skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-resizable dialogs are one of the top reasons why I cannot stand Windows and find it a huge pain to work with as a non-regular user.

Now, while I can understand the sibling's point about third-party overlays [0] which may break when the windows suddenly become resizable, what I find absolutely infuriating is that even what seem like recent features still inherit this stupid behavior.

The thing that I'm reminded of is "Windows Defender Exceptions" (or similar, don't have a Windows box at hand). Those are configured through a new, Settings App-looking window.

Now I understand this is somehow different, because even though the window vaguely looks like the Settings App (huge icons, tons and tons of whitespace), it behaves very differently.

This "exceptions" panel shows a list of the folders that is fixed, although the outer window can be resized. So if you've got a big high-res screen and maximize it, you'll get 90% of blank space and will still have to scroll around to see the contents. Bonus points for the list being so skinny that I'm only able to see "C:\Users\vlad\..." and have to click on each entry to see it in full.

I sometimes jokingly say that it shows MS has a mouse business, and having to click a thousand times for the simplest of things is by design.

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[0] Not sure what those are. Do random third-parties "augment" system dialogs by drawing random stuff on top of them? I find that thought horrendous.
Exposing the big lie – America's UFO technology (video)
Good grief, that was the most disturbing thing I have read in years.

Thank you for sharing this.
Naive question:

How likely is it that the constant use of hand sanitizers due to the pandemic (which might stay on as a habit) has negative side effects for the population as whole or individuals, e.g. killing "good bacteria", creating resistances, weakening the immune system?
This article seems to miss the context, unusual for the Times. The Writers' Project was part of the Works Progress Administration, a jobs program of the Great Depression. The Government put unemployed people to work. People who could do construction work built public buildings. Thousands of post offices, courthouses, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority were built. Rincon Center in San Francisco is perhaps the best Bay Area example. Artists were given art jobs; sometimes large murals in government buildings. Writers got writing jobs, hence these books.
> Access Denied
> You don't have permission to access "http://www.ksdk.com/article/news/remote-thermostat-adjustmen..." on this server.
Exactly, the BBC gets shows cheap by only accquiring the UK rights.

The production companies then get the prestige of "shown on the BBC" when doing foreign sales.
This is basically a parallel alternate history that proposes explanations for variety of alternative topics. It's pretty interesting well produced and seemingly well thought out.
This. It's not about backwards compatibility for Windows itself; it's about investment. They don't want to pay to update all their menus and settings screens.
The mental gymnastics required here are staggering. The cost of roping more rubes into the pyramid

Currencies are not supposed to be hoarded.
Hoarding crashes economies, not moderate inflation.
Investments are supposed to have intrinsic value.
Bitcoin’s scarcity belies the myriad alternatives.
Smoking does not encourage lung cancer research.
Miners already have full incentive to find the cheapest possible energy and this is the latest and most breathtaking excuse to keep this abominable scam alive.

My hope for the future is that people wisen up to get-rich-quick schemes before they lose all their money
I know, if you read my post I also described how they worked. In app ads in free apps are some of the ugliest and most obnoxious ads, I really wonder bow you can prefer them to search ads.
iOS backups expire after 6 months
Having your thermostat monitored by some random tech company does feel a tad sinister to me. Are they selling the data to ad companies?
The emotional response in the comments to any tech heavyweight person seems to be pretty mixed here on HN.

Except JC.

Who else? Doug Engelbart? Woz? The list is pretty short of these universally loved and respected gurus
A dehumidifier is really just an air conditioner, cool the air so water condenses and collect that (and maybe pump it out), and then blow the hot air into the room, which also decreases relative humidity.

If you only need to reduce humidity, like in a cool and humid basement, that's fine; the waste heat doesn't matter or may be helpful. If it's hot and humid, you don't really want the extra hot air, it's a lot better to run the heated working fluid outside, so you can dump the heat outdoors instead of indoors. Of course, an AC unit is often a lot bigger than a dehumidifier, and so all the rest of the energy use is bigger too, but if you could get a similar wattage system, putting the condenser outside the conditioned space means you get dehumidifying and cooling inside vs just dehumidifying, so why do only one.
I'd go with rsync for the transfer (+ zfs/btrfs snapshots on the receiving side to keep incremental backups)
They tried modernizing with Windows RT, which was actually very smooth and functional if it wasn't so locked down.
You haven't used KDE Plasma as primary desktop for long time, have you?
They realise it, they created britbox which has the BBC, ITV,Channel 4 and Channel 5, basically all the historic over the air tv channels in the UK.

Anything they can legally get away with licensing to international audiences is in it I think.
Not just a terrible idea, but it was completely unnecessary. The highjacked PgUp/Dn keys scroll the screenshot galleries horizontally, but so do the left and right arrow keys just like in other image galleries.

It did remind me to try a pair of browser shortcuts that I haven't used in probably ten years: Space and Shift+Space. They work!
Does Intel still have the cash to pay the vendors to not replace them on the server. Isn't that what they did the last time?

Also, are there no higher quality numbers about what these companies actually sell?
I've been using maddy as a personal and business email server for a while.

Resource consumption is basically zero, no problems with sending or receiving emails at all.

It did take me quite a few hours to properly set up a Kubernetes + Terraform config though. Getting all the bits and pieces for DKIM, SPF, DMARC right, including issuing certs via cert-manager, is quite finicky.
Isn’t it interesting that the inconsistency arguments mostly surfaces around software configuration, like “_Settings_ app is stupid” “I still use XP style _driver installation_ screen” etc?

It makes sense why it’s not much of an issue on other GUI environments: in GNU/Linux and macOS, only what’s available on GUI is available on GUI, and the rest goes to the unified scary black screen with very task specific procedures.

Only in Windows the GUI is primary means of configuration and only Windows carry over old GUI associated with each configuration items.
> blatant censorship and suppression

If you want a truly free speech social network, consider using Gab or 4chan. Oh wait, many potential users would find the content there distasteful.

There's no perfect social network out there. The other major social networks are happy to censor too (e.g. Trump, doctors discussing COVID-19 contrary to government agencies, etc) and they're just as bad with privacy too. Actually worse (I've been personally banned from Twitter for not providing a phone number, TikTok doesn't require one).

Not saying TikTok is perfect, but the more friends I add on TikTok the less I rely on Zuckerberg's empire.
This resonates with me. I sometimes think that one of the frequent causes of dissatisfaction with immediate or higher management is simply because we don't understand the actual problem they are trying to solve.

It can be frustrating when a command from on-high arrives without the context surrounding it. A "solution" is explained, and coding required, but the problem is not explained, and too-often mis-imagined.

The reverse is true - management should present the actual problem to engineers, and solicit suggestions, instead of just presenting the solution.

That can be difficult to do if the problem is not engineering though - the problem may be low sales, at which point customer services may have more useful input than programmers dreaming up new features.
I don't know anything about the engineering of those dishes but why do they need to put electronics in them and can't move it at the other end of the cable, inside the house?
Sure. but there's not much difference between that and just adding a regular old TRNG. A hardware design change is a hardware design change :-(
"Hardware is hard", I would say Manufacturing is hard.
My first thought: wow, the US is crazy, I’m glad they don’t have this in the UK! Then I remembered that I was at a famous boarding school for five years, the most miserable years of my life. Thirty years later I’m still coping with the aftereffects. I think of that place as a form of institutionalised child abuse, and frankly if someone pipebombed it, I would not shed a tear.

One simple thing: it wasn’t authoritarian adults or teachers. If anything, they were AWOL. It was the students that really made each other’s life hell. Of course, we were teenagers. Much later, I stopped blaming the individuals and started blaming the institution.

Here’s a tiny anecdote. One guy, who I think was genuinely evil, took psychology as a minor subject. As an experiment, he decided to drive another, younger, vulnerable pupil mad. Gaslighting him, messing with his head, that kind of stuff. And he succeeded!
This is not something to find in a beta. This is a built-in feature and operating temperatures are not picked at random (they should not be, at least)
Hacksters looks interesting. Are there any other sites you would recommend?
Currently using Time4VPS with no issues so far: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link, personally i find it to be an affordable VPS host that i've used for years and host most of my stuff on).

However, i'd say that it's less of a matter of choosing a VPS host and more one of making sure that the IP addresses that you get are not in any blacklists. This seems like a good starting point for those sorts of checks: https://dnschecker.org/ip-blacklist-checker.php Or maybe this: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

I think the actual question would be: "Which VPS hosts have the least blacklisted IP addresses for hosting mail servers?" But i'm afraid that i cannot answer that one, because after a brief search i could not find any articles, which would check the IP blocks owned by different hosts and what percentage of them are in blacklists, which would probably be a large undertaking.

Until then, most of the answers will probably be subjective, along the lines of: "I use $HOST without many problems." (like my answer above, though even then someone could get a blacklisted IP address and their answer would be the exact opposite to mine).
Hidden Lake Academy
I'll say this though, I'm one of those who would gladly take an in office position. I've found that I'm significantly less productive during wfh.
I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one. (2015)
Sign Commits on GitHub
> It's just not a community interested in growth, it seems like it's only interested in increased adoption & the idea of bitcoin as a global reserve currency.

If they're aspiring to build a global reserve currency, then why shouldn't their first priority be increased adoption? Distribution matters more than tech if the tech is already good enough.

Also, you seem to have contradicted yourself -- increased adoption begets growth.
It is. Being sued for professional negligence is hurty & we earn by inflicting pain on others not getitng hurt ourselves. A static type checker/formal verifier for legal contracts would be worth serious money.
It seems all countries have their difficulties with their troubled teens industry. In Germany their was recently an outcry because there were cases rather critical outsourcing to Eastern Europe:

https://www.romania-insider.com/projekt-maramures-german-tee...
what VPS hosts are reliable for email?

I've not had problems with Hetzner and Scaleway. Before that I used to host email on random vendors I saw on Low End Box[1] and never had problems.

[1] https://lowendbox.com/
I got good results with Hetzner. But it takes some time to set up a server that complies with all of Google requirements. Also, I once inherited a spammy IP address and took me some time to remove it from spam databases.
Willful Blindness
That expensive part is NRE and only making a few tens of them, no production efficiency.
With the volumes spacex will be hitting, efficiencies will certainly be found and NRE exceptionally better amortized.
Probably not good for individuals. I am a germophobe and my immune system is a lot weaker than my friends who share drinks, eat stuff off the floor, eat street food, kiss random strangers etc[0]

Probably great for the population and likely to increase Earth’s carrying capacity of humans, as is the case with most technological progress (hand washing, plumbing, agricultural techniques increasing food production per hectare, micronutrient fortification). We become dependent on these things and as long as they stick around as reliable infrastructure then we are good

It is important to keep in mind, however, that exposing oneself to pathogens from other humans is distinct from exposing oneself to various neutral microorganisms from the environment that help diversify your micro biome and generally make your immune system stronger. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” does not apply to oneself and Ebola or HIV or even malaria in a very practical sense. Perhaps most relatable to Hacker News folks is that each infection in one’s body offers a nonzero chance of lowering one’s IQ. That should suffice as reason to avoid disease

Edit: [0] I get sick a lot more easily than they do, and uh, it took me 9 months to recover from Covid (long Covid)
Selling something you know breaks within a short amount of time in the lifetime of a car and then not wanting to replace it is fraud.
>But they don’t have comparable beacons for crashes on land.

Well, they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...

But the reason you need underwater beacons in particular is that the water absorbs RF signals, so you'll actually use acoustic beacons underwater. Such a device would be useless above the water since air is so much less dense.
As are genetics. Psychological illnesses often first manifest in the teenage years and they happen in all kinds of families. People always want to look for some kind of reason but sometimes there just isn't one.
And, in this case particularly, that is quite a loss. Qoh 12:8–14 are relatively significant to the meaning of the book in its final form.

So reader be warned, this is more than a "reframing".
Vitalik should really give you proper attribution.
On a similar note: "How do I draw a sharp, single-pixel-wide line?", from the Cairo FAQ: https://www.cairographics.org/FAQ/#sharp_lines

TL;DR: always think of the upper left pixel's position as (0.5, 0.5).
Maybe my imagination is too small, but what else could a solution look like? You want sequencing, and IO gives you exactly that.
You: “Not rushing science”.

March 2020

HHS Head: “MASKS DON’T WORK! …”

NIAID Head: “At this time, in the United States, there is no reason to wear a mask”

Dude, looks like someone rushed the science, man. They just rushed it in the wrong direction because they are not good at their jobs.

Bezos was a better epidemiologist in March 2020 than our institutions. I wonder why that is. Maybe smart is smart and dumb is dumb.
Ah damn, now I'm aware of my inner monologue! Honestly it just isn't there for me most of the time. It's the same when I read or look at most anything; I'm not thinking in words. When I get stuck on a page or technical snippet I'll sometimes be caught in a loop of reading out loud in my head but not understanding much of it. After enough time the inner monologue fades and I'm back to full speed.
"Off-site write only continuously incremental snapshots from a full start", that can be interpreted as a backup strategy (i.e. a DB would do something like that with full/diff/log backups), but you just changed what snapshots means.

What OP tried to demonstrate that backups need to protect from bad changes, on physical, logical, and business layer, from data corruptions to 'oops' scenarios (i.e. drop table). Standard snapshots for sure don't protect from all those.

Also for a good backup strategy, you need
- "a full start" once in a while, because corruption in "full backup" will invalid all incremental snapshots
- regular restore of a backup for e2e validation
Why is it a myth? Whenever I read about the founding of a big name company there's very often a significant innovation that it's initially premised on.

Disney - animated feature length film with sound, dogged vision of founder

Post / Kelloggs - invention of breakfast cereal, invented by founder (Kellogg's invention stolen by Post)

Carnegie steel - bridge prototype, highly risky and innovative endeavor

Ford - division of labor

Mars - caramel and nougat in chocolate, innovation over Hersheys' plain chocolate, invented by founder

Google - pagerank, invented by founders
> visual boundary

I agree with this so much that I have added (some time ago) a syntax for that to Next Generation Shell.

https://ilya-sher.org/2019/10/21/section-syntax-next-generat...

TL;DR:

section "Add a vertical scroll bar" {
...
}
Yeah sure. Lets do the same with banks. Nobodies life changes when we withdraw 1 dollar from each person to raise 200m to fund whatever project.
Evolution of Cooperation
Except I would say quantum computation, which is truly more natural, considering the universe is quantum, definitely feels more functional flavored.
I've kind of wondered what made impressionism so interesting to people. it can look sloppy but life like and interesting. People really are drawn to the style. I find it so much more interesting then a realistic style painting, even if it's well done and I can appreciate the technicalness of it. Some brains really like loose styles of art.
Yeah, macOS jumping on the "huge UI elements with tons of empty space" bandwagon was the proverbial straw for me that moved my beloved MBP from daily workhorse to random idle browsing machine.

I'd say it's still not as bad as Windows, in that at least it's not pure white that burns your eyes, but I still hate how half of my laptop screen is taken up by useless UI elements.
From someone else with similar experience: I've been following all best practices to the best of my abilities (rDNS/DMARC/DKIM/SPF/etc). After all that was properly in place, the only problematic receiver was Microsoft (outlook.com/hotmail.com/live.com), which bounced and provided an appeal process.

I filled the form, was requested documentation from my ISP on the IP address.

I asked my VPS hosting company (since they provide the public IP and therefore act as ISP) and they proactively reached out to Microsoft, who lifted the restriction after that.

So since then no delivery issues. YMMV.

If you intend to host this from your residential address, it can be a good idea to tunnel external traffic over VPN through a VPS or similar. Not only for privacy reasons, but also to get around ISP blocks and IP banlists. I don't know how flexible maddy is, but in postfix in case the above scenario wouldn't be resolved, I could have set to use mailgun/mailroute for MS domains only and relay like normally for others.
Simple Maths Practice Tool
Yes. There are so many things Mac got it right for parents or grand parent users. Global Menu Bar and Single Mouse Button.

But generally speaking for them it was still a hassle and hurt to use a computer. iPad with Home Button was so much easier. No support calls for years. It was the computing devices that works. But now they moved on to Smartphone meant iPad get way less usage.

Which also means some of those design decisions that make macOS easier to use might not be relevant as PC transfer to a more professional type usage rather than consumer / everyone computing devices. But even in that case I still think Global Menu Bar is a better design.
Vultr, Linode, Njalla, Hetzner, Scaleway
"If I’m only a mediocre programmer, but there are 10,000 people who know exactly how good I am, I’m going to be able to make more money and get hired quicker than a world-class programmer who anyone barely knows."

This is the truest thing ever. Basically it is marketing. Marketing yourself.

The best way to market yourself is to do public speaking or public writing.

I knew a guy once, he gave at least 2 technical talks every week to various technical users groups, associations, conferences - if there was a gathering of two or more people, he'd be talking there.

They guy got 2-3 job offers every single day. You do public speaking for 5 years, and the whole world will know you. You are seen as a leader, when you get up on stage.

And the same is true for writing if you don't like public speaking, although public speaking is better as people see you in the flesh. Both speaking and writing together is the best.

I know another person, gave a public speech at a company on an important new technology they were adopting when she was an intern. She was a beautiful shiny penny, and gave the talk with verve, pizazz, panache, and humor. She shot way up the ladder at that company, faster than people with a ton more experience and knowledge. Because she was seen as a thought leader. She really didn't know shit about technology either, but that's just how peoples' minds work. You get up in front of people and know 10% more than most of them, and, bam, you're an expert and thought leader.

Of course, there will always be those who will say, "I talked to him/her, and he/she doesn't know shit, why are they getting promoted over me when I know more? All that fucking political ass-kissing/brown-nosing, etc." And they are right in terms of knowledge of the skill. But they could just as easily build their skill on public speaking or writing, in order to be known, but they don't.

To be known, you have to get known. Public speaking and public writing are the easiest options that are available to all. If you've never done either, partner up with someone who has. Be a co-author or co-speaker. It's ok to fluck up, as long as you keep getting better every time.