skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but just logging into a Microsoft accounts sends every app ever opened to Microsoft and they do show you that in your account history. If this isn't scary, then I don't know what is.
> How different would the world be if in 3 months SF build 19 giant skyscrapers full of apartments you would want to live in?

I mean, considering how the Millennium Tower is tilting so badly, I'd give such blitzed construction a hard pass. And anything in the collapse zones too.
I'm not a regular Windows user (mostly use it for games), so maybe this doesn't apply fully to me.

Although I'm not particularly confident in MS's security competence (judging by Windows' security track record), I don't think the main issue people take with this data collection is related to breaches by outside entities. At least in my case, it's not.

What I take issue with is the same as for Google et al.: I find it creepy and don't want MS (or Goog / Apple / etc) to keep tabs on me, on what I do, and to try to find a way to make me buy more random crap with their ads.

I'm also uncomfortable with the avenues this opens for State-level surveillance and the use of wonky "IA" to check on whether I'm doing anything "illegal" on my device. Cf the guy whose Google account got suspended for sending pictures of his son to a doctor.
Had a static ip address for a few years, lol
The Berlin factory was larger then the initial factory in China. Its more like the second extension in China.
SubcommitteeReveals Excessive Corporate Price Hikes Enriching Certain Companies
Where I used to live in Texas, there were two-lane rural roads with 75MPH speed limits
It makes sense in a low level language like zig, because an async functions there truly is a function frame (in the sense of set up a stack and save your registers to be popped off of it at the end) but in high level languages - and even rust, if my understanding of how async works in rust - it's different and calling it a function seems incorrect.
Is it just me? I really hate how the problem is phrased on that page. Here's the original:

"33 horsemen are riding in the same direction along a circular road. Their speeds are constant and pairwise distinct. There is a single point on the road where the horsemen can pass one another. Can they ride in this fashion for an arbitrarily long time?"

Here's a quick take on how I would rephrase it:

"33 horsemen are riding in the same direction along a circular road. There is just a single point on the road where any number of horsemen can pass each another; everywhere else, a faster rider coming up behind a slower rider will be stuck and have to slow down. Is there a set of pairwise distinct speeds the horsemen can ride at such that the riders can all start at the passing point, ride constantly at their given speed for an arbitrarily long time, and only meet each other at the passing point (thus never having to change speed)?"
The situation in C++ is similar. With a particular compiler and with a specific set of compilation flags you can sometimes get predictable behavior even if it's undefined (and sometimes not). But, there are no guarantees and if you change compiler, flags or perhaps even some other part of the code the behavior can change.

Perhaps with out of order CPUs relying on something that is undefined could change based on adjacent instructions also?
Original title: Subcommittee Analysis Reveals Excessive Corporate Price Hikes Have Hurt Consumers and Fueled Inflation, While Enriching Certain Companies
Consultants usually gets cut first, unless they're deemed absolutely essential - their manager might successfully fight for an exemption then. I'm a contractor and my client recently told me they won't be renewing in the new year and will replace me with a barely competent full-time hire instead - all because of the incoming economic downturn.
> It was basically stuck in time but with a very high value for the end-users

I wonder why it wasn't properly maintained if it was such a valuable piece of software ? I assume they perform regular maintenance on all other high-value property they own ?
You don't seem to address the "pragmatic reasons" expressly, so I'll go ahead and do it:

1. "Don't rewrite code" a fundamental precept of software that has been "engineered"

- This is more about development lifecycles than something that contributes usefully to software quality in the long term. Corporations, and people haven't been treating these things like bridges or overpasses

2. Outsourcing is believed cheaper than the solution.

- Again, paying low-wage junior SEs to patch uncovered bugs is obviously cheaper than proactively finding them all.

3. You can sell the New Coke too!

- If you have a good rewrite, sell it at a fat markup, and keep selling the old crap too, it's not your risk.

- Obviously don't rewrite unless your horrid monolithic source leaks, and you're certain that it's a problem, those disgruntled workers you wrongfully laid off know too much.

4. If your tech references are a security risk, sell those too!

- Don't include pesky manuals where people can uncover issues with your development processes, outsource a minimum blackbox of guess work to Singapore and let that double as QA.

- It's not a manual, it's 'training' -- supporting education of hopeful workers! Wow!

I won't name any names.
That's simple. After they fired all their beta testers and QA department, MS converted all non-business Windows OSes to be 'automatic-and-irrevocable-opt-in'.

Well, and it's also some of the richest user datasets. Google is doing it. Apple is doing it. Amazon is doing. So why not MS? It's not like we have hard privacy laws in this country!
Well not all of it. Delhi is bad, Mumbai is okay and Bangalore is pretty smog free.
Yeesh! I personally stay away from "this" as much as I can, in part because of this effect. I can't imagine using the arrow function's odd "this" behavior intentionally! Plus, I like pure functions a lot so I'd rather just pass in any state through a parameter, which is less error-prone too.
> What's the best way to go forward if this is the case?

Linux, OSS.
Active in this instance means online in the last month.
Some can and do, but there are some challenges for it being a general solution:

- Some people don't know they need rare blood (because they didn't have the antibody at first, then found they had it later).

- Some people may donate blood to have it available for a need, then a need comes up (either themselves or someone else). At that point, the blood gets used up - what happens when the need is greater than the number of stored units?

- Some people may not be able to donate. We had a patient with something north of 9 antibodies who, due to sickle cell disease wasn't able to donate - (banking blood for long term storage requires freezing, which doesn't work with blood from patients with sickle cell disease).
I noticed this happening and just stopped replying :p
Yes, I fully agree! But such subtleties are usually overlooked by the 'C users are criminals' crowd ;)
"It turns out that nothing really runs well on a 32-bit x86 machine anymore, including major Linux distributions and web browsers."

Not true. The EeePC 701 netbook is a really minimal underpowered machine, still it will run small Linux distros just fine (it was actually sold with Linux in the first place).
If you want a music player that you can control from another room, you can do that by installing a very small distro such as the x86 Alpine Linux image (https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/) then the mpd daemon (https://www.musicpd.org/ - it's in standard repositories install it with "apk add mpd" from root shell) which can work headless, therefore requiring very few resources, then a suitable control app for your phone or tablet (search for mpd control app), so that you can do pretty much everything through your home WiFi from any room, basement, backyard, etc.

Should you experience noises, cracks, hum and static when connecting the netbook to an amplifier and to a mains adapter, that is a common problem of ground loops and not of that particular netbook, that will be easily solved by adding a small audio transformer in between.
The FBI is supposed to be ethical, that's what's on the USA tin containing the FBI tin.

You can provide a billion examples of how the US hasn't lived up to that notion, but 'liberty and justice for all' is, "what's on the tin."
Is there a minimum model that we need or even the first version is ok?
The fact that one has to pick from many different places to set up an account is a massive barrier to entry. Let alone the complexity of moving an account from one host to another is also woefully complex, so if you choose wrong, you’re in for more pain.

I don’t see this platform being able to benefit from the Twitter exodus.

I’m putting my hopes on blue sky/AT which appears to solve the above pain points: https://blueskyweb.org/
I could be wrong but isn't this just for Pro and Enterprise editions and not the Home edition? I ask because most systems preloaded with Windows have the home edition.
> Safer alternatives exist.

Do they? The only “safe” comparable alternative is unsafe Rust which as the name suggests isn’t actually safe.
You didn't present any evidence. You posted a screenshot of a tweet where somebody said something that is incorrect.

We know that activists target advertisers and investors. It's not just a fact, it is their stated goal and they have countless examples where their targeting accomplished their goals.
So roughly 20 years from now, after taking on a country-wide new baby-boom's worth of problems, they can use the fresh faces to resolve the problems they're facing today.

How the one child policy was allowed to happen is a mystery to me - surely someone saw this coming?
Exactly what you would say if you picked it to represent IBM and their evil technology.
Most users are not going to know how to use group policy, and they intentionally obfuscate it on home editions basically telling you that you can't use it although there are some round about ways to install it. The only way to turn off these features in Windows is group policy and customizing your installation. If you wait to turn them off after installing Windows, then they've likely already collected and sent data.
> Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it provided close to 40% of Europe’s gas.

I’ve never understood why people say things like this when referring to the operations started in 2022. Wasn’t what they did in Crimea in 2014 an invasion?
What do you think happens when you upload captured TV-content on YT?? From copyright point of view there is not really much difference between 20 day old content and 20 year old content, its all equally protected. Just saying that the intent is "archival" doesn't change anything
This sentence is just explaining how he thinks Mastodon usage will evolve, comparing it to federated email instances and the protocol they use to communicate (SMTP). Most people who use email don't know that, and most people who use Mastodon don't know its federation protocol either.

Most people who read Fowler's blog or HN are able to understand the difference between what users need to know and how a system is implemented.
I'm on a discord server with a lot of non-nerds, and various ones are interested in Mastodon, due to Twitter issues.

It's amazing to see how much trouble they're having... "Do I have to create a log in on every Mastodon?" ("No, and it's pretty much impossible"), "Can I follow someone on another server?" ("Yes, but it's incredibly hard -- try to follow them on whatever server you're on, maybe someone else is following them already in which case you'll be able to, otherwise here are directions that sometimes work") kind of things.

It's just not ready for prime-time, even (IMHO) among nerds, but wow, are normal folks having a hard time.
fans use an obviously insignificant amount of energy compared to burning lime (as you'd know if you'd ever done a process engineering calculation involving fans), air pretreatment is unnecessary for the methods i'm talking about (as i already explained), and 'all of science is searching for new methods for DAC' is the sort of nonsense that suggests you've never met a scientist in your life

the issue has only ever been that clean energy has historically been too expensive for terraforming. new methods for DAC may be economically important in a hypothetical competitive DAC market, and knocking off 50 percent or even 5 percent of the energy cost would mean a significant reduction in the absolute resources required, but they aren't going to improve on the minimum energy thermodynamically required, which is inherent to the 400ppm concentration

what's changed is that now we have a cheap source of carbon-free energy that scales to five orders of magnitude more energy than we need for this

ten years ago we didn't; without that the problem was basically unsolvable

now it's not
Ok, so the DAU is likely worse.
You can't get an idea of what Americans are really like by watching the media. You have to come here, travel around and see for yourself.

Specifically, the media rarely shows fat people. Not the truly fat ones, with the exception of the freakshow genre of TV specifically about extremely fat people. In recent years they've started to show more and more fat people, but not nearly fat enough to give you an accurate impression of average Americans. Just fat enough to give token representation of fatness.

Truth is, the hugely fat people on freakshow TV aren't on freakshow TV because they're freakishly fat. People that fat are common, you can see them yourself any day at walmart. The people on those shows are freaks because they have freakishly little shame and agree to be on TV.
Thing is, because of property tax systems, these large companies build these box stores and fast food joints in the cheapest way possible so they can basically not pay property taxes and basically write it off after 10 years.

The tax system and the infrastructure fees insensitive totally the wrong way of development.

And this is why cities are mostly broke.
All of the above, but I'd say that in addition to those points, it's important to mention both luck and privilege. You don't really see self-taught stories describe these as often, especially if they're presenting a "the pull yourself up from the bootstraps and anyone can make it" narrative.

Realistically, both are involved. Being able to get by working a job (or two) that still allows you to have enough time and energy to study and learn outside of work. Lucking out with the job openings when you're searching — you can increase your luck surface area, but you still need fortunate timing. Networking with alums from your school. Even having been to college at all. Already living in an area with tech jobs. Knowing _anyone_ in the industry already.

There was an absolute _ton_ of hard work involved for my journey through, but there was luck and privilege involved as well. I think these aspects are important to include.
Aren't executives just doing what the board wants, and the board just following what the owners want?
In common use average refers to the mean.
I don’t know much about Mastodon, so wondering: can I see chatter without logging in? Where do I go to see it (discovery)?
Judging by the way "certain people" are responding to this, they must believe Elon personally sits in front of a computer overseeing all moderation decisions.
> The first time you try out Designer, it may ask your permission to get design ideas for you.

I don't know the wording for the dialog itself, so I will comment on this wording instead.

Asking permission to "get design ideas for you" is absolutely wrong. They are asking permission for the wrong thing. They should be asking permission to "collect content from your slides". They can then explain that the upside is that in return you get access to design ideas.

Depending on the context of the dialog an appropriate wording would be something along the lines of this: "In order to access design ideas, up-to-date slide contents need to be regularly sent to Microsoft servers. <Agree> <Cancel>".

edit:

- Would you like some chocolate sprinkles with that ice cream?

- Sure!

- Cool, <while sprinkling chocolate on your ice cream> it will cost $100 and your left kidney.
The design of that https://www.svtplay.se/ site is nice. I like the page transition when you hit play.
I don't think people want to. People want to be successful, want to have good relationships, want to have fun, want to be entertained. I don't think people want to endlessly scroll for content, its not what people will say they set out to do. Some social media companies (and video game companies) figured out the dopamine feedback loop (probably via hiring psychologists) and have engineered that into their systems to keep suggesting content that feeds your emotions and keeps you on their platform looking at advertisements.

Video games use it to keep you in a ever grinding loop to stay in their game like a hamster in a wheel and hope you don't realize you can leave at any time.

People don't wake up and say "I want to waste 4 hours of my day watching stuff".
It's good to keep in mind that games like League of Legends alone have over 100 million monthly players. While I agree that mobile is far bigger (especially thanks to Asian countries), PC's slice is too big to ignore. And just going by Steam numbers, seems to be actively growing each year.
I dunno that there's necessarily an acceptable rate so much as everyone's just aiming to get the rate to "lower than it is now" while keeping costs acceptable and reasonable.

As for: "gender disparity in outcomes is a simple issue about genetics?"

There's an easy way to find out!

It might be possible to a small adjustment could help bring the disparity down without necessarily increasing the danger to men. I think it's worth looking in to (not to imply that you were saying it isn't).
It's pretty funny actually. Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

"Oh, only 1% of users are hitting this one!" (Reduce priority, ignore, automatically close for "zero bug bounce")
1. I agree, it’s a bit tangential to call this a “darknet market arrest” instead, since the “darknet market” was the “victim”.

2. People largely hate when cops find someone for doing 55 in a 54, so it’s probably not a great example, but I think supports my point. This isn’t about solving an actual crime, but about optimizing for how much money the justice department is able to collect. I said elsewhere that this would be more reasonable as a tax investigation, but it’s not, and it’s (in my opinion) a pretty bad precedent that investigations should be prioritized by “how much cash can we seize”
It's worked well for China.
Ah. Yes, that's fair, grep -c counts matching lines, not matches - which is something I've never actually run into as an issue, so I didn't know about it.

On further Googling (about a minute this time, with a few different pages) I found that 'grep -o' would do the trick (and someone beat me to it, above.)

I'd still argue that one minute of Googling would be quicker than writing a program to do the same.
>Not great for the person paying, but great for the people getting the money!

Which is incredibly net negative for society.
FWIW, most of the patent war was about how Sonos syncs the volume controls so that changing a master volume level changes all the synced volumes. Seems obvious (and therefore unpatentable) but there is an ever-so-slightly-not-quite-obvious-at-first-glance aspect to it.

I believe Google caved on this and doesn’t allow master level control with their devices. And of course they have been counter suing Sonos on other patents as a result.
what does the cloud have to do with the tools being old and creaky?

Is there some magic sauce that makes the search suddenly useful once it's sitting in AWS?

I ask because I see this ALL the time. technical people abusing business ignorance by using initiatives to improve tools to "move to the cloud". Unless you're telling me the problem you're solving has to do with elastic demand or too much costs maintaining infrastructure, this does NOTHING to solve the actual problem.

Do we imagine that suddenly this organization is going to start maintaining their stuff if it's sitting on AWS servers instead of their own?
In my experience, the best bits of automation are those set up by the people doing the tasks, once given autonomy (heh) to do it themselves.

Then, of course, they get promoted, the tech becomes a "product" and they try to push it on other departments, but the original grassroots efforts by software engineers doing things other than software engineering (e.g., operating spacecraft) is solid gold.
Automatically grant every patent application but equally allow every granted patent to be challenged at no cost causing the patent rights to be suspended. The patent owner then has 5 years to prove the claims in court at their own cost.
Or Linux.

Most users would have a perfectly fine time with Linux. Most things just work these days. Hell, with WINE or Proton/Steam, even Windows stuff works - even this year's games.
Your final statement seems a bit contradictory to me. If the client can't hire employees for certain work, doesn't that increase their reliance on consultants (and reduce the chance you'll get cut)?
Another great post!very insightful.
This comment here serves as a gravestone for a long form, well written (I think) explanation of GATs that I thought was actually ELI5 (unlike every other ELI5 response which always immediately starts dropping tons of jargon), which Firefox lost when somehow it randomly activated the back button ;_;.

I could potentially rewrite it if anyone was interested, but I am under no illusions that's likely ;)
Not this echo chamber again.
> And while search technology has improved, it hasn't become orders of magnitude better.

The old "search technology" was "shoes" (boxes) of 5-20 patents arranged by patent classification. Patent examiners literally walking through the stacks of files to get the relevant shoes. This takes more physical time than doing a classification search using a computerized search tool.

There were some advantages of the old system that were not transferred to the new search. Specifically, in the old system Examiners would see each other as they were walking the stacks. Notes could be left on the paper copies in the shoes. This knowledge sharing is not included in the current USPTO system.
> Would you not see any problem if (still using the article example) Weinstein was given immunity to report on his own rapes?

This article is about immunity from civil lawsuits - not criminal convictions.

Honestly, with Weinstein in jail, I could care less that people can't sue him for all the nothing he now has.
> I saw a bunch of personal air filtration systems meant specifically for cars for sale in Delhi markets when I was there

That doesn't mean they work. Cars just aren't well sealed in general and you need to move a lot of air through a filter to clear the space faster than pollution is coming in. You might make a small dent but it isn't going to be great. The second you open the door or turn on the A/C you've lost the game.

I'm sure luxury hotels have good HVAC, but an AQI of 600 is just not what any traditional HVAC system is designed for. Now there have been advances and a bunch of stuff was specifically developed for the Beijing olympics, but that's a much lower level of pollution. Even there, high end hotels are running two HVAC systems. It's clearly not impossible, but merely being wealthy isn't going to save you from that level of pollution, it's just going to be less bad.
Or even better: "that and". No reason to put all eggs in one basket, no? Especially when copying virtual eggs is so easy.
How is following someone on another server with Mastodon difficult? Or is that some sort of a meme now?