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Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 just came out a week ago. No crapware, no TPM, no Secure Boot etc. Works like a charm. I'm using LTSC versions for a long time and it's the Windows version that should be the default for every home user.

Yes LTSC is not "legal" to use as an ordinary end user but MS doesn't care about piracy at all.
Was great getting to meet you in person Kati! :) This is an awesome recap of PyCon US, so much happened!!
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I remember doing that back by the beginning of 2000s, unlocking one processor, and losing another identical one trying the same (guess I went too far ahead). I didn't work, and my father was not really happy to have to buy a new CPU because of some graphite (but he understood the curiosity!).
OOP and especially post-OOP languages don't encourage the "Dog is-a Animal" type of inheritance that you describe. Sadly, education has not caught up to industry and so it is still often taught the wrong way. Composition-over-inheritance has been the dominant methodology of practical OOP for a long time, so much so that most post-OOP languages (Swift, Rust, Go, ...) have dropped inheritance entirely, while still preserving the other aspects of OOP, like encapsulation, polymorphism, and limited visibility.
A mate cycled 15km to my house back in 1995 with a stack of floppies a foot high, saying "dude, you need to install this right now. And when it asks for mount point, just put a /, that's the only tricky part".

It was Slackware. I've used all sorts since: redhat, Gentoo, yellow dog, Debian, arch. Never looked back.

A job I had once required windows, and I tried WSL, but it felt ... so limited.
Fully agree that mastery allows you to broaden out / think at a higher level. I guess that's the "meta"

I recently read a post about how Nadal gets an unfair stereotype of being brutish due to play style but from a young age in his post match interviews (in Spanish) we would refer to specific points in the match and give critical analysis for how he made adjustments etc.
This is very cool in terms of idea and realisation
Or wood stools/benches/chairs. Fabric was very expensive until relatively recently. A modern sofa would presumably have been an extreme luxury item not that long ago in historical terms.
And a microchip is just a bunch of copper wires with sand around them
I didn't mean to imply your driver was scamming you, just making a joke about Changing the World™ by monetizing and soullessly destroying every social interaction, Silicon Valley style :-)

I had hoped the absurdism of a cyclophosphemide punch card or converting a taxi cab to foster home would have given it away
Because a refusal to understand what someone means when it's obvious, doesn't (as the delusion would have it) make that person look intelligent or win them imaginary internet points. It's just annoying.
In other news, everybody uses a router nowadays, with firewall activated by default.
Looks like a bad translation, it's not even proper English.

NHK reports[1] that China announced Chang'e-6 "landed" (着陸, chakuriku) successfully on the far side of the Moon.

[1]: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240602/k10014468871000.ht...
Depends on what you mean. If you mean "how much is commercially viable" versus "how many kilograms of the stuff are there" you get very, very different answers.

For just "how much stuff is there", we can look at the concentration in the earths crust, and we get about 10^17 kilograms of the stuff (10^15 if you want U-235).

If you just say "Sure, but we can't get most of that, how much can reasonably get extracted at current prices and technology" then you go down to about 10^9 kilograms.
Arguably, he also invented the first ink jet printer ("siphon printer").

Here is a list of his inventions:
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp37484
> They grab a stool at a tabletop he calls his “altar of ideas.”

That's beautiful.
Wow, this is some ultimate clickbait, combining peak AI hype with timely economic concerns as well as the evergreen hatred of bad bosses.

The fact that articles like this get traction is ironically exactly why an AI can’t be a good CEO—picking a popular next token is worthless if not backed by some reasoning and organizational structure to benefit the business. It’s a trope that CEOs are out of touch with the ground reality faced by the rank and file, but what’s less obvious is that the majority is also pretty ignorant about the inner workings of executive leadership. There’s just not enough data there to train an AI as everything written down is very carefully wordsmithed, and depends on context from thousands of private conversations, many of them full of controversial and contradictory points. The things an AI would emit based on this input would cause open rebellion and shareholder lawsuits in a heart beat.
YouTube runs ads on all my videos, including the ones with fewer than 200 views. I'm not sure what you're getting at otherwise. The point I was making is that paying for YouTube does absolutely nothing to support the vast majority of content creators on the platform. All you're doing is paying Google, and a tiny slice of that supports a handful of celebrity content creators like Mr. Beast. Maybe it's a bargain that makes sense to some, but the parent was deriding the grandparent for not willing to pay.
It’s not terrible when it’s 119 in Phoenix. We also have green summer lawns that we water too. We live, the lawns help keep the interior of the city cool, as do the trees.

I’m sure many think it’s illogical to try to live on Phoenix. That’s alright, it’s our choice.
Is there a reasonable case to be made for excluding citations entirely? They seem frivolous and arbitrary, and most of the genuine ones are discovered by search, so maybe we could publish without citations, and let the search be automated. The more useful element of a paper is the unique claims that it makes, and these probably should be denoted explicitly.
How to blank votes count as protest in an election where there isn't a threshold?

Protesting would mean getting some random guy to also run and make him win
Just wanted to say I appreciate discussion and i don't feel any animosity.

In this case these were all internal priorities. But you are right, maybe it is not for me to be reaspn why or be upset about.
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Seems unfair to predict with onions, when the onions themselves are exempt from being predicted

https://www.good.is/articles/the-great-chicago-onion-ring-wh...
> It should be trivial to do clique detection and downrank such citations.

Cliques are not the problem, in many niche areas, you will have natural cliques. It is hard to distinguish that from forceful citations like this. And, this may not be a clique. I don't think this guy was citing back researchers he forced to cite him.
If scrolling through your phone were worthwhile enough that being able to do it made up for the loss of time, people would deliberately take trains instead of cars just so they could take a little longer but be able to scroll through their phones.
Show HN: NeetoCal an Affordable Alternative to Calendly
Hi HN,

Last year, we launched NeetoCal at https://www.neeto.com/neetocal. Neeto is a 100% remote company. We are building many products, which require a lot of communication.

NeetoCal is not the first company to compete with Calendly. We are not even the second company to compete with Calendly. We are probably the 30th player in this crowded space. With so many players in the market, scheduling software seems like a commodity.

One of the basic tenets of a commodity product is that the price would be low because of the intense competition and undifferentiated products. The competition is indeed fierce to be Calendly alternative. Almost all the products offer the same features, and the switching cost isn’t much.

Then why did we build it if it's a commodity software with intense competition?

BigBinary/Neeto has 120+ employees, and less than 5% of them were paying for the scheduling software. Does this mean the other 95% do not need the scheduling software? No. They need it and want to use it, but the cost of it prevents them from using it. The average price is around $10/month. Remember, we are talking about folks in India, so $10 is a lot.

And then it hit us. NeetoCal needs to be built so that more people can afford scheduling software. We think existing products are way too expensive for the value they provide. This soul-searching also helped us understand that "affordability" is what NeetoCal is all about.

So, we decided to highlight the differentiating factor—affordability. We believe NeetoCal is much more affordable, as we are very price-competitive.

We believe that NeetoCal will be an indispensable tool for an effective remote team. At Bigbinary/Neeto, it already is.

Please give NeetoCal a try. We would love to hear your feedback.

https://www.neeto.com/neetocal
It's true that Mother Nature doesn't care about your wishful thinking, but she also has no time for your paperwork.

There's a rough notion of the C++ programming language, and the ISO document is a description written by some humans which resembles it closely enough that you know they weren't describing something else. The people implementing the three major compilers for C++ don't really care about the ISO document†, but the meetings to agree the document serve to also agree changes they should make to their implementations, to a lesser or greater extent.

† ISO/IEC 14882:2020 is the current standard. Yes you read that correctly, that's C++ 20. No that's not the "current" C++ language, an ISO document for C++ 23 will be published probably later in summer 2024. Nobody cares. GCC volunteers working on their compiler don't care obviously. Microsoft employees paid a substantial amount of money specifically to work on MSVC as their day job don't care. Nobody cares, the ISO document is purely an exercise in vanity. If you try really hard to buy the "official" ISO publication as an actual paper document, most likely after months of struggle you'll get... an apology and a link to the sprawling PDF for your money.
> Side-note: I did get some raw urushi on my fingers while working on this project, but nothing happened. Perhaps I'm immune.

Might also be enough mechanical rubbing on fingertips during normal use that it mostly scrubs off. Whenever I feel it coming on from Urushi or accidentally touching poison ivy in nature, I rub it with water and course sand/dirt which seems to get rid of the urushiol.
Humans would be a lot better off if everyone just copied everyone so we could advance as quickly as possible - imagine if the entire would could just manufacture whatever cutting edge medicine some corporation is holding hostage - and that's just the medicine example. Let your mind wander to every aspect of life - clean energy, transport, tech.

Of course corporations wouldn't make nearly as much money, but is the goal of civilization for humans to live good lives, or for corporations to make maximum profit?
Python OOP != Rust OOP, but you naturally already knew that.

However, in case you need some help, in regards to Python

Classe inheritance, function and data members, dynamic dispatch, polymorphism, meta-classes.

And even if C doesn't offer direct language support for a OOP type system, that isn't stopping anyone, like the Linux kernel and GNOME/Gtk+.

Or publishing books on the matter,

http://www.freetechbooks.com/object-oriented-programming-wit...
I don't find it that hard to cycle between the bumps. If you know what to expect, it's easier than a cattle grid.
I love the HN mindset. See, most people here have some aspiration towards being the next great CEO so of course AI can’t possibly do that job. But, sure, it can do everyone else’s job and even drive cars and fly planes.

Please.
Do you mean to say the dentistry industry is holding back treatments that would put them out of a job?
camera footage taken in space is something weird indeed. I remember when i first saw how an eclipse affects shadows in real life. It immediately clicked in my brain why that early moon landing footage looked how it did. And also how easily so many people thought it was fake
That's rad! What libraries are you using?
Making a good forum is hard, so don’t hate a forum that you find worth visiting for how it works - that makes no sense unless you’re a forum guru or at least know a much better place and want to share it.
Or you can realize that none of this text-based stuff can save you and move to rich images and colors or even better - to better integration with password managers so you're never forced to become a machine and do diffs manually
I actually have some of these problems with Win 11
Hybrid language is an existing linguistic term.
> I think technically creating citing cartels is not breaking any research rules. Unethical but within the rules.

Not true, citation cartels are unethical research practices, there is no question about it.

There is also no "technically within the rules", because there are generally no specific rules.

Research rules essentially are "Don't do anything unethical", in a research ethics course you would then be given examples, like don't falsify data, dont misrepresented data, acknowledge previous work...

And while I believe the vast majority of academics follow the principles, because the rules are unspecified there is a gray zone (I believe that is a good thing we don't need to bog down scientific research by even more administration).
This is trust in a middleman - the auditors. There is noting trustless about this system. For money, that's probably good enough - it's no less trustworthy than a bank. But it's FAR from enough assurance for national voting.
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> "lifestyle business" always being uttered in contempt.

This must be correlated with peer group and/or geography. I am in a mountain west city surrounded by skiers, cyclists and climbers. Lifestyle business is never mentioned in contempt, rather as a logical choice to support ones hobbies and outside interests.
it is a total fantasy to imagine that a few nerds can make iOS disappear by opting out.
> what probes would you let your botnet send out?

Both probably. I don't see where the "opportunity cost" is when you can trivially do both. Please describe the opportunity cost in detail; that is what I am asking about.
Centerpiece now supports Firefox! Whats Next?
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Now, we would like to know which features you need to switch to Centerpiece! Please leave your feature requests in the comments down below :).
sorry i cant read only english
Side question. Does anyone have a good method of attaching 4 wires (say for a programmer) to the middle of a board, preferably without soldering any connector on the board? (Edge connectors are too bulky and inconvenient).

I'm thinking of something that locks through a hole in the board and then pushes 4 pins onto 4 pads on the board.
Doesn't sound high indeed, but you have to take into account what you get for your tax money.

A low rate sounds good, but if you then have to spend a fortune on healthcare and education, while those are (nearly) free in most places with a high rate. Then for most of the middle class the low rate system is actually more expensive.
You hardly need AI for this; you only need to construct a graph of researchers with the number of citations as weights, and compare metrics of connectedness to detect cliques and other fraudulent behavior.
That's the thing, it's a novel form of computing that's increasingly moving away from computer science. It deserves to be treated as a discipline of its own, with lots of words of caution and danger stickers slapped over it.
Admins: I initially published the blog post at the linked URL, but then realized I had gotten the slug wrong, and had to move it. It redirects so it's not a huge deal, but is it possible to have the post changed to the correct URL https://nicole.express/2024/no-screen-no-cpu-one-problem.htm... ?
My biggest concern with Limitless – other than inherent performance issues with Aurora – is that according to their docs, it’s built on Aurora Serverless. IME, Serverless anything tends to get absurdly expensive very quickly.
Nvidia unveils next generation of AI chips in bid to entrench market lead
https://archive.is/TCeDM
Super cool! We have been tracking this mission in Orbital Index for a while. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-03-13-Issue-260/#chang...

This mission required a communication satellite that loiters on the far side of the Moon as well to relay communications back to earth.
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-03-13-Issue-260/#queqi...
In talks, in hallways, and at the expo (i.e., company booths), I'd say adherence was at least 90 percent.

But whenever there was a chance to take the mask off, people did. If there was food around, people immediately ditched the masks and stayed with food or drink in their hand to justify keeping the masks off. I was at one small (10-person) session where everyone agreed to keep masks off, gingerly making sure that no one objected. We then all made sure to have drinks in front of us to "justify" doing so.

And when people went outside, the masks were off. At the PSF member lunch, where we ate together, masks were off as soon as we got food. At the PyLadies auction, where we (again) ate together, people were also without masks. I'll note that the auction took place in the same room where talks had taken place several hours earlier, with strict mask enforcement (and adherence).

Bottom line, people were generally willing to follow the rules. But there was a lot of grumbling about why there should be a mask mandate in 2024, and what the justification was for having one.
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Economic growth by itself means nothing for the working class. Without redistribution it amounts to exactly zero improvement of their living conditions.

Below is a link to a news coverage of a study that claims to have shown that while poverty (as defined by the world bank) dropped spectacularly in 1980s China, the inability to afford essential commodities skyrocketed in the early 1990s, and didn't recover fully since.

https://theconversation.com/chinas-capitalist-reforms-are-sa...
Depending on the implementation for short list they can be optimized (just as strings in C++).
You may be right with C and Fortran. But tbh in an era where the tiniest thing has an OS with MMU, I really prefer GC when the performance is not a problem.
If it is just a performance concern, then ASM will always beat C…
Like everything in engineering is about the right trade off.
About 100% inside the conference, except while eating or speakers. People can take their masks off outside.
If the EU is so hostile as you claim, why did France, Italy, and Sweden all collaborate with China on this mission to the moon?
It’s probably pervasive in second and third tier research universities. It’s not pervasive in top-tier universities. Actually it’s probably not pervasive in either case, but it happens more in the former.
I like how we've suddenly accepted "AI" "summaries" as simply the way of the future, despite the inherent problems and repeatedly botched rollouts.
If you observe Hacker News long enough its easy to deduce there are upvote cartels (rings) operating. If a particular submitted link has the good fortune to be put onto the screens of the folks of one of these external rings it will reliably get the 100s of upvotes needed, and fast enough, for HN's algorithms to decide it merits being promoted to the HN front page. Once there its pure gravy in terms of eyeball flow and yet more upvotes.

I've certainly given up on ever hoping a link I favor makes it to the HN front page organically without relying on shady upvote eing tactics. HN has reached a point where the upvote cartels, in effect, rule.

Its cheating. A form of corruption.
A dark pattern. I've considered resorting to using it myself, but have not (so far?) out of ethical disgust.
“I’d especially like to thank three colleagues, Thor Simon, Viktor Dukhovni and Larry Rudolph for their assistance on this project.”

That’s Victor Duchovni, inventor of the Postfix MTA. Two Sigma, founded only back in 2001 (i.e. newer than Google), has certainly done well in retaining some incredible people on the software and computer security side. From what I’ve heard, it’s a fantastic place to work as an engineer. They give people lots of independence to work on things they consider to be important, which is really exemplified by this blog post.

I think many larger financial firms would just outsource their Apple security, but Two Sigma has an engineering poking around the hardware and making novel discoveries. That kind of thinking is how you actually get ahead in securing an enterprise, IMHO.
It is good when it’s actually implemented, the annoying part is suggesting a rewrite without doing anything
There's Deegen, which is being used to build a LuaJIT successor. https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake

From what I gather, Deegen is independent of the VM in that repo, but lives there afaik.
Lifestyle business is often sent out as a slur, often originating from someone who has said lifestyle from being wealthy.

Traditional VC investment by its definition is trying to hedge it's returns by investing in the time of startup founders, and often only large bets make the return worth while.

Increasingly, I agree with the idea to call a business "self-funded", because that's what it actually is, instead of bootstrapped or lifestyle.

I would say it might not be a stretch that what every founder is doing is to make an improvement in the lifestyle of their team and clients. VC investment is a good vehicle when entered into mindfully, and also drastically changes your course.
Can we have summaries of HN discussion threads to alleviate FOMO on flame wars with 1000s of comments?
At what population does a city qualify to discuss transit policy? Atlanta has over 6M residents.

I think mass transit can be great in the right contexts. For ATL, I think it makes the most sense in the few sq miles of city proper, not 20+ mi out.
It is very much possible with paper voting, or at least you can personally inspect every step of the way in the process for a small slice, and you can understand how others like you verify things in other slices.

Ultimately, you do need to rely on your co-citizens to help verify that the elections are valid (in a simple to verify system, i.e. paper voting), just like you need to rely on them to vote coherently and to abide by the results of the election.
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I suspect you'll find at the top of all self-styled "meritocracies" are people who have socially engineered the definition of "merit" to be them and their empire. And this is the profound problem with all "meritocratic" structures. They might start out on a small scale selecting for some genuine skill, but measuring humans can be easily gamed.

A game which narcissists win and reinforces their narcissism by telling them what they want to hear about themselves.
It's statistically correct if your statistics take into account the fact that you might stop early. That's the point. It is more efficient to stop early, but you can't stop early while using statistics that assume you won't.
Yeah, the problem is not that nobody can see a solution. There are a million solutions. The problem is someone having or finding the power to implement them.

I think sometimes that people like algorithmic answers to problems because it is sort of replacement for actual power. If you can't imagine finding the power fix something that's bad yourself, at least you can contrive a logical structure that might fix it automatically.

A lot of technologists would, I think, have a much larger impact if they concerned themselves with finding political power instead.