skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From all your responses below, it sounds like you are pretty much ready to leave. Although at first I agreed with many of the responses below that recommended you "stick it out" even longer, judging from your reaction, it appears that you want to leave and you are financially prepared with savings at the ready.
In that case, sometimes, inaction is action so why not put some feelers out for possibilities? Just because you're looking doesn't mean you will quit. Evaluating your options may help you decide that what you have now isn't so bad after all or may lead to a new adventure.

It doesn't seem like it would be irresponsible to just look around for options.

My first job was paying a good amount of money and I also went to graduate school and worked hard to prepare for the job but looking back, I was lethargic and quite bored. Because it was my first job, I thought all jobs just felt that way. People would say "it's called 'work' for a reason - it's not supposed to be fun" so I accepted that because I had no other experience to compare against. Now I have the perspective to know that it was a boring job that happened to pay well but I love what I do now and it doesn't even compare in terms of fulfillment and joy.
First time hearing Scottish comedy. There is something interesting with the style but I just can't put my finger on it. I probably need to hear more. Any recommendations?
> "all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux"

You mean, are present in Linux TODAY.

Installing Linux 22-years ago, when XP shipped, was hugely painful and only the most technical would attempt it.

Windows XP marked the begin of an era when corporations replaced analog processes with digital.

It sounds so foreign now, but in the late 90s - it was still common for corporations to send printed memo to employees as the predominate form of internal communication.

So there's a lot of nostalgia for XP, because it was the first OS used by the masses.
Well, opening a website can save in the browser cache any image which is not displayed on the website. What all these silly mobile apps and games exactly are downloading and uploading? Who knows....
I'd settle for one well-thought-out UI concept, built from the ground up, targeting specific device categories, and running on a modern, legacy-free foundation. That would not be suitable for every user or use case and shouldn't replace a more legacy-oriented Windows, in my opinion, but it'd serve a large contingent of users and OEMs designing target devices better than what feels like a hodgepodge of hardware support and UI philosophies, accumulated over multiple decades. Unfortunately, while modern-day MSFT does extremely well financially[0] with their current strategy, their ability to execute such a major OS project from the ground-up and stick with it to the finish line is doubtful given historical examples[1]. Given that they are doing so well financially, it's fair if they feel that such investments aren't worth their efforts, though I view it as potentially shortsighted, considering the value of continued ownership of a large percentage of the platform market. Even if they become a transformer-model-focused company on top of being business over end-user focused, having future business users familiar with your system and retaining some control over the software that your transformer-model implementations run on is sensible.

If one wants what is described in the article and shown in the attached video, there are solutions out there to get very close to that UI. Combine that with LTSC and I feel that would scratch that particular itch quite well.

[0] https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-is-gettin...

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/surface-duo-andromeda-windows...
Yes, an apple is humble and that’s why they didn’t tell anyone they were doing it. And that’s why they’re also paying a fine for it.
I use Xero, having switched from Quickbooks which was fucking opaque.

Your accountant will also be able to use Xero which I suspect they will appreciate.

You can also link it to bank accounts and credit cards, which makes reconciling very easy.
I watched the video but for me still too many slow UI animations.
Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it.

No bloat, no ads, no forced or feature updates, optional security patches only, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry.
during Trump's tenure, there was likely a whole bunch of bots betting on market movement and smearing the shit to make it happen.

maybe the political shit is fearful, but if capitalism requires a market and that market requires clear signals, well, here now is the greatshitstorm of our times.
I've been running Linux on my work laptop for 6 years now and Nvidia drives are pretty good.
Who cares about your healthcare?
Canada Is Developing A Federal Plastics Registry
The type rating is the big factor, and that's largely driven by desire and/or pressure from customers.

IMO type ratings, and particularly the categorization of types, needs an overhaul. The current type rating system is, IMO, the primary indirect factor leading to the max accidents (customers demanded the impossible - more efficient engines with a 37 type rating) as well as countless other design decisions that seem silly from the outside.
This problem with Linux is pretty much gone and has been for a couple years now.
got to love how small the world is. For those who don't know, this guy has ties to Mossad and his daughter was Epstein's handler with Les Wexner funneling the money.
> the modern porn landscape has problems with non-consensual videos (see: Pornhub & GDP), extreme content (violence, CNC), and really harmful stereotypes about gender roles. It’s much more than just “healthy human sexuality” as many people on here seem to assume.

I suppose children should have access to a better quality of porn. The stuff we have now is probably harmful to watchers of all ages in varying degrees. That said, I don't think society will ever be liberal enough to have a kids section on porn sites.

> better parental controls by default on the client level

Having parental controls on by default would be a reasonable solution to this issue.

> they know it’s something they don’t care at all about

Is this a typo? Children go on porn sites because they want to watch porn. That's why I did it. If children didn't want to watch porn, they wouldn't. I don't think the sex itself is something they need protecting from. Just the addictive qualities that are present in both porn sites and the wider internet.

> better educated and supported children

Better educated and supported parents would also help.
I’m a weirdo lefty trans gal.

I hate that sorta thing.

Please don’t label.
On the other hand, Windows 98 looked like it was designed by 1955 IBM. It may have been an overcorrection but it was certainly a welcome one.
Isomorphic Labs deals with pharma companies
Agreed. First thing I always did was enable classic theme.
I use waveapp, I try everything else and I it worked the best for me. Fresh books is good too. Do not use quickbooks, their web version is buggy, slow and is and ads machine to sell you more services.
Porn actually lowers the amount of sex crimes in the society. Instead of going outside and performing sex with a real person, people simply stay at home. This is by far the cheapest and easiest solution to the problem.

Without porn, the amount of victims would be significantly higher and the crimes would be having a much worse outcome.

Not many people remember the world before porn, but I do. I vividly remember how rape was a regular crime on the streets of my city. It almost completely disappeared after the invention of the internet and since porn become widely accessible to people.
No issues with libraries that require old Windows ASP.NET?

This was a frequent issue each time I tried using something from .NET ecosystem on Linux.
CSP communication blocks until both sides are ready for the communication. You can create a process which acts as a buffer so that an outputting process is able to communicate so long as the buffer has capacity (and if the buffer size is unbounded then it will never be blocked, at least as long as there is sufficient memory).
So that this makes me think well, how strong and how much power is in the downlink and is that too much EMF exposure?
I personally love the blended style and I think the goals of what this going for is awesome. Let’s bloat, more focus on core computing features. But I suspect if I were to run XP, I would miss some of those bloat style features. Automatic updates for apps in the background, cloud file providers, better window management tools, etc.

I’m not longer at Microsoft and I am still a bit worried about the future of windows. I was hoping panos would be able to drive things in a more elegant and streamlined direction (to his credit, it does look better imho and many of the rougher visual edges have been filed off in 11, though some still do exist). But he has left the company and Yusuf is taking over.

Obvious standard opinion is my own boilerplate.
This is mostly a non-issue now - I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3, Dota 2, Warcraft III and everything else on Ubuntu 22.04 now thanks to Steam and Proton. Performance is awesome.
These examples for the flutter rpg game engine seem to run great on my old pixel 3, under the hamburger menu > mini games:

https://bonfire-engine.github.io/examples/bonfire-v3
I spend a lot of time with DNS (it just happened, man) and I see the same general thing where a lot of intention and expertise is imputed to others. True systems thinking around large systems is rare. Buffer Bloat (and the lack of progress in remediation, and the lawfare and near literal acts of congress due to misattribution and misunderstanding of the problem) as this thing slouches along and utters its phlegmatic growl could be emblematic.
Is it? I remember a lot of the launch video being depicted in an office or studio environment, aside from the dad taking 3d photos of his kids.
Mixtral in Colab
I'm kinda with you that no one in web dev seems to care to write good code or practice proper engineering (e.g. by using risk management). What do you work on now, since you're no longer a "corporate" JS guy? Have you left web dev altogether?

Your website is excellent, btw.
To add to this, the AusweisApp in Germany shows what information you're sharing to a website and asks you to confirm its ok
> If something takes in information, learns from it, and spits out information as a result of its learning, then why does the implementation matter at all?

Legally, the implementation may not matter at all, but the scale does.

The precedent is absolutely clear in legislation, for just about any category of crime or civil tort you can think of.

Just one example: you get caught with a single joint (in a place where it isn't legal, of course) you're looking at a fine ... maybe. Most places have had exemptions for possession of a single joint.

You get caught with 225 tons of weed all processed and packaged in a warehouse, you're going to jail!

You need to justify why you believe that, in the case of LLMs and AIs, an exception should be made so that the scale is not considered.

I haven't seen any justification why the justice system should make an exemption for LLMs when it comes to scale.

Scale matters, and has matter in every modern 1st world jurisdiction going back hundreds of years.

You want to overturn that? Provide an argument other than "If it doesn't matter when a single article is used to learn, it shouldn't matter when billions of words are used in the learning."
I'm not making any such assumptions. You're the one making bold claims about "obvious" causality, while I'm just saying it's not really obvious either way (and if you think that's a lie, check my phrasing more carefully).
People can feel unsafe for a variety of reasons. Characterizing your "side" on this issue as the sole champion of compassion and empathy is a dishonest way to avoid rational debate.

We understand that people with schizophrenia have delusions which result from their condition. Those delusions often cause them to feel unsafe. We are compassionate and seek to treat the the underlying causes, not by joining in on their delusions. Gender dysphoria is much the same--transgender activists love to confound the issue by conflating dysphoria and intersex, but these are two entirely separate conditions. I have empathy and compassion for people struggling with dysphoria, and that expresses itself in my desire to help them get better.
Windows 10 LTSC if you want something modern. Everything is removed, no preinstalled apps. Just the OS.
> That’s just a bad design though. When I go to a bar they don’t store a record of my ID for future review by the government.

Banking KYC isn't about making sure people are authorized to bank, its about making sure the government is able to track them down if they are (determined by the government to be) associated with bad things.

The purpose is not the same as checking ID at a bar.

(Now, there's an argument that, for porn consumption, the purpose of any ID requirements should be like a bar and not like banking KYC, even if for porn production or distribution, there is more of an argument for a banking KYC-like regime.)
100% with you.

It's so hard to find real problems if you spend 90% of your time finding problems.

Having a job is a great fix.

Building side projects with no purpose works too.

For instance, you can sell a boilerplate to make it faster, or get feedback from users and build for them.

Although it's much harder to start, and hard to navigate life without $ for months (years in my case)
> This causes problems in Europe with unmanned terminals (gas stations after hours, train ticket self-service).

I think you should be safe with a NFC enabled card for now. Apple Pay for example works in most places in my experience (even all around the world, except US). Physical cards might have a limit for contactless payment somewhere between 20-100€. And not all devices have a pin pad to enter the required pin then.
a SaaS is anything but a low effort project - an info product (like a short E-Book or a video course) would be significantly easier to sell.

I stopped sharing financial information publicly - but it's taken 3 years to look like it'll reach my salary.
>need to pay the bills for all the security work that will always need to be done

This is in no way the business incentive of a major OS, and you've painted an extraordiarily rosy picture of OS development.
> I'm sure this data would never fall into the wrong hands or be misused :-)

Ireland has a long history of data scandals. One that springs to mind is illegally keeping phone records for years (knowingly in violation of EU law) then illegally accessing them (in violation of Irish law) and then using them in multiple murder convictions, including the very sketchy conviction of Graham Dwyer [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/05/mobile-phone-dat...
IIRC correctly from my Late 2007 Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook days, that cpu can handle a 64 bits OS (although in my case the EFI could not so you had to modify it in order to be able to boot a 64bits OS)
Nostalgia aside, this isn’t actually better. The animations alone would be enough to drop most users after an hour.
If the website is tracking what you visit when logged in (which, they will be, as their business model is serving you relevant videos so you stay on the site longer to see more ads), and now the law is going to require them to verify that your account belongs to a person over the age of majority by storing your biometric information, then that is exactly what this law is doing.

Anyone who breaches that website's database (whether an inside job or not) is now going to learn not only what videos RandomUser782 has watched but also who they are, where they are, their birthdate, and what they look like; and if they chose to prove their identity via driving licence, also, their home address.

If this doesn't strike you as completely fucking nuts, I don't know what to say.
Is probably an unfair comparison. (And if you think that living in Alicante is cheap, you should see the boring inner smaller cities, easily reachable by train)

My impression is that Air travel to touristic destinations is just too cheap, for a reason. Selling airplane sits for pennies is probably just part of a bigger business. Tourists typically will spend money on services and hotels that could be owned by a sibling company, etc...

In Spain is often discussed how UK tourists can came to Spain for ridiculous prices, while we can't do the same in the opposite direction (or when flying inside the country). Tour-operators altering the market could be the reason for that "magic" IMAO.

Trains are nice in any case (but nobody is armed here, so just copy the system could be more defiant in other places)
Is there a name for the reverse Turing test? How can a Python script convince me it's not actually a human?
Ask HN: Is making requests approval service for IT worth it?
Hi, I have seen a loop hole in the approval giving process in the IT dept of various tech companies, so how they do it currently is: let's say an employee wants a certain permission for github, he will either raise a ticket using their portal or mail it to the manager asking for approval, the manager forwards it to the IT support and they approve it manually(well using the github portal they have, but it is a manual work since they have to locate the person and give the permission). The current solutions like rippling, electric etc. does not provide the feature for raising the tickets, the portal is with only one person, hence the approval process becomes single-point contact thing.

My solution was to make this process a multi-point contact thing, by integrating the request raising process and the approval giving process(by using API ofc) so the request need not go the IT support but is tackled by someone in between who had the required access rights, hence this becomes a multi-point service.
Can this platform be converted into a business? or the right questions should be will tech companies consider buying something like this when the requests are generated seldomly?
I flew in a MAX one time. It was a short hop between Burbank and San Jose.

There were maybe around 10-15 passengers, the crew asked us to not all sit at the front for balance. The plane had been sat on the ground powered down for hours, even though it was already late afternoon. I was first on the plane and it was very hot and stuffy but a flight attendant assured me the a/c would take care of that soon and indeed it got comfortable before we even pushed back.

Burbank has a very short runway so planes have to get to takeoff speed quick and then climb steep. This is quite an experience in a plane with huge powerful engines like the MAX with fuel for only a one hour flight and essentially no passengers or their luggage.

Later, the wifi didn't work.

This was shortly after they had been allowed back into the air and at no point did I relax into my seat. White knuckles the whole way.
This, plus - there use to be a program Microsoft had for PC manufacturers that certified the manufacturer (like Dell) hadn't install bloat on it either before selling it to you.

I can't recall the name of that Windows version, but it was hugely appealing for the technical minded while it lasted - because it was basically like getting LTSC from Dell/HP/Lenovo (without you having to do the install yourself).
I wonder how many people like this (myself included) would fall under the “Type 8” in the enneagram system. (I view it as a personality system, not a spiritual system)

I find that my fear of losing control makes it very easy to do cold-turkey quitting. Something that seems harder for most other folks. It sounds like the author may resonate with that idea. It’s the main reason I quit things as well.
As someone familiar with the USG data management tech landscape — it’s probably because it’s by far the best product with no remotely close second.
To some (many?) people, even including LGBTQ characters is an idiological topic in itself.
This must have taken serious effort, congrats! Lots of those features seem like huge time sinks

Btw at a glance, this looks pretty similar to Microsoft Loop which just came out. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-loop
It's only $110. How do they discourage people from using it?
Assuming you don’t use Wayland of course.
Security work for an otherwise solved problem is finite. It's only infinite if they make it that way by continuing to pile on new (likely unwanted) features. Otherwise the frequency of needing patches will trend towards 0 and eventually there will be none.
COVID.

Return to office seems to be changing that flow.
Apologies for not seeing your other comments. And I should have known what HIPS means, just a slow day for me I guess.

I would say SELinux is much superior to any HIPS solution though. You can lock down and audit every aspect of a system in detail, more than what most HIPS allow.
The repo for the original Java-based challenge states that station names will be between 1 and 100 bytes long. In practice, the test data uses shorter names, and the first few bytes of each name happen to be distinct from other names, so you can cut some corners and still arrive at the correct result.
Sounds like Windows 2000.
> Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it.

Of the devices that still run Windows in our home, all but one of them run some version of LTSC.

> No bloat, no ads, no forced updates, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry.

No Store, no Cortana, no Edge. What's not to like? ;)
I've been running Linux on a workstation for a year and NVIDIA drivers kill it every other update. I'm seriously considering moving it to the server room and getting something else for my desktop.
Almost?

That’s almost funny, except for how sad it is…
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/18ysttu/aoe_is_writte...

OOO maybe this is my chance to figure out why the newest "definitive addition" runs so much worse in Wine.
> but that doesn’t make them a great author

This is also widely considered a huge issue in academia. The dissemination is so bad that a lot of great research is never read by others.

Academia is not a business. They barely can sustain themselves, therefore, they need to do things themselves. It is though to be a physicist. Mostly because you, besides being a great physicist, also need to be a good programmer and a good author.
Also radiosity for offline rendering got largely replaced by sampling based techniques, first things like photon mapping and more recently by path tracing. Sampling approaches are easier to parallelize and generalize better to other types of materials.