skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux has never given me a notification that says "you previously removed this search box from your taskbar, but we put it back. You're welcome"

Paraphrased, but this actually happened on my work machine a few months ago. This kind of bullshit and bald faced disrespect is why I haven't used windows at home in years.
Last time I arrived in LAX I remember wanting to take public transport or walk down town. I actually tried to walk from LAX to find some public transport . You’re not actually “allowed”. There is like no path to follow. I ended up in a cab after waiting like an hour for a bus which was full when it arrived.
Diagram 5 can be improved.

[Time Spent on Improvement] is shown having a negative impact on [Time Spent Working].

But [Time Spent Working] should also have a negative impact going back to [Time Spent on Improvement].

This simple mutually negative feedback loop, i.e. a competitive relationship, better explains the bistable situation where either [Time Spent Working] reinforces itself, while holding [Time Spent on Improvement] down, or vice versa.

Feedback loops reinforce themselves, but there is only so much time, so there will be a strong tendency for one feedback loops to dominate the time. (And since the Time Spent Working -> Reduce Performance Gap loop operates much faster, cheaper in the short run, and is much easier to reason about and manage, it usually wins.)
My suspicion is that it has nothing to do with what users want, it's just a way to sell ad space essentially. I mean right now my "Widgets", which I never open, evidently has a bunch of news sites I never look at, coupons, some casual games I have no interest in. It's basically a bunch of ads pretending to be a feature
Working as a data scientist, I have exclusively used Altair since I joined my company in 2021. Every one of my coworkers uses Matplotlib. Two people said something like "Oh, you're using that library that's supposed to be better and probably is, but I just don't want to relearn everything for plotting" but nobody else has even shown interest, let alone taken the plunge.

If you need to learn a plotting library and you already work in Pandas, I recommend choosing Altair to learn. It's a natural extension to pd.DataFrame and the only magical incantation to learn is

alt.Chart(df).mark_<plot_type>.encode(x=df["col"], y=df["other_col"])

I find this significantly easier to work with than Matplotlib, where the same things can be done in several ways with subplots, plt.figure(), df.plot(), and maybe others?

My only complaint with the library is that outputting to an image file feels weirdly complicated. I often resort to making HTML files and taking a screenshot if I don't want to take the time to look up all the steps equivalent to `.savefig("file.png")`.
How is that not a selling point? You want the disk to be the bottleneck
it's not quite that simple, because stores play music they have licensed. And of course during the holiday season the employees are subject to a lot of songs they most likely never want to hear again, like the prolific Mariah Carey and Wham songs.
A serious question: Do you believe that this person https://www.instagram.com/laith_ashley/, who is a transgender man, should be made to stay in women's spaces and use womens' restrooms?
why is being unable to maintain market share not an issue?

Because of revenue? a large seller of windows is genuinely just it’s market cap, it doesn’t really have a lot of killer utility compared to contemporaries. If it loses market cap then it’s a precipitous issue for them as there’s no point choosing the OS for other reasons, it simply lacks the value.

It’s market cap comes from people thinking it has a huge audience and so tailoring software for that audience and putting significant resources into that. Without that third-party effort: windows is toast.
I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that the world is hella uptight and it drives both things, not that one would fix the other.

But I do think if adults felt they could just pay for sex to meet their needs like you pay for a hamburger at Burger King because you are hungry and that didn't have to be illegal or surreptitious, you would have a world where these conversations were easier to have and people would be more likely to hash them out in earnest.

These failings most likely start with everyone in the room not wanting to really have that conversation. Because sex is such an uncomfortable topic of discussion generally that a tough topic like child exploitation becomes effectively "unspeakable" for many people.
Similar thing happened where I live in Brisbane, Australia. A couple of weeks ago the Bureau of Meteorology (our government weather service) predicted 20mm of rain the next day. Instead we got 200mm. They are normally pretty good.

They explained the moisture in the air was at record levels this year because the sea surface temperature was 1.5 C above normal. We all knew the moisture was at record levels because Brisbane (in a temperate zone) was getting sustained levels of humidity that exceeded the levels experiences in the far northern tropics, 3000 km away. Even on a relatively mild day at say 30C, you could not walk up a hill without being drenched in your own sweat. Since their weather models had never see humidity like this sustained for weeks and weeks (it was an all-time record yesterday), they were wrong. It's doubly surprising because were in a El Nino, which should bring dry spells.

The result of all that rain was continuous storms lasting for week, at the peak bring category 3 cyclone winds (exceeding 130 km/hr), concrete power pylons being blown over (never happened before), power outages for weeks in some areas, flooding and deaths in metropolitan areas. Most of came without much warning because the aforementioned models were wrong. It's been a wild ride.

What blows me away is in West Asia the sea surface temperature was 5 C above normal this year, over three times what we are experiencing. I can't imagine what that is like.
Why are you starting a business? Starting a business is for people who want to work very hard for little to no money, on the off chance it becomes successful and self sustaining and finally they can take some time off. You’ve already seen this for yourself.

What you really should strive for is a remote job that lets you work from anywhere and pays you well, ideally contributing to something fulfilling in life.

Entrepreneurship culture these days is toxic and the opposite of the “ideal” life.
It's pretty simple: The UNRWA should refuse to provide services that the local government is obligated to provide. For example in Gaza the UNRWA has the role of government, instead of Hamas. If UNRWA refused, then Hamas would have had to do that, and they probably would drop this idea of perpetual war with Israel, because they have obligations to their citizens.

In Lebanon Lebanon refuses to give even basic services to the people who were born there, because the UNRWA does it. If Lebanon was on the hook for schooling and other basic services they would probably grant work permits to the parents.

This would eventually lead to integration with the host country.

But instead the UNRWA does it, leading to perpetual refugee status.
Are you surprised that a majority of people would favour having the freedom to work in the environment that best suits them and their team?

RTO mandates are simply a way to curtail freedoms that we’ve established; freedoms that we demonstrably didn’t abuse.

Why would anyone (except a commercial real estate investor, or an authoritarian senior manager) defend RTO mandates, given the data shown in this study?
And don't forget the never ending Sisyphean hell of trying to quickly jump to settings. Windows 7 NAILED this and 10 was mostly fine at it, but 11 has completely fucked the dog with this in particular, especially since all your PC's settings are now situated across three different locations, any of which can seemingly change things at the same time.
Thanks for the reply! I think I've figured out why I couldn't get any of the examples to run. I was using the debug build rather than the release build. Take sqrt.candy for example, it takes 26 seconds to compile (25s) and execute (1s) with the debug build, and only 1 second to compile and execute on the release build. This is on a Ryzen 7700X, one of the fastest single threaded CPUs.

Similarly, average.candy takes 24s to compile the 10 line program that only depends on Core and averages three numbers (1, 2, and 3). clock.candy takes 39s to compile and then panic. echo.candy takes 23 seconds before prompting and echoing the input. file.candy takes 26s before panicking, and so on. I never waited long enough to see any of the programs work. Thanks for pointing me at needing to use --release.

cargo run -- run ./packages/Examples/sqrt.candy 26.28s user 0.11s system 100% cpu 26.392 total
cargo run --release -- run ./packages/Examples/sqrt.candy 0.97s user 0.08s system 100% cpu 1.052 total
The most current iteration is very fond of that, yes.

But I was answering why people keep trying and failing to add the functionality long-before it was an ad space grab.
To last cca 10000 years, when there was exceptionally stable climate that allowed for reliable agriculture.

Sure, humans can survive without agriculture but not billions of them.
The actual text of the bill lays out exactly what is "reasonable"—any website affected by the terms of this bill must offer an anonymous age verification option, with very specific requirements including that they not retain PII after verification is complete:

> A third party conducting age verification pursuant to ss. 501.1736 and 501.1737:

> (a) May not retain personal identifying information used to verify age once the age of an account holder or a person seeking an account has been verified.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/er/PDF
They changed things to hide 'less common' actions when you right click. To disable that you need to hand edit a registry key.
Yeah, McSweeney’s digital platform is a satire blog.

The hard copies are great fiction & poetry though.
For full Disclosure, I once upon was a software engineer at Microsoft. I witnessed first hand the evil decisions around Windows. I left Microsoft in 2006 but I am still part of the Alumni Network.

IMO Microsoft can gain users back by:

* Not requiring a Microsoft Account
* Ending all data/telemetry collection
* Not forcing Edge on its users
* Stop releasing improved UI updates every week
* Make bash, zsh, ... native for Windows
* Taking the AI out and making it an optional extension
* Making the Microsoft Store optional

A *plus* would be to open source Windows.

I would be interested in hearing your pet peeves.
You're a power user unable to understand the needs of non-power users.

We all go through that stage, it's natural.

I once installed Linux on all my siblings' desktops because I had convinced my parents it would lead to "less viruses" (Fedora 13, I think, GNOME 2, those were the days). The nightmare of providing support for that over the rest of my high school years provided me with a powerful and important lesson.

You have few reasons to stick with Windows, you are a very, very tiny droplet in an ocean of users with different needs than you. Judging what such markets will do based on your personal needs is unwise.
> S3 launched in '06 and is coming up on 20 years of being a thing. At this point it's had a stronger/longer lifespan - and will likely continue to do so - than pretty much any of the old net hosting sites.

Many providers nowadays have existed long before S3, 1&1 (now know as ionos) are another.

So? My server has had just four years uptime that's not including all my other servers I've been hosting since the age of 13. I can service exactly the same as to what S3 can do. I just don't have £LOL fund where I can invest in providing back-end infrastructure like the corp can do.

I foresee it to likely continue to do so in to the future, I even have strategy plans for it when I pass away.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to hire some devs with you guys.
I have the opposite problem, but I hope sharing it helps you reflect on your future paths. I hope you don't dwell on the past - it was a learning period, and all that matters is tomorrow. For me, I only start projects that I have a clear vision of how they will end. My most successful projects were driven by a strong sense of what I wanted to achieve. I faced some challenges, but I quickly made a working prototype. I hate wasting time so much that I avoid taking on complex projects, which I'm sure limits my potential.
> The idea that, if it weren't for UNRWA, there would be no more refugees because they'd all have gone back home or been peacefully resettled elsewhere, is absurd

And yet this is exactly what the UNHCR does. A refugee settles, and they are no longer a refugee.

> To suggest that they are the ones creating the sitution

You're arguing against a strawman. The Arab war on Israel in 1948 created the refugee crisis. No one argued any different.

There is evidence that UNWRA is perpetuating the situatiyon, your personal incredulity notwithstanding. This is but a single example, but it is enough to demonstrate that they intentionally exacerbated it.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-textbooks-still-include-...
Where Did Humans Evolve? (Probably Not Where You're Thinking)
As he population has grown with the respect to the existence of recorded music less and leee people are encouraged to even make their own music than to play songs that are done by the best.

I can play the piano and I can done some improvisation but, everyone doesn’t care about my improv because I’m not good enough but frequently you will get famous song is asked to be played live.
> Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.

Very cool stuff!
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The search also used to find things.
Not anymore…
> "centralized blockchain" (which questions the need for such a structure to begin with).

I’ve seen centralized blockchains used to great effect in ledger contexts where the chain is not synced, but references (hashes) of the chain are shared externally (I.e. transaction ids).

If an external auditor has a set of transaction ids that have been communicated externally, they can later audit the centralized chain and prove it has not been tampered with without having to have the full log of blocks.
As someone who moved from google3 -> fbcode in the last few years, I think there are weird upsides AND downsides to having async code littered through your C++ (aka co_yield, co_return, co_await, etc).

The advantage, compared to the internal stuff google3 was using, was that as you read code, the async nature of various parts was obvious. Some programmers at G would spend entire quarters+ not knowing what the threading model was, and cause serious bugs in retrospect.

The disadvantage is actually much dumber - a lot of code "could" be async, and over time becomes entirely async because that's the mode the programmer is in when writing the program.

The choice to use a spinlock vs. a mutex w/yields should be one based on the size of the critical section and the threading going on at the time. Unfortunately to make code more readable/uniform/etc you end up with entire projects doing one or the other.

I'd love to learn more about language implementations of threading that do not default either way, but instead could take a profile of the previous run, and make the next run more optimal, without having to change the code or causing bugs.
> we routinely just don't want to know kids are abused it seems

Did you conclude that from the fact that there is a Wall Street Journal describing said corrupt practice?

This is a scandal. I hope people will go to prison (parents and costumers alike if what is described is true.) I hope Facebook develops better tools to prevent this from happening. If not I want people from Facebook to also go to prison.

Is this how “we routinely just don’t want to know” look like in your book?
Super excited to have you on Rudra!
You can still set this project down.

Even right now.

It does not seem to be providing any kind of satisfying outcome for you.

May be set it down.

And tell yourself you will consider revisiting it in 6 months or a year.
Living the "Average" Life
You're kind of missing the point, which is that they obviously are putting a lot of effort in (we're talking about changes they're making, not stagnation), and actively making things worse. And in doing so they're objectively losing customers. This isn't like the situation where they just stopped updating IE6. They're clearly investing in Windows and doing an AWFUL job. If I were an investor I would be calling for change in the Windows division.
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Except it didn't?
That went horribly wrong riddled with communication problems and unmaintainable projects.

I think the cultural clash was too strong, it was not uncommon to get your team in India lying to you about the state of a project, just because they were so hellbent on telling you only what you wanted to hear.

Eastern Europe is the current favourite in my circle.

There is a company I know who is doing outsourcing to India, but their management team was rotated after failing to deliver revenue multipliers and now they have managers with less than stellar resumes.
Everyone in the company knows the company is doomed and stay there only to collect a paycheck.
Race is genetic in the same way ROYGBIV is about wavelengths: wavelengths cause the different colours, but there's no real reason to say "this is red, but this is orange" - the wavelengths don't care how we categorise these things! In the same way, genetics certainly determines a lot about our appearances, but definitions of "black", "white", "Asian", "hispanic", etc are just categories that we humans have defined on top of a much more complex underlying structure.
I was deep in debt, liver was failing (swelling), got set up at work by a psycho who wanted a promotion, working thirteen to eighteen hours a day in abusive environment, had PTSD with night terrors, and other stuff was going on.

The sheer number of improbable events almost seemed like the universe itself was working against me. I felt a realization that I was paying for the evil choices I made. Asking God, if He’s real, for a sign about that led to me experiencing an actual miracle that turned my beliefs on their head. I professed Jesus Christ and everything changed. My PTSD and night terrors were cured, too.

The new foundation helped. Now, I know God made us to love Him first in a relationship, reflect His character, and love each other as ourselves. Our own evils toward God and each other incur His wrath. The very evils in the Bible that wrecked countries are what happen today. Yet, I know God loved us enough to take flesh as Jesus Christ, set a perfect example, die for our sins so we can be forgiven, and dwells in us. He has an eternal future of love, joy, and peace for all who follow Him. I put more on GetHisWord.com with proof.

With that foundation, I can answer your question. Those who truly believe in Christ receive God’s Spirit who grants an inner peace and joy that’s always there. We also know Rom. 8:28 says He works all things for our good. Our suffering builds character. Every good act toward God and others is rewarded later but often blessed now, too. We can also give people the Gospel, the gift we’re given, in our communities, work, etc. Then, they’re saved from wrath, receive God’s peace, and become instruments of His will.

Last year was one of my hardest. Yet, I definitely had more peace and purpose than many others with more material things. Also, God answers our prayers in specific, noticeable ways which are awesome to watch. He even healed one person’s kid we prayed for. I’m so grateful for this new life.
Similar market share too.
On Linux, since companies are paying for it now, Orca, the Linux GUI screen reader, is getting bug fixes on the main branch just about every day. Lol, if Windows loses even the loyal blind folks like me, I'll die laughing at Microsoft.
I even went and disabled web search in the registry and it still takes forever.

It's also terrible. "Fr" will find FreeCAD, the program I want. "Fre" pulls up "advanced system settings" because there's some subsection about free disk space. "Free" brings back FreeCAD.

Every single thing I do that involves any level of interaction with Windows has found some way of pissing me off.
Until there’s an embargo or…a blockade. There’s probably value in sacrificing some profit for a hedge.
It might sound trite but... It's all about the journey. If you're not enjoying the journey, try a different route.

I've been working on my "start-up" for over 10 years now and it's great fun! I'm sure there are loads of things that we could have done differently but I suspect that would have been less fun.
Tuning, Filtering and Switching helps Smartphones deal with 50 Frequencies
And if she would say something completely different about the climate you would also listen to her? Why is her opinion so important?
Chinese migrant to U.S. seeks religious asylum with visas out of reach
It won't be long until Nine Inch Nails starts playing at nursing homes.
I was a little disappointed not to see an "under construction" banner on any of the websites I surfed.
Lol. Amazon doesn’t care. This is pure PR. I bought a refurbished Nest Protect from them once. It had a giant “Certified Inspected by Amazon” sticker right in the box with a First Alert smoke detector nestled inside.

Amazon got conned and decided to pass it on to their customer.
McSweeney’s is a literary journal and most of their online content is well-crafted satire
You clearly don’t watch a lot of other countries anthems being sung.
N=1, I've definitely tried to work in coffee shops during the christmas period that played the same obnoxious christmas songs on a loop to drive the customers out.
Yep, locally installed programs sometimes don't even show up anymore when I press WinKey + <string> because whatever ad server they're running on the backend doesn't respond and it hangs the search.
The Free Software and Open Source ecosystems are, at their best, about communities putting together projects to serve their own needs and then generously sharing those solutions out.

I think an easily discoverable UI for non-technical people is not a problem that many technical communities have. Anyone who does try to start that project is signing themselves up for a lot of complaints from outside the project, almost by definition. I don’t really see why anyone would do it.

The Chromebook is probably the right way to go. I’d recommend them to my non-technical friends if they weren’t designed by an ad company. As it is, I have no idea, there legitimately doesn’t seem to be a good desktop OS for non-technical users anymore.
Person of race A and race B have two children. People tend to think child 1 is race A, people tend to think child 2 is mixed race AB. In the social sense, it could be said that child 1's race is race A, even though genetically it's probably more like AB.

Another common situation: People of race A think child 2 is race B, people of race B think child 2 is race A. And you can imagine more complex examples with more races and more generations. In this manner the categorization of race is primarily social.