skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never spent much time on Windows machines but I _love_ cmd-` on the Mac. I mean, I have a whole rant about how its ordering behavior changed on Lion for the worse but I love having windows grouped by application and picking the app I care about before picking the window I care about. I have never understood why so many people use a single chrome window for all of their tabs but I think it comes from not being experienced with cmd-`. For me, I group tabs in my browser by subject, most commonly, by google search query, and then I can close them all at once when I'm done with them.

I've actually started braking more websites out into their own fluid.app so that I can cmd-tab to them specifically. Jira, Github, Gmail (well, when I used gmail) all get their own app so I don't have to go hunting for that single tab in my browser, making my browser window management that much easier.

If you're interested in that, I pair fluid.app with choosy so that links open in the correct fluid browser.
YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter all work well for me.
I am Austrian, maybe this is one of those differences. Gruppenzwang works as well, but the situation I described is one where you might like to be drunk, but you might not like to drink Schnaps. So because you don't want your friends to be much more drunk than you are, their move to drink schnaps pressures you into drinking as well, otherwise you'd be the least drunk etc.

Zugzwang must not signify a specific move that is correct. But it most often means the need to move arises because of outside circumstances. And these circumstances can very well limit the available options.

A politician that has to say something in reaction to a crisis might be under Zugzwang to show some reaction, but another hypothetical politician that is expected to say a specific thing (e.g. a public excuse) is under a much stronger Zugzwang.
As a consumer, I don't want to go through the effort of finding the next Etsy. I want to be lazy and have the current Etsy be good.

Whatever comes next will be small. They will lack some of the things I want for many years.
I'd also add that I had a similar experience with physical therapy (PT) after surgery. When I changed insurers from BCBS to Fidelis (just a month or so after surgery), I found that the PT group I was using didn't accept my new insurance.

It's sad that we have to jump through all sorts of hoops just to get the medical care we need. Which is often the case even when it isn't an edge case like yours (or mine with my PT -- my situation was, of course, much less consequential since there are many PT providers out there).
MacOS apparently caches directory views somewhere, and I can routinely get the "Downloads" folder to not actually show what is in the Downloads folder; often having to resort to "open" on the terminal to access the file. I wish I knew how to force it to refresh the actual contents instead of reading it from the cache.
I'm not sure how "non-cryprocurrency" applies to lightning in anyway. Lightning channels are denominated only in bitcoin. There is no non-cryptocurrency aspect of it. Lightning has many properties that a debit card does not. For example not having to trust a bank to grant you an account, and supporting peer to peer transactions without intermediaries. Debit card transactions are limited from below by fees, fees on lightning are fractions of a penny, thus allowing micropayments that are not feasible with a debit card.
I wish that VS Code had a TUI (Text User Interface) with mouse support like mc to run it in a SSH console.

Vim, emacs or nano are no alternatives for me as I need to browse large C/C++ legacy codebases and some newer JS. And I rely much on CTRL+mouseclick.

Does anyone know a VS Code extension to use it in a shell instead of the desktop GUI?
That's called a brick and mortar store. Try visiting one and check out the opportunity cost price, while you're at it.
Sorry about that! We've been prioritizing desktops but will be working on making it mobile-friendly in the future.
> I have a son who is 11. All of his friends have smart phones.

My child is also 11. Fortunately none of the friends or anyone in class has a smartphone yet.

I think this is somewhat easier here, in Silicon Valley. Most of the parents are either directly in tech or in very adjacent fields so we experience how the sausage is made and want no part of it. So parents are pretty aligned on no social media and minimal tech. I don't use a smartphone myself, so helps in leading by example. (I have one, but mostly it sits in my work backpack and I hardly ever take it out.)

Most of them have laptops, although only very recently. So they can research (DDG, never google) topics for school and personal interest but it's not something they have nearby most of the time.

So luckily they still get together and do the same things I was doing at 11, ride bikes everywhere and play in the park, forest and beach. Weekends we go camping in areas with minimal to no cell signals (also wonderful for parents, impossible to check jira tickets when there is no signal!). I'm sure it'll get more difficult in middle school and beyond, time will tell.
Funny: you always hear about large price hikes due to this or that. You rarely hear that because of this or that event prices have gone down.
So so sad, and was always coming when the investors installed a new CEO who dropped their B-Corp status

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/11/30/etsy-gives-b-corp-...
Why would I care if you were on fire, if I'm not on fire?
I do this all the time. Excel is a fantastic data GUI for ad-hoc reporting.

My typical quick turn-around process is: type SQL in text editor, test sql in database, create a view, connect to the view from excel, use native excel features to display whats needed.

Usually I create a summary page as well which uses sum-ifs and such on the query result for the high level detail rather than go through the SQL process for it separately
Maybe, but Etsy is part of a long line of businesses that think they can solve adversarial search. The fact that Google can't and is losing the war should tell you everything about your chances. As long as you never use the "discovery" half of their business and find shops elsewhere, IG, TikTok, it's a fantastic experience. Basically Shopify but a little more streamlined.
> What I really prefer is for my windows to be where I left them, and MacOS is pretty good about keeping them that way.

Well, it is once you go into Preferences > Mission Control and turn off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use"

I can't imagine why that's enabled by default, and I always forget to turn it off when setting up a new machine and don't realize it until I get confused for the 50th time, thinking I'm losing my mind cause my desktops are in a different order from what I thought
> Congress should update the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which unwisely set the age of so-called internet adulthood (the age at which companies can collect personal information from children without parental consent) at 13 back in 1998, while making little provision for effective enforcement. The age should be raised to at least 16, and companies should be held responsible for enforcing it.

That won't change anything if parents keep buying smartphones for their 10 year olds.
I think you mean better than early North American settlers. Agriculture is quite old, and integral to the birth of Civilization. Not really clear what the disparity might have been at the onset, though it might have been a hybrid system. It seems that even some indigenous societies in the Americas experimented with agriculture.

> You're ignoring the amount of stress and mental disorders skyrocketing in modern societies.

That might say something about developments in technology, or wealth inequality - not so much society revolving around agriculture.
That’s not actually always the case! https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/mailoji
they are cheap clevo laptops at a huge markup
This is different from a company town which is created and governed by the employer, rather than, let's say, adopted by a predominant employer.
We will probably bite the sour apple (not sure if this is correct English but you’ll get the meaning even if it’s not) and switch to the data center edition which is still on prem but costs approximately twice as much.
> Do you actually get upset at flat earthers?

People do.

> faith based belief

I think you're confusing faith and trust.
Sorry for the snark in advance: Are you for real? I do want IDE and documentation in browser next to each other on my 31.5" 1440 screen, thank you very much.
Not MAGMA?
Is it really the unfortunate side effect of the US tag/legal system? As an outsider (from Europe), it seems that Intuit was able to take over Mailchimp, but was not able to smoothly transition their new employees from one insurer to another.
Because that’s the way US stays competitive. /s
Speaking from personal experience, psychedelics can have a very emotionally cathartic effect. At the end of it, you feel like you were a sponge full of emotion that has just been wrung out. I can definitely see how if you're "stuck" in some kind of pattern, exercising those emotions can help get you "unstuck." I would probably recommend someone do this once every other year.
Nothing will solve the affordable part other than massive wealth transfers (which ACA did, but obviously not massive enough), and increased supply of healthcare (more docs, hospitals, medication manufacturers - or medicines in public domain), and tort reform.

But ACA did what it could with the political compromises that had to be made at the time. It provided out of pocket maximums, maximum age rating factor (age 64 only pays 3x age 21), and required coverage for all applicants (removing risk of disqualification from pre existing condition).

It is unfortunate the mandate was repealed and state level participation in functioning marketplaces was politically hampered.
> a large majority of the commenters here are either currently business owners, or founders, or trying to be either of those.

I wonder to what extent this is true. I've been on HN several years without even knowing that it has anything to do with start up. A lot of contributors don't even work in tech.
I’ve been surprised by the negative opinion of self medicating held by a vocal group here. I can honestly say this medicine saved my life. I put my hands in the care of “the system” for too long and it never got me anywhere. A few months of microdosing, occasional tripping, and meditation/breathwork has completely changed the trajectory of my life.
When we were a smaller group, we had to forbid it, because otherwise our group wasn't large enough to qualify for a group plan.
And the management cost is only 1%, vs 17% for healthcare comapnies. A lot of waste that could be helping people.
In retrospect it looks like wishful thinking, but for a while I held out hope that the transition to white collar remote work during COVID would be permanent so all that empty office space could be converted into residential. Might have gone a long way towards addressing inflation and the housing crisis, but I guess we'll never know what could have been.
Ask HN: What would you like to do for a living if you weren't doing what you do?
Ever dreamed about a career shift? In retrospective do you think there is another career path that would have you suited more than the current one? If there is one, what is stopping you from pursuing a shift in your career today? If not now, when?
Just a note for those who may not know, either because they've grown up under a different regulatory regime or they never shopped for private insurance before the ACA:

Pre-ACA, I was once a much healthier early-twenty something applying for private coverage. I have a genetic condition that has never manifested in a health consequence that has required treatment, and technically it was illegal even at the time to reject someone based on their genetic information. Despite that, I was denied coverage by every private insurer in the market because I had a preexisting condition. The only reason the private market functions at all for anyone with so much as a history of a sprained ankle is because of the ACA.

Insurance companies would routinely (and retroactively!) deny coverage and payment based on preexisting conditions. They would accept premium payments for years, then when you came down with breast cancer would dig up an old photo of you with a cigarette in your mouth and refuse to pay for your treatment because you claimed to be a non-smoker when you applied for coverage. This was considered normal.
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Russia is bullshitting - they are not afraid NATO would invade them.

The balance of fear due to nuclear weapons if nothing else guarantees this.

Russia is opposed to the fact it can't bully it's weaker neighbours on a whim if they are in NATO. That is the cause for their irritation.
> give anything to replace macOS with Linux (or even Windows)

I agree that this was a fair, measured post, but I find it bizarre that a Linux enthusiast would ever want to replace their Mac OS with Windows when the biggest complaint is... window management? I feel like they left something out here.
You can list the same product for different audiences.
NATO has been pretty clear that should Finland and/or Sweden decide to join, they are in a state where there would be basically zero on-ramp needed.
I wish employers did not provide health insurance, even though I have a chronic medical condition. The choices of plans offered by companies is far, far smaller than the choices available to me on the open market. I don't want to have to find new health insurance if my employment situation changes, possibly leaving me with a gap in coverage. The expectation that employer-provided benefits are at no cost to the employee is a fallacy - if companies did not offer health care as a perk, they would be able to offer higher salaries instead.

The only reason American employers are in the business of offering health insurance is because they get a federal tax break. This makes health insurance cheaper to the employer than to individuals. Given this, if my employer stopped offering insurance, they couldn't increase my salary enough for me to purchase the same plan myself. I think this is unfair - I would like to get the same tax break myself, or at least eliminate the tax break altogether so I am on an even playing field with businesses. This would allow me to purchase my own health insurance at rates comparable to what I'm offered at work.

Considering the tax situation, it's curious that Intuit would not choose to take this tax break. It seems like a short term move that allows them to cut costs while exploiting the economic stickiness of employment. This move makes them less competitive for employees in the labor market, but that only affects them in the long term. In the short term, the employees they have will be hesistant and slow to find new jobs.
I'm pretty sure macOS was designed to have every window in fullscreen 100% of the time and the user would three finger swipe to switch windows. Seems like having a shitty experience when trying to do anything besides fullscreen is kind of the point, "do things the way we want you to or suffer."
This is prose!
I worked on this problem 25 years ago. It hasn't gone away.

In general, performance comparisons are hard to reproduce. For instance, when benchmarking network protocols, often a tiny change in configuration makes a big change in a results. You might change the size of a buffer from 150 packets to 151 packets and see performance double (or halve.)

Instead of making measurements with some arbitrary choices for parameters, you can take lots of measurements with parameters randomly varied to show a distribution of measurements. It's hard work to track down all the possible parameters and decide on a reasonable range for them, so it's rarely done. I found many 10x variances in network protocol performance (like how fairly competing TCP streams can sharing bandwidth).

The big idea was to show that by randomizing some decisions in the protocol (like discarding packets with some probability as the buffer gets full) you can make the performance less sensitive to small changes. ie, more reproducible. Less sensitivity is especially good when you care about the worst-case performance rather than average. It can also make tuning a protocol much easier, since you aren't constantly being fooled by unstable performance.

Performance sensitivity analysis is hard work, so most papers are just like "we ran our new thing 3 times and got similar numbers so there you go."
100% agreed. I forget sometimes that spectacle isn't part of MacOS proper. The snapping and management are amazing and really add to the UX. https://www.spectacleapp.com/
Footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZW3_5Gr4s
Right? I believe that practice should be banned. There's really NO reason for it now.
You have my utmost respect. I hope you get to spend the time on other things that bring you joy.
We're talking US, right?

There were only private police until 1838 in Boston:

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

And only private firefighters until 1853 in Cincinnati:

http://www.fireserviceinfo.com/history.html

Ben Franklin offered America's first fire insurance. Privatized insurance and firefighters in Phili in those days:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/am...
Tadpoles have been:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519690-700-space-fr...
Yea same here. What Nosql DB did you use for these lookups? Im currently using postgres for it but seems a bit like a waste. Even though the array field is nice for feature vectors.
It's insane. Since they've all but killed off on-premise Jira and Confluence, they've been spamming me regularly trying to convince me to "upgrade" to the cloud. Eventually I gave in and replied to them asking two simple questions.

One is that we've had many bad reports from partners that Jira Cloud is incredibly slow, even when compared to the already underperforming Jira Server and I wonder what their performance guarantees are. The other one is that it's so, so pricey.

It helped, but not in the way I thought it would! There's been no reply, but also no more spam emails now!
Maybe they launched millions of those things
I can't get used to the fact that I can't alt-tab to a minimized window. Nor can I figure out how to switch to any particular minimized window. You have literally no way of knowing that a minimized window exists other than right-clicking the dock icon, or going to the "Window" menu after you switched to the application. The dock was fine 20 years ago when they released OSX, but they've literally done nothing to make it better since then.
It just takes time to get used to. I used Linux for a long time before switching to a Mac about seven years ago. I nearly returned my new MacBook to the store because I felt hamstrung by the UI. But in a few weeks, once I'd become accustomed to the application-centric windowing model, the keyboard shortcuts, and especially the touchpad gestures, it all clicked and I wouldn't go back now.
https://medium.com/@ilegacy/a-critique-of-the-remote-procedu...

On Medium, but someone took the time to make a blog version of it. Seems to be the correct text (didn't read it all side by side to make a full comparison, just checked a few spots).
My partner and I have found ourselves in similar situations 4-5 times already within a combined ~12 years of professional experience. I don’t have the capacity to trust management anymore.
no worries, i didn't feel attacked, just pushing back because prior to the edit you said emphatically that what i stated was not true
There's many ways to make a keylogger, from userspace down to the SMM layer of UEFI.

Perhaps a better way to approach this would be to turn the threat model around? If they have a keylogger, assume they have a rootkit. What needs to remain secure even when the platform is comprised?

Try to get it down to some cryptographic keys, which you can then store on a smartcard, that you use with a card reader with hardware PIN pad. There's no keylogging the PIN on one of those, as the PIN is sent directly to the smartcard, without relying on the host.

Obviously at that point the software asking you to sign something is probably compromised, but your cryptographic keys will remain protected, as will the PIN.
Yep, from fruit flies, dogs, mice to fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space
Your dog is convinced you will provide it with food and drink and other care until it dies(until you don't: it will look elsewhere eventually). I think if that would be the same for humans, things would be different. It seems it is something people strive to achieve even though when it finally happens, they won't be able to handle it. Dogs contemplate the passing of time and the waste (this is our sentiment, not inherent to nature) not at all in the same manner.
would you like help keeping it alive? or reviving it?

i’m open to help: from untangling the issues it has now to hosting, to rearchitecting it.
One smaller social media app I used to sysad over actually overwrote data to be purged as xX0-Deleted-oXx and similar (there were a few variants depending on data constraints). There was no "show_deleted_when" garbage.

Then weekly, a task went in and then purged rows with those non-content placeholders to completely purge that user, if a user-purge was requested.
> At least I find it difficult to believe it wasn't until the 16th century that someone worked this out and everyone prior was of some woefully mistaken (yet suspiciously Christian-aligned) view that the Earth was the center of the universe.

That was because we do not perceive the Earth moving, but we see the stars move. Nobody could answer objections like why we don't go flying off the Earth if it's spinning. Yet any idiot could take a ball, put a rock or something on it, spin the ball and show you what happens. Why is the Earth itself somehow different? It's like how they knew that stellar parallax should exist, but nobody could measure it, which caused heliocentrism to be lacking evidence for quite a long time because the stars are just that far away that it's tiny.

If you go to the average person now, I think you'll find that most people who accept all this science can't even give full explanations for why.
> until their health insurance retroactively becomes available

I feel like the title is missing that bit.

Doesn’t make it ok, but the situation is dramatically different with even the limitations of a single tweet compared to the title.
I set up a custom "All Applications" keyboard shortcut for the Zoom command, it's really handy.
Scientists crack egg forging evolutionary puzzle
It worked and was stable for decades because unions ensured a balance of power between capital and labor. NAFTA and other pro-capital regulation broke that balance and shifted the balance towards capital.
I think the message is more "you shouldn't form loyalty ties with your company, because your company won't form them with you".

Loyalty ties are still important, but not something you will find in most employer-employee relationships. Better to have a more "extractive" vision of companies and build loyalty ties somewhere else.
A bunch of rare events would bankrupt anyone who encounters them?
I think you would become pariah and would be avoided by instructor and other people in the class. From instructor to keep the presentation going in the pre-planned direction and from fellow participants to avoid coming under negative light due to association.
“Well, crud. The survey showed that the shortest route isn’t completely clear.”

“Should we report this?”

“You really want to do all that paperwork?”

“Bulldozer it is.”