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There's no defense. Might be harsh, but whoever is directing Windows' UI and UX department needs to be moved elsewhere, to say the least. Windows 10 might have the worst looking UI paradigm I've seen since I've started with DOS computers in the 90s.

That's not even style over function. It's just pure blandness. Greys and flat whites everywhere.

* Why does the title bar have a folder icon, some unknown icon and the same folder icon again? What does the dropdown arrow icon represent?

* What's all that whitespace in the folder tree?

* What's that down arrow next to the "forward" button? Oh and there's one next to the help icon, what does that do?

* Why is "Picture Tools" in highlighted yellow in the ribbon? Is that the most important thing a user needs to be aware of?

The whole Windows 10 UI is full of non-sensical UI decisions that result in a confusing, grey experience. And it's not like Microsoft isn't capable of good UIs, they've done a great job from at least Windows 95 to Windows 7. Then they've just dropped the ball hard.
Ha, it's awesome how much further we have gotten from the times of Quicktime VR! So much of details and clarity.
To all those here who complain about algorithms messing with their audio when they don't want them to. Use an app called TeamTalk. It lets you disable all that processing, so it works great for high-quality music transmission etc. I have no affiliation with them, I have been using it for a few years and I'm very happy.
The preferred plural of Boz would be Bozos.
Overbuild, and also use the excess to make hydrogen.
It looks like somebody needs to inform Australia that solar exists and they get a lot of sunlight.
Interesting. Why? What does it have (or haven't) that made you a better programmer?
As comments from raxxorrax exemplify, for the most part his supporters aren't stupid. They know he's lying, they understand it's bullshit. But since the lies and bullshit help their cause and make their enemies apoplectic, they support him and amplify the bullshit. By repeating the bullshit to each other, they demonstrate loyalty to strengthen identity and in-group cohesion.
Because there isn't much to say other than congratulations and at the same time it's nice to upvote such a post for feel good reasons and to showcase things that have been born out of this community.
That's a really cool idea, thanks for the heads up. Didn't realize it was possible but man would it make a world of difference in meetings.
That guy likely is a victim here: Channels get hacked and rebranded for those scams to get an initial subscriber base.
Is 4 now, only 30 minutes later...
> so the slogan is the problem, not the current policing regime

No, that's not what OP is saying at all. They're saying that the goal is good, but the slogan misleads people who haven't put in time to understand it. And most people haven't put in time to understand it, and won't based on the slogan. The goal is great, but the slogan is hurting the goal.
I'm not familiar with ZKSTARK, but does it allow running computations in a trusted way without revealing some of the input parameters?

The latter constraint is something that I think is usually not addressed by zero knowledge proofs but rather only trusted computing (or the software equivalent, whitebox cryptography, assuming it exists).
Sounds like unix during the period when bell labs was prohibited from entering the computer market by the consent decree.
Quotebacks falls back to a basic <blockquote> if JS is not enabled.
I like your point (and wish I had more than one upvote), but I want to recast it in terms of color theory. Specifically, let's look at each color in terms of not being able to do what its two opposite colors can do. And, of course, there are counterexample cards to all of this, but the general outlines are certainly real in the game design. I'll also mention the Ravnica guilds for each pair; each guild can be thought of as exploring the negative design space hollowed out by each color.

White is opposite red and black, giving it the gap of high-risk play. White cannot make opportunities, but must straightforwardly initiate combat and exploit superior layouts on the battlefield. Both red and black have many useful instant spells which give them options that white doesn't have. The Ravnica guild is Rakdos, which is oriented around riskily playing an entire hand quickly, and also around destroying everything except enchantments.

Blue is opposite green and red, and indeed blue is missing the useful buffs in green and (to a lesser extent) in red. Blue is also missing the overlap between green and red, which is direct destruction of lands and artifacts. Blue represents not just knowledge, but abandoning nature in favor of libraries and cities; green and red remind blue of the power of wild nature. The Ravnica guild is Gruul, which is oriented around putting +1/+1 buffs onto friendly creatures.

Black does have more of a win-at-all-costs feeling than other colors, sacrificing library, battlefield, hand, and even graveyard for victory. Opposite white and green, black lacks health buffs and turn-over-turn permanent growth, and isn't rewarded for having a healthy zoo. The white+green Ravnica guild, Selesnya, is oriented around giving discounts for new creatures by tapping existing creatures, and making copies of creatures.

Red is across from white and blue. Like you say, enchantments are a bit of a puzzle for red. White uses enchantments to defend and protect, while blue uses them to surprise and misdirect; red has no way to deal with or emulate this. The Ravnica guild is Azorius, oriented around spells which change their behavior depending on when and how they are played.

Finally, green is across from blue and black. Blue and black have in common a willingness to sacrifice capability and knowledge in exchange for power. Green is gradual and lacks ways to trade away the library or sacrifice creatures. And the final guild, Dimir, is oriented around sacrificing cards to search the library; later, it expanded to also include sacrificing (both!) libraries directly.

I'm honestly kind of amazed at how well-designed all of this is. I suppose that surviving the test of time does imply some sort of quality design, but this is remarkable.
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4.08663416 BTC already
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Sansui G-8700DB 160 watt receiver from the late 70s. Not the oldest, but a major favorite. I got it at a thrift store in the early 00s. Absolute unit, probably 25 kilos. The connectors are all on the side because the heat sink takes up the whole rear panel. Every switch, circuit and light bulb works perfectly.

It's hooked up to my computer via a nothing-fancy DAC and out to a pair of tidy Linn bookshelf speakers, probably 80s vintage. If this office over the garage is rockin', don't bother knockin'.

Here's a photo (not my one, but the same) - https://external-preview.redd.it/LjSphe7ctrkecpkmC_r97bMzzgg...
This whole thread is a little bonkers. A dude posts what seems to be essentially a commercial for his company, extremely short and light on details and it gets 500+ upvotes in a couple of hours.
But yeah maybe i have just become to cynical and my bullshit metre is off - and if that's the case i apologise and congratulate these dudes.
On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month
probably a good time to open a brokerage account.

Schwab is a solid broker that also has a pretty well regarded consumer bank.

Most brokers just dropped trading fees, so investing is almost free.
Haha python is so authoritarian.
> How do you measure a good job?

If a story that I upvoted from /newest ends up getting lots of love(=upvotes) on HN then I have done a good job.

For this to work in practice there needs to be /staging. Here's the workflow,

- Karma hungry scavengers (like me) would go to /newest and upvote some interesting stories.

- Some of these stories move to /staging where non-scavengers (yet karma hungry) reads & upvotes the interesting ones.

- After a certain threshold on /staging the story moves to HN homepage.

- If my story makes it to homepage, I should get a % of final story points (say 10%) as a karma bounty. I help community discover great content from a river and I'm directly rewarded in proportion to the quality of content (maybe only after the story crosses a certain threshold).

- People who upvote from /staging should also get a % karma bump (although lower than me).

I know we are basically creating mini-HN with /staging but I'm suggesting this approach based on your past comments about folks's emotional connection to homepage (many people only want to see quality content on homepage).
Nah, start your own hedge fund or business.
Full video:
https://youtu.be/sb1WywIpUtY
In another decade, it will continue to be highly successful, since it exploits a basic human qualities (greed, curiosity, fear, etc.).
Dual-booting is a distraction to me. Could also blow up some editor into fullscreen while having no messengers/mails running and be done with it.
The nicest thing OP could do for themselves if they've "never had this kind of money in the bank" is build a rainy-day fund. It can save them a lot of stress down the line. For that matter, depending on employment situation and the like, it's not even unheard of for people to keep one year's expenses or more in highly liquid rainy-day/emergency funds.
I like tax free Muni bond funds.

Or a high interest savings account.

Or just put it into SPY.
This doesn't sound right to me. My well being is at an all time high and I'm not being sarcastic. Obviously this is anecdotal but fewer people out and about makes me way less stressed. Now when I go out it's extremely relaxing.
> You're right, and the idea of a secure enclave is not an inherently bad one.

Maybe it is when you're trusting private keys and proprietary technology controlled by a single entity that may be subject to commercial and political pressures that make their motives not aligned to yours.
I was thinking it sounds exactly like the Nigerian 419 scams.
I don't think that's very true. Smartphone-like sandboxing is widely praised for its security and stability benefits, UWP failed due to a lot of other factors (eg. Windows 10 Store, lack of Windows 7 support, etc.)
I have an open source project built on Jitsi Meet that does this https://www.calla.chat
The invasiveness is still necessary. We want to get to the goodies. However we might be able to know what’s there without having to manually dig first.
>I check types all over

Which is something you rarely need to spend time on if you're using TypeScript.
Show HN: Search your GitHub starred repos from your terminal
Ask HN: Time Series Database?
I'm curious what other HNers are using for their timeseries data needs. At my company, we're specifically working in IoT with hundreds of thousands of sensors cumulatively sending in ~5k observations per second (~5 TB of uncompressed data on disk). We've tried all sorts of options and currently are using TimescaleDB, but are thus far very unsatisfied with query speeds (typically, we just want to see hourly averages over the course of some arbitrary time period for a few sensors, but sadly this can take several minutes for just 3 sensors over the period of a year, as an example). As the data has grown in size over the years, experimenting with new options has become more and more burdensome, so I figured I'd poll the crowd to see what approaches are working for others.
Zip Codes Are Not Polygons (2001)
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I feel like this is the sort of thing that could make 30% of software jobs go away overnight. I'm not worried yet, but I think the clock is ticking. I don't know if I would encourage my children to persue a programming career if they were due to graduate in 5 years.

Yes, I'm old enough to remember all the other times we thought programming was a doomed profession. This feels like it could be different.
This same group has been taking over ton of channels. It's amazing Youtube hasn't found a way to detect it. Reporting it does nothing as some are STILL up months past reporting.

Also interesting is these scammers are using fake viewers and fake chat messages to make it look more legit.
Well, there's a much easier alternative, which may be in reach now: rich people and tech workers become fed up with SF and leave in droves. Rents plunge and houses become much more affordable, and service workers can live there again.

This would require a level of fed-up-with-SF that I don't see in practice - like every other tech worker deciding to leave, and people in other industries too. But if that happened, yes: SF would become affordable and people with lower incomes could purchase houses there, and honestly that might not be such a bad outcome.

The city was once like this, after all - a place where people with low incomes, along with oddballs and misfits, could put down roots (buy houses) and live.
> This is an important consideration when looking at the cost of scaling nuclear power as it gets far more expensive the lower the utilization. You can get to around 40% across an electric grid such as Europe or an island, but scaling past that needs truly massive subsidies.

This is why diversified solutions are best. You get ~40% from nuclear and the same from solar and you're 80% carbon-free. Even using natural gas for the last 20% would put you well ahead of most countries as it is, and as storage or other alternatives improve you can move even that to solar+storage or whatever alternatives.
I depart from that L/R split pretty regularly, especially when coding. I frequently have a single large window taking up half of my screen, and several smaller windows stacked vertically on the other half. The big window is usually the editor, but sometimes the browser if doing web development, or possibly a pdf or something like that. The little windows might be the editor, or a browser, or general command line work, or the stdout of a server or other daemon that I'm working with.

I sometimes do move to more of a tmux split workflow, especially if I'm working on remote machines, but it's just much nicer to have the same keyboard commands for all of my windows.
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It looks like they might be overprotecting themselves out of their jobs, after building a 30-year case on video of their inability to self-regulate across dozens of cities.
No, it has nothing to do with Sanskrit.

They're not forbidden to learn the meaning of Vedas. That is universal to all, as evidenced by the Dharma-Butcher - a butcher by profession who solves all philosophical doubts of saints. And he did speak in Sanskrit to the Rishis.

What they're forbidden is to chant the Vedas with original incantation. Because those chants have the power to invoke deities who control the forces of nature itself.

This is no different from restricting access to firearms for the general public. While most citizens shouldn't operate them, they are entitled to the protection offered by others who wield them. And those who wield them must have extreme restraint.

Brahmins, are known for self-control, patience, begging for alms, vegetarianism, and study of scriptures. Atleast, that was the case until a few generations ago. Now, they've left their traditional professions and gone into the IT industry, so they too lost the qualities/restraint needed to be entrusted with Veda mantras.
New Relic, APM is important, and grokking this or a similar tool (Datadog, AppDynamics, Solarwinds) can only make you much more productive.
> Yes there are warnings not to abuse it, but that flies in the face of the marketing and videos of Musk where he uses autopilot hands-free.

They aren't just "warnings". After the 2nd or 3rd warning, it disables autopilot until the end of the ride completely. So you cannot just drive "hands-free" with autopilot and ignore the warning.
This. Also, the fact that inventory wasn't slotted (like Diablo and pretty much every other game) made the game feel vastly more real and immersive, for me at least.
I'm dependent on Jetbrains IDE for most of my work. It really shines in showing the user best practices and recommendations. A lot of the programming concepts are same across languages and this IDE helps you find the right function/method with its suggestions. And at least for java it'll suggest you variable names, it'll suggest you if a loop can be converted to a stream, it can generate templates for unit tests, it can tell you if a variable might be null, etc. There are a ton of small small features that all add up to a great experience. 10/10 would recommend for a new programmer.
'We used to have informal contests for who could cite or arrest someone for the weirdest law. DUI on a bicycle, non-regulation number of brooms on your tow truck (27700(a)(1) of the California Vehicle Code)… shit like that. For me, police work was a logic puzzle for arresting people, regardless of their actual threat to the community. As ashamed as I am to admit it, it needs to be said: stripping people of their freedom felt like a game to me for many years.'

'In fact, let me tell you about an extremely formative experience: in my police academy class, we had a clique of around six trainees who routinely bullied and harassed other students: intentionally scuffing another trainee’s shoes to get them in trouble during inspection, sexually harassing female trainees, cracking racist jokes, and so on. Every quarter, we were to write anonymous evaluations of our squadmates. I wrote scathing accounts of their behavior, thinking I was helping keep bad apples out of law enforcement and believing I would be protected. Instead, the academy staff read my complaints to them out loud and outed me to them and never punished them, causing me to get harassed for the rest of my academy class. That’s how I learned that even police leadership hates rats. That’s why no one is “changing things from the inside.” They can’t, the structure won’t allow it.'
I used the word "basically" for a reason. Nor did I use the word "vote". I said "majority rule". FWIW, I used that term to refer to an outcome not necessarily a process. I should have been more careful.

The Tyranny of the Majority Wikipedia page presents a criticism of majority rule. This criticism does not contradict the idea that democracy is likely to result in majority rule; it supports it. One can say "democracy bascially means majority rule" because, for those of us in the West, that is, by and large, what we get. According to Wikipedia, the legistlatures of all democratic nations use majority rule (the process) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule

However, I only presented a personal and basic definition of democracy, not necessarily a comprehensive or correct one. That is why I used the words "To me" and "basically".

When majority rule is not the outcome of democracy, would you agree that "the people", at least some of them, will contest the notion that what they have is a "democracy"?

How can anyone see the popular social newtorks as democractic?
I feel that GOES satellite imagery is a hidden gem, I'm surprised more people aren't working with it.

The imagery is available at https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/ but is better explored at https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/

I have personally built a Twitter bot to collect and animate imagery throughout the day. I have it running for two locations currently.

Continental US: https://twitter.com/satellite_CONUS

NorthEast US: https://twitter.com/satellite_NE

It's amazing to see storm formation visually.
The color value is misleading though, since it doesn't account for differences in energy consumption per unit of area. For example Belgium is very densely populated compared to France, so if for example both had the same gCO₂eq/kWh, Belgium would have higher CO₂ intensity per unit of area, but this map would color them the same.
Every person I know under 40 who is/was living in Manhattan has had a post-pandemic moment of clarity about the cost/benefit ratio of living there. Most enjoy the vibrancy of the city (nightlife, especially the shoulder-to-shoulder raucous kind, is not returning any time soon) and the proximity to their job (most are working from home for the rest of the year, possibly indefinitely). When you remove the social and career draw of the city, it really changes the equation.
Which country exactly do you think has no WiFi devices, but has a ton of TRS-80s?
Don't use Electron.

It's like wrapping an entire browser for just one app. The overhead is going to slow it down. Write a native app instead. The second best option is to just make a website.

Whatever you do, avoid Electron. Your users will thank you.
If you have 200k in student loans and a choice between a 100k pa finance job and a 30k pa teacher in an inner city school job, do you actually have a choice or has society choose for you already?

I agree with your second paragraph but that's as true for tax payers setting salaries for useful jobs as it is for would-be employees deciding between offers...
Only 13% of HR Managers believe to have a wellbeing strategy in place
Sir Thomas Malory's life is just nutters, likely because it's a bit hard to pin down. Nonetheless, born a lesser noble, he gets knighted and then does what any young man in those late medieval days does: goes civil warring. Riding about he gets married, and has a kid (maybe more?). Somehow he gets elected to parliament, while being wanted for some sort of crime. Parliament doesn't really seem to mind, maybe they thought him a bit roguish for it.

Unfortunately, he then decides to back the wrong (loosing) side durng some such part of the War of the Roses. They get at him and try to jail him for this. Also a bunch of murdering and raping and pillaging for good measure. He gets captured and, well, just walks out and swims the moat. Nothing really comes of that escape, legally speaking. Everyone was like, good for you.

As he is still backing the wrong side, they try and get him again. This time they do their jobs and capture him. The jury convicts him and he, well, maybe they convict him. No one really knows. So they let him go. This pattern repeats itself a few times, yes really. Malory finds that cattle rustling on the Scottish border is more his cup of tea anyway.

Eventually he gets on the right/winning side of the war. Unfortunately, they still don't really like him, all that pillaging you know, so the general pardons that come along when a new king comes into power, well, those skip him. Finally, he gets into a prison that really has some bars behind it. There he gets really bored reads a bunch of French and English stuff borrowed from a bleeding heart Noble next to the Tower of London. It's all about King Arthur so he writes 'Le Mort d'Arthur'. He dies in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory
Three books:

* Nonviolent Communication

* Crucial Conversations

* Writing Without Bullshit
Or as it's called in the industry, "AI/ML".
Lexical scoping doesn't necessarily include lexically scoped function definitions.

Lambdas have been spreading lately, but plain old functions are still not lexically scoped in a lot of languages otherwise regarded as such, C/C++/Java/Pascal etc.
To be fair windows does keep introducing new API. BeOS has been "stable" for some time now
The point isn't to save money. It's to force reform by taking away the current police department's money.

(This is an excellent example of why the "defund" slogan is confusing; however, of the other suggestions I've seen in this thread, I haven't seen any that make clear the level of change that's needed.)