skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. People are driven by fear, real or unfounded. Only a very small part of the population could be labeled as inherently evil and that part is usually psychologically impaired.
I do like the ability to link my Microsoft Account to my Windows installation. Namely for device tracking if it gets stolen and BitLocker key recovery.

However, my general recommendation is to purchase Windows Pro and use Group Policy Editor to reconfigure some of the insane defaults of modern Windows. Websites like stacksocial have discounted prices (for personal use).

One of the insane defaults is Microsoft OneDrive. If you setup Windows with a Microsoft Account it automatically configures OneDrive. Which in turn moves the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folder into the OneDrive folder. I expect "My Documents" to be located at "C:\Users\<username>\Documents" NOT "C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Documents".

This is very hard to correct. Unlinking and uninstalling OneDrive is not sufficient. I had to use Registry Editor to fix this, because the "Restore Default" button was not working.

At work I was forced to switch from Mac to support a C#/.NET customer. I've been pleasantly surprised with Windows 11 and especially WSL2 and the integration with VS Code. So much so that I switched my "personal" PC from PopOS to Windows (I also game and Proton was not cutting it) and I'm willing to overlook some of the decisions Microsoft has made.

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Now one thing that caught my eye was this line:

<Logo>c:\windows\system32\oemlogo.bmp</Logo>

Is this only used for setup or also on boot?
Discord has 150 million MAU versus Telegram's 800 million MAU, according to Wikipedia. It's absolutely not way more used.
Plethora to me (British English) seems to suggest not so much a specific quantity, but diversity in items. "There were a plethora of options."

Myriad definitely feels much, much greater than 'many' - indeed, the proper definition is exactly ten thousand. At that point though, you wouldn't want to be the person counting the items :)
I think the government should support its people by providing no cost healthcare, no cost child care, no cost university for most people qualified, and so on. And I think that children are, on a personal & national level, beneficial. I further suspect that people who have a personal genetic investment in the future will make more sound decisions than if they do not. And even if we had these programs I doubt North America will be overpopulated nor would the birthrate even exceed replacement.

I'm not sure international migration is even an alternative. They already can immigrate to numerous countries but most don't. The idea (for example) many Nigeriens would choose to live here is really absurdly arrogant. If they could have a life in Niger half as comfortable as a life here most would prefer that. Most people are not prone to migrate unless pressured by economics, chaos or discrimination. Most people don't want to live in a strange ultra-capitalist society like the US. Of course we also have no obligation to help them develop their own country but I much prefer that course to whisking away their people to make up deficits caused by our state providing so little to the people we already have.
On the topic of scanning a device for CSAM, even if this were extended to computers, and Microsoft/Linux/etc. coded it into the OS, how would this even work when it comes to RAM where an image isn't directly touching a hard drive? (Though I'm not sure how that would work exactly.)

Esp. in cases like isolated virtual machines running old versions of say Windows or Linux where child molesters and pedophiles don't have to worry about the scanning software.

I can't pretend to be an expert on the subject, but isn't a VM in a separate area of RAM where it doesn't bleed out?
this is more of a comment on cost of living than anything else
> It's surprising to me that GitHub currently doesn't attach review comments to specific commits

It is possible to comment on commits in github (you can do it by clicking on the sha1 of the commit and then making a comment on a line in the diff). But the comment won't show up in the main PR diff window.

> But I don't understand how a contributor can feel pressure to address all of the reviewers' comments in a single commit: They can commit as many times as they want, and only push when they feel it's ready.

Unfortunately, this leads to a lot of fixup commits in the branch that muddle up the history. A changeset consists of one or more commits where each makes one logical change where the what was done and why it was done that way are detailed in the commit message.
> because the people at large are essentially OK with this,

Only because they are not informed about what this is actually about. It's all about framing.

* Do you want the police to have better tools to fight child abuse? -> Of course!

* Do you want the police to see what private messages you are sending to your loved ones so that they can ensure that you are not a pedophile? -> Hell no!
Is it hard! Font rendering is handled by Pixie and the guys who wrote it made a great NimConf video showing that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acDfUIwLnk

Pixie can render svg and ttf fonts with unicode in addition to drawing the shapes used for boxes and lines (e.g. like pango+cairo). It's SIMD optimized, very fast, and pure Nim so cross platform.

The challenge I mentioned with emojis is text selection and cursor movement when dealing with multi-grapheme characters. :)

edit: see https://youtu.be/8acDfUIwLnk?si=1EAUwUNZqje88J86&t=382 where they discuss how hard Text is
I’m pretty sure they started put as the exact numbers and were just shortened eventually for convenience. This kind of compound word shortening happens all the time in all languages, it’s just Korean happens to have it for numbers, not particularly related to the numeric system as suggested.
Yeah but I don't think a indie studio has the marketing budget to convince consumers that this is what they want.
After a lifetime of fixing bugs I’m often surprised that computer systems work at all. I had something similar to the failed post office system affect me personally, and everyone just rejects that the computer system could be at fault, even when presented with evidence, as it too too much work for them to try to understand.
Yes, but.

If you’re looking for an excuse to not have a kid, you’ll find one. There’s a cultural element too.
Ultimately, what made this attack possible and effective is the low morals of the people who applied to other jobs behind their employer's back, on their employer's computers
I encountered a bedbug-like problem and used a two-pronged approach:

a) ivermectin and

b) permethrin, which I added to laundry and sprayed on clothing and bedclothing.

Permethrin could harm pets so I keep them away from any application until clothing is dry.

Ivermectin kills most bedbugs, fleas et al and stops the young from molting, but they have to bite you first usually. Nonetheless, there's something satisfying about being the bait and knowing that each bite means another bug dies.
> The project imagined an "epoch-making" computer with supercomputer-like performance running on top of large databases (as opposed to a traditional filesystem)

Oh that sounds pretty reasonable; It's like the distributed systems that all large services rely on.

> using a logic programming language to define and access the data

Ugh, already going downhill.

> The FGCS Project did not meet with commercial success for reasons similar to the Lisp machine companies and Thinking Machines. The highly parallel computer architecture was eventually surpassed in speed by less specialized hardware (for example, Sun workstations and Intel x86 machines)

Oh of course they tried to build a high-level CPU too. Still a terrible idea decades later: https://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html
The real question, though, is whether 'shrubbery' is a countable noun or not; by extension, is a demand for 'another shrubbery' a valid one?
The altair simulator also simulates a 68k for cp/m-68
Come to Montreal. We have a pedestrian culture, with supermarkets but also tons of small shops.

People like both. But when you have enough cars and lose the density you lose the small shops.
Wait, weren't we supposed to worry about overpopulation, resource starvation and ultimately societal collapse and massive death toll from the planet not being able to support it?

Now I learn the scientists also predict the drastic decline, and the plateau. All the scenarios are united by the conclusion that whatever happens, we are all doomed. It's nice to know something remains constant.
> I don't know if there's a global equivalent to the Indian pickle

Most old-world cultures have a spiced, fermented foodstuff. Japan, China and Korea, for example, are full of them. Many ingredients in modern Indian pickles were originally imported from the North Africa of antiquity.

Even in America, the “classic” dill-pickled cucumber is a very small fraction of the fermented vegetable foods.
I generally agree but I think he misses a glaring societal driver in inflation. $40k in 1986 was probably pretty rad. In 2023 300k revenue split across a small team is not going to pay the bills, even before the marketplaces and taxes take their cut. On 300k something nearer 120k will actually land in their post-tax/post-fee pockets to pay for their food and electricity that year. Split across even just three people, that's not yet a sustainable business.
He says -Werror is CI's friend, not dev's.
People who didn't worry about the "population bomb" were considered hopeless denialists just ~15 years ago. People who didn't keep their kids at home for a year were considered hopeless denialists just ~2 years ago. And now people who don't think the world is going to boil itself into steam are considered hopeless denialists.
They hypervisor or host OS can just read the memory.
Apparently, people are on a spectrum when it comes to this [1]. Super interesting!

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-...
$500 plus $100 a month is basically nothing
farmed salmon is alot fattier than wild caught
A bunch of grapes could have many dozens of grapes. Perhaps even a 100 or more.
To a hammer, everything is a nail. To some people, everything is the fault of cars. I find this broken record to be uncompelling and tiresome.

> It has bad community culture of all sorts.

On this I agree. The irony is that rural America, highly dependent on cars, has, imho and experience, radically stronger community than dense urban centers!

When it comes to food I'm far more inclined to blame the economics. American restaurants try to get as many patrons in and out as possible. Clear that table and get the next guest in. This is just as true in SF and NYC as suburbia. TBH I genuinely do not understand how the economics of restaurants in Japan and Paris work. I've been to both and when I look at the prices, patrons, and staff I don't get it.

If there is any root cause to the woes of America it's probably the cost of land/housing/real estate. The monthly lease for a half decent commercial space is so astronomical there's no option but to cycle as many patrons through as possible.
Your story is probably very common. The social media narrative (Reddit, Twitter, HN, etc) around children is hilariously detached from reality at times. It’s bizarre as a parent to read 20-something childless people speak so confidently about what it’s like to have children.

I participated in a mentoring program where I worked with younger people entering tech careers. It was mind blowing to hear them talk about children as being impossibly expensive while we had just discussed negotiation of their six-figure offer letter a few days prior. It’s like the reality of having kids got distorted and twisted and exaggerated so much on sites like Reddit that they all lost touch with reality and instead cemented the idea that kids were impossible for them.

If you’ve “conditioned yourself to not want them” then that’s a really weird place to be. That implies that you did maybe want them at some point and overrode that via “conditioning” based on facts that turned out to be untrue (that you couldn’t afford them). If I was in your shoes, I’d be taking a long, hard look at what other life assumptions you’ve been “conditioned” out of from exposure to false narratives and internet exaggerations.

Maybe kids are not for you, but I’ve seen enough very happy parents into even their 40s who started out thinking they never wanted kids until they finally re-evaluated how they arrived at that conclusion and realized it was the result of bad inputs. If you know the key inputs were false, maybe re-run that whole decision process again with a clean slate and some accurate facts. You might be surprised.
This writer is a prime example of a new writing genre, the American that sees the best in other countries but the worst in his own. It’s irritatingly present everywhere, especially by people (like the author) that have admittedly spent a couple months in France but feel justified in saying things about the food culture.

Here’s my experience, having lived in Europe and traveled around for about a decade.

- French coffee is terrible. American coffee options are dramatically better and the vision of American coffee as watery and overroasted is about two decades out of date. In fact, the entire third wave modern coffee industry is an American food phenomenon. Italian espresso and Turkish coffee, the “predecessors” of contemporary coffee culture, are actually not that appealing to most people in real life.

- America is significantly more comfortable with experimentation that just about anywhere. Sometimes this has bad results. Other times it has world-changing ones. A fairly significant amount of “food innovation” in Old World countries is actually traceable to American experiments.

Edit: just wanted to also add that this meme of all European meals as being “I’ll pick up some ingredients from the local grocer, then spend two hours preparing the meal, which itself is an hours-long social gathering” is just that - a meme. It happens sometimes, maybe more than in America. But Europeans eat fast food, they buy prepackaged meals at big box grocery stores, they get lazy, like anyone else on planet earth.
The homeless are getting pretty tech-savvy huh?
It’s shocking how many fail in phase 3. You don’t go into an eye-wateringly expensive phase 3 unless it’s blindingly obvious from phase 2 (dose-ranging trial) that you have a winner. Which phase 2 you don’t embark on unless you have good safety data from phase 1 (often a combined phase 1/2 if you can swing it so you some belief it is efficacious in humans).

I once had a board member with 26 approved drugs from his long career at Roche. He told me “you don’t want to know how many failed after hundreds of millions had been spent. You’d be too discouraged.”
Related (from today): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37716928

South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children
I'm sorry but the idea that I have less in common with someone I grew up with for 20 years than I do with someone from Honduras whose language I dont speak and whose culture I know nothing about, just because my preschool friend and I have different political opinions and the honduran attends (a totally different) church a bit more. This is just ridiculous to me. Do you really think this? The only thing that bound you together with other Americans was pop songs? The idea Trump's campaign "normalised anti-immigrant rhetoric" is absurd. The American public (i.e. a majority therof) has not supported an increase in immigration when polled for 60 years (despite it increasing continuously). That is consistent. The public has never asked for this. There wasn't some sudden realignment demonstrating "the impermanence of the public's convictions". There was a mass movement of people who finally reacted to decades and decades of being of being ignored by their government. Continuing to try and blame everything on Trump instead of face the reality of what happened is either totally naive or just bad faith. What was Trump the result of? https://news.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx#:~:text=L....
Yeah... I'm sorry Louisiana
At some point humanity may be forced to answer the question "who polices the police?"
I see.

That said, continuous RAM scanning would be incredibly resource intensive.
Overgeneralizing a but here, but from my POV conservatives tend to consume literature about America being number 1 while liberals consume literature about America being the worst. The reality is somewhere in the middle.
This argument leads to solipsism, so it's not very fruitful. That is, you can easily replace "bosons or gravity" with "everything in the universe except myself, including other humans" and your argument doesn't change.

But then you actually can't say anything about anything, since you're the only thing that really exists and everything else is a just a figment of your mind.
Taxing fossil fuel imports in agriculture based on fossil fuels will make food expensive and cause riots. No reason to play a dummy.
Cool project, I wanted to contribute for my city but clicking on Sign In. "Continue with Google" seems to be the only option. That made me sad and leave. I know implementing auth is a hassle and might well take more time than adding the map, but it would be nice to have some option beside "Login with Advertising Giant account"
> I know that, but Telegram pulled out of the project after their legal battle with the SEC.

They've tried to legally distance themselves from the project, but they haven't "pulled out". Telegram has gone well out of their way to develop and release new features which rely on TON / Fragment, like the "collectible usernames" feature I mentioned, as recently as last year. This isn't something that TON could have developed on their own; it required support not only from the Telegram apps, servers, and API, but also administrative support from Telegram to seize some usernames from users and make them available to TON/Fragment for resale.

I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest is "falsifiable" here. These are all things which are visible to end users; anyone can verify them.
We had a ball lightning entering the house during a summer thunderstorm. It was only decades later I discovered that this was apparently a very rare event
It's funny you mention that about vietnam. I have read that online a few times. I've mentioned it to a few vietnamese-american friends and they looked at me like I'm crazy. There are a lot of places taking shortcuts with pho in the US though.

I dont think americans are stupid,we just don't grow up eating food that is interesting and don't get used it. we eat carbs, sugar, butter/cream with lean cuts of meat. it takes work to explore food beyond that, so it doesn't happen and we get watered down international cuisines
What a silly comment.

1. Birds that travel between continents exist and people in the 14th century definitely knew about them.

2. Faster than light travel violates all known laws of nature.
Except in France the bread is pretty cheap even from an independent bakery because there’s one every 50 metres so the competition keeps the prices down.
A RTOS can be a general purpose operating system.

Whereas an operating system that isn't an RTOS cannot be general purpose, as it cannot be an RTOS.
I meant that these things are illegal even if the victim agrees with them.
An author I admire greatly, Janet Frame, has a brush with this -

"After a suicide attempt she spent eight years in mental hospitals in New Zealand, receiving 200 electroshock treatments. She was about to have a lobotomy when a hospital official read that she had won a literary prize. She was released.

Later, a panel of psychiatrists determined that she had never had schizophrenia.. she was not mentally ill, just different from other people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/books/janet-frame-79-writ...

Her book Faces in the Water describes the experience, it's chilling.
I used to keep a Windows installation to hand on a disk, but after I realised that I hadn't booted into it for over two years I started using FLOSS operating systems exclusively.

Re. photography, do any specific features of Photoshop come to mind that you miss in free alternatives?
Ah, we are really just one smart kid away from extinction.

Something something boson something neutron, and the Earth goes kaboom.

Children can be very dangerous.
Yes, sure.

I'm not sure I want to give up my landhouse for a six-story building in which I share a place with hundreds... just because of "having children".
> The reality of food in America, outside of a few high-status neighborhoods scattered around the US, is that most people don’t prioritize the varied experiences of eating at a diversity of bespoke restaurants, and so the median food eaten in the US is not from some well reviewed Indonesian place on the Upper East Side, or from that really cool Bolivian place in Alexandria.

Okay, but like the median food eaten in France is not fresh baguettes and pate either. So then this is still not a fair comparison.

But I think there is largely some truth that the US mostly inherited a Northern European food culture that valued utilitarian foods that preserve well. The idea of getting fresh groceries every day to Americans is pretty abhorrent.
The poor quality of US food is not about cars, but about the ingredients. When you compare US food vs EU food, you immediately notice that US food has a lot more ingredients and those ingredients are often very questionable. Much of that comes from how profitable it is and how EU tends to restrict things until proven safe, whereas US tends to allow until proven unsafe.

Take bread for example. Bread needs nothing more than flour, water, yeast and some salt. Here are the ingredients for Wonder Round Top White Sliced Bread:
“Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Sugar, Yeast, Contains 2% Or Less Of Each Of The Following: Calcium Carbonate, Wheat Gluten, Soybean Oil, Salt, Dough Conditioners (Contains One Or More Of The Following: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate, Monoglycerides, Mono- And Diglycerides, Distilled Monoglycerides, Calcium Peroxide, Calcium Iodate, Datem, Ethoxylated Mono- And Diglycerides, Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid), Vinegar, Monocalcium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), Soy Lecithin, Calcium Propionate (To Retard Spoilage).” Source: https://www.target.com/p/wonder-round-top-white-sliced-bread...

That’s a lot of ingredients for the most basic of foods. I’d argue that’s not a good thing…

While the large cities in US have an amazing diversity of food, the quality of this food is abysmal. US also restricts many normal European foods because of the requirement to pasteurize. While I’m sure the periodic table laden recipes are dangerous if not pasteurized, I personally have yet to have an issue eating EU food within EU norms (yes, things spoil rather quickly by US standards; that’s why fresh food is important).
A similar thing happens with the word "security".
> Couple is used to refer to two things, but is also often used for a small number greater than two

Is this an American thing? It would be obviously wrong to refer to any number not two as a "couple" in AU/NZ English.
How do you split your model to train on multiple gpus while pooling VRAM?
> costs only a little more than cooking yourself.

that absolutely cannot be true. Eating out in melb is on average 2x more expensive than cooking yourself, unless you are not a bulk buyer, and is buying _tiny_ quantities (which are expensive), and is cooking _to_ a recipe, rather than buying what's in season and adjusting the recipe for it.
I had never heard of the Tron project before this. I do remember Microsoft and msx however which was a Microsoft / Japanese partnership which was quite big in Japan. Anyway thanks hacker news for bring tron to my attention!
Why would it be immoral?