skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's wild to me that Teams is so fucking horrible that many businesses who effectively get it for free as part of other dealings still choose to pay for Slack.

I don't agree.

For many years now I use Linux.
I pay for Slack because some of my clients use it and it is convenient.
For some other clients I need to use Teams.

I like Teams better. I never had issues with them. Slack I reinstall every 2-3 months because it breaks in some weird way; last time yesterday when I uploaded a 'big file' (csv of a few mb), not only did it crash but restarting it didn't help. Teams work good for chating, for the calendar, and for video calls. I have a lot better experience with Teams for video calls than Google Meet.
USPS' law enforcement division is absolutely doing active searches, and even investigations outside, above and beyond anything to do with mail. It's kind of wild.
When browser tabs came about windows basically was a tabbed window manager if you only used maximized windows since it did not group windows from the same app in the taskbar. Basically tabs, but in the taskbar.
Adjacent point, but I recently bought a Windows laptop (after 10 years on Mac). I've been blown away by the sheer amount of advertising & upsells at OS level. Some of it you can turn off, but others you can't seem to (for me at least). I don't ever remember Windows feeling like you're borrowing it from MS.
What are the main advantages relative to Ubuntu? Ditching "snap"? Are you on GNOME?
> Legal analyses, law review articles, customary practice, etc. all /influence/ courts.

Correct. As a general rule:

- When the "black-letter law" dictates a result (that is, a statute or binding precedent), a judge will generally follow it — unless the judge really wants to achieve a particular result and is willing to do mental-gymnastics rationalizing or to try to get the law changed.

In other situations, judges are typically very busy but they still want to get it "right," in accordance with whatever their personal mental model of life suggests, and they don't like being reversed on appeal. So they (judges) look for support — and try to anticipate possible counterarguments — from a variety of sources, as suggested by the adversaries' counsel battling each other's arguments — each of whom is motivated to help the judge do what counsel want by finding the sorts of things mentioned above.
In this particular context, it's also very easy to abuse to frame someone, and attitudes like yours continue to show why.

Would you say the same for this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
Your meaning isn't entirely clear, but I suspect you're agreeing with me.

It's wants that drive the dynamic originally commented on. It's the confusion of wants with needs that's being distinguished. E.g., many people do in fact have their needs met to a degree that would afford freedom, it's their wants which inhibit them.
I’d challenge you to find one article where this is the case.

Almost all “journalism” today is opinion notifications without substance, source, or first hand accounts. I suppose that’s its own kind of historical artifact, but not the kind I’ve seen be meaningful in my study of history.
Flirting is healthy and isn't even remotely cheating. There's also a difference between flirting and trying to pick somebody up. I'm afraid your thinking is why so many marriages are failing today.
Cat's outta the bag, welcome to the Wild West v2.0
I saw the link in your unminified html to [0], and wanted to boost it here in case others had also not seen it before.

> We're doing it all completely bootstrapped. Day 1 starts with no social media presence, no followers, no press contacts, no road map, a shoestring budget and no revenue. We want to do it the hard way to demonstrate that the barriers to entry are lower than they've ever been. All you need is a couch and a laptop (couch optional).

Bootstrapping is not very much in vogue in these orange parts, but it's very much my jam.

[0] https://80daystartup.com/
New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains
New Labour more than doubled the NHS budget in real terms, and maintained that level over time [1].

Having worked in both environments, it's not particularly important to me whether work gets done by a private or a public entity, the most important thing is that money is spent efficiently. If the public sector is spending public money then efficiency usually means ensuring that pointless work is stopped, and that staff who have become ineffective are shed. If the private sector is spending public money then efficiency usually means hawk-like contract negotiations are required to prevent a good chunk of the cash from being siphoned off by middlemen.

[1] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-c...
> Existing free workspaces that upgrade to a paid subscription before 26th August 2024 won’t be affected.

I think the approach will be to upgrade, export the data and then cancel subscription.

I don't mean cancel as to leave slack but to be able to revert to the new free usage policy while keeping previous data.
They don't say on what order it is biodegradable. Is it a week? That would be useless for its use as a disposable carrier for food, beverages, etc; these are the things that are polluting our world on a large scale. Or is it a decade?
In some novel, the author discussed Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac [0] as not a test of Abraham by God, but a test of God by Abraham.

As in, 'I am about to murder my only son on your orders. If you are indeed the kind of god who would order me to do such a thing, then we'll see where that leaves us...'

That interpretation always struck me as truer to Old Testament tone.

[0] https://biblehub.com/kjv/genesis/22.htm
Or, simply, people who do not want their behavior to be monitored regardless of developer rationalization.
"Debloater" is the term you probably want to search for.
By tap-to-pay, I mean you need no special apps, you need no special accounts, any of that. You can pay with any physical credit or debit card that supports tap-to-pay, or you can use any credit or debit card you have loaded into your phone.

With a QR code like that, people still need to install an app, set up an account, etc. It's just a lot more friction. In cities where I can tap-to-pay, getting set up to ride a bus or train for the first time takes literally zero time; I'm already set up. If I need anything special - apps, accounts, system-specific QR codes, etc - then the setup time instantly goes up to a minimum of 10 minutes. It's a relatively large barrier to entry for infrequent riders, and ultimately serves to discourage use of public transit.
You're still confused. In order to not be imprisoned forever Assange admitted to the charges which are outlined in the above justice dept. link and summarized by myself. He did not admit to guilt for anything you're making up or imagining.
I am going to try to stay as non political as possible as I know this is a sensitive topic for many.

I see gun violence as a more recent issue. We have had these type of guns, and the various weapons for hundreds of years. It is only recently that such issues such as school shooting became a thing. Mass shootings, and school shootings while a horrific incident, are not a result of access to guns. Back in the day, it was not uncommon for kids to hunt, especially if you lived in certain communities like the blue collar area. I think the reason we see such issues today is a large and complex issue. It's much easier to get to places, and people are more impulsive and social media and mental health are certainly contributing factors, but I can't really agree with people when they argue that gun control needs to happen. I agree their is a problem, and I also see signs that gun control dosnt work. I think its similar to banning cars that can go over 70 mph because speeding kills so many people and causes so much financial damage.
Or if the check does not prevent the division (the typical "time-travel" example).
Reuse is better than recycling when the reusable bags are more efficient to produce / number of uses than single use bags. More than one researcher has disputed this for "reusable" plastic bags. (I reuse the "non-reusable" ones...)
> and having too many options.

I'm old enough to be able to remember when there were ~6 TV channels, and, really, only 4 of them actually worked.

You had option A, B, C, or D, and you picked on. Usually it came down to an A or B.

Now with 300 channels I get lost in choosing something, and ultimately default to something generic as background noise as opposed to actually giving it my attention.

See also: Fromm's Escape From Freedom
Researchers achieve practical 3D tracking at record speed
I think France (Macron) help push through the 'open' exemption, whatever that practically turns out to be, for the final EU AI Act...obviously not lost on people that is where Mistral lives.
I made this account 14 years ago when I was a teenager. I didn't even know my YouTube was tied to this Hotmail Google Account until the past week or that it even existed.
I adored the Living Computers Museum. Being able to just sit down and use an Apple 1, Xerox Alto, Altair 8800, and so many more in the same place was incredible. And then, a friendly museum employee being there to show you how to use it, tell you about what made it unique, etc. was even better. It was so much better than most look-but-don’t-touch museums.

It’s really a travesty that Paul Allen’s sister seems bent on dismantling everything he left behind.
Automatic infinite retention is a social failing, we should be selective about what we choose to keep because the rate at which we're creating it is so large.

It's not that hard to click 'save'. The old needs to make room for the new.
Most contemporary journalism isn't even worth reading, let alone archiving.

It's published at virtually no cost compared to what newspapers and magazines used to cost. And with LLMs it's going to get even cheaper as you no longer need people to write the stories. We are spiraling into an era where we will be drowned in content that is all worth next to nothing.
Indeed they are. Anything on Saturn goes for big bucks, especially ones with handmade covers. Impulse did a solid run of re-releases in the mid 70s that are much more accessible.

This is a good read on Saturn: https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/beginne...
> ... can completely decompose in nature—and do so within only two months
Another victim to the end of the ZIRP era.
Shows tiny home/van life is certainly not a new concept.
This has nothing to do with copyright duration, if Netflix takes down its archive tomorrow you will say the same thing. Let's shorten it to 2 years right?

It's not illegal to archive of course. Video recorders were a thing even back in the day of MTV, completely legal consumer devices.
I'm one of those people who constantly delete all their messages and data held on third-party services, so automating the removal of this actually appeals to me, but I know many will be upset by a change like this. I wonder how much money this is really going to save them, and at what cost in (potential) customer goodwill.
I've seen this kind of take get a lot of hate online, but I do agree (ignoring any of the parent post's specifics). I think using AI is fine, but if you get output and you don't have the ability to validate it or look at it critically, you're just going to produce code with subtle bugs.

I worked with a junior at my last job - great guy - who really got into ChatGPT when it came out. There we're _multiple_ times I hopped in a call to debug with him or reviewed a PR of his and had questions about certain very clear bugs. They were always AI generated, but unvalidated.

One specific one that pops out was an htaccess file (which suck, to be fair). He was asked my why his changes didn't work as he wanted them to, and when I looked at it, it wasn't even close to doing what was intended. I asked him where he got the basis for these changes, and he pulled up a ChatGPT prompt.

I understand that an LLM likely has very little htaccess knowledge compared to JavaScript, but the mindset of taking what it said and pasting it in without assessment isn't a very productive one. Same goes with StackOverflow as well, except you can at least get some feedback from other people via votes and comments.

He also had a lot of imposter syndrome, and I can't imagine that relying on LLMs helped much with that either.
Oh it's not even free per user.

The moment the EU opened an investigation [1], they reacted [2] by getting it out of their bundle pack [3], and offering it on the side instead, with the new bundles being marked "[bundle name] EEA NO TEAMS", and teams being priced 5€/user/month.

At least I guess kudos to Microsoft for learning a trick Facebook/Meta/Apple keep ignoring, the moment they say it coming they switched gear because they know the EU won't buy their "good for the user" thing.

> Today we are announcing proactive changes that we hope will start to address these concerns in a meaningful way, even while the European Commission’s investigation continues and we cooperate with it. These changes will impact our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business customers in the European Economic Area and Switzerland. They are designed to address two concerns that are central to the Commission’s investigation: (1) that customers should be able to choose a business suite without Teams at a price less than those with Teams included; and (2) that we should do more to make interoperability easier between rival communication and collaboration solutions and Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites.

They also made it extra annoying to switch from a regular package to that one, and somehow when you search on products in your admin (if you're already a customer) you need to know what to type for those no teams bundle to show up.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/docume...

[2] https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2023/08/31/european-com...

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/microsoft365-...
What are the best slack alternatives these days? Surely in 2024 live chat is really a commodity
Postgres accepts 'tru' and 'fals' for boolean values
I'm not a company law expert. But IMO such actions would not be legal in the EU.
There's a Constitutional right against undue property seizure. Prosecutors can liquidate assets used in a crime after a conviction, but there is no law that would permit the operation of Boeing, as a corporation, by the government, and any such law, would, thankfully, be unconstitutional.

Powers of expropriation are the stuff of Communist dictatorships. "We don't do that here."
The actual hotmail email was hacked years ago but doesn't matter in this case, I have a Google account that uses a hotmail email address and I know the password.
It's all so tiring. Make packaging from manufacturers biodegradable by law. Why is the consumer burdened with these decisions?

Is this some sort of deranged lobbying scheme?
Ask HN: What are some cheaper Herman Miller alternatives?
Is it possible to get the comfort and looks of a HM chair, but for less?

Testimonials (especially from people with sciatica) appreciated!
You can actually use the IDF system in Rust to use the std lib, at least on ESP32-C3. Probably others too.

If you are on Windows, you will need to place the project folder at the top level drive directory, and there are other quirks as well, but it works.
The 11th generation surface pro is a 1st gen device?
I had the same thing.

I forget the exact course of action, but from what I remember:

- ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist

- ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft\ AU\ Daemon/

- /Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft\ AutoUpdate.app

Nuke all of that, though for the last one you may have to chmod 000 it.

Then do a search for everything with Microsoft Update in it and delete that too.

This process kind of reminds me of removing spyware infestations from Windows XP.
“Despite the left’s predictions, the fall of Roe hasn’t ushered in a “Handmaid’s Tale” dystopia”.

This is really in the eye of the beholder isn’t it, interesting that another recent article shows an increase in child deaths and attacks on IVF and people arguing against no fault divorce feel pretty dystopian. Aside from the fact I think there’s really no way anti-abortion activists don’t want to make it illegal at the federal level as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/texa...

I’ve been really interested in this idea of people should be able to choose their own government recently though. It’s I think a thing that sounds good but doesn’t really mean anything. Any time you start to limit individual freedoms in this way, especially when it aligns with a religion it makes me wonder, who is really choosing? Do people really “choose” a government that reflects a minority opinion(I mean this with the Dobb’s decision but also other arguments in favor of more authoritarian governments). Can you say people “choose” a government if that government is not a liberal democracy. Like this is an argument against overthrowing someone like Saddam Hussein.
When I look at the task manager, I literally have a tab called startup. It has an entry for Microsoft Teams. I set it to disabled. Teams doesn't start at startup for me.
> Are they

> 1. Gods who simply ship bug free code and can't understand why mortals like us need telemetry to do the same.

> 2. Non-software people who've never shipped software to devices they don't control, just posting on HN for fun.

I'm a user who thinks internal testing and user bug reports is good enough and doesn't like my computer telling other people how I use it. Doubly so when its software that explicitly bills itself as caring about privacy.
Living here for the last 10 years, it's been jarring how just in the last few years, driverless taxis went from "it'll never happen" to "is this the default now?"

The Waymos are genuinely good drivers. I look forward to taking them every time.
It's possible to call programs without any arguments, not even the path to the binary. I believe passing the path to the binary is merely a shell convention, because when calling binaries directly from code (not through the shell), sometimes it's possible to forget to specify arg 0 (if your chosen abstraction doesn't provide it automatically). I bet this has caused tons of confusion for people.
More countries should exit
I wonder if Discord will ever do something like this. We're coming up on them storing messages from 10 years ago, and they're all still accessible and searchable(!) including attachments.
Does this mean the self-driving cars are finally here?

Where next?
Some embarrassingly rich person needs to give the Computer History Museum enough money to buy all of it.

It's puzzling why all his stuff was organized in such a way that it could get wound down like this. Seems like it would have been way better to create a nonprofit then endow it with enough money to keep operating independently.
Wait, so then is it ALSO illegal to tie FaceTime to iOS?

And whatever the Google thing is called with Gmail?
I haven't taken a ride in one of those yet, what does it feel like?
Hate teams! I have heard many friends quit companies as they could not stand using teams after companies abandoned slack to jump on the free teams bandwagon. They had to hire Microsoft experts to manage the IT infrastructure which was just auto-managed before Microsoft sold them the stack.
There's value in studying this stuff rigorously even if you can't predict the exact future state of complex systems. Being able to model whether a system tends towards equilibrium or disequilibrium is enormously valuable.

In economics, George Soros's theory of reflexivity, for example, is a rejection of efficient market hypothesis. The idea here being that price signals can lead to second order effects and market disequilibrium.

In ecology/climate, it's very useful to understand what kinds of perturbations (introduction of cane toads to Australia) are more likely to break equilibrium.

In fluid dynamics, we still don't really understand turbulence, but we can do useful modelling in wind tunnels without grokking the fundamental principles.

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected it becomes even more important to get a rigorous understanding of this science. We might not get to the power of Harry Seldon's psychohistory anytime soon but there's useful value we can gain along the way.
What terrorist has this kind of money?

Serious question though.

Like I get many north Korea or an Iran back group many being able to fund this stupid decision which would wipe them off the map if they ever funded terrorists using nukes....but who has the money laying around to buy a nuke for terrorism and the technical knowledge?
What about my startup nextercloud? Why am I being discriminated against!?
Steelcase isn't cheaper but it's better in my opinion. For me the mesh on the Aeron chair causes intense hamstring pain more than any other chair.
Ask HN: Is it a di*k move to reject pull requests with non-eng commit msgs?
Tl;Dr is it a di*k move to ignore or reject pull requests that use non-English languages in commit msgs even though the project is all documented in English and is not a local project?

I just noticed a pull request with 5 commits on one of my repos with Chinese commit msgs. Even though the author has added a commit msg in English, explaining what he has done, it still pisses me off that I can't navigate the pull requests in a sane way because I can't tell what they contain until I open them one by one.

What do you think, and what is the professional approach to sth like this?
The article is not clear to me. Is the complaint that Microsoft’s changes were not sufficient? Or is the complain that Microsoft’s behavior prior to the change is punishable now?

The article states

> The software giant unbundled Teams from Office in Europe last year in an attempt to address regulator concerns

Which is a pretty generic statement that makes it hard to follow why they would be accused of bundling still
I loathe modern grocery store "reusable" bags. They can't be recycled, in that I can't toss them into my blue bin, I have to take them back to the store (I don't) and story is nothing happens to them anyway. I hate the texture of them, I hate the way the lay. I find them just awful.

For the grocery store, we have a set of, I guess, 10 or so cloth bags we use. We've used the core set every week for over 12 years. Had a tailor stitch up a hole in one of them once, wash them every few months.

We have a large, cloth Target logo'd bag I stuff in the bottom. It's about 1.5x the size of the normal ones, if I put it on top they inevitably drag it out first and fill it with the milk, juice, bowling balls (both of them), cinder blocks and whatever else is super heavy that we happened to buy that day. "But it fits!" "Yea, and now it weight 50lb!" Couldn't stuff it with cotton balls, stuffed animals, and the Cool Whip.

So, yea, bottom of the bag it goes.

I know there are concerns with cloth, and we wrap notably meats in the light plastic bags to help contain contamination. It's not been a real problem.

We've just started (past few months) using reusable mesh bags for the produce, that's working out ok so far.
What are the odds. I'm in SF this week for work and joined the waitlist last night. lol.
If print statement never completes then it is a well defined program. Because there will be no division by zero.
> how Microsoft giving you software you are not forced to use is bad

This does not represent the actual reality where MS crams their products down users’ orifices - like so many other companies do too.

> but apple limiting which software you can run on your device is not

This is also bad. Users deserve the respect and right to have general purpose computing platforms be open.

Edit: whitespace
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse
If it was donated by someone, shouldn't they give it back to the person who donated it? How does it get sold for cash?