skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft did with VBX, OLE and later ActiveX, the entire point was to have embeddable reusable UIs. They sabotaged themselves by tying those to separate products you had to buy though instead of having a simple drag-and-drop form/window designer to put things - basically something like the QBasic equivalent of Visual Basic but also closer to the original idea of VB1 where instead of writing basic code you'd drag connections between controls to activate methods or pipe data between them.

X11 supports this by allowing programs to "swallow" each other - the XEmbed protocol as well as normal IPC can be used for communication between them. Older desktop environments and window managers (CDE, FVWM, etc) can use this to compose programs. Some minimalistic window managers rely on this using single-purpose tools like dmenu.

BeOS, as mentioned elsewhere also has a very limited form of OLE-like functionality.

I'm sure there are others but TBH i think MS came closest, but they abandoned the entire idea after they decided to focus on .NET. FWIW the underlying tech is still there and in theory such QB-like-VB-lite app could be made but nothing really exposes reusable controls anymore so it'd be pointless. After all having the tech and ability is only half the battle at most, you also need applications to support it and nowadays everything GUI is made to be cross platform agnostic so any such solution would need to work everywhere there is a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse - not impossible but much harder nowadays than when computers were synonymous with Windows.
Never bothered learning powershell, it’s just too verbose for my taste. bash has been my shell for two decades, not going to change anyone soon.
Better than 20 minutes isn't a high bar to pass
Probably the best case for no advertising is Tesla: they still did loads of marketing, just not any direct web/tv/etc advertising.
This is actually mingw-based, not cygwin. Regardless it still works very well.
https://www.benibela.de/index_en.html

All my old coding projects. Static HTML generated from XML files with XQuery implemented in Pascal. Before that I was generating it with a custom Java-based generator language, which had a rudimentary version of functions, loops, and XPath, but mostly did string concatenation. Before that I had a Delphi-based generator, which only did string replacement, to create the same HTML layout. Is it not interesting that I ported it from Pascal to Java back to Pascal, because Pascal had much better performance than Java?
The Russians I've known often contrast themselves with Europeans in exactly those terms.
Always look for kickbacks if there are cases where the company ends up being out more money all-in. These decisions should not have been made in this way, and it isn't always incompetence that drives this.
That's a reasonable question.. I think it's worth considering the users of Mathematica as near or overlapping. It might be possible to go through GitHub and find the number of Mathematica projects and then categorize them to get an approximation.

Also, this is very tenuous, but I see a lot of similarity between Wolfram's automata (not this new work) and Lattice Boltzmann methods. Both have been around since the 70s/80s and it makes me wonder a little about primacy but a lot about where he's gotten to with all this. Very intriguing
Definitely a space where Kube shines!
You can, but many CMSs (WordPress specifically) do not. They serve a dynamic page.
There are consultants that make quite a bit of money writing glue software that automates processing of data through the various Office applications.
> Linux on the other hand is just better for people who don't value their time as much and are happy to tinker with things at a very low level

You criticize the author for lacking self awareness, but then turn around and do the same.

Many linux users (myself included) do not spend time 'tinkering'. I've had the same experience as the author. I've used linux almost exclusively since around 2000 and the few times I have to use windows, I'm completely stuck. It takes forever to get things done. Just helping my parents out with simple things like 'move these files', 'rename these photos', etc take hours and hours of work, whereas on linux it's like a minute.

> Linux is not really a viable alternative for most mainstream non technical users.

Perhaps that's true, but technical users are ... still users.

> They're spinning a lot of plates, which is why it feels and looks the way it does to some extent.

That's great, and while it may excuse their poor operating system, it doesn't suddenly make it a great OS.
Sure there is. A healthy business' best assets are its customers, and happy customers will tell their friends about your business when it comes up appropriately. Word of mouth is worth far more than web advertising ever will be.
Realtime app to display broadcast, presence, and DB listening over WebSockets
Hard to define something correctly when the definition has been wrong for 50 years.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu... <--- 2021
If you want to please corporate, maybe suggesting Suse is a good idea. I have a VM for remote desktop with OpenSuse and it has been good so far.
Really? It's balanced even though the only advantage he gave to Windows is that firmware updates happen automatically?

It's about the most biased thing I've ever read. He even lists some advantages (it doesn't have two different copy/paste buffers) as a disadvantage.

What happened to:

* Hardware all works mostly without issue.

* Software is easy to install even if it isn't in the official store (e.g. apt).

* Power management (sleep etc.) works reliably.

* Settings are almost all GUI-accessible. You rarely have to fiddle on the command line etc.
You don't need coreutils on Windows if you just embrace PowerShell. It has everything you need built in. Grep, wget, curl, jq, you name it and PowerShell already has it.

For environment variables you only have to set them via the environment variable:

$env:SOMETHING = 'something'
I haven't personally experienced that issue on a Mac accept for one with some awful corporate software that prevented sleep from working.
Because he's delusional and thinks anything to do with him adds value and/or elicits a positive emotional response: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/mark-zuckerberg-employees-c...
>and depending on the organic search from the get go?

You don't even need search, as some businesses to which search and ads are essentially useless haven proven. Think of closed/invite-only community platforms: they will have little value to anyone who just gets there via an ad or search, since they have no entryway to any community.
I come here each day to see if something has rocked the tech world. I mean some event that affects us all and the technical work that we do each day. If there's a new vuln discovered in the Linux kernel, or there's a new Heartbleed or Log4j type vuln, then I need to know that ASAP so that I can mitigate & patch accordingly.

I also do a quick scan for services, products, & utilities that I can leverage going forward. But they're rare enough, so it's not like I'm drowning in innovation on here.
This is looking good, will have to give it a try. I’ve tried using zapier multiple times over the years and always found it a bit too simplistic.

This looks like it may be in the sweet spot of flexible enough to do something more advanced, but would save me the effort building out the integration steps manually.
If you lose the perspective that “a single reality exists and we all share it- regardless of the degree to which we actually understand it” then you’re lost to science. What your doing is no longer science and is in fact just politics.
Full-service just means it's dispensed by an employee rather than by the pilot. (The practical implication is "you can buy fuel only when the business selling fuel is open, or pay a call-out fee".) This could be dispensed from a fuel truck (most common for full-serve) or from a pump.

Self-service means there's a pump with a credit card and a really long hose, that would look familiar to what you see at an auto filling station.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there are some pilots who learned in a small (prop) jet at this point. Such planes are not cheap, but they do exist and it's not as though the airline wants you to have specifically piston experience because the airline only owns jets anyway.
The target group of the article (and hacker news) was mostly directed to "mainstream non technical users"?
That's an interesting take, yes it would imply that the universe was in fact created by god(s), or at least the algorithm that generated the universe was.

But I think it will also mean that we're wholly inconsequential on an individual level. Why allow us to see 93 billion light-years of space if the universe isn't littered with all sorts of interesting stuff, like other life, stuff they're interested in simulating and letting evolve by itself to see what happens.

We're probably not special at all and there's absolutely no reason to interfere with us individually, it defeats the point of the simulation I'd assume and that's where most religions fall apart, they assume there's individual value, that you can pray and receive, that we go some place after we die, so I may have to say yes to gods, no to most religions' takes on what that means. Maybe excluding buddishm because it actually can hold up to simulation theory I believe.

I will assume that all we see isn't managed at all, just spawned into existance once and allowed to evolve freely to be researched.

But all we can really do is speculate, and all may be wrong because we can't even begin to imagine what our "parent" universe looks like, what the beings there feel or think, and why they created all this! Or the whole theory is bogus, equally possible :)
not unit testing but a good talk on one team's testing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m5zrfTFKf_E
one example: sqlite3 has more testing code than its own code, so it can swap the whole design at will once a while, it is working there. unit testing is essential to me.
>> not that I would ever recommend that for a company who wants their employees to be productive.

That's a little odd to read considering you've got your whole family on it. I could imagine a lot of work going into internal software for the most part, are there other reasons you'd advise against it these days?
How Modern Art Serves the Rich (2018)
*>things like 'move these files' [...] take hours and hours of work

Just how, may I ask? I never needed more than a few seconds to trigger the moving files action via the GUI.
When it comes to human longevity, we're focusing on the wrong thing; we shouldn't be trying to keep ourselves alive for longer in old age, we should be trying to extend the prime part of our lives (let's say currently 20-50).

I would take a shorter life overall if I'm at peak condition for longer.
Safari for Windows was a side effect of the porting work that was happening on the Store to move away from a custom renderer to just using WebKit. And the reason iTunes on Windows was the way it was, and indeed, why iTunes on Mac stayed in this hellacious status for so long, is that it was built on _QuickTime_, which brought most of the Mac Toolbox over to Windows, and then -- eventually -- Carbon.
Devils Advocate: They need to evaluate very carefully the switch. If an engine was designed to run on 100LL then there's a switch to G100UL then care must be taken to ensure it won't mess up the engine. We're not talking about a land based engine (like a car) where if the engine stops you just coast over to the side of the road and call a tow truck. You're talking about an emergency landing which means possible damage to people and property other than the pilot and plane. Many of the general aviation planes out there were built in the 60's and 70's so the FAA needs to be sure it won't cause problems.
Enterprise and Pro editions don't have the same bloat as Windows Home, in my experience. Since the author is using a work computer, it's likely that they didn't encounter Candy Crush pre-installed and pinned to their start menu.
Ok:

- enable sleep after 20mins

- enable hibernate, after 50mins

- disable all timers interrupts

That would make your machine hibernate itself w/o dumb restarts, activity. Ugly as ugly goes, but it appears to be better
The author made an excellent point in TFA:

If you do your SEO right and use advertising to build up some brand recognition, you reach the point where your web site appears on the first page of search results alongside your paid ad for your web site.

However, Google has designed their search results to encourage clicking on the ads, so many users who actually find you with search will click the ad you are paying for instead of the search result for your site.

The author presents empirical evidence that not paying for ads doesn't reduce traffic, because users will click the site in the search results, instead of clicking the ad.

That is very much a point, and one that can save people a lot of money if they test it and find their site adn advertising have the same dynamics.
The absolute insanity was, that this drove bread prices through the roof, as us surplus was converted from food-aid output into ethanol and thus started the arab spring and syrian civil war. This law dominoed into ISIS.
The Morning After: OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 is imagination meets AI image generation
The whole multiple design languages in the UI is insane and I can't believe they didn't fix it by Windows 11... rather they're poking at it slowly / poorly.

But aside from that Windows is fine for me... I don't find there's anything I can't do easily.

"I am a software & web developer - and Linux is a toolbox, full of highly polished tools, crafted over decades by software developers, for software developers. Windows is… not that. It’s a commercial OS, aimed at users of Word, Excel & Outlook, pretty much. You can feel this difference all the time that you’re using it - it pervades everything."

Isn't this just familiarity?

When I use Linux I hardly imagine it to be some magic developer playland, at least not without a lot of my own work put into it to make it so... just like my experience in Windows.
After being a regular reader for years and finally getting fed up with the increasing restrictions on their paywall, I bought a digital subscription in late 2019. I could have done it through their app on iOS and - eventually - gained the ability to cancel right there if I wanted to as it's now in the App Store TOS for Reader apps, but the web offer was too good to pass up.

~$1 per week for a year, IIRC.

I think the process may be improved enough at this point that there is a web cancellation procedure available.

("Subscription Overview" when you are signed in to your account has a link to do this part.)

As for this change, I'm pleasantly surprised that they are following the "good" convention for foreign language sites that also publish in English:

E.g, https://example.{{ Insert country-specific TLD}}/en/

That said, URL's to articles are still a bit of a mess, as the this one shows...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/2022-presidential-election/article...

Click through for the whole thing and you see `/article` is redundant and it's not just in English, the French articles follow the same weird convention.

Not sure why they've done that.
TLDR seems to be, advertising might be helpful when you are starting out, but once you are established it is probably a waste of money.
There never is time to refactor.
I would guess the original file structure was designed for hard drives, and was never changed. When storing on a hard drive, you want the data in a single file to be located physically close together, which becomes more difficult if you're splitting up the file when you make metadata changes.

Or, if the article's speculation is correct, Apple designed their formats assuming only 5kb of empty space would be allocated, which was insignificant even for the 1st Gen iPod's 5 GB hard drive. No reason to do more complicated stuff if a simple solution works. It only becomes a problem when people don't bother to keep track of how much empty space is being added automatically.
I can't disagree more with this. Absolutely do not bring a living person into this world in a coin flip over whether or not it might mean something to your own fulfilment.

I am a parent, and absolutely love it and find it extremely rewarding, but it's a ton of work and sacrifice. If both me and my wife were not going into it deliberately with the expectation of what it would entail, it would probably end up bad for everyone involved, especially the involuntary participants (our kids).

No one can tell you what it's like to be a parent, but do not become one without being prepared to put them first for a couple of decades.

If you are, then kids are amazing, and have brought us more joy than anything previously. Just be prepared for the cost (not just literally). I have seen plenty of regretful parents, even if never explicitly expressed.
we have to live with our time, so we use English as needed, like at work, where nearly all communications are in English or when using sources in English.

Though some of us still can't stand some of the Anglosphere, that hasn't changed. And the average level in English isn't as good as in other Europeans countries.
Government doesn't have to be incompetent, ours has been made incompetent on purpose by parties interested in and ideologically in favor of dismantling it. They push the idea that everything the government does[0] is inefficient, corrupt, and does more harm than good, then they set about proving it when they are elected.

[0] Except the authoritarian police they require to put down protests or protect their property, or the military they use to secure resources in other countries, both on the taxpayer dime of course.
Reading this in Paul’s voice makes this all the better. Check out their YouTube channel for more of his wit and sarcasm.
Are there often legal issues around not paying for services with annoying contracts? In the US it is not super uncommon to pay after consuming (this is how electricity typically works for example) or for services to offer some grace period where they'll keep providing service with the expectation that you'll pay back later. Hypothetically these companies could I guess sue you if you don't pay back later (I'm not sure actually -- more likely I guess they'd send it to collections). But if the default way to cancel a service was to just stop paying for it, then I guess companies would change how they billed (fundamentally I think paying beforehand would be more convenient for most consumers).
https://coomiverse.xyz

It's a 3D multiplayer P2E adult game I am developing with a friend in my spare time. Think VRChat or Second Life mixed with play to earn and crypto. We got 3D models finished and are working on the game now (using unity webgl).
I cancelled the NYT through chat, but I'm in the EU so that might have made a difference.
rasppi is a niche product. There will never be mass consumer appeal. Just like how you don't see advertisement for Ergodox keyboards. Even if they spent money on ad campaign, it will likely not move the revenue needle
Well, if we had a actual sample of covid, I may believe this but we don't so yeah, I'm going to go with bullshit.
Now imagine what effect that has on commercial pilots who are already working, and want to seek medical help for mental health issues. Risk losing your medical, and your job, or just carry on as if everything's fine?
If they would have explicitly declared their continuity, it will be easier for Russian government to pursue them, even abroad.
Show HN: SnapAlgo, Algorand on MetaMask
i think it refers to a disorganized "whatever you worked on last is on top of the pile" methodology.
Windows, sure, but OS X? Not in my experience. It's been rock solid and utterly reliable.
I've found the new version of WSL plus the Windows Terminal pretty good. I have a small side project using Docker/Docker Compose and it was pretty easy to get WSL to talk to Docker for Windows just as if I were using my work Mac using Docker for Mac.

There's still all of the numerous headaches of Windows, but everything has its own headaches. My work Mac for example, loses its monitor arrangement for my dual monitors about once every other day, so much so that I have a shell script to fix it.
Can you share this design? My nephew spends untold hours playing Gravitrax.
Yeah, I was surprised that even with Windows 11, we still have some subsystems using the old interface. It is better than it was (Windows 8... having to look in multiple places to change various settings, yuck), but still far from consistent. I do wonder why they didn't (couldn't?) update everything to the latest standard by now.

BTW, you can theoretically set "active hours" for Windows, so that updates and such don't bother you so much. This is far better than it was, where Windows would basically say "I'm going to restart, you have 5 minutes to save your work". [1]

If you need to run X apps remotely, there are various X servers you can get. I've been using X410 with PuTTY successfully, though most of the time I'm in WSL instead.

Also, since you did skip the last 15 years, you have missed the "joy" of UAC prompts with Windows Vista, so you should count yourself lucky there.

[1] OK, it wasn't quite _that_ bad. But it was kind of bad.
This is pretty misinformed. Each provider has multiple “serverless” offerings and cold start time has much to do with your specific application and what it’s doing on start up.
I have three machines: Linux, Windows and a Mac.

The uptime of my Linux machine (general server/media machine) is… A few months at least. Probably half a year at this stage.

The Mac (main work machine) has an uptime of at least 1-2 weeks.

The Windows (gaming) machine. Haha, no. Turn off in the evening, start up in the morning. Loads Steam UI in full screen, and nothing else. Given its purpose, I feel a mixture of love and loathing towards it.

So, my personal experience agrees with yours, with the exception of MacOS. It'll definitely be where I left it.
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Apologies if I missed it but curious about how much weight each factor has? Are they equal?

What happens if you remove "popularity"?
Like 99.99% of news, it's just infotainment, neither important nor useful for informing your day-to-day actions, and you miss nothing by ignoring it. In fact, you're probably better off ignoring it, as it primarily contributes only noise and emotional reactions, which serve only to distract you.

So I do what you do: I just hoard tabs. Not just for HN, but for a lot of things I may want to read. Then I move on with my life. Some I eventually come back to read, some I don't. Either way is inconsequential to me and my life.
>> Meanwhile China throws caution to the wind and innovates like we used to.

Not in aviation they don't. Why? Because there are two certification bodies, FAA and EASA. Anyone who wants to fly anything in the world has to certify his tech with those two (unless it is used purely domestic, but than it can hardly be called aerospace or aviation). That includes Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, European and North / South American manufacturers.

The reason why certification standards are what they are is safety. Aviation became one of the safest industries for a reason. The 737 MAX debacle showed pretty well what happens when those standards are not adhered to. Is it a slow process? Sure it is, but it is what it is for very valid reasons.
I suspect that most of these are ran by corrupt officers / agents that can just take credit for the shut down themselves.
The Witness was an interesting case where the Steam Controller was the perfect deice to play it with. The joystick worked as a WASD keys, and the touch-pads as a mouse, which let me play with a gamepad, whilst having the dexterity for the puzzles.
> to OVH AI Docker.

Can't find an OVH product by that name (would have surprised me), is this a buzzword bingo joke?