skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought a new computer for the first time in ~5 years. I had to boot into windows 11. What a garbage shit show that OS has become. It took nearly an hour for updates, then it constantly dogged me to sign up for free trials of all kinds of crap. It required logging into Microsoft. It made me back things up.

At no point was any of this really optional. And when it was they made it difficult to find the option to skip.
Myanmar earthquake death toll jumps to 1000
Do you still need an enterprise agreement to get a license for LTSC? That used to be the case for 10, anyways... kinda puts it out of the reach of most users.
Because late stage open source capitalism is now bypassing the messy business of building something popular and going straight open-core/vercel-model on the back of already popular libraries and frameworks. The emerging playbook is:

- Find successful open source project
- Fork with "reasons"
- Pour VC into helpful features, great docs, DX and evangelism
- Run the Vercel playbook

We're gonna see a lot more of this.
> People responsible for that should be dismissed

Trump set that up. And he pushed COVID vaccines fairly hard at least for a while.
> I’m in Apple ecosystem, not that they are significantly different but they atleast allow me to use the system albeit in limited capacity.

Define "limited capacity". Other than Apple Services like iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, Apple Music/TV, etc, it should just be the App Store that's unavailable without an Apple ID (which _is_ crippling on iOS, but not so much on macOS).
exactly when you are speaking face to face and you see person you have another visual cue from someone lips and face expression realtime and you know if someone stopped speaking or just taking some time to gather thoughts or trying to find proper word in their own head (e.g. non native speaker).
The article discusses setting up Quality of Service (QoS) on a Ubiquiti router using EdgeOS. It presents two configurations: one with groups for easier management but lower throughput, and another without groups for higher throughput. Both methods involve creating traffic policies with prioritized bandwidth allocations for different network segments
> Fingerprint reader works

That blew me away when I found that out. Fingerprint readers never work on Linux, and yet (with openSUSE Aeon) the fingerprint reader built into the Framework 16's power button works out of the box. Felt like fucking magic.
He sold Tesla shares.

This is all public, I don't understand the weird speculation...
Is it really any different than every person who insists on running pfSense for security reasons then immediately suggesting some Chinese shitbox PC off AliExpress as the ideal platform to run it on?

Also, since when has having a Wikipedia page proven a company legitimate? You know most companies author their own pages anyway, that's kind of how Wikipedia works.
Many Keralian small towns and villages seemed empty to me. That's what I meant.

I am sure what you are saying is true.
I'd like an L3Harris gamer router with IBM CPU, Intel ROM/RAM, Xilinx DSP, and Analog Devices modem, all at $49, but only if there's going to be such a thing, ever...
It's weird reading the claim as there have been plenty of routers designed for OpenWRT in years prior. Some even quasi-bespoke. A selling point of the product is they release their source code but afaik this just means OpenWRT per se (and I suppose the bootloader) as various chips have closed source firmware anyway (much like other products that try to be as open source as possible).
We almost had that chance back in 2010-2020.. only if coup and COVID didn't happened..
Sure your phone doesn't have any google/apple accounts, right?
;) You still have to tell it to update.
Agreed. The about page also says that the plan is to update Plain to include new Django changes, but that would also be hard.

Django has a "contrib" package. I could see a fork with a fast moving contrib directory, or even just the Django project doing that with an explicit call-out for that package having a different set of breaking change expectations. A bunch of features started in contrib and graduated out of it over time, would be nice to keep that going.
> Then explain blind children
I was only talking about vision tasks as an example. You can extend the idea to any sense.

> While humans learn through example, they clearly need a lot fewer examples to generalize off of and reason against.

Human brain has been developing over millenia. machines start from zero. What if this few example learning is just an emergent capbaility of any
"leanring function" given enough compute and training.
Show HN: MongoDB MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol server that provides access to MongoDB databases. This server enables LLMs to inspect collection schemas and execute MongoDB operations.
If a freaking nuclear bomber is too woke for you, you might be the one with the problem.
The first counteraxample that comes to mid is Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator. He murdered, pillaged and lived out the rest of his years (happily and luxuriously) in Saudi Arabia.

He lived "in a villa rented for him by the government of Saudi Arabia in the posh Al Hamra district".
https://www.dawn.com/news/135283/idi-amin-led-quiet-life-in-...
UV is not so dangerous that you can't step in the room for a few seconds. Moreover, there's a significant number of precautionary measures you can take, like wearing UV-resistant sunglasses when you enter the room. There are also UV lamps that have timers on them, so you can have it automatically turn on and off when you're not there.
How do you handle when fields are added or removed? Do you have to rerecord all the affected tests?
>He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known.

Putin might well be richer.

Also it is hard to compare his wealth to historical figures, such as Mansa Musa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
That story never happened, I remember it well because everyone like you went insane about it but when the truth came out it ended up being that their headcount has literally changed by one person.
Is it clear to anyone else whether the pollution exposure changed during the pregnancy, or whether they’re only talking about the second trimester because it’s the only one that shows statistical significance or something else altogether?
Can an Interstellar Generation Ship Maintain a Population on a 250-Year Trip?
Not necessarily, I don't consider myself a skilled writer by any means but I use em dashes a great deal.

Em dashes allow me to get multiple ideas into a sentence with comparatve ease and have it still make sense. Otherwise I'd have to add additional sentences to a paragraph which itself has issues. With a longer paragraph one has to worry about its readability and comprehensibility, and that means having to restructure it—remove redundancies, etc.—and that takes time.

Good writers can think ahead and do all that restructuring in their heads. When writing about an idea, concept or logical unit thereof they'll write out short, coherent and readable text all in one go, and it will make sense. I only wish I could do that.

As I see it, em dashes are more a crux for bad writers like me (they allow our text to be at least comprehensible).
Yeah, let's make more things the wrong way for the nostalgic aesthetic.

I'm old enough to have done that, and to really miss the old world, but an improvement is an improvement.

None of the stuff I grew up with is "hackable" anymore. None of the design constraints of small, sleek, performant, high battery life and secure are amenable to that.

Even (production) Linux has stopped being a hacker's paradise and is tightening the rope.

And that's what the iPhone is: a production phone.

You want some cool toys? Get Arduinos, hacker laptops, RPis, Arch.

It's all still out there, but not every device needs to have its guts out.

That being said I will always miss SoftIce, being able to look stuff up in memory, being able to look stuff up in network traffic... alas, it's gone, and the truth is we're better off for it.
Well, you can read the source at least. Or tell AI to take a look.

In the end you always trust someone. At least bash and TypeScript is understood by enough people to judge it.
Good luck finding hardware that isn't at least partly or completely made in China.
It was Adam Orth (aka 'Sweet Billy') but clearly others shared similar views.

Sony capitalized on the larger always online controversy with a low budget ad poking fun at the concept[1], which was great marketing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
The rest of the world has something teach you here.

Back in 1945..46 at the time of Nuremberg trials the cases of "just following orders" defense did not work.

That one can be trialed and prosecuted for following orders has been part of the curriculum in military education in many countries in the world.

So you a wrong. You absolutely, positively want that the military chain of command will be laughed out for stupid orders, because in more dramatic circumstances, those following orders may be executed for war crimes even if they were just "following orders".

Here is a case in point about remembering history.

Until end 1970-ies, Soviet state was run by people who witnessed the 1939..1945 wars and while it built a lean and mean military machine, the state was overtly pacifist. Just check online for Soviet propaganda.

Fast-forward to 2010-ies, you will notice a non-negligible amount of the population associating itself with the "we can do it again" slogan. The assumption behind the slogan being that they can beat the Nazis or whoever alien comes to fight them.

The joke is that this "stupid" slogan turned into reality when they whole country turned into a Nazi state. Not exactly the outcome everyone expected that the time, when slapping it on car stickers.
That's the main reason why Valve is investing in Linux and Steam Deck.
I was a gamedev in the mid-90s. We were using Visual SourceSafe, which was my first exposure to source control, but clearly others at the studio had been using source control for some time, so it must have been around in game dev for a little while before that, at least.
At least the trains will run on time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I do get that we're all looking for different ways to cope or engage with the gremlins destroying the wings of our country, but this really doesn't help.
If you want an alternative view, the state government has to largely spend money on infrastructure and welfare for non-Bengaluru voters who comprise the majority of the population and the vast majority of the land area, so often all the money that flows into Bengaluru doesn't get spent in Bengaluru itself but instead the wider state.

I also think that there's a strong overcurrent of people wanting to emulate US living standards in a city that's simply designed for a different way of living, more similar to other dense cities in East Asia or maybe even Europe. You need to have skyscrapers and not large low rise estates for example.
Talk to Israel who provided targeting intel and see if they’re not pissed off
Mikrotik gets an honorable mention here. At least part or all of their product line is still manufactured in Latvia.
Makes me wonder what the actual mechanism is behind deciding what sticks and what gets wiped
Do you know where to buy it?
I was hoping this article went deeper into the Guardian's somewhat unusual ownership model, because I find it interesting and would love to learn more.

The Guardian is owned by (and I think largely funded by?) a trust that was intentionally set up in a way to ensure no commercial interest could interfere with the paper. How well it achieved that goal is, of course, debatable, but it has survived nearly a century in that form.
This wouldn’t happen today. Today there is talk about Canada becoming 51st state; there is relatively little opposition to that - on the contrary, the perception of Canada as a US ally drops in the US[1]. Four more years of this and I could see people similarly accepting tanks. And if you want to prevent this, the time to act is now.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-allies-enemies-friends...
Then use some rust file where you trust that the compiled file matches the source.
I find yaml tolerable for cases where ini would have been just as good. Anything else, and… no, it’s bad.
> We had no idea about any phishing attack. We never engaged in such activities, and if our server was compromised, it was their responsibility to prevent it.

It's also your server it also had your responsibility to ensure that it was protected. Likely it was hacked
The banks just recently did a debt sale of a lot of that debt close to list price, so 44 billion dollar valuation is probably reasonable. Apparently the company is profitable now, sans the debt, so as long as it doesn't go out of business and can grow on other fronts then it's probably not a problem.
1. MS Office doesn't work on Linux, and for many people it's a hard requirement that they specifically need it.

2. Once a month I have a task of checking 100k images for duplicates. Strangely, the only app that actually works is VisiPics from 2013. It does something smarter than just binary comparison, it works very fast. I guess I'll be running a Windows VM forever just for this one app, unless someone explains to me the algorithm it uses, so that I could write a more modern replacement.
> OpenWRT "One" and "Two" are physical routers designed specifically to run OpenWRT. This is describing "Open WRT Two", a physical piece of hardware, that will have a price-tag, rather than some new software release of OpenWRT.
Appreciated the reminder to show, not tell with images and structure. Most dev blogs are just walls of text with the occasional code block. Adding even rough diagrams or skimmable headings makes a massive difference.
It's a misconception that Kerala has majority Christian/Muslim population. Kerala has ~55% Hindus and ~25% Muslims and ~20% Christians.
Can you recommend Western companies that would be able to produce similar hardware at the same price point?
It's weird that you'd guess (wrong) that I'm an "LLM bull", then start generalizing the actions of this supposed group. Hallucinations are a problem, no news value there. Sabine seems not to be able to get value out of LLMs, and concludes that they aren't useful. The logic is not exactly impressive.

It's a tool. It can be useful, it doesn't always work. Some people claim it's better than it is, some people claim it's worse. This isn't exactly rocket science.

Regardless of the tweet in question, Sabine is a grifter. Her novel takes on academia being some kind of conspiracy of people milking the system, and of physicists not being interested in making new discoveries are nonsensical and only serves to increase her own profile. Look at this video of her trying to convince the world she received an email that apparently proves all her points correct. My BS detector tells me she wrote that email herself, but you be the judge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg
I can say without exaggeration that this article changed the way I write software. Many of the concepts are interesting by themselves (embedded stubs, nullables, sociable tests) but together these patterns form a strong approach for writing fast-running tests.

At first I wasn't sure how well this was going to work, but 30,000 lines later I can see how Shore's approach applies beautifully to real-life projects.

The only thing I'm struggling with is getting the rest of the team to adopt Testing Without Mocks. It takes a bit of effort to learn how to use it correctly.
BTW, the double dash "--" was a common substitute for a em dash in the ASCII days before Unicode.
The rampant destruction of jobs, career paths, and education going on right now from the very top feels drastically worse

The post war boom needed people, was a time of great building. That had created past a peak, and we no longer were able to exploit foreign labor markets and resources with quite such abundance by Gen X's day.

But today? We had a fantastic economy. Life was expensive as hell, but at least there were economic prospects, things to do, careers that felt worth doing.

But now, we are chainsawing apart the economy. Political speech-control is forcing companies and universities to behave certain ways, to eliminaye jobs and career paths. Healthcare, sciences, and international diplomacy are being gutted, dismantled entirely. With foreign students to afraid to risk the arbitrary injustice of ICE and potentially being sent to a prison states super prison, universities will lose one of their reliable revenue streams. These are going to massively impact jobs.

This story is a good one to remember, about a change, but the horros happening now are utterly self inflicted, by people aggressively dismantling the New Deal and the post-wsr American Way of Life, eliminating enormous amounts of jobs & the career paths that started these jobs.
Interesting take on images. I've found them helpful when they clarify something (e.g. architecture diagrams, before/after screenshots), but yeah, filler visuals or jokey memes can definitely cheapen the tone depending on the audience.
India has plenty of beautiful places, in all its states. It’s a big country. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t also have dystopian nightmares too.
It's funny to me that ycombinator is basically reddit now, it's nearly 100% Elon hate, calling him a Nazi, etc. I get hating him but he literally just had a child with a Jewish woman, and as far as I know hasn't funded any gas chambers.
> I'm also 100% convinced Microsoft will introduce mandatory code signing at some point and make it so that you can only ever install software from Windows Store

2017 called. It wants Windows S Mode back.

Needless to say it still isn't very popular. But this has been around for <checks notes> 8 years now
You are just repeating yourself, and confirming what I said: you have a cultural bias and only see things through that lens.

> Number 3, the most important technology and cultural advancements come out of the US; the US is where its happening—in a city like New York you can get the best of anything in the world, and then some.

This is simply untrue, and reeks of very heavy ignorant American exceptionalism. I've been to NYC multiple times, there are many other cities around the world that provide the same experience.

You should travel more.
You're right. I just checked. That's odd.
The trick is that most of the users need this service. Before Windows Defender was built in you had to buy an anti virus software from sneak oil Windows security industry, and likely get somehow scammed in process.

The same companies sell anti virus for Android today.

Also most users is not all.
Yes, there are few important apps that aren't available without Apple account, like Final Cut Pro or Xcode, but I don't use those.
> hits a somewhat odd note

Thanks be to karmic disclaiming transparency.
Windows 11 24H2 enabled BitLocker full disk encryption by default for all new installations (including OEM) after a user has logged in with a Microsoft Account.[1] By default the BitLocker "recovery key" (everything one needs to decrypt a BitLocker device) is surrendered to Microsoft (uploaded automatically for storage with the associated Microsoft Account). This situation is similar to the Clipper chip[2] or Ki key programmed into mobile phone SIM cards during manufacture[3] where a user does not control the key for its full lifetime and has little to no assurance of who else may have a copy of the key.

Recall when Microsoft lost control of a Microsoft Account OpenID token signing key a year and a half ago?[4] I can't find a reference to confirm if attackers could have obtained BitLocker recovery keys by logging into any Microsoft Accounts with an OpenID token signed with the compromised key, but a reasonable assumption would surely lean towards "almost certainly". After this attack, Microsoft still had not conclusively determined 10 months later how the key was compromised, and no further news appears to be published since then.[5]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip#Key_escrow

[3] https://nickvsnetworking.com/transport-keys-a4-k4-keys-in-ep...

[4] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-tec...

[5] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sti...
The title is a bit misleading, he’s talking about updating a manual paper-based retirement system to the digital era.
this here is the most logical step
The camaraderie is amusing! When they banned beef in Bangalore, the entirety of Malayalis there continued to collectively call beef something else and that system worked wonderfully!
This shows that email should die in a tyre fire and we all need to collectively move to something else… but we should have done this more than 10 years ago.

Email has SO many technical issues that if someone would have come out with email today, nobody would use it!

The ONLY thing going for it really is that it’s decentralised and has the network effect that almost everyone uses it. Bzzzt, I kid I kid!

Anyone under 25 will tell you they do NOT use emails and instead prefer instant message, and is email really decentralised? NO!! Try setting up your own relay and you’ll be dropped by any big service. Gmail+Outlook is basically a cartel with zero recourse!

Hmmm… could there even be a case of anti-trust given Gmail’s behaviour
I think, writing for yourself first, without worrying about views or rankings, is where a lot of the real value comes from
I can't quite put my finger on it, as I'm no financial type, but this almost reeks of fraud or self-dealing. Wasn't X valued at something like 16 billion? What's that $33B in stock for?
There was a trick to bypass the online account requirement. You press Shift+F10, which launches a command prompt, then use `oobe\bypassnro`. This reboots the system and adds a button to set up offline.
Given that's how all nations conduct war, it would be difficult to see how it could be done otherwise.

Keynes' phamplet "How to Pay for the War"[0] is a good description of how the 'minting money' mechanism should be controlled in wartime.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499597
So, you started by saying

> ...there was no such thing as live machine transcription ten years ago.

Now you're saying that live machine transcription existed thirty years ago, but it has gotten substantially better in the intervening decades.

I agree with your amended claim.
Because it's how the entire society functions. There's an entire class of lies that are not only accepted, but actually expected. Case in point: imagine saying "Hi, how are you?" and someone replying "I hate living like this".
Windows 11 is the reason I’ve returned to Linux after a decade away.
Microsoft doesn’t seem to be concerned about killing the golden goose. I wonder if they have data on just how much hostility users are willing to put up with?
"100 million"? That's really overinflated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi... - pre-Columbian population figures are highly disputed. And the majority of the population decline happened before 1600-s, mostly from diseases.

None of the Spanish conquistadors were nice people, but neither they plan mass genocides.
In the absence of PC Engines (RIP) Swiss design made in Taiwan, there is the South Korean ODROID from https://hardkernel.com.

Compulab in Israel has some customizable IoT boards, https://www.compulab.com/products/sbcs/sbc-iot-imx8-nxp-i-mx...

QNAP in Taiwan has QHora routers, but much higher price points.