skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internationalising every possible failure within a system, especially one as complex as Windows, into 110 languages seems needlessly intensive and complicated. Many details differentiated by error codes just aren't useful information to end users anyway.

I don't think Microsoft can document _every_ error, it's just not very realistic. I'd prefer it if they did, but lacking that, the error code works just fine.
According to the article, electricity costs are not yet decided, so it's probably closer to $2,100/year. Also that's only for workers who are required to be remote, not those that choose to be, so likely doesn't apply to all employees (edit: sorry, required or encouraged to be remote)
>I would suggest GOG is a better candidate.

I love the idea of GOG, and I ADORE that they're making old games available (GOG peeps, if you're reading this, civ 2 please!), but if I were a PC gamer I'd buy through steam just for proton compatibility on linux. It's that good.
Just recently published some preliminary dotnet bindings/libgen stuff for Luau in hopes to kickstart its wider use in C#:

https://github.com/afterschoolstudio/Luau.NET
Totally lost on the UI sorry can you explain how to operate the thing ?
brethren, fund my expedition to explore this long and arduous meme
FCC Authorizes over $18B to Expand Rural Broadband
They’re would be set assuming continued US stock market returns, which will “probably” continue indefinitely so long as we are a country, but it’s not guaranteed. If I recall correctly, maxing out 401k for 30 years doesn’t even get you $1M on principal. 30 years from now even $2M is probably not enough to comfortably retire on.

Then if you need any nursing care it’s $100k+ per year.
Fork it into a browser people pay for. Become more successful than Mozilla. Hire Mozilla developers.
Thanks for making HN more entertaining. I do feel sorry for those cultures that didn't come up with computers, they can't read your comments, because that would be cultural appropriation.
> anonymized data to people who have agreed to submit for research

Seems fine to me?
> The data really makes it look like homeschooling increased a significant but not mind-blowing amount at the beginning of the pandemic, when parents pulled their kids out of school either because they thought they were unsafe or were upset about mask mandates.

I think you're forgetting the biggest reason: it turns out zoom school was a disaster and the worst of both worlds.
As a dev, I get that. As a user, I very much dislike that software is often in a perpetually unfinished state.
Dishing out an EULA that contains non-enforceable terms should be criminalized. Probably if the deck wasn't so stacked for business, it would be quite clear to interpret such EULAs as fraud or attempted fraud.

But as the GP said, the whole thing is a total corrupt farce.
> [David Cutler] expressed his low opinion of the Unix process input/output model by reciting "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture.
I do not agree with your last sentence, at all. I also don’t think it is worth my time or yours to debate it. I’ve stated that I need to and am willing to keep an open mind about all of this. You doubled down.

Take care.
yeah Lenovo support is shit. It's why I just buy two of them most of the time :)
I got 54% witout too much difficulty. not sure what to conclude
CA CoL is already high and layoffs happen regardless. I fail to see the downside unless you are a very new startup.
That looks quite exciting. on top of the AI wave of 2023.
I'm typing this from a split keyboard right now. If someone made a nice set of arms that could mount my keyboard halves to my chair arms (with enough room on the right for a trackpad) I'd absolutely spring for that and get rid of my desk. Then when Apple makes a Vision Air I can just go full cyberman and drop the monitor too.
Unfortunately I don't think that Americans are prepared to accept dense living as acceptable outside of luxury condos in the mega-cities. It's just like some people are just afraid to fly. You really and pushing uphill there, despite the many benefits.
"TA: I mean, if that wasn't obvious, you need to take a semester on woke logic, it's more important to computer science these days than propositional logic.

Student: But I'm black."

Maybe got lost in the weeds a bit?

Edit0: After reading more of the short, it's not very thoughtful or well written. It's quite long.

Feels like "Too late, I've already drawn you as a soyjack and myself as a chad!" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/depicted-as-a-soyjak
Social security invests in low interest bonds, if they invest at all. Having the government invest everyone's retirement savings will at best lead to sub-optimal returns and more likely lead to corruption and theft.
I find it funny how California causes its own issues, makes laws to fix said issues, and then causes more issues as a result. Living in Utah which tends to be a very anti-business-mandate place, and which does not have any such law, I've never had to pay for a bathroom. In fact, places where you have to ask for a key from a clerk are quite rare as well.

Watching California gradually kill itself through administrative bloat, Orwellian laws, and degeneracy has been quite entertaining.
Don't inject reality... If have no laws and let the corporations decide our rights, we can have a utopia...

We just have to do it...
What does age have to do with it?
It could incentivize employers to stop allowing remote work or start mandating going to the office
This simply isn't true except when you're talking about the largest companies. The vast majority of American businesses don't have a place of business in all 50 states, or retail outlets, etc. etc. -- the majority of American businesses are small, operate in one or a handful of states, and as a result do in fact skip California.

Sames goes I expect for "businesses hiring remote workers," only a Californian would have the arrogance to believe that all those businesses are somehow addicted to hiring in California.

So what this kind of stuff does is crush small businesses in California, and leave only the large ones standing. By the way small businesses drive most of the growth in the US and owning one used to be a way to have control over your own destiny while making a good living, but hey I guess all that stuff's out of fashion in this brave new world where only five companies matter and they have a revolving door set up between their boards and the government.
Are you opposed to a minimum wage?
It sure does encourage hiring accountants and lawyers.
The site doesn’t want you to open its links in new tabs on mobile Safari. When you long press on a link, it opens the link in the current tab.

When I see a list of links, I always make a pass of opening interesting links in new tabs for later review. This site design choice makes that a funky PITA. Does anyone except grandma still use a single browser tab and back button?
Good luck with that; until they do, the Guardian should revoke their licence rather than moaning about it on their own pages.
> The article starts with "everything is FACT"

From what I’ve seen, “fact” (especially in all caps) is often used as a hyperbole, similar to “literally” or the skull emoji.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Generation_Z_slang
My commute costs going into the office everyday for a year are far more than $1000/year. I estimate it’s about $4k/year and that’s with taking public transit & biking. Those commute costs aren’t covered by my employer. I’d gladly trade a $4K decrease in commute costs for a $1k increase in internet and electricity. Also internet is fixed so regardless if I’m remote or in office I’m still paying the same bill.
I’d say the difference is you can’t be friends with a sports team or stocks and let it replace your interpersonal relationships.
> People refuse to get out of them is the market.

People refuse to get out of them because they are still the most efficient providers. Regardless of the user experience degradation, YouTube still offers the best product. For example, Rumble doesnt let me start looking for ve events from the beginning. YouTube does. Better experience.

My hypothesis: if YouTube only worked on Web Integrity browsers and forced a four hour ad before content was played, people woulf move elsewhere. They havent yet because YT is still the best.
Thanks! You can even train the AI on your company website!
It does in fact disallow that.
I think it's an earnest attempt by someone who doesn't understand "Comp Sci" in 2023. The pointless inclusion of noise like "But I can't be racist, I'm black" makes me wonder what exactly this person's strengths are.
joe! back-offski!
California does not care if some 2 person company in Ohio will be slightly less likely to hire a 3rd person remotely from California - the number of remote jobs going to California from these types of companies is close to 0.

Even if you assume 100% of them go away - I'd wager voters in California would prefer to have current conditions improved than an ever so slight increase in opportunities in the future.

Yes - small businesses employ the majority of workers. Do small businesses from outside of California with no current presence in California making new hires into California in a given year make up even 0.1% of total jobs? No.

On the flip side - close to 20% of Californians work remote full-time. And some estimates are as high as 40% for workers that work from home at least once a week.

Is this a good policy? Who knows.

Is it going to be popular? I think so.
AOM already wrote a GPU shader-assisted decoder for the Xbox One:

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/av1-xbox-one/
Hovers around 50% for me. So it's no better than a random guess it seems.
That's interesting, I'm not a lawyer, but the way I understand the German Prostitutionsgesetz, it makes sexual services legitimate part of the financial contract - so both parties may be entitled to payment or compensation in various disputes, however, it still doesn't allow "sale" of future consent, it does not imply that the customer has a claim for the specific performance of some service, or that the provision of the service is enforceable; such consent may still be withdrawn at any time, though it may legally result in a claim for e.g. refund of any prepayment for the service.
Unless there is a flurry of network vulnerability updates, then a bespoke fork is set in the road for them.
It's been in effect for office work. CA is one of the few states expanding this to Remote work (according to the article).
The Superhero Stack
I’ve only seen snippets but I thought it was obviously satire. Not parody, though.

What specifically is the dumb idea here?
The Wikipedia article captures relevant facts from the blog post, in a tone consistent with Wikipedia's standards, for what that's worth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

I admit I never considered the provenance of .io and its geopolitical history. I also use some .me domains that I now think I should have considered more carefully.

Reading about it now, I take the original article's point that a geo TLD that seems cute or fun or clever in one culture could have a very different connotation in another culture.

It may or may not be an ethics issue, depending on perspective, but that ambiguity might at the very least be an optics issue, since there is a moral question for at least some reasonable observers.

It appears that foreign use of these geo TLDs says something one way or another about a site/service/brand, whether that's support for the country or some sort of colonialism or something else altogether.
> it is indefensible to me at this point that the base chips are still limited to one external display

They’re the base chip for a reason. Why would you add a feature a small fraction of that chip’s users would use when you can use that space for something else?
Are you being sarcastic? Cultural mores are different in the EU, lawmakers there began with a presumption of basic good faith on the part of business which turned out to be lamentably lacking in the international market. This is 50% the fault of the people trying to circumvent/undermine the law rather than cooperate with it.
You are right. It's kind of a toothless tiger without that part though.
Who has taken over from Threads?
Heaven forbid a tech company should be forced to obey applicable laws and regulations. Those strict regulations are part of your brand; if you register, say, a .de domain, a user can be reasonably sure that you’re not some weird fly-by night operation whose real company name is something else entirely. This is an asset for you.
An LLM can't tell you what you had for lunch or what will be on the math test this afternoon though.
This isn't entirely true.

Adaptations are better if they help some offspring survive and reproduce during some window of time.

For example, if I drop dead at 30 there's less of a chance that I can help protect/guide my offspring. If I live past 30 their chances of survival (and reproduction) increase.
I think my wife would love to explore the game again, and I think we could maybe tune some dungeons so they're doable by just two players, but we're parents now and some things are just not possible anymore.
After a Road of Trials with potentially a lot of collateral damage, if the AI read Campbell too.

Also, who says we're the protagonist in the script? :-)
> This is not an accurate description of school. Maybe, maybe in high school and college you kinda sorta get to something resembling that, but for elementary school and middle school it is nothing at all like your description.

Elementary and middle school are even less like being an adult than high school

I think GP's point is that the school environment is nothing like "adulting," so your original point was just plain wrong.

And I agree with the GP: I don't see any reason why home-schooled kids would be at a disadvantage to public school kids when learning to navigate the adult world, because the school environment is strange and not at all focused on "adult life skills."
> just a 'British entrepreneur' who bought the rights to multiple TLDs

Not anymore, instead an American private equity firm
I didn't see anything in the study (that I also skimmed tbh) that is clearly wrong, which makes me dismiss the results.

It's just because I don't think this is evidence enough to change my priors. i.e. My gut tells me this is wrong and I don't buy it.

The sample is 267 people, tiny enough that I'd expect an analysis to be done with a linear model with few features.
They used 14 features, but had a pipeline to select "model (out of 3), feature set, and threshold for prediction".

There's _so_ many degrees of freedom there that _by default_ I assume there's leakage.

I'd love to see this paper replicated! It would be amazing if this were true.
But if I had to bet on this, I wouldn't give more than 20% chance of being true.
Why are you assuming causation?

Perhaps bathrooms had to be charged for due to a sufficiently significant portion of the population causing damage to them.

Perhaps the California law requiring free bathrooms was a way for California leaders to shirk responsibility for providing clean bathrooms to all and foist costs onto private businesses. I always assume this is the case when government requires businesses to do provide something at a price the government sets. The politicians get all the acclaim and none of the headaches of fixing (or not really fixing) the problem, win win for them.

If Utah does not have the population that causes damage to bathrooms, then its politicians would not yet have needed to come up with a law requiring free bathrooms.
On Kubernetes impact on network performance: well... on one hand, Kubernetes doesn't come with its own networking. So, it's unfair to say that it affects networking, because it simply cannot do it. On the other hand, it requires external networking component to do certain things in certain ways. So, indirectly, it does affect networking.

So, here are some concerns that affect performance, they mostly come from the need of various translations done by either iptables, eBPF analogues, arpatables, DNS server(s). If you read about benchmarks of Calico and Cilius, you'll see that they concentrate on performance of eBPF code necessary to do all these translations. My claim about performance tax is based on the idea that w/o Kubernetes you wouldn't need such translations (but, of course, you could build your own version of Kubernetes networking with a lot of software-defined virtualization, in which case you'd be in the same boat).

> Kafka

Is as horrid as it sounds. It's awful performance-wise on all counts. I'm not sure what point are you trying to make. Can you choose a better example? I mean, Kafka performs very poorly in all configurations, so, to think that it can be a good example of software that wants to achieve good resource utilization is just bound to give you bad results.

> You get isolation at the service layer. I don't see why that would be contentious, it's obvious. If you're saying you want more isolation, ok, you can write your code to do that if you'd like.

You either genuinely didn't understand what this is about, or pretend to not understand something really simple. "Micro" in microservices means that your services are small. There aren't any meaningful isolation tools or approaches when it comes to microservices, because isolation at the level of service doesn't matter / is trivial to achieve by many other means / is not a problem in real-world programs.

> Yep, the actor model is very low level.

This is simply a nonsense statement. Low on what scale? Your answer reads as if it was generated by a chatbot. I.e. words from the same general domain strung together, but make no sense.

> Microservice architecture has been far more successful than actor based systems

How did you count? How do you even tell if something is a microservice-based? This is just as absurd of a claim as saying "78% of enterprises use Kubernetes" (I believe I saw this unfettered inanity on cloud-native foundation's Web site). How do you tell if it's successful? What if actor model is a more generic description which beside other things, also captures microservices?

I mean, in more simple language, this is talking out of your rear. It's not a real argument anyone should pay attention to.
How to Go from Developer Advocate to Head of Developer Advocacy
> That it why we spell it as "colour" in English.

No. That was due to french influence. Not to be more phonetic.

> Americans removed the "u" from their dialect which makes a needlessly complicated language even more so.

Webster removed it to make it more phonetic. Do you pronounce color the same way as flour? Of course not. Color, harbor, favor, etc is more phonetically accurate than colour, harbour, favour, etc.

> The funny thing is that it's mirrored in our law - English law is all about case law and president.

Precedent.
Cybersecurity snafu sends British Library back to the Dark Ages
> If all your competitors have it, it's table stakes

If all you do is tail the competition. Most laptop users don’t use a second monitor. This is a silly gripe.
A computer uses 150kWh/year @ $0.42/kWh that is $75/year. Certainly internet is possible at $60/month so $720/year. Say you have a generous $500/5 years for equipment plan and you are still below $1,000/year/employee.

Yes there are other expenses but you should already be providing a PC etc.

How are you getting to millions at a small company? Certainly a shop with 3,000 people is out a few million but... You have 3,000 people you are doing fine.

Heck with 20 people $1m is what $50k/person? You wouldn't spend that leasing everyone a Mercedes at $605/month.
For the food context, it'd be you opening an African food restaurant, that all the white people go to instead of an African food restaurant run by somebody from Africa. Meanwhile, Africans would be looked down on for making and eating said African food when they're supposed to be "integrating" to the local German food.

You're stripping the value of African food from African people, the same as colonialism stripped their resources from their land.
Sounds like bullshit to me.

Note that the “optimal model” includes age and BMI.

The predictive model seems to be logistic regression and Naive Bayes. There’s no fancy AI here. Just some basic feature summary.

I don’t have time to go into it too detailed but I’m noticing they’re saying some vocal features are P <0.001 for the matched datasets even though the values across the two classes seem awfully similar. I’m not sure what’s going on there.
Just lol @ thinking that this statement:

> Removing someones ability to defend themselves against serious allegations by cutting them off from their ability to make money to pay for said defense undermines the integrity of the legal system itself. It's a thumb on the scale. These people believe in nothing.

Is supported by this citation:

> Consequently, Dinenage had sought an audience with Linda Yaccarino, X’s CEO, expressing apprehensions regarding the comedian’s ability to monetize his content on the platform amid the accusations. She also queried whether Musk had influenced the decision-making process pertaining to Brand’s case, given the billionaire owner’s public defense of the comedian.

You said:

> cutting them off from their ability to make money

What happened:

> expressing apprehensions

Consider whether your comments reflect reality or undermine it ;)
I think that happens for anyone in UTC and to the west, because of leap seconds.

I've seen 1969 more often, and I'm in a timezone synced with UTC. (as well as having that as the timezone on all my servers)
I think the current thinking is that the sea people were a symptom more than a cause of the collapse. The few surviving records talk about crop failures and widespread unrest even before the sea people appeared. You had a number of feudal kingdoms teetering on the brink of collapse and the sea people provided a convenient excuse for the rulers so they didn't have to blame themselves.
It does[0]. Google gives a breakdown of site revenue from contextual versus personalized ads it seems [1]. Maybe someone here with a voluminous adsense property can report which is more, but from what I remember years ago, personalized ads often still dominate on revenue.

0: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9007336?hl=en

1: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1055502?hl=en
This post is perhaps extreme (I don't know enough about the history to comment), but not only can we both learn from history while looking forward, but we should do so—best to put our most self-aware foot forward as we hope to expand beyond our planet.
Ouch. That was a very sad read. History is full of so many injustices! It’s just sad all round.
I clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.
If any work is used for human training, then the author should be paid.

See how ridiculous that sounds?
My company implemented a temporary reimbursement for internet / phone access when we were all involuntarily WFH a few years ago. Few people bothered, even though it was technically free money.

The requirements for submission were annoying and repetitive, the expense system was slow and aggravating to use, the submission could be rejected for any number of unclear reasons, we all felt that it was completely unnecessary, and the amount reimbursed was nearly trivial compared to our salaries.

If California really wants to go this route, it should be a simple stipend added to the paycheck. Requiring companies to determine themselves the correct amount, implement their own rules, and have employees spend their time copying bills sounds like a lose-lose scenario where all parties are annoyed.