skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope this submission is flagged and removed. Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean such misrepresentation is okay.

I don't think we know the motivation of the submitter and we should not assume any motivation beyond introducing the link to the community to consider and discuss the content.

The article is very brief and seems to highlight that the designer suggestion needs to submit your slide content to make the suggestion. The question as to whether we consented suggests that we have (through the usual click through), but, to me, it is really asking something like 'do we understand the implications of our decision to consent?'.

I don't see anything being misrepresented nor do I infer there is some sort of anti-Microsoft (nor anti-anyone/anything) in the article. It does seem to suggest there is something for people to consider in that we often 'consent' without really thinking through the outcomes of what is supposed to be our willing, informed consent.

Too often we split into binary extremes when we should really take time to be thoughtful and considerate of questions being posed and where that consideration takes us and helps us to find insights and opportunities to improve ourselves. I encourage people to not automatically jump to our 'team position' (whatever that is).
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I honestly have no good answer here. Mind is a terrible thing to waste and I do not want those to fall through the cracks just because parents are idiots. Natural response is to put limits on what parents can do. Here is the problem though. Some people would likely disagree with what I would want to instill in my child. Since that is the case, I accept that parent's freedom will sometimes yield results that are suboptimal ( wasted child's potential ).

Beyond that.. what can we do? I would not mind effectively forcing 230 to make all platforms define themselves as publishers or not. Clearly, some sort of re-alignment is needed. Maybe we could force everyone to think twice before posting anything on the net?

As you can see, I do not know what the answer is. All I can do is what is best for my family.
It should be noted that giving criminals immunity is the entire damn point of the system.

The point of "immunity" is so that the lower-level criminals lose their 5th Amendment rights, and are therefore compelled to present evidence against their boss. The 5th Amendment in the USA states "Right against self-incrimination", but if you have immunity, you cannot self-incriminate.

So once you sign that immunity document, you can be compelled to speak anything in court. Even if you "forgot", once you sign over, you can be __forced__ to talk.

So yeah, I'm not entirely sure if "immunity given to group X" is a big problem? Its how courts work, its how we pin down the ringleader. Its often less important to get the lackeys, and more important for the officers to focus on the bosses.

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Without the presentation of this evidence, you never get a guilty plea. Remember, in the USA's court system, you need to __prove__ the defendant of wrongdoing.

That means you either need to convince people, or force people, to present evidence in court that's helpful to your case. These people are often insiders, and immunity is extremely useful for getting around 5th Amendment issues.
One thing I've wondered is whether working as a software engineer shapes one's thinking in a manner that's not conducive to creativity. I find I often start analyzing new ideas, looking for faults or potential pitfalls -- as if I were being handed a spec to implement.
There are plenty of WASM runtimes without any C on them.
This is a wrong interpretation of the obvious solution, enforcing sane standards for the typical imperative patterns used and assuming feasibility of static analysis.

Programmer as user just makes sense once you've moved past punch cards to interactive IDEs. Everyone should have stopped using punch cards by now, but lo-and-behold this is still basically the standard in some outfits.
One singular guy seems to be working on it but who knows really how far they'll get?
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyBook/comments/yfefif/finally_...
"Automatically show me design ideas" is a pretty visible option in Preferences (looking at my Mac here, can check Windows later, but I remember turning that off on my new laptop since I just never _use_ the suggestions and they came up when I was traveling and on slow Wi-Fi).

I also believe it can be managed by policy.

MS FTE here, I have no direct awareness of how the feature works and am not affiiliated with Office - but I'm sad that something meant to _help_ people (if this raises hackles, I don't want to see what the OP says about the accessibility checks) is used to bludgeon my colleagues publicly.
Yea, I have tried OpenBSD a few times, but sadly I just don't have enough time to invest in my OS to get the most out of it. I use my machines until they fail, then replace them with a new one/part. A fresh install of ubuntu and they are ready for work in 30mins. I used NixOS for a small period of time for this reason, but even this became more of a headache than it was worth.
I think that if you feel like that, you might be looking into the wrong language. Go sounds like an exact match of what you want.
What was the album?
Oh, heck. I wasn't trying to change your mind. I apologize if it came across that way.
LOL.

There is nothing special about Ikea furniture. its generic slop made of compressed wood like the stuff you find in office furniture at your local bank.
See "Software Engineering at Google" https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch11.html, the definition of a "small test".

This is roughly my definition of unit test: "tests run in a single process"
I'd recommend using citric acid instead, they sell it here as "lemon salt" so it comes in an easy to use salt shaker. I usually put it in the minimum amount of water required to safely boil it and a small amount depending on how heavy the deposits are (usually up to a spoon is enough for me), though you could also just pour it in and wait.

It works really well and doesn't leave the same smell. When I'd previously used vinegar I'd had to boil another round of water and throw it away just to clean the kettle from the vinegar itself, but with citric acid there's no need (just don't drink the citric acid, it tastes like acid :)).
I think that the desirable long term outcome involves the vast majority of people embracing the idea that we should pay up front for information services, rather than accepting "free" things from capitalists. TANSTAAFL.

The good part is that operating a usenet server with no alt.binaries.* content is extremely low demand; it was designed to run on the 70s internet, so...
Totally anecdotal but I am thinking that this is due to the long delay between seasons. I think this is happening with many shows that have these multi year hiatus style productions. There is so much great media out there that trying to get back in to something that is almost two years old takes a lot of effort.
IMO, the fact that personalization isn't more widespread is good evidence that code style doesn't actually matter. Humans adapt. So long as it doesn't actually interfere with the function of writing code (eg mixed tabs & spaces; wildly inconsistent identifier names), your reader will get over it quickly after some snide comments to their friends on IRC, and then work on the actual work that needs doing. I think people spend too much thought on this topic.
You can - at least in the UK - switch consumer energy suppliers if you feel like your current energy provider is charging too much.

However, the recent crisis sent a large number of consumer energy suppliers into bankruptcy, suggesting that actually they'd been keeping too little back rather than fleecing the consumers.
Mastodon is in trouble if it still has a communication problem in late-2022. It's had 6 years to refine its experience, and apparently is still unable to capitalize on Twitter's missteps.
Which government, and are there international agreements about this?
I knew a guy about 10 years ago that upgraded his iphone through the apple website and AT&T website at the same time, received two phones, and never heard from either company about a double transaction. I love these kinds of hacks -- I guess it's one way to profit from hard-learned database lessons :)
> Is this the guy that Ross wanted to kill?

No. The guy he "wanted to kill" was a moderator who didn't even steal from him. A FBI agent (huray, my taxes) pretended to be a drug lord for over 2yrs convincing Ross he should kill some moderator with lies about he wanting to take over silkroad or something, and then staged a mock assassination. All that for no tangible investigative benefit other then strengthen their 2yr old bro-bond.

That agent didn't even contribute to the actual arrest. Go read wired write up of the whole thing. It's better than most fiction books. Pure comedy.

Also, the current silk road is a honeypot set up by the Feds. That's why 1) they screwed up on validating transactions (it's not their money) and 2) they want after the stolen funds.
NodeJS project: 441MB, 32872 dependencies, and uptime <5 days due to patching cycles

C project Version: 2.5MB, 6 dependencies, and uptime 3+ years (OpenSSL patch ended the streak.)

Being busy is not necessarily productive, and "Better" is often use-case dependent. =)
My main takeaway from this is that I need to find a place to buy TimTams in the USA.
Apparently the root cause of this hack in the kernel is : "nobody wanting to maintain X11 anymore". Is X11 becoming yet another underfunded cornerstone of the open source ecosystem?
2023 is the year of Linux on the desktop?
Grammarly should absolutely be banned. Their privacy policy is horrible.

I'd suggest companies look into LanguageTool's "On-Premise" commercial offering or run the Java-based server themselves (with N-Grams). Is it as good as Grammarly? Nope, but it is "90%" as good and significantly more private.
Prenda is exactly what this brought to mind for me too. Maybe popehat will do a deep dive on this stuff.
Already in 1961, one of the achievements of Burroughs was being an OS fully written in a safe systems languages (one of the first uses of UNSAFE code blocks), and a bytecode based format for executables.

This system is still sold nowadays as Unisys ClearPath MCP.
> protected by GDPR

This is like the firewall in windows 95: nice but useless.
I am genuinely curious as to why the MacOS version says "The first time you try out Designer, it asks your permission to get design ideas for you." and the Windows version says "The first time you try out Designer, it may ask your permission to get design ideas for you."

Can Microsoft use some other setting in Windows as justification for bypassing the permission step?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintin...).
They pierce you to remove blood and put it back. You get to keep all the non-plasma components - blood cells, etc.
On the contrary, it seems like you'd have to try very hard to ship 1.5 GiB of software.

For example, Calibre is around 350 MiB. It embeds Qt, Chromium, Python and ICU, is fully localised, and has rather a lot of functionality.

Video content can be fairly large, but a high-quality 1080p encode is around 500 KiB/s. Can you really pack an hour of instructional videos into some printer software?

I can think of a couple ways that you could cross the 1 GiB mark, but none that would involve sane engineering choices or "trying and rejecting" other options.
It is specific to the nuclear fleet: https://www.magnuscmd.com/the-arenh-regulated-access-to-fran...

So nuclear plants are forced to sell energy below cost and they must buy a certain amount of renewable energy at inflated rates. This has forced them into debt.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-budget-carbon/fran...

I was technically mistaken about the 23 eu/MWh tax. The amount seems to be correct but it is charged to the ratepayer (not EDF) and is meant to help EDF cover the cost of the renewable energy they are forced to buy. But it does not actually cover the amount of renewable energy they are forced to buy, hence the debt.

CSPE tax:
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/entreprises/contribution-servic...
It’s funny you’re saying that on a site accessible within fractions of a second form pretty much anywhere in the world.
I don't know how 30% overnight growth means it is in trouble. I don't know how a service that isn't geared toward profit is in trouble from a lot more people using it and learning about it. I really, honestly don't know what you mean by that.
> both college education and healthcare have become enormous taxpayer wealth extraction schemes

Yup.

Early 70s, we started transformation from a manufacturing to a rent seeking economy. Cleverly branded as "supply side", "knowledge worker", and "service industry".

I still can't get over the fact that I have to spend money to use my money. Even more so the less money a person has.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Clutch engagement via pedal is nowhere near instant, and the dual clutch gearboxes (computer controlled) are faster.

Feathering the clutch is mostly useless in everyday driving and performance driving. Likewise, dropping from 6th to 1st. Above 20mph, it's nearly always a mistake to downshift to 1st, and who is going 20mph in 6th?

The only legitimate reason I can see to prefer a 3 pedal gearbox over a DCT is the ability to clutch kick to initiate oversteer, which is purely for drifting.

Mostly 3 pedal cars are useful for a display of mastery, but 99% of drivers fall way short, and don't even realize it, leaving gobs of performance on the table or mismatching revs and introducing undesirable weight transfer.

There is nothing an abacus does better than a calculator, but I don't begrudge abacus aficionados, and abacus mastery is quite impressive.

Source: Porsche Driving Instructor for 5 years with thousands of hours in the passenger seat.
direct air capture normally requires cycling a sorbent, as you would know if you had worked in the industry as anything other than a janitor. you heat it up, it emits CO2 (hopefully into your underground caverns or wherever the fuck you're sequestering the stuff), you cool it back down, and it starts absorbing CO2 (for example, from the atmosphere). that's the same way scrubber systems like diethanolamine, triethanolamine, and zeolites work. calcium carbonate/calcium oxide/calcium hydroxide is one such cycle, just a particularly energy-hungry and slow one. conceivably there might be other approaches that don't rely on thermal cycling (pressure cycling, some kind of electrochemical thing) but afaik nobody has demonstrated one. they won't repeal the fundamental entropic limit anyway so they'll only be marginally better than existing thermal-cycling systems, we can't expect an order of magnitude improvement

using 70 percent as much, or even several times more, energy than the humans currently produce is not a bfd because the amount of solar energy reaching earth is five orders of magnitude greater than current world marketed energy consumption. historically that was irrelevant because burning coal was cheaper than solar panels. now solar panels are cheaper and it's just a matter of scaling up production, which will happen unless people somehow run out of economically profitable ways to use energy. see my notes from 2008 at https://dercuano.github.io/notes/solar-economics.html for details

i note a total absence of any quantitative arguments in your comments thus far; instead they rely on handwaving and gee-whiz pop science claims of incredibleness and authority
C.A.R Hoare in 1980,

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished
us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions
would have long been against the law."
HAH! and ironically I read this literally 10 minutes after you posted it :)

dons maintainer hat

<ObligatoryResponse>

We've been generally recommending against use of sagas for years - they're a power tool, and very few apps need that. They're also a bad fit for basic data fetching.

Today, Redux Toolkit's "RTK Query" API solves the data fetching and caching use case, and the RTK "listener" middleware solves the reactive logic use case with a simpler API, smaller bundle size, and better TS support.

Resources:

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-7-rtk-query-b...

- https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/overview

- https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createListenerMiddleware

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2022/06/presentations-mode...

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Right — you might remember during the big freeze in Texas (February last year), a lot of people were ridiculed for using Griddy, whose very premise was “hey don’t pay those inflated utility prices, just pay the usually-cheaper spot price for your energy!”

The utility price is higher because the result of longer-term price-locking contracts. The spot price can spike pretty hard, wiping out your gains, as those customers learned then.

(Sorry, I don’t know the standard jargon for some of those concepts.)
Consultants often get cut first.

But they are often called in when the cuts were too deep, or to help with the cuts.

The advantage that a consultant has is that they're used to being "laid off" multiple times a year, so they should have a customer base they can use to level out.
Using Pleroma will make lots of homeservers block you because the main developers and some major users of the platform are right wing (like KiwiFarms) so lots of Mastodon homeservers consider it to be Nazi software and will block you outright just for using it

This is incidentally why I'm not developing an Activity Pub homeserver myself -- I have no interest in having users doxx my politics simply because I'm interested in social networking protocols.

Personally, my hobby is no longer computers, and it definitely isn't FOSS -- I'm not trying to be the next guy blackballed from the industry for having the wrong thought about the current thing. That's also why I have a throwaway account here. Political activists working inside the tech sphere are savage and have no mercy, and I wish to have nothing to do with them. For me that mostly means: no ActivityPub, no Twitter.
Presumably this would be the case with any purely-digital asset class that has the ability to be encapsulated in a physical token or offline digital storage device.
A: you spent it

B: it’s a currency

Here is how the thread went (too lazy for quantifiers and variables).

1. not A => not B

2. So Peso not A => Peso not B

3. You: But Peso A => Peso B

This is a non sequitur. „Not A => Not B“ does not entail „A => B“.
That’s what I mean by you can’t conclude it (from the thread). You are however clearly free to make up new things and change the topic. But it looked like you were drawing a conclusion there.

Edit: formatting
Funny, I would have read that page and said that it was blatantly not obvious what was going on except that the privacy policy call out was a red flag. I wouldn't have thought anything of it needing to be enabled, lots of features are things that you might not want enabled by default. And having a privacy policy is definitely a red flag but it still doesn't say "we're going to send the content of your slides to Microsoft for processing".

In short, I pretty strongly disagree. I think that if you had a hundred users look at that page or click through enabling the feature, and then asked afterwards how many of them thought that the feature was going to send their slides to Microsoft, at least 50 of them would be very surprised.
Most people (especially older folks) can't hear it or don't even notice.
Whole generation of POOR kids. Wealthy can afford air purifiers in schools, homes and cars.
This drove me nuts when I was writing my master thesis. Professor handling it insisted on writing the outline first and then, in order (!), each of the chapters.

I found that approach problematic, at least for me. How was I supposed to know from the get-go what problems I'll stumble upon, what the conclusions will be, what pivots I'll make. So I just ignored that and started out in the middle, wrote what I knew when I knew it, and then progressed outward to more general, summary chapters. Turned out ok and I think with a lot less rewriting had I listened to her advice.

"From the middle out" ;)
Who asked?

Their brand is recognizable, despite your objections to their product.
Unity and IronSource’s $4.4B merger is now complete
I'm not talking about the language you use to write the runtime. I'm talking about the language you use to write the code that becomes the WASM that the runtime runs. They not need be the same.

As others have pointed out you can compile pretty much everything to WASM, but it's most often done with the same languages you'd use to compile to native code; C, C++, Rust, the usual suspects.
Every time I do `npm install` I am reminded of this. Why do I need 32,127 libraries again?
Everything is adtech,

Everything is marketing, surveillance, and spam...

(to tune of "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie)
It doesn't for me, unfortunately.

My productivity skyrockets when my wife is around, especially for tasks involving physical labor.
Plus there are policies which allow admins to block PowerPoint Designer, as well as all Office 365 "Intelligent Services" (or "Intelligence Services", depending on your POV).
Copyright and copyright licences exist to protect authors and publishers.
Have a look at D.
> Mission accomplished?

What is the mission?
The fact is that you need energy to produce hydrogen, and then car engines are less efficient with hydrogen than with electricity.

And the other points remain: we need hydrogen in other important fields (probably more important than cars, right?), so we should keep it there. If we get more efficient at producing hydrogen for those applications, that's good. No need to add cars on top.
Fifty Years of Prolog and Beyond
Yup, just like that. A downplayed detail that is there, but not obvious when quickly swiping through hundreds of Tweets as the typical user does. There is good reason why SNL avoids such subtlety and goes for overt differences in details when performing parody. Identity confusion isn't good comedy and isn't considered a good idea generally.