skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then go right ahead and do that, there will be a myriad of official government instutions, from all over the world, that would be very interested in your findings.

Or MS could simply share the keys with those government institutions there have been literally asking for it, to see wether Windows is actually sending home privacy relevant data.

But the matter of fact is it's a very real issue and still on-going problem.

Just because investing a lot of effort could shed some further light on it does not really change anything about that or the non-compliant behavior MS engages in.

Security only being as good as the effort lobbed at it to break it, is not really a novel or useful insight in this scenario.
This has not been my experience at all. Random cheapie ESP32 board bought off Alibaba performs/is exactly the same as expensive one with better marketing bought off Adafruit, Sparkfun, etc.
The US has been trying to sabotage German energy markets for a while:

https://gpil.jura.uni-bonn.de/2021/01/germany-rejects-u-s-sa...

It finally got its wish with the destruction of the NS2 ..
The title and its contents don't match. The article is about DNS queries that Windows makes and does not actually look at the data being collected. These requests are also not even from telemetry. For example sb.scorecardresearch.com is likely from some browser or web view with msn.com.

This article is full of speculation and is trying to just appeal to paranoid people by trying to make Windows out to be doing something bad.
You have to remember economics is a model and not exactly how reality works, there are many examples where you will find the supply demand curves arent linear and there are also other things to take into account. Companies can artificially move the demand curves, for example the ad companies can change the quality requirements of what ads they allow, creating more demand. These calculations are best done with real numbers and experiments, kinda like A/B testing and I would guess that the ad companies have such infrastructure
Applying Hank's razor:

Couples who are happier are much more likely to agree to open a joint checking account, skewing the stats
Eisenhower put it well.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech#The_...
Modern sensibilities like narrow layouts are I feel like a massive downgrade compared to full-width (or almost full-width) layouts. If the user wants less text, they can just resize the browser window, it's simple. But with those layouts, the text takes up way more vertical space than what's needed, even if you have a large screen, leading to lots of scrolling.

HN has a good layout - there are some (quite small) margins but it otherwise uses most of your screen. More websites should follow this pattern, IMO.
This. People don't know the difference between a browser and a search engine, and that's a good thing for Google.
> what makes a perfume smell "good"

Which is very subjective. I personally can't handle it, in the past I've even got headaches just from a couple perfume bottles standing around in the same room. I had to get rid of a perfumed shaving soap because it was a guaranteed headache and smelled like a chemical plant to me, while others just shrugged and said it's fine.
Could you elaborate on how that makes you unable to use public transport?
What is "sherlocking"?
Its amazing how the old Windows OS's managed to improve with out telemetry and analytics.
Now we have that, the OS is in a downward spiral of how much one can harvest from the user and other dark patterns to prevent the user from having control over it. While the desktop experience has worsened.
Yet my 4 year gaming laptop that back then costed half of a m1 macbook pro when it was new renders any typical Blender scene 4 times faster than it (using the newest Blender version with Metal support).

I suspect the fan doesn't turn on because it is heavily throttled.
All those were up-front and optional (though maybe the wording made the details seem less optional). The surveillance done by the advertising industry these days is definitely not up-front nor optional where they can possibly make it automatic/required/both.

> What Meta and Google are doing

It isn't just Meta and Google. It is a great many companies large and small.

> is nothing new

Even if I accepted the equivalence, the industry having done a smaller version of this surveillance in the past doesn't make it right. My friend traded a bit of weed in the 90s, that would be no reason for us to take an “it is what it is” attitude if he traded a ton of crack today!
Kind of absurd to promote a hardly defined thing
As a Java dev it's kinda fun to compare the experience.

## Installing a JDK on windows

-Search google/whatever

-Click on first link

-Find .exe

-Agree to terms and conditions

-Click download

-Have to login with oracle account

-(I stopped here)

## Installing JDK on ubuntu

-Open terminal

-sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

- y, enter

-done
They do, but at least 15ys ago at university of Karlsruhe (which they laughably renamed to KIT at that time) people could circumvent most of the programming tasks. I looked up the current curriculum a couple of months ago, and they at least seem to have expanded from "3 weeks Java embedded into another course" to a full-blown one semester long programming course.

If you ask me, they should make programming the fabric of almost all exercises/tasks, be it in math, cs or sth else along the lines. This would, however, require professors who are in to that kind of stuff and most preferred singing powerpoint-karaoke.
> take the most of your attention... with attention engineers working

Typical victimhood conspiracy theory.

> I avoid fighting the battle by making heavy use of screen time features to ban

So you avoid that by spending more time on your phone. And someone has parental control over your phone...?!
Indeed! And even worse, some services will happily accept "+" in email fields, but then some part of the service fails to encode the "+" sign correctly, so some features may be broken in unexpected ways.

Sometimes you can't even contact Customer Services because "your account doesn't exist" (because you cannot feed the correct email address to their customer service site).

Thankfully it's rare, but when it happens it's extremely infuriating.
Efficiently synchronize data between two PostgreSQL databases
Lol no, I saw religious cousins’ families go through major shakeups during midlife crises. One ended with divorce after a nice string of affairs and a departure from the church. Another was quitting a stable white collar job, buying a motorcycle, and spending nearly every night at a bar.

A community does not prevent them. A spiritual life definitely doesn’t prevent them (disillusionment is frequently a cause). Kids don’t help, but they certainly put immense pressure on you to not upend everything so it gives the appearance that it might not be happening to outsiders.
I'll bet be the US will never do it. They pushed the Ukraine to disarm for a reason and that reason still stands -- no one wants them selling warheads to the highest bidder.
Comp with what?
The goal of spyware is to gain information about who the user is and what they are doing.

The goal of telemtry is to gain information about the software and how it is being used.

They have 2 very different purposes and goals.
If you compare everything to a perfect world where nothing ever happens then nothing is gone measure up.
That's because you think in terms of White and Black, which is a US centric view. The diversity is by ethnic background, skin colour is irrelevant.

A more enlightening statistic is that about half of Australians have a parent that was born overseas, which means they have an ethnic background.

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/2021-cens...
Spoofing your user agent to a chrome one will make most of these sites work. They're just not interested in allowing you privacy.
To be fair it's quite impressive WSL1 got this far, but ultimately it was doomed from the start if one targets perfect compatibility.

Given there's no "Linux specification" the spec is the actual code, nooks and crannies and all, down to nitty gritty details and implicit behaviours that end up indirectly getting relied upon. The only solution is to basically implement these in excruciating details, which may or may not possible depending on the Windows things being wrapped. Then the question of intellectual property, copyright, and licensing come in, as MS would have to ensure that it's a clean room implementation or be subject to GPL terms (cue the Oracle Java vs Android shenanigans).

So at some point it makes sense to just throw a VM at the job, cleanly separating realms, sidestepping any legal landmines, and ensuring perfect compatibility, especially as the whole HyperV infrastructure is quite solid and used throughout the MS ecosystem as a general strategy, e.g the Xbox uses HyperV to isolate games and apps.

Tangent: I wish (the VM part of) WSL2 would be available on Xbox, allowing one to run Linux while keeping the whole regular OS and features!
It could be pretty cool to pack all kinds of weather maps into a single TIFF, using different channels for temperature, humidity, cloud cover, etc. TIFF has support for arbitrary bit depth and number of channels, so it seems like a natural (if not most optimal) fit.
How does one go about donating and dedicating a bench? Obviously depends on country, location etc. Just looking for general pointers.
I love it. It's so snappy and colourful - brings back memories. Nowadays most websites are cut from a template which is as boring as design can get.
Agreed, but I could never get past the thought “all the friendliness of Unix, all the security & stability¹ of Windows”!

--

[1] never trust an OS that can't reliably be left alone for 24 hours without rebooting itself while you aren't looking
molon labe, basilisk
They should have added a warning for strcpy 20 years ago and shipped the compiler with it default enabled.
I used to feel the same way about a stick shift: “why would we encourage people to take one hand off the steering wheel and spend and extra second or two fucking with a knob while also feathering two pedals at once to move the car when instead you can just press the gas and go”

It just ain’t that simple. Maybe when I’m 70 and shouldn’t be driving a lot of these assists that are in cars nowadays will help me. But I was driving my aunt’s car recently and it thought it saw someone in the lane I was going to merge to and literally jerked the steering wheel back to stop me from hitting nothing. I almost got in a wreck because that stupid fucking car thought it knew more than me. I now drive a 98 Nissan Frontier 5-speed and couldn’t be happier with it. When and if it breaks down, I’m buying a 94-2008 Nissan Frontier 5-speed, a 94-2000 Ford Ranger with a 5-speed or a 76-85 square body with (hopefully) a 5-speed.

Do I really care about the old car? No. Do I just not want all of the new garbage? Yes. If they remade my truck EXACTLY as it is but with a better, newer engine, better, newer airbags, more durable modern suspension, etc, and sold it for 60k I would take out a loan fucking right this instant. But modern cars fucking suck. They’re all shitty and people have been disillusioned into thinking a giant 3000lb hunk of metal made in 2023 hitting someone going fast is going to hurt the someone more than a giant 3000lb hunk of metal made in 1973 going fast is severely disillusioned about what makes a 3000lb hunk of fast moving metal dangerous.
A long time ago, so the details are vague and may have changed, I was interested in adding trees and tagging their species in OSM. I asked some people that know more about OSM than me and was told that OSM doesn't want to store data that isn't used for rendering the maps.

There are sometimes links to external data in OSM using Wikidata for example.
Conceptual Mathematics: I had been exposed to "abstract nonsense" from CS papers before reading this book, but it was what made the penny drop on why we might wish to be more concerned with maps than with objects.

https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/conceptual-m...
>What's the best tool for Windows 11 for disabling the telemetry?

That's easy: a USB stick with a partition tool and a Linux installer. Wipe out your W11 partition and install something that isn't blatant spyware.
Nah, that’s demonstratively wrong dogmatism. Obviously it’s not a good idea to take three times your national GDP in debt to build three oversized airports next to each other because your family owns your nations construction business. But letting education and infrastructure collapse and watch a whole generation grow old without any chance meaningful workforce participation and without a chance at having a family is pretty devastating too.
The Dutch are wealthy, for one. And older (average age around 42, vs 38 for Ireland for instance). I don't actually mind cars existing. I just don't like it when they become the only option for most trips due to bad design choices, or when I am made to pay for other people's motoring.
There are already a gazillion scams that prey on naive tourists.
Can Pihole help with this?
I live in Europe as a subcontractor and I work 32 hours per week. That's billable hours, which excludes travel/commute, bookkeeping, trainings, and searching for new projects. It works fine with family. I do my own bookkeeping and taxes.
The internet needs more of this.
I searched "Brexit" and was stunned not to see this in the comments.

One of the biggest economies in the World leaving the designation of the EU surely is relevant here.
But physics isn't a full description of reality. It certainly hasn't conquered consciousness and qualia and subjective experience.
What does your example have to do with this situation?

The people in the bread supply chain get paid, the author of content we're discussing will never get paid by anyone, will never even get a bit if personal satisfaction from their analytics knowing last month x thousand people read that page and it hopefully helped them.

It's completely zero reward, even worse it's completely zero feedback of any kind!

This really is the doom of the web as we know it because for the first time ever there will be an active disincentive to put knowledge on it. I think much information will retreat to places like Discord or locked down login only versions of sites like Stackoverflow.
I'm not clear what you mean about turbulence? Quantum gravity involves as-yet unknown physics but turbulence is surely just a case of "the number of calculations we need to simulate it grows quicker than we can reasonably keep up with"? i.e. simple toy simulations work fine but we don't have a planet-sized computer to do something more extensive.

(Just to clarify - this isn't a "classical vs quantum" thing - it's a "we know the equations vs we don't" thing. I'm sure QED simulations are fairly similar within a known domain)
In the way that an amputation is. Better make sure that limb was definitely gangrenous because a part of you will be gone forever.
There comes a point where the eye has trouble jumping to the start of the next line. It probably differs per style (space between lines, font, contrast, etc.), but long paragraphs will be troublesome.

Requiring the user to resize the window is not a great alternative, IMO. It feels cumbersome, and people with many tabs will hate it. And doesn't work on mobile devices.
I'd be okay with renaming strcpy() to string_you_big_dummy_copy()
> Maybe. I would think it more plausible that a vehicle that requires the operator to actively engage in its operation would, well, keep the operator engaged, and therefore their overall reaction time would likely be faster than a typical driver.

This is one of the best arguments for stick shifts: even if the extra layer of control may take extra effort, the thought process of having to shift, feather the clutch, think about what gear you should be in, rev match, engine break, etc makes you a better driver
Hm, it depends? In a near-monopoly situation, maybe not so much?
That is the theoretical construct in the German system. However the differences are fading and to me it does not seem to be like German universities, as actors of (self-proclaimed) highest art in their topics, are doing very well.

Btw: Though I enjoyed Maths much more than CS, I wouldn't have understood Linear Algebra without watching the MIT Open Courseware thingy by Gilbert Strang. I think that's saying a lot about the German art of teaching (at least at that time).
In my twenties I had some years of severe panic attacks. It is funny, it completely dominated my life but I totally forgotten about it. Feel writing it off my chest, maybe it can help somebody.

For me they were hypochondria related. My vision would turn black, my heart would start racing and I got the feeling that ants where crawling from my heart to my arm. At these moments I was convinced I was dying of a heart attack or some artery was torn from my heart. Doctors would find nothing wrong with me, this increased my fear because it meant I couldn't receive any help. They attacks could last for hours, making me unable to sleep and mentally depleting me.

I have actually been close to death a couple of times for real. Once falling through the ice and once having a rare disease. These moments did not feel the same. Actually I was rather calm in these moments.

They attacks made such an impact on me that after a while I started being mortally afraid of having a panic attack. Thinking about it, thinking about my body, feeling the slightest discomfort in my body all these things would trigger another attack. Because of that I lost touch with my body. Worse thing was that I would sometimes wake up in the middle of an attack. This made me afraid of falling asleep. I would walk or cycle at night because I was too afraid to sleep. This made things much worse.

At one point I mentally saw the vicious circle I created for my self. I remember seeing it as one of those smoke circles some people make while smoking. I saw that my focus on this was what kept that circle alive. I saw that I simply had to stop identifying with it, step away from it. Almost magically the attacks have never returned.
others' demand for those dollars also wildly exceeded expectations!
Site seems dead, archived link: https://archive.is/yl7z2
So you are saying that putting plain water up your nose prevents COVID?

Searching Google scholar only shows one paper with about 60 people reviewed and an improvement of 30% from the control group not getting COVID, to 40% didn't get COVID if they washed their nose. Not exactly great numbers when you have so few people.

I don't see anything serious about your theory.
That was meant to be funny thought process of a simple man (Vimes). That was not supposed to be everything explaining economical analyses.

In those book, Vimes is practical simple man with little time for big picture side of things. He deals with what is immediately around him and never really cares about root causes or anything like that.
Dunno, I feel the opposite way. It's comfortable for me to read one line for longer, then to jump to the next one. I think this is just "what you are used to" - I don't see how either are inherently better or more comfortable to read.
I've just started reading a volume of books by Hung-Hsi Wu[0]. They are main audience is teachers of mathematics. Two other books that seem to offer a formal rigorous approach of teaching basic math are Principles of Mathematics by Carl Allendoerfer and Modern Algebra - A logical approach by Pearson, H. R and Allen, F. B

Needless to say, these books are focussed on High School math but should be sufficient preparation for courses on a more rigorous level.

My email is in my profile if you are looking for somebody to study with.

[0]https://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/
"you keep neglecting to mention"

But I did mention. [0]

"how obscenely ridiculous it is"

No more obscenely ridiculous than saying that the US exists for 200 years. Ever heard of Native Americans who inhabited the North America?

Crimea was conquered by Russia, not by the Ukraine which didn't even exists as a state at that time, and Russia was busy building cities there and in all of Novorossiya.

"not so peaceful"

Why would it be peaceful? Crimean Khanate was raiding Russia and capturing slaves for centuries. Didn't end well for them.

"Except"

I didn't say it's equivalent, just an example of a treaty outliving its utility for one of the parties.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36743879
In the sentence you're presumably thinking of:

> Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced long COVID incidence by about 41%, with an absolute reduction of 4.1%, compared with placebo.

The 4.1% is just decimal, using the middle-dot typographical version of decimal point.

Both figures are applicable and have different meanings. It's just a coincidence that they have the same digits this time.

Rough summary: The 41% is comparing the effect of metformin vs placebo metformin, both administered following protocols. It means nearly half of people (meeting the study criteria - age range, etc.) who would have got long Covid (as reported at 300 days) wouldn't get it if they took metformin following the protocol within 3 days of their positive Covid PCR test.

The 4.1% says how many fewer people got long Covid after getting Covid (and meeting the study criteria - age range, PCR test timing etc), that was attributable to having the real metformin. It doesn't tell you that it moved the needle from 10.4% of people (who had Covid etc) getting long Covid down to 6.3% (both as reported at 300 days). But it does tell you the difference between those figures, which is how many people's lives (4.1% of those people who had Covid etc) would likely be improved by taking it and following the protocol.
Until we go interplanetary[0] —or unless you have a very time-sensitive database application— it's already[1] all edge.

[0] lunar would also work

[1] I consistently get <300ms pings to servers 12 time zones away. But I grew up in an era when long-distance (tens of km) phone calls were exorbitantly expensive, causing us to wait to transfer data for night rates, so YMMV.
And then you're on your way to a topopolis.
Here you go, works on default Windows 10/11 install:

- open terminal

- winget install -e --id ojdkbuild.openjdk.11.jdk

> The winget command line tool enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/wi...
https://kindle-epub-fix.netlify.app
Patiently waiting for 11 LTSC
Can you give an example of that?
Seeing the absolute dog shit junk food people eat I'd say they're either already not able to smell or that it doesn't matter much
Are you saying you can't get any of your business revenue classified as capital gains, or that capital gains are not taxed lighter than salaries in Germany?

In Finland, you actually have to participate in the public pension scheme even as an enterpreneur - this is part of the mandatory social security system.