skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Credit cards, from nearly their inception, have been widely promoted to be used when travelling.

Sure, many of them might be "promoted" for travel (never mind you not providing any citations or statistics for this statement). The vast majority of people probably can't afford the money or vacation time to travel internationally more than once, maybe twice per year (at least in the United States, where most destinations require going overseas).

Nobody is attacking you, no need to take this so personally. The point was that the reason they still give you the rewards that the EU's lower processing fees can't fund is possibly because they're making enough extra from the customers not doing what you're doing to fund it. That's all.
I read several pages of clickbaity fluff that repeatedly told me it was going to tell me eventually about Eisenhowers method but didn't.

Then I closed the tab.

Please do not boost articles like this.
Relevant,

> Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely. Microsoft will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 users, with pricing starting at $61 for the first year.

> The details and pricing structure outlined in this post apply to commercial organizations only. Details will be shared at a later date for consumers on our consumer end of support page. Educational organizations can find tailored information about Windows 10 end of support in the Microsoft Education Blog.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120093/microsoft-windows...

[1]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/w...
I still remember when they used to say "we called it Windows 10 because it will be the last version of Windows"...
Any other engineers trying to improve their writing skills? Any additional resources or tips to help me refine my drafting and editing process?
OpenUI let's you describe UI using your imagination, then see it rendered live
A random state government department has no "business needs" that require custom IPv4 routing technology that isn't supported by the two biggest public clouds. Any such need is imagined, or an outright error.

In this particular case they were sold a product that serves one purpose: multi-cloud solutions across international boundaries where no single telco can connect all of the data centre locations.

Their handful of locations are all in one city and well-connected by multiple telcos because... they're a state government, not a multi-national corporation. They're blocked by the constitution from expanding inter-state, let alone internationally. That would be a literal act of war.

That didn't stop the vendor's sales team showing slides with titles like: "What if you need to expand into the Chinese market?".
if you run network analysis you can at least see how much data flows between that device from the router level (and also keeps your personal stuff segregated from work stuff, regardless of any software on business machine). it also keeps your nice centrally managed work system from inadvertently accessing your own personal systems; i dont want my work apple/ms sending all the network-spam to my personal stuff and vice versa.
Also think of solar winds and such, if your work system is compromised by a supply chain attack (seeing they are higher targets), you also dont want your other devices at home to be on the radar to be compromised too
I don't see any documentation at all, like what browsers are supported, etc. :/
I've seen it in Python. Not in Rust, because I haven't worked with Rust.
Again, I see nothing wrong with that.

The show to me is still holding up to people who don't need to insta-judge characters which do not align to their own values.

For me it's a really interesting story on an aspect of society (in this case Japanese) which is not sugar coated or "happily-ever-aftered". People have their faults and positive sides.

I love that at the end things are not better, they are just different. Characters have gone through events and come out of it different.

I just love the feeling of helplessness many of the characters have, while still trying to do something, anything. That's life for some and it's ok. The worst is not doing anything at all.
As usual, LTSC is the answer.
It's a shame really. I find the big software world so strange now, back in the day companies were really concerned with keeping their user base happy - I wonder why things have gotten to the point where this no longer seems to hold true. Is it because of a lack of alternatives? Or people are being trained to just accept it rather than pushing back?
New Conflicts in Literature Extended
These days they tend to work very well, and if you're rich you can even redirect a spare GPU with a screen directly.
Your math may well be correct but I can't follow it without a spreadsheet, so let's do a simpler example with two different appreciation scenarios.

Scenario A: I buy a $100k house with $50k down and a $50k mortgage. House prices don't change. I sell the house, then buy another $100k house. I'm still at $50k in equity and I still owe the bank $50k.

Scenario B: same as scenario A, but this time, all home prices double, including mine. I sell for $200k and now have $150k, which I use to buy another $200k house. I now have $150k equity, but I still owe the bank $50k.

In Scenario B I'm better off than someone who didn't buy the house before prices went up -- a fact that should surprise no one -- but I'm not necessarily better off than I would have been if prices hadn't doubled at all. I still owe the bank $50k in both scenarios. The housing price appreciation hasn't actually helped my finances unless I sell the house or use it as collateral for loans, neither of which I am interested in doing. Because I own the house to live in it, not to use it for financial engineering or speculation.
In Qubes, the networking can be disabled in the hypervisor. This will turn the VM into an air gapped machine.

There is also split GPG, to transfer encrypted data to a VM containing Gpg keys.

But the ease of use could also mean that the user turns on and off the networking, bringing an air gapped VM sometimes online.

There is a need for a permanent one way VM.
I would assume that the relaying can strip the request from identifying information such as IP, cookies and other tracking mechanisms that you get when visiting e.g. google.com.
Interesting, I was also able to exit the simulation and saw the same files and file structure.
If I was their security team, I would be fine with them publishing articles about our security set up - as long as it wasn't 100% accurate.

Possibly mention a specific virtualization system, and then run a honeypot version of the above to try and catch directed attacks at it while actually relying on a totally different system...
> given what constraint 2 says the level is actually a team level, not a player level.

Then it's bad unnormalized data design that is the problem here. If that is a team level, it should be in the team table, not the player table.
I recall reading that the interference could easily be cancelled out by professional and institutional researchers using known data on the satellite’s location.

Not sure if that’s still the case several years later, or if it was just a deliberately crafted press release.
None. I know nothing about the Big Rip. Judging from the (brief) talk page, the article doesn't get a lot of love from editors.
I wish we weren't using "lobotomy" to describe "training".

Do we even have AI with lobes to remove at this point? Would MoE even get close to that kind of analogy? (I lean towards "no, not even that").
The operating surplus is net of paying staff. If they increased their pay, wouldn’t it be lower?
> It would be funny if you just lectured all of us about what you think the woman was saying in an article that mentions men interpreting women stories.

This isn't the clever retort you think it is, it is pure unadulterated sexism and it proves my point: you are brushing off my opinion based exclusively on my gender, just like the author.

So, thank you for proving me right. I rest my case.
> I wish I was morally bankrupt enough to be a productivity guru. I could, like, charge $50k to stand behind a podium in a hotel ballroom and spout nonsense at desperate people in an attempt to get them to buy my book and planners. It would be awesome.

Of course it’s your morals, and not that nobody in the whole world cares what “snakeyjake” wants to say about productivity.
Powerline inspection and maintenance are the primary use cases for this technology. And at least this particular system is in the early spinout process via https://www.ongrid.tech/
A game like mario cart should have two modes. Party mode, where everybody is playing on the same terms. Expert mode, where macro plays a bigger role.

Even during parties, the properties of choosing different characters do make the game more dynamic which in the end means more fun. What sucks is when one of the players have spent the whole week before plugging all the numbers into Excel and knows how beat everyone else optimally. But where do you draw the line? Is this more unfair than practicing driving one track a whole week?

One have to accept that games can not be always fair. Same thing in sports, try playing tennis vs someone who has competed before, a casual player will not stand a chance to even hit a single ball, even if you give the pro a much worse racket.

Balancing a game to allow casual and pro players to compete on equal terms is extremely difficult and can often backfire into making the game extremely trivial, only depending on roll of dice. Knowing if you are playing an excel-game or a reflex-game should be presented clearly to makes things a bit more fair.
The contempt of court charge he was convicted of was for disobeying a court injunction to stop "ordering, directing, aiding, assisting, or abetting" the strikes, which had since turned increasingly violent and riotous! That is extremely noteworthy in a time when the courts were much more judicious, and Debs had the clout, influence, and connections expected of a high profile man and former state Congressman! Even overtly violent criminals like Al Capone were never able to be convicted of anything even indirectly related to violence.

Also, I did not misspeak when I said locomotive. The rioters, after setting fire to buildings, did literally derail the entire locomotive. And this locomotive had a US mail car. Again you pay too much attention to words. You're completely right that the Union said they didn't object to anything except Pullman cars. They would have also said they don't support setting buildings on fire. Yet, a brief meeting with Debs and off goes his followers to set buildings on fire, derail entire locomotives - including those carrying US mail, and partaking in general hooliganism. This is yet more evidence of why words are utterly irrelevant.
Can you give more details regarding what IDE features you have in mind? I agree that java/c# people not knowing how to use the command line is bad (because they only know how to click "build project" etc) but IDE features such as LSP, compiler error messages as you type, intelligent completion, variable renaming, etc I think are essential tools.
Of all Windows versions Win10 has 69% market share, even gained 3% this year
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d...

Let's see how it goes
Standards compliant PDF seems pretty good.

I really like just regular old GitHub flavored markdown though. I doubt ZIP files are going anywhere anytime soon, put your markdown and images in there.

And the open document stuff is all standardized and probably not going away either.
In Qubes, the networking can be disabled in the hypervisor. This will turn the VM into an air gapped machine.

That is not an air gap.
I don't know what to tell you. Look at the git codebase, they downright ban any usage of the strcpy family, going so far as to hide them under macros so people can't use them.

Banning them outright is not possible in old codebases before the internet got really popular and people were pointing out how bad these functions were, but they sure could stop using them in any new code written in that codebase. That's what code review is for.

Any C code written after 2010 has absolutely no excuse to use these functions. They are inefficient, unsafe and more annoying to use than a strbuf implementation that takes half an hour to write.

So why have people continued to use them?

Option a) they were already there, the codebase is over 30 years old, and replacing the code entirely would be too much work. This is a valid reason.

Option b) ignorance, they don't know how to write a strbuf type. This one is downright impossible, any C dev knows how to do it, and like I said, literally every other language does it the same way.

Option c) laziness. This is for me the only real reason. As awful as these functions are, they're in the stdlib. You still see people saying "simple usages of strncpy are fine". They are not fine.

If you can think of an option d) I'd love to know, because I honestly can't think of anything else. Note that interfacing with existing 30 year old codebases does not count, as how you internally manipulate strings has no bearing on that, all you need to ensure is the 0 terminator at the end.

You get a mutable char* from the old function. You shove it in a struct strbuf {size_t capacity, size_t length, char* data}. Done.

You get a constant char* from the old function. You call strlen followed by malloc and memcpy into a new buffer for the strbuf. Or if you don't need to actually mutate the string, you store it in a non-zero terminated struct strview {size_t length; char* data}.

So what is the challenge here? Why is usage of strcpy not banned in any codebase less than 20 years old?
Businesses tend to distribute their profits to shareholders, either through dividends or buybacks. Boards try to structure the way businesses are governed to align the interests of management with those of shareholders. But Harvard has no shareholders, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to suggest.
Idk to me this looks like a modeling issue of the data. There should be a team table that contains team specific data such as the skill level, then these two queries wouldn't run into any problems.
Ask HN: Future of Online Education?
It seems the MOOC hype already faded. And I don’t see a lot of interest in this space recently.

What do you think is the future of online education?

Any recent innovations worth mentioning?

And most importantly, better ways to help learners to grow their knowledge?

I work for an e-learning company which is in a slow decline and want to do something with it.

Thanks all!
Recently I've gotten into using a rather large amount.

The most important for me is ruff, especially on personal projects with no CI.

Yelp's secrets scanner is nice. I use texthooks to block smart quotes, I block tabs, bad yaml and JSON syntax, and I use a regex to check that the string "-e " doesn't appear in requirements.txt.

I block git conflict markers and a few other trivial things.

I would use liccheck, but it has issues with detecting conflicts that don't exist in system site packages venvs.

I could see using a SPDX license header checker too.
Consider contacting 'Makers Muse' on youtube - I suspect he'd love to review it fairly.
Apple did the same with Mac OS X, they stuck with it for 16 releases. Then Big Sur came out as MacOS 11.
Ultimately it seems that everyone loses - the Redis project slowly fades, nobody can use its code on open-source projects any more, and AWS continues on unaffected by the change.
How does licensing work for this if I want to use it commercially?
I don’t find anything offensive about carefully considering how to do good, or taking a longer term view of humanity.

I think the thing that is irritating about EA is that it often feels like this generation’s ‘post-colonial guilt’. Many people with the privilege to act on their EA sentiments are the beneficiaries of financial inequality, either via inheritance or VC froth, and can afford to absorb the risks.

To be honest, EA feels like church without the beardy cloud man, and IMO is a better use of the philosophy brain-trust than metaphysics, so I have no desire to see it fail. The cultish part is more a Silicon Valley thing than an EA thing.
When I'm forced to use win, I use literally nothing else.

I found it a bit of a pain to upgrade sometimes but boy it's stable!
Thanks a lot! I expected the samples to be hard to understand, but this is absolutely mind blowing.

Any sighted around here who managed to improve their ability to understand fast speech?
> It's not "don't use X" it's "don't use X without understanding its limitations and without knowing when you should vs shouldn't use it". There's a nuance here and that nuance is in the manual.

That's what I was saying. "Don't use X" is same as "Don't use Z when Y and Q" if X is "Z when Y and Q ".

Also that's not how people work. People want to get shit done. They don't care about Git or X or RTFM or Wayland or
whatever. Their mental model needs to be close to how Git behaves. Not the other way around.

> having a dependency that they don't intend on ever modifying other than updating which version it points to), you shouldn't use them and should use a build system's dep manager.

Great idea, except that's not how people use it in the wild. Manual is great in theory (like if you and ten of your buddies write code). Not in practice, where millions use it.

First, not all language have build managers nor do people even talented devs use it as instructed.

Know what would make it easier? Either having submodules working in all cases, or not having it at all.

> Thank god the manual covers that (chapter: advanced merges).

That's not the point. If you have 10sec and you are doing a cherry pick what is ours/theirs?

No manual available.

In practice people don't read manual to do X, they have preconceptions/ mental models how Git works and consult manual when things go pear shaped.

> Subtree is contributed software

I don't think you'll find two people doing non-Git programming that care about that factum.
> I didn’t say it is a degraded experience. It’s just different.

Not for you, maybe, but adding extra steps to a task is a degradation for many people.

For most people, the extra 30m involved in renting a Tesla from Hertz vs a regular ICE car is an objective degradation in experience!

Hertz could have reduced the degradation by ensuring that all the Teslas left their lot fully charged. They could have allowed returns to be 50% charged.

They could have done lots of things to make the experience similar to an ICE car. They didn't.
Yes, I've been contributing for two decades as a drive-by editor. I'm occasionally reverted; I suck it up, I don't own these articles. I don't get into fights. I avoid editing articles about politics, especially about nationalist hot buttons. I also move gingerly around some history articles, which are often patrolled by fanatical revisionists.

I don't get nightmares.
It may not be real saffron, there have been cases where people sell fake saffron, not sure what they use instead of the real thing but it can happen.
The same reason Dyson also announced and then killed plans to make a car.

Making cars is hard, the competition has been perfecting it for 100 years. But on the surface it seems easy or at least just as hard as making laptops or vacuum cleaners.

Newcomers are the least likely to nail production and final assembly line quality to actually get good cars out of the door. It was extremely painful and expensive for Tesla to achieve over a decade. (And their body geometry quality is still shoddy)

So when a consumer product maker announces they are going to start building cars it just doesn’t align too well with their core competencies.

Cars are hard and variable to assemble, bigger than a macbook or a dyson hoover.

and the auto maker supply chain is hard to navigate. The reality is many components are made by OEM’s and even Apple can’t exactly dominate every key auto supplier to nail their specific requirements. Dyson being smaller had no chance. So you need people on the assembly line and as Tesla learned that comes with calls for pesky Unions and such.

Then there’s the PR if your car does something bad like a battery pack setting on fire or something.

Likely Dyson ran out of will and money,

and Apple decided it wasn’t worth building up an entire company of designers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supply chain people, sales force, dealerships/ service centres / replacement parts centres etc. not to mention manufacturing engineers, operations engineers, factory space, factory plant equipment, and people to run it all.
My first thought as well. But unless they have went too overboard and published a nature paper[1] just for fun, it seems legit.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47073-2
What is this scam as* website
Did they write it like What in tarnation is going on in the Big Apple?
I wonder if this could be classified as an environmental crime? Microsoft are forcing to e-waste a considerable percentage of the world's computing devices, and forcing new devices to be built and consumed.

And for no reason other than to force people onto Windows 11.

Corporations MUST be held responsible for these actions. If not at the legal level then there must be divestment of Microsoft shares by investment groups.
Yes LTSC is the way!

Supported until 2027 or 2032 with the IoT version. I use the IoT LTSC as a daily driver for everything and it’s perfect

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...
I was surprised to read "Employing this strategy, the researchers measured glucose concentrations as small as a few millionths of a mole" in an article published on an NIST website.

I fear that they, like so many organizations, must employ non-experts to interview experts and write stories. But getting the unit of concentration wrong? (Later in the sentence they do note that moles refer to quantity, not concentrations, so the whole sentence is self-contradictory.)

This problem is so common I think it might make sense to suggest a common solution. Perhaps an organization specializing in X ought to hire one member of the writing team who has a degree in X, to look over material before it goes out to the world. Or at least pay one of the experts on a per-case basis, say a day of salary for a half hour of work, to go over material before it is published.
I think there’s been research regarding the supposed “J-curve” for alcohol consumption — essentially, the original research that led to the idea of moderate consumption being better than none failed to differentiate between people who have never had alcohol, and those who stopped drinking due to health conditions. I wouldn’t be surprised if this “couples drinking together” also has a similar bias.
Using random boolean networks in compression
I wasn't able to figure it out. The docs [1] have absolutely no information or overview on how the tool works, or how you should get started with creating a simple installer. Besides setup instructions, it only has details on individual sub components, beginning with with "Burn bundles". All linked tutorials are for previous versions of WiX. Is the expected workflow that I read a v3 tutorial and then read the "v4 for v3 users" article (which immediately leaves me discouraged with "A lot about WiX has changed between v3 and v4"), or that I immediately purchase enterprise support?

[1]: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/