skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thing I do on every PC is change taskbar to small icons with text, remove grouping, and stick it to the left edge of the screen.

Not okay about losing this.
Fun v. Serious
That works fine for the mafia or some other profitable criminal organization.

Does Ann Frank, a teenage girl, know how to set up end to end encryption if it isn't already the default?

Is every target of tomorrow's witch hunt going to know they should have broken the law to encrypt their communications today?

End to end encryption needs to be ubiquitous because no one without it is safe.
You might find this overview of Windsor [1] interesting then. It was a classic typeface that many others (including Mackinac, used on Fly.io) were inspired by.

[1]: https://fontreviewjournal.com/windsor/
Surprised nobody is mentioning that they are making it look more like the MacOS taskbar so it looks more friendly and approachable for new users who have grown up using smartphones and tablets
Up to a point. A lot of these indexes are PR and the people who answer them have motives to rate one way or the other (e.g. you are an opinionated journalist and you want the current government to look bad).

There's usually something weird going on with some of these indexes if you compare statistics with opinion-survey-based stats.
Occasionally someone discusses the idea of a leftist cryptocurrency but pretty much by definition you can't get rich from that so no one cares. Deflationary libertarian cryptos outcompete all others in the market so survivorship bias makes it look like crypto is inherently right-leaning. I guess really the current social/market/media/regulatory environment is easier to exploit by the right.

For a deeper consideration of this topic check out David Golumbia's book The Politics of Bitcoin.
I propose NFTHC: based on "Proof of Weed" instead of "Proof of Waste". It's green renewable "Web 4:20" technology. Burn Weed, not Coal!

It uses the honor system instead of crypto, just like those "Are you 18 or older? (Yes) (No)" age verification popups.

To generate an NFTHC "Toke'n", the centralized server asks you: "Did you just burn some weed? (Yes) (No)".

If you answer "Yes", then Shazam! Bob's your Uncle: it instantly and efficiently generates your unique NFTHC "Toke'n" without burning any coal or gas.

Other than the fact that it's based on getting wasted instead of wasting energy, using truly green renewable resources whose production actually takes CO2 out of the atmosphere instead of burning coal that causes cancer and heart disease, designed for honorable stoners who just want to get high and relax instead of greedy money launderers and tax dodgers and scammers shilling shady get-rich-quick pyramid schemes who want to viciously cheat gullible victims out of their life savings while carelessly destroy the environment, NFTHCs are totally green, natural, organic, and aromatic, and they don't require wasting energy and burning stinky carcinogenic coal, so Proof of Weed based NFTHCs are otherwise totally indistinguishable from "traditional" Proof of Waste based NFTs.
I think this whole discussion of whether union types are better than enums sheds light on the issues I have with type script in general: It’s basically a JS extension (like coffee script btw — remember that?) that is supposed to make your life easier as a developer but instead introduces a huge amount of unnecessary complexity giving you even more head aches.

I’ve yet to see typical front end code that really benefits from strong typing or even just the use of enums. I tend to accept language limitations and focus on designing my programs around those instead of wasting my energy on fighting on niche language extensions…
Are cases of child exploitation really prevented by the interception of unencrypted chat messages in practice? In the case where chat messages are used retrospectively in court, E2EE does not prevent that, provided that one of the parties did not erase their history.
I'm a newbie in deploying and would love to see a documentation on how to deploy a spring boot using flyctl. Most docs are about node and ruby.

Thanks for the free services.
This quote is too simplistic to be useful.

There are certain activities that are not harmful but risky (0 harm most of the time and high level of harm rarely) e.g. driving and others that are harmful but not risky e.g. drinking or being exposed to radiation in an X-ray machine.

It is important to draw this distinction in order to not weaken the point you are trying to make.

The main point here is not that drinking is harmful but rather that the individual should decide their own tolerance for harm. The dose and length of exposure matters here since the damage is likely to be cumulative.

With an X-ray machine or flying at high altitudes, we know that the small amount of intermittent radiation that one is exposed to doesn’t outweigh the benefits.

It is up to the individual to decide if they are in a position to make that tradeoff.

With drinking, the difference between thinking low amounts are beneficial and low amounts are harmful could make a huge cumulative difference over time. It seems like a lot of commenters here are missing that essential fact.
Some of these are serious, like the CFAA claim, some are genuinely hilarious. Dilution? Really? Unfair competition? Are they accusing TPG of creating an airline?
why downvote? does anyone know how much this service cost? You like paying for it?
This is so needed. Have you considered a web version too? I’m thinking of how I would find it super useful when having meetings with coworkers that I’m trying to get to know and web feels more accessible in that context.
> most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.

That explains a lot. Not having the designers dogfood their work is serious oversight

As an MSFT employee, I have no choice but to use win 11. And suffer from taskbar annoyance and bugs
But they don't. They've cloned some superficial UX bits.

I'm still dismayed that in Windows 10 you still basically have 2 separate UI/UX experiences to configure the damn OS.
I don't think the article is stating anything controversial here. The position that any amount of alcohol is harmful is not contradictory with the position that alcohol is beneficial in reducing cardiovascular risk. In other words, the framing effect is leading to a cognitive bias. One position is framed in terms of negative outcomes, while the other is framed in terms of positive outcomes. Hence the visceral reaction to the article.
Good for her.

I read a bio of Amelia Earhart when I was eleven. It made a huge impression on me. I hope Zara inspires many future generations.
Didn’t realize consul had that. Seems like the right approach - though I wonder why Roblox wasn’t using it.

Fwiw I believe kubernetes did this right - if you shoot the entire set of leaders, nothing really happens. Yes if containers die they aren’t restarted and things that create new pods (eg cron jobs) won’t run, but you don’t immediately lose cluster connectivity or the (built-in) service discovery. Not to say you can survive az failures or the like - or that kubernetes upgrades are easy/fun.

And don’t run dev stuff in your prod kube cluster. Just…don’t.
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web front end
Rust sometimes throws away errors when they would be awkward to handle - close() in Drop and println!() are important examples. A Hello World with a closed stdout will correctly fail in C but "succeed" in Rust because it ignores EBADF.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1014
Good hack.
for example, from a startup interview process: Calico, subsidiary of Alphabet: https://www.calicolabs.com/careers?gh_jid=5785761002

> "We are required to measure our progress toward having at least 7% of our workforce be individuals with disabilities. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had a disability. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we ask all of our employees to update their information at least every five years.

Identifying yourself as an individual with a disability is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so."
Because David Cox would have written a paper about it if so.
How does the octopus persuade the tentacles to allow themselves to get eaten? :)
I’m a private pilot. I was taking off when it happened and the tower radioed me to check my altimeter once more because they weren’t sure if they were having an equipment malfunction. I looked back and it was the exact time of the expected pressure wave picked up by the official readings at the time. So I definitely noticed but figured it was just a general error, it was only after I checked the history did I realize it was probably the volcano !
>1. Install Flyctl - you'll need it.

Hmm.. not sure if I want to install something to use this.
My read is that it was more about the stuff he was calling out as legitimate[1] use-cases (which iirc included piracy).

ETA: I'm surprised these providers are even able to market with the use-case of evading geo-locking without getting sued (tbc I'm against drm in general and geo-locking in particular)

[1] from the standpoint of, "is this a good reason to use a vpn", not "does society/the law consider this a legitimate thing to do"
Sad but day for earth
In the case of UI/UX though, isn't the "packaging" exactly what's being sold? UI/UX that looks bad and is hard to use means just that
Many web interfaces use iOS style toggle and somehow use "double negatives"(?). It's a binary decision but still, they somehow make it seemingly confusing like you mentioned.
It's like - is the text label, the result of what happens after you click this, or is it showing the current state?
"aka" is microsofts URL shortener service.

I don't know the official meaning - but I'm fairly sure it's for the abbreviation "Also Known As" - "AKA".
Looks like i will be skipping 11
> mass punishment is morally abhorrent

This is intellectually dishonest. No one pushing for mask mandates is attempting to punish people. You can argue that masks are a poor tradeoff or ineffective without willfully casting those on the opposite side as evil or malicious.

This unwillingness to acknowledge each others’ humanity and points of view is precisely why every issue is so unbearably partisan now. It’s not sufficient that we disagree. It’s but sufficient that the other side it’s just wrong. They must be actively evil for being wrong.
Just give me the Windows XP UI
>daily

>cheap

>easy

Sorry for being skeptical, could you tell us more about what you do with it?
OnlyOffice Document Server is an online office suite
> This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.

The idea that designers circa Win7 "ruined" windows UX/UI is just revisionist history. Windows has had pretty terrible UI/UX basically forever, and most Linux folks have known this since the early 90s, where KDE, GNOME, etc. were vastly superior to anything Microsoft was putting out. In fact, most ideas you see in MacOS these days can find their roots in early (and often experimental) Linux interfaces (from multiple desktops, to launchers, to Exposé).

The Windows design team was always terrible, and not to mention lazy[1]. Don't mean to throw shade on your ex-team, and I'm sure there's dozens of brilliant people working there, but the design has been an absolute dumpster fire for decades. And this comes from an almost exclusive Windows power user. (I just recently bought my first ever Mac laptop).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/grhjuu/til_that_...
As an office power user i like the UI of windows 10. 11 sucks tho
Watch some videos of cross country flights in single engine planes (ultralights no less) on YouTube. There is a lot going on. Add to that the challenges of interacting with control towers literally all over the world, looking for traffic, managing weather, the endurance of being buffeted around in a tiny plane and the existential anxiety of placing your life in the proverbial hands of a rotax engine for months on end.

Did she cure cancer or save the whales or reverse global warming or whatever else might clear the bar for 'terribly impressive'? No. But it's still a pretty amazing accomplishment and regardless of what was placed in front of her she still had to do the time.
"before the user perceives a delay": I agree with you.

For any UX/UI designer out there a delay is perceived when it is greater than 200ms. Those are milliseconds.
It’s company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a bartap… always use the indefinite article a bartap, never your bartap.
Actually the headline implies that there is no cardiovascular benefit.

“Studies have shown that even small amounts of alcohol can increase a person's risk of cardiovascular disease”

“To date, no reliable correlation has been found between moderate alcohol consumption and a lower risk of heart disease”
I think they are trying to copy MacOS
Good design is the intersection of form and function.

Imagine taking a role on the Windows Desktop Experience Team while caring so little about how the operating system functions that you don't even bother to use it as your main workstation.

This is the company where the phrase "eating your own dog food" originated, by the way.
Isn't that incredible? Trillion dollar company cannot have a top-down decree that the mixed UIs need to be fixed for the next OS.
Something to hide? How about something to protect. I'm overseas in a country that has a strong Chinese presence and a monopolistic semi-untrustworthy goverment owned ISP. I have a VPN profile installed on my wifi router so all my traffic is encrypted from my wifi WAN port all the way back to my home country and a trusted endpoint. If the VPN goes down, my router blocks all traffic until it's back up. Not all VPN users are dark web operators selling raw fentanyl or viewing Netflix from the "wrong" geographical area.
> there wasn't any price paid for security/counterterrorism theatre under Bush

Every time anyone wants to get on an airplane,they're forced to take a nude selfie. And if there's a blip, a government employee will...well, let's just say any private business would get sued six ways to Sunday for sexual harassment.

Osama bin Laden's been dead for years, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are over.

Everybody just accepts it.

A high price to pay, in both (1) the TSA's budget, and (2) the fact that Americans just don't care about this infringement on freedom and privacy. When was the last time you saw disbanding the TSA suggested in any political debate from a candidate of either party?

So all the stuff about mask mandates, vaccine passports, and so on -- that stuff, once implemented, will never go away.

The September 11 response has taught me that the government will take your freedom in a crisis, but they'll never give it back.

It's when the compulsion to have government to fix the crisis seems most reasonable that we should be most unreasonably insistent on keeping our freedom.
On Public Scholarship
Yes - exactly what boulos said - I’m coming from the Google “you control your clients” perspective. That said, in some sense you always control your clients - you can always set up localhost proxies that speak your protocol or just tcp proxies.

The thing is service discovery is _always_ inconsistent. By the time you get your set of endpoints from your discovery, it can be out of date by the time you open your socket. Certainly for something like databases you need followers or standby leaders to reject writes from clients - service discovery can’t 100% save you here.
> There's a 15% off sale on stocks

15% off from what? 15% off the maximum value achieved during a period of unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus?

Given the fed reversal, it's looking pretty clear that stocks will fall quite a bit further. Buying equities now is tantamount to fighting the fed.

Timing the market never works, so if you sit out you won't know when to get back in, but the entity with the power to dramatically influence asset prices has broadcast their intentions and is about to undertake actions which will significantly devalue equities over the next 6-12 months.
What is your conclusion from that video? He posted another one which is more balanced [1], but even in that video he pushes the usual bitcoin talking points like protection from inflation which don't make much sense when the underling asset is very volatile.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dYJAZ2zPM
It's either child abuse, organized crime or terrorism.
> When we show this to investors we'll explain that the improvement was a big win for our "go to market efforts". But you should know it was really just a bug fix for something we disappointed you with.

That made me chuckle :)

I encountered some of those same postgres issues and so far have been only running a staging database on Fly. This comment is motivation for me to finish moving my real DB over from google.

P.S. I was running my own fork of your postgres container so I could include postgis, and this probably made management even more brittle -- I'm really happy to see https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha/pull/44#issuecomment... landed!
why does everything have to look like phones
Is gold a ponzi scheme?

1. Gold bars are just collections of atoms and always stay exactly how they are, the material never changes, so the intrinsic value of a gold bar never changes.
2. It seems that the only way to make money while trading gold is to take it from other people. The only way to win a return is if a bunch of people suddenly want gold and offer to pay you for yours.

Gold, and other commodities, seem to fit your definition.
Yes. Years and years ago there was a funny chain email called 'if you car was an operating system' about how different operating systems would make a simple trip to the store unnecessarily difficult. The Mac entry was 'You get in your car to drive to the store, but it takes you to church instead.'

I've had an antipathy to Apple gear over this since the very first tech job where I worked with Mac SEs, because when they'd crash they'd display this amusing bomb graphic and an utterly unhelpful numeric code. There was no way to explain what had gone wrong to the person using the machine (who had just lost a pile of work) and more often than not the more experienced people in the support department would just shrug and reinstall the operating system.

This Fisher-Price toy mentality now pervades personal computing and is making problem solving itself obsolete. Many people just don't have the patience or inclination to figure something out when they could just reset it.
No place to hide?
Could mean the same for the victims of child abuse.
If you price the bond correctly, it could even be profitable.
Yes, relative to abstaining. If there's a 40% risk reduction in cardiovascular mortality in moderate drinkers, then there will be a 60% increase in risk for the moderate drinking, relative to someone who abstains.
I was blind-robbed by a German company because of that. I paid a full year, was never given access,I "opened" a ticket and they answered a full week later asking me to fill 2 forms with lots PIID+ national ID card + Credit card, I told them to get lost. For being a supposedly modern, democratic society Germany seems very backward regarding online things, it is not surprised that for a economy of its size and influence the number of truly innovative "modern" online companies is rather low.

BTW, if someone knows of an HONEST company that provides online fax US numbers (Damn you IRS) I am all ears.
that,s what i did about a year ago, got sick of windows forcing updates that take forever, dealing with garbage being installed on my computer, advertising, spying etc. Now Linux UI/UX is way better then Windows depending on the desktop enviroment you choose, but it has other issues that i hope they will solve soon.

Installing a printer on Windows... you have to go through so much crap to get it running but on Linux you just connect your printer to WIFI or to your pc and its ready to print. No idea why Windows makes it so hard. I was also surprised when i seen my wacom tablet just works without doing anything and its settings or in the settings panel, but GIMP UI/UX is horrid that's what you get when programmers try to do UX/UI
Doesn’t Telegram not even support e2ee for group chats?
>Do you start displaying results from the first sources available or do you wait until all sources have reported in?

In the strongest possible sense: Neither, ever. You can not treat instant results and un-cacheable delayed results of unknown quantity/size as the same element of UI. It's a fallacious premise. (Sorry to sound aggressive.)
Oh it’s the Microsoft’s private url shortener. This allows them to confuse everyone about what the heck is behind that link.

Like, sure, microsoft.com/visualstudio looks too obvious. What about aka.ms/vs, ha ha ! Good luck guessing what this is about. Phishing ? I can’t say… click on it to be sure.

(I suppose is some Twitter madness that has gone out of control).
A feather in Jack cap for sure
UX is more of "ease of use" measured by metrics like how quickly is a person able to navigate the UI with minimal help. You can quantify these metrics by creating a UI without the snazzy graphics then time everyone on various tasks. Did Microsoft do this type of test before release their OS? I think so... but I'm not 100% sure. Are consumers using these metrics when decrying the UI changes??? I am 100% sure the answer is NO... they are not.

Nobody is complaining about the "look" of windows 11 just like nobody complained about the "look" of "new coke." But the hypothesis is, is that the "look" of new coke, the "newness" and change to a popular product ingrained in our culture is what triggers people to think that it's worse. For windows people claim that the "ease of use" has been affected. It happens every single time; on every single major UI change to any product ingrained within out culture... the consumer reaction is exactly the same... and that is not a coincidence.
Is there a country who's center of population falls within another country?
https://archive.is/cX9d6
Not that bad aesthetics aren't a problem, but I think loss of basic functionality is a bigger issue.
I hear your point, and agreed already that more detail would be nice.

To be fair, the CDC does not ‘leave it at that’. Their page that @dionidium linked to does not either start with or stop with the statement “there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.” It’s one statement among many that include actual statistics, and so incredulity over a line of summary taken out of context might be slightly misplaced.

The CDC is in the business of setting guidelines, so the context of their statement that it’s not risk free is a suggestion that regardless of your situation, it would be better to not expose yourself to smoke. This happens to be in complete agreement with the message and recently updated guidelines by the World Health Organization, and with statements by the American Medical Association.

Reasonable people are free to make reasonable choices. A little smoking and drinking isn’t going to kill anyone, and we all know that. So we don’t need to get upset when someone says a little is a little bit bad. That said, for someone with athsma, they might reasonably choose to cross the street, since smoke is a trigger and meeting someone on the street who smokes is a very common occurrence if you walk around in urban areas. If they go to a bar, then they’re probably asking for it. :P