skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8/vista again? What i want from windows is speed . More and more people are going to be using them to work from home, and not on a tablet or a laptop, but on a good old desktop pc, their sales are going up. What's the rationale behind this kind of regression to terrible windows 8? Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look?

> app developers can now bring their own commerce into our Store and keep 100% of the revenue – Microsoft takes nothing. App developers can still use our commerce with competitive revenue share of 85/15

This is great. That's how it s done
This. I thought they announced that feature as coming soon a couple of years ago.
Why did they stop working?
Karl Popper would be disappointed with this journalistic approach.
That hospital is dumb and will likely face issues in the near future then. Win7 isn't supported by Microsoft since early 2020, which means no more security updates. Given hospitals are getting more and more frequently targeted by ransomware... Well, we'll see how that goes.

There's still win8 and win8.1 to worry about though, and win10 also has LTSC releases that stay supported for at least 10 years IIRC.
This is all a result of a poor security choice by YouTube, back when they were run by a few people.

Video URL's look random, but are in fact an encrypted sequential integer.

If the encryption key is leaked, then someone can browse through all unlisted videos.

There are rumours the key has been leaked.

All these changes are to mitigate the impact of that.
Taskbar buttons absolutely benefit from Fitt's Law.

Fitt's Law says that the time required to interact with an element depends on both the distance to that element and the width/height of that element.

Putting an element on an edge (where the cursor cannot go beyond that edge) essentially makes it infinitely large in one dimension. Putting it in a corner makes it infinitely large in two dimensions.

Taskbar buttons in Windows (or menu items in macOS) do benefit from Fitt's Law, just not as much as items in the corners.
I work on displays, AutoHDR and DX12 changes are coming to 10 as well (unsure about win7 or dx12on11).
The change is that their current Windows Store is a tumbleweed wasteland with astonishingly little uptake, so Microsoft has offered some partners (I presume it's a subset or it'll just become a scam central) like Adobe to put themselves "on" the store, but not actually on it. Basically a package manager.
> How is your muscle mass and health after this?

Literally the best I've felt in recent memory was day 61 after I started eating again.

Muscle mass was fine, I'm sure there was some decline in muscle mass, but I wasn't working out excessively during the fast. Mostly just long walks. I'd guess no more muscle mass than just sitting in front of a computer and not moving.

I leveled out around 225/230 post fast and I was able to deadlift 450 for 3x reps within weeks of starting to eat again.

> Any other side effects?

Completely re-calibrated sense of taste post fast, probably partially due to a much healthier gut microbiome -- though I have no way to back that statement up.

Massively heightened sense of smell during the fast too. Focusing seemed easier when running on ketones.

Long term, it took a while until literally everything didn't taste obscenely sweet.
Thanks for the tip. It's a start.

But I don't see how this would work for me in the situation I described. Would I call the police or the FAA or what?

> Remote ID helps the FAA, law enforcement, and other federal agencies find the control station when a drone appears to be flying in an unsafe manner or where it is not allowed to fly.

> Authorized individuals from public safety organizations may request identity of the drone's owner from the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id/
Free. 2025. Yes, 32-bit CPUs are out. I guess with 32-bit mode so goes 16-bit support? Probably not to the last two?
One of the biggest arguments I hear for using Windows instead of Linux is that people are used to the UI.

I've been using the same FVWM config and shells inside Xterms since I started using Linux 18 years ago, meanwhile Windows has gone through something like 4 redesigns.
It might be the narrative but it's not incorrect. It's just another front in the continual war between labor and management
The performance (though limited due to overall software availability) of BeOS and QNX circa 2000 were incredibly impressive compared to either Windows 2000 or GNU/Linux.

Cleaner designs that just seemed better at actually making use of the available hardware, even though it was a single core Pentium 3 (or my parents older first gen Pentium).

I often ponder how things would've been different if something more like them had taken off and become mainstream.
How to Send Traffic to Your Landing Page for Free (With a Viral Article)
One of my extended family members works for a FAANG company (not Facebook) on a team that moderates user-generated content. They are actually using AI to great effect, with great results. They have large amounts of manual review and moderation as well, but having AI augment the human intervention and also continuously trained based on human overrides of AI decisions makes the system much more efficient.

What many people don't understand is that even if Facebook employed human moderators to individually review every group, there would still be isolated examples of policy violations slipping through. Human moderators are far from perfect. They can and do make mistakes. At scale, you get some moderators who don't actually care about doing the work, so they start letting things slip through instead of reviewing them. AI is also helpful in flagging human moderator decisions that disagree strongly with AI predictions, which can then be used to catch moderator errors or improve the AI, depending on which is ultimately deemed correct.

It's easy to forget that Facebook has almost 3 billion users. At scales that large, even 99.99% correct content moderation (human or otherwise) will still result in a lot of incorrectly moderated content slipping through.

More commonly, it may not be immediately obvious that content breaks policies, or in this case that a group is political. Or maybe the group started as one thing, but then evolved over time to become highly political. Or maybe they chose a name that sounds innocuous, but is actually very offensive given some obscure context or lingo. The problem is impossible to solve perfectly, so we need to instead focus on setting realistic expectations for what can be done.
What did you change your dating strategy to?
The FAA grew out of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 to ensure commercial development of aviation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_role_...
They did. Then they threw out the entire concept.
Any solid senior software engineer resume samples? I need to update mine as I start looking for jobs. Not a lot of samples talk about how to format it when youve been at one company for a long time with multiple roles.
I garner a _lot_ of downvotes every time I mention that the US in many locales shares more in common with a third world country than a first world country. So many people seem addicted to the notion of US cultural superiority because their jobs pay the most. Go on YouTube or Google street view and see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1MveHv1lTVBzdM5VYZkcBQ/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opo3OuUae5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNvEcR_jM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwgkeJyuSo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKutkXy1Eeo
So no evidence then.
Work is work, my dudes. And in a tech company that means teamwork and collaboration.

I don’t care what anybody says, zoom and slack are not even remotely close to face to face interactions. Sure it may not always seem that way to a developer who just wants to write code and not care about anything else, but there are lots of important roles besides developer in any tech company worth its weight. Not many of those roles are very amenable to working from home full time. Even developers working on a team, I’d argue, can't contribute 100% working purely from home. Good developers do way more than just write code. They mentor, help shape the product with UX and business people, etc. All that requires face time.

If devs want to work remote, I highly recommend becoming a contractor / consultant. Remote and contract work go together like peas and carrots. You get fed largely spec’d work, don’t really need to care about office politics, etc… There are plenty of cons… you also become your own collection agency cause dudes can take months paying you. But if remote is what you want, contracting is the best.

Anyway, this became kind of a ramble.
I feel like a more apt comparison would be moving the Apple Icon from the top left of the screen to the middle. That's a close enough analogue to what the start button did.
No, it isn't what it was made for. You're limited to a $2000 contribution. Claiming that the value of a share of PayPal was 1/10 of a cent was nonsense. He found a loophole, sure, but it's morally fraudulent even if legally allowed. To close the loophole, putting private shares into a Roth IRA should be banned because they have no true market price that indicates their worth.
I hope he’s doing better now.
Who will this actually benefit? We won't know until some years later...
Even that wouldn't help because depending on the variety/roast/brewing technique the caffeine concentration will vary wildly.
I can't wait to see if "Device Manager" still uses the same Windows 95 GUI.
Most cryptocurrencies are just a fallback for the actual financial system. It's basically electronic money for black markets. Evading government control is pretty much it's raison d'etre. The idea that you "invest" into this is only possible if you either keep recruiting members like a pyramid scheme or you bet on the collapse of the financial system.

These two positions aren't healthy. Even if the latter turns out to be true in the end, I would rather see a patch to the centralized financial system.
The limitations are significant and, depending on your use case, costly:

1. Row-level security does not participate in query pruning, which is a feature of partitioned tables. Partitioning divides a large table into smaller partitions, improving query performance, and thus controlling costs by reducing the number of bytes read by a query to partitioned and clustered tables.

2. You cannot rename a table with one or more row access policies on it. Attempting to rename a table with a row-level access policy results in an error. As an alternative, you can copy a table and give the destination table a different name. If the source table has a row-level access policy on it, see table copy jobs on this page for more information.

3. The time travel feature is disabled on any table which has (or previously had) one or more row-level access policies on it. In the event that you need to recover table data using time travel, contact BigQuery Support. Support can help you with overrides for this protection, so that you can restore your data.

4. Wildcard queries against tables with row-level access policies fail with an INVALID_INPUT error.
It's not homomorphic in any way.

HE currently looks like a dead end anyway. >10^6 slower is going to be hard to overcome.
Ok, Ok, I'm Turning uPnP off
OS aesthetics just seem so bland and meek these days. I think Win7 Aero/OSX Lion/Compiz cube thing was the peak and after that everything became homogenized and boring. I want my computer to look cool, goddammit
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I absolutely love How It's Made. Apparently, given the popularity of these videos, lots of people enjoy peering behind the curtain as well.
> Microsoft doesn't have a large existing Windows Store business to protect,

This is how you GET a large existing Windows Store business.
Cajun-French almost went extinct, and it was illegal for a long time to speak it.

Immigrants from all over were forced in school to use English and punished for speaking their ancestors' languages.

And physical punishment was pretty standard until recently, and a surprising number of schools still give spankings.

There might be things that need to be addressed with residential schools, but Americanizing (Canadianizing?) children and forcing English while banning ancestral language and culture were the norm across the continent.
Looks like that news just came out. Glad to hear it.

Now let's hope it's an automatic upgrade for as many Windows 10 users as possible.
Fox News circa 2000's is the best example. A huge outlier for media bias at the time but Republicans tuned in because it reinforced and validated their beliefs.
I hope to see the fall of facebook in my lifetime.
Yes, it is a custom binary format, for speed and compactness. It does however export to many formats, xml, html, text, csv etc. There's even an example JSON exporter for the scripting language. More could be added.

There's not really a standard tree file format that would allow storage that can interop with other formats. Yes, there's of course JSON and XML, but you'd end up with a file with so many custom fields it is not interoperable. And these formats are extremely inefficient compared to the current binary format.

The binary format is also able to store images inline.
If you want to see debugging a computer in space, check out Apollo 13's sequel, Apollo 14. The moon landing is being held up by shorted-out switch that's causing the LM to abort the landing, and it's up to the programmers back home to figure out how to work around it in time to allow the landing.

Apollo 13 was the story of a 'successful failure', while Apollo 14 shows how hard work and creative thinking can turn failure into success.
That, is one weird spider!
Thanks for that link.
I'm surprised the spider is found in Mexico. It's description sounds like something that should live in Australia.
An independent firewall accomplishes the same even if every server has a public IP.
Most plastic can be recycled, but it costs more to do so and you get a worse end product than virgin plastic so it is generally not done.

This is why many municipalities maintain their recycling program despite the fact that most of the material ends up in the landfill. The hope is that in the future either virgin plastic will become so expensive that recycling makes sense, or someone will figure out a better way to recycle plastic and make it economically viable. They want to keep people in the habit of recycling.
But it’s not a call for coercion.

People can’t be trusted to make decisions for themselves because cigarettes / alcohol / social media / sugar / pornography is addictive. And since their bad choices have negative consequences on third parties because of health care costs / bad politics / family breakdown, we should get to tell them what to do.
The Co-Op Movement Is Taking on Big Tech
I was hoping 11 would get rid of a bunch of old Windows backwards compatibility cruft. Make Windows 10 the long-run version and Windows 11 the forward looking one. Almost like what Apple did with Mac OS X.
Not yet. What aspect would be interesting for you to read more about?
Unless something has changed recently that I'm unaware of, that definitely isn't currently possibly on Android itself. I assume it won't be possible using the Windows-version of the Amazon AppStore either. But maybe this will cause the devs to start pushing to make that a thing.
I cannot agree with your thesis. There are fully remote companies (using Zoom and Slack primarily) with hundreds of people generating well over $100M in ARR worth billions of dollars. You are free to your opinion, but the data doesn’t support your conclusion. Teamwork and collaboration can and does work fully remote, whether you’re in engineering, bizops, product, or customer experience. Entire legacy enterprises went remote virtually overnight due to COVID and continued to hum along for well over 15 months.

Remote skills are the new “computer skills.” If your org sucks, yeah, remote isn’t going to work. That’s not an issue with a remote operating model, it’s because your org sucks to begin with (whether that’s due to ineffective line managers, failure of executive leadership to cultivate the appropriate culture, what have you). If your org sucks, I recommend voting with your feet.
Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump from Covid-19
https://archive.ph/1UIkr
So in other words:

“We don’t need formal schooling beyond middle school because everyone can learn job skills as a child, and then self-study graduate level material from books and youtube and do independent PhD-level research with no funding, structure, or support.”

This argument strongly reminds me of the guy I met who claimed nobody needs a paid job because they can just scavenge free food from restaurant garbage bins.
Doesn’t Windows 10 come integrated with Skype? This would just replace that wouldn’t it.
At least they aren't trying to make everything as white and minimalist as possible...
An important census product may soon use synthetic data
> That argument would work a little better if they did not market their phones as a computer replacement in the first place...

It's a very effective alternative model. Steve jobs said no stylus and no separate keyboard and it did quite effectively replace PCs at a lot of boring office tasks that any manager would need.
Not sure I want to download an EXE from a non-SSL site...
The amount of preparation is much, much more than every other "accessible" installation. Typos are the worst to recover from, backspace usually doesnt exist.
As I've sent commands to our Linux-running satellites, its usually prepending your commands with ctrl-c characters and a couple newlines at the end, just to make sure it runs and nothing is left in the buffer.
There is also a possibility that commands get executed multiple times, and there are usually limits in transmission speed, processing speed, and frame length.
Sending a lot of characters over a terminal can cause characters to be eaten, creating typos you can't see, affecting the commanding immensely.
Android allows sideloading apps, and IIRC the market share of iOS in India is very small.
Kharagpur IIT was the most Maoist/extreme left of all IITs. Even Jyoti Basu wanted to shut it down. I read once somewhere that back in seventies, they had Mao, Zhou, and Enver Hoja portraits hanging in their halls.

The whole Kharagpur area was a Maoist hotbed, and I believe still is to lesser extend to this day.
I am not aware that it is outdated. If you found inaccuracies, please open an issue, or better a yet a PR for the file https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/blob/master/TS/docs/...
It's the "reduce, reuse, recycle" of this generation.
Previous threads:

[2013] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5877145

[2016] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247372

[2017] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057392
I don’t recall ever having a near-miss with an AR-15 when on final approach. But I and many other pilots that fly frequently have many stories of drone near-misses.

How many legal AR-15 owners are shooting at airplanes? How many drone “pilots” have interfered with air traffic? Drone incursions are a very big deal. Not a single case I have ever heard of in the US where an AR-15 has brought down an airplane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UAV-related_incident...
Maybe its already happening:
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-moves-toward-creation-of-an-ind...
careful. HN might be forced to disclose your "metadata" for trying to tarnish the image of the supreme jumla minister
Curated social media is extremely effective for mass manipulation (that's why funding it with ads is so lucrative.)

None of this should be surprising.
R1/beta3 just had its first rc cut the other day. Exciting to see this operating system continue on towards a first release. The risc-v port is gaining decent support as well.
Covid-19 has stymied governments' efforts to collect data
I'm strongly of the opinion that reforms to higher education should start with strengthening the community college and public tech school systems, and push their best practices upward. The CC in my region, and the regional state colleges, are jewels. Everybody at the CC is committed to teaching. They are committed to getting people in and keeping them in, not just to meet some metric, but actually working with each student one on one. And the teachers at our CC are unionized, so there's actually a fair amount of competition for the jobs that open up.

The national news media should declare a two year moratorium on reporting about the "elite" colleges, and spend that time investigating the community and regional college systems.
This is full of false information about sex, it is most certainly NOT just a spectrum of traits that is one shallow dimension that you focused on for the benfit of your agenda and the least scientific approach.

You won't easily find support for that on hacker news =)
Last I heard laser links were in testing, and was currently only being used for communicating in the same orbit (a single, linear string of satellites all orbiting in the same plane and at the same altitude)
my only experience of canonical the company was when one of their technical consultants showed up to a meeting, opened his laptop and it was running windows. Bit disappointing really! Was a few years ago tho
Only needs a keyboard with one key.
> ...dragging their feed and outright stalling web innovation with Safari...

You aren't entirely wrong here, but we are one thin plank from the web being whatever Google says it is.

I know we don't live in an ideal web development world, but we are awfully close to something much worse.
Getting people to listen to your idea if they're not seeking it out is 100% a social game. Getting in the room is a social game. If you value the opinions of your introverts, ask them.
I think the assertion is one of the tyranny of the default. If they are not blocked by default, then for the majority of users, the option effectively does not exist, since they will not proactively look for such a setting.
First, showing achievements on a CV isn't a trend.

Second, you can't "just interview well" if your CV doesn't give someone an inkling you might be able to do the job.

Third, "being the right fit for the job" includes being able to learn and being able to communicate. A CV that doesn't list accomplishments signals negatively for both of those.
I cannot tell if you're being ironic or not. Being able to drag a static text box around is not a very impressive feat. And more importantly, it is CPU-meltingly bad: when I drag the box around, my Firefox process jumps from 5% to a steady 35% (on a Ryzen 2600).
I think there is a lot of ambiguity when trying to identify a political group.
The wikipedia article says he died at age 50/51. He did the fast at age 27. What happened after the fast? What killed him?
The article says this relies on "Intel Bridge Technology". Anyone know more about it? All I could find easily was https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discre...

Want to highlight one paragraph from that description: "Intel Bridge Technology is run-time post compiler that can be integrated into Android-in-Container to enable certain Android apps – those not written in Java or compiled to run natively on Intel-based devices - to run on those devices."

How many Android apps out there are not written in Java? I'm guessing Kotlin isn't supported either. For that matter how many apps are targeting Android devices with Intel CPUs anymore?

I was expecting a full VM / emulator, but this doesn't sound like that.
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Think about that...
Fixing Tech’s UX Design Problem
Anything from KZ. I’m personally using their ZSTs at the moment but the ZSN is probably the go-to