skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fitts' Law didn't stop making the corners of a screen the most reliably reached parts just because some UI designer at Microsoft likes central alignment. I expect that central placement for the Start button to be objectively less efficient for users who frequently use that button, even if it's just a small but frequent irritation.
Let's not, because I have no interest in windows 11 from what I've heard so far.
Left aligned taskbar sucks for 5760x1080
Thanks for the positive feedback! What's that 5% you feel is missing? We'd obviously love to build it and make sure we've got everything covered. A couple on my list are a message queue and probably the ability to run apps in a container from a git URL.
Mitt Romney did this as well (although only to the tune of $100M). It was discussed in 2012 in various news outlets: https://www.investopedia.com/managing-wealth/grow-ira-100-mi...
I wouldn't expect to do anything much more complicated than http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screens...

The tutorial has a live example, and also lists the implemented operators.

If you want to do complicated formulas, you're almost certainly better off with a traditional spreadsheet. Or create a PR to extend it with operations you need :)
This sounds intriguing, but I still don't feel like I have a good idea of what a co-op is or how it works.

How does a business get off the ground without investment? Other than taking out a loan, credit card debt, or personal savings
I imagine if you're buying sixty pods a month every month you have some leverage with Dell to get better prices, especially if you have a demonstrated ability to just walk away and build your own if you don't like their offer.
I agree that the "Hide all from" is important for making Facebook more tolerable. I do the same, but I wish I didn't have to. It seems for every new friend I add, there is a new round of "Hide all from" that I have to do.

"Hide all from" is necessary, but not sufficient. Facebook still uses their algorithm to chose what to show you. It's harder to choose what I want to see when that's going on.

I also wish there was a way to filter out specific topics that people post about, such as sports and politics, and block categories of things like "attempts to promote multi-level marketing products", but unfortunately it's either block the person wholesale or let all their posts show. There's an option to "See less from" a friend, but I have no idea what that does. Once again, I have to hope that the algorithm does the right thing.

I did notice that there was a way to block just a person's stories, which saved me from blocking a family member. She posts incessantly about the makeup she's selling via an MLM, but fortunately she does it only through stories.
I guess the last thing you want when you're debugging something during your work is for the whole word to watch over your shoulder.
I don’t think Fitt’s takes into account the “end of screen” concept, though? I guess it makes the width of the element infinite in some regards.
We'd be better off without the ad-supported web sites. Twitter, facebook, pinterest, ad-supported web sites centralized something that was arguably better when decentralized. Every web site should be artisanal, a labor of love, like a lot of the better blogs, or subscription based. Content wouldn't be homogenized for mass consumption.
Let's hope not, thank you.

It's one thing to force an update that just makes background improvements. It's another thing entirely to force a UI update that breaks your workflow.

Most of us just got the people we support used to the new design now they're going to up and change it completely again.

My Grandmother has basically given up using the computer because she doesn't have the mental energy to relearn a UI every time some MBA comes along wanting to "disrupt" the status quo.

It's basically akin to the company that manufactures your car showing up at your house while you're sleeping, moving the steering wheel to the center of the car, re-arranging buttons on the console, blacking out two of the windows because it looks cool, then leaving a nice little note on your front porch: "We upgraded your car, it's so much better!"
Here's a tool to check if your PC meets the hardware requirements[0].

However, it looks like many modern systems don't have TPM 2.0 enabled in the BIOS, and will come back with "This PC can't run Windows 11" (including mine - Asus Prime X470 Pro with Ryzen 2700X, 32GB RAM, 1.5TB storage, Radeon RX 5600 XT.)

[0] https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/d/1dd9969b-bc9a-...
It's not immediately clear to me where this is superior to BigQuery authorized views:

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authorized-views#row-...

The comparison in the source doc (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/row-level-security-in...) seems to list the same caveats for both methods.
That intellectual might of disagreement by mouse click is underwhelming.

The only thing downvotes reliably represent is the zeitgeist of the average user (and certain power users) of this site.
They had a good product with win7, they can afford to ruin it some more. If anything windows has stagnated for decade+ in terms of UI apart from cosmetic nonsense, and that's probably a good thing
https://www.citizensjournal.us/people-are-scared-to-go-into-...

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Fra...

https://neonnettle.com/news/14685-los-angeles-votes-for-36m-...

Which facts would you like to dispute? What are you calling an opinion?
I believe that it was a two semester sequence that covered gate level logic, microcontrollers and assembly language, and a hardware lab with oscilloscopes etc. I would have picked slightly different classes than the ones she ended up taking for her degree, but having worked in industry myself, I thought the exposure to hardware she got could be useful for her in the future.

My own educational background (Math, EE, CS) has given me a lot of flexibility over the last 50 years.
I know you're being a bit sarcastic but:

> Some years later everyone will realize that desktops are not phones and are meant to utilize more available screen space.

Keep in mind there's plenty of android apps designed to function on tablets with much larger screens. Obviously there's not nearly as many as on the iOS side of the world where the iPad is far more successful, and there's a wide variability in how good they are at taking advantage of the extra real estate. But they're out there.

The real issue, IMO, is that those apps are designed with a touch-based UX, and that doesn't translate well to mouse-based interaction. And one of the few areas where Apple and I are in agreement is in poor ergonomics of a touchscreen on a laptop or PC.
I think that’s a false analogy. A face mask surely contains part of a sneeze. Aerosols play an important part in the spread of many airborn viruses, and masks certainly change characteristics of mouth born aerosols.

To see a slightly tongue in cheek example, here’s masks vs flamible liquids.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cTDGqcUpA

That said, you are probably correct in that aerosols still escape most masks, and will saturate an enclosed area in a much faster time period than we have an intuition for. Still, I have reason to believe from numbers I’ve seen that masks reduce the odds of getting covid by 3-18% in any given hour of exposure. And reduction in spreading to others may be similarly effective. But, since you’re rolling the dice with each hour such a small amount of safety becomes increasingly less useful.

I’m willing to give the benefit of doubt and say that “masks are ineffective” as being shorthand for “if you spend 8 hours in an enclosed space with someone masks alone aren’t going to give enough benefit to be worth it.
CISA Responds to Increase in Ransomware Targeting Control Systems and OT Assets
200-400% hasn't been my experience, but I'll give you maybe they should expand carb nationwide to increase the demand side of the curve, lowering costs overall.

>if the cat isn't working, the vehicle should fail its regular smog test.

The vehicle ECU monitors the exhaust composition before and after the first catalyst. Downstream, the performance is not monitored by the computer. afiak the ECU doesn't have the capability to monitor nox and hydrocarons directly. The reason for this is that a cheap, reliable oxygen sensor is employed for monitoring.

Maybe it's possible to add that regulation federally.
More accurately: the web survived Windows
Why did ProPublica omit exactly when the funding round for additional millions was in tweet 10 and 11?

> 10/ So.

>Right pointing backhand index IRS records show that in 1999 Thiel purchased 1.7 million shares of his startup, which would soon become PayPal, for just $1,700 — a tenth of a penny per share.

> 11/ Even though Thiel's startup received millions in funding within months, Pensco still told the IRS these founders' shares were worth less than $1,700 at the end of 1999.

>See where this is going?

The only reason I can think of is ProPublica intended to suggest Thiel committed fraud by misstating the company’s valuation in 1999, but ProPublica wants to maintain plausible deniability because the funding round did not happen in 1999.

It is great that ProPublica is pointing out how tax deductions/exemptions/credits allow for loopholes to exist, but I do not see a reason for them go after specific people for using them.

Edit: copied tweets for easy reference
70% of all security fixes Microsoft releases are memory safety bugs.

https://news.hitb.org/content/microsoft-70-percent-all-secur...

This isn't a security issue, NASA isn't Microsoft, and physically degraded memory isn't the same as a memory safety programming bug.

I'll certainly bet that article is super popular with the rust crowd though.
Fortunately, you can now also become an accredited investor by taking a class rather than meeting income or wealth requirements.
This part is fun:

A few days later the book showed up at Random House—it had passed through customs. Furious, Ernst personally marched the package over to the customs office and demanded that it be searched. When the inspector opened it and found Ulysses, he muttered, “Oh, for God’s sake, everybody brings that in. We don’t pay attention to it.” Ernst insisted that he seize it.
Due to the long history of investment scams. The lottery takes large sums in aggregate, but doesn’t use high pressure sales tactics or let people easily place their life savings in it. Aka, it would take significant effort to buy 500,000$ worth of lottery tickets.
"We tried to adopt, extend and extinguish this golden child in our possessive embrace, hobble it to us as was our custom, but it grew up all the stronger for fighting us, and shouldn't we all be grateful for that?"
This is neat! A similar set of APIs I've used in the past is API Layer - https://apilayer.com/

The PDF api was really easy to hook into for cleaner receipt attachments in emails.
Yeah but the question is, would this only be for ARM Windows?
They do specifically say single use plastics where I suppose a lot of applications are in food packaging. It just has to last significantly longer than the food spoilage time to be useful.
YEA! lets force every ad supported company to force people too pay for content! Nothing bad will happen from that ...
Why call it 'spider silk' instead of 'silkworm silk', though? Silkworms (1.) never have long hairy legs; (2.) never have the name Shelob; (3.) never crawl under your bedsheets at night and bite you.
I run https://4dayweek.io Software jobs with a better work / life balance

Might be of interest
You know I kind of wish windows had a store, but then I tired installing apps using the current store and it's a terrible experience. They make it so hard for people with more than 1 hard drive to manage what goes where.
I use both windows and mac and I agree. It's why I hate that the menu bar on mac can't be moved (it clashes with the window buttons), and why I don't ever use the dock (I cmd+space for spotlight instead). Hopefully this is customizable
> I’ve heard that ex-military make the best cops because they are used to dangerous situations without panicking.

This is a good point and one I think is missed. Police really do need more training. When departments started phasing out choke holds I think it was a mistake. The hold itself was not the problem, but lack of proper training.

I've read some proposals that want every police officer to be at a minimum a blue belt in BJJ. For perspective, that's a year or so of training. Someone going 3x/week means they will have 20-30 simulated fights PER week. That's how you get someone to stay relaxed in a stressful and physical situation.

Of course, when weapons are involved it's a different situation. But, in unarmed situation a person with a year+ of BJJ training will easily control the other person with little danger to either of them. And the LEO, knowing this, will not reach for their weapon first.
> Its a new way of writing "native"-adjacent multiplatform applications; the OS doesn't matter anymore.

If only someone had thought about that before: a language targeting a bytecode interpreter and an ecosystem of library sitting on top of the operating system in order to be able to run programs on any operating system. In a way we could call it a virtual machine as it makes the OS insignificant. Written like this it sounds like 1994 tech. A shame we had to wait so long...
Any app creator can release their iOS / iPadOS app for Apple Silicon Macs if they choose to, I'm not sure I'd paint Apple as the bad guy here if a vendor doesn't want their iOS app running on macOS.
The lottery gives players a moment to fantasize about what it’d be like to be rich. I see no difference to buying a beer for a few moments of entertainment.

Obviously people can overdo gambling, but the same goes for beer.
Woah. How is that even collected?
> learning C teaches bad habits - manual memory management tends to account for some absurd percentage (70-80%) of CVEs in modern programs

this is a garbled thought. The average person may have trouble with manual memory management, and C requires some manual memory management (the stack is automatic), but that's not C teaching bad habits.

You can learn to do manual memory management in C, because C teaches manual memory management.

that doesn't make manual memory management a good idea for the average programmer, but that's not C's fault.

experience with C teaches good manual memory management in the same way that working with sharp knives teaches good knife management. Do professional people get cut with sharp knives? yes. Are sharp knives a good idea? yes. All the time for everybody!? nope
I like it and I'm excited to install it. I've been enjoying a lot this "new" Microsoft, including all the WSL that they brought.

New UI looks macOS-ish but looks fresh at the same time.
Read Code Complete and Clean Architecture, then start incorporating those tactics and concepts into your own projects.
$2000 hasn't been the contribution limit for almost 20 years. It's $6K now, but we could argue that it's still not enough.

Private companies that are raising money have a valuation on them done periodically ("409A valuation"), and this is what private stock options and common shares are based on. This is the IRS's own rules.
MS Teams client built in and the ability to run Android apps via the App Store.
> For creators and publishers, Widgets also opens new real estate within Windows to deliver personalized content.

This is nothing but very deep penetration in the user's personal space.
> We’re also announcing a progressive change to our revenue share policies where app developers can now bring their own commerce into our Store and keep 100% of the revenue – Microsoft takes nothing.

Nicely done!
Stepper motors can be microstepped (typically up to 1/32 or 1/64). In my experience, this works poorly as the microsteps are not evenly spaced. I find gearing works better.
Dark patterns are all over the internet
I hope to god you're right. But, a counterpoint from an adjacent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27620036
I think it's probably closer to ChromeOS with the idea being centered is better for touch support.
Do you think they finally finished the control panel transition? Window 10's control panel thing feels like it was stopped halfway through development, so they left the old stuff in there but made it hard to access. Unfortunately most of the time when you need to change something it's not on the new control panel so you have to dig for the old one instead.

When Windows 10 was first released I figured they would finish up the new control panel and deprecate the old one, but instead several years have passed with no progress whatsoever on the problem and it is still a pain point with Windows 10. Certainly it can't be that hard to copy over the missing features? Did the control panel team quit en-masse in 2015?
And the people downvoting this comment is why I will stop reading HN.
> They are successful due to first mover advantages

Zero of the FAANG companies had a first mover advantage.

* Facebook replaced MySpace within the course of like a year. Today TikTok and other things threaten them.

* Apple... well... it was for a long time a huge underdog.

* Amazon... born in the dot com era. At the time lots of people thought the company was gonna implode any day. It took like a decade before they even remotely generated something other than a loss.

* Netflix... was DVD's, competed against brick & mortor and companies like Kozmo. Today it competes with media companies offering their own streaming service.

* Google... plenty of search engines came before google.

Not sure how any of these companies became successful because of regulatory capture, network effects or even literal monopolies. None of these companies could be successful in the long haul if their products sucked. Building non-sucky products involves a hell of a lot more than just developers sitting at home writing code 24/7. Success involves building successful processes that encourage innovation.
Free for at least one year, but they reserve the right to cancel the free option after one year
2000 was back when NT was a separate thing though, right? Didn't they switch to the NT kernel for everything after that?
how can windows run android apps but linux which is base of android itself cannot do that ?
what happened to arm and x86 differences? if rosetta stone thing is being done, why can't linux do that even natively on arm?

edit: base=kernel
Yeah, Meltdown did affect quite some Arm CPUs, including the Cortex-A75 too.

However, due to specific features of the Arm architecture, it was patchable without a significant performance hit.

(see this section: https://siguza.github.io/KTRR/#meltdownspectre-mitigations-1..., which made the need for actually doing a page table switch avoidable)
I read through the various pages several times and figured Amazon was putting up $100mm to be paid to developers that squash bugs in important open-source projects. It made sense as Amazon has now forked several very large and important projects. But now I read it as they have created a gamified bug bash app that should lead to millions of bugs being squashed if it's used. And of course a million bugs squashed is a positive $100mm contribution to the world. Am I understanding correctly?
I have wondered that too, I don't like the look of the new taskbar, I was hoping they'd do more with it with some of the user concepts floating around (such as a rounded floating taskbar.) I'm sure the true reason is that is what MacOS does, so they just copied it.
New Ambarella 5nm SoC runs AI simultaneously on 14 stream 4K with less than 5W
I think a recent version of Windows I had the misfortune of setting up also required a Ms account: no option for a local install. It's also possible that I'm just stupid and didn't see it, but (shrug)
In the video, they're spending the first 20 seconds filing down the corners of the logo, having a big reveal of the blue Windows logo with rounded corners. This leads into the rest of the feature reveal, all round things now. But in the "end credits", the same blue Windows logo is back to its sharp cornered self again. Is this a subtle hint to the UI inconsistencies that are still to be expected after the major version bump, or is there another meaning?
It tastes good, especially with breakfast food, wakes me up a bit, and is hydrating. I experience no negatives, and nothing in particular happens to me if I skip it either. It seems implausible to frame as an addiction unless you start from the preconception that caffeine must be a vice.

And according to this article, and others, I apparently gain various health benefits from my preferred beverage to boot :)
I'm hopeful as well.
There's a history of politicians being politicians though.
That's the aftermarket for you. There are aftermarket California cats with a similar discount available.
When people complain about ads in Windows I wonder if they are seeing a different version than I am. Maybe it is the difference between US and EU or Home and Pro versions?

They do place links to third party games in the start menu upon installation. And they also inform about first party services where it makes sense (like OneDrive in Explorer, and Office365 when trying to edit a Word file). I wouldn't consider the first party offers an ad, if anything maybe an upsell, but that is just semantics.

The thing is, I haven't payed for Windows in close to a decade (legally!). Even at work, we get all the Windows and Office licenses from Microsoft Gold (for having a couple employees take some IoT certification and slapping their sticker on promotional material). One way microsoft makes money is with these "Ads".

If there is something that bothers me about Windows, it is the inconsistency. Visually, and quality wise. It seems MS is a totally heterogenous organisation with some brilliant teams that have a lot of freedom, and some less good teams that are heavily constrained. Some parts are really good (like the work on Windows Terminal, WSL, the new iteration of fluent design). But it seems nobody has the authority to push consistency across the system. There are longstanding bugs and sources of wierdness that are never addressed. Meanwhile new features are added at a breakneck pace (like the blurry weather applet). I can imagine some manager shouting "ship it now!" when I look at it.

And some decisions seem to be business motivated, like trying to push Edge and trying to create restricted a "Chromebook"-like edition again and again, but they neither make sense business- nor technology-wise. It sometimes seems like nobody has the big picture over there.
How many people bought Windows 10 thinking they wouldn't need to buy another one? Class-action lawsuit incoming?
>teams team

It still a little mindblowing to me that teams steals focus like it does at startup. Windows boots relatively slowly that I could be in an Outlook window or typing in a URL or whatever after a fresh reboot and then teams just steals my mouse and keyboard. I've trained myself to not do anything until teams starts (and being an electron app, it certainly takes its time) because I'm so annoyed by focus stealing.

On my home computer the xbox application does the same but at least it loads super fast. I am just bewildered that in 2021 that focus stealing like this is so common and accepted by anyone let alone Microsoft. It just feels like scammy 2000s adware.
What about removing all the old crud at some point? All this disorganized layering makes windows feel like a schizophrenic operating system. At some point they have to realize they have to start cleaning up the mess, right?