skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Negative ion generators". Check out Thought Emporium. He managed to have some of them banned.
This is some real incel reasoning.
Well yes and no.

Did you know you can't set your login wallpaper without an enterprise or education license via GPO? It won't tell you that's the problem when it doesn't work but it is at least documented in the GPO itself - so you need to notice that a pretty basic feature is POSH license only. I'm one of those rare people who actually read messages and docs and hence I eventually spotted it when roughly 20 people diagnosing a snag had not. I'm also the PHB (actually I have very little hair) so, in your face: Dilbert.

Features that are offered but silently fail is wankery of the first order to add to your flipping back of settings - hello again Edge you fucking numpty!
>They're designed to emphasize as many production flaws as possible.

That's one way to think of it.

I like to think of it as "revealing every production detail". I want to hear the skill of both the musician and the production.

I'm personally very heavily biased toward well-produced music though.

The alternative is masking details, which is not what I want.

I could get that with cheap speakers in a crappy room, or in the car with the engine running.

Great mixing with a great performance on revealing speakers is an amazing experience.

>they might tame those lows in the mix to get a more balanced result

So you buy speakers with extra lows, and then when you change music to something mixed with neutral bass, it's overpowering?

I'd rather have neutral, calibrated speakers and have most music be balanced and then I can EQ the badly mixed music if I want.

It's a moving target, but I'd much rather have a zeroed rifle. Yes I know the analogy falls apart when the target changes distance but it's the first thing I thought of.
I liked Windows 7 a lot too, only switched to 10 when it got to end-of-life.
I've done it. You need to edit the registry during install and it's all fine.
Yup. I even find network (!!) settings disappearing or changing. (shakes head sadly)
Try installing Linux + steam on it. I think you'll find it's a better environment for gaming.
"I have never looked back since. I stopped buying new laptops every few months and got myself a new MacBook every few years instead. I stopped counting crashes and dealing with anti-virus"

This is a quote around them using Win 7/8. There's definitely some hyperbole going on here, because I and many others found Windows 7 to be a relatively stable environment and I say this as a prolific user of Photoshop, visual studio, and ableton.

The idea that he's buying new laptops every few months rather discredits this article. I had a dell Inspiron that lasted about two years, and after that I purchased a IBM T530 that lasted nearly 5 years.

Post Windows 10 LTSC, I've abandoned windows completely though.
This led me to Google around a bit and I came across this slashdot article from 10 years ago with a dead link https://m.slashdot.org/story/188821

I don't know why I didn't consider h2o molecules as ion engine propellant.
I think parent is getting at the idea that dnn learns abstract representations of the data in whatever way is useful for the mode objective function. But I agree, the article still seems to present a reasonable argument
Come on, hn isn't a place for this historical revisionism and juggling with facts.

If his parents were born in Kiew (Kyiv), then when they were born, it was a part of Russian Empire, and not a country that gained short independence in 1917-21.
The Rise of the West
Does that mean that paying for an OS means your time has negative value?

Surely the time spent installing, configuring, and messing around with your personal desktop or laptop after already having paid for a complete OS is tantamount to buying a prebuilt PC, taking it apart, and putting it back together with a few missing screws.

Zero is still greater than any negative number.
To be fair, at least officially, the first and national language of Ireland is Gaelic.

English wasn't dominant until late XIXth century.
> Now go focus on important things in life: money, sex, and exercise.

I read this list as: requires stable employment, requires stable employment, is torture. The first two items... are not something I can focus in lieu of my job, they're literally the point of it (I long ago gave up on the idea of Finding Fulfilling Work That Is Also Your Passion And That Is Net Good For The World).
Just one example: I can't have Acrobat as the default PDF reader for longer than an update cycle. It gets reset to Edge.
I thought Witcher 3 had a good story until I played Disco Elysium.
This may result in poor CPU cache access pattern. For tasks that are often human-bound like source files or UI data structures using a sorted array can be a good option.
When you read a novel, do you spend time worrying about what sections are 'as written' from the author and which sections were cleaned up by an editor?
I did Linux gaming for a bit. The main annoyance was getting all the sound settings to work with… I guess it must have been Skype at the time, or maybe Google Hangouts or something… so I could play multiplayer games with friends.

This would have been more than a decade ago, so I believe you if you say it is pretty good nowadays. Might check back. I know Discord runs OK on Linux.
So a security feature that doesn't impact normal use and can be turned off if you're so inclined is anti-consumer?
Or just "Italiano"?
> There are countries freer than the USA where the government reserves the right to severely restrict speech and even criminalize some forms of political speech

No, there aren't.

> the first amendment, as currently formulated, really needs to go

That's the first thing the Nazis did, as well as Mussolini, and every other repressive government. Without free speech, the rest of your rights go down the drain.

If Ginsburg advocated getting rid of free speech, I'd like to see a cite from you about that.
The most reliable way to get things to stick is by using Group Policies. Because if there's one group Microsoft is afraid of messing with, it's their Enterprise customers.

Of course that requires getting Windows Pro or better, but that's becoming a must anyways, Windows Home just keeps getting worse with every update. Luckily the upgrade is only about $20 (using the unofficial key reseller of your choice).
Ukraine was part of Russia until the Russian Revolution in 1917.
I started with Red Hat 5 bought in a box in 1998 from Microcenter, compiled my own kernel with the original Gentoo, ran XMonad under Arch, and need both hands to count the number of distros I've used as daily drivers.

I have settled on Linux Mint. It just works, and looks good.

From one "filthy casual" to another...
Difficult to find a word for 'snow globe' too ..
That was 15 years ago. Today, it's a big time saver compared to Windows.
Is there a windows edition that shuts this stuff off, like some enterprise sku?
I’m curious to see if NRIs just invest some fun money of their portfolio to Indian funds or do you really put a significant part of your portfolio invested in India, in other words if you have 70% stock allocation portfolio and may be 90% of it is VOO. Would you trust this platform to invest a significant part of your net worth over Vanguard.

Fun money the way in describing is an extremely small part of your portfolio which you don’t mind doing away with should it tank.
They really advertise to you inside the operating system?

I've been a Linux user for 20 years so I don't know.
Go to the Reddit link at the end of the post and tell me that that is better. I can't even find anyone's submission.
I use both Linux and Windows. Windows Pro 11 on desktop and Linux on desktop and servers. I removed ads from "Search" using settings and see no other ads. Am I special or it is related to Pro vs Home?
Guam, where America’s next war may begin
Good to see more people pointing out the problems using standalone llm (I.e. not connected to an external data source/the internet) for search. So many people I talk to dismiss gpt because it can’t answer some subject-specific question accurately.
I like #14. It teaches you the resistor color codes!
> 3. Pass 1+2 to another that asks for which npm packages to use

I see a fresh new generation of supply chain attack, or more prompt engineering to hopefully filter out malicious packages
They just redirect you to the Microsoft store page for the application
Windows 7 was the last possible usable version as far as I´m concerned. When Steam sunsets support in 2024 I´ll most likely switch to Ubuntu. Windows 8-11 are just untenable choices and we should all just realize this.
> I was very surprised to see advertising in the operating system, for an operating system that people pay at least $190 CAD for.

Most people don't pay this - and I don't mean buying keys from lower-buying-power countries, I mean that anyone with a gaming laptop (which is a 2x bigger market than desktop[0]) is really only paying maybe $50 for Windows since Dell/Alienware, Acer, etc get very large volume licensing discounts.

0: "In 2021, gaming notebooks are forecast to account for nearly 43 percent of shipments in the global gaming PC market, with gaming desktops making up 27 percent of shipments. In 2025, the shipment share of gaming notebooks is expected to grow to 46 percent globally." https://www.statista.com/statistics/1119850/gaming-pc-market...
There are many confounders. To the extent the problem is caused by depression, the negative feedback loop of stimulants leading to poor sleep can actually have net positive effect (possibly only short to mid term, IANADoctor, this is not medical advice), because sleep deprivation seems to (in my experience, anecdotally confirmed from various sources) shut off depression symptoms faster than it shuts down your cognitive power.

Related: see also Ballmer Peak[0], which is particularly funny because the effect is, to a degree, real.

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/323/
Not the exact same color, but the GR86 is available in orange already.

https://www.toyota.com/gr86/
> So prohibit bikes then? I think government is more concerned about scooters competing with paid for transportation and hence reduction of revenue

If you read the article you'll see this is based on a decision by the city's residents, 90% of whom voted against keeping them around.

The article seems to refer to two main things: "reckless and drunken driving, as well as clutter on pavements".

In my Australian city (I think we were the first to legalise them) they are wildly popular but I can attest to both of these things being a huge problem. I literally just walked to grab a snack and on the way back I stepped onto the road and was nearly wiped out by a scooter coming out of nowhere - illegally riding on the road.

I have a collection of photos on my phone of scooters being left randomly around the streets, including across the footpath and even on the road in some cases.

There is an entire class of people who use these that are just completely selfish fuckwits and do not stop to consider everyone else when they abandon them wherever they finish.

I am 100% pro electric scooter. They need to have infrastructure like cars, for parking and storage and riding. My state has just announced pretty harsh laws for riders that violate them but they are not being enforced enough yet.
> In fairness, SIP can be disabled.

For now. A year ago, I predicted that this will change within 10 years, and I still stand by what I said then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31067592
I simply use Wave (no affiliation, just a happy customer). I considered using ledger or gnucash or something else but at the end of the day I don't want to spent too much time worrying about bookkeeping. I like how transparent they are. One of the first emails you get from the after signing up is how is it that wave accounting is free, and they explain how they charge for things like payroll and payment processing (i.e. accepting credit card payments) which allows them to keep their accounting product free.

At the end of the day, the beauty of one's own business is doing whatever one wants, so if micro-optimization of finances is something you like, ledger or beancount are awesome, you can write scripts and your own tools and processes. I personally would rather focus what I consider the interesting part of my business :)
Sure, but Steam doesn't run natively, and is very heavy on battery and GPU. So it isn't good for playing on a laptop when mobile; signficantly worse to native game binary running on a tablet or laptop.
Yup, even on a slow machine with a mechanical drive you could blind type the first 3 letters of a program name and slam the enter key. The search filtering was so quick it would have completed the operation in time for your enter key-press to be registered.

Try the same thing on 10 or 11 and you're probably going to end up with a new edge window running a Bing search.
But they're not doing just fine.... They have captured under 1% of the short journey market...
That's a good point.

I enjoy a lot of bass-heavy music so I do feel I need one, but if I only had the budget for average speakers and a sub, or great speakers without a sub, I'd go for the great speakers without a sub.

I'd probably go for good speakers with a cheap sub rather than great speakers without a sub though.
It's not a US law, it's a California law.
Italy already went through this when it took its current form as a state over 150 years ago, producing Standard Italian in the process also known as "most widely spoken second language in Italy" - due to the plethora of dialects and accents spoken to this day.
Using LTSC or Enterprise is keeping me on Windows. If those weren't an option for me and my family I'd be gone to Linux. I don't know how anyone uses the "Home" edition. I guess they don't know better.
Well I think it's like, you come to enjoy an author's particular style of writing, and if people are just going to use ChatGPT to write things for them, then they're not going to develop any style. Everyone might even end up all sounding the same.

With a calculator this is a feature. We want computations to be the same after all. Everyone should be able to get the same results when they enter the same numbers in. But this homogeneity doesn't belong in writing.
A pittance relative to it's utility for bad actors. I like Bitcoin, and I cheered it on as a pimply-faced nerd who wanted to watch numbers do funny tricks. It's protocol is incompatible with what society deems acceptable though, so something's gotta change before the world goes all-in.

No fiat will ever be perfectly solvent, but that's a poor excuse to argue for the superiority of a currency as fickle as Bitcoin.
And 1 Are Not Probabilities (2008)
I would happily submit ALL the time required to set up my perfectly-tailored Linux environment once and have it stay that way, just to not have Windows Update (or a random blue screen or 100% disk utilization etc) make my machine unavailable for 40 min just before a hugely important client demo one more time.

Various Linux distros still have ways to go in terms of polish and stability - but, anecdotally, the only times my Arch + KDE failed were when I did stupid things and went too far with tinkering without thinking.
For better and worse everything productive is becoming OS agnostic. In 15 years I don't think many first-class applications will be truly native. They will be UI via HTML (webapps, electron, etc), CLIs based on POSIX, or company maintained UI frameworks which break OS styling conventions (JetBrains, etc).

OS agnosticism isn't just webapps taking over. Docker is making development from the ground up be OS agnostic.

I see this in my personal life as well. Every day I use MacOS, Linux, and Windows -- OS doesn't really matter much anymore to me.
> I am all ears now. Go on!

You came out swinging with bs accusations of racism, and tons of insults, clearly breaking the HN guidelines numerous times because of your own asinine assumptions.

Why should I bother to put in effort to converse with you, when you are going out of your way to misconstrue and insult, and coming from a place of extreme defensiveness and patriotism?

If you had not tainted this entire thread, I would have loved to have a productive discussion, and if I'm wrong be corrected and learn something.

But how is that possible now after your tirades and insults? As you even said you took what I said emotional and became very heated. Worst case, I might be ignorant, but I'm not racist or hateful against people of any race or country, and you said an awful lot of crappy things, much worse than anything I've said.
This is true about the search engine, and besides things you usually google aren’t guaranteed to be 100% accurate anyways. So how is using ChatGPT any different?

Sure things in Wikipedia or official documents could be accurate, but the internet is still full of misinformation
Haha, good to know that my laziness is not looked down :P

I used Ubuntu for a while, but fell in love with Mint. I really like how the interface looks, and how things are organized very intuitively. It feels so unfair to use it for free thay I donated 20 bucks, just to show appreciation.

Honestly, easily beats Windows or Mac OS for me.
> The MacOS UI is one of the better desktop environments I’ve encountered

See that's just hard for me to understand. At every point it seems to get in the way. Someone else in this thread made a list of the UI behaviors that they thought were odd, e.g. pressing enter on a file results in a prompt to rename it.

I think it's hard to measure and compare UI stuff though, because we become so biased by what we're used and what we find easiest or most comfortable to use.
The Sun is the ultimate energy source for our planet. We need it for warmth and photosynthesis (and lots of other stuff.) Life would definitely not exist as we know it without either of those. Eg: without photosynthesis, bacteria would quickly (on a geologic scale) consume/turn to waste anything valuable (including oxygen). Without warmth, or planet would be too cold to sustain life.

We get our oxygen mostly from photosynthesis as well as a few other smaller sources (methane based, I think.)

Turns out, seasons help much of life on Earth too which is just defined by the tilt angle as it processes around the Sun.

Additionally, stars are factories for creating heavier elements. We wouldn’t have many of the requisite elements for life on Earth without them having been produced by the Sun first.

Plants (or more generally, photosynthetic life) are the most direct consumer of solar energy and thus the most abundant source of energy for other living organisms on the planet.
> The people defending ISRO aren't doing a good job of it or aren't doing it in good faith, resorting to name-calling and ad-hominems.

Not to mention resorting to numerous disingenuous whataboutisms.
Thank you. I'm going to add that book to my list, it sounds interesting.
Same here, but I only boot into Windows for VR. I'm waiting for Valve to stop hyperfocusing on the Steam Deck and get SteamVR to behave well under Linux.

Once that happens I can bin Windows off for good.
Counterpoint: honeymoon in Turkey and while I was brimming with energy on my way back, the moment I sat down to work again, I crashed to even lower level than I was before leaving for the vacation.
The Rise of Dumbphones: A Shift Away from Smartphone Culture
> For example there's clear differences on secularism, gun-rights, access to abortion, universal healthcare, labour laws, privacy and regulation.

I think this is a common Anglo-American outlook that thinks that generic European is the ultimate expression of Democrat (or Blairite Labour/LibDem). There are plenty of reactionary Europeans, and since they're not completely bound to US right-left ideologies there are plenty of examples of e.g. race-realist environmentalists, or anti-abortion socialists.

edit: I mean, you've offered a literal list of US wedge issues, and assumed that Europe takes the Democratic Party position on them.
Haven't we already handed over phones for this? And, if you really want a phone, well, there are phones for this… (No need to put an end to computers. Why would you even transition to a computer to watch TikTok?)
> Completely open sources hardware

> People clone the hardware 1:1 with minimal changes

> Gets angry by it

wat

I mean, I get the frustration but why the fuck did you actually open sourced it in the first time, this is a hard surprised pikachu meme.
For _some_ games and hardware combinations it's great. Some games are still windows only, and for some games the performance on Linux is abysmal, even with Proton.
Yeah, I really feel for people here. I've been maintaining GPOs since Windows 2003 in our small business, and I never run into any of the issues most of these posts are dealing with. I download the policy files, flip the settings around so they work for our employees, and forget what most users have to deal with... If there's not someone in the loop, dealing with the problems.
I have never had a laptop last less than 3 years. and I would definitely consider myself a power user. wtf is he doing to his laptops that they only last a few months?
I bought my child an old Celeron running Windows 98SE, about 7 years in advance of when they’ll be ready for it. They’ll get the experience of playing with Paint, installing software from CDs, digital encyclopaedias, Commander Keen, all that good stuff without the internet. Then when they’re a bit older they can choose their own least-worst option.
Barcode turns 50 but its days might be numbered
Essentially what many software "engineers" do day-to-day.
And they won’t be able to complete their school work
Yes, this role is defined as the "journalist" at my company and is an engineer tasked with writing status updates and the post-mortem report. It is important to have this role assigned from the start so that expectations are clear!
Punchy commonly translates to “compressed” and warm to “saturated/distorted”. Volume will of course help, but it’s not always what people want.
If you're worried about battery life when gaming on the laptop as the decider between Linux and Windows, you should go with Windows.

Otherwise, Steam doesn't really emulate anything, it just reimplements Windows API calls, so games run roughly as efficiently as they do on Windows.
I use Linux mostly. I'm aware that 7 is insecure, as is every version of Windows.
> I don't know what's wrong, but right now we're investigating x because we suspect that's the source of the issue. I'm checking the logs and other engineer is trying to recreate the issue in a clean environment. Unfortunately I don't have a good answer as to how long it'll take, but we'll update you either when we've learned something useful or in two hours, whichever is sooner,

Just don't get too specific, especially with even a bit technically inclined ones, because they will have ideas to help and bother tech people to check their random guesses when trying to be helpful
Being around colleges, I have heard MacBooks derisively referred to as “$2000 Facebook machines” - the hardware is there to render videos, edit photos, compose music, build software, etc., but all the user wants to do with it is browse Facebook. From this discordance arises derision.

Maybe the derision for Windows is in some way the inverse: users want to do all that other stuff, but the OS just wants you browse Facebook (TikTok, Twitter, news sites, …).
This is irrelevant for multiplayer gaming, where the anti-cheat software only runs on Windows because it needs to establish a security baseline for all players.
The goal is for the end-user to just be able to talk to your model. But to get there, there is some additional "engineer" needed to be done.

What does "smart" mean to you in this context?
We use Truewind, a YC startup. They do our books, and it's way better than doing it ourselves!