skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't we have a suppressed shipping industry? Open it up and get the ships moving between the midwest and east and south and build demand. The old shipping lanes are basically non-existent.
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Please read the rest of my comment.
Even the Wikipedia entry on them has the classic bean-shaped diagram. If they are not really like that, why did that become the standard representation? Have they always been know to exist in more network-like structures, and was that why there was initial resistance to seeing their origin in free-living prokaryotes?
Yep, fascism will mold itself to the current culture and climate, and in the US right now that seems it will be meme ironic but real fascism.
Microsoft isn’t dead. It’s just become IBM. The gas giant phase of a dying star.
I installed win11 on that exact PC and use it every day. Enable the TPM.
I think "fine" and "you can ignore laws" aren't precisely identical in all cases.
It's probably possible but certain low level things have been all but wholly outsourced for a generation or two. The know-how isn't there to do a lot of stuff at various places on the scale and cost axis.

I'm not what a realistic path to come back from that looks like.
I think that the events that played out after September 11th show that Americans still have the same reaction.
> Or are they picked because they are young and gullible and easily manipulated

bingo, take developing minds with high risk tolerance to do the illegal work someone older and wiser would refuse.
Interesting reminder from
the article that those AR glasses are one of a family of ideas Apple is simultaneously pursuing:

> The company is still working on successors to the Vision Pro, including updated versions of the original model. It also has other concepts in the works, such as AirPods with cameras, and executives still hope to eventually create a set of standalone AR glasses someday.
>It is a forced feature no one is really asking for.

Microsoft mandated TPM after gauging both user feedback and real world metrics and finding that TPM helped increase security by a significant margin. I am inclined to believe them.

Techbeards like most of the audience here have a passionate hatred for TPM whether righteously or otherwise. For everyone else in the real world, TPM is at best a security boon and at worst something you don't even know is there.
QEMU + KVM + EmuTPM = Win 11 VM
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And yet, even though I'm thankfully employed right now, I'm looking for another opportunity (personally not satisfied with my current company). I've been applying to countless jobs and yet, I'm finding it very difficult to get past the screening interview. Even for roles I was referred to by current employees (a engineering director referred me!).

Also, I'm not using AI for applications - besides small proof-reading - and I'm even dedicating some time to write sincere cover letters by myself, no AI involved, for every application.

Is it me or is the market this bad for everyone?
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Sick and tired of standard narratives about DeepSeek or some asinine political theater. I just wanna enjoy the things I read.

Recommend blogs to read along:
Computer Science
Design (Art, typography, anything)
Philosophy (more along the lines of what Aeon.co does)
Space (I want to study astronomy and astrophysics, but any blogs around space travel, or alien theory is greatly appreciated)
History (especially how it influences daily culture, such as Nasi Goreng being a staple in Netherlands owing to colonialism. No WW2 pls. I get that it was important, but there is more to history)
Literature
Music

Will really appreciate any reccos
I will be honest, I am always very skeptical of these claims that the big tech companies are fine but small business is hurting. Many of them seem to originate with the big tech companies themselves and I highly doubt they really have the interests of small business in mind. Plus, I'm old enough to remember when everyone claimed EU tech law was about to ban memes, which didn't happen...
Don't look at just the ship builders. Look at the shipping industry where ships are basically non-existent and the old shipping lanes are dead.
I just ran ripgrep on a few million logs and was amazed at how fast it was. Fascinating read!
Software In The Public Interest Inc. (creators of free desktop) is incorporated in New York so they have to follow US sanction law anyways.
Deporting violent immigrants is fine. Biden enforced immigration laws too, and when there was a bipartisan immigration reform bill Trump asked the conservatives to block it.

Trying to revoke birthright citizenship is not “enforcing existing law”.

The concessions from Mexico and Canada were already planned from last administration. Moreover, now there are retaliatory tariffs coming from them.

How does a trade imbalance imply that we are “screwed”? Trump repeats that constantly but it doesn’t seem implied to me.

The stuff about NATO is a lot more complicated than you’re making it out to be.

This is my biggest issue with Trump and his supporters, they treat everything as this incredibly reductive, black and white, “simple” issue.
I agree, but if I were building evil robot to conquer the world, I'd probably change the height and weight for different fighting strategies and tasks, but I'd not mess with the optic system too much.
So, to be clear, I do think "who people in government are and what they do" is appropriately public record.

But yes, there is a difference between media reporting on what high-level government officials are doing and government (or quasi-government) officials singling out low level employees for ridicule. It's the difference between punching up and punching down.

But this is not among the worst things Musk is doing, and if it were a right-wing magazine doing reporting on employees in the federal government rather than someone using their role within the government itself to do it, I might find it distasteful but would have no real qualms about it.
Depends on how you measure. Lots of health spending is labour costs, and our labour costs are higher. So percentage of GDP relatively closely tracks percentage of total working time.

Also perhaps our more enlightened policies are helping us achieve that higher per capita GDP?
99% of influencers would confess if it got them clicks.
the term "aware" qualifies your _opinion_ or feelings as a fact, which i refute. it is snarky, maybe, on the dark side of humour. but "offensive" - i don't think so.
I think we should not buy anything from USA, while their goal is just to sell us overpriced weapons.
How does this differ from Aider's Architect mode? I never used it, but it was my impression that that was the same idea.
Of course not, as we all know dead companies add trillions in market cap all the time.
>Eh, Linux can still be a crap shoot depending on what you are trying to do.

Sure, but what system is free of such a generic and vague criticism?

>differences in distros are still somewhat vast.

Yes, and that’s a very positive point, isn’t it?

>Do I target Wayland or X11? Do I target OpenGL or Vulkan, Deb or RPM, or one of the many App in a box (Snap, AppImage, Docker, Etc)

That’s something the actual circumstances should mostly respond to. Is that a green field pet project? Do whatever seems most pleasing! Is that a project for some company? Don’t they already have some existing constraints?
> The problem is that the GDPR has been largely a failure protecting citizens from corporations, but it has hurt everyone else.

This is just laughably incorrect. Literally every Fortune 500 that I work with who has operations in Europe has an entire team that owns GDPR compliance. It is one of the most successful projects to curtail businesses treating private data like poker chips since HIPAA.
do the people making decisions at Microsoft even use windows? it's incredible that it's been allowed to get this bad.
> Author isn't aware of dislocker. But keep on being smarmy.

I'm not aware of that, either.

But since the author talks about doing this change from Linux, my Arch can handle BitLocker drives "out of the box" (meaning I didn't do anything specific to have that, I just clicked once out of curiosity on a BL drive and it worked). The only "catch" is that it requires the long key, it doesn't support password unlock AFAIK.
Thanks toomuchtodo, this is helpful
Like league of legends with their amazing anticheat kernel driver that also requires tpm. Not sure how this thing is gdpr compliant. It is way too invasive.
how is this legal? This is apples problem and they need to be sued into oblivion. If i have location tracking turned off on my phone why is my phone still sending location data?
Purchasing power parity depends a lot on what basket you compare.

Eg owning a car or cigarettes are very expensive here. But eating out starts much cheaper than in the UK. (There's no upper limit in either place, of course.)
The log suggests it doesn’t immediately stop upon noticing the file is over 1 TB—the second entry comes two minutes later when it’s trying to upload the 100,001st block. This makes me wonder whether 100,000 blocks is an intentional limit on file size or whether it’s some sort of internal threshold that isn’t meant to prevent uploading files of that size but is buggy. Perhaps files bigger than 1 TB have slightly different behavior by design and that behavior was broken?

Since 2 minutes isn’t long enough to upload 1 TB, it’s either looking at the blocks out of order and skipping ahead to block 100,001 for some reason or noticing that’s the first block that hasn’t been uploaded yet.

Another comment suggests 10 MB isn’t a fixed limit. In that case, I wonder if 100,000 blocks is the limit and the intention of the designers is that users with such large files would increase their block size. If so, that should be documented of course, and a scenario. Although it’s still a bit strange that it would apparently try to upload the 100,001st block and not immediately warn the user that the file size is incompatible with their block size.
Fascinating. I live just 100km from the site.
I'm a fair hand with the Linux shell and utilities, and I can say that PowerShell provides a lot of useful analogous capability in the Windows environment. I don't totally understand the model for PowerShell but the times I've had to dip into it it's been pretty good.
You seem to have switched what you're saying to "it's not many gold coins in one forest; it's at least one gold coin in many forests".

Or rather, you now seem to think it's pretty likely that lots of people have this happen to them.
I like the idea,but hope to have more demo blog
That reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icoe0kK8btc
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The Windows 11 Explorer titlebar is always colored depression-gray

One of the most baffling aspects of modern Windows is that it's ridiculously hard to tell at a glance which window is active. It used to be that the active window's title bar was bright blue, and everything else was gray. These days, I have two 2560x1440 monitors, which was unimaginable back in the day, and regularly fail to identify which window is active.

Also, the modern Alt-Tab popup often takes two full seconds to appear on my machine. I can't even imagine how they managed that.
There should be a registry key or GPO setting to override this called “EnableOOBE” or something similar.
thanks! I clicked through to all of them, but I don't see how the 3.2 million number came to be. half of them talk about litigation, a few thousand records, and the largest number is 750 thousands, but there's no mention of how many people actually moved (or died) in North Carolina, so that number is at best some kind of upper bound.

it would be good to see the voter roll changes for each state compared to the margins of victory.

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Congressiona...
Didn’t they release a pair of VR glasses last year?
DeepSeek gives for free, what OpenAI asks people to pay for. OpenAI is in a lot of trouble.
At what point do you make the cut off?

A big piece of Windows 11 is VBS, which requires TPM. It's not just device encryption, but security of core operating system components. Microsoft gets repeatedly hammered, rightfully so, for security, and VBS was the means to right-track that.
You made a new account just to post this; I'm flattered! Perhaps your normal account is tied to your professional identity?

Do take care.
> CFPB Warns that Digital Marketing Providers Must Comply with Federal Consumer Finance Protections
> Tech firms that use behavioral targeting of individual consumers regarding financial products are liable for violations

Oh, ok.
Seems the party wasn't good for us anyway.
>I’ve been hearing people say this since this incorrect essay was written almost 20 years ago Microsoft had [...list of significant statistics...]

Whenever someone writes a provocative article about something being "dead", they are almost always talking about influence and mindshare -- rather than business statistics.

Yes, Microsoft is still a huge behemoth being a $3+ trillion cap company with a overwhelming marketshare of Windows & Office installations but the apex of their "industry influence" was the 1990s during the "Wintel" days before the internet came along. That 1980s/1990s was the time period when Bill Gates was CEO and "everybody was scared of Microsoft". Since, then they ... lost the browser wars (both old IE and new IE with Trident engine failed), lost the mobile shift (Windows phones failed), is a distant #2 in search engine market. Microsoft is somewhat back in the influence game with AI but that's because they partnered with OpenAI rather than build something internally. Arguably, it's Meta that gets more noise with LLAMA, and China's High-Flyer getting everybody's attention with DeepSeek-R1. That's the type of "alive vs dead" PG is writing about.

The "dead" being a writer's rhetorical flourish rather than a business status is the same when applied to "IBM is dead". In pure business metrics, IBM is still a giant company with $65 billion in revenue and $7 in profits. The airlines, major banks, and credit-card companies still run millions of transactions through IBM Z mainframes. Companies are still buying and upgrading expensive new Z mainframes. But the rhetorical "dead" means IBM's apex of influence was 1960s & 1970s. The later IBM trying to relevant with the newer tech like Watson and blockchain service doesn't matter to people.

Maybe writers should stop using "dead" as rhetorical technique because it just confuses readers. E.g. saying something like "DirecTV is dead" makes people scratch their head when they just watched a game on the satellite service last night. How would that be possible if it was truly dead?!?
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There are shockingly few images of mitochondria available online.

I started a project to increase that number by 1,000,000x: https://powerhouse.breckyunits.com/

I'm currently mastering the same confocal fluorescence technique used in this image (but borrowing microscope time, as the scope costs >$250K), but also developing an at-home protocol using Janus Green that should cost less than $200.
No but mechanised assaults are. Mounting up on a fast transport and charging the enemy lines is still a viable tactic, what changed is the horse got too vulnerable and the robots aren't cheap or fast enough yet.

Humm-Vees, Bradley's and other infantry mobility vehicles with mounted guns for fire support have very much stepped into the tactical role.
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There are several articles and videos that claim that the cost of a tariff is simply passed on to the consumer.
The problem with heavy-handed moderating, rather than relying on upvotes/downvotes/flags, is that it is more subject to bias. I'm happy to stipulate that bias didn't play a role here -- I googled around and your reputation in this space is quite high! -- but it's also unknowable.

Btw, I'm pretty confident this getting removed from the front page before it was flagged wasn't "imaginary."
Enforcement of the GDPR has been _grindingly_ slow; the first really significant fines weren't issued until 2022, when the Irish regulator finally pulled the finger out.

Presumably based on this experience, more recent internet-y laws (DMA, DSA, AI Act) are _not_ dependent on national regulators, and enforcement is getting off the ground more or less immediately. I'd expect that when the GDPR's successor shows up it'll follow suit.
5 embedded programming surprises I stumbled on
I hope this helps someone who moves from buisness programming (SaaS, startups) to embedded. That was my route and I wasted a lot of time on these:

- input filtering: this cost me a week I am sure, a 1 is not necessarily a 1, it might be 0.98 and sometimes dip to a 0 on the signal line, every analogue value you read is really a time series of values

- you need to spend time on shortening your feedback loop, or you will spend half your day plugging devices in and out rather than delivering new features

- modifying libraries: horrifying! My embedded peers would just download a C++ library, copy what they need and willy nilly modify the methods in it and add it to their project - if I saw a python programmer start changing code in a PIP package I would freak out, but in embedded behaviour like this is normal

- destroying hardware is almost unavoidable if you want to develop fast, be prepared for it, have sacrificial components and make sure you have a stock of expendable components

- pre-allocated memory, I didn't waste time on this one, but was surprised how that works, and how little memory you really have on an STM32

I taught myself embedded programming when building control modules for my electric cars - quite a steep learning curve for me, I hope this video helps someone have a softer landing!
Use this instead - it's OSS and not microsoft controlled.

https://open-vsx.org/
> You cannot "just stop working" (because some industrial processes, when let down, can destroy the whole factory).

Well, people in any old club can "just stop working". But they are facing contractual penalties including getting fired. And I think that's fair.

> In any case, the US should destroy the unions by removing all legislation preventing work organization or giving them special rights, and let them reform as grassroot unions (your "old club that people can form") and let them grow from this point.

Yes. Though removing the special legal rights (and the few obligations) from unions would basically destroy them.
I know this is not your point for the last paragraph, but have you read about the C-130 complete navigation system failure while trying land below sea level at the Dead Sea? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409950
For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows in VMs with GPU pass-through and disabled networking. Just an honest relationship - they don't respect me, I don't respect them.
Absolutely have to disagree on both counts. However, since you do at least sound reasonable, I'll prefer to just focus on the first claim, as we'd otherwise easily spend hours just debating basic philosophy in circles, and arguing about what even counts as valid logic.

We're already just engaging in anecdotes, but having lived all around the south from virginia to texas, I've found that almost "god-king" belief extremely common in southern baptists in particular and christians in general -- especially if you done it down ever so slightly to:
"Trump has God's favor, he was probably sent by God to save our country, which is God's favorite on Earth". I have, however, little experience with the north or the west -- almost only the traditional US south.

So, my questions for you would have to be, do you live in the south or elsewhere? Also, what would your analysis be in general about such people? (Regardless of if they are many or few)
Which he calls "vibe coding".

Link for the curious: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
I think this is a niche technology that people keep trying to make go mainstream, but most people just don't want it. For most people (including myself) trying VR a little is a novelty, but it's not something I want every day, and AR seems like it'd be useless or annoying unless I were using it in e.g. some industrial context like a heads up display.

It's like NFTs in gaming, NFTs in general, AI shoehorned into places it doesn't make much sense, wifi connected can openers, Soylent, ...

Startup founders are always told that there must be market pull, and many startups fail because they try to push an idea nobody wants, but it's not just startups. Big companies and VCs do this too.