skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been primarily a linux user for some time, so I've gotten pretty desensitized to various applications looking vastly different on the same system. But in the last several years that's mostly gone away - Gnome knows how to change the theme for QT apps and KDE can configure GTK themes so things are actually remarkably uniform.

But then when I fire up Windows, it is just this bizarre mix of all these different UI frameworks. I guess Windows isn't the big cash cow it once was for Microsoft and maybe it's not the highest development priority anymore, but still it's remarkably off-putting and I have no idea why they would let it stay in this state.

I read they were introducing a new UI framework to unify everything (Project Reunion), but I can't help but think that will mean it's just another different-looking toolkit thrown into the mix.

With all that said, Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility is fairly legendary so there could be an actual technical reason some things can't be redesigned with a newer toolkit.
Does mean imply that the outliers were taken out? Seems he meant to say average. What a bullshit article.
MISRA C is just a standard and developing a codebase in it can still result in memory safety issues. Rust has the guarantees built into the compiler, so if it compiles you have a reasonable standard of memory safety.
Indeed, I have seen a lot of semi-naive usage of ORMs, and enough expert usage that sidesteps the leaking abstractions and drops into non-ORM access.

Table models are hugely useful. "Business object" models, not as much.
>Online provides a forum for people to get the sort of attention we might like. "Look what I can do!" or "Look at me!" Still, one of my gripes about social media is that there are so many people who lurk.

There's a lot to learn from lurking. My mother watches Tik Tok videos and doesn't post herself, but cooks more now than ever based on the ideas she sees on there. You can learn about a cultural trend, a social cause, a musician, a resource, etc. There are lurkers with agendas, sure, but many are just bored and don't take pictures of everything.

Message boards like this offer even more to learn. Many people repeat what's already been said. The lurker respects this or has nothing to say and moves on.

I don't like that Burning Man curator's quote calling their saying a form of "inclusivity" when it doesn't include the lurker. It also suggests that "being present" is necessarily not being observant, but doing things that are supposed to be done at their festival, which I don't agree with. That said, I'm sure a space like that would actively become less of what its meant to be if there were tons of people just spectating. They should own the exclusivity that they want.
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For very controversial topics I would expect high-quality sources to protect their reputational downside by taking conservative stances. In that case I think it’s fine to see some medium-quality outsider sources and use my own noodle. That satisfies my own intellectual curiosity.
Does anyone think this would make you ageless until one day you drop dead? I certainly don't. If we all require the elderly care at 150 as we do at 75, all those problems GP mentioned will still exist and all the problems you mention will still be around.
Well then, It’s starting to sound like backups aren’t what a business needs.
Block heaters are pretty standard on many new cars sold in the colder parts of Canada. So are all season tires.
Probably hosted on IPFS.
Lol. It's a no-name bluetooth earbud from WalMart that's $16.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/QCY-Mini2-Wireless-Business-Headp...
Perhaps we could divide the statistics into "unnecessary servers Microsoft forced you to run" and "servers you actually need"?
I'm not sure, it seems like 110+F is pretty common nowadays in parts of the US. Adding a dozen degrees if the dish is in direct sunlight seems pretty realistic.

(not saying things won't break at that heat, just that it's not unrealistically high)
I don’t get the point of not allowing administrator to the local machine to employees. The local machine is practically a throwaway in my opinion. Why should we care about it? The shared folder is much more vital to the business.
Really, it's not "don't live there," as humans have inhabited these conditions for thousands of years. But "don't live there and expect the same standard of living."

Contrast living in an adobe house/masonry house with no AC, taking a siesta/riposa in the hottest hours, and tolerating a bit of sweat, vs in-ground pool, AC set to 68, driving around mid-day in a rolling greenhouse.
You get an actual 4g router, not a phone, and they actually worknwell
I have a capisco that I bought last year off craigslist for twenty whole dollars. It needed a patch on one of the arms, but since then I have spent an embarrassing amount of time in it and it has held up like a champ.
That may be harder to automate with a Raspberry Pi
I'm not sure any chair can make sitting for 8 hours healthy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210618155422/https://www.khou....
Yeah if people can live 1000 years they will probably become more risk adverse. I don't buy the argument at all; I think we'll end up with just as many elderly people --- or maybe even more person-years of infirm-but-not-dying. And while I don't think this has to be bad for society, I think it will be unless we fix a bunch of problems first.

The individualist myopia with all things life-extension is staggering.
In AWS I use the AMD whenever I can (faster and cheaper) but they aren’t as available so my terraform either has to get complex logic about A-Z or default to Intel or just use two AZs which is less available.
That's not precisely why dedup needs gobs of RAM. (If you already know this distinction, I apologize, I just want to make sure people reading this do.)

You effectively (unless you use allocation classes) need to keep the entire DDT in RAM all the time if you don't want any write to a dedup-enabled dataset to potentially require blocking on reading the relevant segment from spinning disks into RAM (thus tanking performance even worse than dedup normally does). It's not really related to the mechanisms in the rest of ZFS for keeping {frequently,recently} used data cached in RAM.
Well it's more complex now. There is a special unit for NSL matters, and the NSL permitted the state agencies to openly operate in HK (they were thankfully already operating but not openly), but I think it's mostly done with the coordination of the NSL unit, which is also connected to police. So probably some of the people in the raid were staff from the NSL unit.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...
> OK, maritime outfitters will sell you a climatized radome, which will set you back a few grand.

To be fair, isn't the maritime market a bit like the aviation market, where a pack of 6 disposable AA batteries potted in a pack will cost you $43? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1YjGLwfYSQ&t=37)

On land with a good supply of fresh water (so, not in drought regions) I think you could probably cool a dish for a few dollars of parts with an open-loop cooling system. I'm not sure how much water you would actually need though, it might be an unconscionable waste in the regions that are prone to these sort of temperatures in the first place.
this is one of the major problems with the current media landscape. all publicity is good publicity. look at Trump. look at the Paul brothers. HN is one of the few safe harbours from that. personally, I’d like to keep it that way
> population growth & infrastructure that can't keep pace

why would that be a problem? the healthier the older population gets, the more they can work and produce more (instead of "retiring"), and this production includes making more infrastructure (directly, or indirectly via taxation).
This reminds me of Alistair Maclean's book: Ice Station Zebra. Great book.
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I bet when your ecological toll is accounted for, you take out more than you put in.
I used to have a small startup with over 50 servers per engineer. Tell me all about TCO and digital transformation, I really need to learn about that stuff.
That's a subsystem with three major sections, a working fluid, and its own heat rejection requirements. A resistive heater contains two parts - a properly placed wire and a switch.
I wonder what kind of heavy metals and other toxins accumulate within the human lifetime?
my ideal article tells me everything I need to know in simple language, without meander or emotion. that’s rare even here
Idempotent SQL updates are my preference.

```
ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS
ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS foo varchar;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sample (
-- all the fields including foo
);
```

Run it on a clean DB, you get the table. Run it on an existing DB, it adds the column. Run it on a current DB, it does nothing. Run it once or a hundred times, the DB ends up in the same target state.

Can only be used on some databases though. The DBs without transactional DDL are a risk. Then again, they were a risk no matter what method you use. (I'm looking at you, MySQL.)
Advent of code is an interesting set of challenges, with a generally rising set of complexity. There are 6 years worth of 25 challenges.

https://adventofcode.com/
...what?

You don't get the increased storage efficiency on existing data, without rewriting it, but the new capacity is certainly available for use.
The news wasn’t priced in yet. Stocks are usually not priced rationally and there is plenty of room for someone good at performing accurate corporate valuations to become handsomely rich. Case in point: Enphase (ENPH). How can a stock of a predictable solar-parts company be priced at $130 then $220, then $120, then $164? All within a 7 month period. Finally what MBAs are you referring to?
Unless we adopt a Logan's Run strategy for the common person.
warehouse/workshop model: the only architecture that fully surpasses the "von Neumann architecture", and it is the first architecture to achieve a unified software and hardware.

The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
I’ve never been to the actual burn, but went to a regional one once. And I agree wholeheartedly with you; it was the complete opposite of 1984. I was invited because of a dude I sat next to at a coffee shop once in a while and had some occasional good chats with.

The event was absolutely mind blowing, and I wasn’t really part of the “altered” crowd (I had some beer and a bit of weed, but no psychedelics or anything like that.) Within an hour of our arrival, I was helping a group of people I’d never met who were building a very large structure (that we burned to the ground on Saturday night, naturally.)

The biggest takeaway, for me, other than making friends that I still keep in touch with a decade later, was that the reality and social systems we take for granted every day are truly just systems we constructed and don’t have to be how they are. Sure, burner life probably isn’t sustainable as a long-term societal structure, but it was really amazing to take a vacation from normal life and drop into a completely different paradigm.

Everyone just pitched in and did whatever needed to be done to make it a great weekend for everyone. We built things, we shared food and drink, we sang ridiculous songs at Jerk Church on Sunday morning, we danced and didn’t care how stupid we looked, and we popped up a temporary community for a weekend. It really stuck with me.
Which is what Google does in at least one of its data centers.
Along the same lines, most hardware is designed under the assumption that you aren't significantly above sea level. Tons of medium-high voltage electronics have trouble with arcing once it turns on at 6000+ ft.
But you'd think that, if Siemens didn't want to comment as a blanket policy, they wouldn't have agreed to an interview at all.

I get more of a feeling that Siemens expected some fluffy, soft-ball questions from Adafruit, and got caught off guard.
Why does the fact that devs are in high demand mean a union is bad? How does demand relate to unions at all?
When I had a fleet of servers, I ran a performance test suite after every boot to make sure the machine was OK.
True. I've heard of some tests coming back false positive or false negative from specific labs based on the way they did the test. I hear that Lyme disease is a particularly tricky one to get right (or has been in the past).

I've also been told that if you need tests done, it's best to get them dome during the week. Sometimes in some places the weekend team is the "B team" or techs on Friday afternoon just want to get done and make more mistakes. This seems to be similar to the research done about patient outcomes being affected by their surgeon's birthdays being on the procedure date, etc.
The impact on copyright would also be interesting (I’m imagining an artist holding copyright for an extra 75 years). Not to mention reunion tours. :-)
That's a telling edit. It's easy to misconfigure a few machines, or have an OS update hurt performance of your entire fleet.
I've seen my 2017 Mazda LCD go into protection mode a few times. It also dims before that stage.
Not enough supply of EPYC chips.
There is a lot of talk of non-performance related drivers of market share here, but I think there is a lot to be said for ISA extensions and libraries. A lot of HPC code relies on AVX512 and MKL.
I have yet to see even a medium size program stay "a breeze" due to choice of this kind. Tons and tons of small parts that give the facade of easy breezy. But then the whole that they make up is left incomprehensible. Would be delighted to see counter evidence.
That assumes we do nothing in the US because people in power will die soon. I don't think that's the case. I think we do nothing because our governance has too many veto points and other ossifying characteristics, and that our governance can't respond to future problems because the present is more salient and the bar is very high at which our democracy responds to anything at all.

Longevity doesn't help with any of that.
>I still really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's such a waste of personage, of society, when people keep to themselves, wrap themselves in their tight knit world, shut themselves off to the world:

It seems you have taken Wittgenstein's old phrase "the limits of language are the limits of my world" and substituted "language" with "social media." You are already aware of the people who don't participate, they do exist and participate in your world, you just want them to behave differently than they do. You want them to post more photos, engage more on social media. I've never seen anyone be so blunt about this who didn't run a social media company or work for one themselves.

I don't like people being more guarded and filtered than they would like to be, but I appreciate that there is more to a person than what they post online. The hiddenness of people can sometimes add to the intrigue of getting to know them.
I honestly don't envy Microsoft. On one hand, you have the people who don't want Microsoft to break backwards compatibility. They want Microsoft to retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a century[1] ago. This is why all this legacy stuff sticks around in Windows. Then, you have those who want Microsoft to radically reinvent Windows, either by embracing WinUI 3 fully (what most people mean when they say UWP) or through something even newer. Windows 10X was a sort of middle ground: a OS that pushed all the old cruft into isolated containers. Sadly it looks like that approach isn't going anywhere (unless we see it come back in Windows 11). Project Reunion is a nice attempt to give developers an incremental upgrade path to modern Windows, so I'm hopeful that within the lifecycle of Windows 11 we'll start to see Microsoft develop a reasonable separation between modern and classic Windows apps.

[1] Edit: quarter of a century, not quarter of a decade.
Link: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dirty...

Crazy story. Named for Rapa Nui because it was found in the soil on Easter Island. Smuggled into america by a scientist.
Yes or ban those people from purchasing alcoholic drinks — depending on the incident.
If they decree to tree me, I’ll be their tree with glee.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/10/20/is-trum...
Spinalis looks to be similar idea, available in Canada. I had a lot of lower back pain that went away shortly after I started using it.

https://spinalis-chairs.ca/
How is MacOS able to maintain such a consistent UI even with massive changes in their design language ? Is Windows UI not a separate layer or something that they can update ?

Or is it that the UI elements somehow get baked into the program at the time you build it, so if you didn't update you are just stuck with that particular version of UI you built the program ?
In my case here it means either : feed me , pet me or play with this toy with me . I have to try these options to know what it really means.
GoBGP and RustyBGP are happening.
You are correct, and that would be great! Thank you.
Pretty sure this is used in the likes of metafont, as well. Is a great tool where it is applicable. Oddly not that applicable in most programs. Especially if the "plumbing" variety.
The algorithm should be the service!

I can tune my feed to receive whatever I want to optimize on, instead of what is most engaging and profitable to send to me.
Palm Springs? Yeah. The Inland Empire? Eeeeeh.

The LA Basin, OC, and San Diego? No. Their temperatures are kept much more sane by the ocean, and agriculture is the real problem for the water budget.
A few hundred thousand guys from less overheated areas might politely disagree.
Its notable that is this is an entirely crowdfunded trial.
It's sad Art Bell isn't around to test it out, he loved radio technology I'm sure he would have gotten a kick out of it :(
The housing crisis that California is exporting is rich people buying up single family homes then demanding that no apartments get built near them anywhere.

This is not a "progressive view". This is rich, elitist, anti-renter landed gentry shit.
Shocked to find smart thermostats raised remotely by “Smart Savers Texas” progrm
Can you elaborate? Paid advertising?
> he put a non-automotive grade LCD in the original Model S because it was that LCD or nothing.

No. It was not no LCD or nothing. It was either an LCD that would melt in the heat of a car on a summer day, or a smaller LCD that wouldn’t.

This is just one of many decisions traced directly to Elon that fly in the face of established best practices. Lest we forget, this is a man who made the factory less safe, resulting in higher than expected workplace injuries, because he didn’t like yellow stripes and beeping forklifts. And of course the intentional misnaming of “autopilot”, and the resulting body count of the wide consumer release of its “beta” software.

So yes, it is arrogance.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/tesla-workers-gettin...
I don't think the Fluent+Metro stuff is so different as to be a real consistency issue. Certainly minor inconsistencies that can be easily pointed out in a list but little that makes a typical user think "this is a completely different thing I'm using". The rest of the "old" stuff seems to have been made visually consistent in the 7 era even if the tools themselves originated from different eras with most gaining high DPI support and following the newer theming, again not a consistency issue in itself. There are a few REALLY old dialogs called by ODBC and maybe some others but I can't think of any you run into unless you're intentionally looking to run old software that will call them. So technically 3 but really 2 really noticeable UI environments in day to day.

I'm worried with 11 it'll be a repeat of Windows 10 where at the start you're constantly using "yet another UI". At this point it's nearly gotten decent to the point if you aren't a sysadmin (MMC, regedit, task manager, advanced control panel items not nowadays part of Settings) you rarely run into the "old" style stuff with the one exception of File Explorer. Hopefully it doesn't take another 6 years to be saying that about Fluent/Metro stuff being updated to match 11's new look.
Ever thought about making this a bot? I was thinking about an automation to post an archive link for paywalled articles, but I suppose that's not allowed.
This is an argument to keep the comments short and to the point (preferably one-liners for code paragraphs, longer for functions themselves), not to skip them altogether. Then both checking them and updating them becomes less of a burden.

I even find "man with two watches"useful. When I see it, I _know_ that something is wrong here, and it's worth checking. Most of the time the comment is found to be "buggy" (and gets updated), but I have found quite a few real bugs in the code this way.
What specifically do you find slow? I work on the portal team and would love to hear specifics that we can go chase down.
For me it’s about raising the keyboard surface to almost shoulder level so I can rest my forearms on the desk.
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> Facebook didn't and explicitly banned any sort of apps tat could log who saw your stuff.

Except for Cambridge Analytica, the "who unfriended me" apps, and a plethora of other apps that extracted and exploited Facebook data.
IMO a secure system with a developer mode switch is a better tradeoff than "please don't fix bugs because I need them to jailbreak". Unfortunately almost everybody is leaving out the developer mode switch.
Hmmm makes me wonder if you could swap fn and ctrl in the firmware.
Sounds like we should get some archivists on Hackaday, stat. There is a lot of unique and valuable content on there.
That additional 60 years gets many people well into the 22nd century.

Making it to 2130 could buy one an extra 20-30 years.
A rat model of pregnancy in the male parabiont
This reminds me of the adage “ Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three” [1] to avoid this exact conundrum

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy#Ch...
Dehumidifiers are really just air conditioners, so at that point you might as well cut out the middle men and air condition the dish directly. An air conditioner will set you back a few hundred dollars, plus power costs.
I wish more of the SpaceX culture bled into Tesla then.
Hi, I work on the portal team. Would you mind sharing what the issue is you're seeing?
Built-in Windows controls, like buttons, scroll bars, etc. are updated with each system release. However, they are relatively inflexible, and no one uses WinApi anyway, so most frameworks and apps build their own components, with varying dedication to emulating the "native" style. Built-in controls also don't perform much in the way of layout (I believe the only way to position child HWNDs remains manual absolute positions?) so while your button might look native, your collection of two buttons won't.

My guess is MacOS's consistency comes from some combination of developer incentives, and UI toolkit design.
Most of the time they allow the company to say they work on this new flashing buzzword tech while burning through capital doing stuff a few if else statements could easily do
Well if this idea can't survive being dropped, it's not much good is it? Sorry...

> Interestingly, modern flight data recorders are required to have an underwater locator beacon that pulses once per second at 37.5 kilohertz for 30 days and is supposed to be detectable at depths of at least 14,000 feet (4,267 meters). But they don’t have comparable beacons for crashes on land.

After Japan Airlines Flight 123, that is shocking to me.
Could you provide a link or example?