skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same thing with my mother. She plays Candy Crush, actively uses WhatsApp, Youtube, Facebook, takes photos to share with friends/family and not much else.

Tapping adds apparently lead to installing these things called "Launcher" which are essentially complete phone UI and those launchers have ads that lead to even more hideous apps. They also lie about the thing you are installing, she was trying to get some emojis and I checked back then, the launcher in question was disguised as emoji thingy. You need to carefully read the text to understand that you get the emojis together with complete phone UI replacement.

I can't stand the Android way of doing things. How it is possible to replace the main user interface of the device? I understand the desire to completely control your device and I do support it in principle but this sort of modifications should be possible only by going through scary screens that let only people know what they do achieve that sort of device modifications.
I'm just waiting for them to build a 15" model and ship to Europe.

If they are reading this thread, an option with no numberpad and hardware buttons on the touchpad. I'm paying an extra for that. The language of the keyboard is much less important. Thanks.
https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/
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Well yeah.. because they are hidden files. They wouldn't be hidden files if the default wasn't to hide them...
Thankfully, it is a laptop (presumably a Windows PC), not a phone or tablet.

It may be full of junk, but you can remove it, reinstall a fresh copy of Windows, and there is a good chance it can be fully functional on Linux too. I don't know how it is built but 10 years from now, there is a good chance it will continue to work as a useful computer, with OS security updates.

It doesn't mean there isn't a problem with Lenovo installing crapware, and not everyone is tech savvy, but that senior just had to hand out the computer to someone who is, and he solved his problem.

Now, with phones and tablets, you can't do that. You are stuck with the manufacturer's OS. Sometimes, when the manufacturer is nice enough and there is an active community, you can install third party ROMs, but often with significant loss of functionality: lower quality camera, some apps refusing to install, etc...

I am a bit worried about Apple right now, they are making their laptops more and more phone-like. Apple has a rather good UX, and a consistent ecosystem that their users love, so, fine. But once Apple starts to do something, other manufacturers (PC, Android, ...) have a nasty tendency to copy, even the worst parts, and do it poorly on top of that.
You haven't given it enough time to wreck your brain yet.
> In the Russians' mind it gives them the "moral high ground" rather than humiliation and makes out the West to be the villain. This is typical Russian logic.

I am not a Russian, but would highly advise you to carefully choose your words about any nation and their beliefs/logic.

> On the other side there is no rational reason for the West to destroy the pipelines

If you can't find reason, doesn't mean there is no reason. I could also ask same question there was no reason for NATO expansion because war ended, no reason for EU/US not to support diplomatic actions, instead of pushing to the war.
In my view Google and Facebook turned evil the same way Microsoft did in the mid-1990s, switching from building technological improvements to using vast resources to dictate how each personal compute node should be run and how one could access the internet.

But in the 1990s many developers hated it and actually used and contributed to alternatives, which eventually brought other options, from Linux to Firefox.

I see no such work now, as big tech got better at buying competing tech and engineering talent, so I am not very optimistic. Maybe if the next generation is not so smartphone obsessed.
How can I conditionally parse logs with regeX to assign “codes” to events?
The best thing you can do is reading this: https://vimhelp.org/usr_toc.txt.html :)
Can it be that Lenovo makes more money with that crap than selling hardware?
But that's what treatment-resistant depression is: either a life in misery, suicide or ECT/Ket as a hail-Mary maneuver. We are not talking about acute depression or people in midlife-crisis.
How would that work? We don't have enough land as it is. And we can't pay for the additional labor small farms need, or food inflation will explode.

Making agriculture unproductive will just push the demand outwards like a beaker of toxic reactants boiling over. We can't impose more trade restrictions on foreign agricultural goods either, for fear of a trade war.

This hopeless romanticism of small organic mom-and-pop farming is misguided. The only solution I see is huge, highly efficient, automated, but also highly regulated farms. That, and veganism.
Or, alternatively, you create a money making course generator generator. If that goes well your next project should be a generator generator generator.
I love it, I'm not the only person who likes to drive fake cars to relax.
Adding a JavaScript interpreter to your Rust project
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I loathe the state of the mobile device market in the year 2022.

I'm long past the stage of being angry about it. The big phone manufacturers are going to do whatever they think will make them most money. I carry a dumb phone.

I had several Nokia 9300 and 9500 smartphones because I wanted a qwerty keyboard. They used Symbian series 80. The software was infuriatingly buggy and trying to get an official Nokia service center to upgrade the software properly was more hassle than it was worth. (Upgrading the software properly required upgrading both the firmware and some included apps that were stored on the SD card, it could only be done by a service center.)

Most likely, the buggy software was mostly the fault of Nokia that made their own UI rather than the symbian consortium that made the base OS.
> That it's easier to find a new job that pays more rather than get a raise through your existing job.

Yes, but after you have spent 3+ years in your current job.

It also helps to have the ability to put up with all kinds of bullshit - which I don't have.

One time I quit a job because the "boss" talked to me in a bad tone.

Two times I threatened indirectly to leave when someone tried to use their "authority" to talk bullshit to me.

Everytime when the project was setup with complex/confusing maze of docker/k8s scripts, I simply refused to learn their config system because I viewed it as beyond bullshit.

But my relatives who get paid a lot more than me are all just "suffering" this kind of bullshit to keep the job.
Transformers repurposed as planter boxes, I hope the PCB oil was cleaned out thoroughly...
The issue isn't people waking up later, but getting out of the bed 1 minute before the meeting. If you have your first daily at 10:00, you don't have to wake up 9:59, but maybe 9:00 and get mentally ready to work.
Oh wow it's gekkio. They're still going! I remember downloading everything on their site a decade ago because I wasn't sure if Nintendo would ever shut down such awesome work and the knowledge was simply too cool and useful to risk losing.
First known Neanderthal family discovered in Siberian cave
It's not selfish if they mean they "can't" rather than they "don't want".

If someone doesn't want to spend $2000 instead of $1000 on something that does what they want/need better than the $1000 version; I'd argue that they don't really mean they "don't want" to, they mean they can't financially, whether literally or justifiably.

I can't justify spending $2000 on a phone that does things I want it to do better than the $800 equivalent (which we shouldn't forget is also quite a premium to many), so I buy the "cheaper" one and "make it work".

If the difference between $1000 and $2000 were inconsequential to me, then I don't see why I wouldn't "want" to pay that premium.

So, I argue, GP isn't selfish as you put it, they just choose their words poorly on this point; or you take them too literally.

I'd be interested to hear from GP in this regard.
Have you tried embracing your own natural schedule? Go ahead and sleep when you are tired, then get up and work (or play or live life in general) when you are alert. Live your own routine, don't force yourself into someone else's.
If you can write your whole program in Python and just pay a bit more attention to the one speed critical bit, you can often get perfectly decent performance (let's say takes 20% longer than writing the whole thing natively, to just make up a number, or even 100% longer may be acceptable) while taking much much less effort to write an maintain the whole thing (I mean like an order of magnitude less effort).
To run Android apps on Windows 11 you need a Microsoft account AND an Amazon account. The Windows Subsystem for Android comes with the Amazon Appstore app which is only available through the Microsoft Store.
Win 98's UI isn't very pretty (IMHO) but at least it's spare and relatively clean. Also it doesn't take a lot of resources to render. Compare with MS's more recent efforts.

Personally I'm clinging to macOS 10.14 for as long as I can. More recent iterations have very much lost their way.
"If you find that interesting, you might find this interesting" seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation for an HN comment. I think it's worth forgiving that and enjoying the broader horizons rather than treating HN threads as a way for lots of smart people to try and craft the most definitive statement about one narrow issue, while policing any deviation therefrom.
Sure it was :-) sadly its true, that you either die cool or see yourself become soulless corporation.
Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool
What crap that you can’t get rid of does a Mac come with?
Interesting hash!

I have a question about the licensing:

If I implement the algorithm from the specification, is my implementation obliged to use the 1BSD license? It is impossible to implement the algorithm without also reading the reference implemmentation.
How does that hypothesis square with this study:

No learning loss in Sweden during the pandemic: Evidence from primary school reading assessments

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088303552...
The process is available (though you also need to click away a few nudges to get you onto cloud) using the normal setup if you use Pro instead of Home, with Home they basically force it on you, allegedly so they get to backup your BitLocker recovery keys.

I think in general Microsoft is suffering from an incentive problem. Unlike Apple they don't really have any revenue stream from users except for the up-front cost of the installation but still incur costs for patching etc. so they do all this trickery to at least get access to data and metrics to improve their paid line of products (Office etc.)
Tell HN: People get the wrong idea about Nihilism
I've seen many people (online and IRL) who believe in the concept that "nothing matters". What people get from Nihilism is that there's no point in doing anything because nothing matters in the end. After you die, a few people will remember you. But they will die themselves soon enough, and the memory of your existence will pretty much be gone forever. It's not as if future people will ever be interested in your life. You and all records of you will just fade away. Even if you made a giant impact, soon enough, the world will be hit by an asteroid, or a plague, massive climate change, or some other great disaster. Even if we manage to avoid that, in a cosmic eyeblink, the Sun will die.

Nothing matters in the end, and everything will indeed end. But it's also true that things matter for X duration of time.
The painkiller you take when in extreme pain matters to you because it eases your pain. The warm clothes you wear in winter matter because they give you comfort.
Working on your physical health, financial condition, etc., is going to matter for the next couple of decades (the rest of your life).
All I want to say is things matter for X duration of time.
If you're struggling with sleep and "turning the lights off" around bed time - we made a custom natural sleep product for high performers focused on quality, restful sleep - https://impossible.co/products/sleep

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Also it's a little presumptuous to think the individual drones will be capable of laughter.
It's amazing how people tolerate the poor usability of windows - including the forced updates making desktop unusable for hour every month.

...and then even claim that Linux requires more effort. For power users, sure, but for basic users it's a different thing.

EDIT: no point in dogpiling comments listing your favorite windows-only software. It is entirely besides the point of this comment.
I’m realizing how messed up it is that we probably polluted the earth more by fake recycling schemes that just shipped it overseas (fossil fuels moving it, lots of it ending up in the ocean), instead of just burying it in a landfill.
> Another perspective is that of course the institution's actions are the result of individuals' actions, what else could it possibly be?

Of course, but the naive part is believing all those individuals are spherical people in a vacuum, making independent decisions that are all well-thought-out and optimize for globally best outcome.

> That multinational that appears to have committed manslaughter would like us to believe nobody was responsible and it was just a tragic series of misunderstandings and communication breakdowns, so nobody should face any punishment. Are we fools to believe that?

Yes and no. It's foolish to believe individuals have much agency in this setting. Everyone, from the bottom tier to C-suite, is entangled in a web of interlocking incentives, that are ultimately anchored outside of any one company or institution[0]. Some people are handling large levers and could almost unilaterally make the company change course, but at a great cost to themselves[1], and thus it's foolish to expect them to become heroes, especially before an issue hits the news cycle. It's the same kind of error in thinking that rests behind ideas like "voting with your wallet".

That said, the conclusion that "nobody should face any punishment" is also wrong. Punishment is a powerful incentive that can cut through the tangled web. Even if you believe nobody is by themselves responsible for a bad thing, targeted punishment (or threat of it) at e.g. people holding the levers can encourage them to be more eager to pull those levers and steer the entire system away from causing the bad outcome.

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[0] - Like, desire to keep your current standard of living, whatever it is, which may be driven not by your own need for comfort, but a desire to not disappoint your spouse and/or children.

[1] - And highly likely it would be reversed the moment they got fired for operating the lever wrong. Checks and balances :).
Compared to burning it?
Special Competitive Studies Project: Defence [pdf]
Thanks, that's interesting. Yurou Zhong, in her book Chinese Grammatology, traces the end of the latinisation movement to a precise date in 1958 when Zhou Enlai gave a speech "当前文字改革的任务" ("The Current Tasks of the Script Reform"), where he announced the current tasks are to simplify characters, promote putonghua and issue and implement a pinyin plan, conspicuously not including further alphabetisation.
Counterintuitively, recycling plastic tends to involve shipping plastic waste long distances and trading in the waste. Incinerating or burying it is simpler and more reliable.

From the wiki article: "The trade in plastic waste has been identified as "a main culprit" of marine litter."
Similar story for my mom. She was used to windows because at work she used locked down, centrally managed, IBM thinkpads for many years. The trick is that those were secure and managed. If anything didn't work, they just got swapped by IT for another clean one.

But she always had problems with her private laptop, and no assistant or IT department to fix it. We thought she needed a windows one because that is what she knew, but the switch to a macbook air took maybe a week or so to adjust to.

It was a bit of a gamble, since I don't own a mac so supporting one via phone would be very tricky. But she has had the macbook now for years and I've had to do absolutely zero tech support on it. For emails, Word documents and some web browsing it really just works.
This again. People have said things like this every seven or eight years since at least the early 1980s.

Probably more often, and probably for much longer. That's just what I have noticed in passing.
This should be done in more industries
That book seems to be an actual for "dummies book", written by a doctor of business analytics who teaches at Santa Clara University, for what it's worth. She also authored "DeFi for dummies".

If I had to read any of these books, there's a good chance that the for dummies one is the least bad of the 12, but odds are you are better off reading 0 of these books.
I honestly think it would be fine if they were a bit more clear about what you're buying. As it is, you're typically getting nearly no information beyond the title and the publisher.

Making available rare out of print books is a noble goal.
> Also, the problem with bullying isn't bullying itself but that people are receptive to it and don't defend themselves

> If bullying is guaranteed to result in a punch in the face, it will change the risk/reward calculation dramatically and make 99% of it not worth it.

This just isn't how violence happens. Bullies don't select targets they can't win against. In addition to that, they often come in groups. Victim managed to punch one guy? Not only is it likely that he'll overpower the victim, his buddies are there to make sure he doesn't lose.

"Just defend yourself" is what leads to kids bringing weapons to school. Because that actually is how you defend yourself against violent thugs and certainly what a responsible adult would do when faced with unprovoked violence.
The last time I installed Windows on a computer, back in late 2020, that option would also be hidden if you were connected to the internet. Since the wifi configuration occurs first, ostentiably to start downloading updates while going through the setup, this was usually the case. The only way to get the local option back was to entirely shut down the machine, then start the process over.
World War II wasn't just Germany. As a matter of fact, Poland was invanded jointly by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I think you partly missed the point. Anyway..

It is certainly important to de-escalate, but it cannot happen under the Russian terms. The current war in Ukraine is a war of conquest. Moreover, it is genocidal (as dictator in Russia is questining the very existance of the Ukrainian nation). There must be serious consequences for this, otherwise we just go one or rather two centuries back when invading, conquering territories and enslaving the local populations was a norm.
This happened universally in the world, you can't blame the US leadership, here in the UK schooling suffered just as badly.
You are assuming plastic recycling is necessary to have a sustainable system.
Same in Chrome, it's great: https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/
The offer of idiots always grow
> With a well configured SSH server, 22=> 2222 is pointless, very much the definition of obscurity providing zero security.

This is incredibly naive. Do you remember Heartbleed? Log4J?

These were major vulns in software that is widely used, heavily reviewed, deployed by MANGAs, etc.
> allegedly so they get to backup your BitLocker recovery keys

AKA so you can't really encrypt your own computer without someone else also be able to unlock said encryption "if they really have to".
There are two easy physiological causes of insomnia that you can cross off with medical testing.

Iron deficiency: can cause restless leg syndrome making sleep difficult. Can be checked with a blood test, and cured with iron supplements. This is what was keeping my daughter from sleeping.

Sleep apnea: not just for old fat men. Under diagnosed and exceedingly common. Can be diagnosed with a sleep study and "cured" with a CPAP machine. This is what was keeping me from sleeping. Most doctors are really ignorant about it. My mother and my father in law both audibly stop breathing in their sleep and snore loudly, but both their doctors told them they couldnt have apnea. In my mother's case, it's because she was "too cheerful".

Not saying you have either of these things, but physiological causes are often missed by doctors, especially PCPs, whose only job I can see is to collect copays and inconvenience people. Rule them out because it's easy to do, and if either is a factor, folk remedies won't do shit.
> This can't be explained by some government policy.

There are massive government programs to suppress the birth rate in India, the Middle East, and Africa, for development reasons. My dad spent his career working on those programs.
Optimizing Assembly – Agner Fog [pdf]
declining trust does not mean "Low trust".

And I m not sure about declining trust either (despite what people say). people are much less likely to solve interpersonal differences face-to-face rather than through a public impersonal institution , it's just that institutions change , now we have large private-sector agents running our lives , and too many of them are in the tech sector

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