skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I was a Windows Engineer for 5-8 years, I started as an open/freebsd admin but the "windows guy" quit, it was a blur of posh and batch scripts, usually to fix some printer server bs or wipe out someones torrented videos on a SAN. My point is that I noticed Windows machines when I saw them. I'm 39. I started out working (sysadmin) on Win2000. Back when IIS was so terrible it didn't even have a built in URL-rewrite system, you had to pay some 3rd party like $25 to get an IIS extension for it. I had to write my own brute-force detection scripts because there was definitely no Linux bfd service. People would just HAMMER the RDP ports with bad logins and there was NOTHING to mitigate that built in or third party. Change the port from 3889 or whatever? HA! Your Windows customers will never figure out how to log in. Personally as a kid I started with dos 3.0 and then win3.1 blahblah just to play games and encarta.

I don't feel like almost ANYONE in my life used Windows as a personal PC. Every single friend/partner I can recall had a Macbook of some sort. I was always jealous because I couldn't afford a Macbook I always had some old Thinkpad. The first macbook I ever actually bought was the new M1 max a couple years ago.

I have a Windows 11 desktop with a 4090 rtx in it I use for games once a month. I don't mind or hate Windows. In fact it has the best windows management (pop left/right/up/down) system I've ever used.

I remember everyone going insane for Win 95 but I just don't ever see the actual market now. My last 3-5 jobs everyone but maybe a couple of people in sales had Macbooks..
How so? When I used to drink I often regretted it the next day (or days). So I stopped.
It is not so much a question of modern or legacy but of intended audience.

The OS(or more specifically the desktop environment) intended for a general audience will be more bland, uniform and legacy than the one made for a smaller more specific audience, perhaps it was made for the sole use of the author and they decided to share..

The general audience will have a preconceived expectation, you might say an intuition, about how the environment works, this mean, that an environment intended for such an audience cannot really have too much advancement or it will drift too far from expectation.
> Virtualization means images

No. Some prefer image based provisioning, but it doesn't mean you can't have your 'own' machine.
> but they're really annoying to read on a phone screen.

+1. I've already read probably 100 research papers this year in search of solutions to some technical problems, mostly while lying on bed with a tablet. I won't read as much without it.
It also depends on what parent's needs are though. Maybe they are in a situation where being able to install a PCIE card is necessary. With Mac, your only option in that case would be the Pro, which is basically an overpriced Mac Studio with PCIE slots, as Marques Brownlee puts it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KbwC-s7pY

Edit: as some of the sibling comments are saying, maybe parent was talking about Mac OS itself, not the hardware. Some things in Mac OS leave a lot to be desired IME, e.g. windows tiling (can be solved by installing something like Rectangle but really it should be part of the OS) https://rectangleapp.com/
>Read my posts

Your only other post seems to be entirely unrelated? It talks about silicon CPU trojans and remote computer interference, which is unrelated to radio signaling biological matter, much less neural interaction. And I hate to scare you more but it doesn't even take into account that Ethernet over powerline is a thing and bad actors are just as likely to use PSU trojans to send commands to individual or multiple computers over the power grid if they're doing the same with radio waves
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=36547321
Multiple monitor support had caveats, IIRC, that contemporary Macs did not. Possibly the bit depth of all of the monitors had to be identical, or you'd get dithering on some?
Ok wow, seeing these lists might have just made a customer out of me. I’ve been vaguely aware of Kagi and know the general premise but this made it real.
You'll have to be more specific: what are you asking me whether I disagree with?
They are as useful as ChatGPT with a good prompt.

For a given task, ChatGPT seems to do way better if it given a precise prompt with detailed instructions. This includes describing the context of the problem, maybe what kind of data it will be operating on, and especially the format in which to output its answer. Once the answer is produced in the expected format, the application can then integrate it into its own data and make it immediately available.

An embedded AI assistant in a product can provide a lot of this context, whereas a simple user of ChatGPT on the web might not end up with an answer that they can use immediately. I have no doubt that many people spend more way time preparing data for and extracting data out of ChatGPT than how long it took to answer.

You can see an example of this in this demo of a tool called Tana: https://youtu.be/FlqpK8ucf8s?t=310 – the user is asking for airline home bases, and has to add "do not mention the country" for the data to have the right format. Once the prompt is correct though, the app is able to ingest this generated data and merge it with the user's.
A lot of things we now recognize as actual genocide had happened prior to the Wannsee Conference. Kristalnacht, the Aryanization of businesses, the Babi Yar massacre, etc. You'd have to ignore a lot of out-and-out massacres of specifically Jews (in addition to a whole bunch of other war crimes) to think that the Nazis were not already fully committed to the concept of extermination prior to that conference. You should understand the Wannsee Conference as an effort to consolidate and scale up the extermination process, not as its birth place.

I don't have a hard time imagining the Wannsee Conference as stemming from a post-mortem (pardon the pun) of the Babi Yar massacre in particular, as the Nazis came to terms with the overall cost of doing a genocide manually.
Costco requires that all HP printers they sell are fully functional even if you don't subscribe to any of HP's services.

That's why the Costco HP printers are often models exclusive to Costco.

(They require a similar thing of Sony televisions, which is why Sony TVs have slightly different model numbers at Costco.)
There is tons of room to build new houses where I live. But the jobs are all somewhere else. When companies start moving up here and the people follow, then I will know things are getting serious.
It's how almost most keyboards were until the later IBM PC layout became most common in the early 90s.

Home computers from Apple, Atari, Amiga, pretty much all Unix workstations, Macs up until the late 80s, the Acorn machines. They all had Control next to A. Ok, except for the VIC-20/C64 which had it next to... Q.

Because caps-locks doesn't need prime real estate. It's barely needed. But control is used constantly, especially on Unix machines.

The escape position, that I'm less rigid about.
Mógł dać Szczebrzeszyn, ubaw słuchać jak Anglosasi próbują to czytać.
A lot of people actually disagree with you—Reddit is number four on the Raise list and on the Pin list, and every few months there's a thread on HN talking about how the only way to get useful information out of Google is to add "reddit" at the end of the search.
do you work for comcast?
> I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list.

It's on two lists.

> Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app.

I have the old-reddit extension on every device I use. It's my 3rd most essential extension, after uBlock Origin and Kill Sticky.
I was obviously exhausted but the path is very well maintained. Its not like you have to do any climbing or walk through brush. I think the shoes you would wear for a 6 hour walk in a city are what are also good for this type of hike.
They read scientific papers in the same way that everyone "read" Capital in the 21st Century, when that was a thing.
I find refactoring sexy. Just saying.
I like immer for this kind of thing: https://github.com/immerjs/immer

You can do immutable transformations without getting bogged down in FP abstractions.
Step 4: do a depth-first lookup of every citation, and read/finish that paper before continuing
> Not much. I had a NeXT cube and the user + developer experience on my M1 Air is largely the same.

I recently (3 years ago) started developing on iOS and MacOS.

I learnt programming on Mac Plus in the late 1980s early 1990s

Wow, what a change. In the 1988-92 Macs were the bees knees for development. Really good.

Now, definitely not. I regularly switch between Mac, Linux, and Windows for development.

Development on iOS and MacOS is deeply painful. The tools are flash, lots of features, and they mostly work, that is they do not really work.

Apple took US$99 from me for a license to write software for their machines, and now I cannot run my software on iOS unless I am connected to the Internet, so they can "verify" my license. (I never got the license - another sad story)

Many times, regularly, the "verification" process goes awry and I spend time trying to work out which particular string of gobeldy gook I need to enter n which obscure part of Xcode to get the equipment I (my boss) paid for to do anything other than be dead weight.

The flagship language (Swift) is half arsed. Some bits are OK, but the threading model is from the 1990s dressed in drag. Memory management by reference counting? Golly, how 1990s. Passing class parameters by reference as default, but not struct parameters - say what?

Distributing the software we write to the users that need to use it is immensely painful, not my immediate problem, but I watch people in my firm tear their hair out trying to make it work.

How the mighty have fallen.
This is how IT worked 40+ years ago: a central server hosting everything (applications+data) surrounded by dumb terminals that would turn into doorstops if the network connection with the server failed for any reason. This approach made sense back then because of the enormous cost of hardware, but technology advancement and reduction in prices soon allowed more modern models like the personal computer which uses the network connection when available but it's not dependent on it, giving the user a lot more freedom.
Then corporate greed discovered they can turn everything into a pay per use model to maximize profits, which of course mean they must lock both apps and users data then ask for money to open them, until of course they go out of business, the server is hacked or they simply decide to raise prices.
The cloud based SaaS approach is how corporations are throwing down the toilet decades of advancement in the IT just because of greed. Just say no.
Pretty much follow an identical process. When I do finally rewrite the code, after getting a working version, the duplication pretty much screams clean me up and simplify/generalize. I have never been able to just see the whole thing before I start. The process itself teaches you things.
For the Washington Post, it's probably because of the paywall.
it has been posted 5 times. this is the first one that got noticed.
I'd like to disagree with this. In particular, about [1]: It is a collection of papers in many different topics. There is little technical overlap between Alan Turing's Entscheidungsproblem paper, for instance, and Hoare's paper on axiomatic semantics. Also, the papers are all from the 70s. They're uniformly influential papers, and have shaped the field, but the fields and the vernacular used by working researchers is very different. At best, the papers approximate a four year undergrad curriculum in CS, and at worst, are a recipe to get distracted and overwhelmed. The link to Wikipedia [2] is somewhat better in that the papers appear to be more modern, but suffers even more from the problem of diversity.

A somewhat similar problem arises with test-of-time and best paper awards. To elaborate on my complaint, imagine the exaggerated case of someone trying to understand modern science by intensely focusing on the work of researchers who won the Nobel Prize. Clearly all very important work, but understanding the 1990 Physics Nobel Prize (on electron-proton scattering) is of no use to understanding the work for which 1991 Nobel was awarded (complex systems and polymers).

There are two things that (I'm assuming the OP's field of interest is computing) a CS education provides: At the undergrad and in the early stages of grad school, breadth of topics, and their modern synthesis. You don't spend much time reading papers (at least in an undergraduate education), but you understand the basics, and get a feel for the problems considered and the sensibilities of researchers. In an intermediate-level graduate seminar, you pick a narrow topic, and focus on papers in that topic. The first papers in the area (like Dijkstra's papers on distributed computing), the best / most important papers in the area, and the latest papers on topical interests (like Merkle trees and blockchains). There is thematic and technical continuity from one paper to the next, and you start to understand the the story being told. Then, late in graduate school, and in the rest of one's professional career, one starts reviewing papers that haven't even been published. At this point, you see the story being written: the steps and the missteps, and the memorable and not-so-memorable papers in a field. To truly understand a field, one needs to read not just the great papers, but also the middling ones.

And one needs to concentrate on a topic. The thing about a forum such as HackerNews is that for every topic of interest, there's likely a person here who's an expert in the area, but it is easy to confuse that observation with the much stronger claim that there's a person here who's an expert on every topic. The last of those people died in the mid-20th century, if they ever existed.
Don't forget the dinners and nights out.
I can't believe that Microsoft is missing the most obvious market here: DRM for business software.

Think about it. High-end CAM software (MasterCAM) can easily cost $10K or more per seat. If you want modules for, say, a 5-axis, it can be as much as $35K per seat. SolidWorks will happily charge $4K per seat, minimum. And of course, people complain when their SolidWorks license doesn't work well on their Integrated Graphics and Core i3-4100U; or whatever old systems they are trying to run it on. So much work to fix all the bugs and quirks with old hardware...

... or, just announce that SolidWorks or MasterCAM now run online. With good cloud-based hardware. The subscription makes it more universally affordable, provides service revenue the investors love, there's no more energy spent supporting old hardware and low-end systems, and piracy is dead which the investors also love.
Can you elaborate on why Linux isn't an option?
What a great event —- we were lucky to get in on clojure when it was just getting started, and he was looking for places to promote it.

I reached out to him to come to our meeting because I met him when I took his Advanced C++ class at NYU continuing education in the 90’s. The class culminated in some advanced usage of his C++ functor library.

http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/callback.html
Same story at Citigroup. Happened around 2017
"In fact the article doesn’t mention “capitalism” the economic system at all;"

"...capitalist enshittification."

"...this particular capitalist bait-and-switch playbook..."

"...little socialist oases in the capitalist desert hellscape of twenty-first century America..."

I think you have to be willfully blind to not spot that the author is blaming "capitalism" the economic system for this.

The fact that the author then goes on to single out "vampire capitalism", "venture capitalism" and KRR is really irrelevant in light of all this.
I won't accept delivery of the car without the logos removed.
Let's just wait for the superconducting turbo encabulator.
yes it will get us there and we will begin to see issues with quality and yield of food crops, as well as biospheric issues related to plants.

we have already observed increased issues with fisheries related to deoxygenation,carbonation,and thermal extrema

failure of photosynthesis due to elevated CO2, and temperature is in the near future
A Strike Scripted by Netflix
Do you have a recommendation for color photo printers? For when grandma is visiting and so on?
no, i meant i don't understand how you get from sulfate to prussiate at room temperature
Ahh I wish I could keep doing that. Just yesterday windows decided to update itself in the middle of the night. Now my laptop is acting really slow even though no process is hogging CPU or ram. Tried removing the update but it's only slightly better. I'm in the middle of resetting it as I type this comment.

It got so bad that a couple of import statements in my jupyrr notebook cell took a minute to finish executing. It used to take barely a couple of seconds just yesterday. If resetting does not work I'll have to try a fresh install. If that doesn't work too it's Linux for me I guess.

The only reason I use windows is cause I play games and I am pretty used to it's UI. Guess it's almost the end of the road with this OS for me
Anyone who works at a company that's currently migrating to Microsoft 365 knows that it is an inevitability.
Maybe I didn't articulate things very well. I'm for fun and excitement, and think following and learning about science does both of those.

What I think is weird is the need to feel that you as an individual are part of the action or moment, and insert yourself into it. It's kind of like the person who watches the football game on TV and thinks that their personal ritual and enthusiasm will change the outcome.

It's weird that people feel an urgent need need to converge on an opinion about superconductivity experiments as if there opinion will shape the future outcome and make it so
I tried some mechanical keyboards back in the day for the "benefits". I never got it and my hands would be strained from typing on the high travel, high resistance keys. The Apple Keyboard (I use the UK/English International) is so much easier on my hands. They're easy to find, well-supported and robust.
If "that" is referring to both, it's incorrect. Google has said they will be "well into 2024" without any benefits brought by LaCrOS. That includes any theoretical extending of the expiration dates.
Tuple and I think most of the competitors have built in conferencing and webcam support. We didn't use the cameras much but it's there.
> It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals.

I would say this is a blessing as it allows us to focus on things that matter to tech-savvy users (Kagi founder here).

> I wonder if they are interested in attracting users with more diverse searching requirements,

Yes, we are :)

> if so, how they would be able to actually reach them

Through our family plan [1], most likely. This is how I got my family members on board a paid search product.

I might add that "Kagi for Kids" is the first true attempt at having a search engine made specifically for kids, with a host of parent controls, which was never a thing in the last 25 years for some reason.

We are also seeing more and more users who are not techies (but are tech-savvy) becoming members. This may be followed by non-tech savvy users in the future. I do see the first signs of the age of ad-supported, "free" search, coming to an end [2].

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/family-plan

[2] https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over
If you are interested in more than 2D images, you might find this article interesting.

- The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-x-ray
The code club lessons come with fairly explicit instructions that tell the kids what they need to do - mostly they only need help from the tutors when they can't find something (e.g. a particular command in whatever IDE they're using) or work out why they're not getting the expected result (usually because they've mistyped something). The super high level concept of "you have to provide explicit steps for the computer to follow" isn't really the blocker.
Part of my point is that if the company’s culture is such that everyone asks everyone “How’s it going?” then there is no difference in who asks it.
_Perhaps this can be modernized to vacuum or inert atmosphere, melt the quasi LK-99 sample until it beads, then shoot away. Rewind the resulting thread and re-anneal any non-superconductive segments._

Another use-case for the Baltimore shot tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Shot_Tower)
What do you mean by ergo? Split? Columnar? Splayed? Sculpted?

The rectangle layout doesn't cause me issues maybe because I don't bend my wrists sharply when typing and I use a palm rest.

There is definitely a benefit to going split (less hunching of the back and shoulders) but then it can cause cramping with the pinkies. Cramping of the pinking can be solved with a columnar layout for some but by that point you are having to relearn to type.

The problem with ergonomic layouts is that they are not a one size fits all and it can get costly and time consuming to figure out what works for you.

Personally I have arrived at a Cantour Remix with a Colemak-DHm layout but even then I am only 90% happy with this setup.

Fear of losing typing speed holds a lot of people back from trying ergo layouts but from my experience it's possible to use Qwerty during the day while learning another layout on a split board at night without it impacting my Qwerty typing speed.
Hmmm.., is it time for a new word, or maybe Workstation still covers it? But I'm wondering what important applications Linux Desktops are lacking. Facebook? Twitter? GMail? Linux has all those, but those are more phone apps now, aren't they? Is there anything left on modern Desktops?

Adobe anything, Autodesk anything, stuff like that... are those still Desktop apps? They aren't on 90% of the desktops out there. Should the 10% be called Workstations?

Perhaps the "important applications" are MS Office? Or some other MS product forced on you by an employer. But that world seems so... archaic.
How does a gigabit fiber network get access to the internet? Is it connecting to smaller nodes owned by Comcast or ATT? Or does this connect to Level3, etc.?

With all the data prioritization that these companies have set up, does that mean this network will fall apart if a lot of people in the neighborhood start watching Netflix, for example.

Mainly just curious. I am supportive of this effort and hope we continue to build out more providers.
Don't forget it was Nature that published Ranga Dias' fraudulent superconductor papers. LK-99's confirmed properties already infinitely more valuable even if it isn't a superconductor.
Or the down payment on the vacation house in the catskills....
Thank god I don’t need this, but the Lens folks are great and congrats to them. I suspect this is custom built for a tiny handful of supermassive clients, so hopefully they land the contracts!

As overly complex as all this is, in a few more years there will be very little difference between any given datacenter and the feature-set AWS datacenter software brings to an AWS datacenter.

I do wish kubernetes had headed down to the startup world instead of up into the enterprise world. I’d take a complex standard over 500 pounds of “simple” glue/bash/Jenkins any day of the week.
> Oh, also the executives got their own laptops, so they didn't dogfood their own solution.

Things like this happen when the person who signs the check is not the person who actually uses the software. Also, no matter the resulting clusterfuck, the project is always successful.
I got to the point where I actually buy brother ink for my old brother printers, because it is not that expensive and I really don't want them to go out of business.