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> I know you're being sarcastic but it also introduced the virtual desktop switcher

Which is a PITA to use, so useless.

> , (full) DX12, made significant improvements to the console

Cmd.exe is still the same

> , added real ARM support for the desktop OS,

Not relevant

> replaced IE,

Not fully. They still have it as a menu item in Edge

> implemented proper DPI support (all the way to per-monitor true fractional),

YMMV. This one is hit or miss.

> added openssh, actual HDR support, and many more things that can be surprisingly hard to go without if you revert to a previous release.

You cannot revert to a previous release in Windows.

> There is always plenty wrong with each new release but the comments and jokes about ${"LATEST_RELEASE"} of ${"SOFTWARE"} being unilaterally worse just make me think the person can't deal with something changing instead of the software actually being bad.

When SW changes just for the sake of change (see calc.exe), something is wrong.

> Comments and jokes about how they could have an entire new release worth of features just bringing back what they've removed or reverse-improved over the years however... that I agree with ;).

Also agree.
I run Gnooks, a self-learning literature recommendation experiment which has been used by a few million people so far. According to their likes, Tolkien is the 3rd most popular author:

https://www.gnooks.com/top
This was the response that I got from the GPT-4 API yesterday:

{'id': 'chatcmpl-7uVF5xGqR1oEzXITw3WZYsnB4Yzt8', 'object': 'chat.completion', 'created': 1693700819, 'model': 'gpt-4-0613', 'choices': [{'index': 0, 'message': {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '353538'}, 'finish_reason': 'stop'}], 'usage': {'prompt_tokens': 11, 'completion_tokens': 2, 'total_tokens': 13}}

Maybe they fine-tuned the ChatGPT version better, or fed it to an calculator.
More on the Timex Datalink series

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
Show HN: You wanted SMS, you've got it (HN community is awesome)
The HN Community is awesome!

Since posting in April about my frustration with PagerDuty and why I built All Quiet, I received many direct emails with feature requests or product roadmap questions.

Out of this eager engagement we could integrate a bunch of cool new features:

Since my post in April regarding my frustrations with PagerDuty and my rationale behind creating All Quiet, I've received many direct emails containing feature requests and questions about our product roadmap.

Thanks to this awesome engagement, we've been able to integrate several fantastic new features:

SMS & Voice Calls:
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Initially, we weren't convinced that this would align with our product strategy. After all, why opt for SMS when there are push notifications? However, the demand for this feature was undeniable, so we went ahead and built it!

https://allquiet.app/documentation#configuring-sms-and-voice...

Do Not Disturb Overrides:
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We've rolled out a comprehensive guide for Android app users, ensuring they can seamlessly configure their DnD overrides.

https://allquiet.app/documentation#configuring-push-notifica...

We're in the queue, awaiting Apple's green light for the "Critical Alert" entitlement. We've already coded the support for this in our iOS app.

Schedules & Rotations:
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This was a top request from the community — tools to manage rotations and schedules. We collaborated directly with teams that asked for this feature. The experience was genuinely collaborative, and we're immensely grateful to the teams that helped shape this functionality.

https://allquiet.app/documentation#managing-escalation-tiers...

Login through Google & Microsoft:
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Given that many teams use Google or Microsoft for authentication, it was only logical to incorporate these platforms as login providers.
> how do you recognize that there are still not enough options

One language that's still missing is a simple C-like language that offers Rust-style memory safety but without Rust's design philosophy of repeating every C++ mistake (that's not about memory safety) and high level type system wankery (or generally too much influence from functional languages).

There are also many more areas still to explore when it comes to memory safety that are less extreme than Rust's approach (I completely forgot about Vale which tries out some really interesting things in that direction: https://vale.dev/)
In my experience, it’s the developer that matters. A not-a-very-good-developer can produce buggy code/bad architecture in any of the strongly typed advanced type system languages, too.
QR code still works when either end is low-tech (paper/wearable/sticker), by using out-of-band means (SMS/soundbox) to confirm the transaction.

Further, NFC is usually the first to be left out when manufacturers cut costs to hit lucrative price points.

Apple never implemented host card emulation (HCE) as an API, but that doesn't matter as these payment systems usually aren't backed by a payment card network, thus they'd have to build needlessly complex reconcilliation systems when transactions already debit directly from accounts, and offline usage isn't considered a major use-case.
I'm sure somewhere in there we're paying taxes on the taxes we've paid. I don't care one bit about the demise of TaxAct or any of the others. There will always be work for the more complex taxes need for those of us with businesses, employees, etc.
A bit surprising to hear that you weren't swimming in offers to hire you all the time. Any idea why that was? Maybe you're somewhat picky about the job and responsibilities that come with it?
Lowercase to uppercase might have been an automatic change by HN too.
Searching in notepad no longer opens a separate window but squeezes the search input in between text lines, and while creating space breaks the display. Searching highlights but doesn't move the cursor, losing the location found when closing search.

It's unusuable now.
Sorry but I'm actively trying to help you here. From the other reply

> it's a bit frustrating as it actively causes rifts that make it harder for me to do professional work.

My comments that you are taking that I'm being aggressive is that you have made your professional frustration about your feelings. These issues isn't who else uses the meme, but that the meme spreads a bad idea that makes your professional life harder.
3g came in the second gen iPhone (called iPhone 3G; afaik there has never been an iPhone 2). Only edge when outside wifi range was actually a huge downside of the first gen. It was sub par to the phone I had back then (Nokia N95). I only adopted the iPhone when it got 3g.
Calibre has the worst UI of any software I’ve ever used.
This exists in India too. But people don't use it. Why take on debt if you don't need to?

UPI is directly connected to your bank account. It does not go through VISA, Mastercard or whatever.
Nfc needs a special chip qr code needs just a picture and camera. Makes a huge difference in infrastructure cost. Getting millions of shops to put in nfc terminals compared to get them to print qr codes makes adoption a lot faster
Thanks a lot (belatedly..) for the links! I have something new to consider in my next build. I really like this idea, it allows for a ton of freedom and you could do some weird wizardry with it. Also a lot of data corruption, haha.
American cities are suing car manufacturers over auto theft
Thanks for testing it. I canceled my ChatGPT Plus a few months ago (when they changed the color from black to purple IIRC).

So I only tested that with the GPT-4 API, with the following results:

{'id': 'chatcmpl-7uVF5xGqR1oEzXITw3WZYsnB4Yzt8', 'object': 'chat.completion', 'created': 1693700819, 'model': 'gpt-4-0613', 'choices': [{'index': 0, 'message': {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '353538'}, 'finish_reason': 'stop'}], 'usage': {'prompt_tokens': 11, 'completion_tokens': 2, 'total_tokens': 13}}
The joke is that it's overly complicated to do a simple thing in Emacs, and you have to rely on blindly running shakily-trustworthy third-party code to do that thing for you. (I like Emacs very much, I use it every day, but there is a kernel of truth to this and I laughed.)
Yes, Notepad, WordPad, Paint existed to have a baseline of utility and especially when selling a complete PC setup to customers in the 1990s:

At a time when there was no internet! The PC sales guy could demo the customer fancy text-editing with fonts and colours, draw pictures and even print to dot matrix! right in the store.

Today people like these minimal OS apps because they are simple, avoid bloat and feature creep, especially notepad and paint. Its probably an error on MS part to get rid of WordPad..
> Your comment was talking about Australia.

Well, to clarify, your comment did not explicitly mention any country. However, in the context of the conversation, it seemed to be primarily talking about institutions such as the proposed Indigenous Voice in Australia, and the Maori electoral roll in New Zealand; I don't think it was primarily talking about the US since "co-governance" is much less on the agenda there (and the existing institution of tribal governments would seem to cover much of the demand for it anyway). As such, you were talking about race/ethnicity issues in other countries, without appearing to have any understanding of the differences between how those issues are understood in those countries as compared to your own.
That would be even more bureaucracy and we don't need that. Most people's taxes are complicated enough to need services like taxact, that's what this effort is aimed at. Mostly likely businesses and corporations will always need accountants.
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> A Python dictionary has a simple & well-known API.

Actually it doesn't.
The major difference between UPI payments and Credit Cards is that there is no 'surcharge'. This is what makes it very viable for small merchants to accept payments of minimal amounts.
Weird as Thailand being a tourist country attaching your credit card to top up a qr code payment app should be easily available to tourists.
Also to this point it’s usually pretty easy to copy built in Windows applications over. For example, I like the older Win10 snipping tool better and I just needed to copy the executable and maybe a DLL file.
But only in theory. In practice you would never get the time to rewrite what “already works”. And objectively, even with the best intentions, every rewrite comes with its own kinds of risks.
Hundreds of Tough Mudder racers infected by rugged, nasty bacterium
Yes, but it's legal with Congressional approval. Has he been proposing it, and Congress have rejected?
> is censorship resistance through genuine self-custody.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu...

> Ordinary person: “Your weird Internet money sucks to use. It’s slow and expensive. I lost my coins by mistake and it can’t be fixed. If I get hacked it can’t be fixed either.”

> Bitcoin advocate: “But everyone wants [list of ideological aims held only by weird people]! Everyone I know, anyway.”

But in specifics, censorship resistance? I just read that in an article.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sex-workers-crypto-failing-t...

> “You get on an exchange for as long as you can, until they shut your ass down,” says Knox. “You quickly [run out of exchanges], so you sit on a lot of useless money. The whole ‘crypto is permissionless and censorship-resistant’ thing is a bunch of bullshit.”
Arch. My PC sometimes hangs for no reason, which it also did with windows. It used to be a non-issue because it was too loud to run it overnight, but now it's quiet so I'm trying to figure that out. Every nvidia driver update has about a 10% chance to break something. That was also the case on windows so I just didn't update it there and had great success with recommending people to find a version that works and never touching it again.

I don't recall ever having an issue that was fixed by restarting an application though. If it doesn't work, I read the error message to figure out why it doesn't work and fix that. No "just try again, it might work this time" like on windows, which I enjoy.
The next leg of growth for UPI is already underway with the inclusion of RuPay credit cards under UPI. Until last year, UPI transactions would directly hit your bank account balance and flood your bank statement with many small purchase entries.

Linking a RuPay [1] credit card to a UPI app provider such as Google Pay in India allows users to pay through their credit card [2].

This will in turn boost transaction volume on India's indigenous RuPay payment network, and it will probably show its impact on Visa and Mastercard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPay

[2] https://www.livemint.com/news/india/google-pay-brings-rupay-...
Unpached AtlasVPN Exploit in the Wild – Proof of Concept
Thanks. I guess the "extremelly powerful metaprogramming", "compile-time codegen" and "strong template systems" are essentially the same thing. So the unique selling point of Jai from your perspective would be "C with generic metaprogramming, iterators and reflection"? Besides reflection, which is quite limited in C++, this would essentially be a subset of C++, isn't it?
A bit too much of a hassle. But if you're willing to share some of your good experiences, I'm curious
No language is perfect. There is nothing wrong with making your own that works the way you want a language to work. I don't get people who complain about new languages. Variety is good. Let people have fun.
To be frank, only an extreme minority cares about censorship resistance, especially when it comes in a form of inconvenience. In the last 10 years, we’ve seen again and again even within cryptoheads, the choice of storing their money in a centralized place (Binance, Coinbase, FTX) rather than self-custody.

It’s just people have limited amount of time in a day, and caring that government X can trace their transaction is waste of time. Also, in the last 3 years of lawsuits, we’ve kind of seen how crypto payments are traceable as well if someone really wants to find the source.
Awesome write-up and effort for a PoC! The problem it’s solving, however, is not immediately obvious. So here’s the relevant (albeit not-so-convincing) passage:

> “but direct, vision-based interaction with soft silicone blobs embedded in a soft robot’s body may be an interesting option.”
Which would be a great explanation if there weren't drug wars in every other part of the world too, including left wing dictatorships like China.
> Works stopped being a thing eons ago

Well, some people would say that Microsoft Works is a contradiction in terms. /s
Agreed, but I think for places with a mature payments and debit infrastructure there isn't that much additional business and I suspect most banks' apps will just incorporate that like they do with NFC payments.

Most growth in payments is either new markets or markets that grow a lot, but not completion of rather mature markets (and additional services).
It might have been a marginally acceptable argument 5 years back. Not anymore. the Winkelvii have redobuled the image of the charlatans they are, alongside every single person I have ever encountered in my life or in media who promulgated crypto bs. I have long since been successfully using crypto advocacy as a way to avoid people I should just not bother with and have been living a happy life.
A bacteria version of The Last of Us (or, less fancifully, COVID-19) happening because of Tough Mudder or Burning Man or another mass event of people crawling through wet mud, would really be quite something.
For anyone wondering, the battery on the Bangle is claimed to be 4 weeks.

> With a sunlight readable always-on screen, 4 week battery life, complete flexibility, and complete control of your data, Bangle.js 2 is a refreshing break from expensive smart watches.
They are fundamentally different.
What’s a (real) example of a simple thing that’s hard to do in emacs?
Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs (2018) [video]
A reasonable distinction. I accept it.
That's crazy, what year was this? Even Perforce sounds better
Huh. This makes me realize I have no association between windows and Windows. Neither one makes me think of the other at all.
Very interesting. Do you track any sort of demographic data, such as age, gender and location? Looking at the top authors I would wager millennials are the biggest users?
Anyone remember the EA Battle for Middle Earth series? There's a small group of people trying to resurrect it, but they might need a hand: https://github.com/Ravo92/Patch-2.22-Launcher
From a colleague; I haven’t tested it:

--Remap for dealing with word wrap
vim.keymap.set({ 'n', 'v' }, 'k', "v:count == 0 ? 'gk' : 'k'", { noremap = true, expr = true, silent = true })
vim.keymap.set({ 'n', 'v' }, 'j', "v:count == 0 ? 'gj' : 'j'", { noremap = true, expr = true, silent = true })
BSL is not good, it's great
Because they want your documents in their cloud.
I am part-time in these United States, and as such, my weekly hours have a hard limit at 29, and overtime is out of the question.

However, my schedule is 100% flexible. My workweek is reckoned as beginning on Monday, so I can generally clock enough hours to be done by Thursday, or even Wednesday. If I work shorter shifts, I may work on Saturdays, which hardly bothers me, because I love my work, and what else would I do? But I do tend to keep my Sundays (and Holy Days of Obligation) holy, for worship and recreation.
What is hyperplane ?
Once it implements the Wich Hunt feature, I'm sure the Woke Apostle Task Force will adopt it in a heartbeat.
The QR code has been a far more robust system for the Indian ecosystem which is predominantly filled with low-cost phones of widely different operating systems. A QR code also behaves as a readily identifiable logo of payment and further works from a distance. If anything I prefer the deliberateness of scanning a QR code, clearly similar to half a billion people at the least.
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> your game shall not contain AI

Then remove all the games I guess? :)
> is a simple C-like language that offers Rust-style memory safety

Ok, I see; but why then not just add this feature to C, or maybe Zig?

> many more areas still to explore when it comes to memory safety that are less extreme than Rust's approach

Such as memory arenas/pools (like Ada), or runtime automatic garbage collection?
have you no visual imagination whatsoever?

https://www.deviantart.com/dos-commander/art/Microsoft-Windo...
Not sure it qualifies as debt. It's just an agreement with your bank to give them that money in a few weeks / days. And if you commit to spending some small amount per year with your card (usually something like $1500), the bank will offer you some nice perks on their products that you don't get by using other payment methods. If you use something like UPI and you are making some kind of deal with your bank, you are basically losing money.
Fortunately AI art can have human authorship if it is closely directed by a human.

> not the things you're arranging

You can if those things are closely directed by a human, using AI as a tool like photoshop is a tool.
Spending quite some time in both Malaysia and Thailand I can say that the support for cross country payments is still not great. I’m rarely able to use my Malaysian banking app (Maybank) to pay in Thailand. Most of the times when I tried the QR code is not recognized. Which means I still need to carry cash with me all the time.
That's true. The modern day obsession with the terminál (emulátors) is something I don't get either. But I actually did use Unix back than (mostly Irix, which was the MacOS of it s day).
There is a peer-reviewed method to attribute extreme events to climate change. It was used successfully to attribute some heat waves and floods in Europe this year to climate change: https://ascmo.copernicus.org/articles/6/177/2020/ascmo-6-177...
Riverside.rocks invidious instance has shut down
> Implicit in this is a recognition, or at least a claim, that regular windows users don't have any need to inspect or manipulate anything other than a few file types

Regular windows users are mostly corporate and there are (management excepted, of course) a lot of file types to be manipulated. (CAD, MS Office, etc)
Mostly because I use systemd on my servers (so journald, whihc has more information than syslog and needs some acrobatics to send it further and keep the structured information), then there is Home Assistant and finally I need to send from JS.

Once it is sent, the search would be based on grep, or some combination of grep and tail.
Not a book, but a very good free course on computer science https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9u...
Definitely a younger crowd. Back in my day if you blindly copied code without reading the documentation thoroughly there is no way that Emacs would be doing anything remotely useful. That was the sort of thing Emacs was mocked for, in fact - you really needed to get in amongst Elisp to customise it and nobody goes out of their way to learn Elisp.

Being able to blindly copy use-package statements has been one of the best parts of the Emacs modernisation effort.
https://archive.is/skxHL
You misunderstood my answer. I wanted to show that labour is the foundation of all value.
Weather this labour gets payed equally to the trade value is a follow up question, not tackled by your wikipedia link either but very important to discuss accumulation of capital.

And i was really interested in finding some value independent from labour.

Let me try again: Accumulation of capital?
Changed job or pivoted
> Asteroid deflection is non-rival.

This sort of presumes no-one benefits from non-deflection.
I've recently switched to OnlyOffice ("desktop version" - probably Electron) since online reviews seem to suggest it has better support for docx than LibreOffice. You might give it a try, as it supports rtf as a document format, but not sure how well that works.

https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop.aspx
this.

no need to get certified, just take courses related to it.

comptia a+ for hardware.
comptia network+ for networking.

there is also cloud+, security+.
I also want to echo this. For me, it’s examples like yours that I live by. It seems like the right thing to do, naturally. Teaching people and sharing knowledge is the often the most rewarding part of my career at a personal level but it is hard to reconcile when it often comes at the cost of my own progression/productivity. I’m spending most of my time helping everyone else be more productive. How’d you end up working through that?
Fuck, imagine how many doctoral theses I could've written every time I tweaked a few lines of code to try some abstract way of recombining outputs I didn't fully understand. I missed the boat. All this jargon is absolutely for show, though. Purely intended to create the impression that there's some kind of moat to the "discovery". There are much clearer ways to express "we fucked around with putting the outputs of this black box back into the inputs", but I guess that doesn't impress the rubes.
Sorry you went through this but loved how you wrote it, building up to a punchline. I cannot imagine how bad it must have been, I've always assumed there is a baseline for managers in tech...
Innovation is good. There is a tradeoff between the benefit of choice and waste. Duplication is a good candidate for waste.
https://archive.is/X7qYN
When I got promoted to a Senior Dev, my job became totally different. All I did the whole day was talking to other teams, pair program, organize big project nobody wanted to do, take part in plannings, but hardly any coding. These responsibilities were actually included in the job description.
it's a word (a made up word)