skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought Start11 but the "StartMenuHost.exe" was still running in the background, taking about 80Mb of RAM and doing random web requests, I had to takeown the directory and physically remove the file, because it was being restarted by a system service even if you killed the process.

They still have a thing called "TextInputHost.exe" which takes about 90Mb of RAM and if you kill it all store apps (including Terminal) stop taking keyboard input. It too makes network requests but I can't get rid of it, so had to firewall it instead. But that's just nasty AF: keyboard input works just fine in win32 applications, so you clearly don't need a resident 90Mb network-connected process to get it to work in UWP, you're just being sneaky...
> people willing to invest $12.75B are incorrect

Correct about what? I'm sure many people, memecoin flippers and VCs included, will make a lot of money for themselves, just like a lot of people made money on ICOs (remember that one?) Since a VC's job is to make money, many of them will be "correct". But if the only actual useful thing that came out of this decade-long hype fest is a lower-fee version of Transferwise... then it's just not very convincing.
We tend to helplessly accept a lot of out in the open corruption here.
CDN, LB, Api gateway, message queue – all distinctly hosted. And that's just the superficial components.
I knew the Windows UX was dead the moment I tried to type a search into the Start menu and drag a program off the results onto the desktop to create a shortcut and it didn't work, and then when I went to right click on it "Send to Desktop (Create Shortcut)" was gone too.
Am I supposed to practice driver minimalism to prevent a slew of tray icons from occupying my screen?

It is poor design by having that be the form of which quick access to settings is provided. The tray icon paradigm simply invites clutter.
It's dire for companies and their staff who have been raising big rounds.

Their next round risks being a flat/down round, and especially as many big ones are disconnected from revenue and efficiency. Each round assumes a following bigger round, and as soon as that stops, historically unlikely to recover the FOMO. Investors can go to another co without that proven risk, and the company spirals. Doing layoffs now can work for self-efficiency, or not hiring to plan, but that still means not hitting revenue & growth numbers, so either way, poof goes the valuation.

Ex: It was ugly watching colleagues get major lost $ from Uber over-valuing itself, and at least Uber had significant revenue. Now go to the many sales/marketing/sloppy cloud-driven co's, which is where over half those fund raise $s go and at much lower net revenue: that's a lot of people 12mo +/- 6mo from now.

This is also why I advise folks to price in the next 2 years of growth (~10x) for offers from these kinds of companies as already eaten by VCs, and thus only evaluate for 100-1000x growth. For bigger/later rounds, do another 2-10x. Brutal.
So can't share with grown children or business manager or lawyer.
Nobody is enforcing anything, either in the parent or the OP, so don't panic. Your comment seems inflammatory and irrelevant in this context, but I'm sure that's not your intent. You'll be ok, don't worry.
An Analysis of Omicron Tweets: 30% Are Skeptical of the Medical Establishment
Yeah, not being able to un-group and show the titles is a big productivity loss.

So much so that when I recently got a new computer and had to reinstall everything anyways, I downgraded to win10 first.

Some other stuff that works better in win10 is the wifi/sound/battery stuff. That takes a few seconds to load in win11, and requires multiple clicks to do loads of stuff.

Or right clicking a file in win11 gives you this weird menu, so have to click one extra time to open the old menu that actually has the stuff I want (7zip, notepad++ shortcuts).

On win11 alt+tab sometimes hangs. No idea how they can screw up both ways to switch programs in one go.
I'm having trouble understanding the purpose of these edge services.

Granted, I've only handled small - medium sized infrastructures, and never really experienced the issues at scale, but if I were to get to that point, wouldn't it be easier to just hire a Infrastructure Engineer who could deal with the replication / sharding, not to mention having that engineer also deal with site reliability and dev ops?

If a user wants to hit my service, and then that service has to hit fly.io's postgres, isn't that an increase in latency? sure I could probably have it pretty darn close, but 20-100ms is still 20-100ms. I could manage my own (or hire someone), and have the db live in the same container (if i have a big enough box), or have it within the same data center.

And if it is the case that I do need to replicate across data centers, at that point, I should have the financial capabilities to hire an infra engineer.

Can anyone enlighten me why I would ever need this?
Or some "UX consultants" need to justify their high salaries and some managers want a promotion by giving the illusion of novelty to their superior.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Win10 taskbar and MSFT didn't learn a damn thing from Windows METRO fiasco.

Explorer and file browsers on the other hand are in a dire need for change. For instance, I wish I could easily tag my files, no matter where they are. I shouldn't have to remember where I put this or that file in my hard drive. File search on Windows is still terrible.
Absolutely not. Throwing people in prison who were explicitly obeying the law as written is a terrible road to go down.
Where are the mountains of UN resolutions against those nations then?
Yeah, like many Google products, it's poorly and confusingly named. It's a separate app from YouTube, and basically just like Spotify.

The only connection to YouTube is you can also listen to songs that are only uploaded to YouTube, which is a nice touch if you want to listen to tiny/hobby musicians with like 50 fans, unofficial live recordings of popular artists, niche international songs not licensed for sale in the US so they end up on YouTube, etc.

But 99% of the time, you're just listening to the same high quality versions of songs that any other streaming service has.
OK, that much I knew.

Does the site show actual range / attenuation at the time of / following the Tonga Hunga erruption?
> Someone figured out it was cheaper then to import unprocessed meat from Spain to Norway, turn the truck around as soon as they were customs cleared and drive the 3000 km or so back to Spain for curing.

Ahh, those Norwegians and their customs evasions. https://youtu.be/oP1Oq3JLNbc (do note that I'm ascribing this to Norwegians completely in jest - tone is difficult to get across in text)

... Which recently had an update. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/asc-gets-green-li...
What kind of Rails apps run without a DB? or how can you scale your app with a DB across 10+ regions?

Would love to understand better how to deploy Rails with fly and still benefit from multi-region/failover/scaling

p.s. horrible nitpick, but I think it’s SECRET_KEY_BASE :)
I would pay for a new copy of Windows every year if they would

1) - Not change anything in Ux, permissions, or core functionality

2) - Make any new features - like Windows Mixed Media - a la carte add ons - heck even charge for them let the market speak

3) Focus on optimizing kernel, responsiveness, compatibility, and privacy transparency

Too much to ask but honestly it would be amazing.
Having the Windows button move left and right based on how many programs you have open was an insane, illogical design regression that was only greenlit because of a "copy Apple at all costs" design philosophy
So, why don't they get called 'apartheid'?
Here's a shock-wave/ripple from the eruption over South America https://streamable.com/35ip5k
> It's almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows

Specifically, this faction's name is WebXT. They're the one responsible for adding all the ads, the forced Edge adoption, etc. And they're doing it with no oversight because there no longer is any one person in charge of Windows any more, it's a pissing contest and whoever's running that team wins because they can show short-term profits (no one seems to worry about the long term effects of burning all the good-will away), such short-sightedness...
> But the more distressing change is that it’s no longer possible to actually see the title text of window items

People want text on those icons?

(That’s not to say I disagree that windows design is a mess)
Based on usage numbers, I'm gonna say it was a mix of both. But JS brought it to the very mainstream.
COVID has a strong absolute-calendar trends (variants, waves), so removing the absolute dates might harm the analysis.
Very subjective opinion. I found MacOS most disruptive to work. Things take ages to fix on Linux desktop. On the contrary Windows seems to me the most flexible OS of the lot precisely because it lets me run almost any video game. I also have a dirt cheap Chromebook which is more productive than either Linux or Mac.
I have a similar but unrelated problem. The searching seems to be... non-deterministic or something, it's weird. Like if I'm after a program, let's call it "uniquator". That program may be the first suggestion for "uni", but after q another random program, or search suggestion, or some Store shovelware would be the top suggestion.

It doesn't sound annoying, but it means you often hit enter mid-typing, only for the top suggestion to change right as you are hitting enter.
I would give it a try if it supported ligatures. I just use Verdana or Google Sans right now for code (just a good proportional sans serif font works for me, but none support coding ligatures).
What's disappointing is how quickly your observation was diverted to panic and inciting outrage. I'm interested to know why the CDC now says "no amount" when the evidence for decades has been that small amounts are cardioprotective. Is there truly none?
My father just died from lung cancer at 87. It came as a huge surprise, probably masked by other health issues he was having, and was discovered well into stage-4. He was given 6 months, and made it about 4. Watching him deteriorate into a world of pain and eventual confusion is an intensity of human experience I would not wish on anybody going through it first or secondhand.

That being said my family has started to wonder, "when did he first get sick?" as he seemed relatively well until early last year -- other than his other conditions. The best we can come up with is "about a year ago". But looking at this it may have much much earlier. It probably wouldn't have changed the treatment or outcome, 87 is a hell of a run, but from an objective point of view it's very interesting to try to understand when this terrible thing first saw its genesis in him.
Here is a neat animation based on METEOSAT-11 data:
https://twitter.com/weather_models/status/148300643675002880...

Translation: «Antipodes are also animated with METEOSAT-11. The propagation speed seems to be different depending on the route, and the timing of coming to the antipodes is slightly different»
The most compelling applications I have heard are for simulating quantum chemistry.
> Also your point about PCR testing is not accurate.

Source on that? Because all graphs I've seen show impossible to miss fluorescence around 35 cycles and up.

AFAICT VSD only does specific research at their own behest and currently don't have a section on COVID-19 vaccines.

Btw your link is dead.

I had pericarditis and some immediate reaction, my cardiologist thinks it was partially intravenously applied. Looking at the data on severe reactions from where I live I've been able to obviously tell that CDC must have used incredible criteria for their numbers. At least initially, I stopped caring when it eventually became clear to me that we do not really want to know how many are harmed.

And from the perspective of everyone involved I understand it, I too want this to be over, I too want this to be a safe magic bullet. But seems to me somewhere between 1:1000-10000 have significant heart issues from the Pfizer vaccine, but when we were rolling it out the numbers were claimed to be 1 in 230M.
Yes, Nest uses decorators and the reflect-metadata package to get information about them dynamically. Annotations/decorators in other languages are fine, but in JavaScript/Typescript I feel the risk of using them as a dead end feature. I'd like the proposal as much progress as possible, but it's been quiet. In the meantime, a Typescript Nest like system without annotations could be better.
There are multiple philosophical points.

For someone who lives/interacts with David Cox everyday, the loss is immense.

But OP was referring to 'loss to the society'. When you bring in 'loss to the society', then it is inevitable that you measure their net-positive-contributions-to-society.

Unless you are an outlier (<0.0001%), 25 and below is usually where you are sucking away resources without contributing back (easily measured by net worth or artifacts or offsprings). 25 - 60 is when you are peak contribution (offsprings, net worth, artifacts), after 60 most stop producing (offsprings, artifacts, wealth accumulation). Yes there are outliers to these too.

Now to the controversial. Yes, offspring creation is (the ultimate) productive service to the society. It's the *only* way to keep humanity not going extinct.

Thought experiment: Tomorrow if everyone decides to stop offsprings, humanity is guaranteed to be extinct in 100 years. However, if everyone decides to have a baby or two, humanity will chug along for at least quite a few hundred years (Climate Change is not going to make us extinct)
I just did this with an application I haven't touch in years. The deployment worked on the first try. A few clicks and I had TLS certificates. I'm sold!
It got ad blocker blocker :(
> privacy orientated company

I'm sure they mean to be, but based in Australia I'd be very skeptical of the claim.
I don’t think I’d call Angry Birds or FarmVille or Fortnite or any other game a monopoly, but millions would sideload those.
Read heavy Rails apps work great multi region: https://fly.io/blog/run-ordinary-rails-apps-globally/

We have a Gem to make it almost transparent: https://github.com/superfly/fly-ruby
X-Mailer is an entirely voluntary header the client can add. This is different from the sender IP information is added by the server not the client

Fastmail could strip all unnecessary headers, but I would argue they should not be modifying any content I'm telling them to send. If I add a X-Mailer header, I want them to send it.
Privacy is supposedly part of the product. https://www.fastmail.com/privacy-and-security/

I get the idea that there is a level of governmental instrusion that they can't bypass, but that's a big improvement over turning your email contents into grist for advertising.
Intel plans $20B chip manufacturing site in Ohio – sources
You made me think of which appliances. I am happy with most but the ones I hate are the smart tv (cannot turn on without remote!) and bosch oven (awful sticky spinning wheel interface for doing everything), despite them being otherwise good products. Hang the blessed UX!
Assuming you take his postulate at face value. Given that he lived centuries before anthropology became a science, I'm not inclined to think that it's literally true, and he might not have either.

Given the context when he wrote Leviathan, a civil war, I think that his views less reflect the reality of no state, and more the reality of what happens when control over the state is contested.
At some point in grad school a few years ago, I was procrastinating furiously and did a deep dive into the font I would prefer for coding, terminal, etc. I ultimately landed on Meslo LGS with Nerd Font after also looking at different shells. I'm not a fan of ligature so don't care about those fonts

Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something better or if just the Meslo people came out with something great and haven't felt the need to promote it on the web in a few years since they are all gainfully employed.

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...
Oh that’s right, I misremembered from when I was researching you guys last year. It’s persistent volumes that aren’t in the free tier.

In any case, an extremely generous free tier.
The problem with Spotify's Local Files feature is that the music you add cannot be added to Liked Songs. They must be in a playlist in order to be synced across.

As someone who listens to their music by just tapping shuffle on Liked Songs, this is a no-go.
I’m curious why you are posting this here and not reaching out to them directly? It’s public so you expect it would apply pressure to them to reply? (You pay them as a customer so they have incentive anyway…)
Of course, it isn't. If a republican says they like ice cream, is ice cream republican? That's obviously not how this works and the people who want you to think otherwise have a narrative they are selling.
Thanks! I switched over to this and it's working great.
Which isn't really all that surprising. Humanity hasn't changed in a very long time, there's no particular reason to believe that ancient humans would be any less or more flawed than we are today, and certainly not less complex.
Note the change from secondhand smoke to outdoor secondhand smoke, once you responded rationally. This poster may be a bot.
> Am I supposed to practice driver minimalism to prevent a slew of tray icons from occupying my screen?

The taskbar icons are added by programs that are running. Disabling autorun for them prevents them from starting, and therefore the icons from showing up. I'd say 90% of the time disabling autorun for the companion program doesn't break any functionality.
"title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart": Win10 (and iirc Win 7, I never had Win8) are a mix-and-match. FreeCommander XE (the file manager I use) and Thunderbird both have title bars that change color, and Vivaldi allows it (although the contrast is not as great as I prefer). But none of the MsOffice apps do. I think there's some kind of subtle change they do, maybe a 1 pixel wide border or something that shows up when they have keyboard focus, but I honestly can't tell. As a result, I not infrequently type into (or worse, delete something) from the wrong window.

Also, the title bars on MsOffice apps are so cluttered with controls that you can hardly find a safe place to click on them if you want to select that app with your mouse. Why, for example, is the search bar in Outlook up there, instead of some pop-up dialog box? (And the Outlook and Word search tools themselves are a mess, but I digress...)
>but IIRC installing packages globally was pretty brittle.

The current trick is to use pipx[0]. Pipx will create an individual virtual environment for every executable tool you have, so there is no chance of conflicts.

You do `pipx install httpie` or `pipx install black` and then both utilities will be on your PATH, installed with whatever dependencies they require. I have never run into any issues with it.

Ninja edit: it also makes upgrades trivial: `pipx upgrade-all`

[0] https://pypa.github.io/pipx/
I think it should be your mail client's responsibility to "strip the X-Mailer entry AND also delete information within the Mime Version entry"?

It's like asking your ISP to strip out "user-agent" in your HTTP request.
https://archive.is/zwLdb
very legit requests, but since when HN is fastmail support forum? Perhaps it's better to ask here: https://www.emaildiscussions.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27
MS continues it's pattern:

2000 - good
Me - bad
XP - good
Vista - bad
7 - good
8 - bad
10 - good
11 - bad

For Windows 12 we will cycle to "good" UI.
But why publish this in HN, unless it's meant as an object lesson in poor experimental design.
Ask HN: What is your oncall alarm or ringtone?
The typical one is the siren. I try to make mine less alarming and so I put on a comical low-toned "ghost" noise. They always become associated with bad times as incidents start to associate with the song.

How do people deal with this? Any sound(s) that work better for people?
Go for it. This isn't a bad startup pitch.
Were these clouds formed before or after the tsunami hit Japan?
Very True. The whole Leadership/Management "Industry" has since long ago become inauthentic. Nobody trusts and takes them at face value anymore.

Checkout the works of Jeffrey Pfeffer for some honest criticisms.
"I think that the best weapon that the general public has against cancer is autophagy"

It would be but it's so, so, ever so hard, to go without even one single meal.

I've stopped evangelizing "fasting" or even shorter intake windows.

If you can't be bothered to skip breakfast for a few weeks just to see how your body responds then let's stop wasting our time and just talk about football or something.

... how 'bout them Cowboys ?!
The pattern only overlaps with conservative on the topics of regulation, maybe taxes, definitely affirmative action.

Everything you said but it's not about conservatism in general or most of the rest of the current conservative platform.

It's just anything that annoys a tech bro who never had a problem in life except that it's a crime that his copycat app was taken down and some girl got a job he thought the world owed him, or he succeeded and believes he did it all himself and doesn't owe anyone else anything.

I mean, it is a large overlap. You could describe both this and the coservative platform as "whatever rationalization works to justify being selfish"

But for instance, I bet almost none of these "conservatives" have a moral or religious objection to sex outside of marriage, sex outside of their race/ethnicity/religion, definitely aren't down at the soup kitchen every wednesday to feed the hungry, never turned the other cheek in their lives, will happily ridicule "preppers" even while researching about data islands...

I think I'm not really articulating my point all that well but hopefully you do still get what I mean despite my weak examples.
Probably written by somebody who used their computer to play D&D all day. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all the same...
I've worked on teams where everyone else was in-office and I was remote. I was constantly missing important "water cooler" conversations and my role slowly shifted into "code-monkey" since I no longer had the relevant business context.
Most of the other 18 year olds I knew when I was that young were proud of the drunken party they had the night before.

It's fucking damn impressive.
Microsoft shouldn't even have MacBooks available unless specifically for the minority developing for Apple platforms. It's just a concession of defeat otherwise.
Not to be snarky, but how does this compare with Pinterest?
That is literally incorrect. You can google "defund" and the first definition is "prevent from continuing to receive funds". And it's common usage, as well - anytime a government passes a bill to "defund" a bill or a department, it means they are basically without money.
Future Pinebook Pros may ship without SPI Flash, creating hurdles for some OSes
How did the designers become absolute dictators?

I've dealt with this at a few companies and it's really crazy. I've seen them tank products more than once because they ignore everyone and are given unquestionable power.

It's absurd. They have as much capacity to be wrong as anybody else
> My #1 issue with Windows 11 is not being able to un-group my taskbar items.

Weird because while I hate that also, mine is the opposite.

I hate not being able to group my start menu items.

I use it as a "second-tier" taskbar, for apps I use a lot but maybe not every day. But I don't like how it just throws them all in the same bucket now.