skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>trying to find things that are more palatable.

like what, wasting our effort banning flavor-of-the-day things like plastic straws or whatever?
Not to mention implying that people over 60 aren't contributing or productive.
> I suspect that something like that for Web3 is coming soon

So... web3 will completely take over? I don't know where you guys live, but I see trucks all over the place that have hoods even higher than those old Hummers.
Physicists have created “everlasting bubbles”
LoL wut? Microsoft has completely ignored the Window PC gaming market recently and is focusing 99% of their efforts on Xbox. They occasionally back-port things from Xbox to Windows... and then neglect to document the backported APIs or give anyone access at all.

For example, the killer new feature of Xbox Series X is "DirectStorage", whereby the GPU can access NVMe devices directly for incredible IOPS and throughput. They "added" this to windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/_content/gc/syst...

To quote: "Access to this topic requires membership in an NDA developer program. Contact your publisher or your Xbox program representative if you need direct access. Not in the program? Read about joining the ID@Xbox program to gain access today!"

Translation: "This is not for you PC-only game developer, only Xbox matters, ask permission from the Xbox team and assure them you won't take market share away from them."

That's just the tip of the iceberg. A Windows 10 update a few years ago broke HDR gaming for a huge range of PCs out there, and it has been broken even worse in Windows 11.

Just some of the madness that affects me even on a brand-new, high-end gaming laptop with Windows 11:

- If you have a discrete NVIDIA GPU with a recent laptop that has a HDR screen, all DirectX applications & games using the NVIDIA card will report HDR support as "N/A" for the primary screen. There is no workaround.

- In Windows 11 RTM, monitor gamuts (and all applications) are forced to sRGB and SDR even on a wide-gamut OLED screen with 100% AdobeRGB coverage and full HDR support. External HDMI-connected televisions (like with Xbox!) work as expected, but that's the writing on the wall: Microsoft tests HDR onlybwith Xbox, not with Windows.

- If you accidentally leave HDR enabled and your laptop goes to sleep, the primary display won't turn on at all when you resume from sleep and you have to power-cycle your computer. Obviously HDR "support" was only tested in the context of external TVs just like with Xbox, and was probably done only by the Xbox team. The Windows team literally does not test this scenario or apply bugfixes despite thousands of Feedback Hub comments.

- If you change your monitor "brightness" slider, the reported MaxFALL in HDR mode will change, which makes no sense because it's the physical monitor hasn't magically gained new abilities. Worse, it's backwards: At max brightness SDR apps run with an eye-searing 450 nits, but HDR apps and games will think the maximum display output is just 113 nits and will look completely distorted and washed out (darker than SDR!). Conversely, reducing the brightness will lie to HDR games and report ludicrous maximum brightness levels like 48,000 nits which will clip everything to maximum white, even shadows.

- I'm probably missing a few...
Interesting question! However the OCR functionality in the camera (through Google Lens) runs a separate pipeline. Other bug reporters said Lens didn't have the issue when scanning QR codes so I doubt it would surface there.
Thanks! I'd rather run with a defined image, is there a way to do that?

Here's the image: https://hub.docker.com/r/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/tags (supports ARM or x86).

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019258 shows, I think, how to do that.
It's not lobbying to prevent people from working on it. It's lubing up the masses for an eventual ban on encryption, or the power to demand access to, and the creation of, backdoors. This doesn't need to mean HTTPS traffic is banned, but would give them the power to jail you for refusing to unlock your phone for them, or ensuring no tech firm with a local presence can keep their data from you.

Australia codified it semi-recently, and we are quite often the 5 Eyes beta testers -- early access Orwellianism.
Hi all!

This is an MVP of something I’ve been working on for a while.

It started as a free form block text/layout editor like Notion but quickly realized I wanted something more visual, beautiful and personal by default.

I think I’m getting there but I also want to validate that this is something that other people want and learn from their needs.

Most tools for thoughts or bookmarking out there are made for work or focus on specific use cases while I wanted something a bit more personal and less prescriptive.

Hope that you find it useful and all feedback is welcome. Good or bad. I plan to make this be a source of income so this is super appreciated.
Old UIs were like woodshops, with brightly-colored tools stored in a series of labelled tool chests. Everything got reorganized once every other year, which was annoying but understandable.

New UIs are like shoe stores, with off-white shoes stored in unlabelled off-white shoeboxes. Everything is shuffled around randomly once per quarter, which is exhausting and not understandable.

Why did this happen?
Ahahaha! Love it! I do that internally when I see them on the road, but here's the thing:

I rarely, if ever, see them anymore. Hopefully we can say them same about Web3 garbage 20 years from now.
> none of them has forgotten what a human face looks like

Oh yes. The "it isn't abusive if they still remember what human contact is" school of thought.

This strain of rationalization for mass punishment is morally abhorrent.
> Our students were taught to think of their schools as hubs for infection and themselves as vectors of disease.

Schools should teach that already because it's exactly accurate. Pandemic or not.

We would be way better off now if current adults were tought that as kids and made it part of their social intuition.
Gotta make use of those full-time UI people somehow... sigh.
> launcher for video games

Probably not, otherwise there would be a lot more panic regarding SteamDeck, SteamOS, and Proton within Microsoft.
Compiling Go to WASM is actually a viable way to write a SPA ... I've used it with material-components-web so you can certainly manipulate the DOM.
Thanks! As mentioned in sibling comment, I want to use an existing docker image, so probably `flyctl launch --image $NAME`.
Almost every developer I have worked with considers NT and XNU to be hybrid at this point. Unfortunately, almost everything in the parent comment is incorrect.
Was the instruction booklet there too?
> Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.

> I wonder how much damage they will inflict before people
start turning to WINE and a saner Linux distro, just to run their Windows applications.

The issue is, operating systems aren't something you have a whole lot of choice in; you use whatever OS goes with the software/hardware that you need to run. (It's like that classic "I need you to understand that friends don't go around recommending operating systems to one another" meme). Sure, you could try setting up Linux+WINE, but that is a lot of effort for a few taskbar improvements. Even most power users wouldn't go that far.
Wait until they find out that I ligature'd 4 consecutive spaces to display as a tab!
In the spirit of friendly conversation: Something about a 0.03% repo rate during a year of 7% inflation seems like a Ponzi scheme to me! I am genuinely thankful for the opportunities crypto provides myself and others. Our financial system is in many ways rigged against the little guys. Now there's a chance to turn the tables.
Vista and 8 were unmitigated disasters. ME was apparently "misunderstood"?

So it's more of a cycle than a trend.
Yes, by introducing the security theater. When was the last time you checked your Signal contact's fingerprints? Oh, you trust singal? That's ironiс, considering the fact that server operator is the main adversary in the e2ee threat model.
Windows trying to become Mac and MacOS is trying to become more like windows
I heard that the waves were going to converge at the antipode of the explosion which was supposed to be in Algeria I think. Any interesting data or observations from that incident?
Powertoys is terrific, and open Source!

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/README.md

For the fastest searching possible on Windows, I use the Journal-indexing "Everything" search.

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
the primary selling point is to filter recruiter spam. if they don't fill in the form that's filtering in action. working perfectly as intended!
To be fair, classic Windows had its share of poor UI choices. Remember those days of a system tray with 25 icons in it?
So the plot of sneakers basically
I think the parent was mainly talking about the UI. Almost all of the classic Windows UI was there in '95, and minor improvements were released with each new version up until ~Vista-7 when they started destroying it.
In the (Spanish) Basque Country no one calls Basque 'Basque', it is almost universally referred to as Euskara.
right click -> Taskbar Settings -> Taskbar behaviors ->Taskbar alignment -> Left.

There ya go. fixes one of the problems, no patch needed.
I use desktops as workspaces. You know, for work. That means I have the same apps open in multiple workspaces at the same time. A web browser and a terminal in almost all of them. Grouping apps by workspace is like having different rooms for screwdrivers and wrenches.
As is no amount of obesity. But it’s easier to demonize alcohol.
Remora Investigator – Firefox security tool powered by Rust and Elm-ui
If your server administrator doubles as your sales person maybe but for most companies these are different roles and you need someone to manage your fly.io account/docker image or your aws account. Sales, customer support, legal, marketing should be affected. If you are a one man show that's a different conversation.
Ah, for this you want "fly launch", it'll tell you it's going to generate a config file for you.

Edit the config so the `internal_port` is right for the app you're running, then `fly deploy -i fusionauth/fusionauth-app` and you should be good.
Show HN: Aamu.app – all-in-one productivity tool
Hi there HN.

Aamu.app is an app that I've made and I hope to get some feedback.

It aims to have all the most important productivity tools (for companies) in one package. It will hopefully get more of those features in time, but currently there are already quite a few – tasks, docs, video meetings and so on.

Why did I do it? Because I thought the current ones were not that good, and I'm talking about things like Microsoft's offering now. The different parts of their software were clumsy and they were not integrated very well into the whole – i.e. different parts were not designed in collaboration in mind.

I realize it's quite a big app for one person to do, but let's just say that I felt I needed to do and finish it. Couldn't stop after I had started it.

---

Here's an url you can try it without registering into it, and the usernames/passwords:

https://piper.aamu.app/

username: richard ... password: richard1

username: gilfoyle ... password: gilfoyle

username: bighead ... password: nbighead

username: dinesh ... password: xxdinesh

---

The main url of the site: https://aamu.app/

Hope to get some feedback, thanks!
Does that translate into 'Hobbes was a very bright bastard, so if you want get the 'good oil' on the matter then read him first' ?

Reckon he's widely read elsewhere too - I'm definitely not one of them - so with others also in the 'know' then they may not have had such an advantage. Perhaps it was something else, something in their drinking water perhaps? ;-)
Exactly, but the ridiculousness of this is on the senate.
Do those other places host creators' applications for free regardless of scale, and without injecting ads into your entertainment?

Youtube doesn't have their own currency simply because they don't have to, not because they are kind. Their major source of income is ads and subscription. Neither of these needs their own currency. Highly unsure what your point is.
Doubtful. Humanity has lived without states for millennia. A state is not a requirement for preventing mass self-destruction (although that does not mean I would advocate a stateless society as a first choice). Hobbes makes the same mistake Plato does with the only difference being that he puts force in place of philosophy. And in so doing, rather ironically, justified Cromwell's usurpation of/ascendance to the throne as Lord Protector.
I assumed this was a binary joke gone wrong.
Ask HN: How valuable an asset is Google News?
For me, after HN, I just habitually have google news as my goto for news articles.

If they chose to sell it because of whatever reason, how much money would it cost to acquire?

It seems like a sure way to make money, if the news displayed was pay to show up, but if it is just an unbiased algorithm, then maybe it wouldn’t be so valuable?
In fairness, spats have changed the course of computing.

The UNIX wars of the early 1990s, pitting AT&T against BSD (1-800-ITS-UNIX), the QDOS / MSDOS episode, and the Traitorous Eight all come to mind.

As Frank Herbert wrote, "a beginning is a very delicate time".
“It’s a bloodbath”: U.S. companies are pillaging Latin America’s tech talent
>but chats, for example? Can someone please change my mind?

your chat may be pretty legal in the country you're residing at the moment of the chat. Few days or years later you may be flying over/into the country where the content of that chat is illegal. Say, you're trying to come into US, and in the chat you discussed that time you smoked a weed back in your home country where it is legal.
Crypto Is Eating the World
I thought it was about the pandemic. It certainly feels like it's been ten years.
I work (from Mexico) with people in the US, which has 4 time zones for mainland. My time zone lands in CT, Which is convenient both for ET and PT. I didn't require a sponsorship and I am able to communicate pretty well with my American peers.

And I'm between 50% and 70% cheaper than hiring someone in the US at the same level (PhD, 10+ years of industry experience, Executive level experience, startup experience, highly technical , etc etc).

And I know several people with a profile similar to mine.

Companies that discover this are getting an "unfair advantage "
Windows 7 was the pinnacle of Windows’ UI
Please, sir, I want some more.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7tOkpntQtBM
While i wouldn't agree that HN is a conservative forum, there is certainly a lot more conservative-leaning material posted here than similar tech-focused forums.

See any thread about California, Texas, diversity & affirmative action, COVID, etc.
In March of 2020 when pretty much everything in North America closed and they reopened in May of that year. I didn't notice at first that the ticket was issued at that time. The understanding of covid was significantly less then and some of the measures were unnecessary in retrospect. This all has little to do with an essay penned this year about schools.
Are there any clever twists where a company/dev leveraged blockchain fever to get funding for an actually useful project?

E.g.:

1. "We're building a blockchain-based Linux phone."

2. Showered in metric shitton of money

3. Use money to make kick-ass Linux phone

4. Release kick-ass Linux phone with a power-hungry, unusable blockchain-based messenger on it

5. "We've received reports that Yakchain may drain the battery, sometimes when sending a single message. Looking into a proof-of-stake alternative for our messenger, so stay tuned. In the meantime, please enjoy your kick-ass Linux phone!"

6. Give up on messenger.

7. Focus on refining kick-ass Linux phone
Though in terms of being an information source, it pales in value to Wikipedia.

If that was ever funded primarily by one of the big tech companies or the government, I think id become a conspiracy theorist thinking I’m living in 1984.
Except the "most" part needs, you know, substantiation.

Otherwise it's FUD.
This is incredible, thank you for linking.

You run it, display instantly looks better, and has a very nicely laid out set of features to play with

Even things like the WiFi flyout (a term I didn't know) can be changed: https://i.imgur.com/JHVvzPG.png

Appears its author even dedicated a blog post specifically to this: https://valinet.ro/2021/11/18/Functional-Windows-10-flyouts-...
That's pretty cool and love to see more information on it.
> It's almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows

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.

I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.

Sometimes, the "well, if you really want this it will take N dev-years" approach got avoided things for a while, but just as often we were explicitly overruled. I fought passionately against things like the all-white title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart (was that Win10 or Win8? Either way user feedback was so strong that that got reverted in the very next update), the Edge title bar having no empty space on top so if your window hung off the right side and you opened too many tabs you could not move it, and so on. Others on my team fought battles against removing the Start button in Win8, trying to get section labels added to the Win8 Start Screen so it was obvious that you could scroll between them, and so on. In the end, the designers get what they want, the engineers who say "yes we can do that" get promoted, and those of us who argued most strongly for the users burnt out, retired, or left the team.

I probably still know a number of people on that team, I consider them friends and smart people, but after trying out Win11 in a VM I really have an urge to sit down with some of them and ask what the heck happened. For now, this is the first consumer Windows release since ME that I haven't switched to right at release, and until they give me back my side taskbar I'm not switching.
There is interest in getting WINE to run on it: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/6410

Compatibility is definitely the one big thing SerenityOS is missing. A nontrivial effort for sure, but if it can run Linux and Windows binaries, you are going to see much more adoption.
Right. And where is the "no safe level of exposure to perfume" PSA?

It's entirely rational to suspect the motives and veracity of statements like this.
Heck, I still use the QuickLaunch toolbar. First thing I do when I get a new machine/OS is enable this:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4624-add-remove-quick-la...
Another Myth Busted
the discussion of "gifts" etc in https://gist.github.com/phoe/7d24bdb1f2be76a02fecba8cfecbef3... (which is a great suggestion to read to understand what's up with ASDF) reminds of the bigger context – the ongoing "discussion" about the "responsibilities" of open source developers. i'm putting both words into quotes because it doesn't seem that the language we have even supports discussing that there's any responsibility

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's weird saying comes to mind, though. “You become responsible for what you've tamed.”
We give them the resources to fix it and they don't.

Fuck, there are homes everywhere, we have the ability to dig, plant, make food, we still have the ability to transport things around. I know that no one wants to work anymore - but at this point, the entire economy is a state of feeling - and that's exactly what a president (or actually all of the leaders of the world) MUST fix. The resources are ALL there, but I think everyone is just letting it all go to shit.
I was thinking about this, and you're right. It's bad logic to use and would potentially have me overlook instances of real racism. That being said, I believe it was just the one guy who was playing the racism card. IIRC most of the allegations were about his abrasive management style more than anything.
BuildSell30 Hackathon Review
If someone said those crazy, extreme things, that would be a relevant comment.
Commissions are revenue, but it's earnings (profit) that you should really care about. The mentality of "Revenue Growth At Any Cost" (spend $1.2 in CaC to buy $1 of revenue) is coming into an end, and my view is that only profitable businesses will survive.

Airbnb only reported positive earnings in the last quarter (which is great, hope they continue the trend), but I reckon a lot of "never made money" tech companies are going to continue to see their valuations sinking.
This is a great comment. I am just usually employing a rule of:

"If there is a conflict between healthy / unhealthy, then can just minimise or avoid it."

Nobody really argues about vegetables... Meat and dairy products however, thats an interesting discussion.
As an all remote guy - I don't know if it makes sense to be in the office if half of the most important people in a meeting are on a screen.
I'm fine with combined taskbar. It's great feature inspired from OSX but option shouldn't be removed for others. I'm angry about removal of vertical taskbar.

Aside from taskbar, start menu is worst one in last decade. I didn't use Win7 start menu because it can't manage favorite apps with category well. I used random free launcher at that time. I liked Win8 start screen except fullscreen, because it can be categorized by user well. Win10 is obviously the best ever. I think Win11 start menu is drawback to Win7, with annoying recommend features.
Given that every child is different from either parent (not only by half the chromosomes but transcription errors and epigenic triggers) what defines a mutatant vs “stock”?
I learned to play chess when I was twelve. It really taught me to think ahead. My teacher cut me zero slack and just slaughtered me mercilessly over and over again. Losing at chess repeatedly because you don’t stop to think a move or so ahead is just the right amount of painful to drill the practice into your head. I now cannot fathom failing to think ahead.

Also, drop the caffeine. It leads to scattered thinking.

Slow down, learn to meditate and cut yourself a bit of slack. Being angry with yourself just makes it worse.

If there’s something you can’t afford to forget or get wrong leave yourself a note or a checklist. I use checklists every day. (Because I think ahead but want to make sure I don’t forget)
To answer the second question, so that I can be the bad guys from the end of that Cixin Liu trilogy. Exponential growth is infinite and resources are not, so take any available advantage.

Short answer to the first, because the speed of light is the top speed at which information can propagate in the Universe.
We are going to migrate to Fly.io very soon. We are very excited about the prospect of Elixir, Phoenix and Liveview running close to our users with NONE of the javascript headaches. I've hit the eject button on javascript and won't be coming back.

This free tier of database will make it easier for everyone to test the waters at Fly.
Those are all static files that are easily (and typically) cached in front of the application. Pulling customer-specific data from an authenticated session taxes the application (and DB) directly.