skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup

Taskbar can no longer be moved.

That single "improvement" will keep me away for as long as possible. It's the first thing I change when setting up a new Windows environment, and have done it for over a decade. I'm enough not alone that I've seen in mentioned in multiple articles.

MS makes all kinds of noise about "reworking the UI from the ground up for true usability" or some such. Yet I have no idea what could possibly be the benefit to removing such functionality. MS says they listen, but obviously not.

Unless a developer has a massive and utterly revolutionary improvement in the way we interact with the machine, and it yields 10X productivity improvements (or even 3X) for 90% of the user base - fkn leave it alone!!

Marginal improvements are the worst - the time spent relearning, or fumbling while using a different machine is never recovered, and it just makes people annoyed at you. Even if the improvements are "free" the price is too high.
heres a real hint.
Im in a yacht in the med, will fly my private helicopter home soon. I also dont want to know anything about you. Well done.
Most of those don't sacrifice S75 protection in the UK. PayPal is unique.
Hero worship because he brought computers to the masses. The cost cutting was the point - there were already computers that cost the same as a nice TV, this was a computer a kid could get for Christmas. For many of us that oppertunity was the start of a lifelong passion.
My employer noticed that people weren't taking enough PTO, even with an unlimited PTO policy, so made new minimum PTO requirements. Each employee is required to take at least 2 days off per quarter and at least 2 weeks per year. People have actually started using it.
I am a EU based software dev, who is currently going through a cancer diagnosis & treatment of a partner (her second one in as many years).

Knowing that I have legally mandated sick leave with pay that covers me for some time has helped immensely while going through this ordeal. Not to mention all healthcare costs taken care of by the state (rather than via some weird golden handcuff scheme with my employer).

I simply can not imagine how vadly workers in the US are exposed when the unexpected happens (and it does, unexpectedly).
Ironically Switzerland is #1 on that list — a country with one of the most liberal policies on firearm ownership. This video shows what a typical store in Switzerland is like and what is available for purchase https://youtu.be/UOErri-3Z5E?t=538.
The users code runs within docker containers, so it can not to access to host server.
Nikki Minaj of all people was suspended by Twitter because she mentioned friends of hers had a bad reaction to a particular vaccine.

Like what the eff. People can’t even freely mention an anecdote anymore if it is contrary to the set narrative?

What the eff happened to us in the last two years?

It’s frankly, disgusting and very concerning.
You don't have to find it convincing; it's merely an observation on the way fascists communicate with each other.

https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for...

>8. The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
You couldn’t use CBP’s travel history page?

https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search
This seems to be a similar trend like VC-backed "Deep Sea" startups exploring the unchartered oceans floor. Does anyone know how these space and marine startups are planning to make money?
Signed in users use user's keys so each user has it's own rate-limit separate from the app context.

And yes, you're right, there are rate-limits for endpoints in Twitter API, I've optimized the app to be in rate-limits and still be able to make the most of it.

For ex. I recently added Messages in Kizie. Twitter API's Messages endpoint has a rate-limit of 15 requests per 15 min window. Really really low for something like messages. On top of that each request returns at most 50 messages(not conversations).

How Kizie handles it is it makes 3 requests on initial load and then checks for new messages every 2.5 minutes. It was kinda tricky to do all of it reliably and I'm still trying optimise it more for better experience :)
> These values are "Don't fuck the customer" and "Open company, no bullshit".

Huh. As a customer, this is surprising.
I’ve never said no to a PTO request on my team since we adopted Unlimited PTO, but now I’m finding out that it’s been abused elsewhere and actually constitutes a red flag. I wonder if our company should revert to traditional PTO so that prospective candidates don’t avoid applying.
Native English speaker. Used a lot in architecture (buildings) and design competitions - the horse cart is where you would finish your illustrations working to the last minute on the way to final presentation.

Edit: Here's a picture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charrette,_%C3%89col...
That's absurd. The Bill of Rights is literally a list of changes to the constitution.

Which were the price the Antifederalists demanded to accept the Constitution as a whole.

Any one of them can be changed at any time by a majority of states.

Supermajority, and only after a supermajority of the Congress starts the process or a supermajority of states calls for a constitutional convention. Even then, abrogating any of the Bill of Rights also abrogates the original deal, making the rest of the Constitution and its additional amendments null and void.
Interesting approach.

I always search myself on new search engines to compare the results. Most engines return my personal blog/website, books/stories I've written, news stories, my github projects/contributions, social links, etc.

This search engine surfaces just three obscure IRC logs that contain my nick in join/part messages (nothing said from me!) from 2009. And nothing else.

There's probably some things this approach is really good at but I'm not sure what they'd be for me off hand. Always cool to see new approaches to search, though.
Anecdotal as well, but I stopped an attempted home invasion with a 1911. I walked out with it in my hand, pointed at the ground, and they left. Fast. That was it.
I must congratulate you on this achievement. That's certainly a useful take on search.

Nonetheless, even when coding, one should also consider thoroughly the UX and how it would be addressing the others.

Saying "unsupported word" is much more sympathetic than "needs to be a word" (where you define what a "word" is, and the general user is unaware of such definition).
> Even though they mostly live in vastly, vastly safer zip codes.

Do they though? Not sure where you got this information from. And are we talking legal gun ownership or guns in general? Because even in the "hood" and the "projects" it's quite common for people to be "strapped". Those guns may often not be legal, but they are also still carrying them for self-defense in most cases. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if these communities had a much higher percentage of weapons. I am sure you'd feel a lot safer walking at night in a low income neighbourhood if you had that kind of protection and I could definitely understand why someone would want to walk around armed.
Anecdotal, but I have a 2015 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 20 (gnome 3.38), a 2020 MBP and a 2019 MS Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10).

The recent Gnome experience on hardware half a decade older than the Surface laptop is so much snappier than Windows. I dred MacOS and Windows updates these days but I'm generally very pleased with updates to Ubuntu/Gnome.

Furthermore everything just works, too, which is what I grew up to expect from Windows, but literally yesterday the Surface laptop bricked itself installing an update. I have daily problems using Windows with WSL, too. It's infuriating.

I used to feel stable and assured using Windows, but these days Windows is an endless labyrinth of dialog boxes, it's hard to comprehend how anyone could take it seriously any longer. Maybe I'm getting old.
Show HN: A freelancer invoicing app that includes tracking time/tasks
First Indictment from Durham's RussiaGate Probe Arrives
It'll be interesting to see who else gets caught up in the dragnet.

Will we see Clinton herself get indicted? Hey, we can wish right?
Yeah I was with him up to that point.

"None of the kits we sell contain anything dangerous, nor is the average person experimenting with biology inherently dangerous. If you are trying to engineer something hazardous — like say a bat virus — you might have a problem, but the genome search space is large enough that accidentally creating a harmful organism is astronomically improbable. Access to most dangerous materials are also heavily restricted..."

This sounds really sketchy to me. I can't tell if he's lying or if he really can't see any further than his own research program.. sometimes a field of research is just actually existentially dangerous for life on earth, you can't handwave it away.

The possibility of biohacking as a hobby is thrilling. Trouble is, the dangers are so extreme they're difficult to even think about. Like, thought experiment: can you design a virus that kills all eukaryotic cells? Can you think of other possibilities equally terrifying? Of course stuff like that is far off, but neither you nor this guy know whether 'far off' means 10, 100, or 1000 years.

We already have examples of substances that are strictly harmful to almost all life.. Dispersal of them (via the democratization of access to Chemistry) is already placing stress on the biosphere.. which again, is such a large and horrible thing it's hard to imagine or reason about.

Another thing: it is still plausible that covid was a lab escape. I think the biohacker community should be incredibly humbled by that, and really think about how they'll be seen in decades to come.. we've seen cycles of technologists becoming disgraced because of the impact of their products; those cycles seem poised to accelerate. Maybe this is a good time to get on the right side of history?
Has happened with grindr a few times that I know of. https://accesswdun.com/article/2021/7/1024075

And the Strava on military bases thing. https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f...
I would normally agree _IF_ the person didn't already have to deal with his wife's cancer. Under the US health system no less.

Some other reason? Meh, it's just a job. But getting thrown into distress, financial or otherwise, warrants looking out for oneself (and family) first.

Choose your battles.
From what you are saying, it looks like you also practice drills, at least semi-regularly. I think that is key, no matter the caliber. Hell, even using pepper spray should be exercised once or twice a year.
Well regulated as in a steam engine, which wasn't far on the horizon.
Do you know why the information was not provided? What legal basis?
The scary thing: this all seems like yesterday to me. For years I thought we were counting up to when we die, but now I realize we are actually counting down.
I think I've seen an old article by a Microsoft employee saying "if you didn't change the UI, you changed nothing".

They used the calculator as an example, saying that it saw several improvements but since it always looked the same, people thought nothing had changed. Improvements included things like better arithmetics, so that (10/3-3)*3=1.
This isn’t entirely Google’s fault. Recipes on their own aren’t copyrighted in the US, and adding this fluff text is a way around that.
To prevent rehashing this, I have discovered the exact same discussion from 5 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11884645
> So all in all, looks like variable refresh will be a potentially very impressive feature, both for smoother UI and better battery life.

And I think coming soon to macOS Monterey too. If we thought the M1 MBPs had impressive battery life at launch...
We can roughly calculate the expected improvement based on “non-streaming” factors (8h extra/28h*25h=7.14h of expected improvements that include things like screen refresh rate, decoding and better battery) so therefore 25h new streaming video, minus 12h previous streaming battery,
minus 7h expected improvement leaves about 5 hours of streaming performance improvements (WiFi/Network/bug fixes/???). Seems like a lot.
The poster did get a lateral -- see the complaints about the new team and not being able to go back to the old team.
It doesn't really work that way with commodities the scale of lumber. The amount of money one would to have to corner the lumber market is insane, even a cartel probably couldn't pull it off.

Timber is abundant and lumber mills are pretty easy to get going. If you live anywhere near where timber is grown, there's almost certainly a handful of mom-and-pop mills around you. The moment prices elevate for an extended period of time, these operations will start looking to expand.
Love Windscribe. At a time when I wasn't able to afford a subscription, they were one of the very few services with a free plan that didn't look shady.

I have since been a happy paying customer and also recommended it to a couple of my friends.
1/4 of a millimeter increased thickness isn't exactly a ton of space for battery expansion. Comes to a bit less than 3.1 cm^3 (less due to corners which are "safe for kids").
HN is pretty out of touch I think.

When I talk to non HN crowd.

* Apple's efforts around blocking CASM are applauded

* Folks are GLAD that cops are using tech to catch criminals

* Folks don't have a ton of trust that the regulations will help their lives, or block govt from doing things, but do imagine they will be annoying (more permission banners / cookies popups etc).

It would be interesting to look at other countries where the govt has gotten more hands on with regulations in this area (data retention etc). I know in some spaces I've seen the regulations actually end up REQUIRING retention of records, or the liability risks require retention of video for a long time (ie, railroads have REALLY dialed up use of video given the claims they were facing in terms of running into people - once they started tracking a retaining a lot more - claims went way down - not saying folks were lying before but they are going to push back on getting rid of their data collection at this point unless laws change).
It's not legacy code until the day Apple definitively axes Intel models. The writing is on the wall yes, but they are still selling Intel Macs and they are not deprecated yet. The majority of development still happens on Intel Macs.

I built an 11th-gen Rocket Lake 128GB Hackintosh with Thunderbolt Display support+2 LED Cinema Display recently and it's been great. Thunderbolt 3 support on a Hackintosh has been nice. Just hoping for Thunderbolt 4/Maple Ridge drivers/11th-gen iGPU drivers if ever.
Mailchimp Employees Have Complained About Inequality for Years
You have a brain that is capable of transcending your base animal instincts. I know I struggle with my base animal instincts and try to be a better man.

> I need to pay my bills, so if that's the best I can get then I'll have to take it.

Nothing wrong with that. But then reneging on the agreement is dishonorable. You're not starving.

> Comparing ourselves to animals and then implicitly claim that they have fucked up ethics (since they have no honor) is un-nuanced at best.

I don't fault animals for not having ethics, because they are incapable of having ethics. I don't fault children for not having behaviors that are beyond their abilities. I fault men who behave like animals, because men are capable of better.

BTW, people who work with monkeys have found, through bitter experience, that you cannot trust them. Statisticians have also determined that some apparently "altruistic" behavior in animals are statistically selfish, as in propagating their genes.
To be fair it was partially related to a bug in Chromium, and was fixed in 2017

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
Atlassian is ultimately responsible for the experience of all employees.

That said, this employee seems to have long running grievances with his or her managers that predate the cancer diagnosis. Somewhere in there was a team switch (see the complaint about new techs / can't go back to the previous team.) So this spanned multiple managers.

As near as I can infer: the central complaint is Atlassian didn't offer longterm paid leave to deal with the cancer treatment, this employee didn't want to use unpaid leave, and Atlassian expected him or her to either work or go on unpaid leave. It's hard to tell.

This post and many of the details about it leaves me suspecting the relevant managers at Atlassian would tell a very different story.
Definitely not arguing your local bookstore isn't a nicer place to buy a book from! But I'd disagree that (especially once you're in the ecosystem) buying something on Amazon isn't pretty frictionless.

Re "I'd expect that the overlap between Amazon users and online shoppers is very high." Honestly, I'd expect the same with Genius and 'people who look up lyrics often'. I mean - I can't name another lyrics website (apart from maybe songmeanings.net, which I'm not sure is still alive?) - and as someone who looks up lyrics a fair amount, Genius appears at the top of Google enough, and is far less spammy/shitty than any of the other random sites that I'll often just start there...

Allll this said, perhaps my analogy wasn't perfect. But I stand by that if I was in a band, and I wanted to share my lyrics - as well as my own site (assuming I could be bother to maintain than AND all the social stuff), I would make sure they were on Genius. Perhaps with decent explanations for things that I added myself.
That's called consulting. :)

It's not for everyone, but it's very flexible.
The two relevant decisions changed no facts on the ground outside of D.C. and Illinois. Reversal won't change anything except maybe the facts on the ground in Illinois, and will further inflame the divisions in the country.

Although you should double check your assertions, some of the details of the decisions were not 5-4.
> It's that way because they're a circuit court and they're applying law and precedent.

There was dissent because it's not about applying law and precedent, but interpretation and choosing to apply or not.

> that's why we have these landmark court cases that overturn bad laws.

Because the court is subject to the population's prevailing opinion, in part. As public opinion shifts, so do courts (over longer cycles ofc).

> The courts are an independent body of government, the legislature has (and should always have) zero impact on the way that the courts make decisions

Wrong on all counts, around the world, throughout time. Pointing to concepts of "court impartiality" is like arguing about "pure democracy", discounting the human behavior when discussing the reality, is not compelling.

Philosophers since (at least) Plato have tried to theorize a system for impartial philosopher kings, much less declare a profession to point to and say "that person is completely objective". https://midnightmediamusings.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/plato-...
What could stop the startup boom?
Eh, I don't agree.

NT 3.51 — solid

NT 4.0, 2000 & XP — less, less and less solid

Vista — premature

7 — ok

8 — borked

10 & 11 — untouchable
In my country, there weren't any originals, even smuggled. Clones were built and sold by local engineers, using smuggled schematics and photocopies of circuit board layouts.

The one I first get my hands on as a kid was built by my elder brother, an electronics engineer. I was so fascinated, I remember secretly sneaking into his house when he was at work to play the games.

He taught me electronics and encouraged me to understand the schematics and build one for myself. And I eventually did, but I got something wrong, and it worked unstable. I never got patience to find the cause and get it right.

But I definitely got charmed by electronics and programming because of this. Thank you, Sir Sinclair. And thank you, my brother.
If you're watching a live stream, there won't be all that many seconds you can buffer.
I'm quite worried as well. At this point I expect resistance to top out at the level of some social media protest.
I'm honestly surprised that people ever believed that unlimited PTO bullshit. I mean literally using these two words together is already a lie.
This make me wonder how could this be applied in an interpreter. I have one with array/relational semantics and have wonderer how to pack N-values per row/column that is efficient to encode/Decode, but always fear that all the extra processing will be costly and then just let Rust do his magic.
What do you plan to do about the plugin problem? A lot of forums come to rely on these plugins and often times the owners aren't programmers. It means that if they are stuck choosing between upgrading the core software and keeping a useful plugin they often will choose the latter.

Will an automatic upgrade break plugins then? Because I can't see that being optimal.
> when I got my first iPhone it seemed like the battery didn't budge at all if it was in standby, such as leaving it unplugged overnight

Apple has very stringent limits on how long apps can run in the background, while Android is more lenient. That is great for battery life and privacy, but not giving the user a way to whitelist apps from these optimizations means apps like SyncThing (which only exists for Android) or WhatsApp Web are harder to develop.
> From my EU perspective lobbying in the US is corruption, as the lobbying comes with money and paid-for political promotion.

People with money and influence will always try to impact law. In EU it happens through actual bribes which is far worse. (Pretty much like India). In USA an immigrant like me can join hands with 10K immigrants and find enough support in congress openly by hiring lobbiest to advocate for the cause I care about. That is how democracy should work.

It is easy to see lobbying as bad by taking examples you don't like but in reality it is a great example of how people can convince their representatives to pass right kind of laws, legally and with enough regulation. In most countries this happens to secret middleman and nights in shady hotels.

> a majority of US people is in favor of more limitations to gun rights

It is not clear if that is the case. Of course majority of people is irrelevant because this is not a mob rule. That is why we don't allow crowd in SF determine what people in Montana want. It is all fair game.

Secondly, people like me who care about guns care about it lot more to actually form lobbies. On other hand folks who dislike guns only talk about it but will not lobby or donate for the anti-gun causes.

I recommend this excellent video about why NRA despite with a shoe string budget is so much more influenced than many other lobbying groups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdt6Jj64TVU
> Another issue is that some HPC silicon has unusual low-level concurrency and memory semantics with no analogues in ordinary CPU architectures

As long as it's properly reflected in the LLVM IR, I don't think this would be an issue.
I'm not actually sure how accurate that is. France has an ethnically and religiously heterogeneous population, high levels of immigration from Africa, and open borders with the rest of the EU.
You live somewhere with strict gun laws, and in your own words, serious and obvious crime problems.

You think the people living in much safer places have a viewpoint that’s “silly to the point of absurdity”.

Yet, they’re the ones living somewhere with much lower crime and murder rates.

How is this an argument for the efficacy of your preferred policies?