skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them. Every release, Microsoft improves Windows in one way (like WSL) and then adds two reasons why it should be uninstalled completely. I use OneDrive on certain computers in my business. In others, it's inappropriate. On all my business computers, Xbox, Candy Crush, MSN etc. are inappropriate. And Edge was great for a while until it became the preferred route to feed me clickbait and more annoying pop-up ads. Why chase your users away?
The incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.
I had done this. It didn't work as you are suggesting.
I use Obsidian for this.

Basically you have a markdown file and add latex when needed. It's not the best tool if you need to format the document in a very specific way, but for personal notes works really well
I've been trying to get rid of OneDrive for months now, but I haven't been successful. It's yet another thing that makes me really hate Microsoft products.
Your legislator can disagree and enforce his/her will. Usb c for apple as an example.
Making quake mods when I was 12 got me interested in programming. I think my last one was 'Tellytubbies: Must Die'. It was fun making maps, models, textures and editing sounds of teletubbies in pain.
I don't know how CS is taught these days. In the 1980s I learned a lot about data structures, algorithms, and programming languages, virtually none of which I ever directly used in my later career. I've never had a job that required leetcode knowledge. I've never had to write a sort or a search or a tree balancing algorithm from scratch. There are libraries for anything you might want to do (and if there aren't, that's often a big red flag that you're doing something wrong).

I learned almost nothing about engineering. It took me quite a while on the job to learn and appreciate the practices that result in long-lived, maintainable systems. Overly complex, fragile systems with inscrutable interdependencies using esoteric frameworks are often the product of smart people who don't understand engineering principles (yet we often call them "engineers").
On the contrary, a typical startup is more of a scam on the users. The investors go in knowingly and willingly - this is literally how they make money. It's the users that get shorted once the startup suddenly gets acquired or otherwise "exists" - and if they do it through an IPO, then it's additionally the public that gets scammed.
Are all hiring processes exactly the same? Or are some better than others? If the latter, are any better enough to be good?
Will AI hurt or help workers? It's complicated
Any PRNG will return the same sequence when starting with the same seed. That's basically the point of it and it's quite a useful and important property, e.g. for simulations where you then just have to document your chosen PRNG and the seed for others to replicate your results instead of also shipping gibibytes of random numbers.

And since the exact algorithm has been documented for java.util.Random you can't just change it.

That being said, .NET had a similar problem, with System.Random having some drawbacks and bugs over the years. They chose to keep the algorithm the same when a seed is used (again, it's an important property you don't just break), but otherwise switch to something completely different. It gets more complicated even, as you can derive from Random there and some of those changes may be observable, so they also check for that: https://source.dot.net/#System.Private.CoreLib/src/libraries...
I'd like to see a RCT that compared two time-restricted eating groups: 7am to 3pm, and noon to 8pm. Which would have the larger benefit over a control group?

Also, it would be good to simultaneously (somehow) check if the results depend on one's genetic or cultural bias towards eating in the morning or evening.
Everyone should learn about bison/yacc/lex.
The forms, delays, and fees are because what those financial institutions are doing is providing checks and balances, and de-risking, to the extent they can, performing that transfer.

The forms are for KYC activity, and agreements on what the limitations of liability are. The delays are to validate that the transfers are handled and secured, and ideally can't be charged back. The fees are to cover the costs of the people who do the work for that.

It's not perfect, but it's quite a bit better than the checks and balances that exist for folks who get hit by a scam and are convinced to go to a crypto kiosk and pay a scammer because they have been frightened by a threat to a loved one, or are taken in by a scammer about services being cut off, or desperately paying off a ransomware demand in the hopes that your business or personal records won't be leaked or published.
Even on really high end televisions the built in sound is usually pretty terrible. A sound bar is table stakes these days for sure.
I would invest it in projects that kill ACTIVE SETI, because active is incredibly dangerous from rational standpoint.
Genie Aladdin is supported by HA (don’t have one so don’t know how well it works)
Lower salaries would do the trick too!

Jokes aside, I would like a list of reasons why people could own homes build out of grunt work 100 years ago but cant today with all the truly marvelous technology.

Besides choking in the red tape stuff like: wood is expensive if you don't plant trees. Long ago people planted the trees (where the house was to be build) when the baby was born.
>Well their kids could live in them

Unlikely. There's a very high likelihood the house will have to be sold, either to pay off debts of the deceased (or bereaved), or because the children already have their own lives going, or because they don't want to assume the tax burden, or simply because each child wants their share to do with as they please.

>or sell it and buy a different house to live

This is what's going to happen. All of these property will be sold. A very small percentage will be assumed by the children because of the all issues mentioned above.
Perhaps some models don't but I don't think it's a free m given.

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/320778-how-to-stop-l...
Any argument not addressing the fundamental issue which is the general right to private communication and storage in the digital age, concedes that argument.

Instead of debating smokescreens and planted arguments, we should be forcing the conversation to stay on the topic of fundamental privacy and avoid the entire gamut of CSAM/piracy/terrorism arguments typically employed.
> In the US, it'd be considered déclassé in most sit-down restaurants for the customer to run their own card.

Interesting; I rarely carry a card and just pay with my phone. I've never been to the US, but it certainly wasn't an issue when I visited Canada. I should probably remember to take my card if I visit a restaurant in the US.
That's a good point, although I would argue that's not what most users are going to run into, and I would note that properly handling a `DispatchEvent` and listening for changes will also properly handle KeepassXC's situation.

My main point is that it's not a security issue that browser extensions don't simulate a keyboard. I'll grant that some applications need to simulate a keyboard because they don't have any access to the page or application, and yeah, they have a good reason for what they're doing, but it's a rare situation.

And it is technically generally not ideal for a password manager to be doing that for websites; it does tend to make the user more vulnerable to phishing attacks. But it's fine, I see the use-case, I don't think KeepassXC is wrong to include that feature or that users are wrong to use it.

It just shouldn't be impacting how login forms are designed or what events they listen to. The users who are complaining above about login forms not listening to the correct events are most likely not being insecure and are most likely not using a clipboard when they fill in their passwords, and if the password managers they're using within their browser swapped from DOM manipulation over to simulating a keyboard, that would make those password managers less secure. Simulating a keyboard is something a secure password manager should mostly avoid unless for some reason it doesn't have access to the DOM.
They have explicitly stated that a Rust language specification is a non-goal for Ferrocene:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thesuperbigfrog&next...
OpenArena is really old by current standards, I don't know what you are trying to prove here.
> How did Iran-Israel relations even get this bad to begin with?

I know you were just posing this rhetorically, but I love the folks above that are responding as if this is something that can be answered adequately in the hacker news comment section
This is just as annoying as Docker constantly asking me to rate it.

This trend is just tacky.
Sounds like some bitter lessons from some pretty bad workplaces. Not everywhere is this bad, people. Expect to change jobs a few times before you find a good fit.
> asking for a valid reason makes sense.

Only if you're trying to annoy your users as much as possible. Especially for something like a server, where presumably if the operator thinks Microsoft's help is required, they'll ask for it.
As far as I understand, there are very few risks these days.

You can even move your eye around while the laser is shaping your cornea, since the laser has the ability to keep track of it and move along with the eye.

One of the best decisions I ever made, in terms of making life more convenient, especially physical activities.
OBDII is only a minimal standard, compliance requires only reporting that is related to emissions systems and engine systems that affect emissions. Basically everything else is manufacturer-specific and requires either a manufacturer diagnostic computer (every manufacturer has one) or third-party software with (usually reverse engineered) support for manufacturer diagnostics. Since CANbus became the normal implementation for OBDII, much of this is done by communicating with individual modules over OBDII using message sets proprietary to the manufacturer of that module. Newer vehicles incorporate more and more functionality into these modules, such that the usefulness of the core OBDII set tends to decrease.

OBDII is really quite far from solving the problem - unsurprising because it wasn't intended to. It's an emissions standard, not a general diagnostics standard. Common modern fault points like the brake system and SRS are unaddressed by OBDII, and that's without getting into infotainment and telematics.
This line of thinking only makes sense if you actively use OneDrive. If you don’t and have no interest in using it why leave it running? It’s bad enough that they automatically bundle it into Windows, but intrusively forcing a user to explain why they are using their own hardware in a certain way is silly.

I’m going to guess that the intersection of people who actively close unneeded background programs, and the users who are willing to explore alternatives overlaps quite a bit. This seems like a really shortsighted decision on Microsoft’s part.
I have to wonder why do this, when that interception risk exists.

You can have someone compromise a email - or it could be a hostile actor, or government- and yes, likely not the US gov or a state gov who could issue subpoenas and get data from Facebook via other legal methods(unless they utilize methods like the Snowden leaks mentioned)

-But this does mean people will now have no counter and be wide-open. And asking other info of people, such as providing photo ID's or (hopefully they never do this) biometric data- can also be obtained and submitted by hostile actors that are well funded...

PGP still works
They both have "winters".

Each also has "true believers" who can ignore the facts before them and incessantly hype an imaginary future.
As far as I can tell, fwiw, the ads are all cross sells for chamberlain products so there isn’t an impression based revenue stream, just conversions.
> I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them.

To become Senior Product Managers. You can't advance your career without putting your mark on the product.
It's likely we developed specialized parts of our brain to be very good at swinging from branches specifically.
If you don't use iPhone and Apple implements RCS then it is your decision to send data to Google by your choice of which phone you choose.

If you do use iPhone then you could selectively choose not to RCS texts contacts that you know use a Google RCS implementation.
I’m under the impression that the best BLASes are mostly C (MKL, Blis, and OpenBlas). I wonder how far they could get with just C and Python.

I wonder if they’d just go with libflame instead, if they started today.

Of course there’s lots of other functionality in scipy; iterative stuff, sparse stuff, etc etc, so maybe Fortran is unavoidable (although, Fortran is a great language, I’m glad the tooling situation is at least starting to improve on Windows).
This is with the newer chromecasts with Google TV.
An under-rated solution to this problem is saying No and having quality retrospectives.

Microservices adoption has largely become a cargo cult thing. It is a part of being cool like FAANG.

Instead of being cool, focus on solving your problems.
They did, which is why the drivers are mad it doesn't work.
Disappointed it doesn't show you a photo of the Product Manager responsible for OneDrive and make you answer them personally, like Jira went through a phase of doing. A totally missed opportunity.

It should be the law that PMs have their faces on such things to promote the same trust we feel towards real estate agents. Privacy policy when signing up? The PM should be there, being responsible.
Dunning-Kruger effect in full force there my good person.
Deterministic random number generation, where the same seed produces the same sequence of random numbers, can be achieved in various programming languages through different methods or libraries. Here are some programming languages and methods that allow for deterministic random number generation:

1. Python: The `random` module can be seeded to produce deterministic random sequences.
2. Java: Java's `Random` class can be seeded to produce deterministic random sequences.
3. C++: The C++ Standard Library provides functions like `srand` and `rand` that can be used for deterministic random number generation when seeded.
4. C#: C# offers the `System.Random` class, which can be seeded for deterministic randomness.
5. JavaScript: In browsers and Node.js, the `Math.random` function can be overridden to make it deterministic.
6. MATLAB: MATLAB's `rand` function can be made deterministic by setting the seed with `rng`.
7. Ruby: Ruby's `Kernel.rand` method can be seeded for deterministic random numbers.
8. Julia: Julia provides a `Random.seed!` function to set the seed for deterministic randomness.
9. R: R has functions like `set.seed` to control the randomness and make it deterministic.
10. Swift: In Swift, you can use the `arc4random_uniform` function with a fixed seed for deterministic random numbers.

These are just a few examples, and many other programming languages and libraries offer similar functionality for deterministic random number generation when a specific seed value is used.
Where are you located? I send a fair amount of SWIFT wires, and they cost at most $25 and clear the next day.

Within the eurozone (the 20 countries using the euro), there’s SEPA instant credit which clears in less than ten seconds, is available 24/7, and costs practically nothing (a few cents). It’s a fine example of how thoughtful regulation can enable a system that is better than any crypto solution.
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> Salvador Dalí was cast in Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of "Dune", he demanded to be paid $100,000 per hour
Most first year university courses have to teach students how to use files and folders, it’s just not that well known anymore
Wow.... Also love the typical clueless response from the forum agent.
Windows 7 (Pro/Ultimate) will probably remain the least bad Windows ever released. Shame.
> Another view is the "loss" factor. Nobody, thus far, has has had their funds stolen or lost using ML products.

That is true however I'd say that for example the venezuelian and turkish people who managed to scoop Bitcoin (or Ethereum) didn't do too badly:

Inflation in Venezuela 2022 and estimate for 2023: 210% and 51%
Inflation in Turkey 2022 and estimate for 2023: 70% and 50%

These aren't the only countries.

I personally know a doctor from Iran who tried semi-recently to convert his savings into Bitcoin (and failed: bank didn't let him). And he basically lost all his savings (inflation and bank defaults: double whammy).

From the comfort of countries using strong currencies it's easy to dismiss Bitcoin but there are many countries where shit did hit the fan really hard.

Not it's not a panacea: for example many african countries are experiencing ultra high inflation but cannot use Bitcoin because fees are way too high for these people ($6 USD to move Bitcoin today: I just checked).

> Compare that to the negative stigma of crypto frauds and stereotypical association to illegal transactions.

Seen all the people and exchanges owners busted and going to jail and seen moves like the EU soon de-anonymizing every single wallet out there (as soon as a transaction is made), and seen the public ledger, I don't even know if that bad bad reputation is going to stay for long.
> can be up to 50%.

An you can make up to 200% a year trading stocks! “Up to” is doing a lot of work there.

> In _general_, science is a good investment.

Citation needed. Most calculations of ROI that I’ve seen show that publicly funded science has lousy returns. They need to fuzz the numbers a lot just to make it sellable to the public.

> I don't agree that there have been poor investments in Spain. Do you have numbers or reports about that?

I’ve even worked for them, the UPC, just besides the BSC, has had historically wasted buttloads of public money.

I know of a department that blows > 1M€ of public funding every year in a project that was old news when it started, 15 years ago. It’s still ongoing. They’re not outliers by any stretch.

> Most cases I know are that in Spain the Big Crisis cut investment and getting stable long-term fundship is almost imposible, which makes scientists' situation very unstable

The number one issue is that most projects being chased are terribly obsolete. Spanish science is not underfunded, it’s just very poorly managed. I’ve personally seen managers wasting 20k€ in buying useless parts, because they could not be bothered to do the numbers first (5 minutes of back of the envelope calculations would have sufficed).

Let’s not forget that Spain has a whole ecosystem of semi-public companies (like Eurecat) whose business model is to find partners to justify getting grants. The most honest people there will tell you straight (this is an actual conversation I’ve had) : “this project isn’t going anywhere, but your company will make an easy 50k€, we’ll help you with the paperwork, and you’ll get something nice to post on Linkedin”.

> The LHC and space exploration have had huge indirect returns from the technology designed around it.

That’s the most absurd cop out people always use. “If we spend 100MM€ building this thing that barely has any uses, maybe, we might find some stuff around the way”. We are living in the era of Luck-based development, You point to a random goal and hope to make returns by stumbling into something along the way.

Even if we took all tech “developed” at CERN as a return, I’d not value it even closely to the money spent there.

If you don’t believe me, you can ask other people who have worked there, the amount of wasted money is ludicrous. Just as an example, my team designed a custom ASIC for the LHCb. There were literally 4 identical ASICS being designed in different teams.

And let’s not get on the promises made to sell these projects. Just check the writings and videos of Sabine Hossenfelder, and you’ll start to get a grasp of the grift, and IMO, she is too diplomatic about it.
Yes. But this is Mac, not Windows. You don't decide upfront what you're going to do with the file.
Don't forget to delegate! Find some local junior dev or hobbyist to set these things up, if you need them so, but perhaps it's best to avoid doing them yourself.

It's not like people won't have a good time there if you don't have a website and have a Facebook profile/group whatever instead.
I'd love to see the magic quadrant on suborbital ballistic interceptors.
They are just forcing you to provide reasons for you not wanting to use their software, so they can change it in a way that makes you want to use it.

If that doesn't work, maybe they will use more hostile methods of coercion. For example, they could make it a service that restarts every 5 minutes after you kill it. They could also prevent you from disabling the service.
I've long since passed the point of caring if someone wanted to "cancel" me (whatever that might mean). I will speak my mind. I've also long since passed the point of thinking it's going to do anything, but, I'll play anyway.
Within the USA we could reduce demand by reducing immigration. I don't think we should attempt to resolve the housing shortage that way, and I agree that we should build more housing, but let's at least be clear about the available options.
what a ramble

> Not being smart is totally fine (I certainly am not one). We just need to avoid being stupid.

> Let’s face it, engineers, most of us aren’t smart

> most people don’t give enough shit to improve

Barely even makes sense, and is just a bunch of random opinions
Ask HN: How find my way and switch to a IT job?
So HN community, I would like to ask you, how can I try a job change to the IT area? What should I put in my CV and how? Which programming roles I would be able to achieve with my skills?
The animated map focus actually helps convey geographic information.

I think you just have some hardware-software conflict issue.
correlation \= causation