skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't make that distinction myself. It all falls into the bucket of "Microsoft doesn't respect user agency." Their design decisions are a direct reflection of their (broken) values, full stop.
The radioactive legacy of Marie Curie
This immediately reminded of Terminal Text Effects from few weeks ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40503202

https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/
One of the problem with jailing people is that their work ability is no longer available to the rest of the society, or only in a reduced form.

Scientists, even dishonest ones, are very highly educated people with important and hard to replace skills. Locking those skills away is a huge loss, much higher than when you lock up a run-of-the-mill Ponzi schemer.

I would prefer some punishment that would still make use of their talent and skills to benefit humanity. Perhaps they should be required to design better research methods that prevent their own sort of fraud etc.
sorry, that's 12 years old and long outdated. newer analysis has been much different.

In the meantime, most of the french nuclear industry has been taken over by the government to prevent its financial collapse.

For example this article from 2022 paints a much worse picture on why EDF can't increase prices to cover the costs: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/why-french-plan-take...
I asked why they liked it. Presumably people like and dislike things for actual reasons.
I remember there being some buzz a few months back around something similar happening with Spotify. Lots of random tracks that looked/sounded suspiciously AI-generated strewn into Spotify-generated playlists.
From the same comment:

> They closed all the pools to save money

It comes down to economics. I share the commenter's assessment that there might be fewer places to swim than before, but I think it also comes from fewer people interested in swimming in the first place, which creates the vicious circle.

To draw a parralel, there's also fewer skate rinks in my region, ski resorts also closed in significant numbers. There's just not enough demand to justify the cost, and while lowering the requirements could partially help, I don't see it working even mid-term, and certainly not long term.

On liability, I'd suspect that's not the real issue (is the town actually liable if you drown on your own swimming (= with a swimsuit and clear intent) in an unmarked body of water ?) and it might be more on the image and keeping away some demographics. Basically the same level of care as forbidding RC toys in parks.
Weird anecdote time since the thought just hit me. When Tesla first came out and they were still pretty rare sight anywhere outside CA, I went to change my oil at a different place than I normally go to. Some electric car was there ( and I am almost certain it was Tesla, but I won't bet money on it ).

Anyway, the story is not about Tesla. There was this guy there and you should see the gleeful smile on his face as he was telling the workers there that they will all without jobs, because EVs have no engines and stuff. I listened as I tend to do and just smiled internally, because the guy clearly knew nothing about ICE cars, EVs, electronics, economics or even basic human nature.

Today, I 'bumped' into 'business owner', who struck as the same type of a person, because as we were discussing rto/wfh and other things, he gleefully noted that AI will take all those jobs. As before I kinda smiled internally, because the more shit you see in testing, the more you realize all this is gonna go down in flames sooner or later.

Still, it is weird. Where is sense of pleasure in other people's ( perceived ) misfortune coming from?
Those are more for single rides by people who rarely or never use the transit system. I've had the same Carte Opus for years and just bring it with me and refill whenever I visit Montreal. And the disposable paper cards are being phased out. I'm not sure when the rollout will be, but Montreal is currently working on upgrading the system to allow people to just tap-to-pay at the turnstiles using their phones or compatible credit and debit cards.

Which is not something that you could do with a QR system. I don't know that anything is inherently wrong with QR codes, but they do seem to be a choice that's more appropriate for countries like China where the existing electronic payment infrastructure uses QR codes. In North America, by contrast, things have generally settled on NFC, and I think that that reason alone probably makes NFC the better option for North American transit systems.
And this is another example of why i left windows. No matter how much customization I make, microsoft makes it very clear that it's theirs and that I am along for their ride. I find this absolutely intolerable, a total violation of privacy, and totally in poor taste; which, is at least on brand for microsoft.

It seems like microsoft can do whatever they want to windows, and treat the users with as little disregard as they please - and there will be no consequences. Their users will either allow it, or jump through the config registry to disable the latest unwanted behavior.
That's already backing off from your last post. Are you claiming that your statistics mean there is no significant downturn in mental health, or not?
if your browser has reader mode, you can read it just fine
> What else could this sick and twisted mind have cooked up? I wanted more. I clicked on Bette’s author page; this was the only title listed. Through the penumbral fog of half-sleep, squinting one-eyed at my phone, I googled, “a girls.quest for healthy watinf bette santinir.” Even the politely auto-corrected version yielded no meaningful results

> And then things got spooky. When I opened my Kindle again, there, illuminated by the inoffensive whitish glow of my device, was an ad for A Girl’s Quest for Healthy Eating. Only, it was vaguely distorted. Like a spot-the-difference Highlights game, here was the same book with minor discrepancies. This cover featured several little girls, presumably all on healthy eating quests of their own. The page count was slightly different. And most distressing of all, the author's name: Bette Santinir. In other words, Santini plus R. Where had I seen this name before? Oh right: from one minute ago when I misspelled Santini, Santinir.

> As the very editor of this Substack texted me, “If you didn’t have pics of this, I would think you were schizophrenic.”

I really wish the supposed pictures had been included in the piece.
Probably until Steam becomes publicly traded.
Maybe write to the FTC? This is a privacy violation. It’s also arguably anticompetitive— they’re auto-enrolling you in an MS product you didn’t want to use, and this comes at the expense of either just local use or of any competing system.

IMO this is also something that the US should shut down hard for a very different reason: every time anyone complains about a vendor, usually Chinese, misusing American data, the US is implicitly making a comparison to American vendors, which are supposedly better. But here’s MS being every bit as bad, if not worse.

Foreign countries can, and should, stop using MS over this. Things like NDAA look pretty dumb in light of this behavior. The US’s technological dominance is somewhat at risk due to this crap.
I'm going to be real which means asking hard questions and probably sounding like a jerk. So be warned.

> I just don't enjoy arguing about the structure of software anymore

Why were these arguments happening in the first place? Were you starting them? Did you dislike the arguments or did you dislike losing them?

>I'm tired of the personalities

There will be personalities no matter what you do for a living (or even in retirement!). Some will suck, some will be cool, most will be both at different times. But if you are tired of ALL the personalities, maybe your own personality is the problem.

> tired of the infantilization of the industry

What is "the industry"? How was it infantilized? I feel you are leaving some important detail out of this particular frustration.
I just wish Proton supported macOS. It being Linux-only always felt like their goal was never actually cross-platform gaming, but specifically SteamOS being able to run everything.
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New cancer from Microsoft is exciting news. But I'm still dealing with the candy crash AIDS. How can I remove this crap from my computer? And also is there a way to remove the ads? Do they have some kind of an extortion plan like Google or I'll have to hack myself through it?

Enshitification ensues.
This assumes the only thing that can make software worse for consumers is the developers that Apple "checks".
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41...

Do you also believe that Apple has broken into her homes across three states, follows her in unmarked vehicles, threatened to mail her a severed head, intercepted her home internet, and bugged her apartment, too?

Or is bringing up her own dubious allegations against this company off-limits when she's analyzing an EPA report without any qualifications?
Yet there are some out there. As I mentioned in an earlier reply, Red Baron frozen French Bread Pizzas have no microwave instructions (though people may try it anyway, idk), and either does Stouffer's family sized Chicken Alfredo (except for their sped-up hybrid instructions).
Completely agree with this, and I think this is one of the areas where genuinely senior people distinguish themselves: finding the right mix of systems building and capacity building to provide a durable increases in the organization's capabilities, instead of just making a big flashy show and then leaving.

I actually really enjoy building systems for less technical folks - it requires you to learn enough about the problem space and how the users think about the world to create the right interfaces and abstraction layers, but when you do it right, it's phenomenal how fast people can move and how much they can get done. The amount of compute power out there is mind boggling, and when you can actually open that up in a way where people who are less tech-focused can leverage it, you can enable some really incredible stuff.
Offer to install it to people who experience difficulties with Windows, and never lie about it being much simpler or N times faster; don't forget to ask first if they use any special software/hardware that requires Windows or has only Windows drivers. Offer alternatives, but always be clear that they're not the same thing. 99.9% of non professional Office users wouldn't even notice the differences with LibreOffice, but that's not a good reason to tell them that the two products are identical: they're not, but one is open and free, both in price and in how it respect the user, which for many people could count a lot more than the extra features MS Office has over LibreOffice.
One thing that worked for me many times is that I always offered full support for any problems the user would encounter, and to install Windows back and for free if after a given period of time they didn't find Linux usable for them. One has to understand that the common non tech user trying Linux can't easily phone their friends, coworkers, kids, nephews, etc. not even the PC repair shop down the street and magically find a Linux expert, so they must be given something that works and is well supported.
Word of mouth will do the rest: most users don't care about pervasive advertising or spyware, Closed vs Open Source etc, but others do, and they're the ones telling about Linux and bringing other users in.
Stream chatters must be some of the weakest minded people I've ever come across. It's very sad.
Difference is that AirBnB hosts can put their properties on multiple short let services, and access broadly the same market.

The same simply doesn’t apply to App on iPhone. AirBnB would only be equivalent if it was impossible for hosts to list their properties in multiple places and AirBnB customers where effective tied into the AirBnB platform where they would have do something ridiculous like change their electricity supplier to use an AirBnB competitor (because for some reason AirBnb have figured how to build a tightly integrated ecosystem of utilities and services that effectively force you to use them all together to get the most benefit).

And I say this as someone who’s fallen a long way down the Apple rabbit hole, and quite likes it down here. If multiple options for app stores and payment mechanisms existed, I would probably stick with Apple and happily pay a premium, because I value the convenience and peace of mind that comes from only having to trust Apple with my data. But that doesn’t mean that I think Apples behaviour is any reasonable or acceptable.
The robot in the article seems to be mainly focused on swimmers, who usually wouldn't have a flotation device, rather than boaters.
Not in an interplanetary society. If you're on Europa, your entire body weighs approximately one pound.
Apple’s apps make it pretty clear when something is local and when something is in iCloud. Even for iCloud users, it’s usually an explicit choice per file or object. Photos is the notable exception.
I literally did an install of Win 11 this week - trying to stay offline didn't work, trying to enter false details didn't work, couldn't find any other tricks and so had to make yet another account.

Got it installed, added the family as users, tried to login to my young child's freshly minted account. Apart from taking forever, you then have to go through all the "let us copy all your data" and "we're going to advertise to you, so you may as well let us personalise the ads!" and so on ... and you have to do that for every member of the family ... it's an absolutely diabolical time suck.

And of course you can't, for goodness knows what reason, just point at the existing Win10 install to copy all the profiles and settings across.

It all sucks.
Her other claims have all been dismissed, so she needs a new one
I had this happen about a year ago. OneDrive changed the default path for the Documents folder to the one you mentioned above, but I only noticed it when I wasn't able to find some files in the Documents folder. It turned out that some files were being saved to the default path C:\Users\username\Documents. So I tried to move the Documents folder from the directory made by OneDrive back to the default one, but it gave me an error. Then I tried to fix it in the registry, but there were quite a lot of different entries for the default path, and I wasn't able to figure out which one I should change or remove. In the end, I had to reinstall Windows. Now each time I install Windows on any PC, the first thing I do is remove OneDrive.

Unfortunately, this problem somehow happened again on my current Windows installation. Maybe I forgot to remove OneDrive this time, or it was automatically reinstalled during some update.
I remember when I was young that there was a "theming" app for win98 and it was cool.

It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep .
'Coffee badging': The new workplace trend to get around hybrid policies (2023)
NTP is a ubiquitous network service that runs directly exposed to the Internet, and that seems to me like a good thing to harden. Making NTP more secure does not stop anyone else from working on any other project.
> There is no formal theory for biology, the complexity exceeds our capacity for modeling it with formal language but that's not true for computers.

We don’t know to what extent that’s an inherent property of biology or whether that’s a limitation of current human knowledge. Obviously there are a still an enormous number of facts about biology which we could know but we don’t. Suppose human technological and scientific progress continues indefinitely - in principle, after many millennia (maybe even millions of years), we might get to the point where we know all we ever could know about biology. Can we be sure at that point we might not have a “formal theory” for it?

The brain is composed of neurons. Even supposing we knew everything we ever possibly could about the biology of each individual neuron, there still might be many facts about how they interact in an overall neural network which we didn’t know. Similarly, with current artificial networks, we often have a very clear understanding of how the individual computational components work - we can analyse them with those formal theories of which you are fond - but when it comes to what the model weights do, “the complexity exceeds our capacity for modeling” (if the point of the model is to actually explain how the results are produced as opposed to just reproducing them).

> There is an irreducible complexity to life and the biosphere.

We don’t know that life is irreducibly complex and we don’t know that certain aspects of computers aren’t. Model weights may well be irreducibly complex in that they are too complex for us to explain that they work and how they work even though they obviously do. Conversely, the individual computational elements in the model lack irreducible complexity, but the same is true for individual biological components - the idea that we might one day (even if centuries from now) have a complete understanding at the level of an individual neuron is not inherently implausible, but that wouldn’t mean we’d be anywhere close to a complete understanding of how a network of billions of them works in concert. The latter might indeed be inherently beyond our understanding (“irreducibly complex”) in a way in which the former isn’t
Go Mac. The GUI is stable and boring: the Finder hasn’t changed much in years. It’s Unix underneath so you can use command-line stuff or dusty programs like Emacs.

You can now pick up a MacBook Air at Walmart for $700. Considering the inflation we’ve had, that’s actually reasonable. It will do the Unixy stuff well. My Mac is of this same class and I’m happy with it.
As someone who lives in that building and works at Apple, I don't believe her. We were all pretty mad that she caused us to panic about being poisoned and gettin cancer.
This is a different article. I think AT covers the subject in greater depth than Bloomberg.
> Still, it is weird. Where is sense of pleasure in other people's ( perceived ) misfortune coming from?

It’s gross, but an inherent part of human nature, particularly among the insecure.

If you don’t already know the word for it you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000. It’s a great one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
It continues to astonish me how little people care (i.e., it triggers the $%&@ out of me). I really appreciate the professionalism and cool rationale when faced with absolute ignorance of how shaky a foundation our "modern" software stack is built upon. This is a huge service to the community, kudos to you and many others slowly grinding out progress!
I don't need to that on macos. Or Linux. Or whatever the fuck I want to use.

I don't need to disconnect from my network either. It just "work".
Yes, and that is for regulatory monitors. You might need one such monitor at a critical sensitive location and then get by with various e-sampler monitors elsewhere which kinda suck but are good enough to help build a picture of emissions.
Don't Bet Your Future on Specialized Vector Databases
Yeah, I've tried the same thing. Even with very heavy handholding (I think typing it out myself might've been faster) the results were useless beyond a short story.

I thought it was a skill issue though, because I hear others talk about it so much.
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
There are plenty of good answers here. There just really isn't anything out there that is remotely close to SWE in terms of comfort, pay, and accessibility.

For the last decade or so, SWE has been one of the most accessible and lucrative professions that mankind has ever seen. Before that, most folks needed to go the finance/lawyer/doctor route to access similar levels of financial security. And those professions require significantly more trade offs than SWE (more training, worse work life balance, etc...)

The fact is, you are not going to make SWE level salary doing hobby level woodworking in your garage. You can get into the trades and with a fair amount of time and effort you might be able to pull in the equivalent of a junior level SWE salary. But the trades are rough on your body and you will pay for that later. Or you can try and transition to other types of white collar work, most of which will never come close to what a SWE gets paid.

And of course, these answers are pretty personal. I have a few too many hobbies and would be more than happy to spend a few years making not very much money trying to turn some of those into paying gigs, but I also have a wife who has a well established career and we have kept our expenses in check. If you are the sole bread winner and sitting on an expensive mortgage and sending your kids to pricey private schools, then your options are going to be much more limited.

Also, just to keep this conversation a bit more productive. I would recommend looking into jobs that are software related (or software adjacent) in interesting fields. i.e. construction, energy, biotech, government labs, etc... You will almost certainly take a pay cut, and you will still get some of the typical SWE BS, but it is much less pronounced in my experience.
Norbert Weiner was explicitly raised by his father to be a prodigy as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Norbert-Wiener_A-Life-Cybernetics-Mat...
There's also IoT LTSC that goes til 2032.
From what I've gleaned from my social worker/therapist house mate is that you're not supposed to be storing any of that data on a non-compliant device to begin with. They can't keep anything local, and use some portal to a company that specializes in HIPAA storage.

I agree in general though, there are plenty of documents that really shouldn't be suddenly dumped to the cloud
I’m the problem. I’m trying to kill myself so I am no longer a problem. It’s harder than anticipated. I’ve tried a rope, jumping and helium. Helium was the closest. Saw demons as I breathed in the helium and became scared, then aborted.

Trying to get out of here so I’m not the problem any longer. It’s so fucking scary.

But I’m reminded by shrimp_emoji of the burden I’ve become, and I’m still resigned to die. The only way is by my own hand. Still trying. Hopefully it’ll get done so I don’t have to burden anyone with my problems.
You can get the powdered Pocari Sweat mix (2 x 10L bags) from Amazon.
It's not censorship to be downvoted for low quality posts. Please reference "intellectual honesty" and research how to have legitimate conversations. Reddit/Twitter/4chan esque communication is not appropriate for serious spaces.
Sure, but the typical person is not going to have a clue how to avoid interacting with the nonsense. At this point, there are two ways around it: do the installation as intended, then create a second local only account; or sift through the heaps of outdated advice online to bypass the registration requirement.
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Did you miss this part of my comment?

>While it's absolutely stupid that it needs to be done at all
Before HN gets triggered by the word 'discrimination' they're not talking exclusively about skin culture/identity politics, they're talking about all forms of discrimination - which is precisely what privacy rights are supposed to do.
> 30% was never an issue to begin with

The confiscation of 30% of all revenue earned online has always been an issue for any company and developer here on planet Earth.

There are countless useful apps and companies that will never serve people's needs because it is not financially feasible to run a business where your total revenue is confiscated to the tune of 30%.
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