skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have multiple monitors and a vertical taskbar (on the left side of my rightmost monitor) that's almost 300px wide, ungrouped icons, and I can read the names of all my windows. Makes it very easy to find the exact right IDE/text editor project when I have like 7 open at a time.

Obviously not for everyone, but also obviously a totally valid use case that should be supported.
That and going all-in on Hashicorp.
When were were learning Bessel functions in college, the prof told us Bessel discovered them when trying to figure out why buildings in England fell down when Krakatoa blew up on the other side of the world.

(Bessel functions tell you what happens when you hit a sphere with a hammer.)
Also a previous engineer (Systems & radar engineer on DoD projects like missile defense, avionics, etc) and now software engineer. Definitely disagree on both points.

> (a) If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering.[0]

Every system has bugs. If you aren't expecting, controlling for them, and implementing measures to reduce their impact and likelihood - you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering. Why else would redundancy be a critical requirement in just about any mission critical systems?

> (b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.[1]

Well in radar, missile defense, helicopter systems, it was all abstractions up and down the stack. Maybe the 1000 engineers working on these projects weren't all real engineers? You have to use abstractions if you want to do anything real. You are regularly using models, simulations, tools, integrating with other teams' systems/components which become abstractions.
I'm one of the few who couldn't care less. I just want it hidden, same with the dock on macOS.

Use the keyboard to launch and switch apps.
Interesting algorithm HN has for ordering comments.
Always on call because salaried Sysadmin, so mine is just my usual ringtone. Just don't choose anything you like, or you'll grow to hate it.
Again I suspect there is more that I don't understand but this paper goes into geometries that could possibly lead to being able to generate the required negative energy.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-02...

That said I think you still need such huge energies that it's impractical.
Or the window around the 1987 Black Monday/Tuesday event that turned the semiconductor industry into liquid turd and forced the creation of new trading "circuit breakers" to prevent it happening so glibly again.
I worked on that team, with him. He was always a strong engineer and a great co-worker. It's really sad to see someone like that treated so badly even if they (may) have stumbled a little bit.
I just got that from here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/experts-explain-why-ton... (which obviously could be wrong)

You could have been hearing the cumulative lightning effects and/or atmospheric disturbances. There were 200k strikes counted in the first hour.
My gosh, that is the best comment here!!!!!
Crypto evangelism increasing looks like propaganda. Nonsensical ideas like "Bitcoin is a store of Energy™" get thrown around as though they're factual. It's a collective delusion, really.
That's an interesting indicator of how much Bitcoin is used in Russia though!
After. The tsunami had arrived in several waves over about a twelve-hour period a day and a half earlier. A page in Japanese with the arrival times and peak wave heights at various locations is here:

https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/2022011513100...
Out of hundreds of millions of users. Is the game going to give up >90% of its user base?

Especially when the reason for the move is obvious. If Facebook leaves the app store, and Facebook is completely free and makes money from advertising, everybody knows why they're doing it and it's to screw you out of your privacy. But you can't say no because Facebook is the only way you have to talk to your grandparents, hence the need for antitrust.

If Epic Games moves Fortnite to another store because the other store charges lower fees but still has a good reputation for not allowing bad apps, likewise the reason they moved is obvious. It's to have lower fees, because Fortnite makes money by selling things in the game. Many users will be fine with that, as well they should be, because that's the point of allowing other stores.

But a game doing it for the same reason as Facebook, well, they're going to lose most of their users. Because nobody needs a game that much, so the company doing it for an adversarial reason will cause large numbers of customers to tell them where to go.
Try qlock? I use it to get Seoul & Berlin clocks in the corner of one monitor (I'm in the US), but sounds like it could work for you if you just duplicated your local time zone on each monitor. http://www.qlock.com/
A wise man I knew used to say

"Dilution is the solution to pollution".

In fact, once you think about it, that's also the only solution.
Here’s the thing though … VR headsets are terrible to wear for a long time.

They make some valid points. I think it’d be cool to use one, IF the comfort issue is resolved.
I guess you were a fan of MBC 2 then?
Not really. The actual topic of conversation underneath the smoke is the political neutrality of the CDC, and public mistrust of science and government funded sources of information.

If you are really curious about the evidence, follow the thread up and click the links. I already posted links that have some stats and links to studies on the harms of second-hand smoke, and so did @dionidium too. :)
I liked the analytics and the task management, but IMHO it does too much and the interface feels a bit clunky.

- multiple clicks to close a task.

- non-sensible defaults for creating tasks, like why not default the start and due date?

- can't filter by day

The way I think about personal tasks is they should be small and done in 1-4 hours and in the day they are assigned. I would never create a multi-day task. If a task is so big that it takes longer than 4 hours to do, I break it up into smaller tasks that are 4 hours long. If a task is more like a 'project', then I will use scope out the project in a tool like shortcut.com.

I also don't care to see tasks that I am supposed to due to tomorrow by default. My daily goal is to clear today's list.

I also really like automatically repeating tasks (e.g. "every quarter pay estimate taxes" or "water plants every 10 days") that appear on the day they are due. If I don't complete them, they stay in my list until they are completed and then re-appear in the next cycle.
Infosec Skill Sets
Yeah, when Heroin first came out I'm sure there were some haters but eventually they were forgotten.
Every online master’s program establishes admission requirements are based on the university’s policies and/or the department.
Were there any improvements in Windows 11, or just regressions? It's an actual question. I'm looking for anyone here who's life was improved by the upgrade.
Fly's developer experience is really sweet.
Do you have plans to open up your API for provisioning on the fly?
We've use-cases which require dynamic provisioning of new deployments as well as mutating existing deployments based on APIs we offer to our customers.
Not clear if that's higher or lower than I'd expect. Also how do you account for misinformation trolls probably pulling the average down?
Exposing the Role of 3rd Party SMS Aggregators in Singapore's OCBC Phishing Scam
How alcoholism can be triggered in some one is also not known. That is also an additional risk factor in every single drink consumed, perhaps?
aka.ms is just a bitly clone.
I want to see text INSTEAD of those icons. Icons went out with hieroglyphics, and I'm not sure why they've come back.
"I also have a dirt cheap Chromebook which is more productive than either Linux or Mac."

umm.... Chromebook is Linux....
Unscientific propaganda.

The best scientific evidence we have suggests moderate consumption of alcohol protects the heart.

From the Harvard School of Public Health:

> More than 100 prospective studies show an inverse association between light to moderate drinking and risk of heart attack, ischemic (clot-caused) stroke, peripheral vascular disease, sudden cardiac death, and death from all cardiovascular causes. [20] The effect is fairly consistent, corresponding to a 25-40% reduction in risk.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...
Those are all mockups! Where are the real buildings?
The Human Genome Project's been completed for a long time. And didn't Google recently solve the protein folding problem?

Shouldn't we have an assembler, compiler, and linker by now? What's taking so long?
> once their government surrenders

That's ok then, as the government of Gaza was created by Israel's own accord - so at least in 2005, we can both agree that there could have been no state of war between occupied Gaza and Israel. Then, in 2006 the Israeli backed government held free elections, in which the people of Gaza voted for Hamas. The immediate result, before Hamas had even formed a government (but after someone kidnapped 1 Israeli soldier), was intense hostility from Israel, bombing civilian infrastructure (a war crime, if indeed there is a war), arresting elected Hamas officials, denying Hamas members transit between Gaza and the West Bank, and other acts.

So, if you really want to claim there is an actual war, then this war can only be the one started in 2006 by Israel in a surprise attack in retaliation for the democratic vote of the people of Gaza. The war started then with a surprise attack and immediately resorting to war crimes by Israel (Gaza would follow suit with their own attack on Israeli civilians).
And MBC Action
Already the case with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson speaking in German.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9613749/AI-c...
I do the same. The only drawback is that when I move my mouse to some app's control over near the left-hand side of my left-hand monitor, it's likely to overshoot and bring up the task bar/ start menu. I'd be happy just using <Ctrl><Esc> to bring it up, and dispense with its mouseability entirely. But that doesn't appear to be a choice, even in older versions of Windows.
And games have taken far more. Game of War "like gambling with no chance of winning"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/california-man-s...
Damn you. Another font to add to my list to try out tomorrow.

Been using JetBrains Mono for months now, and I quite like it. But I found out the the font a YouTuber I watch uses is Iosevka, which I've been hearing about, so I'm going to go custom compile it with JetBrains Mono styling added in

And then I'll have to give this a go. Thanks.
I mean why would someone who cares anything at all about how software looks even glance at Windows if they had any choice?

Imagine taking someone who is so passionate about UX that they made a career out of it, making them use their worst nightmare as their daily driver, and then giving them zero institutional power to fix any of it because of the n-dev years problem.

Windows, while extremely powerful and stable because of the commitment to not breaking things, is basically unfixable UI wise unless “forward” means going backward. There’s too much to rewrite and not enough value gained by it. So every iteration will be piling on even more inconsistencies and shifting around the “easy stuff” because that’s all you can do.

You just have to embrace that Windows is 50 years of UX trends all coexisting.
Technically yes, but on the short term, there is a lot of lag to this signal. Even in the not so short term.

That is: people's perception can be anything from a few months to a few decades outdated to the current state.

Usually, every four years, a new party in power can change the trend.

So, it is overwhelmingly likely that something better can be found to reflect this reality.
> Salvador doesn’t need the IMF

Yet they are asking the IMF for a billion dollar loan.
People here should also review the follow-up post: https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/asdf-devel/2022-Ja...

This part is especially relevant to some of the discussion in this thread:

> I understand that confronting this issue is more difficult than talking about whether or not ASDF should be issuing a warning. But that's not the question that is at hand.
AFAIK some things that are (or were, I may not be up-to-date there) present in the megi's tree aren't even upstreamable at all, like the modem power manager driver. When you maintain your own tree, you can be much more liberal in what goes there compared to what mainline maintainers will accept.
To your last paragraph, my favourite thing about Mac is how if you click a window that doesn't have focus, the click ONLY makes the window focused. If you clicked on a button, it doesn't actually click the button.

A similar thing is what happens when you touch a phone when it dims right before sleeping. Some OSes only let the touch restore brightness, while others will do that AND register a tap wherever you touched. Super annoying IMO.
What you actually want is to enable some kind automatic trapping behavior when a section of code is entered so that you can say “this set of math operations shouldn’t overflow”. That’s cheaper than what overflow bits get you although entering/exiting such a mode may be equally or more expensive.

The existence of the overflow bits and that overflow continues to remain a common security flaw indicates that there’s a disconnect between the mental model users have when writing this kind of arithmetic (ie they don’t think about it generally and C integer promotion rules don’t do any favors) and how CPU designers imagine you write code.
So, we still don't know everything and there are still new things to discover.

It will be interesting to see what impact this has on the climate.
Maybe same with usual companies, higher ups don't really get ux / functionality, and are moved purely by looks.

"Because many users are appraising apple's looks, by cloning apple we'll also get praised by our users right?" "Then we can get Apple users to use windows too!"
I love good design, but designers are also able to completely ruin things in short order. I've been using Windows for 30 years as my primary desktop but in the last 6 months I'm increasingly ready to abandon it and just switch to Linux, even though I'd miss a lot of small things.
Is really 99% accuracy good enough. A 1gHz computer does 10^9 operations each seconds, 10^7 of which would be inaccurate. That sounds like a pretty high number to me, but I’m no quantum scientist
Why would you even hire designers that don't use Windows as their daily OS? It's not even a question of making designers use your software, but you could just hire people who do. Globally you probably have to go out of your way to hire a designer that wasn't Windows based.
> How did the designers become absolute dictators?

When the iPhone became successful, before that it was all utility, then fashion took priority when the iPhone out sold literally everything.
Focalboard open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
By the definition that there is no growth in value of the investment, only new "investors" paying the returns for the people withdrawing.
That’s an interesting take supporting more screening. Just having more data points for yourself and the collective conscious as well as increasing your luck.
It's competitive in that people have to compete for funding. Sounds like academia.

Of course you have to have money to begin with to train to be a pilot.
> I was rather surprised they were building SMS/MMS stuff on top of libpurple

Chatty does not use libpurple for SMS for a while now (and never did for MMS).

> MMS was so broken

It wasn't even enabled by default, as it was explicitly marked as experimental until recently.
My point was that there are plenty of other people running ponzi schemes without crypto waste. You might as well use those.
My potentially incorrect understanding is that at the hardware level overflows basically always set flags indicating underflow/overflow, but

- Checking those flags and branching depending on extra instructions and comes at a performance cost, and that this could be instructions that trap on overflow instead of setting a flag. This can be solved, but needs instruction set level support.

- Requiring overflows are correctly handled at all comes at a performance cost at the optimization level (you can't turn (x + x - x) into a no-op), this is fundamental, but probably an acceptable cost if you solved the other issue.

C's arithmetic operators on unsigned operations also require the implementation doesn't return some sort of error on overflows, but for signed errors it would be a valid thing to do (since the behavior is undefined by the spec), and you could use compiler supplied functions instead of the primitives for erroring on the unsigned operations as well (or a non-standards-compliant compiler flag).

Rust kept the option open in how they defined arithmetic. Currently it wraps in release mode, but it's explicitly backwards compatible to change that to a panic (rust's version of exceptions).
Most of those are "let's use a traditional style for a third of the building, but the rest remains steel and glass, to show the commoners who's in charge"

Some are just... I have no words: https://media1.fdncms.com/thecoast/imager/u/original/5490160...
Survival analysis was my first great methodological love. Dr. Cox was an absolute giant in the field.
Not even mentioning that while theoretically valid, it can break things such as signed urls.
I'm not sure how big of a problem this really is. Yes, it's definitely more difficult for a non-technical user to manage this, but if they have an idea about how important keeping their passwords safe is then would they trust that to a third-party? I don't think my mom would trust any service with her passwords.
I think your pricing page does not reflect this change yet?

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
While everything about Python packaging is still a mess (but we now have a walrus operator, win?), I view virtual environment distribution as nothing more than a clunky static vs dynamic linking situation. Trust the system or bring your own.

I see the rise of Docker as indication that static linking won.
And it's not just Windows proper, but also things like PowerToys.

In every version of Windows since at least 2.0, Alt+Space has worked to bring up the system menu for the current window. This is the same menu you get if you click the app icon in the top left corner.

Once in a while, this has been a lifesaver for me when a window gets stuck offscreen with my multiple monitor configuration. It is a bit tricky, but even if you can't see the window, you can press Alt+Space to open the system menu, then M to select the Move menu item, then press any arrow key, and finally you can use the mouse to move the window around.

Yes, quite kludgy, but this has worked on every version of Windows for decades.

The PowerToys team decided to take over Alt+Space for their own Mac-style launcher, without even warning you at install time that they are disabling a fundamental Windows keyboard shortcut.

This caused me loss of data when I tried to use that trick for a window that got stuck offscreen. I forgot that I'd installed PowerToys a while back, and Alt+Space didn't work to rescue my window!

There have been multiple threads and GitHub issues raised on this, but the PowerToys team has seemed deaf to the problem. They closed one of the issues with a comment like "our metrics show that very few people use Alt+Space for its old purpose, so we felt OK about reassigning it."

I was like, "Your m-----f---ing metrics told you that? Your metrics just caused me loss of data! Do I need to go get Raymond Chen to explain to you the value of backward compatibility?" But I didn't post that, as there is no hope of getting through to people who think metrics should tell them what to do.

Let's say there are a billion Windows users. And only a tenth of one percent know about Alt+Space to open the system menu. No big deal, that's only a million users you have just inconvenienced or caused to lose data.

Please forgive the rant, but I just don't understand that line of thinking.
Sure, for power users and people who have used the same UI for over a decade, the changes do not seem to make any sense. But that's why there's options to re-enable legacy UI, as seen in TFA.

I suggest you give a laptop to a normal person who doesn't spend time on the computer and see how they use it. Give them a task that doesn't involve using the browser. I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised how easily they get lost in the UIs. These "minimalist" UIs actually do have a use for people who struggle with basic usage of their OS outside the browser.
Uhh I don't know if UX takes part here. The new design really ignore ux. I guess it must be UI & marketing people.
Fintech? More Like Funtech
Parent comment meant `https://example.com./index.html` instead of your `https://example.com/index.html.`

And naturally in your citation you could use `https://serverfault.com./a/18122` which works perfectly fine
You can change it back to left-aligned. It was the first thing I did after upgrading. After that, the only difference on the taskbar is the Windows logo now has a gradient on it whereas in Windows 10 it was just a plain white logo.

As for the text labels the article is complaining about, I know what he's referring to but I haven't used the feature in so many years I can't make myself sympathize. Just get over it. A full-page article about one missing feature, and then tried to generalize it to sound like the whole OS was similarly bad. But only one example was provided to support the generalization. I'm more disappointed in this article than I am with Windows 11.
Were you a fan of MBC 3?
Whenever I see articles like this, I think of "new coke."

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-american-gustation-crisi...

Coca Cola modified and replaced their flagship product with a better product. It was proven to be statistically better in taste tests. But the product "new coke" ultimately became a failure.

"In retrospect, some marketers believe that the failure of New Coke may have had something to do with sensation transference, a human oddity first described by Louis Cheskin in the 1940s. Cheskin demonstrated that people will unconsciously associate imagery, sounds, tastes, aromas, and textures into their general impression of a product, even if such associations are unintended or inaccurate. These sensory inputs create a halo effect which actually modifies flavor perception, so while cola drinkers may have preferred the new Coke formula, they may have disliked the “taste” of the redesigned packaging. Even Gay Mullins —the man who tried to sue to restore the old flavor —showed a preference for New Coke when subjected to blind taste tests"

I wouldn't be surprised if windows UI/UX designers used statistics to verify the improvements of the windows UI changes. Despite this, consumer psychology always has a way of causing literally almost every major change to any popular product (that is on par with coca cola) be a "debacle" of epic proportions. I see it on every change to OSX, iOS, windows... all consumers are always flabbergast declaring out loud: "What were they thinking!??"

You guys remember when touch screen keyboards were a "debacle"? Nobody could type on that shit back then. It was a royal fuck up. Now everybody types on them.

Inevitably there will be someone who replies to me insisting that it's worse due to some personal yet convincing anecdotal experience. But until you take the UI equivalent of a blind taste test I'm not sure if this is sensation transference or an actual real rational judgement.
Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites
World's first kegger
Making Virtual More Human
Does that mean they're not doing usability studies anymore?