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>Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors.

I used to believe this but not anymore. Way back in 2007, I spent $2500 for 2 Samsung 30" 2560x1600 monitors ($1250 each). I envisioned a massive productivity increase with scenarios such as:

- email inbox one screen with main "task" window on another screen

- video tutorial (e.g. Photoshop training) on one screen while following along on Photoshop on the main screen

- debugger on one window with the code output on another screen

Eliminating all the Alt-Tab window switching would be supposedly be gone. That was the theory. The problem is that I didn't realize that my eyes hated having these giant lightbulbs in my peripheral vision. It was uncomfortable enough that I often powered off 1 monitor which negated the point of multiple monitors. The other thing I didn't like was the extra heat 2 monitors would add to the room.

I went back to 1 monitor and Alt-Tab is minimized if the single monitor is big enough (at least 27") to have multiple windows of reasonable size. For me to go back to multiple monitors, I'd need the "wing" screens to be color e-ink panels[0] so that they don't act as bright flashlights in my peripheral vision.

I recognize the productivity benefits of multiple monitors -- especially for "dashboard" and monitoring[1] such as stock trading, devops IT corporate/cloud systems monitoring, SpaceX rocket launch monitoring, etc. Having your peripheral vision notice an abnormal activity is useful in those scenarios.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=e-ink+panel+&tbm=isch

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=multiple+monitors+trading&tb...
That was a great video, and incredible that games still going. What other games have been going for that long? I know the community has kept Doom going to some extent, new maps and textures and stuff. Can’t thank of any more still being developed since the 90s.
And he confirmed that it is him on the Wordpress site.
Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
I just moved to windows from MacOS - don't know many neat tricks yet.
I used two 24" monitors at work for years, and thought it was fantastic. But at home, I only have one 27" iMac, and it's more than enough... tried two for a while, and it just didn't help.
Better join the https://Fediverse.network before it's too late and all you have left is complaints.
2-3 ltrs per day of water is good. Especially in the early morning to detox. Hydration is very much mandatory for focus.
I had just recently download old xsabre source code and made it compile on a modern system. Interesting that it is possible to compile something pre-c++ standardization with just a few changes.

Another interesting project: This guy resurrected gl-117 and is maintaining and improving it: https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirComb... makes me remember "Certain Impact" a little.

If anybody else is interested in another abandoned open source flight sim, Palomino (https://sourceforge.net/projects/palomino-sim/) seemed very promising while it was under development.
Some of these are amazing. I'm currently a Windows user mostly, I added the same thread but for windows here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099633
> Reason is much of the price is based on the land values.

This is untrue. Beef prices are set by the four meat packers that control 75% of the market[1].

https://www.hcn.org/issues/43.5/cattlemen-struggle-against-g...
Since moving to Mac OS because of work I desperately miss XMonad, where workspaces and screens are separate concepts, and you can ask any screen to show any workspace and it’ll just resize appropriately.
Well, I would not know how to parse the mathematical formula `f g h x` without context and I would not have naturally read it as a function application. Function applications in math are usually written with parentheses and commas, except when explicitly using the lambda calculus notation or defining a specific syntax, which you don't have to do when using the usual syntax which you refer to as the one somebody encounters in high school, and which is also used in computer science and mathematics papers.

You are right on the fact that it's usual to define arbitrary operators in maths. It's also usual in math to use single letters, including Greek letters, for function names and constants or parameters, and this is fine in mathematical formulas or texts, when there are not too many of them and when there are explained next to the formula, but that would be a nightmare in a code base. Ever read a program written by a physicist, who translated their formula into a program, without having the "source"?

Weird operators are a feature when writing maths, but could be a code smell in a program. Unlike an academic paper, we have space, and we have auto-completion. Give me a proper, readable, easy to understand name, unless your operator is really omnipresent (it's a great thing we don't have to spell out +, ×, or - of course).

> It is not obvious that the kind of elementary algebraic notation one might encounter in high school is the best fit for programming which tends to deal with totally different things.

Indeed. What I am saying is that if you don't use this notation, it will probably feel less intuitive to many people because what they are used to is this algebraic notation we learn in high school. The Haskell notation might be more apt (and I definitely see its strengths).

However, the opposite is also true, so this is not really an argument: I have not found any real drawback to this notation after years of using it in my programs. This syntax do not feel verbose to me so the Haskell notation does not solve any problem I have.
Who is “they” in your comment and who gets to speak on “their” behalf?
Of my science friends, a few in chemistry, with and without PHD's, no they don't do science. At best they fetishize science pop culture. They are very good at their specializations though.

My tech friends do however do science, obviously a subset of my tech friends, for a lot it's also a means to an ends.

Those tech friends mess with chemistry, mess with electric experiments, stay up and watch the Higgs Boson announcements and rocket launches. They make rockets with 3D printers(fail). And they mess with computers in their own time.

I would say "There’s no such thing as a scientists anymore", where's the HN for scientists?
Thanks for your interest in Relinx!
Relinx is and will be free for personal use. "Corporate" features like Workspaces, Sharing, Permissions, etc will be added soon and based on a monthly subscription about 5$ per user/per month
My point was that it probably wasn't deposited by codeguru.com because it costs a decent chunk of money to do so and websites don't necessarily have the resources, but if there was a pooling fund, maybe they would.

You'd still run the risk of Amazon just not looking it up or caring, but the legal grounds would be much more on your side, abet I agree that 20 year precedence should be strong enough in itself.
Finding a mentor is unbelievable. Even if it's just "taking lessons." Oddly, other autodidacts I know don't seem to get mentors, and the people with advanced educations seem to stop bothering to learn anything outside their jobs after they graduated.
Look up blade element theory, that's how Laminar started with X-Plane, and they incrementally refined their model over the past 20 years. I bet the physics will take the least and the graphics will take most of development time, though.
>You need only one marginally competent one to wreck your entire platform.

Yes exactly. Ultimately security is deeply involved with threat modeling. It is likely that the author's boss did not prioritize her pet security issues because they were a low risk in the threat model.

>How can you possibly believe that a bunch of white supremacists are not a threat?

Domain expertise. Frankly I am somewhat surprised that people with what is apparent to be a television soap opera level of understanding of american dissident activity make public posts on the topic with the confidence they do on here. Not you, of course, but others.

Unfortunately, the most believable interpretation of this story is very boring office politics: Our author, having failed to make a case to her boss, drummed up some internet post in an attempt to get her way. We've all known people like this... they have varying amounts of self-awareness. It is characteristic of such actors to manufacture exactly the sort of attack they imagine to be the most relevant. This is likely to be such a case. What gives her away is that this is some fantastical story that makes sense only in pop culture: if there is even one WS cyber attack on an american federal platform for every 10,000 chinese attacks I will eat my hat and livestream it. These are simply not people with competence in the field of cyber security.
Or maybe it’s a reflection of how Muslims are.
It is not necessary in the same way that it is not necessary to drink alcohol or watch Netflix. People still want to do it.

This makes killing animals an economic necessity to supply a large amount of demand. That will only change with lab grown meat or indistinguishable-from-the-real-thing meat replacements.
It's just a slobbering infant trying to roll off the bed at this point.

The battleground of what is real and fake will very quickly move into 'superhuman' realms of sensitivity, leaving us meaty minions as spectators trying to figure out which AI to trust.
> wonder how the technology underneath changed

80% of fintech is excel sheets getting sent from one system to the other. A lot of these were baby-sit earlier, and RBI changed this over a year or so. They asked for banks to make sure the processes were automated first, then lots of test-runs.

I think another important reason was that the morning rush (build-up of pending transfers) was causing issues and chokepoints. Smaller window-sizes helped fix that.
My example is not completely applicable because it's not a business per se, nor do I want to make it one, it's more of a "I made this for myself but you can use it if you chip in to pay for costs". Even so, I recently raised the price from $20/ever (where it was since 2008) to $50/ever.

The way I handle most support requests is to make the UI easy enough so that people don't have that problem in the first place, though many still do, partly because of the unorthodox "email token to log in" system I switched to recently. Many people weren't used to that.
It is explained in the article, they developed software that knew when it was being tested and then changed its tuning to meet the testing requirements, tuning that would never have provided the performance and characteristics owners expected when driving the vehicle. Those in charge knew it was being done and approved it. Hence the broke the law and off to jail.

I lost my TDI because of this fraud as VW wasn't going to have an acceptable correction available and while I could have kept it outside of others who just enjoyed TDI my ability to sell it later would have resulted in vastly reduced value.
While the images on unsplash are fantastic, nothing about this, really nothing, is "open source".

e.g. quote from https://unsplash.com/api-terms :

In connection with any Photos that you access via the APIs, you must directly use or embed the related image URLs returned by the API in your Developer Apps (generally referred to as “hotlinking”) in accordance with the API Guidelines. Additionally, each time there is a download of a Photo or other comparable event (e.g., setting a Photo as background wallpaper) in your Developer Apps, you must provide us notice of the event in accordance with the API Guidelines. Failure to do any of the foregoing in this Section 6 will constitute a material breach of these API Terms. You agree that Unsplash may track user views, downloads, and other interactions with Photos within your Developer Apps via the image URLs or other technological means agreed between you and Unsplash (“Photo Interaction Data”). Unsplash owns all Photo Interaction Data collected from use of your Developer Apps. Unsplash grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, royalty-free license to use Photo Interaction Data from each Developer App in connection with the operation and maintenance of that Developer App. You must not (a) transfer, sell, lease, license, sublicense, distribute, disclose, divulge, or make available the Photo Interaction Data (or any derived data or derivative product based on the Photo Interaction Data) to, or permit use of or access to the Photo Interaction Data (or any such derived data or derivative product) by, any person or entity other than your employees, (b) use the Photo Interaction Data to create, market, or distribute any product or service that is competitive with Unsplash’s products or services, (c) contest, challenge, or otherwise make any claim or take any action adverse to Unsplash’s ownership of, or interest in, the Photo Interaction Data, including the intellectual property rights therein, or (d) permit, procure, enable, or request any other person or entity to do any of the foregoing.

More stuff in there, including limitation of commercial use of the API etc.
> When working, put the cell phone out of view and out of reach. It's too easy to subconsciously pick it up and start scrolling a feed before realizing focus had been broken.

Do people not use social networks on their computers? It's as easy for me (easier actually) to subconsciously open HN on a computer, unless it's blocked somehow.
This really applies to all relationships. Every relationship has a pros and cons, and if the cons outweigh the pros = dump that person.

I have a filter on new employees such that if they cannot fill out the application on the website, they don't get an interview. Same with customers - I deliberately channel them to the website because if they cannot figure out how to use our brainlessly easy website, I don't want to spend the next year walking them through.

There is a multiplicative hidden cost working with uneducated/lazy people people. It's like the locked doors theory of crime. The most criminal 0.1% of society costs society a 100x increase in security costs.

The same is true for romantic relationships - some are just not worth it.
> when UPI is literally free

So far. Lots of banks are fighting to introduce fees. The actual cost is getting subsidised so far, but there are no free lunches. Banks can't keep this up forever.
That's exactly the problem I solve with multiple monitors.

I'd rather flick my eyes over to the browser window documenting function signatures, error cases, etc. than alt+tab through potentially several windows to find said docs window, then alt+tab ing back to my coding window to use said information.

But apparently some people prefer to do that, than to spam a few win+arrow key combinations, to spread their windows out for initial setup.
>Student loan debt breaks both of these.

Not true, only government backed student loans are non-dischargable via bankruptcy (but there are other programs in place in lieu of bankruptcy including income bases repayment), other types of student loans are.

>Student loans were supposed to be low risk

Low risk to the LENDER not the borrower, they are low risk because they are guaranteed by the federal government

>but the jobs never materialized

That depends on your field of study, it was always a myth that just have any degree would net you a high paying job. If you fell for that will I am sorry you got scammed

STEM fields still have a high ROI on their education, but Liberal Arts, Social "Sciences" and other such non-STEM fields do not and never will

>There's also the matter of people even being able to afford to file for bankruptcy. Just for that you're looking in the ballpark of $1500 in court and attorney fees.

I take it you have never been through a personal bankruptcy. The first thing the lawyer will tell you is to stop all payments on all debt (for Chapter 7), it is with this money you will use to pay the costs and fees. If you have any income at all the filing fees are not a burden. In the event you waited to the point where are literally broke with no assets, and no money at all, only debt well not only did you wait far far far far too long before seeking bankruptcy protection there are ways to do it with deferred payments even some non-profits will help

For most people, you file for bankruptcy protection long before your situation is so dire you do not even have the filing fee money (which is about 1 month part time salary from Walmart)
You only have time to read 300-3,000 books in your life. Pick wisely.
Antibiotics resistance is also a cat and mouse game. It's still useful to keep playing the game though.
French perspective.

When I was a kid at school in the 80's, we were told to use the whole palette of past tenses and their relationships.

Fast forward to today, same age and same school and they are told to use mostly present for narration. The past tenses coordination is almost not taught anymore.

I do not know whether this is a good thing or not as many of these tests are useless and basically unused. When they are used, they are usually used (and written) wrong anyway.
By “Russiagate” are you referring to the FBI investing on of the Trump campaign’s communication with Russians?

I’m not sure how investigating that was a bad idea. We also have a documented report that shows considerable coordination and a bunch of people pleaded guilty to crimes.

Should we have not investigated crimes because people find it too political?
I think the general point is still correct - lifetime licenses mean that producers have no incentive to support their products.
I agree, I'm not saying it's a 50/50 split. But I think consumers were at least considered in the design process for Trello, which is the not the case for Zoom.
Sometimes this is done to when they're actually is a contractual obligation. I pay for Microsoft Azure support, for instance. And it's quite common for them to refer me to Github when I have problems using their SDKs, or to just tell me they can't help when the problem lies with a team other than the one that my support case was automatically assigned to. Instead of taking ownership of the issue as a company, I have to resubmit the issue see several different ways hoping to catch the gracious attention of someone who can help.
>>I'd love to understand your confidence in reducing the individual debt systems of thousands of cultures to a bland, two-point progressive analysis.

I do not believe I did, I believe my statements were specifically about the debt systems that destabilized their societies and cause wide spread harm resulting in the need for massive debt forgiveness
Results

> The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Cloth masks also had significantly higher rates of ILI compared with the control arm. An analysis by mask use showed ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) were significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.

Conclusions

> This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
Sort of agree, though I'd say more important the number of monitors is resolution. I find anything less 2560x1440 results in increased cognitive load for window management.
Cool tech, but most people will have tuned out what we know as "the news" (or become jaded to its purpose beyond entertainment) before a tool like this is necessary.
The incentive to support the product is that you get more customers, though.
Telling my children now that they would become the first, if they did this. In our house we use PostgreSQL.
I have bad insomnia for many years, since childhood, with symptoms similar to what you report. I would stay away from pills. They lead to dependency, possible mood changes and shallow sleep. I have been able to get better at sleeping over the years after trying many different things. Here are a few of the things that helped me the most:

- Temperature control. I sleep with the AC set at 65, a fan and a BedJet device.

- Blue light control. I wear blue light blocking glasses at night time

- Wind down routine. I am careful not to exercise, watch exciting shows or do anything that raises my hearth rate at least an hour before bed.

- No alarm clock. I have found that when using an alarm clock I invariably get anxious about it going off.

Hope some of that helps.
This, 100%. This is the point. Everyone is trying to assert the harmfulness of "misinformation," but is ignoring the harmfulness of censorship.

Also, has anyone considered that conspiracy theories are on the rise because they're entertaining rather than because they're believed?
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> Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors.

Maybe some people benefit from this but I’ve always found it distracting and in some cases a bit annoying. I’ve always preferred simply having multiple desktops and switching between them instantly with a keystroke which is great in most Linux DEs/WMs but a terrible experience in Windows. It’s gotten to a point where even though I have 2 displays, I just turn one off 99% of the time.
>>journalist

I dont think we have any of those any more, if we do they are few and far between and I would venture to guess that none of them work for Wired
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Could you explain that a little for me? Do you mean substituting a term to show a counter-example?
> but then they just make fake youtube style sites that say its authentic.

Even simpler, someone will build an optical setup that sends deepfake pixels onto a signing image sensor.
There only one I regularly hear as a former British penal colonist is pints and if it's stinking hot while sitting outside most would prefer a schooner or middy.

Refusing to accept the metric system goes far beyond regional dialects and you all know it but are so fucking stubborn to ever change :)
>With Mozilla, it is merely uncertain but for just about every other company, it is all but guaranteed

I disagree, most large companies view this data as a competitive advantage and won't sell it directly. They may sell the results but the data itself is their moat. Smaller companies on the other hand are more willing to sacrifice future profits for current money.
I really cannot recall which library it was exactly. I worked on a project that had many proprietary dependencies. It might have been a GenICam camera driver that caused us a lot of other headaches as well.
1. I’m not convinced this has to be artificial light as fiber optics might be able to pipe in plenty of sunlight.

2. I’ve heard the real efficiency is tailoring light from high efficiency leds per plant.
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How can we encourage teenagers to not use social media as much as they currently
Oh thanks. Yes I forgot about the Armenian genocide. Also I suppose the ethnic cleansing of turks in Greece and the Greeks in Turkey. Plus the middle east situation.
Kea are fantastic. One stole my gopro at the Remarkables years ago. I recovered it after playing a protracted game of chase while other Kea watched with glee. Eventually they got distracted by the next game (which seemed to involve jumping into snow drifts) and left my gopro alone. I wish it was recording at the time!