skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used a right-side taskbar since Windows XP, so yeah I've been feeling pretty angry about this.

I experimented with all four sides. When I last used it on the bottom I often had it "huge" (three or four rows) with auto-hide because I didn't want to cramp vertical space that much. I thought left and top got too much in the way of Fitt's Law related muscle memory. (More applications have important controls like menus to the top and left, and when maximized you are used to just rushing the mouse to the screen corner to access them, having to back across the taskbar never quite worked for me.)

Right-hand side seemed optimal to me in Windows XP and continues to feel that way today, especially as monitors have only gotten wider from when I started on classic square CRTs.

Since Vista introduced "Aero Peek" I felt far less of a need for window titles directly in the Taskbar, so I generally only ever use the Taskbar about the same width as the default height when at the bottom. (I like it just a tiny bit wider than that where on the main monitor in a vertical orientation Windows expands out the full date and day of the week in the clock panel.) At those widths my right side taskbars take up far fewer total pixels (and especially far fewer total unused "whitespace" pixels) on widescreen than a horizontal taskbar. It's especially a stark contrast on my ultrawidescreen home desktop where you just lose so much valuable screen real estate to wide empty expanses of taskbar when horizontal.

(I even appreciate the thought/theory behind the centering they are going for bringing things better into "eye line" on an ultrawide, but with all those wasted pixels around it I could be using to uncramp vertical space in apps, I think they have the right general idea but the very wrong implementation.)
Like you, I will probably buy Apple’s new AR headset. Both of us are privileged enough to be able to easily afford it, but can most people do the same?

Before you dismiss Facebook’s hardware effort, you should actually try the Oculus Quest 2. At $299 for a full, standalone VR system; imo it even beats some PCVR VR headsets on more than just price.
This is not a 'static' optimization. It relies on knowledge that the compiler cannot decide by looking at the code (whether the linked list is _mostly_ laid out continuously).

It might still be a very useful optimization in a JIT runtime. If your loop variable keeps increasing the same amount after every lookup, maybe rewrite the loop to add speculation...
sometimes all you have is a hammer and a screw though. Not everyone is a computer scientist.
The strain on the healthcare system is primarily from older >70 patients. In the US 90% of the older population is vaccinated.
Ask HN: Crash course on ETL/data pipeline system design?
Hi HN!

Any recommendations for getting up to speed quickly on data engineering / ETL system design? A course with exercises would be great as would a book/blog with example real-world architectures that has some depth to it, discusses tradeoffs.

My goal is to maintain and eventually improve a system that just fell in my lap. It's using Kinesis/Glue/Parquet/S3/Athena to process telemetry data for hourly reports (non-realtime) and ad-hoc querying. All my experience so far is with rdbms-backed web apps.

Thanks in advance for any links/tips!
I'm thinking they may have a double impact on combating global warming. Not only do they displace fossil fuel emissions, but they pull excess energy out of the atmosphere.

However, the scale they operate at is a rounding error on a global scale.
To blame this all on racism is to miss the true motivation which is safety of person and property. It is something I never truly understood until last year's protests/riots, which I think are also at least a factor in people moving out of urban areas again (though few will admit it). When there's unrest which results in arson, looting, and vandalism, those with means will seek safer locales and erect physical and institutional barriers to keep out potential threats. Venice is a historical example of this, built on the water for protection from barbarians.

There are knock on effects such as dimmer prospects for those left than in the more integrated communities that proceeded as investment flees. People rightfully don't want to invest in areas deemed unsafe, where those investments would be at risk.

To be clear, where such barriers manifest in ways where people are judged or treated differently based on immutable characteristics or group identity instead of their individual character, this is wrong.

This is a pretty good take on the ramifications of race riots: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/racism-riots-economics-...
Asteroids aren't planets; checkmate.
Well, as fun as this is, I think it really has more to do with how the OCR happens to interpret watercolor splashes as mostly characters of a charset that parse into strings in Perl. They are not "programs". Basically, anything that outputs randomish strings of ascii seems to be parseable as string values in Perl.
New terms still say we reserve the right to use Audacity (which is a sound wave editor) to collect information.
No one wants Adacity to phone home any more than they want grep to phone home. For whatever reason.

You cannot polish a turd.
> The free market is allowing a company like this one to exist

The "free market" is controlled by a very small set of conglomerates.

They get caught red handed deploying anticompetitive strategies every other week.
Good luck for is survival of it becomes independent.

20% of its budget is cash from France. Its main income is from mining which is in deficit and heavily subventionned by France.

They would need to make the socual security, police etc.

100000 people are expected to leave to France.

A yes would be suicidal.
Interesting to see them grow so big then - they used to be the minnow to the Walmarts / Targets etc.

At least in my experience (retail product ordering) their service flat out IS head and shoulders above much of the compeitition.

I order off a Facebook ad - I get a drop shipment from china that takes forever, is effectively not returnable etc etc.

I order from Amazon - delivery is insanely reliable, when I have an issue refunds are handled incredibly well. Even special cases (I had a weird issue with an iphone order that required a manual override and refund despite what looked like a failure to return - I got a real person and a refund promptly - they would have been relatively justified NOT to refund but I thought I'd ask).

Even on AWS my support contract get's real responses. When I had a billing / customer service issue - a real person (sounded like native English speaking US call center) handled it very well.

My brokers is constantly experiencing "unexpected call volume" (hour long waits). The IRS when I call has "unexpected call volume" and hour long waits. Calling southwest they have "unexpected call volume" and hour long waits. A ton of places make it virtually impossible to actually call and talk to anyone (much smaller than Amazon BTW) - you can search website all day long. Or you are speaking to call centers that can't do anything at all.

I contrast AWS to the treatment we got as a paying google suite customer (endless different sales people calling us, but you don't have good paths in to trouble shoot weird state issues etc beyond basic customer service). And AWS devices support employees work calendars (via gsuite) while google devices DO NOT!
The Oculus Quest 2 is really solid hardware, especially considering its low price.
A sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere
most cornell thing I've ever seen
Non-profit photo sharing social media network
For the 400+ sounds that Merlin (the user-friendly, offline-functional sister app to BirdNET) can now identify with 80-90% accuracy, it took a team of dozens of bird sound ID experts several years to annotate tens of thousands of individual audio spectrograms. On average, they needed about 1,000 recordings per species). Here is a bit more about how they did it: https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/2021/06/22/behind-the-scenes...
Maybe this also aims to include some Apple TV features into the display. As some people use the same screen for work and entertainment in their living rooms.
Therefore it could also provide a new node for Siri access.
https://archive.is/a7nNz
Can Bill Gates save us (through his philanthropic effort)
Well, also Alpha-Fold, and let's not forget beating the world champions at Go, which was a really major unsolved problem. I'll also contend that WaveNet was not 'maybe-slightly-better,' but actually a massive leap forward.

The phrase 'who pissed in your cheerios' comes to mind... Here's hoping that if you ever build something worthwhile it is received with a bit more compassion.
Epic doesn’t even have a software platform for VR yet. It’ll be awhile before they even catch up to Valve.
Fantastic question. Lacking an atmosphere, it wouldn't go anywhere. The ultimate insulator. So whatever heat you produced in your space rock factory would stay right there. There's no such thing as air conditioning in space, bereft as it is of that first component, air.
Centerboards are really only effective when the boat is moving. For static stability you need a keel with enough ballast to provide a sufficient righting moment.
This makes a lot of sense. And given the Oculus, they already have a pretty decent foothold in the AR/VR world.

So as a reaction for Apple becoming “the” gatekeeper for a metaverse platform, Facebook is now doubling down on becoming “the” metaverse platform. Whatever that means.

I wonder whether Facebook is going to try to accomplish this using their existing social networks, or do some acquisitions in the space.
This is true. It’s also unpleasant. At Every paycheck nearly everyone with a 401k is helping zuck.
I think you may be getting too bogged down in the details of the example. It was a purposefully simplified example to show how to calculate the IMS score for different setups.
>When it comes to autonomous weapons, the Pentagon’s stated policy is always that a human operator will always make the firing decision, this policy has some flexibility: it simply demands “appropriate levels of human judgment,” whatever that means.

>Nobody is suggesting that the AI-equipped Reapers will be carrying out autonomous strike missions if communication is impossible; but this might become a tempting possibility as the technology evolves. And, as Forbes has previously noted, the U.S. has changed it stance on Reaper exports, leading to a slew of recent deals including with the UAE and even Morocco.
And that, in a nutshell, is why it's just wrong for smartphone operating systems and app stores to go to increasingly extreme lengths to ban programming environments. termux itself, while wonderful as a concept, is already too crippled on my Android 9 device to be much use, and is/will be even more so in later versions.
>no liverwurst!!!

Substitute pâté or foie gras.
Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique
Mr. Zuckerberg doesn’t understand the word “embodied”
I get the feeling that it's all going to look immensely stupid until Apple releases a VR headset, and Facebook is the first company with a native client on it. From there, this "metaverse" concept introduces a virtually limitless amount of content. They could start porting over original VR titles, creating first-class video sharing tools and more.

I despise Facebook, but I wholeheartedly agree here: this is an incredibly well-thought-out move from a company that has money to burn.
Sure, just ask an industry veteran LG - they had 2 mega recalls in ~one year, with third one (GM) inching closer every day, not to mention loss of Ford contract.

"LG Energy Solutions, the company that makes the battery for the Bolt and Kona EV, has not had a good year. First, they agreed to replace the 82,000 batteries sold to Hyundai for the Kona EV, Ioniq, and Elec City buses. Although the initial rumors were from a faulty battery separator, Hyundai later said that the problem was badly folded tabs. GM emphatically pointed out that they use a different separator, and a different factory. Thus neither of those problems should apply to the Bolt fires.

Porsche recently initiated a recall on a loss of power in its Taycan LG batteries, and Ford also moved from LG in its Mustang Mach-E to SK in its Ford F-150 Lightning."
and we all cheer him on, right !?
idk if this works for all phones (I hope so!) but on my Pixel, you can long-press on a notification to open settings for that notification type. Changing it to "silent" will move it to the bottom of the list and no longer shows an icon in the status bar. You could also "hide" that notification channel entirely. I'm fairly sure this doesn't affect the ability to run background processes, but I could be mistaken

EDIT: This is a more recent feature so you might need the last one or two versions of Android, but if you have a phone with a notch I bet you're good :)
You know how police have to take an IQ test and get denied the job if they score too high?

Like that, but for tech interviews.
Wow. Either it's a bold and unifying claim, or complete corporate BS.
...to be fair, even Zombocom has more actual focus.
That's a good point. I suppose that Snow Crash is only a fun story as long as it's fictional. If reality comes too close to it, it would stop being fun and start being depressing.
Is the keyboard also modular? I really dislike chiclet keyboards
Seems like this stuff maybe comes and goes— like here's a repair guide for a 2010-vintage MBP which definitely shows all the connectors being right on the logic board:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Logic+Board...
They don’t have that on his planet.
What Happened to the Left? Statists Who Demand Compliance
Spreadsheets provide a spatial mapping (cells) to represent data transformations over time. Users are more comfortable working w/ spatial paradigms, as humans have a better sense of location in space than in time. Thinking in terms of "transformations over time" is difficult to reason about, specially in programming.
> The first is a lack of funding in poor schools. Less money, less resources.

Source? We spend more and more on education every year with nothing to show for it[1][2]. Throwing more money at students absolutely does not mean they will be more successful[3]. This is not a problem that can be solved with money.

[1] https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....

[2] https://reason.org/commentary/inflation-adjusted-k-12-educat...

[3] https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-ci...
I think people can have narcissistic goals without having narcissistic personality disorder. It is tempting to see our passions as deriving from an objectively correct view of how the world should improve. Jeff likes space and, what do you know, it turns out Jeff's way of exploring space is at the center of a larger plan to save the world that Jeff feels pretty confident about.

Those of us who aren't billionaires just have to satisfy more people with our arguments about why our ideas are worth doing. When you're funding everything, it's a lot easier to attribute pushback to personal preference rather than your overall worldview being flawed. After all, if your worldview was flawed, why are all these people working at your space company? How did you make all this money? Etc.

I don't actually if Jeff has drunk his own cool-aid, but I think people in his position have fewer people to push back against their worldview than most.
Sounds like iOS or tvOS will be on board the monitor. I would find it more interesting to have a monitor with 16 to 32 cores of M1 (or M2?) that expand the compute and render capacity of a MacBook Pro when plugged in. As nice as mobile video editing is currently, having your monitor host an elastic compute capability and help cut down on 4K or 8K video rendering would be very, very interesting.
Best guess: someone or some group wanted to rewrite the Taskbar "from scratch" because of "all the tech debt crud making it a tough codebase to work in" and well a lot of that "tech debt" was all the stuff that made it customizable and supported drag-and-drop and all sorts of other things that users use every day but makes for a complicated codebase.
AR is the obvious next platform and UX leap if the hardware is workable.

Zuck and Apple both recognize this and are both working on it.

The winner will be similar to an iPhone level win in terms of shift, it’s hard to know how close viable hardware is though.
At best what the Tue flight demonstrated is that Amazon will now be able to fulfill two hour delivers to the ISS. Everything else is unproven.
'In the next 10 years' is the key phrase here. Everyone watching Go (I looked at the problem 15-ish years ago) thought it required a massive advance to beat the best humans. DeepMind made that advance.

'bah, whatever, both Newton and Leibniz were hacks. Everyone knew calculus would have been invented anyway. It's basically a consequence of some stuff Archimedes did.'
After reading this up a little, maybe cement production could be moved to space? Neglecting that we would have to burn 6kg of fuel to get 1kg of limestone into space, the heat could be provided by the sun and the CO2 vent into space?
Who Wants to Be a Cop?
If most users don't care about how open their technology is, why would such a change benefit them/why would they agree to it? Surely they would choose a more open system if they really wanted one (especially since Android phones that can sideload apps from the internet are going to be cheaper than iPhone anyways).
A fake controversy.
Oops I forgot the 's'. It was fortuitous, though, because the current title is exactly 80 chars and HN doesn't allow 81.
Cleveland changing name from Indians to Guardians after 2021 season
I doubt Facebook really needs to worry about Apple's upcoming AR/VR push. They're the people who sell $300 VR headsets, if anything they should be encouraging Apple to drive the price of their headset up.
I mean. It’d be a little work but you could just DIY an index fund. Call it yourname499
I have a strong feeling that this situation will never occur. Tim and Mark aren't exactly on partnership terms.
This sounds like pure thirst for vengeance, like "somebody must pay, no matter who".
> Now, maybe I live in California and things are different.

You live in California and things are different. You live there because you want to be in a specific location and near a some-what-specific crowd of people for work reasons.

In the rest of the country, (most of it), that is not the consideration people have.
One advantage of lotteries is that they remove competition and 'arms races', since there's no way to affect the outcome (ideally; modulo hacking, etc.). Once you're over the threshold, you might as well focus your remaining time and effort on other things; rather than spending more money on 'interview technique coaching', or hiring more proof-readers, or rephrasing the same sentence over and over for months in an attempt to get it 'perfect'.

Not only do lotteries mitigate Goodhart's Law (which rewards 'bad' candidates who appear good, whilst punishing 'good' candidates who don't appear that way); but even a perfect, un-gameable measure can waste resources chasing diminishing returns. Even something as trivial as spelling mistakes can be decisive; and whilst those judging might only care a little about spelling, candidates care a lot about winning, so it's in their interest to obsess over even such minor things.

This imposes a massive opportunity cost, whether it's spending whole childhoods in 'cram schools'; or university salaries going to 'grant proposal writing services' rather than educators and researchers; etc.
Are these Hunter Biden Originals?
Facebook does have competition. Unfortunately, these mainland China based competitors use the same or even worse tactics and policies as Facebook.
I'm guessing based on his business practices and attitude in interviews/statements. I don't claim to be an expert though, that's why I qualified my post stating that's it's purely my speculation, just like the authors post
"...we now have a society where the vast majority possess knowledge and skills necessary for success in various dimensions of their lives, including work, community engagement, democratic participation and more."

Not sure what society the author lives in but I'd love to visit a place where "the vast majority possess knowledge and skills be essay for success."
The fact that you had to use so many big words to explain why spreadsheets aren't a good way for users to "write some numbers here and then calculate some numbers from those first numbers over here" says to me that your definition of "good" varies a fair bit from the definition these users are using.

Joins are great and relational databases are super useful but these peoples' problems are 99% solved by "store a list, maybe do some arithmetic."
The Trillion-Dollar Lie
What are the “3 instances where we had something that needed attention, out of which 2 were not syncthing's fault”? I’m curious what rare exceptions there are to watch for.
True, but because they are storage yards, they are also crew change points, and people are based there. The worst of both worlds - on the road most of the time, in a small railroad town when not on the road.

On 90 minute call, too, 24/7, in a business that never closes and is pretty much equally active around the clock. As you build up union seniority, you get more control of your schedule.
It's been a while since I watched this NREL talk, but my fuzzy recollection is that there is some amount of active control:

https://youtu.be/SavaSnOOrvw
Every developer who as been in the industry longer than a year is almost certainly part of two or more major data breeches. I can only speak for myself but I take privacy and security very seriously not only for myself but in architecting system to protect client data as much as possible (and to collect as little as is absolutely necessary).
For firefox, i use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc... . It puts a "block this domain" link under the result (gotta block each pinterest.* though).

But if you blocked each bad result, I'm not sure there'd be any good left.

For example, I search "a bougainvillea without pruning" and all the results are "how to prune bougainvillea". Try: "How do I search the web without e commerce results?" and all you'll get is "how to do ecommerce better" pages.
What's does this offer above and beyond the official version?
I disagree, but substantively what's it matter?
Not even that. Making it to the Karman line is a very low bar. They are nowhere close to being able to reach ISS. The leap from New Shepard to New Glenn is a rather big one.
Not sure if Google does anything to restrict plug-ins from tampering with its results, but domains in DDG results are canonicalized making it trivial to use them as keys in localStorage. So filtering after the fact, while slightly awkward, can work for a list of thousands or millions?
Because it’s really on oculus.com
I would keep asking that question even though they probably know what they're doing with that issue.
I suppose what this really means is that you have USB4 with support for the optional PCIE tunneling, and support for the slightly higher frequency alternative mode, which is generally enough to function with peripherals labeled as Thunderbolt, since it is literally exactly the same protocol.

Somewhat obnoxious that you need additional certification to actually call it what it obviously is.
This works when list nodes are allocated subsequently without other irrelevant allocations intervened. If your case doesn't fit this constraint, value speculation doesn't seem to work. Any comments?