skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm similarly attached to the WSJ's weekend edition. It's a good highlight reel for the week's news, and avoids most of the hyperventilation the NYT seems prone to.

If you've read both, how would you compare the two?
For businesses, as far back as they need. Consumers don't care, and for consumer grade OS it's fine. Let's say I invest 1 million in machines that use 32-bit software for my professional studio, and it's working perfectly fine. Then Apple decides one day to remove 32-bit support. The vendor is small and can't easily afford to port their software over to 64-bit. And for what reason? It was working fine from the start. It makes me believe that Windows is the only real professional/industry grade OS.

Note that I am primarily a Linux user, but I know people in industries whose entire business relies on the fact that Windows will never brick their old software that has been going for 20 years. And if I was using that software, I would pick the Windows version any day.
A Soviet New Year, with Mayonnaise (2017)
Google would be pretty unique among high tech companies and large companies in general if it didn't have cafeterias at all. I doubt they would close the cafeterias. If Compass is unable to negotiate a cost effective labor contract, the more likely outcome would be google switching to another provider. But that in itself doesn't seem very likely considering the optics, and the relatively small cost of this labor.

But, for the sake of argument, can you imagine what the lunch rush hour would look like in downtown mountain view and Sunnyvale if Google didn't have cafeterias at all? It was already pretty bananas when I left the Bay Area three years ago. Google's headcount on the peninsula was much lower then. And they did have cafeterias. Now it would be totally insane.
Been using win7 since forever. Win10 is such a huge step back that I just install win7 even on new PCs. Even hidipi works almost as well on win7. Probably the only thing I miss that I care about is hdr and ble.

The fact that ms wants you to use win10 so badly is a big hint that it's full of antifeatures.
The recent movement seems to be heavily precipitated by the discovery that Intuit was hiding its Free File pages (apparently first found by this Redditor [0]), with the stories sparking investigations at the federal and state level.

[0] https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/bgj6oz/turbotax_...
Wine however, is awesome. For UI apps on Linux, I think Wine is a better platform than Qt/GTK/etc.
I have mixed feelings about unions, but I'm OK with this move.

Cafeteria workers need unions. The maids who muck out hotel room toilets need unions. Coal miners who work in horrific conditions for little pay need unions.

You know who doesn't need unions? Millionaire TV anchors. Millionaire movie studio execs and actors. Anyone who makes six figures, which includes a hell of a lot of union members. In those cases the unions need the members, not the other way 'round, and it leads to greed and corruption because all both sides can see is dollar signs.

So, again. I think it's good that the caf workers got some protection. I'm still on the fence about computer programmers, though.
Oh. That’s a bit subtle. Sounds like a good explanation though. Would be great if W10 logged this somewhere or in some other way gave the user a hint as to what is happening.
Great, sounds like TurboTax will still be able to compete if the IRS gives people tax filings precalculated, as TurboTax can say "We can save you $XXX!"
EPA’s scientific advisers warn its regulatory rollbacks clash with science
> "Both BASIS and ProvideX are based on Java and provide rather thorough JVM integration."

I'm aware of this evolution. However, the software at my company was not maintained to keep pace with it. Instead it was endlessly customized within the constraints of the original interpreter. At this point, updating the software to use newer variants even by the same companies would take roughly the same effort as rewriting it in Python, for far less reward.
Writing a [HTTP] Reverse Proxy in Just One Line with Go
At the end of the original article:

> It is not the case that these oaks were kept for the express purpose of replacing the Hall ceiling. It is standard woodland management to grow stands of mixed broadleaf trees e.g., oaks, interplanted with hazel and ash. The hazel and ash are coppiced approximately every 20-25 years to yield poles. The oaks, however, are left to grow on and eventally, after 150 years or more, they yield large pieces for major construction work such as beams, knees etc.
RIP. Syd Mead was an inspiration for so many artists. I love the clean lines and crisp simplicity of the shapes he uses. It reminds me of design work by Dieter Rams, but for the entertainment industry.
Worst 2019 Amazon Tech Book Review: “This Is Not a Book on Weaving Techniques”
Oh that happens all the time, sure. I'm referencing what I do at the start of a project.
That's such a nonsense argument, though. Having the IRS pre-fill basic forms for you would not obligate you to accept them. People could still compute their taxes themselves (or pay someone else to do it).
Does anyone have any good/neutral book recommendations on unionization?
In a perfect world, unions would be unnecessary. I think that would be a less controversial opinion. Wanting them to be illegal is more a moralization of your economic ideology - it would not be compatible with a belief that “labor is entitled to all it creates”. And stating it as matter of fact rather than as an opinion is kind of lame
they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements

Serious question: How is this kind of a guild different from a union in your view?
I would agree except instead of Twitter, I would say look for a weekly newsletter that provides a broad summary of the type of news you are interested in.
In the West we tend to believe in free association and the right of people to perform political activity without being beaten up by the police, at least most of the time.
Ask HN: How Does Clearbit Work?
When I go to https://clearbit.com/reveal, they seem to know exactly who I am (they show the landing page of one of my side projects). How does this work?
This doesn't matter for 99% of the population.
funny thing, they could put a molten salt reactor and a solar farm smack in the middle of that thing and likely not have to use petrol ever again.
I've started a list since getting my Win 10 machine at work:

1. Sometimes when I select the titlebar of a maximized window to move it to my second monitor it somehow selects the window under the one with focus.

2. For some applications (including MS Office ones) text is blurry when I move from laptop screen to external monitor.

4. Windows 10 ships with a python.exe in the path that opens the MS Store. Figuring out which part of the path to fix to disable it was non-obvious.

5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one.

MS somehow shipped an OS with problems I've never seen before in any OS...

The first time I did an upgrade from 7 to 10 and I saw the horrible anti-patterns in the "opt-in" screens, I shut it down and switched to Debian Buster. No looking back.
It was funny to see some colleagues that moved from here to Germany to work on automotive industry, and almost overnight started to defend "stopgap" alternatives like hydrogen ICEs... IMHO the biggest advantage of an electric car is the 10x gain on mechanical simplicity, I don't care if it costs the same to own and operate.
IMHO that’s not such a great solution now that it’s only two weeks left until Windows 7 reaches end of life.
Ask HN: Happy New Year - What are you doing differently in 2020?
The idea that an "insightful, balanced, and deliberative" discussion should happen implies that the topic is either unfamiliar and requiring exploration, or is somehow otherwise of indeterminate status with respect to norms, morality or consequences.

At this point, if someone isn't at least dubious of Uber and the gig economy's value, given everything that's been publicly determined about them, I don't feel like I have a lot of time to waste on a "balanced" discussion.
Lots of Windows apps don't support HiDPI correctly, and on many of them no matter what combination of workarounds you use you'll end up with some text being huge or some text being tiny.

Heck, even Perforce, a constantly updated app in use on millions of machines, just recently fixed this.

Where I have to use Windows, I always specify low dpi displays so I don't have to deal with all of that garbage.
Simple eight movements takes only two minutes to relieve back pain naturally
There is mapillary that allows this for OSM
Well the high labor-rate negotiating power, relative to individuals, of corporations—legal entities created by our government(s)—is why we need unions, so I figure if we ditch one we can/should ditch the other, too.
Somehow it seems to do some braindead syncing when you set up a new device. When setting up a new laptop suddenly my desktop task bar switched sides to match the change on the laptop, and files stopped showing extensions (even though that wasn't touched yet on the laptop, the default is not to show them and that somehow seemed to carry over to my desktop).
> In the West we tend to believe in free association and the right of people to perform political activity

LOL
I don't see how Apple hasn't done the best job in terms of operating systems. macOS hasn't changed significantly in the last decade; it's essentially the same interface, but less skeumorphism. The only bug I've experienced that's close to being serious is the touchbar freezing(seriously wtf).

Windows, on the other hand, has changed significantly. Sure, it runs 32-bit programs, but the interface difference between 7 and 10 is ginormous.

Linux, as much as I love it, is probably the worst offender. At one point we had GNOME and KDE as dominant desktop environments, and then we had Unity, GNOME 3, Cinnamon, MATE, etc. Now after years of forcing Unity on everyone, Ubuntu has switched to GNOME except now GNOME is in a worse state than it was back in GNOME 2. Most distros are still using X11, graphics card support is lousy, and horizontal display tearing is still a problem that every commercial OS has 100% solved.

macOS has at least remained fairly consistent compared to all the other competition.
I don't know what the OP's "guessing" comment was about, but the whole process is asinine.

The IRS already knows the numbers on W-2 forms because they get the same data from employers. Financial institutions also send them 1099s and other forms.

So the IRS already knows all the numbers. There's little point in making people manually re-enter the data.

The IRS should automatically fill in everything it knows about, and then let people add deductions and unreported income if they need to. It would make filing taxes almost a no-op for a lot of people.
Anyone have experience with the LTSC?
I don't agree with what greatscott404 says, but I will defend to the karma-death their right to say it without getting grey'd out.
I actually really like Windows 10, a huge portion of this list could easily apply to any modern operating system that isn't Linux, and even there some of it applies. So OSX, Android, iOS, etc.

The section "Now the second kind of issues is intrinsic to Windows 10 only" is full of things that are literally applicable to all the OSes I listed above. I had some laugh out loud moments reading it. Are people just blinded by rage against Microsoft? I don't see how anyone could type that section in particular out with a straight face while knowing about all the other major modern OSes.
Central African Republic looks like it is 98% on fire right now. But the CO display doesn't match nearly as well with the fires as it does in Australia.
> ...put some pressure or at least summarize what parts of the tax code are the most complex so they can be simplified.

Trump's tax plan did simplify things for the majority of W-2 workers on salary that used to itemize because they owned a mortgage. Now, most of them can file using the standard deduction.

I don't have a mortgage but have sometimes itemized depending on moving and work expenses, various deductions, etc. Those are now gone, and my taxes are easier as I don't even bother keeping receipts and saving charitable gifts throughout the year. I come out a head, too, since the standard deduction was almost doubled.
Things You Should Know VSCode Can Do – Without Extensions
yours is created 71 days ago.

is this the path we want to take?
MD here.

In the short term, more information might cause harm because doctors are risk averse & scared of lawsuits and err on overbiopsy/overtreat, and many of our treatments aren't as good as we think they are, and all of this makes patient anxious.

In the long term, turning the information firehose on full blast means we can work out which incidental findings are best ignored or pursued and overall more data will help us.

The problem is that it is unethical to do #2 in the short term even if it is the long term ethical thing to do.
Here's a good explanation why it's not really an "endemic problem": https://twitter.com/JediJeremy/status/1208997157346242561 (I mean devastating bushfires are not endemic, general fires are, but you can safely drive through and see a normal for up close)

Originally massive fires like this were partially mitigated by fire stick farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming These days we should do the same on a large scale, but we stopped.
Well, you are allowed to think those thoughts. You're allowed to post them. He has in fact done so. No consequenses will come back to him for this.

It's just that we're not obliged to listen, and we're also free to express our opinion with the downvote button.
I've found dependabot as quite spammy recently https://github.com/kkostov/react-calendar-icon/pulls

Btw, an easy way to update libs (besides `npm update` which updates minor/patch versions) is `npx salita -u`
Wouldn't you be able to say the same about literally any OS that doesn't have a completely walled garden? I'm positive I can find software on linux that bundles the askjeeves software as well. And probably MacOS. You blame the software developer for that and never use their product, you don't blame the OS.
If at all possible, use Windows 10 LTSC/LTSB.

LTSC was exactly what I wanted from a Windows OS. No Windows Store, no Candy Crush, and—most importantly by far—only security updates.

It's the Debian model. Your OS stays secure, but the software will never change in a user visible way, unless/until you specifically choose to install a new LTSC release, which comes out around once every two years.

It's perfect.
I am looking forward to developing great courses for kids. It is a learning experience, but with the technology and platforms, the potential for online learning keeps getting better and better. Happy New Year
what’s your software so I can find it and host a torrent of it?
I wont give the script since it's only for my monitors and layout, but the nugget is using displayplacer and invoking the static, complicated command with a wrapper.
Well, no of course not. But it does seem likely that you're a shill or a sock-puppet.
I might be wrong, of course, but the OS should respect the user preference.

The OS must not, under any condition, override the user preference - especially, as you say, in case of "malware hijacking popular file extension".
it's funny to read a rant from a ex-Microsoft and sad that he doesn't know why Microsoft still have a vast market share.

I've been in the IT game for 10+ years. small/mid companies doesn't have the budget or man powers to leave the MS's lala land and they can care less. IT is a money losing dept and they need to make money by focus on what they do best.

Windows is a platform where most of their software work and their employees know.

do you think small/mid or heck the giant corporation have the money, staff and time to move their employees and operation out of Windows.
Wouldn't that just be a normal copyright infringement lawsuit?
Audio pre-processing for Machine Learning: Getting things right
> 5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one.

This has been the way I've resolved this for many years with Windows:

https://superuser.com/a/642027
What is this comment supposed to mean? How are you comparing the performance of updates across OSs?
If an employer could negotiate with unions competing for a contract, the outcome might be a market-clearing price for labor. Enforce a monopoly for a single union, and the only possible responses are capitulate or leave, with outcomes that look like Detroit.
Apparently guilds are for independent contractors and unions are for employees. A developer guild would be for freelance devs and the like
A New Decade for Sailfish OS
House prices is a reflection of economic growth. Higher incomes means higher purchase power. Median income in the bay is soaring at 8%, house prices will match that growth. If you want house prices to come down, we would need another recession that would cut purchasing power. California population growth has leveled out and its increasing incomes that are pushing up the prices.
I'm perpetually shocked by how slow many of the loading / progress-bar screens are in Windows. Random operations taking 1-5 minutes without any visible change is routine.

Honestly, what the unholy fuck is actually happening behind these screens? The only thing that takes anywhere near that long on Linux is compiling.
Are we reading the same article? Don't invent partisan issues, the article makes it clear it's not a "Republican" thing, it's an Intuit thing.
Can you please, because I'm terrified, 2-3 reasons why win7 and no windows 10? I need to make a decision soon (1 week or sooner)
If you just want to get started running, you don't have to pay attention to any of this. Just download a couch 2 5k app and spend $100 on running shoes. I run a 10k in an hour with moderate effort, 90% of the tips listed don't matter to me (though I've heard of most of them).
You're going really far to defend Russia welcoming home as heroes people that have done deplorable things in the West.
Creating a Pixel in Conway's Game of Life
Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
Thanks for sharing this. Your comment and the sibling comment have me thinking through how I'd launch something like this.
In some ways. There was an interesting documentary on this subject on YouTube. I think it was this: https://youtu.be/WCF6eAKPtRQ
> The only way to avoid non-peaceful means to achieve reunification is that the island puts forward its own reunification plan, Zhou said

Reunification plan

1. Development of independent judiciary in PRC.

2. Democratization of PRC and free elections.

3. Freedom of press.

..

10. Unification
I think this is inherently due to Windows registry and no enforced standards for Windows file system. In Linux, packages are generally reviewed to ensure they follow a set of practices to ensure that they use the appropriate directories. Then they simply have to extract the files/folders to install the application, and removing is as simple as deleting those directories/files. In Windows, you really never know what you're going to get when you run an install. You might get 1k registry keys created, and it is near impossible to monitor and replicate. They might install the App in Program Files, or if it is new Appx package it will be somewhere completely different. Some apps may install in AppData. It is completely unpredictable. Running an uninstall may call msiexec, or some other uninstaller.

In order for Windows to have a Linux like package manager, they would have to re-define the install process completely to act like Linux and probably move away from the Windows Registry completely.
The Prepared, by Spencer Wright. Weekly email digest of really interesting things from the world of engineering and manufacturing. https://theprepared.org/
Also another one called https://www.acorns.com/
Employees will go apeshit. Food is such a huge deal for the culture.
It's been over a decade ago, but I've been without power for about a week after a natural disaster. Most places won't open if they don't have power (just because I didn't have power, didn't mean others were without). Not having gasoline and reliable food sources seemed to be the bigger issue. With gas there were long lines, rationing, people still were paying with credit cards. POTs was probably in better shape back then. Cell service was spotty.

From my time working in food service, managing cash has its own infrastructure issues. Secured money bags, blind drops, safes, even a system for counting, tracking, and inventory of cash and coin. Since day-to-day those things aren't used as much I'm sure in a natural disaster it would be a mess.

I'm sure cash with stick around, though.
People play lip service to hating hierarchy's but I would argue that they regularly espouse them and value them in almost all aspects of their lives. The ones they seem to hate are the faceless ones that they don't understand how they work, why they exist and who really runs them and has stakes in them.
People hate facelessness especially from those in power. But they are more than happy to take orders from someone they think they can relate to, see the hate for Obama or Hilary from the right but their love of anything Trump does.
What did the onboard mechanics do? Just help assess and understand the mechanical condition of the airplane?
Plus, the confusing control panel.

Everything is flat, with no color distinction, that I must scan every single stupid grey icon, and memorize or guess, what the icons mean. Before, some of the icons would have colors, like the defrag program, where I can quickly identify the program, because the icon has a touch of red in it. This slows me down, and it increases my cognitive overhead to look for things in Windows. And often times, the icons no longer have names on it, so it's a total guessing game what this flat abstract icon even means!

The on and off buttons look alike! Often times, I can't figure out which it is. Light switches in the real world, is up and down, so this is easy to remember. But side switches, left or right, are confusing. Was it left to turn on, or the other way. I can't figure it out.

Also, this problem plagues the stupid new iPhone designs too. I miss the skeuomorphisms.
I'm glad that I can always see the other end of the ethernet cable, and therefore do not need a way to determine if there is an active connection.
Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization
Last I checked the German car industry was doing fine. Detroit however looks more and more like a scene from some apocalyptic movie. And then there is Japan.
Assuming positive intentions, it's unlikely that this is a snarky trivialization and more likely that it is acknowledging/praising the persistence of the topic.
The article says the IRS will make its own free filing system.

So how is there still a "deal" with tax software companies?

Isn't the whole deal that the IRS would not make such software?
Even my diagram sucks! Thanks for this amazing trick!!!
Ah. Thanks for the clarification. All I could piece together in my mind were the medieval guilds of Belgium. But I guess this isn't that far removed.
It took almost 5 years for Apple to recognize and fix the butterfly keyboard, which was an obviously bad design. Microsoft is 5 years in with Windows 10 but they are no sign of awareness at all about how crappy it is. Which is sad because Windows has some good points and advantages (I love Visual Studio, notably), but it's not useable as a daily driver anymore since Win8.
I’m genuinely uncertain as to how your data is being collected if you are not using these services, and again I’m not trying to argue or disagree with the underlying thesis that tracking/spying is a net negative, but I do want to understand the assertion that your personal data is being collected by companies you have no interaction with.