skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, macOS has a weird snapping implementation where you need to click and hold the green “zoom” button, then choose to “tile” left or right. But, once you pick another window to fill the other half, both of those windows (together as one) move to their own virtual desktop. I want them split on my current desktop, not on a separate desktop.

> Also, unlike Windows or Linux, you can’t “maximize” a window using the green “zoom” button, it will only make the current window fullscreen (and again, on its own desktop). Confusingly, you need to again click and hold the green “zoom” button, then choose “Zoom”. Apple calls the green button “zoom” in their documentation, but its default function is fullscreen, not zoom.

Apple keeps changing the green button, but with Monterey, if you hold down Option then hover over the green its menu options become:

- Zoom

- Move Window to Left Side of Screen

- Move Window to Right Side of Screen

Which I think effect the behavior the author wants. In general, the Option key is the gateway to additional behaviors in the macOS GUI. I can't find a way to make this the default behavior of the green button, but what you can do is add keyboard shortcuts for them.

System Preferences... > Keyboard > Shortcuts > +

Application: All Applications
Menu Title: Move Window to Left Side of Screen
Keyboard Shortcut: something unique such as control-command-left-arrow.

Repeat for "Move Window to Right Side of Screen" and "Zoom".

The title bar can also be double-clicked to zoom (default is to minimize, but there's a preference under System Preferences... > Dock & Menu Bar to set it to zoom).
I've had hot corners set up this way since 10.3. I feel lost on a computer without them set up.

I'd also recommend a hot corner for "show desktop".
I gather this is an easier way to work with dependencies that you might need to tweak or add some logging lines too or something?
It's a diaper policy. A handful of teachers (metaphorically) shit themselves, so now they all get to wear diapers.

And as proof that a handful of crazy teachers exist, you can read testimonials of teachers who are quitting because of this law.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/-can...
A lot of confusion here probably comes from the fact that g-force is not the same as acceleration. It's apparent acceleration. So 0g in an aircraft is entirely possible. So is 0 acceleration but that's not 0 g, that's 1 g.
I think that was the comment about Java checked exception, it's one line and it's explicit.

Though personally I feel in this case defaulting to rethrowing uncaught errors is better. Since that's the 99% case. I'd rather it be zero line.
Ask HN: Ways to represent graph of nodes with text?
Some websites present a block of text for different tags or links that are popular, and each of these words have different font sizes, what is this called? It seems to me there aren't other compact ways to represent a graph in text mode. In 2D/3D graphs are represented with connected nodes, but when there are too many nodes the result is very cluttered. The most similar presentation in text mode is the directory tree, but it isn't compact, the list will grow vertically.
Travel and surround yourself with new experiences and different kinds of people and build intuitions for things people want by becoming like these people. Share experiences, needs, wants, outlooks.

Then dogfood your own ideas. You will be bringing in others' needs and wants into your idea-generation process unconsciously.

If you are a billionaire you will never ride the bus and never understand the common struggle, and will never be able to dogfood a real solution.

Just an example.
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-but-Scattered-Guide-Success/dp/...

This book helped me a lot.
How does

> My experience is that Windows has far better UX for pretty most end users.

followed by

> I have 4 monitors connected to my Windows computer.

Make any sense? Using four monitors isn't something a lot of users do.

Anyways: How many monitor your computer supports depends on your graphics card. This is true for every OS. You should check the manual for your Mac to see how many external monitors at which resolution it supports.

> Windows explorer feels way more productive than finder. It still bothers me that I can't cut and paste folders by default.

You can move a file or a folder by using Opt + Cmd + V. It is basically the same functionality with different shortcuts. I guess Mac users feel the same way on about Windows.

The best UX for end users is the one they are used to. I think macOS has some positives. Windows Home is outright user hostile with all the ads Microsoft is putting in it. And they change the UI with every major release macOS is relatively stable and if you learned how to use a Mac 10 years ago you could use a mac today. Windows on the other hand changed a lot in this time.
Lots of "I don't like how it tastes/feels, therefore it must be bad" packaged in a rant, as usual. Essentially only useful information if you are a clone of the author, in all other cases your milage will vary... drastically.

There isn't much of a point in attacking or defending taste in such a way, but neither is trying to objectively score something because it's not the objective score that matters, it's how it feels to the user, and users aren't all identical.
Do you have a better idea to reduce the amount of spam?

It's a good thing that it's very hard to send lots of mails to strangers

Spammers do everything you do and a lot more, yet most of them are blocked(and just imagine what would happen if they could send as many mails as they want without going through all those hoops, we'd get basically nothing but spam)

The only reasonable solution if you're not a big/reputable business is to use a service like mailgun/mailjet/mailchimp/sendgrid, for a small business it would cost next to nothing(or even just 0$, if you can get some free credits or a small free plan)

It will save you a lot of headaches
In Japan, make huge shopping mall near (or into) station is a big part to make train company profitable. Banning them could be bad to make public transport profitable.
There are lots of smallish e-paper displays intended for use as dynamic price tags. It's one of the main formats for the medium. Could you use them to make a largeish wrist computer device that might be more useful than the Pebble?
(As opposed to Internal Combustion Engines, which may have caused the confusion)
> Where it gets confusing, though, is if you want to resize and crop an image for example. You may end up with different results depending on the order you specify these operations.

Could you clarify, what's confusing about it? The operations in ffmpeg are sequential, unless you use advanced chaining capabilities. If you look at a crop as a substraction, and at a resampling as a multiplication, it becomes evident, how the order affects the result.

(24 - 4) * 0.25 = 5
24 * 0.25 - 4 = 2
While I do appreciate those benifits the confusion caused as soon as there are multiple windows on the screen doesn't seem worth it. I have enough trouble managing keyboard focus I don't need to add another layer (which somehow seems even harder for me to comprehend)
What a shame.

Could have been an alternative to watches running WearOS and watchOS, but it wasn't meant to be, other than a hackers toy that was killed by being squeezed out of the market with high operating costs and we are now left with the same old Apple and Google duoploy once again.

It's time to stop with this 'world's first' marketing. Apple entered the market late and were around the corner, came in and changed everything (Again). Not acting and moving quickly enough to when a giant enters the market and brushing it off as nothing also contributed to this failure as well.

I had high hopes for Pebble to go further than their current market, but it seems that it just became another Amiga-like product. Forgotten in the graveyard of many other failed products only to be used by hackers and hobbyists.
> If that were really true, no one (left or right) would be making a fuss about this law.

The right believes the problem exists, the left believes that the policy will do something besides what it is proponents highlights, both of which beliefs are possible without the problem it nominally seeks to correct actually being real, so, no, the fact that people care does not mean that the problem it overtly addresses exists.
Can you explain what you mean by "the entire brand got hand-grenaded" and "not get greedy"? Is this in reference to them selling to Fitbit? Or something before that?

I purchased a Pebble Time Steel fairly late in the company's lifetime, so I was surprised and kind of confused about the whole situation.
Well, here are Rules #0-5 of multiplayer games:

- Never
- Trust
- the
- Client
- Ever.
- EVER.
That’s way above any legal out of pocket max so I’m curious where most of that money went. Definitely wouldn’t call it good insurance.

My mom is fighting cancer and her medication is better than 25K a month, but she pays 200. That’s closer to my definition of good insurance.
If you're looking to try quills and haven't previously worked with anything other than modern instruments, it is very likely a wise idea to start with an inexpensive, steel-nibbed fountain pen, such as the Lamy Safari or Pilot Metropolitan, as an intermediate step.

One of the things you learn as you become familiar with nibbed pens of any kind is that they can, and indeed must, be used with much less pressure than more modern types. The ink is much thinner than that of a ballpoint or rollerball, so less pressure is necessary for ink to flow into the paper; too, a nib is much more mechanically delicate, and using the same force you would with a ball pen will eventually damage it. (Or, if it's a gold nib, not so eventually.)

This is why starter fountain pens have always had steel nibs. Originally, these tools were used to teach writing to children, who would of necessity abuse their pens somewhat in the process of learning how not to do that. These days in many countries schools instead teach writing with pencils, but that in itself tends to create the bad habit of using excess force that someone learning to use nibbed pens will still need to overcome. (I certainly did! My hand doesn't hurt when I write any more, too, which is really nice.)

Just as fountain pen nibs are more delicate than ball pens, quill nibs are more delicate than even fountain pens. So if you haven't used a nib before, I would definitely advise first getting at least basic familiarity with a fountain pen, lest you frustrate yourself by constantly breaking quills.

(I'll be honest, I don't think a quill's worth the trouble, except purely as a flex. Everything a quill can give you in terms of writing experience, a gold-nibbed fountain pen can just as well, but fountain pens are a lot less fiddly and annoying to use - hence why, upon introduction, they so quickly displaced old-style dip pens. Having loose ink floating around in a bottle for all the time you're writing isn't just a recipe for disaster, but a guarantee of one - better not to take the risk, in my view..)
Of course, I'm commenting that "<some outgroup> needs to DIE" is always bad.
What a useless comment. The post is from someone new to Macs. You have completely failed to grasp the context and got immediately defensive.
This is a cool story. I loved my Pebble and still have my Kickstarter Edition. I bought it because it was a geeky thing and I could write code and deploy that code to the Pebble.
Meteorites from our solar system hit the Earth around 20-30km/h

This extrasolar thing hit the Earth at 200km/h+.

Remember that the kinetic energy formula = 0.5 * m * v²

Is the velocity squared that means something very small can still wipe out an entire city in a gigantic fireball with little to no warning and ability to do anything about it. This is a very big deal for the people looking at things like asteroid defense at civilization time scales.
OMG. What a can of worms!

Thank God I use the metric system.
Given the divide you describe under BSDs, I just did a search for "nix on bsd". There doesn't seem to be very much of a nix/bsd story out there, based on my search. In principle it sounds like an interesting combination.
I can see that my comment did look like it was accusing the author of TFA of engaging in a rant. That’s my bad - I was instead responding to parent’s second paragraph.

As to your second point: I agree. Those specific discussions around what people like and dislike, and why, are interesting and thought-provoking. The low-effort “loll Apple drone” hot-takes that pop up on all of these threads, less so.
Is there a single startup success story in the consumer hardware space? The best case scenario is to exist long enough to get a billion dollar exit from a major tech company, who will then immediately gut parts of your product that don't support their own business goals. The more likely one is to be sold for parts (like Pebble) or just cease to exist entirely.

It is sad that there is so much innovation being left on the table in that space because the market simply doesn't allow it.
America is much bigger, but there’s also something to be said about size and perceptions.

As a general example, the Midwest is roughly the same size and population as France, so if we made the investment we could reasonably have a regional high speed network centered on Chicago. We’ll never have coast to coast high speed rail, but having a few regional networks is certainly doable.
Ocaml is notorious for having CLIs that use longform options with a single dash. It’s infuriating. So it would be -help in this example
The Brooking's article claims "Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites."

Why would the racial gains made since the Civil Rights movement lead to fewer stable married households raising children?
Don't Chinese, Japanese and Korean companies do this all the time? If this happened there, I'd be worried that whoever was responsible might hang themselves.
Problem with raises is that you pay taxes over them before getting around to paying for healthcare, right?

If the company is paying it it’s just a business expense they can deduct from their income.
I loved, loved, loved my Pebble Time. It did everything I wanted out of a smart watch, especially eliminating my phone-checking habit, because I was always on top of whether new emails were worth reading, it was a sanity saver during an intense M&A process. Also, it somehow had a super long-lived battery, and it had so much more personality than most electronic devices, with its little 8-bittish animated icons, reminded me of a Gameboy Advance or something. Thanks for making one of my favorite devices of the last decade, Eric.
Right...like if I made a blog post about my experience using Windows when I'm forced to, it'd surely be more than a few paragraphs long. The UI in MacOS isn't perfect but it's a lot better than the state of Windows 10, not even close.
> and the solution was to disable search indexing.

It isn’t clear to me from that text, so just in case you don’t know: you can disable Spotlight indexing for specific directories (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2811/mac)
But what if, or more realistically, what do we do when the parents do nothing but scold their kids when they dare ask about anything related to sex? Because I’ve seen too much of that myself.

All that brings is unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies, and scared children.
In this case, the OS issues are just window snapping and window switching. No spells to be cast here!

Frankly, if native window snapping is your largest OS concern, that's probably a great sign.
“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider Race of Mathematicians
Downvoted because You can correct the article without making it personal
> On window snapping: why on earth would you want to obscure your desktop with two huge panes?

OP here. I typically have a browser with documentation on one half, and a terminal/IDE in the other. I'm on an external monitor, so I want the space.
It’s very strange that people want to conflate genitalia and you know…like pronouns?

There’s actually lots of good reasons, including proper hygiene, helping children understand consent, privacy, boundaries. But you’ve made a choice in how to frame the conversation that is designed to eliminate any need to learn…I can’t help you there but demands of ignorance shouldn’t be how we legislate.
From my understanding therapists can help you “integrate” your experience (post trip) into your everyday life. Having someone to help you figure out how you can apply useful feelings/mindsets you may have had during the experience seems (to me) helpful in maintaining any sort of benefit longer term.
There is a whole group of learning around Lean Customer Development[1]. Those processes (and a bunch more) help you identify, with reasonable confidence, that folk will pay for your solution. This process is one part of "The Lean Startup" process

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18492257-lean-customer-d...
Eager for this law to be vigorously enforced against all content referencing cisgender identities and heterosexual relationships, which are quite common in material aimed at K-3.
You may be right. Planner does have lot going for it (if your company is already in 365).
This is overly pedantic. The point is that people using POSIX (i.e. Unix-like) systems expect -h or --help to work, as a matter of convention. What the letter of POSIX-the-standard says doesn't really matter to most people.
Returning an unannotated error like this is an antipattern. Every error return should include an annotation via fmt.Errorf.
I would like to reference the YouTube channels: Adam Something, and Not Just Bikes, if you would like further reading about car-free(*) society
A lot of people actually do give a shit, myself included! I like the approach of coupling a carbon tax with a dividend -- it's a lot more palatable to centrists and people who lean right, because it isn't going to what they might consider government waste -- the money from the tax just gets returned to the people. This is the policy that Citizens' Climate Lobby pushes (the EICDA [1]), and there are a LOT of people working on getting it passed.

[1] https://energyinnovationact.org/
Why do these people use the word democracy to propose changes that are oligarchy?
Personally, no. If a state government wants to ban such things, then let them do the prosecution. Don’t legitimize vigilante justice.
> Yea, I think what OP is missing is that macOS was designed to be used with a trackpad.

OP here. Yes, I'm starting to get that from reading these comments. Does everyone who uses a Mac with an external display also purchase the Magic Trackpad?
So the UX is worse than Linux, and Windows? I don't believe that for one second.
Here's an older article ePacket shipping / the Universal Postal Union. The last administration was pretty adamant about closing the one sided deal that we somehow got ourselves into. Regardless of political affiliations, I think we all agree that an American shouldn't pay more to ship in America than someone from outside of the country. The economic advantage hurts users and small businesses.

https://archive.ph/ojVUp

I've been pretty bummed with the Etsy changes to Reverb.com (they acquired a few years ago). It was great and I regularly shopped there, now it's hit or miss and feels more like ebay / wish.com
> How the heck do you know what people will want, with any sort of confidence?

One way is to ask them to pay you for it (pre-order) before you make it. For the original Pebble I imagine Kickstarter helped fill this role.

This worked for a startup of mine as well. For our first product we spent ~8 months building and polishing something we thought (hoped) people would like. No one was willing to pay for it. For our second product we spent 3 weeks building an MVP, shot a short video and took preorders. This time enough people put up money to pay for it so we built it!

Personally, I hate pre-ordering things but many other people do not and it’s a really practical way to answer the question “Will people actually pay us money for this thing?”.
> Yet anonymity/pseudonymity is incredibly valuable

> Just outlaw or intensely regulate these massive, centralized/proprietary social media algorithms

I feel like I'm seeing a pattern here, something like "Hey, it's not that simple. Your solution ignores important tradeoffs. So here's my simple solution that ignores different tradeoffs."

Basically I'm objecting to any use of the word "just" in thorny social issues like this. I think that all of this is hard and none of this is obvious.
Cmd+Down also works, which is better if you're using the arrow keys to navigate files.
> When you start a business there’s an expectation that you’re probably not taking a paycheck from it for a few years while you try to attract customers to provide steady cash flow.

I think this is only true for a newfangled SF business.

Traditional business gets a bank loan, has a business plan, and pays salaries from the start (including to the owner).
Amen. I always default to “soft” deleting whenever possible.
I agree with mrexroad. Falling implies downward velocity. Free-fall is a different term that implies downward acceleration. For example, a ballistic projectile fired up that then falls back down first climbs, then falls, but it is in free-fall the whole time.
> My experience is that Windows has far better UX for pretty most end users.

UPDATE: After seeing a reply to this comment, I googled some screenshots. It seems that Macs normally do display a hint for the shortcut to delete files. I'm not sure why mine doesn't.

Windows is also more learnable. On Mac at least today you're just supposed to know stuff. The most basic operation: deleting files. Seems like an operation you'd like to speed up with a shortcut, since you're going to be doing a lot of that with your computer. Mac has hints in its menus about shortcuts for different actions, just like Windows. However, they're hardly ever there. That sounds a bit contradictory, but mind the quantifiers. The selection of which actions have hints about their shortcuts is completely arbitrary. It's completely disconnected from the potential frequency of use, and the hints that are there are far and few between. So, back to deleting files: this is not hinted in the menu. You can select this action with the mouse, but come on, going to the menu, finding this action and clicking it is a ridiculously slow process for such a common operation. Dragging files to the trash bin is only marginally better. It has a shortcut, it's just that macOS won't tell you what this shortcut is. This is insider knowledge. And then you google it, and find that it's "Cmd+Delete". So you press that... and it doesn't work. Because on macOS Delete is Backspace and Delete is Reverse Delete.

Also, it's a theme that what requires a single keypress or two on Windows, on macOS requires a convoluted chord making you look like Axl Rose playing solo of November Rain. I mean, look at the shortcuts to take screenshots: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361> Wat??? 1. Who thought that would be easy to remember? 2. Who thought that would be easy to press?
I'm pretty sure they still do that. I'm fond of the seller feedback on Ebay; I think I've become blind to the "reviews."
> Embrace the suck

OP here. Can I get that printed on a t-shirt?