skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would be willing to pay for an OS that has no Candy Crush, LinkedIn and whatever installed and that would allow to use local accounts.

Me too. But I do agree with the beancounters at MS that putting such an OS on the market might reduce sales of store apps or O365 subscriptions or make it less convenient for people to use OneDrive backup etc - in a way that costs them more than they would make from selling this great version of Windows to very few enthusiasts.

Btw I think there are lots of differences between getting a good LTSC install now, vs if you have an OEM Home version of Win 11. A lot of my complaints only apply to the "bad" SKU's of Windows and not generally. The problem is of course that you can't buy this "good windows 11". It's reserved for volume license customers.
It's not self-documenting, you can't decode it unless you have the .proto. JSON just works.
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I wouldn't call office workers a minority - they make up more than half of american jobs [1]. Surely some proportion of these jobs require presence / face time, but even if you knock that number down to 40%, that's still a huge chunk.

1: https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-te...
Night-vision lenses so thin and light that we can all see in the dark
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> permit them to search on the internet

really? they get 30 minutes + internet and they couldn't google "javascript how to get divisible by 3"? That's just bad research at that point.
Not at all is fairly close. Think "beginner friendly" (phone?) vs "expert friendly" (nix?) interactions.

"A good horse" is actually one that matches your level, or is only slightly above, whatever that may currently be.

Note that Teitelman eventually gave up on getting machines to DWIM, and scratched that itch by doing dog agility instead.

(the most indirect control I've seen was someone from the local extension program, mounted on horseback, whistling to his dogs in order to instruct them to herd a flock of geese in slaloms/eights around a set of traffic cones. Roping horses still need to be doing their jobs even after their rider has left the saddle and is on foot to tie/doctor the roped critter.)
> the trend in the US has been increased suburbanization (and larger houses to accommodate home offices)

My emissions 100% went up with RW.

I moved to Wyoming from New York, bought a roomy house. bought a car for the first time and fly constantly. The quality of life is great. And I still drop into the office every few months. But it’s no environmental panacea.
There is no difference between 26 and 30 letters.

The backspace was used in English for the same purpose in the same period.

There is literally no reason other than luck that the Lingua Franca of computer science is English instead of German or Russian.
>Enhanced Infrared Vision by Nonlinear Up-Conversion in Nonlocal Metasurfaces

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202402777
I used to live in the middle of Dublin and ride a bike to work.

Then I got a remote job and realized I could save a fortune by moving to a rural house an hour away.

But when I _did_ need to go to Dublin, I was sometimes driving instead of riding a bike (though sometimes I took the train, but I was very careful to make this an option and my neighbours would usually drive to go to Dublin)
> Also, what the hell are y'all doing on your computers that is so freaky anyway?

It could be as tame as emailing my grandmother. Frankly, it's no one else's business but mine.
Are they still? I did try on a 5490 a few years ago and it totally ignored the pulses... an older one accepted the pulse dialling but it was not working all the time. Just tried with a single phone so maybe it was the phone ;-)
> I am arguing that all the science around viral transmission generally, influenza, bird flus, mask densities, aerosol spread of saliva and particles, etc ... All any human being can do in that situation is form a hypothesis based on similar, but not perfectly similar, previous experiences.

Yes, it's understandable why you believe that Fauci and other public health officials must have been basing their rules on prior experience. That's what reasonable people would do, it's what reasonable people would expect others to do.

Unfortunately, what we're saying and even what Fauci is clearly saying in this transcript is that they didn't do this.

To repeat: yes, we want scientists to give their best advice (with reasonably accurate confidence ratings) based on their prior experience even if there's no time to do an in depth study right away. That's exactly why people are mad. Public health people said that's what they were doing - relying on their knowledge of the past to inform the present - but it wasn't.

If you review the pre-COVID science on respiratory viruses (like I did) you'll find that what it said was:

1. Lockdowns won't work. SARS-1 could move between buildings on air currents. People have been observed to spontaneously get a cold even when entirely isolated and with no exposure to anyone else who was sick or any contaminated objects (see [1] for an example).

2. Border controls won't work.

3. There's no evidence masks would work (so in science we assume the null hypothesis of no effect).

4. Vaccines also won't work. Coronaviruses mutate too fast and evolve beyond any immunity.

5. Scientists don't understand the epidemiology of respiratory illness and can't model them successfully.

6. Past coronavirus pandemics ended when the virus mutated into a more infectious but less serious form.

The literature was very depressing. Nothing worked and nobody understood why not. In other words: there's a fundamental theoretical gap and no pre-existing understanding of any value, also, no time to try and obtain that new understanding. Therefore science was of little use during COVID.

People like Fauci, who are paid nice salaries because they claim to be scientific, are very strongly incentivized to not conclude this. It's the old saw about getting a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. People want to hear that the experts have it all under control. They don't want to hear "the scientific understanding to date can't help us". Yet, that's what true scientists should have said.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...
On firefox I didn't see a skip to main content link when I tabbed through on OSX.
If you are applying for game dev jobs, C memory management, the gnarly parts of Unreal engine, vector math, and ray intersection are all things you could be doing on the job.

Game dev is lower paying, less structured, and more involved than typical web dev jobs.

I’d really only want to get into game dev early in my career or as an independent creator. It’s a touch exploitative.
lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

but then later E*trade Morgan Stanley headlines took over. I commented a bunch of links to lots of posts that I saw first on r/Superstonk regarding things mentioned here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d7fmia/etrade_cons...
I once interviewed someone who was on a call with someone but messed up their audio feed. I could hear the third person but the person I interviewed could not.
Lawyers are not free, and the team already has very few CPU cycles to spare.
My biggest beef with this style of interview is that someone with commitments (family, sports, hobbies) outside of work, I have no time to study the format, spend months practicing questions, practicing the art of speaking my thoughts in a clear way while actually having time to myself to think and process, understanding the gotchas etc.

luckily, I have experience as a programmer and in a previous career, and have so far managed to mostly avoid it as there are enough companies where I am that I’ve been hired elsewhere. But it does make me wonder if I’ve either missed good opportunities, or am limiting myself for the future.
Yes. The NIH intermural study on ME/CFS took well over a year to get published.

The sheer volume of papers on Covid/Long Covid et el is staggering too something like 3/4s of a million individual bits of research have been published (all showing its bad news for humans!) and that combined with the doubling of days out sick everyone is enduring due to multiple Covid infections and the brain fog from Long Covid is likely not helping to get things handled quickly.
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you press show this password , it's now leaked

that's the mild version

an abused spouse looks for help and is beaten or murdered for it

that's the less mild version
Do you lock the door when you go to the bathroom? What are you doing in there that is so freaky?
adverse selection
Yes, for a single-use hobby product it doesn't matter much and you can just risk the collision.
And yes, some vendors will generously let you have a Product ID under their Vendor ID, but then your product looks as if it was made by them when your customers plug it in.

If you plan to deploy more than a few devices you'll need a Vendor ID and people should know that there is a relatively large tax in front of that need.

Hard disagree on $6,000 not mattering. We build a small number of devices for severely disabled people and sell a few hundred a year. The USB IF was unwilling to budge at all on their prices and this was a large cost that we did not anticipate, and by the way, is technically shameful.

How much does a fucking number cost?

Well, it depends on how scarce you decide to make it, and of course, what the market will bear.
There is nothing inherently inefficient about a discrete GPU. Discrete GPUs often have extremely good performance per watt. That's just not the same thing as having a low TDP. Performance per watt is higher when something is twice as power hungry but three times faster.
GitHub isn't backup, moreover, GitHub data needs backup as well. Why not to back up your data with a trusted vendor, for example, Xopero Software?
He was an expert in complex multi-organisation enterprise integration and was the go to guy to work out why horrific distributed transactions were failing... He also did a lot of cool stuff as side projects in his own time - just none of them happened to involve worrying about powers of 2.
It seems to me that while passing a leetcode question shows that you might know a thing or two, not passing one doesn't really show the opposite. You could be the smartest / greatest coder ever and you just got a really unlucky question... Or it could be that you're not great when you are nervous, etc...

Also, a lot of the time it feels like the answer to most leetcode problem is some sort of trick.... and if you think of it you are golden and if you don't it sucks to be you. Most of the time I'm trying to write code that is NOT tricky... So in some ways I think the job itself will train you to seek simple clean solutions as opposed to tricks.
What a shitty thing to say, especially in the context of OP's post.
Currently the fritz.box domain seems to be owned by AVM (the makers of the FritzBox). Maybe it was just not existing and the local resolver on the box got confused? The domain was created in January and updated only a few days ago so things might actually have changed in the meantime...
I quite like them. You know what sort of question you’re getting and they’re really not that hard. Practice. Get good at walking trees. Answer too slow? Sort the list first, use two pointers, use a hashmap, max heap…
Definitely. I’m not saying that remote work is to blame for suburbanization, only that it’s a new positive pressure supporting it.
Athlon + Windows 2000 was, for me, the first time a PC did not feel outright sluggish relative to the Amiga 500.
Yeah, that's a great example of a non-human-readable binary format
It's also a great way to filter out anyone who has any kind of commitment like kids, aging parents to take care of, or have health issues themselves that makes it hard to cram leet code non stop on top of a busy career.

For companies this is very rational, you want non-distracted employees who can work over time.
> Also, what the hell are y'all doing on your computers that is so freaky anyway?

Upload a months old browsing history without deleting any entries, not even the private browsing ones.

If I'd hear your argument in person I'd ask you for your unlocked phone.
Because this way is more fun
It would have to be a society wide calculation, and I doubt the vast, vast majority of people are going from zero driving to more driving like a NYC to suburbs migrant. More likely is people going from regularly driving 60min+ per day to sit at a desk no longer doing that drive, which is a net reduction in energy usage.

https://newsroom.aaa.com/2019/02/think-youre-in-your-car-mor...
Will pirating it actually solve the issue? MS is not after one-time cash payment (heck, they even offered the upgrade for free), what they want is long-term user milking in various ways, some of them looking pretty grey to me.
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That's how it should be architected, but the article shows that Cox's network gives no thought to security so it's unlikely how it is architected. Even if the Cox answer is correct to the best of their knowledge, we can't rule out that attackers are inside the network wiping out their logs.
That was my thought, as well - it’s easy to imagine this calling some internal APIs which aren’t great, leading someone to toss a cache in front of a few calls but botching the logic so the cache is always populated even on errors. I’ve seen a few cases where people tried to bolt something like that onto Java/Python APIs designed to raise exceptions when validation failed so it was especially easy to overlook the error path because the code was written to focus on the successful flow.
I'm increasingly convinced that at this point it is, for these companies, mostly about putting out the word "AI" in press releases a lot until such time as the markets lose interest; any actual utility is completely beside the point.
Some scammers front-ran the registration to run NFT bullshit, AVM eventually managed to pull the domain with ICANN URS [1].

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Fritz-box-Domain-aus-dem-Verkehr-g...
There’s a personal anecdote as a direct comment beneath my comment, as an example of this.

To be clear: I’m not faulting people for this. But it’s an intuitive consequence of people moving their working space into their living space: having both means needing more room, which frequently means moving somewhere rural or suburban and driving more.
Yeah, it rules.
I had a discussion at work today about completely replacing the old search engine with vector embeddings because they work so well.

I think google needs to be very afraid in the coming few years because this use of AI is relatively cheap to run, simple to deploy and the models are small enough that you can build one customized based on your personal ranking of several thousand pieces of text.
I can accept ふいんき as an exception, but for 原因 that's just a consequence of the rules for how to pronounce ん, which depends on the surrounding sounds (it's not quite い either). I wouldn't really call it an exception. Consider 一千円, 禁煙 etc all of which are pronounced like that.
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> cumulative deaths would have been lower without actions that Fauci was responsible for

Ethically, it is enough to show that his policies killed people. I cannot go into a tobacco factory, kill the night guard, burn the factory to the ground and expect recognition for saving lives. So starting from the position that unjust things were done during COVID, it is now the time to investigate what specific laws were breached, so that justice can be sought. Hence the slogan 'arrest Fauci'.

The report mentions excess death from non-COVID causes. Is it disputable that these were due to non-pharmaceutical interventions? There is also a large number of contemporary warnings regarding the effect of lockdowns on diagnosis and treatment of other diseases.
All the worst kinds of engineers, the kinds of people that talk big and deliver small and slow, the people I know I’ll need to go and fix code for, they are always the ones that work on leetcode the most. These are the false positives that people pretend don’t get through with leet code interviews, the kind of people that don’t understand how node async actually works but can reverse a tree optimally off the top of their head.
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This is just plain wrong. Not every business is a megacorp or VC-backed unicorn.

Many, many products start life on a shoestring and small batch production runs.

There are other products that intentionally serve small markets, like people with disabilities.

For these organizations, $6,000 is not a trivial amount of money.
Ultra High Density Living is just the most eco-friendly way of living for the masses. Why would anyone think otherwise, if the same masses live abroad and spread out over vast land with their own infrastructure?
Certainly doesn’t look like it.
…or alternatively simply buy a domain for 5 or 10 years.
Well man, mine too. My mother already had a poor health and even before covid I was aware that any respiratory infection like the one she had two years before covid could be fatal.
But at least in 2018 she was promptly treated, with medicines to avoid the progression of secondary infection and fluid accumulation and despite the scare, was given oxygen, and she was saved.
In 2021, despite her old age, doctors were prohibited in her city to pro-actively avoid secondary infection and in the end when they finally decided to treat her, she was put in a ventilator and had complications commonly associated with the use of ventilators. You can call me anything you want, but I will never stop believing that despite her death certificate says she died of Covid, she was an iatrogenic death.
For the hashmap problem, sure. Any SWE worth their salt should be able to figure those out.

I highly doubt you are sight-reading atomic bomb LC hards.
> every Japanese person I have met complaints about the massive effort it took them to learn how to read and write

This stupid phenomenon is due to the fact that Japanese Gov decided to teach only arbitrarily 1000 kanji to school kids and this number decrease every 10 years.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%B8%E7%94%A8%E6%BC%A2%E5...

You can see how stupid it is.

> People complain that kanji being used in the prefecture are not include in the list (no included so no obligation to teach in school) e.g.阪鹿奈岡熊梨阜埼茨栃媛, so the gov finally add those to the next revision.

While at the same time Chinese people are learning 3X more. No one ever complain about the difficulty of Chinese character after all.
Where and when did France attack russia?
> there’s only a handful of companies that pay well

with all due respect I believe this is about as far from the truth as it gets. I believe the issue is that people think they have to work at FAANGs in order to be paid REALLY well which is just nuts.

I know many people making (very) high 6 figures working at places most have never heard of. instead of looking for FAANGs people should be looking at companies that have been in business for 20+ years (if publicly-traded company the easiest "measure" would be whether you would invest your own dough into that company) and then make your self indispensable there (this is much easier than it sounds) to a point where you are more valuable to the company they company is to you. This is un-achievable at FAANG but this should be everyone's career goal. once you are worth more to a company then company is to you, compensation-wise sky is the limit :)
A note on these shapes for people who want to draw them from scratch...

I found it quite difficult to draw a nice looking tiling using the basic monotile. It's quite hard to draw it entirely from the angles directly on the paper - not for a single tile, but extending any patch to a much larger one.

Tracing and transferring the tile, on the other hand is easier to keep track of, but slight inaccuracies quickly propagate across the diagram. Since there is (by definition!) no larger-scale structure, there can be no guidelines to help correct this - unlike for repeated patterns.

The way I found was best was just to print out a patch of tiles, and then trace that. I suppose that using a metatile approach might also work, although doing that by hand is a little daunting.
Yes, but it's the "John Birch Society" form of anti-communist, not the "Solidarity" kind.
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FizzBuzz is a highly artificial problem. It makes sense that people who are not familiar with it will assume that there is an elegant solution. But in the end the right approach is to be very boring and to notice that you need to check for divisibility with 15 before you check for divisibility with 3 and 5.
Well, blame the voters who reward the politicians who use these tactics with their vote?