skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I confess I don't have a Microsoft account, and installed without one. I'm not sure how I did that, I guess I just passed on it. Every month or so it after a reboot it prompts me to "finish setting up my computer" and I just "remind me later".

I haven't touched the registry, so that's not in play.

OneDrive doesn't nag me.

As I said earlier this is all anecdotal, clearly your experience is different to mine. This post is just anecdotes, not data, and I'm not suggesting my experience is your experience.
>Very few people want their residences in the suburban office park areas.

Of course they do.

I was just observing yesterday a big condo development right across from a recently-vacated office complex in an ex-urban area where I used to work.
I didn't state otherwise, and I'm not sure how that's relevant to my point.
The Windows developers community are pissed off with how badly WinRT was managed since Windows 8.

There is seldom anyone of us that went through that, and will advise anyone to use WinUI 3.0, unless they themselves have a sunken cost into UWP, and need a way out.

Quite easy to find out in the endless discussions on the related Github repos.
Transfer rates can be doubled by spreading (something like) RAID 0 across those two LUNs, if doubling transfer rate and treating it all as one logical device is the goal.

The drive doesn't know how to do this by itself.

(That doesn't mean that the marketing wank is a lie: It's still a singular drive with a singular SKU. The marketing wank may easily be considered to be incomplete, however.)

These drives have been available for a fair time now, though they're still fairly new. They were never intended for plebs like us to be able to buy from places like Amazon, probably because the support costs would be through the roof for such an unusual product with such niche use-cases.
> all the extra meanings such as good luck created by having that network, possibilities to fortune, a kind of karma, and more.

In your 20s you might think of your network as people who you went to college with. In your 40s your network takes on a meaning much closer to what you have described. I don’t yet know what happens in your 60s.
> * น้ำใจ (Nam-jai) (Thai): Literally "water from the heart". Being very nice and helpful without expecting anything back.

"Charity"
> Knowledge is power

Actually, knowledge is freedom.

> so keep the masses uneducated so they are subservient

Terror makes them subservient. See the Soviet Union's gulags, full of educated people.
With Linux you can configure it further to your taste. Which is not even necessary on most distributions for basic usage.

With Windows you have to patch it through the registry (which is not bsckupable config files) to remove ads and other annoying "features".

So the out-of-the-box experience is better with Linux. My mom even understands Linux GUIs better these days than Windows, it's just less bloat and distraction. And for basic apps you don't have to configure anything on the CLI. I recently got a Raspberry PI for my parents to use as a HTPC, installed some basic apps on it, and they can just use it like that.
See also Spacetime for Springers
At least the steering wheel doesn’t fall off while you’re driving:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/tesla-under-investigation-...
Even being good for it I can’t stand how most books are like $19.99, knowing I can find it in very good condition on ebay for $6 and get it from the library for free. If they want to sell a lot more books out of the little shops at the airports or wherevers left that books are sold today, make them cheap enough to be a spontaneous purchase again. I have some old paper backs that were like 99 cents new.
But you don’t have to, macOS, AFAIK, will always ask you before it reboots into the logo-and-progress-bar update screen. Even if you manually launch the update, after it finishes the Preparing stage, it will again warn you that the machine is about to reboot, and gives you the option to cancel that. I’m genuinely curious about the sequence that leads to macOS forcing an update on you, I’ve never had that happen in my 10 years on a Mac.
The neato thing about free markets is in order to make more money you have to please other people so those people will freely give you their money.
Virtually Hawaii
Yeah, that seems to happen according to the story posted, and in many comments here.
> doesn't lose its license after an arbitrary period of time?

The whole thing that allows copyright in the US is in the Constitution:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

The original term was 14 years, with one 14 year renewal allowed.

This was probably a little short, in my opinion. 25+20 seems reasonable; most works have no commercial value after 25 years, and 45 years is already a long time to keep things that have become cultural touchstones locked up. The present legal regime of life of the author plus 70 years is clearly excessive.

> but we are talking automatically putting copyrighted/licensed material in the public domain

This already happens: just after an unreasonably long period of time.

> which isn't GPL compatible.

Code which is in the public domain is freely compatible with code under the GPL.

The whole point is "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Stuff kept locked away beyond its useful commercial life is no longer promoting progress (the authors have already gotten paid anything they're going to get). Indeed, most of present works borrow deeply from the public domain but the authors seek to only return the same favor to future authors in a few generations.

How long should Nintendo be able to rent-seek and convince/force the same people to buy the original Super Mario Bros. over and over again? Should that be done in 2030, or 2080? What about operating systems of the 1980s-- should they be locked up to 2090, even though no one will sell them to you?

At some point, there are substantial impediments to legitimate archival and research purposes; to keeping existing important systems working; and to allowing the free exploration and creativity that comes from remixing and building upon past works.
Sounds like a skill issue.
In case anyone else is confused, this is not related to eidos interactive, which has been now defunct for 14 years[1] (merged with square enix).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidos_Interactive
Arable land probably has to do more with carrying capacity in terms of agriculture and water resources. Yes, you could build a huge city on the Tibetan plateau but you would have to truck in a lot of stuff to keep people alive.

Even the rural areas, you have to decide whether to keep them growing food (low density for China) or turn them into dense cites. Do too much of the latter and your cities starve. But you can’t really build cities on land unsuited for farming, since again you have to truck a lot of stuff in from far away.
I have recently written a broader exposition on frontend build tooling, perhaps it will be useful: https://sunsetglow.net/posts/frontend-build-systems.html.

The performance gains in the recent past have mostly been due to moving away from single-threaded JavaScript to multi-threaded compiled languages. This requires a complete rewrite, so existing tools rarely take this step. We see this optimization in Farm alongside "partial bundling," which strikes a performance-optimal balance between full bundling (Webpack) and no bundling (Vite) in development.

Vite abstracts over a preconfigured set of "lower-level" frontend build tools consisting of a mixture of older single-threaded JavaScript tools and newer multi-threaded compiled language tools. Vite can adopt the partial bundling of Farm, but dispensing with its remaining JavaScript tools is a major breaking update.
If you’re frying / sautéing with it, pay attention to the smoke point. Otherwise, if you’re topping with it or using it as a prominent ingredient in a sauce, pay attention to the flavour.

What else is there?
Knowing that ambidextrous thus means "both right (hands)" makes me marvel at how such a brazenly politically incorrect figure of speech has for so long remained undetected by the cultural police thanks to a linguistic camoflauge that mimics medical-sounding jargon.
The irony is very, very few book authors make much of any money off of their books. It's much like the athlete and musician business.
It's not a Ponzi scheme, it is a simply a result of basic economics, supply and demand. With population growth demand is growing, but the supply is hampered by lack of sufficient trades persons. From reading news from around the world, the problem is not limited to Australia. Globally workers are tending to avoid work that requires physical exertion in a wide range of outdoor weather conditions.

In the post-war years, immigrants often pooled their resources and built their own homes. These days most immigrants just want to move into comfortable new homes.
The 'obvious' thing to do in AT&T's shoes is to design a small $10 solar powered 'copper line simulator'.

It would sit outside customers homes and provide copper line services bridged to the mobile networks (many, for redundancy, and even starlink for even more redundancy).

4G voice only chipsets come in under $2 now.

Then they can shut down all their copper networks easily paying for the transition.
They rewrote Unix in C from assembly. Sometimes there's a gain to be had with new language tech, e.g. memory safety.
It is also not meant for regular PCs, so you won't be able to get a license legally.
Background Removal can be thought of as Foreground Segmentation, inverted. That is no trivial feat; my undergraduate thesis was on segmentation, but using only “mechanical” approaches, no NNs, etc), hence my appreciation!

But here’s something I don’t understand: (And someone please correct me if I’m wrong!) - now I do understand that NNs are to software what FPGAs are to hardware, and the ability to pick any node and mess with it (delete, clone, more connections, less connections, link weights, swap-out the activation functions, etc) means they’re perfect for evolutionary-algorithms that mutate, spawn, and cull these NNs until they solve some problem (e.g. playing Super Mario on a NES (props to Tom7) or in this case, photo background segmentation.

…now, assuming the analogy to FPGAs still holds, with NNs being an incredibly inefficient way to encode and execute steps in a data-processing pipeline (but very efficient at evolving that pipeline) - doesn’t it then mean that whatever process is encoded in the NN, it should both be possible to represent in some more efficient representation (I.e. computer program code, even if it’s highly parallelised) and that “compiling” it down is essential for performance? And if so, then why are models/systems like this being kept in NN form?

(I look forward to revisiting this post a decade from now and musing at my current misconceptions)
Ironically, piracy can make a musician popular, and when they're popular they can make bank doing live performances.
What those things don't tell, is what is still UWP and is yet to be made available on Win32 land.

They also don't tell designer isn't around, like on Forms/WPF/UWP, or how bad the C++ development story is.

Forms, WPF and ironically MFC, are the only ones with good tooling, and feature coverage.
That part is already solved. Under current international law, if you commission a work then you own the economic rights, but the original author retains the moral rights. In fact, selling your moral rights is not possible.

It sounds like the suggestion is that retracting / completely discontinuing a book should only be part of the moral rights, not the economic rights.

I'm not sure how feasible that is, but it's not totally unprecedented. For example, one of the moral rights recognized by many countries is the right not to have your works destroyed. E.g. even if someone else owns the physical object of your painting, they are not allowed to set it on fire, and you could sue them if they did.
I often work with animals who show signs of thought: presented with a novel situation, they pause, reflect, and select the prudent option.

I sometimes work with people who show no signs of thought: external stimuli are perceived, converted into a stream of language, and conveyed, with no apparent effort at audience-based compression (selection of an appropriate message from a wide variety of potential messages), or even compression in general (selection of a short message...).
It's mostly a change from js to go and rust. For older tools it's harder to migrate towards rust/go because of their ecosystem (plugins etc) being build around js.

However, vite currently consists out of a different build tool for prod and dev (rollup and esbuild). And they're working on replacing both with the new rust based 'rolldown'
Thus proving OP's point: it's not your computer.
xappings show up in an example in CLTL2's readtable chapter: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node192.html#...
In that case, Great job divesting in domestic labor in lieu of offshoring. Mission accomplished
Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot: A review of the Microsoft Start app
Best Alternatives to Midjourney?
Tech monopolies are preventing new technology
Try using any of that 25-year-old software with accessibility devices, or at any DPI scaling other than 96x96, or split between two monitors with different refresh rates (or worse yet, two monitors connected to two different GPUs), or with sound or 3D accel that works over RDP, or with an RTL UI language. Those are some of the many "whats" that you get batteries-included in modern OS UI frameworks in exchange for the added overhead.
McAfee pays the bridge trolls :)
xneko, an X11/UNIX port of a somewhat famous cute cat chasing a mouse pointer last updated in 1993, still compiles and runs under macOS. You need Xquartz because xneko is an X11 program, but that’s it.
If you want to make it easy, then the best way to go is to download Windows ISO from Microsoft. Then install Wifi driver if it is not working out of the box. Then install something like Dell Command Update to install the rest of the drivers.
Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules
It looks promising, just a side a note: pink on white background was really hard to read, especially on phone screens.
> Public transit is actually pretty clean. The main problem is that they can't refuse to board disruptive passengers, who just trash everything around them.

They can. My local state operated ferry plays an announcement on every ride that if you harass the staff, they will issue a no trespass order banning you from the service for 60 days. Violating the order is criminal tresspassing.

Of course, enforcement isn't easy, and confronting passengers to issue the orders isn't easy, and both can contribute to confusion and delay. It's a little easier to do on a ferry vs a bus because there's more staff.

If you're looking for easy clean surfaces, you could go for police car backseats. Not very comfortable from the looks of them, but very amenable to cleaning.
And LLMs are mock we want to ship to production because in some cases it's indistinguishable from service.

It's also like a burrito.

Also not engineers - devs.
Was that the cosmonaut who burned up upon reentry and his last words were basically to the effect of "this piece of shit garbage spacecraft that I told them is going to kill me is going to kill me, Yuri"?
+1 for this.

I've just watched some videos on this but it's still nebulous to me. It has something to do with hydration, and bundling only components used in the app, but making it compatible with ES modules while also allowing for hot reloading of your app during development, ... or something like that.

I'd like to do more web dev but I find it very difficult to get started in the space as someone with 20 years dev experience in backend and data.
The device does have white LEDs too. So you can adjust the color temperature. It is just that most of the marketing materials are done to highlight the amber display feature.
I get what you're saying. But at the same time, the whole Boeing debacle makes me wonder how many other skeletons we're hiding.

Either way, this is the consequences of letting corporations lobby to stifle innovation. They wanted short term money and we're all paying the price.
> It's been observed that libraries would be illegal if they didn't already exist, and I think we're starting to walk down the road where they are illegal in the digital world.

I believe this is the crux of the attack by publishers. They don't want libraries to be able to buy books and lend them out. They want libraries to pay a huge monthly fee for every book lent.
> You keep fucking with core components.

What exactly tells you that OneDrive a core component?
Thanks for the information. https://globelectra.com/about-globelectra/
Esbuild lacks the featureful plugin API that Webpack and Rollup have. It's pretty easy to avoid dependencies that require transpiler/bundler plugins and still have a great set of dependencies, but it's a deal breaker for many.
Beyond whatever its rated time remaining, (which usually has to do with weird things like abort system batteries, etc.) there is a _much more pressing issue_ which is that it is _actively leaking a finite supply of helium_ from the myriad thruster leaks, and while it only requires 7 lbs to reenter, they also only have 75 lbs, and are losing more every second.
I agree with the sentiment but this particular website is so chokefull of ads, it’s hard to take the complaints seriously
Persons with CEO experience or at a level where their next career step is to CEO would be looking for a substantial salary and other benefits. Asking about compensation without being specific about geographic location and industry is unlikely to yield any useful information.
The biggest problem right now is that something like "extra virgin olive oil" is often everything but.

At least the ones that claim to be 100% California have some level of the law checking on them. Everything else is a crapshoot.
Realistically that isn't that much money unless you want to be some kind of hobbyist HFT tinkerer.

With no stance on whether people should be doing HFT as a hobby, presumably there is a finite amount of colocation space available and an opportunity cost/maintenance associated with onboarding people so this is what the market and regulators decided were the table stakes?
It seems like Microsoft are afraid to make it easily available because if word got out every enthusiast and power user would switch leaving them without the ongoing ad revenue.
Bootstrapping is about building a business first, and developing software second.

We took 5 years of little to no income to realise we were in the business of business, not the business of software.

The years we spent writing software were more-or-less wasted, once we realized that -marketing- and sales were the drivers the we spent time on that, and less time dreaming up new things to write.

In other words when evaluating new ideas the primary questions become "Who is the market? How will I reach them? Can I afford that? Can they afford this? Will they care enough to pay cold hard cash?"

Before that we evaluated ideas on merit "is this cool? Does it have utility? Is it better than what already exists?" All of which are meaningless if there's no market share left, if you can't reach the customer, if they're not in enough pain to care, or if they can't afford you.

Once this truth that our focus is business not software, THEN we started making enough money to get paid salaries. But nothing like FAANG level salaries.
to resolve a short url to a piece of software i guess
Something every new parent should learn (which some parts of car rides mimic), learn about the 4th trimester. Then learn the 5 S’s to mimic the womb:

Swaddle - wrap the baby

Side/stomache - position like the womb

Shush - white noise

Sway/swing - walking or bouncing

Suck - a finger, a sucker, etc

These were a life saver for my son. Most nights it was just swaddle + sway, on bad nights it took all 5. I think the reason cars work for so many baby’s is that car seats, the rhythm, the white noise from the car, etc… these all do the same thing.
In contrast to Noam Chomsky who was pushing the idea that language was developed primarily for thought [0].

I don't know how much weight should be given to this paper but, if true, directly contradicts Chomsky. Here is one quote from Chomsky:

"""
... One general assumption about language, almost a dogma in philosophy ... [and] linguistics ... is that language is primarily a means of communication ... probably that's totally false. It seems language ... is designed as a mode of creating and interpreting thought.
"""

In my opinion, I find Chomsky to get mired in certain quagmires around intelligence and computation, especially in regards to AI, where he's somehow managed to rationalize an absurd stance. I remember watching a video with Chomsky claiming that language's primary purpose was not communication and thinking it was potentially plausible but highly unlikely. I'd be curious to see if people think this paper, and maybe any other research, refute this position.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmpRtj34xg
I love how they compare the loading times by making the bars in the graph render as slowly as their benchmark measurement. Really delivers the message why the faster compilation time is worth it, instead of just showing a static graph with numbers.
You’re overlooking that all the money goes into the universal service fund, from where it is redistributed to the carriers that service those high-cost customers. AT&T gets some of that money, but very few of its customers are high cost. Most of the money goes to different, smaller providers. (At the same time, the tax on AT&T’s service reduces AT&T’s revenues, like any other tax.)
My last version of Windows was 7. After that I used a MacBook for work for a few years, and I somewhat missed windows for gaming (but mainly used a PS4 during that time so I got by). Then, a few years ago, I switched exclusively to Linux (I’ve usually had a dual boot or a second machine running Linux, but it was rarely my exclusive OS), and haven’t looked back. I’ve since also got a Steam Deck which has completely replaced my PS4, while I also play a few games like Crusader Kings on my Linux laptop.

Gaming is what kept a lot of people on windows over the years, but thanks to valve and the proton team, Linux gaming works as well as Windows gaming (and some people say better than — I certainly don’t have to deal with all the crap Microsoft tries to put into windows).

Some people refuse to use Linux because they’re afraid of having to tinker with it, but that hasn’t been my experience in over a decade. Things have generally just worked for me.
There are many key differences between the two concepts. 'charity' would be a bad translation of 'น้ำใจ'. GPT-4o explains it well:

https://chatgpt.com/share/e/987705c8-fcb7-4af3-a8bd-9d7dc228...