skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got myself an HP 200LX and it's pretty nostalgic. I've installed a bunch of DOS development tools on it. I have a 256MB compact flash card which is 10x larger than the harddrive in my first PC.

I have other palmtops and PDAs but the DOS based ones are special because they run the same software as full sized PCs. This is unlike Windows CE devices (I have HP 660LX) and Palm devices (I have an m105) that have to have software specifically written for them.

Even the Atari Portfolio -- which is only superficially PC compatible -- can at least be developed for using the same tools you'd use for a full-sized DOS PC.
Show HN: I made a site that creates Wikipedia articles using AI
They said "strong focus" which implies there is a spectrum of focus and that everything falls on that spectrum of focus. I disagree that any amount of focus precludes any focus on something else, especially in this context.

On second thought, a camera can only focus on one field. So it would make sense if our language only allowed one focus. But what if we had multiple cameras? Or multiple teams or engineers designing a bridge?

Have we gone too far? lol
When everyone was coming to work sick during flu season, I worked from home for a month or two. If they weren’t going to be responsible, I wasn’t going to subject myself to it.
I saw their plane land in El Segundo a few years ago and it blew my mind they flew in a 747 or whatever that jumbo sized plane was. Killer zombie graphic on the outside though
I was part of a large team doing an extremely critical database migration off-hours, we were all planning on gathering on a slack channel, everything was over SSH on AWS anyway.

The SRE working with us with decided to go to Hawaii. For purely practical reasons, mind you, since it's 2 hours behind Pacific time. On his own dime, but makes a 11pm maintenance much more tolerable, I'm told by those with some direct experience. Everything went perfectly smoothly, and I believe he went surfing the next morning.
I have worked at several employers (schools) that ignored qualified American citizens while claiming they could not find qualified people and tried to bring workers in on a H1 Vida or hire someone already here on a H1 Visa.

Is it legal to import someone on a H1 Visa while ignoring qualified American citizens who applied for the job?

Is it legal to hire someone already here on a H1 Visa while ignoring qualified American citizens who applied for the job?
It’s just so… cheap and tacky.
This is easier to turn off than the ads on the Ubuntu motd. The histrionics are weird.
Uh yeah. When after the election you go to public events and brag about the fact that the court defeated Bolsonarism and that if Lula is in the presidency today it's due to the court's decisions, it becomes essentially impossible to claim that you are not biased. I remember one of them even bragged about how he's proud to be partidarian in complete defiance of common sense.
Is still not Full Self Driving so maybe shouldn’t be sold as such?
> texting on the old mobile phones

Was this in the T9 days or before then? (I wish the archivist had added metadata to the ad, which seemed to capitalize on similar spelled fish products(?).)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

I wonder what it was like for the two communications to Henson:

* Hey Jim, we called this computer file transfer protocol after Kermit, is that ok?

* Dear Henson Production Lawyers, we wish to engange in an IP partnership...
Eventually, you will have to charge it.
Maybe it's fraud? The user claims to be reading an article via a facebook reference but in fact does not use facebook.

Hard to see how to police that from the web site's perspective though.

To be clear I'm not advocating for anything here.
Signals. I spent 2 years to understand this part [video]
Same. I used to pay for many (YouTube, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, Twitch, Paramount, Disney, Crunchyroll, Netflix, probably some I'm forgetting) but now I'm just down to YouTube. The rest all managed to do a worse job of conveniently delivering content I want in a convenient and easy to use way than pirating but YouTube has a good selection of content I want in the easiest way to find it, has no trouble delivering said content across all my devices (even 8k HDR in a web browser), lets me manually select the quality, and isn't outrageous for the content hours/month I get from it.

YouTube TV is a bit of a joke though.
this is basically the "computer scientist" view of the world in https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23, especially the Monolith bit. spoofing UA could be legal in general or when done for interoperability but illegal when done with intent to bypass access control.
I feel like 9p is a better competitor in this space, and I've actually heard of people using it (e.g. the Windows Subsystem for Linux mounts host filesystems this way and so does Crostini, the ChromeOS equivalent).
Well . . . maybe literature began orally but was experienced through some kind of group "individual imagination."

And maybe today it's transmitted (when not by computer) in dead-tree tomes but, again maybe, the transmission is not the thing. Maybe the play is the thing. Or the story is. Whatever.

For blind people, non-sequential events and non-serial stories exist. In fact, just like unfortunately distractedly-sighted people, that's most of real life. I realize seeing all sorts of ADHD stimuli might lead you to think you're "more aware," but everyone has an ability to process reality, which happens in real time simultaneously in many places at once.
Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...)
The answer is no, Israel is not afraid if Iran. It is simple math.
> And yeah, sure, some folks will respond with "but go isn't OO", but that's silly. Modelling polymorphic behavior across different data-bearing objects which can be addressed as implementations of the same abstract type quacks, very loudly, like a duck in this case.

It's less "this is not OO" and more this is not inheritance, which is why a lot of people are saying you can find more elegant solutions (like this) rather than use inheritance for no clear benefit.
The Kagi T-shirts don't say "Kagi" on them [1], so that won't happen.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k
> you can't make it big (think the equivalent of Stripe in the US)

Hehe. We might be 2nd or 3rd degree connects. Are they that fintech HQed near the crescent mall?

> The system is pretty much set up to require a back channel to the people in the government who can make or break a company

Exactly. Welcome to "emerging markets"

> when you're talking about the companies raising $100M USD in a round, it starts to matter a lot

Lower rounds too. Big reason I got spooked by the VN scene. It's exactly the same kinda shit you'd deal with in China, India, or Indonesia, but way less RoI.

Kinda sad honestly, there is a lot of talent, but leadership and policymakers there don't have the breadth needed to make the next Thailand or Malaysia (despite having the right fundamentals).

If they can attract the successful 2nd and 3rd gen Viet Kieus in the US, Canada, and Australia (the Harvard, UCLA, UNSW, UToronto grads) at the policy level, I think there is a lot of potential.
1) There are lots of reasons to avoid Github and they are all spelled Microsoft.

2) Putting something on Gitlab means that there is one level of activation energy between idiots trying to pad out some corporate "social goodwill" number by "fixing" things on your project.

If I ever had to open-source anything, I would host it somewhere else and mirror a read-only repo to github.
> On the whole they may be better built, but the same design in steel would likely not have failed?

I don't see how that follows? Lots of steel bridges have failed over the past 130 years. The overwhelming majority of new-built bridges or any material don't fail.

People really, really want this to be about "aesthetics" because it confirms their priors about being smarter than the rest of the world or whatever. I'm just saying that's 100% bunk and that there's zero evidence for that hypothesis.

Architecture has had a "strong focus on aesthetics" since the very first stones were piled up to make a temple. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
They aren't ads like ads.

They are promoted apps from the Microsoft store.
> you DO have to suspend your ordinary work duties for the duration of the visit.

Good luck convincing the average corporate boss of this plan
That’s a leap. Microsoft makes plenty of things that aren’t Windows. And let’s not conflate “literally no reason to use” with “literally no alternative for”. Microsoft is big. There are pockets that deliver value to people.

But, to be clear, I’ve not willingly used Windows since 2008.
I don't know whether I find it more crazy that editing a save file is a criminal offence in Japan, or that people will pay $30-$85 for the service.
At least now there are options that mean there's almost no reason one would ever use Windows.

I'm more worried about these practices infesting the next round of software, currently on track to be AI tools. Microsoft's behavior needs to be a cautionary example of why open source alternatives and variety generally are so important, and we need to reject regulations and corporate maneuvering that would prevent real variety in whatever is next. Companies like microsoft have learned their lesson about not taking open source seriously and not locking in their customers enough, and they are working hard to fix their mistakes for the next time around.
> Composition implies a level of complexity

How?
When you book a US flight ticket there’s a $5 fee for the hassle of getting you through airport security. If you allowed anyone to get into the secure area you would have to charge people that fee to make it back.

Although some US airports do some version of this where you go to a desk on the insecure side of the airport and you register your ID and then you can get through security without a boarding pass so you can go to the shops and spend money there and pay for expensive airport parking. Probably a good opportunity for planespotters
I wouldn't say it's a downgrade, but I had to run Windhawk and other mods just to make sure the start menu doesn't look like a phone's app drawer.
We could just implement a DT_NEEDED_WEAK already instead of using these awful hacks.
Do you know any proles and how they think? For the most part, they don’t expect to become rich themselves some day. Rather, they have low confidence in the ability of government to improve anything, and high confidence that the government will make life harder for small business owners, or cause inflation, or other things that affect them.

Again, circle back to my plumber. He pays enough taxes to care what the government does with the money. And he’s quite reasonably persuaded that whatever the government does won’t help him, but will probably make his life harder.
You know, after a certain point black pill rhetoric just becomes inane and boring. "The system is bad, so just give up and do nothing." yaaaawn get up off your ass and do something instead.
Err... most things. Furniture for example.
Working 90 minutes from home, each way…
Off-topic since I'm not a gamer - I checked out your website and it reminds me of early 2000s when these sort of cool websites were popular. Nicely done! Just one nit though - shouldn't News and Privacy rooms be swapped tho? =)
> Maybe a lot of the WFH opposition is really just managers projecting their own work ethic onto others?

That might be. But it more likely they are traditional managers or leaders and don't want to learn how to navigate WFH team members (i.e., work in the 21st Century). It's not as simple as just-add Zoom or just-add Slack.

Thinking WFH is going away is like saying "The Internet... It's just a fad." We've been to this rodeo before. Managers and leaders who are in denial - and unwilling to learn new teicks - aren't worthy of their current role.
My wife has one day a week team office day that they try to keep free from meetings so they can touch base, spend time with the team, and, often, plan a happy-hour event afterwards. It's not quite as flexible as full on remote working, since, yes, we have to be in the same region, but it saves a lot of commute time, gives more flexibility for things like doctors/dentists appointments, would theoretically let her do laundry/dishes relatively easily (I mostly do them), and we could reasonably live a fair amount further away since the commute is only one day a week.

That seems like a noticeable benefit to me.
Switched to nixOS long ago. Haven’t looked back. Use windows in VM for occasional gaming.
> Microsoft is seeking feedback on the changes, so it’s possible the company could decide to ditch these ads in development builds of Windows 11 if there’s enough feedback that suggests they’re not going to be a popular addition.

Just Say No.

Windows leadership recently changed for the better. Hopefully these misguided ads are a vestige of the outgoing leader, who previously lead consumer advertising, but has now been pushed out. Microsoft has a once-in-a-generation opportunity with Arm laptops based on Qualcomm/Nuvia (ex-Apple), this is not the time to squander that opportunity with distractions like advertising.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114362/microsoft-window...

After Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay departed Microsoft last year, the software giant quickly split his two divisions into two different teams. It was a move designed to push Windows engineers to focus on more web and AI features under Mikhail Parakhin, who was previously responsible for Bing and ads. It didn’t work out. Six months after that shake-up, Windows and Surface are back together under a new leader, following frustrations from the very top of Microsoft..

Parakhin was responsible for Microsoft’s reborn advertising business and all of the company’s ad-based consumer businesses.. the web experiences team that Parakhin led had a different culture from the rest of Microsoft that often resulted in micromanaging and “insane deadlines” for projects.. The Windows and Web Experiences (WWE) team that Parakhin briefly oversaw also developed the malware-like Bing pop-ups we’ve seen appear in Windows recently..

The new Windows and Surface chief, Davuluri, is experienced when it comes to the combination of hardware and software that Microsoft needs to get right in this new era of AI. Davuluri has worked at Microsoft for more than 23 years and has been at the heart of Surface engineering. He was deeply involved in the company’s work with Qualcomm and AMD to create custom Surface processors.
Yeah, however, the problem with breaking laws around immigration in a place you like is that you won't have to do much to become ineligible for the convenient visa options. As in, get caught by immigration working on a tourist visa, get no tourist visa approved for the next 10~20 years. If you get a visa at all, that is, though I understand merely violating conditions, not breaking normal laws or overstaying has no good reason to get you banned from entry itself.
Oh don't worry, Microsoft has tons of ads in Windows 10... for Windows 11:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127497/microsoft-window...
Knock yourself out buddy: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/adderall-stimulants-and-...
If I’m not mistaken, it’s illegal in the US to place advertisements alongside content without distinguishing them. I don’t see a marker in the screenshot; is this simply a problem with the beta?
Which is why it’s just as absurd to say “remote work is superior”. Just don’t try saying that to anyone here.
I also used Google Sheets as a datastore backend: https://github.com/adam-p/danforth-east

It's a community association membership management thing, and I wanted the (non-technical) association board members to be able to easily inspect the data and do something useful with it if I moved away. It has mostly been successful, except that sometimes someone will manually edit the sheet and break something.
Since short term rentals are not housing (remember, they are “hotels” in our analysis) taking substantial numbers of them and converting them (back) into housing is conceptually identical to building housing.
Would this approach be possible to extend downmarket, to older consumer cards? For a lot of LLM use cases we're constrained by memory and can tolerate lower compute speeds so long as there's no swapping. ELI5, what would prevent a hundred 1060-level cards from being used together?
I was certain I’d find an April 1st publication date but holy cow that’s real. What a waste of public resources.
Do elderly people find that hard? My parents haven't had any trouble with it.
Yes, but we’re talking about one person here. She’s not speaking for all people or organisations. She’s speaking for herself and her own experience.
"Saudi Arabia" is not an ethnic group. I don't hate Arabs. I hate the state called "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" and its rulers. If anything, Arabs are among the victims of this state.
> It’s a complete 360 on their stance last year,

whoops. who’s reading these before pressing publish in wordpress?
The later structures are suggested to be funerary. The oldest one (with the lobes) is unknown. From the aerial photo, it seems they haven't dug the interior.

They mention a gravel layer in the ditch which suggests a palisade. I'm not quite sure how they get there (I don't see the actual report), but presumably they have some basis. As a fenced enclosure, it seems to small for livestock, but perhaps a fortified homestead.
Screws have different thread and pitch sizes. An app won't read that correctly. You can get a tool to measure the size/thread/pitch. I have containers with lots of slots and I label each slot, so I have many dozens of types of metric/imperial screws sorted.

It's actually hundreds of screws, bolts, and nuts, I did the sorting as a relaxing week while watching some shows :D
The website is something else! https://something.pink/. It is really fun to use. Privacy being the bathroom is funny!
I have yet to see one.

Not saying Apple isn’t vulnerable to the siren song if the ad industry and its relentless drive to ruin everything, but MS is quite far gone.
>> We ate boxed macaroni-and-cheese and canned baked beans, alternating every other day

I still eat boxed macaroni-and-cheese a few times a month :)

Although it's gluten free and I put some bacon bits in it. Fancy!
There’s an ancient craftsman trick. A pointy woodscrew can fit any type of hole, whether it fits or not :)
> A lot of young men are single, a study from the Pew Research Center found last year. More than 60% of men under 30 described themselves as unattached in a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center; Whitney referred to this analysis in her thinking.

Is a partial analysis of “men only” useful here? Surely there is a symmetry with young women. What are they up to? If 60% of the men of this age cohort are unattached, what are the women of this cohort attached to? 60 is too big a proportion to ignore.
I remember a coworker that would go to a closed office 5/5 days in middle the covid discouragement + ban (managed to find a way to get access from some manager) just to get away from his wife, his children are grown up (18+).

I was so full of questions those 2 years we worked in the same office but couldn't really ask without it being touchy.
A back door in the same library is not likely. It drew attention and many looked into it.

What could be done to prevent supply chain attacks more broadly?
The article calls them ads, but in the linked blog post Microsoft only calls them "recommended apps". There's a difference between the two, and the latter doesn't have to be marked as sponsored if Microsoft is coming up with the recommendation themselves.
I thought power was the point and cruelty what the way of exerting power - at least that's roughly my memory of O'Brien's explanation. That's why I think it aligns so well with any bureaucracy, because they're all self-organizing towards gaining and exerpting more power for it's own sake. (The big difference of course being the conscious awareness of this the party has, whereas in real life it's mostly just emergent behavior)
Do you refer clients to another firm or attorney for setting up entities and advising on tax planning for sponsoring an E-3 visa?
Why shouldn’t someone be free to modify their purchased, owned product to their hearts content, including paying others for modifications?
Na, I'm saying they literally can't do the thing you want them to.

But let's use a reference on ethics a little more sophisticated than a poker player: Immanel Kant. Would this strategy still be a good idea if everyone did it?

Clearly not. Setting aside how few people can hide in one water closet, if nobody pays for tickets there won't be an airplane to hide on. Frankly, anyone encouraging this behavior is suspect and reflects poorly on the HN community, which is likely why your post is being greyed out.
Mint is the easiest to transition to. I install that on all my elderly family's machines. Makes troubleshooting much easier.

On my personal machine, I did just switch back to Windows last year. While gaming in Linux has come quite a way, there were just too many games that are still incompatible.
A lot of OOP syntax has that exact problem because you don't use a fully-qualified method name. That's actually an upside of a janky C pseudo-OOP patterns. You have to call a function, that function has one name, one way of being called. So you can usually find all the call sites with grep (modulo macro explanations or something).

I could imagine a syntax that made you specify the protocol at the call site, e.g. for an object Foo that conforms to protocol Bar with method baz, you'd have to write obj->Bar->baz() as opposed to just obj->baz(). Or alternatively, Foo->Bar->baz(obj) if you want to make any given call site discoverable.
2 of 5 days? Or 2 of 4? If your company went to the 4 day week, would you still prefer 2 days?
https://archive.is/taF2J
What an incredible coincidence that they introduce ads in the official start menu around the same time that they begin blocking third party start menu replacements.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-even-more-custo...

They do have some legitimate reason to want to block specific versions of those apps if they cause stability issues on a new build of Windows, but at least in the case of StartAllBack the developer noted it isn't targeted at a specific version this time, it's a wildcard block.

https://twitter.com/StartIsBack/status/1776555154701205877
It'll only truly be great if it has a slick, integrated, functional WINE/Proton/whatever experience out of the box.
If your email is Google based , chances are your company already have plenty of its data on Googles services.
The south has above average inmigration, and below average outmigration.

So, probably you and your peers like you would never move there, but a ton of people are moving there:

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/state-to-stat...
> I have yet to see one.

I find it hard to believe you dodged the App Store ads.
It’s been like this for a long time. I’ll never understand why businesses would use this garbage os. Even if it’s ad free with Pro or Business editions
from nearly 2 years ago. where are the ads?
Rapid Realms: A Visual Novel with AI – Part 1
I have fiber running between my buildings, but I'm glad the walls are filled with copper because PoE is just so convenient.
Debian Stable (Linux) is here for you: https://www.debian.org/CD/
Real question, what's the harm here?

Are the modified Pokemon being used in competitions? What is the harm, really?
>> They aren't ads like ads.

>> They are promoted apps from the Microsoft store.

If you give Microsoft money and they promote your app, that is advertising.
I support people in working how they want to work.
This is such crap. Enshittification of the OS. I have once again lost all respect for Microsoft. Sigh