337
I ran linux on a monitor at 1600x1200
Non-competes should include compensation commensurate for the non-compete period. In the case of these individuals is the retirement package not sufficient to guard national secrets?
Wow, that first example is really bad. Comparing the grey-and-black against the white-on-orange, WCAG 2 and APCA differ by a factor of two, and judging by eye it's entirely due to WCAG contrast being incorrect. How do you design a contrast measure and not notice that it's sometimes off by a factor of 2? We had CIELAB in 1976; it will give you reasonable contrast measurements.

(Calculation: (61 / 47) / (2.9 / 4.5) = 2.014)
I love CDE. I first saw it in Solaris and I still have fond memories of it.
That's all nice and well, but I no longer can tell the difference between Big Tech's "Abuse Prevention" and abuse. They need transparency not because it's going to make their job easier. They need transparency because literally millions of people hate their companies and don't have one iota of trust in their internal decision-making. Big Tech workers might think all those people are morons and can be ignored indefinitely. In reality, it simply doesn't work this way.
Note that in the for case, you can have many "next" and having many "end" would be silly.
> The moment the sanctions are lifted

What would be that moment, though? When they pause killing? When they decide to start peace talks? Frankly, I find it hard to imagine everyone* gets back to business as usual after everything that happened. Maybe if Russians themselves killed Putin and at least apologized it would be a good starting point to consider talking about potential lifting of sanctions.

* except Hungary
theres a lot of orgs where product people will be onshore and the technies offshore, so the model and barrier kind of makes sense (for this operating model), and typically the Product people will be the more expensive/smarter/critical resource in this case.
Nothing you say is necessarily the case, and is dependent on implementation. Take "value is just always equal to true", well, no, not if your key is a predicate. "Color:red" is more powerful than "#red" or "red:true", and "color:[lookup-ID-for-red-concept]" is substantially more powerful than both.
Agreed. One of pg’s examples was “If there are aliens, they’d probably discover that a stool with three legs is the most stable.” I’m surprised he didn’t include it in this essay.
> It gets even more complex if tags can have multiple parents, like Wikipedia categories. "American Male Novelists" is a subtag of "American Male Writers" and "American Novelists". Now we have diamond problems, redundancy, a whole host of other edge cases.

I don't understand this problem. I would think that you would have

tag:american

tag:male

tag:novelist

tag:writer,

and tag:novelist would itself be tagged as tag:writer, because all novelists are writers.
Does it allow you to have access to the whole fileystem, unrestricted access?
what breakage do you remember from Debian? I remember using debian on the same machine and going through three major releases without issue. ubuntu, not so much.

agreed about the ease of openBSD upgrades from one release to another
I'm not a Rust apologetic, but even if the standard tooling committee appears, most big projects won't migrate to these tools, considering that they've been using some building scripts for 10-20 years and maintaining dependencies in hacky ways. These standard tools will mostly help new projects in C++ which can start from scratch and use vcpkg and whatever building tool will be selected (probably cmake or meson).
Right. Read that first. Also the Santa Clara Principles that Doctorow mentions.[1]

Now, a key point there is freedom from arbitrary action. The Santa Clara Principles have a "due process clause". They call for an appeal mechanism, although not external oversight. Plus statistics and transparency, so the level of moderation activity is publicly known, to keep the moderation system honest.

That's really the important part. The moderation process is usually rather low-quality, because it's done either by dumb automated systems or people in outsourced call centers. So a correction mechanism is essential.

It's failure to correct such errors that get companies mentioned on HN, in those "Google cancelled my account for - what?"

The "Abuse prevention is tradecraft" author has hold of the wrong end of the problem.

[1] https://santaclaraprinciples.org/
The `infix` syntax is missing from the major items. Without infix syntax, all languages are just variations of LISP -- I guess that was all the article is about.
It's not that great. Brave is ahead when it comes to privacy and features and does a lot of things differently.

Also the fact that their contract requires them to whitelist Microsoft trackers is something to be wary of.

https://brave.com/privacy-features/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
>I have plenty of incentive to keep the trees in my own yard from dying, yet I lack the expertise. So they die. I need an arborist.

I don't mean to be rude, but how brown is your green thumb? I get killing house plants, but killing a tree growing outdoors seems like something you'd actively have to do. The most common "mistake" I've seen are lack of care with lawn equipment like weed whackers. Are they just not being planted correctly so they don't have a chance?
Powerful features that are more than a glorified ^Z. Reminding actions to finger shortcuts, quick access through a command palette, etc.

It'd be like me calling McDonald's restaurant-class because they could suddenly give you a plate. Sure, it's a component, but the porcelain isn't why I go to a restaurant, it's to have a qualified cook doing things with his expertise.
It used to be that way that any amount (I think?) was considered tax exempt/tax-free if it was used for the purposes of a qualifying list of expenses (similar to what you have in the UK). There was a tax law passed that came into effect in 2018 that removed that rule, however. I believe it'll go back to 'normal' in 2025 for moving expenses.
All apps should have a PWA[0] option. Crpytee[1] is the only service I know of that offers strictly a PWA. PWAs have less privileges and this is good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

[1] https://crypt.ee/download
Advice for quitting startup I founded
i'm leaving a startup i cofounded after 1 year because my cofounder and i have decided we're not compatible. he is the CEO, and it makes the most sense for me to be the one to step away. honestly, the last year was quite miserable with our dynamic so i'm pretty happy about it.

the question is: he doesn't want to tell our investors the real reason why i'm leaving (afraid of gossip, side picking), and he wants us to fabricate some other reason for why (he suggested saying i got burnt out, which i rejected as this is untrue and makes it look like i lack resilience, and i intend to start another company in the near future). what is the best narrative for leaving a startup you cofounded, especially if you plan to raise money for another startup in the future?
That’s just arguing semantics.
I used to be same. Until i realised that remote work lets _me_ choose an environment where i fit in. After years wasted in london thinking about how cool it is and how much that city has to offer i realised it’s lonely as heck. Then i figured i would rather move on the country, get to know my neighbour, maybe bbq in a garden and have a small group if misfits like myself over for a beer every now and then. Heck i can even make my own starbucks at home in a nice office room that turns into a man cave at the switch of a button. I can do my hobby gardening, my own bread, maybe even learn how to do my own beer. I am not the hippie type but i found these to be better for my mental health. Those two hours not commuting work out at ten hours saved per week. Not to mention i can cook while i work (and plan the code, day or architecture in a quiet setting).

Doing all of this in a city jam packed by people rushing to offices would have been impossible. Making friends also since its a large city and there is no time to meet and maintain relationships anyway.

I think keeping an open mind and exploring the options remote work give you might help fix the issues that might impede socialising. The alternative is not even knowing you can do better, but maybe in the right setting - which you could explore by remote working.
Should this work over NFS or SMB?
Just google it. There's enough out there, but you don't want to believe the experts even though you don't know the science. There is no signature of manipulation in the Genome. Zero sign of it being "recombined". Experts just don't see a clear way it could have happened. Just the inability to say it's impossible and will never happen is seen as confirmation of the hypothesis.

Proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis often believe the researchers have somehow enhanced the virus. The only way we actually know to do this is through evolution in lab animals. And even then it's pretty damn hard. Maybe multiple industrial-scale facilities could evolve a threatening Virus. At horrendous cost. Maybe. And even China couldn't hide that.
DDR5 does have "on chip ECC", but that doesn't protect as much as full ECC. Bit errors can be introduced after the bits leave the chip. It could happen on the ram chip pins, in the DIMM, the DIMM connector, the motherboard, the CPU pins, or in the CPU.

So it's not just the error reporting, it's protecting against errors on the whole pipeline, not just inside the chip.
There is nothing illegal or unpopular about this answer. It doesn't happen as commonly due to large cultural differences, and there is more to life than just a visa (as important as that might be).
I'm not going to disagree that this definitely happens a lot, but it's definitely not an option for many people who have been stuck in a backlog for 10 years and are already married/have children with a spouse that immigrated with them.
Given how you approached it (zero guidance and support), I'm not surprised all 5 asked for their laptops back.
They say this but almost all the Nexus/Pixel phones that they have released are of an appalling quality and have a very short support timespan. How do they plan to compete against Apple with such a flawed product line?
Having less records is a privacy feature. Disappearing messages obviously isn't going to stop someone who is malicious from the get-go but if your friend leaves their phone unlocked or turns malicious later not having that history on the device is a big win.

I agree that it should be advertised very clearly (maybe "Request that all members of the conversation delete their copies of the messages after this length of time") but even though not enforceable it is a privacy feature.
Thanks. Was not aware of the preview. Going by the single screenshot, I could have sworn it’s vscode! Not sure how I feel about it (after all it’s just a tool but sheesh some visual differentiation would be nice).
Ah yes... pedantic contrarianism, unsupported and bluntly stated as fact, the lifeblood of HN threads.