skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use StartAllBack for the vertical taskbar. On a dual-monitor setup, I want the taskbars centered between the monitors and not waste valuable space. Without StartAllBack, I’d have stayed on 10. I can’t understand why anyone would want a horizontal taskbar unless they are using portrait mode (or have a lot of icons).

Most other things I’m fine with. The Start menu is better than in 10 (not that it matters, I use Keypirinha as launcher), I don’t need text for my icons, and I can easily see which Windows have multiple instances.

Overall, I like the changes in 10 (again with the caveat of needing a 3rd party tool to fix the taskbar).
If you use PagerDuty your choices are limited.
Yeah I've met two Metro/Modern designers during my internship at MS and both used MacBooks. One of them do most of his work in parallels.
If by ad blocker you mean a browser plugin, then I do not have one of these.

I use a hosts file that ignores many ad hosts at the DNS level.

No need for a low performance solution.
> working on Wall Street

I worked on Wall Street. It was a horrendous combination of boring, stressful, and full of assholes.

Almost all of the other things you listed are available in other cities that are cheaper, easier to get around in, friendlier, cleaner, and warmer.

And you can't do any of those things with your friends if you don't have friends, if your friends work the typical NYC 8am-8pm (including commute), or if you're too tired from all the bullshit you have to do just to survive on a day to day basis.
For me it took 6 months before the pain was reduced to "infrequent", I'm back to exercising almost to the full extent now as I was in July.

I received a diagnosis of pericarditis and had persistent tachycardia, mildest strain and my heart rate would shoot to 170 BPM not going below 85 while lying down. Now I'm back to normal and my resting heart rate is now 50-55 BPM.
https://github.com/hardenedvault/bootkit-samples
Rikai SQL for humans to yolov5 any image
Casio launches text-powered vocal synthesis keyboard
YM/YPM aged so well!
this and the amount of additives we have in our food supply here in the us. many of the color additives have been studied and many are considered immunosuppressants and abundantly found in many many many foods that you wouldn’t even think of, check out the app yuka, it allows you to scan upc codes and it will give you a readout of all the studies on each additive a product has and whether it has any adverse affects. many hazardous additives are allowed to be used in our food supply.
This thread was diverted from questioning alcohol as a poison in "any amount " to culture war. This is the borderline astroturfing that destroys communities. Turn every discussion into a political one. I no longer read Slashdot knowing I'll find commenters with more insight than the OP, because they're buried in fragile outrage. Sorry I'm making it worse, just this thread, which should be a few references on each point, became panic and FUD disorientingly fast.
In XP you had to revert to classic desktop to turn off the Fisher-Price.
> No we don't. These are acts of war. We're at war with Palestine.

You keep insisting on this historical revisionism. When did this war start? Between which two states is it happening? When did the declaration of war happen? At most, you can call this is a civil war, since it is taking place entirely on Israel's territory (according to Israel's own definition!).

The more historically correct way to look at it is that there is a resistance movement fighting against Israel's occupation. This is the simple, undeniable historical truth.

Israel is, undeniably, the original aggressor against the people of Gaza and the West Bank, though over the years there have been many heinous acts committed by all parties.
Harvard just launched a beautiful tribute to web accessibility
32 bits is more than enough network address space for a small-scale university experiment.
Cosmic Coincidences of Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter
https://archive.is/6a0wM
> If we can sift through 1,000 free users and find one who converts to $25k per month, we're delighted.

Does this ever happen? I was contacted by a F500 who needed some custom version of my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash). 25k sounds unreal but hey I have no experience in purchasing enterprise grade software and it's not simple to find actual figures so I was aiming at making an offer at 2.4k/month. Is it a rock bottom figure in enterprise grade software?
Maybe it's their second shot to enter once again in the tablet operating system market? Seeing how Android-based tablets aren't really getting as solid nor as popular as iPads, Microsoft might spin off a new tablet experience but now more slowly compared to Windows 8. I might be one of the few noticing it but Apple is also dabbling on trying to replace a desktop/laptop with a tablet with their M1-powered iPad Pro. I also know a hand few of people who now prefer an iPad (usually including an Apple Pencil) from a laptop, more specifically students.
But using Euro suddenly increased labour cost, they lost a critical advantage.
Running a red light is dangerous, therefore let's remove red lights..
Now I wish it had been. That's hilarious.
I don't mean to derail this conversation, but what the ____ is this aka.ms? I go there and it asks if it can open some app I've never heard of. The app takes forever to open and when it finally does it shows me a minimalist login screen. I didn't try going past that. What's wrong with having a web page to take feedback? Why does it require a separate sluggish app?
70% of Omicron tweets not skeptical of science! Yay!
After the last two presidents America has elected, having an opinion on the heads of state of other countries seems a little bit rich. A clown, a geriatric, what's next? Clown 2? The imf is and has always been the greatest repressive force preventing development and state sovereignty. Nothing good comes from the imf ever. Especially if you're not in the west
Of course it's absurd but a lot of research has been done into what motivates people to make so-called discretionary purchases (that is, most anything above the level of bare necessities at the lowest feasible price, if you can afford it) and other life decisions which are essentially purchase-like. And not surprisingly, a lot of this motivation has to do with (relative) status and image, and the ability to project it. As applies to everything from what clothes you wear and what car you drive, to where you go to school and what neighborhood you live in, etc.

I won't call the following article "research" but it does seem to capture the spirit of this line of thinking:

https://buffer.com/resources/people-dont-buy-products-they-b...
> We do skip step B, and “synchronous” communication happens in Slack. Even then, it’s still async. I’ll message a teammate today and have no expectation they would respond until their timezone comes around again. If needed, it would be a video call. Plus, Slack messages are also aggregated into the internal search tool.

Recall the original article. When you do async communication in Slack, you're encouraging laziness in the sense that people will just write "Hello" as if it were synchronous communication. Email encourages people to write full letters for asynchronous communication. This improves the quality of asynchronous communication, compared to Slack.

If you engage in synchronous communication over Slack, then you're engaging in a relatively inefficient way to communicate synchronously compared to a telephone / video call or meeting. Furthermore, unless you sit in a formal meeting, you rarely have the knowledge base open in front of you to be edited as part of the meeting, thereby ensuring that the meeting produced something. If you allow synchronous communication to happen over Slack, then yes, that's searchable, but unless it happens in a public channel, it's not searchable by everyone, and Slack makes it too easy to screenshot discussion, promoting cover-your-ass behavior even for one-off statements made during "synchronous" discussion.

In short, Slack is an anti-tool.
It's more than a few pennies! They're pinching multiple dollars. Tariffs on shoes are a big deal like that.
Other than Heroku, there is no app deployment platform with databases right ?

Even vercel doesn't have a database layer. Fly.io again gives VM - not an managed app layer.
Agree with point 2. But 2&3 are somewhat orthogonal.
That is not the only useful thing which which has come out of cryptocurrencies. There is also Filecoin, which provides a similar service to S3 but at a wildly cheaper price point. There are also more examples of actually useful things you can do today.

However, when the OP says something like there isn't a single use it doesn't take a basket of use-cases to refute them, it just takes one example.

Do you really think that $12.75B is going into pointless NFTs?
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This is a common autocomplete/top-result UX mistake. If typing a substring of X autocompletes to X, then typing more of that substring of X, contiguously, must also autocomplete to X. This is a no-brainer (having the result change before you can stop yourself from hitting enter is easily one of the most frustrating things in all UX). However, it seems like people implementing clever auto-complete rules just don't care (I absolutely refuse to believe it's ignorance - it's impossible to be unaware of this problem if you're implementing autocomplete).

I assume the issue is poor decision making about rule conflicts. E.g., what's higher priority: Consistency, or exact-match? E.g. if "photo" auto-completes to "Photoshop", should "photos" auto-complete to "Photoshop" or "Photos"? I think it's "obvious" that consistency is more important here. If the user wants "Photos" despite opening "Photoshop" more often, let them configure the search explicitly to prioritize it, or allow them to select from a list of multiple matches.

And that's just a comparison against a single conflicting rule. Now imagine all the obscure rules they've implemented, for reasons varying from a misguided drive for "features" to nefariously pushing the user to click on what they want them to.
Azure has a better product (Cosmos is damn good) and Google engineers have too much hubris to import something from lowly Amazon engineers.
Nit: that study is cigarettes. There is more to tobacco than nicotine, such as harmala alkaloids and miscellaneous MAOIs.

Either way, that's super interesting.
Render. Digital Ocean.
Most of the opinions here are entirely subjective, including mine. I personally find all versions of Windows to be annoying and suck which is one of the reasons I switched to Linux and now use Sway and a minimalist launcher named wofi, with Waybar. Not only is Sway, wofi, and Waybar incredibly lightweight but it goes to show how much unnecessary bloat there is on Windows.
My contention is that you don't have to presuppose the higher performance was a result of higher discrimination in the first place, my contention is that you can argue that "merit" as measured by academic achievement and standardized testing is not worthy of its status.

It's clear that diversity programs lead to the intake of those who are worse test takers. Yet companies who hire more diverse people correlate to companies which have better financial outcomes for investors. Yet school systems systemically put certain students who cover lots of material and do well on tests into special classes, put them in the best schools, put them into the best jobs, in spite of this observation. These students, so the idea of merit goes, will be more productive and the benefits they have to society will trickle down to the rest, yet in practice what we see in society is a society stratified where those who are part of communities where there are fewer good test takers are disadvantaged.

My contention is more fundamental, it's an attack on the very validity of the testing itself, and testing determines who gets into programs like gifted classes. Testing in practice has the purpose of discrimination in favour of an elite few, is inherently contentious and ripe for political assault.
Life Without Bug Tracking: Creating Software Without a Bug Tracker
10-20 minutes? I heard it go on for over an hour, and I live in Fiji.
the large cloud providers also have their own variants.
By what definition is crypto a ponzi scheme?
This might be an old man yelling at clouds, but I feel like virtual environments should be used for development and testing, but not for deployment. I'm development and testing, virtual environments let you test the package against many different versions of the dependencies. Using it for deployment, though, means that after a security hotfix, the admin needs to hunt down each utility's copy of a dependency, rather than just updating the one shared copy of the dependencies.
Better founder Vishal Garg, who did mass Zoom layoff, returns as CEO
Oof. Same here. Why does this happen all these years later? High school years must have really messed a lot kids up.
Development of land increases living space …

More lucrative apartment prices ensure more profitable development …
For devs I think it matters less. But, yeah, for designers on the _Windows Desktop Experience Team_ to not be using their own product for day to day work is absurd to me. It sounds like a joke: "The people who designed this shitty feature don't even use it themselves", but alas, it appears to be the truth.
Thank you another book/trilogy to add to the reading list.
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> Other than Heroku, there is no app deployment platform with databases right ?

Are we not counting the major public clouds as “app deployment platforms” now?
What I learn from this is issue is partly because of not proper use "Go Channels" and open source product "BoltDB"
> most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows

Why are they allowed to work on Windows? Even car salesmen are often required to drive the same car as the one they're selling.
What they're implying is that we should connect the dots.

It's pretty obvious which demographic the bill is aimed at, despite its race-neutral language.

The beauty of this legislation is that its net effect will be to stoke the "woke mob" even further by confirming their fantasies about white fragility. Thus further promoting divisiveness and distrust. Which is of course what they sides ultimately want.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060620170803/http://news.yahoo....

Never forget someone is always left without a chair when the music stops.
The main distinction is that airlines generate economic activity via tourism, shipping, and cultural exchange. Cryptocoins generate mostly black market activity; corruption is generally considered bad. If airlines disappeared today, people would still travel, with more time but only one order of magnitude more energy efficiency. If BTC disappeared tomorrow, people would would make most of the same transactions with more time efficiency, and six orders of magnitude less energy.

5-10% of people take a flight every year. For the US and Australia, it’s roughly half of all people. [1] is from a climate interest group.

Supposedly 3.9% of people worldwide own cryptocoins. Thought that stays would support my argument more but I suspect lots of hodling and not much trading.

[1]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d30896202a18c0001b49...
Bitcoin drops below $40k amid crypto slide after Russia proposes ban
There are very few languages without depth of tradition, either/and oral or written. And your premise is predicated on "the best future" being an objective standard that all people seek, which is by and large, not the case.

I don't disagree with your position in the abstract, but I think its a little too rigid for a world growing both increasingly "small" and contactable in all spaces, yet parochial in terms of people wanting to hold onto their local traditions.

The two can in fact coincide, if everyone realizes that seeking total homogeneity isnt that great of a goal, even if it helps 'scaling'.
I was so sad when during development of windows 10 microsoft replaced very functional start menu which was very good incremental refinement of windows 7 start menu with monstrous seed of start menu we currently have.

Windows 10 is absolutely wonderful but start menu is such a lost opportunity for having something useful in that spot.
That would return us from the rule of law back to the rule of men. History hasn't been kind to the rule of men.
One thing i recently attempted (and still looking into it as i have time to work on it) was to do a usbip-bridge for webusb. The idea is using a device attached to user's machine and exposing it to a vm in cloud. There are various use cases for this.

So far - i could only bridge USBIP communication, not much success with binding a proxied usb to a vm.

Did you see something like this?
Chasing after the Apple aesthetic doesn't work because they're not Apple. Design works holistically and you can't extricate it and expect success.

To make this obvious, let me use an analogy. If a vegan restaurant found a very successful steakhouse and decided to copy their decor of say game animal heads and rifles on the wall, it would probably decrease their sales regardless of how faithfully they match the aesthetics.

The context matters. Also the fact that both imaginary businesses are in the same industry of serving food isn't enough of a similarity. It's quite specific.

And even if the contexts match, the pursuit just makes them seen as a knockoff; a laggard, an imitation.

The goal isn't to meet the competition, it's either to beat it or be somewhere else.

Intentionally making yourself a 2nd rate Apple isn't a positioning strategy; they could simply introduce a discount line and knock you out in a single blow. It's phenomenally stupid
Also see Benn Jordan's review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU7dQ6CIlaY
Dealt with 'administratively'.
These are felons interfering with international flights and need to be dealt with as such. This was a successful political hijacking.
Reminds me of a discussion at a students' senate meeting on campus a few years back, when they were discussing banning tobacco smoke everywhere including in the parks away from buildings. People who noted that PM2.5/PM10 emissions from construction sites (ubiquitous at the time), or even BBQs, where much greater than cigarettes, even if all people on campus were chain smoking (we maybe had 5% smokers), were ostracized. The times we live in lol.
That is not surprising. If you aren't paying for the highest bitrate stream then it's not a fair comparison. HBO Max's highest bitrate is far more like Netflix's mid-tier option. What's weird is that movies that were released on HBO Max like Dune are in great quality and a much higher bitrate.

TBH it's a bit strange to pay the premium for an OLED but then not be willing to pay for the highest bitrate. The fact that it's called 4K and it's technically in 4K is a bit misleading. Plus having Dolby Vision will make a huge difference when watching on an OLED.
You likely run only a small subset of those millions of lines, because the bulk of those are in drivers and arch-specific code..
Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix: What Might Have Been
Meanwhile in Palo Alto, I was spending hours every workday trying to get a Terraform apply to complete without crashing out thanks to my apartment's crappy, crappy internet connection. Hell yeah, remote work!
Can confirm. SD cards can fall in 5-7 years due to cell voltage drift, and unplugged SSDs can have bitrot that overwhelms onboard ECC in less than a year.

HDDs don't fare substantially better, though: bitrot can happen in under a decade due to magnetic entropy/polarization decay.

Of course, your mileage may vary, and you may be lucky and get stuff off your 30 year old SCSI drive...
I've seen that too in Win10, with several different apps with different names. The 'terminal' for example, s.t. some other gizzy (web page? I don't know) instead of the terminal, which I use ever day (so it's not like what comes up first is your most frequently used app whose name begins with the letters you've typed so far). Extremely annoying, have to wait until it settles and hope that you can cursor down (or up) to the app you really want.
> You don't need to "compete with Disney";

I'd say that it depends. I think some cultures seem to have their own creative thing going on that resists the homogenizing effect of American movies and TV[0]. Those cultures don't need to compete with Hollywood. Others might, and that's probably not a winning strategy.

> If you think about production that way, then it just becomes a budget measuring game, and everyone in the industry winds up producing largely similar mass-market works.

This is a pretty common complaint about current media in the US though. So maybe that's already happening?

> The best way to compete with Disney is to offer something they aren't (and, ideally, couldn't).

Oh yes, this was entirely my point. Bollywood, Russian literature, and Manga were three examples I picked out at random. It seems like some cultures produce identifiable examples of this, and others do not. But that might also be more a consequence of which ones I've observed, rather than the cultures themselves.

> Thing is, Sweden (or any of the other countries that regularly import most of their culture from America) doesn't need their own Disney. Nor do they need cultural protection laws or a bunch of anglohostile novelists[1]. They just need novelists, in general. Lots of them, and writing works exclusively in Swedish.

Agreed! Although I suspect that anglohostility is probably a helpful trait if your goal is to resist the encroachment of English. Although that's probably not strictly necessary; my understanding is that anglohostility is characteristic of the French literary scene and not say, Manga. But I could be wrong. I don't think cultural purity laws work.

But the question is, does Sweden have a lot of novels writing only in Swedish in order to preserve and foster Swedish culture and language? Or are they getting swamped with external stuff? I genuinely don't know.

> France acts like the Red Sox of the former brutal colonists club sometimes, and I really find it irksome.

That seems to be the near universal assessment of the France, which is entertaining to me.

> Nobody in the Anglosphere cared or even knew about Polish literature or game development until The Witcher.

Much to the Poles annoyance, I'm sure. The relatively low rate of breakthroughs of non-English works into American culture is interesting though. I'm not sure if that speaks more to Polish literature (in this case) or American media culture.

0 - The funny thing is that the Soviets regularly accused America of being a cultural desert compared to the USSR. It's kind of hard to square the argument that capitalism doesn't produce a lot of (or good) culture with the complaint that Hollywood is part of US soft power doctrine.
My washer and dryer have non-tactile keys that require long-presses. Same for the oven. Fridge has an LED screen that lights up the kitchen at night (why?). Also non-tactile. Over time I find myself pressing my body-weight into the buttons.

Also small appliances like pressure cookers, air-friers have gaudy LEDs with non-tactile buttons, and irritating charms.

Now for a positive example: my italian Gaggia Espresso machine : 3 large rocker switches and 2 status LEDs. It could easily be operated by touch alone. And I expect it to last 30 years with adequate maintenance. And besides the mechanism, no extraneous noises whatsoever.
Not snarky at all.

Pinterest is primarily focused on images and is a social network with a set audience. While you can have a private experience there it’s not quite their intention.

Bleep is meant for personal/private use and it supports notes, images, links, and the ability to group them all in whatever hierarchy you see fit.

More block types and customization options are coming and ultimately the ability to decide how you want to share/collaborate on your content.