skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a while to abandon the Microsoft ecosystem for my own use but I'm so glad that I did. It was a lot of careful considerations though and finding out what was important to me and how other open source projects aligned with those goals.

I'm thinking maybe a site that has a way for users to pick things that matter to them and then recommend an OS and software would be a good idea.
Is there a reason to believe that this is not the work of a (presumably) educated and intelligent person who has fundamentally misunderstood the subject?
No, they still have these features on Pro and even HPC SKUs of Client. Server and LTSB don't, but are missing other features you might actually want (like DirectX).
Can I just offer an alternative? What if we all pushed back and didn't accept low wages? It's been going on for far too long and just accepting it and starting side hustles is very defeatist.
I got my first Mac a few months ago and there are definitely a few annoying things. Not necessarily (only) popups, just weird error messages, bugs and the system sometimes telling me a jpeg file might be a virus that I may not want to "launch". Though on average I'd say it's a drastically better experience than the current state of Windows.
Soo niche except for 99.99999% of devs
Why did meta hire someome to study poker bots? Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and write own poker bots?

How does this research help facebook?

Im very, very far away from Musk and his antics, but really some of those big companies seem to have lots of people who do passion projects.

Meanwhile an actual user has low if no chance to get decent support (probably for the cost of that of programmer they could get multiple people).

And yes I am aware that I sound anti illectual here and research the sake of reseaech can lead to nice things.
I just think that the person will quit facebook to write poker bots and ruin the game for those who play it by detecting their weaknesses ( btw. I dont even play poker).
General news that are on TV mostly do not belong to this site. Not that I watch TV, but I am sure the EU parliament corruption scandal has been there. It has been in all news here since Friday.

I guess in the US it did not make any big headlines. Whether it belongs into HN for that reason I don't know. The submission guidelines don't seem to address the fact that TV news don't cover the same topics globally.
I second this one. It's the only podcast on/adjacent to engineering that I regularly listen to (even Syntax.fm I'll dip in and out of). Good community, too.
Salame openly donated half as much to republicans and supposedly additional through super PACs.

Maybe more important is the Bahamian side, he let leveraged users there draw out before people who were supposed to be fully backed in non-margin/futures accounts and explicitly said it was to ease the regulatory side of things.
Biological Cognition
Technically Windows 11 is an even release, since Windows 9 was skipped. I, for one, am looking forward to the revolutionary Taskbar with Titles in Windows 12!
While there are still use-cases where the traditional laptop/desktop form-factor remains the answer and there are Windows users, Windows getting worse and Linux getting better will continue to see people migrate over.

No, there' won't be an explosion, it's a death by a thousand cuts. The bemused amongst us are wondering why Microsoft is the one holding the knife.
A lot of the trends people get fixated on tend to fade away in a few months. It takes some time to get used to focusing on “boring” tech that builds better projects (php and Postgres come to mind as very viable solutions for development even in 2022). Clients love boring tech because you’re not sitting around explaining to them why something broke because you built it with cutting edge TrendTech.

Crypto seems to have outlived its utility as a way to get rich quick. ML is still just a technique to average out giant datasets to find/generate things based on trends (these things work on training data after all and not from a true blank slate). Quantum computing is a long way off and the most practical way it’ll affect most people here is making our encryption keys too simple and some new quantum resistant version will be needed.

Just watch chatGPT - in 6 months, it’ll feel like a distant memory here! And people will be raving about some new JS/wasm thing instead
Depends on your keyboard layout. On my (Finnish) keyboard, | requires alt.
Do crypto with passion or don't do it all
Since it's not obfuscated the binary can be decompileed easily and any coding issues can be identified more easily.
everyone is so entitled nowadays.
> Because they are cherry picked.

Sure, as are the objections to MOND.

> Physicists are also wary of approaches like MOND+particle DM, because it just introduces more [...] You can imagine it like fitting a polynomial of degree N to N data points. Yes it will fit perfectly, but that doesn't mean it's a good model. This is just sophisticated curve fitting to generate papers and not good science.

That's exactly what's happening with cold dark matter models. I agree the state of things is unsatisfactory for either theory, we need bolder ideas. Superfluid dark matter was promising but doesn't currently match some observations. We need more of that.
She's one of those people who's famous for being famous.
It's a rocket jetpack for your self-driving flying car powered by blockchain!
Microsoft transitioning Windows into a spyware platform filled with advertisements and garbage has been in the making for years at this point. Its absolutely exploitative, greedy, and evil, which is why if you can you should consider switching to a different operating system, like Linux. At the very least you can transition to using Linux for tasks that work on Linux while keeping around Windows for tasks which require windows, either due to a lack of Linux support or poor performance/stability/etc. All of this assuming you aren't doing this already.
I like to phrase this as "We are the managers of the automated workforce."
Future of Retail Stores
Promising gimmick
To an extent, sure, and that can apply arbitrarily to lots of things.

The Python community, by and large, embraces "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" and some features in the standard library use exceptions for their flow control. It's much more likely to run into overuse of exceptions in Python than not.
This is my experience as well. The first paragraph that is.
Which accidents are those? Pilot training has long emphasized the importance of having only one pilot actively flying the aircraft at a time, while the other acts as a monitor.
I love & miss minidiscs :-D
Link without a unique tracking ID

https://twitter.com/DogeEastwood/status/1600891540930715649
There is a reason why all of those people chose to spend large sums of money on those vehicles.
Buying a Rolex today or for the past few years, would have actually been a pretty solid investment - it's hard to purchase a new one, because there's usually waiting lists, and most stores prioritize their VIP clients. Used market blew up around COVID, and people have made some pretty nice returns on flipping Rolex. Hell, I have a couple of co-workers that collect watches, and they mostly just store the real-deal in their safes, and wear high-end replicas in public.

But I get your point. Unfortunately there seems to be lots of kids in the the lower socio-economic classes that spend all their money on expensive sneakers, hoodies, and other luxury brand clothes. Spending $1k on a designer hoodie, when you make $15k / year, isn't the smartest financial decision - to put it mildly.
> LTA expects Pathfinder 1 to carry approximately 4 tonnes of cargo, in addition to its crew, water ballast, and fuel. The airship will have a top speed of 65 knots, or about 120 kilometers per hour—on par with the Hindenburg—with a sustained cruise speed of 35 to 40 knots (65 to 75 km/h).

This is the big problem with airships. Over land, they are competing with large trucks which can carry 25 tons of cargo at similar speeds. Over water, they are competing with cargo ships that can carry 1000’s of times that amount of cargo, again with roughly similar speeds.
It would behoove you to stop saying that the paper "overclaims" things. Maybe you believe I've "overclaimed" things, by saying that the paper killed your protocol as dead as TLS 1.0. I stand by that argument, but the paper's authors made no such claim. It's a dry, detailed, factual paper that just happens to rattle off a bunch of vulnerabilities both in your protocol and in Element's implementation of it.
That would need careful cost-benefit analysis. My instinct is to keep the protection or find a way to retrofit cheaper/available parts too maintain it. But then I'm not in the cheap and shonky consumer tat business.
Just played some games on Linux Steam yesterday. It works so smooth. The Steam client is actually buggy at times with a tiling WM, but all the games worked great.. even the oned with Proton.
The speed of this situation unfolding makes me wonder if it was known for a while and arrests were timed for the world cup for maximum damage.
You use iTerm shortcuts instead. You can customize those as you like. So it feels just like using iTerm, but the panes are running in tmux.

The main reason to do this (for me) is to use (tmuxp)[https://tmuxp.git-pull.com] to configure window sets for different projects / clients and start them up quickly.
Ah right, fair enough!
Well, I remember how 10 years ago tons of HN users were posting about how they changed the browser on all of their relatives and friends computer to Chrome. How did that end up?
I would say a tech leader does not always know right from wrong, but needs to be able to make the decision and own the consequences, especially when their decisions affect the happiness of other developers.

I like your distinction between senior devs and tech leads. I think a lot of rewrites come from good senior devs faced with an existing system with problems and knowing that they wouldn't have created those problems if they wrote the system themselves. For example, if the system has code quality issues or a poor internal architecture, the senior devs think, we write good code and make good design decisions, so why should we struggle with this bad code and bad design? We should rewrite it so that it reflects our quality.

I was certainly guilty of this at an early stage in my career. As soon as I could write good code and make good design decisions, I thought the future was going to be easy. I wasn't going to be struggling with poorly written, badly designed systems forever. I'd be working on awesome systems that reflected my standards, and everything would make sense.

That was a hard dream to give up.

Now I look around and think, what one thing can this team do to make this better, while still delivering software for the people who need it?
> As an adult, take responsibility for the consequences of the risks you take.

Haha, you’re a funny guy. This thinking is fantasy. People can’t regulate themselves.

Keep thinking this though if you are that delusional.
This article was 50 percent ads.

What’s interesting is that MS is doing things that the EU already gave substantial fine for making a browser default.
As a general rule, we don't arrest people for things that aren't illegal.

... Unless by "deter" you just meant "make it illegal," in which case, agreed.
Microsoft is a services company. Expect only more of this.

By the way, Apple is also a services company.

The difference here is that most of Apple’s customers want to use at least some of their services.
The world needs more milquetoasts like Copernicus and less tall poppies like Galileo! /s
Just switched to Fastmail as a hedge against Google locking my account etc.

As the name implies, its web interface and phone apps are responsive; more so than Proton.
"Ban cars" is a fringe position very few people actually hold.

This being said. I mean. Cars have only been around for about a century, we've managed without them for millennia. Surely there is a way to reorganize many places so that their use can be slashed by 95%+, including by families.

One key thing is that it depends on the place. I think that in a lot of big cities it would be possible (not politically, but theoretically) to e.g. ban all curbside parking, reserve all central lanes for high frequency buses, limit all (non-bus) car traffic to 10 km/h. Car traffic would vanish on its own and the QOL increase for residents would more than make up for the inconvenience (less noise, less eyesore, more trees, safe biking, jaywalk everywhere, play in the street, etc.)

On the other hand, you can't really get cars out of hellscape car-centric suburbs (which mostly exist in the US, from my understanding) because they have been designed around the assumption that cars exist. You wouldn't get QOL improvements from slashing car traffic like you would in cities.

So I would argue to leave all these places alone, but we should try to suppress cars in dense cities as much as possible. As someone who lives in one, I would particularly like curbside parking to be nuked, because cars are an eyesore, they block visibility, and they are wasting so much usable space.
Install Keypirinha [1] and you don't need the Start menu anymore.

[1]: https://keypirinha.com/
Nice job! Thanks for sharing that inspirational post!
You bring up a good point that sports (like every arena of life) has always had some political controversies around it, but I'd still maintain that my general point that many things such as sports aren't working as a form of escapism for many people because of an increased political impact still stands. Perhaps the following things are different and more impactful today than in the past in the realm of sports.

> We live in a 24/7 media sensationalism society: turning a lot of what should be a minor distraction into things that you can't escape encountering on social media, sports recaps, every game you watch, etc repeatedly until you're just overwhelmed from it.

> The distraction isn't so much that players are making their own gestures that are meaningful to them; it's that the leagues are getting involved too such as the NBA writing social justice slogans on the uniforms and court or sports leagues and teams pathetically virtue signaling on every conceivable issue on social media. It's increasingly difficult to follow sports and avoid this part of it.

That said, forget sports for a minute and consider that all walks of life are becoming more politicized. You can't play video games without getting immersed in political controversies. You can't follow Hollywood without the same.

Where's the escapism?

And are people concocting more real world conspiracy theories as a form of coping with this and how shitty the world is becoming? That's my theory until proven otherwise.
I read a biography of Mister Rogers that showed just how much he'd studied childhood development. I feel like I picked up some things just by learning what he'd emphasized (based on the state of the art in child developmental psychology at the time he was filming his show.)

I also read "The Drama of the Gifted Child," which makes the point that smart children run into their own problems. (Basically, they're smart enough to try to please their parents - which can end up locking them in to specific personalities that are less fulfilling than they could be.)
Why not Mullvad all the time?
But what they can do is carry cargo over terrain that is unsuitable for both.
there's no such thing as dark matter
These reports usually start from a baseline template/checklist. I'm sure the "unobfuscated binary" and "admin" findings that everyone on this thread is making fun of are part of the SOP for NCC Group audits of native applications.

We laugh and argue that this makes pentests a joke (which plenty are!), but at the end of the day that "admin" note resulted in a material improvement, however tiny, in the system. Google reacted by removing the need for escalation from the application and now an attacker needs one more exploit to build a full chain.
Seems it's in principle tax deductible in the US as well:

https://www.justia.com/tax/corporate-tax/business-tax-deduct...

And without penalty at least until 1977.

Switzerland ended tax deductions for bribes in 2022.
https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/europe/278815/switzerl...

In Greece, btw, they were deductible until 2006.
It's cool that Snopes rates this old Wired correctly, but this leaves open "Why and how?"

Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while, so we can expect correct prognosticator sometimes
Good lord, all the plastic in the world being four percent of oil and gas production is terrifying. Implying the rest basically ends up combusted into the atmosphere? The fact that increasing the percentage of oil and gas used for plastic looks like a good option by comparison turns my stomach.
I made this comment a couple years ago:

> Also that the HN bubble will always make readers feel behind when in reality 90% of the industry hasn’t even begun to catch-up. I felt behind with K8S in 2016, for example, not realizing we were just seeing the wave form when I felt like it was cresting. [0]

0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23448835
This one is one of my absolute favorites. The two part xbox episode is insane.
Neovide: A No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
That's strange. I'm reading policito.eu for quite some time and they are definitely one of the top channels for receiving EU related news and also focus very much on EU news. (Which makes sense, since they also have politico.com for US-related news)
I prefer the original’s honesty.
Have you used Mercurial? I found it a lot more user friendly, especially with TortoiseHg for Windows. Not sure if that’s still around as I don’t use Windows any more but even though there are many similarities, git always feels like it’s designed to solve problems I don’t want to use source control to solve.
> The company sees a natural fit for airships in humanitarian and relief missions.

Doesn’t sound like a big market, and it has to compete with cargo planes (faster, more capacity than this Pathfinder 1 with only 4 tons) and helicopters (more nimble).
All wizards seem limited by the speed of sound. They hear/see spells coming and react by waving arms and saying things. Bullets are faster than wands. Only Jedi have the prescience to react prior to the bullet being fired.
I have been using Linux as my primary OS for many years, but this particular issue is stubbornly baffling. There are solutions of course but they are not really good.
Nice, that's a smart approach.
Tor network DDoS attacks lead to I2P solution for Bitcoin Privacy apps
The horrifying descent of Windows is one of the great tragedies of our time. It's never been great, but it's generally been OK. This is monstrous.

Every single exec involved in this should be publicly named and shamed, and driven out of the tech industry.
Do you not think that straight up robbing somebody requires a different level of commitment than fraud?

The guy using a fake app to pretend that they didn't receive a wire transfer isn't going to end up in a fight, the guy robbing someone of their cash might.

Not only that, bank transfers do not protect you from robbery. You can be forced to make a wire transfer, just as you can be forced to hand over cash.
Your "for the record" doesn't work even for that. Failure does not offset success.
Show HN: MitosisPictures.com
Why do flying cars not make sense, assuming the technology was perfect? Cars could go more direct routes to their destinations and we could give so much ground area that's currently dedicated to cars back to pedestrians and other modes of transportation.
Verse Calculus: a Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming [pdf]
Probably not. Genetics isn't nearly as clean a people imagine it to be.

Much easier to target one individual (and their whole host of genetic factors) than to target one genetic factor that can be associated with an ethnic group and pray that it doesn't either also express itself in an undiscovered way in other ethnic groups or have knock-on effects or the potential to mutate.

We aren't as genetically different as people imagine, and this sort of approach would be absolutely playing with fire.
I teach a software engineering class, and the entire course is centered around using the tangible Creation to teach abstract software concepts. The way that Christ orchestrated and balanced Creation also shows us how many system, software or not, can be self-sustaining and thrive.

The deeper you know Jesus, the deeper you will understand, and quicker you will comprehend, how to balance very complex systems. A healthy system requires tradeoffs and priorities, but ultimately, it requires accountability, trust, serving, sacrifice, and finally, love.

A system without these can come and go, but it won't flourish (See: Twitter).
I replied to the guy because my stolen iPhone went to the exact same place in China.

Clearly there is some factory there accepting tons of stolen phones.
So why don't you switch it?

I've put it to show Weather only and I actually like it a lot.
I've seen the same. People see that to get things done, often you need to be unpleasant. So through logical acrobatics being unpleasant means they get things done. It even works for a while because it's true that if you're unpleasant you must be getting things done or you'd be gone.
Tech-libs need to get in touch with reality.

In all my tears of living I’ve never had a conversation where someone used the word tyranny and banking in the same sentence.

Average joe just wants their assets insured and kept in a safe place.
Why do we need trucks, in this case? All the rubber contaminating the environment when what you describe is the Electric Train that existed for 60+ years.
To add, the name of the podcast is Signals and Threads.
> Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

I would love to see a screenshot because this I simply don’t believe
Yes but for me it comes from the articles about environmental destruction. Not just climate but also the myriad other ways we’re making spaceship earth unlivable for our children and other creatures that share it with us.

I wish I could filter these out and just stick to the technology.
This one sounds interesting! I'll give it a listen.

Speaking of Platform teams, I'm one of the co-founders of WunderGraph(https://wundergraph.com/) and we're working on a platform right now for API Integration. Are you open to any guests from a early startup?
It’s not tiring at all, it’s just becoming acutely aware of the day-to-day socio-economic realities.

Yes, a good friend of mine can afford to be a (rather poorly paid) journalist because said friend is in fact a millionaire when it comes to his inherited real-estate assets, but someone like me (my parents had to rely on subsistence agriculture until not that long ago) has to always have a decent-paying job available or else.

Again, for people on the other side of the fence is not tiring at all, we’re very much aware of it each and every day. It’s not a new thing either, reading Balzac means reading about people on each side of the has real money/has no real money fence.