skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
robberies and natural disasters also spur human activity, you know because you have to rebuy everything you lost. This is to say activity has to be productive in at least some fashion. But the whole argument has nothing to do with gaming companies giving money to their users, because unless their software is literally mining coins on user's machine there is no business model.
Wait, doesn't your calendar just update itself for this? This is a pretty weak reason. It changes at most 2 hours.
Yup. Web3 is basically trying to sell people DRM for web culture.
> Note: When you purchase something after clicking links in our articles, we may earn a small commission.

Ok. This article is actually an ad for a 5$ tool that does something to your taskbar. No thank you.
Good question!

Can I give limited power of attorney to a third party to retrieve and my frequent flyer account information?
I still don't understand how he got the title. Earning the GM title requires earning a certain number of GM norms and having achieved (however briefly) a rating of at least a certain value.

You earn a GM norm by playing in a tournament that meets certain criteria for the strength and titles of your opponents and having a strong performance. In the '70s when he got his norms "strong performance" meant I believe a 2551 performance rating.

The rating requirement was 2450 in the '70s.

(Nowadays, you need a 2600 performance to earn a norm, and the rating requirement is 2500).

The article describes how he got the GM norms.

But I don't see how he met the rating requirement. I haven't been able to find complete FIDE rating lists from back then, but he was 2330 on the January 1978 list, and 2340 on January 1979, which was shortly after he got the title. I've not been able to find any published rating above 2380 for him.

For title purposes they do use instantaneous ratings, so for example if someone who was close to meeting the rating requirement were to play a double round-robin tournament with 8 other players and win their first 8 games and then lose their next 8 games, and that was their only activity in the month, then although their published rating would not change if their instantaneous rating after game 8 met the threshold then it would count.

All his published ratings I've found [1] are far enough below 2450 it seems unlikely that he would have that big a difference between an instantaneous rating and an end of month rating.

[1] https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Suradiradja,%20Herman.h...
Meh. Bitcoin maximalism is at least grounded in more pristine principles of fairness.

The rest of the crypto space is little more than an outright grift of insiders who premined a bunch of coins that they then pump and dump on the oblivious masses.

edit to address your ninja edit; of course bitcoin emergently benefits the early adopters who got lucky or took a big risk on it. That's literally how all property works, e.g. if you got lucky enough to buy real estate in New York city 200 years ago and held it.
There's still FUH2 pictures tagged on flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fuh2/

I suspect that something like that for Web3 is coming soon based upon the amount of overall hate I'm seeing.

FUW3.com goes to an asian porn site, but fuweb3.com is available.
fearful symmetry
Accesses and privileges given to you does not always extend to agents acting on your behalf.

Having a driver’s license does not grant someone acting on your behalf the right to drive on public roads if they don’t have their own license. And more directly it also doesn’t grant you the ability to use your autonomous driving software on public roads either.
In a really large company, you're talking maybe ~100-200 people per org. EC2 alone has a massive footprint, for instance. Hundreds of engineers, of whom a dozen are maybe oncall for their respective components. If something goes wrong in, let's say' cloudwatch, but EC2 is impacted, that's dozens of people working to weight their services out of the impacted AZ, change cache settings, bounce fleets, etc.

A lot of the time root cause is solved by a smaller number of people. But identifying root cause and mitigating impact during an event -- and then communicating specifics of that impact -- can fall to a much larger group.

If 1-3 people are actively solving the issue, they do so alone, and give periodic updates to the broader group through a manager or other communication liason.
The web is highly centralized. For example there can be only one facebook.com domain and you need an account to do anything in that walled garden. With an account they will stalk you to death because are the product, not the user.

If it were decentralized then why would I need to go their servers to access my content or the content of my friends. Why don’t I just connect directly to my friend, not through some third party content server, and pull the desired content directly off my friends hard drive? That’s decentralized. Social media is not.

The web gave this up long ago for advertising revenue.
Does it work with Windows 11?
Just how much corruption is known. Even if you make the assumption that people in aggregate can generally assess whether corruption exists somewhere, it'd be harder to measure the 'severity' that way. I actually think you're probably correct that people's perceptions of corruption have some connection to reality, but I think the more fundamental problem with such a scale is boiling a complicated reality like corruption into a single corruption number, which seems pretty silly on its face.
I'm giving a much broader example of what a large company might do for high impact events. I have no idea what the insides of Roblox look like specifically.
Microsoft did something good with Windows 95. Unfortunate they never managed to improve on it.
From the page you linked to:

> The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

Windows 11 probably isn't supported!
I am reminded of Henry Kissinger's comment when Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran went to war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq: "It's a pity they can't both lose."
Check out yup*

https://github.com/jquense/yup
Well, the Python community is a few orders of magnitude larger than the Common Lisp community, so more of a tempest in a teapot situation here.
"...He [Graeber] shows lots of archaeological evidence suggesting that "primitive" pre-historic societies were probably not that simplistic in terms of social relationships, and some were most likely not egalitarian, since, for instance they would present different displays of wealth in how different people were buried."

No doubt that's likely very true (as archeological evidence now suggests it is). However, it seems to me that Rousseau took his more simplistic view as a hypothetical starting point to argue his main one - that of the Social Contract.

He probably reached a larger audience with his small book than grinding it fine by including unnecessary details - just guesswork on his part - about archeological prehistory, of which hardly anything was known in the 1760s.

As it was, Rousseau was influential as witnessed by events in 1789. Some would even argue that he was too influential.
Japan relied on near universal masking (voluntary too, no mandate) and high vaccine take up. Current approved pharmaceuticals are remdesivir etc. refer:

https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/about-pmda/0002.html

If you imply ivermectin has some part in japans strategy, I encourage you to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermect...
I have to admit, as someone who rarely uses the Start button (everything from keyboard) I’ve noticed little difference between 11 and 10. I’ve only left the defaults because nothing has bothered me because I just don’t use it.

Thankfully they didn’t change the Win+x commands.

My biggest gripe with Win 11 is the stability. Reminds me of the early days of Win 10. Periodic blue screens on sleep and sometimes on boot.

Maybe it’s my hardware, but I doubt it. I was just given this laptop by IT and it didn’t come with Win 10 restore media, so this is what I have now.
Counterpoint - I don't have this issue, it's nice and snappy for me, without even any registry tweaks to disable web search (though now that you mention it, I should).
The mattress analogy was perfect and brought about the “aha” realization, so thanks for that!
There's definitely a lack of moral concern involved in web3 -- which in and of itself is a moral position. Solving the crime aspect seems to be the lowest priority problem.
I didn't know that about the Matrix sequel. Being a crusty old moron, as other HNers have accurately labeled me, I thought the first Matrix sucked and so never watched the sequels.

But don't you think it's sad that a modern movie has to reach back in time 35 years to find a good song to use?

(I bought that Sanctuary album back in the 80's, when Brain Pain was broadcasting their metal show weekly. I miss Brain Pain.)
The article has sufficient content to stand on its own. I learned useful information and at the end they provide the $5 as a potential solution, but it's not even the author's recommended solution. If this article were just an ad, why not recommend only the tool?
My #1 issue with Windows 11 is not being able to un-group my taskbar items.

I found having multiple instances of apps open across multiple monitors was extremely painful after using it ungrouped for so many years. And the little dot provided to indicate an open app is worthless. I resorted to StartAllBack to fix it. Everything else has been generally fine for me. So disappointed.

There are several highly voted feedback posts and comments about the taskbar but I don't think I've seen anyone at MS acknowledge any of it.

(Main suggestion is currently at 11k votes. https://aka.ms/AAeyt69)

And as if that wasn't enough, sometimes just clicking the taskbar item does nothing. It can sometimes take several clicks to get it to re-open an app.

https://twitter.com/vyrotek/status/1461748895906553856
> had I been there 30 minutes early Sussman's wife, who proofread the book, would have signed it too!

I have thought that J Sussman not only proofread the book, but also came up with some of the problem sets and tested many of them: she worked through the book, not just a matter of spell-checking.

But I don't know.

In any event, SICP changed my world in a good way. Very cool that you got both authors to sign a copy!
The jumps in prices for Postgres seem pretty high. The next step up from $7 is $28(4x). After that it’s $154(5.5x), and the next step up from that is $1266(8x).

If I outgrow the $154 plan I have to jump to a ~$1300 plan.

Is this right?
Another hit piece article. I think on the ground it’s going better than this is reporting. El Salvador doesn’t need the IMF, they are going to crowd fund their sovereign bonds. Should be interesting!
Cheap shot, but: just the taskbar?

Everyone likes to complain about privacy, telemetry, etc. in Windows. I’d rather have a Windows 7 with telemetry than Windows 11 with no telemetry. Every Windows release just becomes actively more annoying to use.
As a non-Spaniard, I find the feud amusing.

> [...] when the European Union wanted to approve the European Constitution, the Valencian Government did not recognise the official translation wrote in Catalan from Barcelona and forced to have one in Valencian. To preserve the language unity, the Catalan Government accepted the Valencian translation has the official Catalan translation.

Total big brother move.
Part-time is much more difficult to find and much less lucrative than full-time consulting part of the time.

The big leap is you have to give up the perceived stability of your monthly paycheck. You are unemployed and unpaid by default. The easiest way to deal with this is to keep 6-12 months’ worth of living expenses in cash. You can tune your risk this way; less cash, more risk.
I imagine something reminiscent of web3 will exist in the future, but I think it will come from the ground up rather than by the will of our technologic overlords; or a solution in search of a problem.
While this tool doesn't work with Windows11 it's pretty useful if you're still on Windows 10 (or earlier). Another tool I wholeheartedly recommend is the 7+ Taskbar Numberer [0]. This should be default functionality built into windows but I'm happy that someone took the time to build it.

[0] https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-numberer
I made enough money to quit my job over the summer, and moved my 0.03% APY savings account over to an 12% APY yield farm, so you'll have to increment "not one" a couple of times.
What’s your problem? They recommended three different tools, one of which is free. I’ll gladly pay 5 bucks for a good product.
They are well aware of this, which is why they make a great show of caring. But do they really care? The educational results suggest the reality is they don't particularly.
My view of the taskbar: use it to launch your apps. Alternate between them using alt+tab, if there are too many, use another desktop and move your similar apps there.

In my view, if you're using the taskbar for more than that, you're using your computer in a suboptimal way.
Nicely done! Agree the blast dynamics would likely have a substantial effect on the effect. If you watch the satellite view you can see oscillations at the ceiling of the cloud, almost like ripples in water. I wonder if that is what triggered the ripples being reported.
I’d have read it without the user hostile website.
Agreed.

It would be nice if they acknowledged that there were studies suggesting this could be the case since early last year. Its been frustrating living in a world where so many resources were spent making people believe otherwise.
>>A transaction is definitionally something that has been written to the blockchain, so no it isn't.

You can have a smart contract that writes reversible transactions to the blockchain. This would mean that the smart contract imposes a delay for withdrawals, to allow time for any possible requests for reversals. There could optionally be an expedited wirhdrawal upon some set of authorities deeming the balance as finalized and not subject to any reversals.

>>requires secondary solutions that violate the very core philosophy of the data structure in hopes of overcoming just one of its many issues.

Even when you lose some of the benefits of blockchains, via secondary solutions like a reversible transaction smart contract, you retain some benefits, like:

* optionality, e.g. those who are fine with irreversible transactions are free to use them,

* permissionless market entry, e.g. any party is free to deploy their own 'reversible transaction' smart contract, giving payment consumers maximum choice

* stronger guarantees of the integrity of transaction processing, with transparency into any tampering, given the code that executes the transactions, along with the transaction itself, is publicly auditible

* debundling the provision of the different services that are required for transaction processing, by allowing transactions to be processed by immutably open smart contracts that no third party can later close off access to.
The “forward multiple” is the ratio dividing the stock’s current price by its predicted earnings over the next 12 months. You can think of it as a measure of credibility and optimism - do investors believe company predictions to make more money in the next year? And will they grow even more in the future? Tech company stocks dropped some while their predicted earnings kept increasing. Both the numerator and denominator contributed to the decrease in that particular metric.
Big Images, Fast
Seems like a lot of things can cause this issue, additional hard-drives that are in sleep state, networked drives in sleep, internet search.

It's actually a tough design choice with any multi-channel search: Do you start displaying results from the first sources available or do you wait until all sources have reported in?

If you wait you get latency, but if you try to stream results the order/top result can change which is jarring to the user and creates UX race conditions.
Ten years against division of labor in software
I had this same issue, but the only way I have found is to use something like Explorer Patcher [0], but it "solves" the problem by just replace the Win11 bar with the one from Win10

[0]: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
This paper is claiming that the Casimir Effect could be used to generate a "Natario warp drive spacetime", but the validity of that claim is questionable. (As far as I can tell, this paper has not been peer-reviewed so its claims have not been checked by other experts in the field.)

Also, even if the claim about the Casimir Effect is correct, since the Casimir Effect occurs between a pair of uncharged plates, the "warp bubble" would have to be between the plates--but that means the warp bubble can't move the plates, so using it as a "warp drive" would not be possible.
You had me in the first sentence; I actually nodded!
Apple Safari 15 Bug
yup, from churchill no less. who, in his defense, was probably occupied in the about-to-happen world war...
Sure, if you want to install it on a machine that you are already paying for and managing, and then operate the thing yourself. That's obviously a very different product than any [IPS]aaS.
>I think it's a little crazy how worried everyone is about being identified through round about methods in medical data

Do you realize that people were murdered because of their medical history? Like mental illness and ADD were reasons for killing people in America just a couple of decades ago?

And currently, today there places where it is acceptable to drown your own babies if they demonstrate delayed development. Imagine your village elder coming to you and telling you that your baby needs to go in a bucket of water because he has club feet. That is happening. Today.
Because Riak uses vector clocks instead of cell timestamps? Cassandra's ONE/QUORUM/ALL consistency levels otherwise allow tuning for tolerance of CP vs AP, don't they?
The ultimate step backward was that you can’t move the taskbar to right or left or top anymore. It can only remain on the bottom.
> First, unsigned integer underflow and overflow is _not_ UB. It is very well defined operation (wrap-around arithmetic) and the bug in question is not the result of undefined behavior

Shockingly true. Per the C Standard, "6.2.5 Types" paragraph 9:

A computation involving unsigned operands can never overflow, because a result that cannot be represented by the resulting unsigned integer type is reduced modulo the number that is one greater than the largest value that can be represented by the resulting type.
The strange trend of "authoritarian minimalism" design that seems to be working its way through the majority of newer software is very strange. I wonder who actually wants this stuff, and is not content to merely make it a default, but instead forces it to be the one and only way.

Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.

A recent related article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29954266 seems to indicate that not even people inside Microsoft --- who are being forced to use Win11, because MS --- have any say in the matter. It's almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows and is determined to show everyone else how much power they have by making these changes and gloating sadistically at seeing everyone object, but still end up using Windows.

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.
Mary Poppins is certainly JA's other great film.

Roberta Flack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4

Enjoy! It just doesn't get any better than that. Just perfection.
Brian Chesky – Starting today, I am living on Airbnb
It's an attempt to reduce friction. Developers try services like ours out for fun before they use them in anger. Putting a price on the fun stuff keeps people from trying it. It's not that $6.88/mo is too much, it's that >$0/mo is too much for developers who are used to their side projects being subsidized by monopolies or VCs.

People spend a lot of money on infrastructure when they use it in anger. Free apps cost us ~$0.50/mo. If we can sift through 1,000 free users and find one who converts to $25k per month, we're delighted.
Well, it depends. Perhaps they want a multilingual font that looks good? Perhaps they have dyslexia requirements around the characters? Those are both things I would consider if making a design system for the government.

That being said, while this site is already extremely fast, they could cut their first paint times by a further 90% by just reducing their font file sizes.

Since this is a static page, and we want things really fast for all Americans (99 percentile?), maybe subset characters to what's shown above the fold, base64 encode that subsetted font into the document and load the remaining characters async as a fast follow. Bang, great CLS and ~0s FCP.
>The web is highly centralized. For example there can be only one facebook.com domain and you need an account to do anything in that walled garden. With an account they will stalk you to death because are the product, not the user.

Facebook is not "the web". You can opt out of that walled garden and go elsewhere on the web if you want.

>If it were decentralized then why would I need to go their servers to access my content or the content of my friends. Why don’t I just connect directly to my friend, not through some third party content server, and pull the desired content directly off my friends hard drive? That’s decentralized. Social media is not.

Because you and your friends choose to host your content on their servers. If it's that important to share something with your friends, spin up your own website for your friend group. Don't wanna do that? Then get a NAS and show them how to log into it to see your photos. There are countless ways for you to share stuff with your friends that doesn't involve using Facebook, social media or walled gardens.

Hell, by virtue of the web being the web, you can "connect directly to [your] friend, not through some third party content server, and pull the desired content directly off of [your] friends hard drive". SSH, baby!

The web remains decentralized, but everyone chooses to remain in walled gardens.
Is it just me, or is that link only accessible on Windows?

It seems it wants to force open another application, perhaps only available on Windows..
Do you happen to have a source for that?

My understanding is that Napoleon's Continental System caused a shortage of cocoa in continental Europe, so chocolatiers had to substitute in hazelnuts. This became Gianduja[0], which later were modified to become Nutella.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduja_(chocolate)
I was frustrated with it as well. I turned to Power Toys Run and never use the default search anymore.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
Obviously not true != not obviously true.

I think you’ve misunderstood the comment you’re replying to.
In most cases, if you've planned your deployment well (meaning in part that you've specified the rollback steps for your deployment) it's almost impossible to imagine rollback being slower than any other approach.

When I worked at Amazon, oncalls within our large team initially had leeway over whether to roll backwards or try to fix problems in situ ("roll forward"). Eventually, the amount of time wasted trying to fix things, and new problems introduced by this ad hoc approach, led to a general policy of always rolling back if there were problems (I think VP approval became required for post-deploy fixes that weren't just rolling back).

In this case, though, the deployment happened ages (a whole day!) before the problems erupted. The rollback steps wouldn't necessarily be valid (to your "multiple confounding changes" point). So there was no avoiding at least some time spent analyzing and strategizing before deciding to roll back.