skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had to install Windows 11 and did so by downloading an ISO and flashing it to a USB. To my surprise the latest version of Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) can detect if you are using the official Windows 11 ISO and let you skip the initial setup and create a Windows 11 local account. You can also disable the TPM and processor requirements IIRC. IDK how it even does this, I guess it modifies some boot menu when writing the image.

Win 11 still sucks but this makes it much much better.
>I don't get why it's not banned or heavily restricted

What's up with this authoritarian discourse on HN? Since when are we casually calling for censorship of things that are "disliked"?

The megacorps are having videos taken down off so-called private clouds for calling out the rulling class too much. I worry for the Orwellian direction we are heading into.
For now there's ?seed=myseed&topo=[easy|normal|hard] but I'll be adding more in future!
From a development point of view, you may have a point, though mechanisms to circumvent this are addressed in this thread. But for the typical user, or indeed other 'Pros', these are not showstoppers. Since the topic of the whole thread is about poor performance generally for typical users, I think your (valid) concers are somewhat moot. What is distressing is that in order to get something that is easy to self-manage, Apple is the only choice. Microsoft try to be all things to all people, and linux is still too complex for the majority of everyday users to manage. The closest is Ubuntu, which is often treated with distain by the vocal OSS purists.
I've watched a few 5+ minute TikToks about various things (cars, video games, plants, politics) in the past month

I don't think these are hugely popular but they reach some audience. A big video will have 500k to Millions of likes.

These longer videos usually cap out at a couple thousand.

They're out there but it's not searchable.

TikTok has an incredible breadth of content but takes a few days to weeks to get the algorithm to show you what you want.

When I use it the algorithm is something I'm actively trying to manipulate. "Up vote" stuff you to see by liking and saving. "Down vote" by quickly scrolling away from a video.

Any engagement is a signal to show you more of that -- if you're tired of seeing one type of video, you should immediately scroll as soon as you know you don't want to watch it.
> around 1500

How do you know? Did you send your meter to a certified lab for calibration? With uncalibrated meters all you can tell after some experience is "probably higher than before", "probably lower than before". Consumer grade meters are worse.
DDT not DET
Are you sure they're not just made visible to a wider audience, but would be there just the same if social media didn't exist?
One day it will be openssh.
This is I think false - the will to prosecute by authorities is often low. Almost every online platform has great evidence of various frauds and crime. I heard Facebook reports 20 million images or more PER YEAR. I’ve had a few experiences. In one someone was cashing bogus checks and we got them to provide the account they’d been asked to deposit them to. There was zero interest in taking a report or looking at whose account that was (person in org who’d been cutting the checks stopped showing up and we were pretty sure was involved). Endless card fraud on tape at merchants- again crickets.
"What if this entirely different situation that is in no way comparable, huh? Bet you didn't think about that, huh?"
I don't think you can uninstall Cortana or Calculator from Windows. The stocks app I will grant is a little weird.

The uninstallable apps on macOS also are never required to have open and running. So yea, it's 4 or 5 extra items in your main ~/Applications folder, but that seems like a small price to pay for all of the other benefits.
Kindle for reading?? Can you unpack that a bit?
As the meme goes, "that just sounds like a market failure with extra steps".
Asus has a line of products called Asus Pure. Those are the same Asus laptops as their "normal" ones, but Pure models do not have any 3rd party software, no trialware, no test versions etc. Plain Windows, nothing else. But I think those are only available in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

https://www.asus.com/event/ASUS_PURE/fi/index.html
https://www.asus.com/event/ASUS_PURE/se/index.html
https://www.asus.com/event/ASUS_PURE/dk/index.html
https://www.asus.com/event/ASUS_PURE/no/index.html

At least us, en, gb, es, it, and de versions the the URL did not work. Not sure why those are not available everywhere, but those are the only laptops I buy for my parents.

EDIT: The marketing material on those pages says:

"ASUS PURE comes without pre-installed third-party software, trial versions and apps. You choose what you install on your machine. ASUS PURE is designed for fast and optimal performance by freeing up memory and CPU power. The ASUS PURE laptop starts up faster and the machine feels like new for longer. Your computer is protected by Microsoft's Windows Defender antivirus program and a firewall that receives regular updates and does not include annual fees. Your ASUS PURE laptop is therefore always safe."

Like, why would anyone want to have it any other way? What's the benefit for us customers to have all that crapware installed when it does no good for us?
Every time content moderation comes up I’m horrified anew.

So sad that this sort of job is necessary.

I’m curious though why YouTube never seems to feature? Most of the stories I’ve seen seen to be FB
Welcome to capitalism. If profit and self-preservation are at odds, profit wins.
Coffee, the Great Literary Stimulant
Because people try to recycle it, it gets shipped to a port, put on a barge, and lots falls off? Or it just gets dumped, when being sent overseas for "recycling"?

I've said for decades, that each bit of plastic made, is less plastic used as fuel. Create the plastic, then after, bury it deep in a plastic landfill. It came from deep in the Earth, back it can go.

Meanwhile, people have wild schemes to put CO2 deep in the Earth, and that's OK? When not used plastic?
Please don’t require a twitter handle. I don’t use Twitter. Thank you.
Excellent feedback. I will update it surely.
I'd get that checked out. It's definitely not normal behaviour.
Next Level visualisations from King Gizzard:

https://youtu.be/Njk2YAgNMnE

Absolutely entrancing film clip (and, for me at least, music)
My dad accepts every websites request to send notifications. His phone is just constant chime after chime. I went into his Chrome, removed them all, and disabled the option, but somehow it finds itself on and his phone loaded with them every couple months.
Your perceived entitlement to milkshakes and takeout is shining through. A first-world problem if I ever heard one.
There's nothing stopping you from side-loading Mac applications. Just download the application bundle, right click on it and choose "Open".
This is why I buy Apple laptops. They always work and come with zero bloatware. You can buy the cheapest laptop they sell, and it will work effortlessly for email, web surfing and most other generic tasks.

Their lack of bloat shows in their hardware specs. I've worked on Dell laptops and they were spec'd out at 64GB. My latest MacBook Pro has 16GB and its feels MORE responsive than the Dell computer.

Each MacBook Pro and MacBook Air I've purchased has also lasted many more years than my friends HP, Dell or Lenovo laptops. Honestly, the only reason I typically upgrade my laptop every 4 or 5 years is because I just want something new.

Apple products cost more, but given their full lifecycle, I think they're cheaper to own than most other brands.
Easy Answer: consumers decide on one factor and one factor alone: price.

And no need for the exaggeration, in many cases you can buy an iPad for less than that crappy windows laptop with all the spyware. Even for a fully featured Air, the price difference is way less than $1000
>Question: why does the market fail so miserably in this respect?

This is just typical late stage capitalism, no? The step after commoditization isn't "and then they just quietly settled for being treated like a utility and not having huge profit margins anymore". It's more often "and then they tried to find other ways to monetize by selling ads and demographics information" or "then they bought up their competitors and raised prices again" or "then they formed a cartel with their competitors" or "then they tried to de-commoditize the product category by charging 200% more for a 20% performance improvement, while stopping production of the previous version" or "then they started charging more for related services and maintenance" (cf. printer ink cartridges and razor blades). Being the "winner" or "last/biggest company standing" of a product category means you get to do all of the above consumer-hostile fuckery to try to keep profit margins high.
In my experience, subreddits end up being, at best, a "look at what I did" without any actual way I can learn, and usually it's just a photo or something. At worst they are a mess of memes, repeated beginner questions and unmoderated content. Content on Reddit is also very short-lived, and information can get hidden in comments and become invisible.

On the other hand, TikTok works fairly well. Videos can be up to 3 minutes long now, most of the time it's enough to at least explain the basics and tell you where to get more detail if you want. Also, the "algorithm-driven discovery" means that creators usually need to focus on the content of the videos. The "video reply to a comment" mechanic is very helpful too, as it encourages making additional first-level content from people's questions instead of burying things in comments.
Emphasis on "credible". It's not really a credible threat if you lose the fight and suffer ten times worse whatever harm you inflicted. Getting stomped into the ground by a group of thugs you failed to take out will put you in the hospital if not the morgue.

It's not really any different than literal gangs of criminals to be honest. The best way to deal with such violent people is to avoid them. You can't avoid bullies at school. If your plan is to defend yourself, then you better be able and willing to dish out extreme violence when warranted because that's what it's going to take. The ability and willingness to do that is the threat you speak of. Victims of bullying pretty much always have neither. Chances are the bullied kid isn't some hardened street tough capable of taking out three guys before they do the same to him.

Even if these victims were that tough, they can't do that because schools don't really like it when kids create liability for them with violence like that so they impose harsh consequences to violence regardless of how warranted it is. So not only are victims weaker and outnumbered, schools will also punish them for defending themselves as is any human's right.
The Z80 fills some redundancies and gaps in the 8080 instruction set and adds the concept of prefixed instructions (via the CB, DD, FD and ED prefix bytes), but is otherwise compatible with the 8080 (it can run 8080 code which doesn't use any of the redundant opcodes which have been repurposed in the Z80).

Looking at the Gameboy CPU instruction matrix (https://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html) versus the 8080 matrix (https://pastraiser.com/cpu/i8080/i8080_opcodes.html), the Gameboy CPU looks a lot more like a Z80 than an 8080. For instance the Gameboy CPU has the conditional relative jump instructions (like JR NZ, JR NC, ...) of the Z80, while the 8080 only has redundant NOPs in those instruction slots.

Also while the Gameboy CPU is missing the DD, FD and ED prefixed instruction ranges, it has the complete CB-prefixed 'bit twiddling' instruction range of the Z80).

So IMHO it's more correct to call the Gameboy CPU a stripped down Z80 than an extended 8080 (but of course the Z80 is also "just" an extended 8080, so it's also not wrong to call the Gameboy CPU an extended 8080, the 8080 is basically the grandfather, and the Z80 the father).
Agreed, I'm loving mine so far. For consumer friendly hardware, frame.work is where it's at.
I think email is ever diminishing as a communication medium because it's just so terribly broken. You can't verify the sender is who they say they are, you can't be sure that the recipient receives your message and is the only one to see it.

I don't use it for personal communication anymore. With some businesses perhaps but most of that has relegated email to a buggy notification service ("come check our portal for your message") because email can't be trusted with confidential data.

It still has an important role in the identity process but that's mainly for historical reasons. It's also grossly unsuited for that and I don't understand why open ID federation like OpenID never took off.
> In 100-200 years it’s likely the insects that survived will re-occupy new niches.

Do you have any data to back this up?

Also, the problem is that not many insects ARE going to survive.

> The insect populations have only noticeably declined in the last few decades.

This is probably outright misleading, since you don't have the data prior to those decades. The common mistake is that people use their own lifespan as a measure for things.

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Everybody talks about the gender pay gap and ethnic diversity these days, but biodiversity is not on the radar :(
It's easy to hide lower quality but very difficult to hide higher prices.

Game theory suggests that the vast majority of consumer goods will be nearly free, relative to their high quality counterparts, at the minimum viable quality.
Then do not drink something requiring such a straw. Or bring your own stainless steel one. Or drink from the cup. Be creative!
I see. Agree you should be able to delete those, but even if you don't use them, they're a far cry from "crap" especially in the context of the discussion about exploitative bloatware that runs constantly and makes low-end laptops unusable.

None of the extra Apple apps do anything unless you run them, so the worst case they take some storage and mental space (when you see them in your Applications folder). And they're obviously included because Apple thinks they're actually useful to enough people, even if you disagree.
most programs are not run interactively, so dumping a core is a more sensible default.
It’s not particularly pretty, but here is my home-grown script for doing exactly that. It coordinates between Cloudflare DNS, my Unifi Security Gateway, and haproxy running on my home servers to keep my IPv4 and IPv6 addresses up to date everywhere.

https://gist.github.com/thedanbob/df4cc49aa3e60581e010f443ac...
> We get sold crap clothes that discolor when it's perfectly known how to make them not to,

I cannot remember the last time my clothes discolored, and I buy what I think are cheap clothes by US standard (Uniqlo/Next/Express/Macys/ASICS/Adidas).

But to address your point, I would rather pay $30 for a pair of jeans that maybe has a little discoloration in 5 years, which I currently do, than $100+ for a high quality pair of jeans that might last 20 years but I have to pamper and take care of.

Where the clothing market does not work is addressing the externality of plastics pollution, since it’s all short term benefit to individuals now at long term cost to society later.

>crap food with all kinds of nasty ingredients like trans fats, etc.

Trans fat is really minimal to non existent in most developed countries. But is a good example of when regulators need to intervene to protect the public.
Every cookie banner that I've ever clicked "no" on has let me proceed to the main site. The user is still a potential viewer of ads, even if they can't be microtargeted, so it's worth it to the site to let them proceed.
Ask HN: Btrfs VS ZFS for Linux personal computer in 2022?
Which of these filesystems should I go with today if I want to ensure being able to recover from failures and also not have poor performance? Which one is most mature today? Which one doesn't require too many magical incantations to be able to recover files and do common maintenance?

In short: What filesystem of these should I go with today if I want to have the best and easiest user experience?
True & true. (I used 2222 as an example.com. Vs. giving the port used at $Job, or $PriorJob, or ...)
Apple begins selling exterior door lock that can be unlocked by tapping iPhone
It should not be "burned" as in a bonfire (like is done in many places). It needs to be burned in an electric arc furnace or mixed with coke for steel at temperatures in excess of 1000k.
Speed Cameras Stolen from Sweden May Be Ending Up in Russian Drones: Report
Eh, hard disagree. There was next to no bullying in my class after primary school (I was a chubby kid and the worst was that other kids sometimes made fun of me living in a street that translates to "fat mountain" or "bacon mountain"), in primary school there was one bully, but it turned out that getting the fat kid (me) angry enough to throw himself on you and not getting out under him, makes you a bit of a laughingstock.

And bullying did not magically appear later in my life.
> Question: why does the market fail so miserably in this respect?

Just like the market is "failing" when people complain about bad airline experiences… but continue to buy the cheapest flights/seats they can find?

Why do you think the seats are so cheap?
Are you thinking about https://charm.sh/ perhaps? Mentioned on HN within this year
This depends heavily on parent involvement, dedication, and education. Even in public school the outcomes are heavily dependent on parents. If your father is an engineer who helps you with your homework and wants you to go to university, you will do much better. Home school with parents who do not want to, don't have time, or are incapable of helping or teaching will not do much, and the child would be better off with a school teacher who is motivated and trained--- but, if parents are heavily involved and capable then they are a teacher with very high motivation and can give very personalized instruction suited to the temperament of the pupil. So it all depends.
It does and it doesn't: first, twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in; and second, it groups the posts together into something you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
There's an important consideration 'ChrisSD mentions here[0], i.e. whether resolving ".." is done lexically or by querying the filesystem. You may get different answers in each case if e.g. you try to resolve /foo/bar/../baz, when /foo/bar is a symlink to a different directory.

At least in case of std::filesystem, everything in std::filesystem::path is purely lexical. So, to get actual parent of some path, you'll need to go through std::filesystem::directory_entry and std::filesystem::read_symlink().

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33312712
if you think tiktok is bad, you should try instagram reels
If you come with a car anyway to get your takeout, why not just keep the reusable bag with you for next time? This may sound like a crazy idea, but I've heard that you can actually REUSE reusable bags.
what's messed up is these apps are in the play store, rated e for everybody (so parental controls can't filter them) and have 5 star ratings from thousands of users.

Complete and utter failure on Google's part.
I think that's a little bit different from steganography... it looks more like a trick where the author attaches a zip file to the end of a picture and do some work so twitter keeps that file, while steganography allows you to embed that file in the image data so it's just in front of your eyes even if you didn't see it.
One thing I've noticed after moving back to the Netherlands is how absolutely obsessed people are with keeping things "tidy". In a way, it's nice I guess, at least sometimes, but it comes with some serious costs too. This is not unique to the Netherlands, but we're probably the best (or worst?) at it, except maybe Singapore.
This is the type of thing I imagined could happen, but hoped it never actually would happen.

The worst example I had heard until today was an update that caused a friend to lose a good chunk of her dissertation. Windows 10 decided that final week was an excellent time for an update. She had no option of saying "no" and was just looking to use Word uninterrupted.

Software is too important now for this level of user hostility.
The problem is that whenever you want to do a quick tweak, you have to do a `home-manager switch`, which can take a good 15 seconds or so. It's not the end of the world, but it's a very annoying bit of friction. It's particularly painful if you're trying to quickly test out changes that you're not confident of and iterate.
This is compounded by the fact that home-manager currently doesn't work properly with the new flake based profiles (https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2848).
I’ve never used buffers, but my understanding is that you can modify the contents directly from python without even needing a C extension. Surely I could trigger UB by just scribbling into the data structure for one of python’s native types and then accessing it normally.
There are several chronotypes, not everyone is wired to wake up early in the morning but society is organized that way and hurts those who don't conform. Remoting allows each to better adjust, even if it's just a couple of hours.
Fixed it.

Thanks for feedback
Do you mean antennae? :)
It's opinion because there is not a sliver of proof who blew up the nordstream pipes. Only speculation based on the motives of different parties.

It's that simple.
Ask HN: How to show a not “so perfect” MVP to potential customers?
Hello.

I know that MVP is not about the finished product, but you need at least to show some reliable experience to potential customers.

I have an MVP in the AI field, but in order to have accuracy and a fully satisfactory experience, it requires some conditions, because it deals with random variables that I still don't have full control over (i.e: I need people to speak with good diction/utterance).

How can I present this to potential customers so "random variables" wouldn't discredit my product?
$ apt rdepends debhelper
Pesticides and crop mono-cultures.
There is no place for insects to live.

When 0.1% of humans dies of a virus, we call it a disaster.
When 50% of insects dies, we don't give a damn.
Under 20% of in-patient COVID-19 infected symptom free a year after recovery
I heard a bit on a podcast over the weekend that amounted to: put your mind on a Paleo diet (so to speak).

Dial down your brain prior to sleep (i.e., put down your handheld device, less light, less noise, etc.). Try to mimic the environment of your predecessors.

Along the same lines, eat well (e.g., less caffeine), get some exercise, etc. A healthy you helps you get a healthy sleep.
Isn’t plastic going to landfills pretty close to carbon capture?
NOAA has you covered.

A lot of it starts in the ocean; fishing gear and stuff falling off ships are big sources. https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/where-does-marine-debris-come/...

Of the stuff that starts on land, it's often carried there by wind and river: https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/where-does-marine-debris-come/...
You can do strict sandboxing on Linux, too (e. g. with Flatpak).
It is, by the definition of the word sustainable. Another, perhaps valid question, is whether the current method is really effective at it.
Young people are cared for in large groups via schools. They have no wealth or political power.

Old people can be very expensive, can still vote, and most will have a economic power for this specific generation.

In the past when you were a working couple with kids, you hoisted your kids into your grandparents to help raise and there was no opportunity cost. There’s no converse here.

Good luck passing legislation to reduce care for the old while they’re the largest chunk of the population.
I would assert that import ctypes is the opt-in somehow.