skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest thing is that a much larger percentage of Mac apps are written using the native UI toolkits, which receive most of the aesthetic changes for "free" (even in lieu of updates/recompiles). There's also stronger expectation from users for apps to fit in, so even devs who write in foreign toolkits (e.g. electron) are more likely to put in the effort to mimic the native toolkit, because failure to do so makes their app look crusty and outdated relative to the rest of the system and other apps.

Under Windows, the rule has been that basically anything goes, and that's been true for upwards of two decades. Anybody who used Windows 98/2K/XP can probably name several apps they remember using totally custom UI off the top of their heads. That never really changed. Custom UI has become a lot less wild looking, but it's still custom (which means no "free" updates), and on top of that there's no incentive for developers to update their apps to match the latest look.
After years of problems, pain and search I've found that sattle-chairs are conceptually and ergonmically the best. I've got this one:

https://salli.com/en/products/salli-swingfit/

The chair should be witdh-adjustable. It's important to sit on your sitting bones.

Still, after some hours I need to change to another chair (Ikea Marcus is great or some gaming chairs) or standing, because the sitting bones start to ache.

I suggest to do the Pomodoro Technique. 5 Minutes breaks laying down on the floor. That helps a lot. Change in the working periods from mainly sitting on the sattle-chair to standing or sitting on a normal chair. Try to sit on the sattle-chair as long as possible. I found standing a long period of time not working for me.
I bought the Steelcase Gesture based on the recommendation from https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-office-chair... , but from the Steelcase website in December 2019 and I like it.

Prior to that, I was using the HON Exposure recommended by the same Wirecutter site at time and I still own it.
Windows 10 lacked a cohesive vision for the UI.
My loved ones love me and know what I want. I can't speak for anyone else.
Really? I found that the larger roller blade wheels work much better than stock plastic castors on carpet.
Also 2 different flavors of the open/save file dialog, the one from Windows 95 and the newer one from vista/7.

From looking at the evolution of Windows, it feels like they're only capable of writing new code, but not deleting or rewriting anything existing unless absolutely necessary to support new code. Those shiny UWP apps? Yeah, they still have that win32 message loop deep inside them.
... or when the feature is counter-intuitive and actively confusing, like "oct" and "hex" operators in Perl that do opposite of what one not familiar with them would guess.

Even after many years of programming in Perl I found comments like

# FROM hex, not TO hex!

useful.
It's a ploy to make money. Nothing more or less. It turns out that vapid content that you will forget about tomorrow resonates with all societies.
I meant that to be an absurd prediction. Editted to be clear. But if that's not true I don't get the "but all will be good because no elderly care" argument.
Any good alternatives? I know of tildes.net and lobsters.rs from others.
> What is the purpose of ZFS in 2021 if we have hardware RAID

Hardware RAID controllers predate ZFS by a long time.. ZFS is a much more modern design and because it integrates the whole storage layer it can offer all the features it does, which a RAID controller hiding behind a disk interface cannot do.

When ZFS came out many people (me included) considered that the end of relevance for hardware RAID controllers. I used to use hardware RAID pre-ZFS but have never again after switching to ZFS when Solaris 10 first included it.
Rust Foundation Trademark Policy Issue
Predictions of the War on Terror security state being turned inward have all come to pass. Domestic terrorists are now presented as the biggest security threat.

Expect a similar outcome for the new biosecurity state.

Of course, these views are near heretical. Just like questions about the drug war decades ago. Then there are the horrors of a climate apocalypse which we must not question.

NPR can give themselves a pat on the back while promoting all of the above, without acknowledging their participation in the War on Drugs. It is all a bit rich, beyond hypocritical. Observe that most of the topics above are flame war material here at HN, well...
America is a country run by rich people for rich people, not a rich country.

Saying "America is a rich country" is a classic demonstration of the difference between median and mean in statistics.
I would think if people age slower they will be infirm longer? Maybe the proportion would stay the same. Only the "longevity escape velocity" the other person mentions would do the trick.
Herman Miller Mirra is awesome !
This is really a thing of wisdom though I do not know how to implement this in my own life it is quite a thing to think about
Just in case, one of the Ada fruit higher ups (mr lady ada?) is Phillip Torrone who founded hackaday. Although he’s not at hackaday anymore his statement at the end of the interview explains some of the interest in the takeover:

“ Adafruit: Seventeen years ago, I started Hackaday, the site, the mission, and designed the logo that is still in use today; please take good care of it – the SupplyFrame folks did a pretty good job. This is not a question – pt”
I don't think Microsoft has been truly interested in improving the Windows experience in a long time. I mean, surely if they cared about us you'd be able to right-click on any Notification icon and hit "always show icon and notifications" without having to open two menus to get to that option. It's been a pain in my ass for twenty years.
Yeah anytime a job locks admin access to a local machine I assume their network security is full of holes, and I'm usually right about that assumption.
>[...] because I do not believe they are consistent with HN's mission to feed intellectual curiosity

Let others decide, whatever fills your curiosity is different than mine and that's a good thing. You are not the arbiter of knowledge.
The sequencing of genetic material is a powerful conservation tool
ikea hattefjäll! I just bought two because they are great. Had herman miller at work and I don’t see a difference honestly (and I have back pain). Go to IKEA and try their chairs!
It is indeed a perjorative.. I don't particularly think you will be very successful in convincing anyone otherwise.

This is usually the part where dogwhistles come in handy -- stops people from utilizing those pesky lessons learnt in history class
Dostoevsky and His Demons
Thanks for posting the abstract. It's $2^{14}$ leaves in the original LaTeX rather than 214, just in case anyone is confused. (It's also $O(\log_k n)$ = O(log n / log k).)
All kinds of new technology are being used to monitor the natural world
And yet the strategy most ORMs take is the common denominator where you have no idea if it'll actually use RETURNING or fire off a completely separate query with a potential race condition because SELECTs go to the read-only replica.

(Ask me how I know about this kind of problem with ORMs.)
Do you think Phoenix is full of rich people? And yet, there they are, in the middle of the desert, somehow not all dying of thirst while the 1% waters their multi-acre front lawn.
That's interesting as I see BLM in it's current form increasing the racial divide.
Exercise balls (or ball/chairs to avoid rolling), or ottomans for me. You can sit with your hips rolled forward / legs angled down, feet under you, and spinal column balanced above your hips. Comfortable and ergonomic.
Preach! I have the same issues,but my last place had me as IT for the whole (small) shop, and when they outsouced IT ('we need you on important_thing') they had me install all of the Corp Spyware (because 'why would we ask them to send their own techs, then we would have to wait for them to schedule us in, you do it- it'll be faster!) and I watched with Despair as all resources went to AV (gotta love that Norton 360, so secure), key-logging, sending everything out by the millisecond. It was like watching a dumpster fire.

I kept my machine as it was, explaining that if anything happened to those units (bad updates, blah blah), mine would be unaffected and mine was completely necessary.

Lo, and behold! That very day everyone was complaining how slow their computers were, how even basic websites now took ages to load, and they did.

The owner refused to admit he made a bad decision and stayed with that 'IT' 'company' for over a year, and didn't get rid of them until I'd left and no one was available who could triage, and they saw just how little that 'company' did, and just how much I was made to cover for them
One explanation would be that corporations are acting on imperfect information, either unaware of or disbelieving the study. Another is that the study is wrong (but your question posits the study is correct).

But, more likely, there are a host of well-known reasons that corporations don't operate like that. Primarily based around the fact that corporations don't make decisions, people in corporations do. And their interests may conflict.
it’s not about the air temperature. it’s surface temperature. i was at the beach the other day when it was only like 75 degrees but the sand was hot enough to burn my feet.
Same here but ikea hattefjäll
Indeed. That was the same thought I had reading that interview. Hackaday will not last in its current form.
It is in good faith. But the burden of proof lies on the argument that the vaccine won’t work for this. Not the other way around.

In the US, in theory, it’s supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”.

For the past century, it’s been assumed “survive infection, you should be good until proven otherwise.”

It’s never been quarantine the healthy.

In the past century+, cloth masks haven’t been shown to help do anything and in Asia, they are typically used by the people who are feeling off or actually have a cold, etc.

For proof on masks, see Fauci’s emails or the plethora of studies and CDC materials prior to 2020.

There is a difference between doing smart and reasonable things, and imposing draconian measures globally with unproven actions.

Lastly, only the rich countries are able to lock down and print funny paper while this lasts. The rest of the world has to face starvation and go to work to provide the rich countries with goods.
More like, we should’ve held a plebiscite in the Ryukyus to allow them to determine their future. They were a fairly late addition to the Japanese empire, after all.
Also, the reason men didn't wash their hands is that dirty hands were a symbol of status.

The true symbol of a reputable obstetrician was to have working hands. This meant touching exposed tissue while being covered with...necrotic tissue.
How to Set Up the iPad Pro as Your Laptop Replacement?
Is this based off the subdomain? If so the numbers might be flawed because logged in users that have the legacy design option selected in their user options would still possibly show up as www.
I just pretty clearly explained why I don’t need to understand every detail of the profession to accurately estimate someone’s capability. Which part of that was confusing?

Forgive me if I’m being brusque but you’re doing the same stupid defensive BS that incompetent doctors do when you ask them a question - “oh, and where did you go to medical school?”
This is a stupid opinion. Its a display screen. Any engineer would look at the failure modes (and it was an engineer, not Elon himself) and go "we might have problems, but given the use case it's not really going to be that bad".

Elon companies have plenty of issues but the cadre of people who are insistent every issue is an unforgivable catastrophe are ridiculous.

The display screen in my 2004 Prius had the touchscreen suddenly stop working as well. Was an issue with thermal cycling with that particular part model as well. These things happen.
Rebecca Black is Back – Transcript (2020)
> Can you think of any good use case for a non-arbitrary primary key?

Login names; Vehicle registration numbers; flight numbers; domain names; file names; ip addresses. Keys are used in those cases where the enforcement of uniqueness is important for data integrity and identification purposes.
You exist because other people paid taxes.
Spectre Mitigations Murder Userspace Performance
I mostly hate settings in Windows 10 after 15 years of OSX, which are very inconsistent.
Fair enough. I will say my recommendation is for writing useful inline comments ("the why" comments and more rarely "the what").

File-level and function-header type comments that tend to generate docs (eg. Doxygen) are certainly more likely to fall out of date (easy to miss in a PR diff etc) and I don't really support using them anyway.
I agree and would be extremely excited if it added even 10%. On the other hand I also doubt people would stop speeding because a cheap drug extended healthy lifespan by say 10 years. It’s an obvious thing to take, but people don’t seem to care that much. Just look the effort it took to get people to use seatbelts.
If that's the case then what makes rest if the internet as whole any different? Who gets to define what constitutes a scoundrel?
It’s just another of many testimonials of projects that will not be named at companies that will not be disclosed with implausible circumstances or unlikely details here to convince you that you had better switch your tech stack to this brand new thing before you too become a cautionary tale.
Try !s instead for startpage. For my searches, I tend to find more with a DDG and Startpage search versus DDG and Google.
A word that I have a hard time to get people to understand is "correct".

"Correct" isn't "Perfect" but if you aren't "Correct" the job isn't done; the pursuit of the incorrect wastes time and slows you down.
> They want Microsoft to retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a decade ago.

Enterprises expect to run programs developed a quarter century ago... if a quarter decade was all that was required, MS could have abandoned a lot more cruft.
GC in Unity is different from the one in Stride.
This! I alternate between stand up desk, sitting, lying in bed reading ipad, and sitting in swinging chair w laptop in lap.

I also used to have a floor chair, and floor chairs are amazing! I’ve been considering getting a floor couch just for that reason but not many choices and not many people talk about it.
I rewrote a really slow geojson query using this technique recently, it’s very powerful and performant but would say that it trades off some readability.
There's also: Let me outside and let me inside. My mistake was putting the food bowl beside the back door so I have to guess which one it is, food or out.
Wait, actually? As in they hired the same people? Is there a source for this?
This is almost entirely wrong.

.Net is not even close to being driven by Microsoft’s internal needs, for the simple reason that their biggest internal products don’t use .Net.

.Net is far closer to Sun with Java or Kotlin with Jetbrains than Apple with Swift.
Considering most of humanity lives within an hour's drive of the ocean, it's not a bad assumption.
I have yet to hear about the starlink spacecraft going into thermal shutdown in Arizona.
> I’m going to go out on a limb, and guess

Wrong. Looks like your psychic powers need a lot of work.

But thanks for further weakening your "case" with more baseless assertions.

Furthermore, I checked your profile and it looks like this describes your background. Ironic.

> I can tell this, because you’ve never considered what representation means to you.

1. This is a non-sequitur.

2. This is just some brazen projection on your part, as your comments in this discussion make clear. You're the one who comically equated population statistics with arts & media representation, which proves you haven't given much thought to the matter at all.

> how being the default isn’t representation

The point is that it isn't the default in film. Maybe take a deep breath and try reading the thread again?

> you have nothing to back that statement up except your hurt feelings, because it doesn’t even hold up to even a cursorily examination

More brazen projection on your part, given that you've been utterly unable to substantiate any of your baseless claims, despite being prompted multiple (!) times to do so, not just by me.

> it doesn’t even hold up to even a cursorily examination of popular culture, or history

Oh boy. Are you really going to claim that arts & media representation has always reflected population statistics? Your claims just keep getting more bizarre.
They didn’t need that size, they could have gotten by fine with a smaller size just like every other car company.
How do you make event triggers in MySQL?

How do you make a system-versioned table/query in PostgreSQL?

How do you port regular expressions to MS SQL Server?

How do you set up an exclusion constraint on a range type (without race conditions or invalid data) in anything except Postgres?

Most relational databases fit niches that the other don't. No one RDBMS is best, but they are most certainly not interchangeable.

Even using the lowest common denominator SQL means you'll be missing out on major performance boosts because they each have their own hints/shortcuts.
You're right that if you play the sort of game where you write the test "assertEq(2, add(1, 1))" and then write "fun add(_, _) = 2" you won't get very far with this sort of problem. I personally (without much experience) prefer the kind of TDD where you write say "assertEq(0, add(0, 0)), assertEq(43, add(42, 1))", fully implement the add function, and then move on. In the mandlebrot case I'd maybe compute what a few pixels should be, write all the code, and see if those pixels are right. Not perfect, but I find it better than nothing.
It does apply to the OS too - that is why Microsoft (and others) offer LTS (long-term-support) for their OS and pubilicise an end-of-life date for every version they release. (And sometimes some businesses continue using it even after Microsoft stops LTS - it's only a recent trend that everyone is now forced to upgrade OSes over fears of security / lack of security updates). This is also why Microsoft Windows can get away with forced updates for home users but the business versions offer more fine-grained control over Windows update.

As for running Win32 apps on different setups, it makes the system more complicated. When more vendors are involved, it also makes fixing things difficult - In case something breaks, Microsoft can say it is Apple's fault, and Apple will say we don't support Win32 apps, contact your developer. (Not to mention that Apple is not as corporate friendly as many others, like Microsoft, or IBM, as they are largely a business-to-consumer company and not a business-to-business company).
Wow, I had never seen this article before -- John Carmack is rocking an Intergraph workstation! I had one of these, a dual Pentium II box, in 1998. It was a beast.

I didn't have a godlike monitor like that widescreen monster. Although I did drop $2000 on a 20" (22?) Sony multisync that could do 1600 x 1200.

I managed to get the company I worked for to buy the Intergraph. And I managed to sell a used Silicon Graphics monitor at a slight profit, to take some of the sting away from the Sony.

I was out of my mind. Those were strange times.

Nice box, though.
Ethereum Price Prediction For 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 And 2025
So, this is what we do if bringing giant ice-cubes into the ocean doesn't work? Thanks Futurama.
Great to see better open source game tooling.

Amusingly Unity / Unreal are in some ways running out of senior game engine engineers to hire because everyone is already using their engine!

Hopefully this helps spur some more folks to go hands-on with engine internals.
Most games have all the assets loaded onto every client, and they just synchronize over the server like a glorified IRC channel. People reverse-engineered WoW servers, and then ran their own WoW communities for a decade until Blizzard finally decided to get back into the game. (but then Blizzard re-implemented the old content into the new engine, rather than starting up the old server code, so ended up being a lot more effort for them than just flipping a switch)
It’s some sort of spam/rate limiter - try reloading 3x.

It seems to be triggered by IPv6 combined with Apple telling cookies to go duck themselves.
Market research reveals what you think
I can't. I just can't. This writeup once you view the UI (As a 21st century human being) just screams: We are making an excuse for why citigroup hasn't invested in software since the early 90's and windows 3.1. The only reason this has happened is because citigroup was too cheap to fix their aging systems for DECADES. Don't waste your time reading this article unless you want to be just as furious as I am. No, I will not drink this Kool Aid.
As a primary macOS user who has also done professional Windows development, I am simultaneously blown away by the quality of the development environments and tools (PowerShell! C#! .NET! Visual Studio!) available on Windows and more or less disgusted with the inconsistency in using the operating system itself. It doesn’t feel like Microsoft has had a consistent vision for how their UI is supposed to work for longer than five years at a time, if that. Sure, it’s only an annoyance, but why the hell is it a problem in the first place? I can only conclude either that they do not see it as a problem, or that they are incapable of fixing it.

I was a Windows user until 2014. Every time I think about switching back (mostly because WSL is so good) I have to think about putting up with the terrible UI.
What collusion are you referring to? There was one case I am familiar with, from several years back, where tech giants had a gentlemen's agreement to not cold call each other's employee AT work to recruit them. It seems to be an outlier, and pretty mild as far as collusion goes. Competition amongst tech employers for workers is actually very intense, which produced the arms race in tech talent and corresponding salary growth over the last decade.

Anyway, my issue is not the collusion, it's the regulatory restrictions, that violate the right of the employer to freely contract. That's coercive.
ZFS on root is super easy in NixOS. (And I agree with your licensing point.)
What sort of magical solution is there though for the price of the dish? If the ambient temperature is 50 degrees C, you need cooling. It looks like the Hughes dish is a little better at 55 degrees C. Looks like the expensive solution is that randome irrespective of the particular dish. The cheap solutions seem to be myriad. Relocating it, putting it under shade, sprinklers, fans.
A quick google search shows around 5 billion goats, cows, pigs, and sheep, 1.5 billion cats and dogs, and 8 billion humans.

Compared to an estimated 130 billion wild mammals. That’s without the vast herds of herbivores that used to roam the plains of the world.
You're treating your friend as guilty until proven innocent. Shouldn't you need to clear the burden of proof to tell him he's stupid to do something that doesn't harm you?
I don't follow your point. Could you elaborate?
As they should be - laws and regulation, in a democracy, is definitely the right way to go about it, rather than tech giants determining what information you have access to. (And, ofcourse, it goes without saying that anti-child-porn laws need to be stringent against the content creators, and perhaps even against the consumers.)
This isn't why it didn't work though: disks tolerate smooth magnetic field gradients just fine. To wipe them you want a chaotic, noisy electromagnet.
Eight Signs of Progress in Meditation
Sorry HW engineer here and I strongly disagree. You don’t ship hardware like this.

122F is only 50C. Most components can handle 85C so shutting down at 50C means the thermal rise is >35C. This is simply poor design.