skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Feedback hub... A few things are completely a dog's breakfast in the Windows 10 world - and their beyond hideous XBox with Windows App Store is one of them. I tried to file some feedback about the experience using the Hub but it felt like a wholly inappropriate tool for the job.

How do you tell someone they just need to delete everything they've done and start afresh? Because that's the only thing that could fix their Xbox game delivery experience.

I got their Ultimate sub to play FS2020, and also Forza with my son, but I've lost count on how many times it gets into a broken state, a never ending rabbit hole of repairing the Windows store installers and such.

Simply put, the games - or "Experience" service - get stuck in one invalid update state or another, and you just have to try over and over again, until you either give up, or you somehow get it back. This involves both the XBox App, as well as Windows Store - the difference of responsibility between the two not quite clear to me, but both are involved, and absolutely _Windows 10_ services that have no business being coupled to game delivery. And by the time you might have figured it out, your play time budget will be solidly wiped out.

I absolutely hate it. It's in shambles, the dev managers - and engineers - should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves given the access they've got to resources to make it right. Why can't they just do what Steam, Epic, Ubisoft or even Blizzard can do - make their installers simply work, without a dependence on a scaffold of playing cards held together by children's snot?

I'm saying this as someone who loves the WSL2/Win10 desktop Dev experience equally as much as I detest their Xbox gaming store.

(Now that I've voiced this, I'll unsubscribe my Ultimate sub, just stick to DCS, and find other games to play with son.)
I sometimes wonder if Satoshi, whoever they are, is incredibly guilt-ridden by this. I know I would be.

Not that I blame them at all, there was no way to predict the scale of the damage that a single paper could have on the world, and someone else would have eventually come up with the same idea.
You may have heard the expression “drank the koolaid” to mean someone has fully embraced an outlandish ideology, or even just fully committed to a cause. At Jonestown, many cult members committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced koolaid.

Koolaid is a sugary, flavored drink powder that is mixed with water. It was a staple for many kids in the 80’s and 90’s.
It's a weird concept, but a company would rather hire a new person at 30% higher salary than give a current one a 25% raise.
Waco? Adam House (to take a non-US example)? No interest in true crime and/or cults? Both Heaven's Gate and Jonestown are extremely widely known events. All over the world.
Like our FISA? Mind you this Aus court didn't address to what extend the limits can apply. Read their laws. Basically, their FM can cancel for ANY reasons valid or not is not questionable. Court only uphold what is the law never address the limits of it. They have less people than ours, theirs can operate fairly quickly plus this is high profile case.
Somewhat related:

Once, when I called my uncle I got a different person on the line. They said that their name was Peter. I assumed I must have dialed the wrong number and apologised. I checked the number I had called and my phone was telling me that it was the one I intended to call. I tried it again and got through to my uncle. When I told him what had happened, he told me that he'd just received a call from 'Bob' asking to speak to 'Peter'.
> There are people (free market people, not communists) who'd argue [...] you should only be able to lease land from the community around you.

At first this sounded like an extreme point of view to me - then I realised how often I've heard people saying there's nothing wrong or exploitative about being a landlord. We, as a society, see nothing wrong with people spending their entire lives living on rented property.
Yes. The article discusses this exact bit of SEO.
<rant> Personally I’d be more worries about bandwidth. If you expect 100Gb per month or more, I’d expect your downloads to be at the very least 10x that amount. Backblaze which indeed is the cheaper sells storage for $0.005 per Gb/month but charges for downloads at $0.01 per Gb. You could put something like cloudflare infront of your storage to allow it to cache these files but going for backblaze also has the sideeffect that if you decide to do on the fly transcode or streaming your will need to pay for bandwidth both to your cloud provided and backblaze.
Ask HN: What open source JavaScript project has exemplary unit testing?
What open source Javascript based project you have encountered has exemplary unit/integration tests?
It is not true now. Unless it is published on platforms controlled by select few, most people won't see it.

For example, it looks like a reasonable (evidence-based) discussion on COVID is not possible on Youtube unless it reflects what google censors think the current scientific truth should be https://youtube.com/watch?v=5iABaxRWGxk&list=PLSl6im8mc0fIRu...
Right. I didn’t realize they were tech trailblazers back in the day until that documentary.
Nikon CoolPix 950 FTW. I have at least 4 of them. Just wishing I could fine more Harrison Duraline 630μ IR filters.
You then run into the question of whose vision of a better society you're enforcing. But aside from that you can really look at those taxes as something to offset the additional costs of commerce in those things. We've agreed that emissions are a danger, cigarettes raise health care expenditure, and alcohol raises police expenditure. We use those to justify the specific amounts of the taxes.

If this weren't the justification, there's no reason not to just ban the things you don't approve of altogether, rather than just taxing them.
Yes even with these additions, I don't think the central problem is addressed, which is that economics still treats people as 'rational actors', albeit flawed, interested in gaining wealth.

But, and I see it all the time, people will in many cases, not only not work together for mutual gain, but will actually choose actions that harm their own material wellbeing, if they harm their close rivals more.

People care about their relative status, not absolute wealth.
> Is it just too expensive to do that? Even for a billion dollar business?

It's not about the size of the business, but whether this is a good way for them to spend money or not.

Coffee shops will often not get back to you within 48 hours depending on the comment you make and how busy they are. It's really a judgement call, as large number of comments are basically spam, but you can't reply with "this is a silly comment" or "this is an unreasonable request on our time", so it's best to just ignore.

For a big business, where individual judgement is replaced with a set of procedures and institutions that try to encode judgement, they most surely will offer some level of support with an SLA that guarantees someone will get back to you in a well-defined period of time.

But you usually have to pay extra for that, and that's a pretty sensible system, since leaving comments is free and there is no way to know how serious you are about the comment and how badly you want it responded to. E.g. worth paying, say, $10? $5? $1? There is some intersection of supply and demand for real support at which a certain price results in you getting answers, but in those situations where that price is not zero, it's not the size of the business that matters, but the shape of those supply and demand curves. And the size of the business, in my experience, will tend to shift the supply curve farther away from "free", because that answer will be an official answer of the business and it may take a lot of time for the poor support guy to track someone down and get an official answer, and in some cases it may be a lot of work to get that answer if the bureaucracy is complex and knowledge is stovepiped. This is why you see tiers in support, and the time required to get someone knowledgeable is often much longer as you climb that support chain and escalate your question. All of that ends up costing quite a bit to a big firm.
Weird bug (I think?): the progress bar when playing a song (#seek-slider) goes back and forth every second or so, instead of going only in one direction (FF 96.0.1).
Could there be a similar ban or some regulation on crypto mining in western countries?
I suppose you could offer a contract to short Cloudflare’s stock.
Of course they would, it's called tax.
ELF 101 a Linux Executable Walkthrough by Ange Albertini [pdf]
Check perimeter electronics.
Ask HN: What libraries does go have for building interactive shells?
I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.

So far this is what I've found.

https://github.com/desertbit/grumble

https://github.com/spf13/cobra

https://github.com/urfave/cli

https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.
Combining same files to taskbar is a productivity killer for both technical and non technical people. In many chats when someone presents something on screen I see people struggling to find the proper document when they have few open. Same for people who do "real" work: eg budget with 10 spreadsheets opened, or few word documents... the system hibders ability yo switch between them fast. It feels as if it was designed by people who dont do a real office job.

Why do the program managers even allow to remove such basic functionality? Windows is supposed to be the productivity system and it kills productivity now.
RE: tabbed windows, try Stardock's "Groupy" if you're on Windows: https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

This was going to be built in to Windows 10 v1903 as "Sets" but it got pulled: https://www.howtogeek.com/352109/how-to-use-sets-in-windows-...
Djokovic denied is expected. What I didn't expect is Aus government is this messy with only 20mils (and maybe a fraction of that since this is Melbourne). If they didn't have mining boom and cash strap, I shudder to think how their government can function properly.
I tried it. It had been used successfully 14 times today, but it didn’t work for me.
SMS is like UDP, but less reliable. No delivery or ordering guarantee, messages may be stored and sent (re-sent) later.
> Tabbed Finder windows are the most useless thing ever..

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I had to switch off of Nautilus because it kept trying to make me open things in new tabs instead of new windows. The thing is that I don't use the file manager much and 9/10 times I want to open directories is because I want to move files between them or less often visually compare which doesn't work well with tabs.
This is one of the great joys of open source software. Provide a reasonable bug report and who knows, maybe even the main developer directly responds to it (and thanks you for your input).
For Microsoft Windows you can only hope that you have a big enough Twitter following to elecit a response from someone meant to contain the outrage.

Alternatively you might even be able to fix the bug yourself
The authors state that there will be a soon forthcoming article going into specifics of what makes a toxic culture.
> The largest-scale crypto mining is thought to be taking place in the north of the country, where the Serb-majority population refuse to recognise Kosovo as an independent state and have consequently not paid for electricity for more than two decades.

I still find this wording very interesting, and somewhat loaded. It's not that the population is somehow collectively refusing to pay for their electricity. A mechanism for them to pay it has not existed since 1999.

Discussed previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809078
What will happen if more countries ban crypto mining, say the US? Would that leave mining under Russian control? In that case could Bitcoin be embargoed, because they’re “made” in Russia?

Personally I don’t see the value in crypto-currencies, but that doesn’t mean it not useful to someone. The crypto community should find a way to address the energy consumption of Bitcoin, before the whole thing is regulated away. Right now it’s pretty hard to defend Bitcoin, based on the environmental impact alone.
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Where do you think Kosovo is?
> Energy production problem, not a blockchain problem

Yeah. But blockchain energy requirements are definitely a blockhain problem. That's the main problem.
This looks like it could be useful but it took me a while to find the widget examples.

https://github.com/Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio/wiki/Introduc...

I am certain that the creator is very smart and has created a great tool for programmers, but I would suggest including a "Dumbed Down" video on their start page with practical examples such as the battery monitor or GPS mapping.

There is a huge audience of beginners and less technical experimenters that this tool could gain traction with but the information on the main page is most likely way over their heads as far a technical jargon goes. Arduino is popular because it is easy, KISS.
FTA: “But the fate of the burning crater may be in limbo. In January 2022, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered the government of Turkmenistan to begin researching how to put the fire out.“

(may have been added after you wrote your comment)
Totally does not work for me. It doesn't help that I figured out the "drinking calories" problem a long time ago and mostly drank water already. Cutting things out just seems to lead to eating more of others, because the problem isn't what food I eat.

It's harder, but the biggest trick was learning to pay attention to what my body was telling me, stop when it first gave me a sign to stop, don't start until it gave me a signal to start, and also... realizing that if you're obese (as opposed to an underweight person with an eating disorder), that maybe spending a part of your day feeling hungry is a sign that you are taking care of yourself. That sounds pretty simple too when you write it out like that, but my goodness just doing that is a so hard (yet effective).
Virtual Machine for iOS and Mac
I remember coming across this site when I was a kid and learning about who Bob Lazaar the owner was. Good times.
> 1. they are rarely stupid
not all of them but the tendency:
a) Influencer
b) pornstars
c) tv stars
> 2. they often sleep a lot less
> 3. they more often than not are hyperthymiacs (related to #2).
I asked that all of my bosses they do sleep as much as I or any other healthy person.
> 4. they produce unlimited amounts of self-generated morale (related to #3).
Internal and External motivation is a thing but sure a depressed person will probably be not successful. It does not mean that Internal motivated person will be successful or that it even helps. I would like to see some evidence for that.
> 5. they are stress tolerant (related to #4)
Again some evidence that this is a general treat would be nice.
> 6. they are healthier in general
Not really the heart attack risk in C Level or management or related positions is very high. We just don't talk about dead people anymore. Steve Jobs is the outlier here.

> I don't know very many successful people with numerous chronic health conditions that impair their cognition to the point of debility, who are asleep 16 hours a day, constantly depressed and demotivated and break down at the first sight of adversity.

Because they are either dead or don't want to be know or we just don't want to talk about them because they don't fit our perfect world view.

Also the person you are describing needs help a lot of it and I don't see how this proves that the opposite would lead to success.
Not only that, their visa cancellation has nothing to do with for the benefits of the people. It is when media highlights his non vax status, Aus government quickly backtrack (elections coming) and specifically cancel the visa. Basically instead of behaving like a proper beauracrats, they temporary turn into CCP China. Imagine if it is not Djokovic, and media never highlighted it, and unfected with Spanish+Mersa flu. Man...Aus people should have a better government. SG is right above there can give a lot of good pointers.
It apparently was flavoraid.
It's far more complex a situation than the article makes it seem. This one explains it much better: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/23/kosovo-to-end-free-ener...
Mountweazel
> And there's none of Trek's "fix this week's problem, then never mention this incredibly overpowered solution again".

The tech jumped the shark at the start of season 5 with the introduction of Prometheus, but things like the device built in the "Fifth Race" episode, it could open a wormhole to another galaxy, it was used in one more episode "Point of View", then conveniently forgotten about.

There's a few examples like that, but overall it was a good show. I wouldn't call it fundamentally atheist either, in fact the entire thing was about religion, especially the last two seasons.
The irony of eating meat/driving gas guzzling cars/using air conditioning/flying/…

Do we need to attach the climate crisis to everything these days? It’s very important but picking on one thing relentlessly and not others is just silly. We’re not going to solve the climate crisis by trying to stop people from doing things that use a lot of energy. We need to find ways to make those things sustainable/carbon neutral.
Should be (2012)
There is something to be said for not being safe all the time.
The trick is precursor vehicles.. basically fire a stream of bullets at space and expect the precursors to annihilate any obstacles.
I know next to nothing about anything, but my assumption would be that the solution would probably be bi-directional canary probes. If the probe didn’t ram into anything on its warp travel and makes it back, it’s a reasonable assumption that you can make the same journey.

The thought did occur to me that the the probe may even map the entire route using sensors and develop a temporal computer model for just how much time the route will still be safe to travel. But then I realised that the warp drive bends space-time, distorting photographs and other sensors.

Failing this, we decide to only use warp drive in parts of space that are very well mapped. It would allow instantaneous travel throughout the solar system, which would facilitate trade and colonisation. But warping into the dark unknown would be foolish.
Jane Jacobs advocated for neighbourhoods where intermingling of neighbours is facilitated by design. However, I’ve been considering what her take on COVID and close contact with neighbours would have been.
Scientists from wealthier nations contribute the lion’s share of fossil data
So.. a modern Slackware?
> It is true that SGU took too long but I think that it was cancelled right when it was getting it all together.

Those were my thoughts back then as well. For the first season, I thought it was very mediocre, and I pretty only much watched it because I’m a big Stargate fan. During the second season, I became more and more invested and thought it could become amazing. Then it got canceled :/
>should find a way to address the energy consumption of Bitcoin

Proof of work is the core of bitcoin; it has a built-in deflation on top it. In short it won't happen. And yes, if someone mentions proof of stake, there is still no working case for it.
They just dont mention they are working on Safari / Webkit. So if you know their handle you will notice them.
What about if I decided to remove your access to the internet in case you continue to espouse your pro-capitalist thinking? Would you have an issue then?

If I am reading your comments correctly, it seems that you would have no issue with being silenced by an authority, regardless of the justification used or its validity, per se. I don’t think this is an intellectually honest position to hold.
There's also cost.

My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant.

Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL.

For the rest, scihub is a lifesaver.
Most of the physical consequences of nicotine go away within a couple of weeks. There's a never ending psychological battle, but that is pretty compatible with holding down a job. Find a way to get two weeks off at once if you have to.

As for alcohol, I'll just say that as incompatible as withdrawal is with holding down a job... being drunk is pretty incompatible too. I think if you can finesse one, you can probable finesse the other.

In general, my observation has been that as horrible as withdrawal is, that's the easiest part of kicking a habit.
Managers who constantly read inspiring business books and seek "that one trick" to success rarely are good managers.
This is a Jobsian-quality presentation. Well done, Nakst!
Show HN: An HelloWorld x86-Bootloader
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” - J.D. Salinger
Absolutely. Finding a place with a good culture is hard. And even if you do, it's not uncommon for companies with a great culture to struggle financially and then employee a "shake-up" that destroys that culture overnight.
Is Mountweazel a play on Mouthweazel? I have always heard this used as Mouthweazle.
People hate Windows 11 because Microsoft have decided that most hardware, including many powerful workstations, are not eligible to upgrade.
That's exactly right -- they put the work in to fix the problem they had in mind.
I don't know much about American taxes (not even much about German taxes) but I think roads should be funded through some tax which is connected to cars or fuel.
I'm the same. My drive doesn't have enough space so I'm stuck using WSL2 for React/Node development, and I'm waiting for an unreleased game to see how it will perform on Linux before I make my permanent switch.

Every other game I play is on Steam and have decent Proton support, or is a retro game where I can use Retroarch and PCSX2 natively.
The first two ideas are pretty cool, but you cannot start charging people money. You need to use the ol' reliable "deploying an app with ads that can be removed after paying some money", at least at start.
That's cool. Though that's C/C++ again, unmanaged memory can't be considered safe in 2021. We need different things.
This is the dumbest thing I read in a while. It doesn’t account for survivor bias. How many people met all those criteria and failed? It could be that for every million with those characteristics, only 1 succeeded.
>The crypto community should find a way to address the energy consumption of Bitcoin

It cannot be addressed. By definition. It's not like sadly there is a part of the Bitcoin algorithm that is very expensive computationally and therefore energetically and if we could only optimize that part the problem would go away. There is an intentionally hard part that is a part of the Bitcoin protocol to make the Proof-of-Work algorithm, that obviates the need for a central source of authority or trust, work.

Anybody who tells you that Bitcoin will overcome the exorbitant energy needs is ignorant or a scam artist.